On 08/04/2015 17:08, clipka wrote:
> Am 08.04.2015 um 14:00 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 08/04/2015 02:02, clipka wrote:
>

>
> On an American plane, they'd probably have let him go, and fired him for
> leaving his workplace.
>

Or breaking the Health and safety rules.

Just remembered a story about that. When I was working offshore on an 
American oil rig. A roustabout was walking across the drill deck When a 
crane hook slipped its support and fell on his head. (He was okay as 
there was an arresting chain which caught it as it hit him.

It wasn't counted as a lost time accident as he should not have been 
there during the operation And was retrospective fired before the block 
hit him.

>> It was a blessing, in a way.
>
> I guess I just need the comic relief of making some jokes about air
> crashes these days. As you may know, among the GermanWings passengers
> were a bunch of German school children and teachers; it so happens that
> they were from the town I was born in. Not that I have any other
> relation to the victims (I grew up in a different town), but still the
> event seems to have gotten to me more than it would normally have. And
> the fact that I know what it's like to suffer from depression
> (fortunately without any suicidal tendencies) doesn't help either.
>


I know what you mean. It is over forty years since I left Glasgow. But 
when a bin lorry ran into some Christmas shoppers, last year. I felt 
more affected than I would have thought.


>>> And of course France is involved in some way, too.)
>>
>> Can't you ever forget the war? :-P
>
> Which of those many? ;)
>

I would forget all the one back to the Roman Empire. Then you managed to 
win a couple of Eagles, beating Scotland 2 - 1.

> Heck, there have been quarrels near the Rhine as early as 2000 years ago
> - the Romans didn't build the Limes for nothing :)

And you are still going on about it. ;-)

> It seems quite a miracle we've been living peacefully alongside our
> western neighbors for about 65 years now and counting.
>

It is brilliant, isn't it?
And some of our fruit loops want to leave Europe and bring back the Empire.

> Even so, the relationship to France is something special. When we don't
> hate them, we seem to totally love them.
>

It is a North/South divide in Britain. The Scots like the French.


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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