Some days you wake up and say

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Today I am going to rent one of the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple movies."

On another note, is TV crap this year or what? Thank goodness for Time Team and the hilarity provided by homeopathy of archaeology, geophys.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I watch Mayday for the episodes where the crew manages to land the plane safely. Sadly, last night's episode had the crew do a spectacular job of dealing with losing all of their landing gear and one engine in a collison just after reaching the speed at which the plane was moving too fast to abort the take-off, only to be brought down by foreign object damage to the remaining engine.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Having been in a light airplane crash (in 1976) I still cant watch things like that... any landing you survive is a good landing..

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I watch MAYDAY as a means of managing an unreasonable phobia of flying. I've never been involved in an incident on a plane but I've been run over by a car and various bicyclists (not all at once), been in a car wreck, and was in a train that hit a car and I'm perfectly reasonable about all of those vehicles.

Maybe what I need to be in a survivable plane wreck....

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

falling from the sky might be a bit different for the brain to deal with, or as I like to phrase it, its not the fall, its the abrupt stop. I have a real intense fear of stopping.