It's an incredibly slow plane (on purpose, it's an ultralight with a very low stall speed) and the waterskier was fine. The pilot also did a fine job of controlling the aircraft despite the drag of the skier, and pilot and plane were also fine. They made a video that I found an entertaining couple of minutes, and it…

Upstage lads, this is my ONLY number:

It simultaneously looks somehow higher-def than real life, and also as though it was filmed on a model track with hot wheels cars.

So it's not because I turned 18 in the 90's, and had an equally disreputable flatmate to watch Hong Kong movies with? It genuinely was a golden age of Hong Kong movies and it's not rosy tinted hindsight?

Indeed, you go in thinking you're just getting an action movie (with utterly unrealistic wolves in it) but you get a lot more than that. I don't think anyone's suggesting it's the best movie ever made, but I'd say it easily cleared the threshold of 'good'.

This a genuinely pleasing story. Thank you.

"don the flight suit". Sorry.

It's never "Sir [surname]", it's always "Sir [first name]", no matter how formal you are being. In this case you would always refer to him as "Sir Stirling", and "Sir Stirling Moss" the first time he was mentioned.

Wolfman's favourite car, the Nardi. I understand he has two.

Piers Morgan was memorably described by Charlie Brooker as looking "like something a police frogman might encounter at the bottom of a haunted lake".

Pretty sure that was "what a fucking brain dead fuck he was", not "fuckin' wood".

It's worth keeping in mind that Villa have been rank rotten this season and the fans are probably desperate for anything whatsoever to be happy about.

He'll tell you what.

Sweet baby jeebus, what the hell damns is wrong with the people of St Louis? Surely at some point at least some of them have encountered proper italian pizza, or a reasonable facsimile thereof? Just look at that picture, no wait, don't ever look at that picture, it's disturbing.

As long as they're the Japanese style, unvarnished wood, new-ones-every-time chopsticks, I'm golden. Rounded, varnished, slippy ones? Every time, I suddenly realise I am No Good At Chopsticks after all.

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I'm an uncle. I have friends with babies. I don't have to change nappies (diapers for you American types) but I do it anyway. It's really not that bad, once you realise that baby poop washes off your hands just fine. Make sure you have all the items you'll need close to hand before you start: baby (duh), baby wipes,…

I made some Arrabiata today, not exactly to this recipe (I used scotch bonnet peppers, I put the garlic in a bit earlier, and I threw in some smoked pork sausage) but pretty close. It was cracking. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hey thar, you just stop givin' those dang turrists ideas!

That weapons bay is tiny, tiny wee.