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Just had a quick look at it. This is the third time these guys have come together this year, so my immediate reaction would be, racing incident. What you say about position, pressure and cold tyres though may well be spot on, Para Sitius. Rookie mistake, perhaps, as too not coming into the pits with his front wing dragging. The stewards certainly would not enjoy burning their fingers on a red hot Ferrari!

Trump will not be 'bringing these boys home', but redeploying to Saudi Arabia, I would guess. Two birdy-shaped fluffy things with one stone.

The Russians might even get to test out their weaponry (their own naturally and the US stuff which is in SDF & Kurdish hands) in a proxy fight against Turkish stuff. Win-win.

Motor Racing

Not having seen the incident I cannot comment on that, but the gloves-off rivalry between these two young stars is exciting. Their clashes this year have already changed the interpretations of the rules, and the inner dynamics of F1.

Sorry that other commitments this weekend meant that I missed almost everything. I used to go regularly to Suzuka to watch these. Managed to see the last five minutes of the race on an app and it looked to have been a nail-biting race.

Not sure if they are counting the lost crew of the ship that sank in Tokyo Bay during Typhoon #19, but sadly the figures are still gradually rising and likely to top 50 dead and 200 injured.

Japan's river levees are built using known rainfall figures, such as 300 mm max of rain in 24 hours, etc. On TV some are suggesting that if the climate is changing, then new levees may need to be built to withstand super typhoons.

Do I want to see this video? No.

I belong to a Japanese national group here which has one 'foreigner' in it, i.e. me. When someone high up complained that they had accepted someone non-Japanese, they were told, "we trust this person". The rugby story above makes me happy too.

Re: Abbey, "when is it over?"

When the 'healthy' lady sings.

Scotland played majestically against Russia, and I thought, yes, that is my image of Scottish rugby, but perhaps that kind of rugby is out-of-date now?

Yesterday was bone-crunchingly brutal. Scotland almost performed a miracle in the second half, but Japan seemed to have just enough resolve to see it through. How close it was, though, with every second seeming to take an eternity.

This is DPRK's way of saying thank you for rescuing all 60 members of their fishing mother ship? Perhaps Japan will not be so generous next time around. I remember when they caught the 'fishermen' who stole all that equipment from a Japanese island recently, and that time too they sent the crew back home, after treating one of them in hospital. But maybe ordinary lives are cheap in DPRK, and equipment is more valuable.

We must feel sorry for the numerous crews venturing with illegal nets into far-off waters because DPRK has already sold the rights to their own fishing grounds to the Chinese.

quercetum: "East?" It must mean Hawaii.

This has been done before at Suzuka. A nightmare, but not impossible.

It was reported that the J ship was damaged on the port side, but the only shots we have seen are unblemished views of the bow and starboard side. Can we see pics of the port damage area, please?

If 60 people on the North Korean ship were not fishing, what on earth were they doing? Surely not a cruise ship.

Why did it sink so quickly? Did the captain have orders to open the seacocks and scuttle her?

160 hydrogen stations may not seem like much, but there is probably one near you. I've checked out mine!

http://fccj.jp/hystation/#list

Easy to be cynical, but if it helps a kid, why not?

When things go really bad, the media often later gets blamed for not having given sincere or proper warnings, cracaphat.

If things do not pan out so bad, then people take less notice next time around, so the media has to crank up the hype to keep themselves covered. "We warned you!"

I guess we roll with it, and get quietly prepared for any eventuality.

Just talking about area covered, this typhoon is at least double the size of Typhoon 15 which badly damaged Chiba recently. See comparative maps.

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191008-00011101-weather-soci.view-001

No-one around him knows or cares. Close enough, they are thinking. ‘Abi’ is surely better than nothing, etc. Maybe PM Abe takes it as his nickname(?).

And Abbey is a word in English.

(Kobe “Koby beef” is another difficult one for those who know no Japanese.)

If he wanted to learn it, he could play with the sound of Abé Maria to lock it in.

So where is the truth if everyone denies everything? Was this company trying to hide something?

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2019/10/11/Iranian-tanker-explodes-near-Saudi-Arabia-s-port-city-of-Jeddah.html

The press is making a mountain out of a molehill. Both Leclerc and Vettel are still pretty cool about things. We will see if they get in each other's way again, despite the hopeful promises.

This house is not made of modern materials, thank goodness. Mostly constructed of wood, it has a heavy tiled roof. We like it.

After dead stillness all day the wind is starting to pick up now, restlessly tossing and twisting the bamboos and trees in that familiar old typhoon-approaches feeling.

Iran are denying it was hit by missiles, saying that the fire is out and they have contained the spill.

They have apparently turned the tanker's transponder back on now after two months' of silence.

What, so Extinction Rebellion planned this?

Yes please. The estate version if possible.

Can they not do this without spilling oil, or blood?

Well, I was planning to say if F1 can do this, why not the rugby World Cup? Granted it is the same venue, but they do have other motor races scheduled for the fans over this weekend which must have taken some mighty tight jiggling.

They have probably done some frantic rescheduling with all the other weekend races there.

Great article describing reality in today's world.

The calm before the storm...