Are trains that size told to drive through situations like that? I know it's impossible to stop one, but looking closely at that video and others, they don't appear to even have their brakes on.

What's with the wailling? They got clear a good minute in advance, and it's not like her babies were still in there.

What sort of dog is it? Some dogs are always thin, no matter how well you look after them.
And the RSPCA are crap.

Holy shit!

Someone smarter than me could probably explain the physics, but I always assumed that if something that size, with that momentum and that little traction, would actually be momentarily traveling faster if it was "skidding" into a stationary vehicle.

Probably the shock of realising that, had she still been in the car, she would now be very, very dead.

A flyhitting the windscreen of an Intercity 125 travelling at top whack momentarily stops them, though, which is why the Aberden-London train in the summer is always late.

In other Theoretical Physics World news, all cows are hollow and spherical.

No. Some of the forward energy would be turned into heat by the application of the brakes against the turny bits and then the wheels against the rails.

A flyhitting the windscreen of an Intercity 125 travelling at top whack momentarily stops them, though, which is why the Aberden-London train in the summer is always late.

Someone smarter than me could probably explain the physics, but I always assumed that if something that size, with that momentum and that little traction, would actually be momentarily traveling faster if it was "skidding" into a stationary vehicle.

Did his neck look like a vagina?

Well, I've just watched the programme about the fat man, and felt the need to sit here at 3AM and moan about it.

I feel like I'm completely unable to feel any sympathy for people who are victims of their own wrongdoing in such a monstrous way. But my main issue here isn't with the fact he's fat, or even with him begrudging the NHS for refusing his operation in the past, but with the way the show—and even the surgeon—reported his problems and obesity in general.

The surgeon/consultant had mentioned how at this chap's particular weight it was almost impossible for him, without mobility, to burn off any calories. Yet the operation was nothing more than a gastric band which does nothing for the condition itself, but simply restricts the amount of food one can eat and the amount of energy one can absorb from that food. It's essentially a forced diet, but without the grumpiness involved. The entire point of the operation is to reduce the calorific intake and allow a natural loss of weight to occur, yet it was portrayed as the only solution to the problem by both the media and surgeon/consultant involved, and that without it there was absolutely no way in the world this chap could lose any weight at all.

Yet here the guy was, a few months later and many stone lighter, after reducing his calorific intake by a factor of sixteen. His weight was lost naturally due to the simple principle of ‘If you want to lose weight, take in less energy than you expend’. No doubt the operation helped him, but there's no fucking way that it was entirely impossible without medical intervention.

Gah. Fucking sob stories spun into shifting the blame and feigning futility.

In other Theoretical Physics World news, all cows are hollow and spherical.

There is, of course, every chance that I wasn't being entirely serious.

Science is always serious.

Science is always serious.

Explain penguins, then.

It was DavPaz wot dun it.

I think anyone who is so extremely fat is clearly suffering some sort of case of the mentals and in terms of NHS spending it's probably more expedient to deal with it by getting the weight off through surgery and then dealing with the mentals than by just continually shouting at him to stop eating so much.

I think anyone who is so extremely fat is clearly suffering some sort of case of the mentals and in terms of NHS spending it's probably more expedient to deal with it by getting the weight off through surgery and then dealing with the mentals than by just continually shouting at him to stop eating so much.

Dozens of dead birds have been found lying in a residential street in Sweden

Grief:

I blame Nikachu.

Grief:

Grief:

There were some in the US of late, too.

Just like Flash Forward.

Or Jericho...

Not seen that. It any good?

Very. Nuclear bomb goes off near small Kansas town, no contact with outside world, chaos ensues. Very good indeed. Series 2 is a little less good, but still watchable.

Very. Nuclear bomb goes off near small Kansas town, no contact with outside world, chaos ensues. Very good indeed. Series 2 is a little less good, but still watchable.