Apparently in the UK you're not allowed to complain and actually have the airforce do anything about it unless your community is larger than 10,000 people. On top of that if you claim that they were actually flying below the minimum legal height, the RAF will not do anything about it , unless you can give the registration number from the plane. which are normally either side of the tail, in letters 4 inches high, not painted in anything highly visible, and travelling past at 400 miles per hour. Even if you can give them the serial number, the usual excuse is that they are above the minimum height , just you are standing in a place where you can't view effectively and properly judge the height, even when they are between you and the valley floor, and the valley is less tall than the minimum height. Occasionally they install a mobile radar at the top of one of the valleys to check. strangely that always seems to happen during the quiet times of the year.
Complain enough and you get invited to a talk where they tell all about the necessity of training, but not why it particularly has to be you they're training over. Local farmers have taken to writing messages with weedkiller in the grass for Pilots. ranging from Pam fod Hast (Welsh for what's the rush) to the much less subtle Piss Off Biggles! (which backfired, because many pilots detoured to read the message after it was spotted in the ariel photos on an airforce flight simulator) Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Beat that :)
Is anyone oinking? Ad astra per aspera
Schools aren't closing any more-there's no point. But we're sending home our sore throats and headaches fairly smartly. None of the usual "Have a drink of water, dear, and tell me how you feel after playtime."
We did that for a couple of weeks until everyone came to terms with the fact that it was also allergy season and you just can't keep an entire office home for an extended period of time out of sheer paranoia. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I think at least one parent at my son's school has had it, though.
(Normally you need a note either right away or after 3 days of illness, depending on your employment contract.) You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
I've seen a serious CDC estimate of a million cases total in the US. Since deaths are still barely into three figures, this makes swine flu very much less lethal than ordinary flu.
Also, the demographic peak is around 20-25. Kids get it, teens get it, young adults get it. Older people are much less likely to get it. Anyway over 50 is almost guaranteed not to get it.
Beat that. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
The President of the United States lives down the street from our office. When he's not living in DC. Or Hawaii. Sometimes we pass each other coming and going.
We had hazmat people close our office for moon-suited inspections after anthrax was found in the Congressional mail-room. (We get lots of books from LoC.) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Beat That! Swine flu, Shmine flue... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
He was then reelected when he got out.
Win. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
