Brexit: give me a positive effect... XII

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Where did I make mention of flying drones?
There are already drone trials taking place, wheeled variety.

Drone, (Wikipedia)

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or uncrewed aerial vehicle, also known as unmanned aircraft or uncrewed aircraft (UA), commonly known as a drone

If you Google 'what non-flying drones are there?' (or similar) the first page of hits (didn't go further) doesn't actually mention any.

 

[kabayiri]

Well, the Amazon drone trial in MK uses wheeled vehicles which are drones. I know one of the main people who helped set it up.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Well, the Amazon drone trial in MK uses wheeled vehicles which are drones. I know one of the main people who helped set it up.

Perhaps it does, and perhaps Amazon are using their own definition of the term* but if you mention drones to pretty much anybody, they'll assume you mean remotely-controlled aerial vehicles, and that's the accepted definition, so it's incumbent on you to specify the distinction if you don't want to be, either, misunderstood, or picked up on lax usage.


*I dunno, perhaps to cover their embarrassment that their previous experiments with actual flying drones has, so far, come to nothing beyond some exciteable PR, but that's just speculation on my part.

 

[Seeker_UK]

but if you mention drones to pretty much anybody, they'll assume you mean remotely-controlled aerial vehicles,

Personally, I think of chaps like Bertie Wooster.

 

[DaveMc64]

The Borg drones mostly walked around.

 

[-alan-]

Personally, I think of chaps like Bertie Wooster.

Surely not - Wooster, the foil to Jeeves, and one of the all-time great comic pairings in English literature ??

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Surely not - Wooster, the foil to Jeeves, and one of the all-time great comic pairings in English literature ??

...and member of the Drones Club, IIRC.

 

[-alan-]

Ah.. I stand corrected

Carry on..

 

[Brian]

https://news.sky.com/story/nestl-to...-and-moves-some-production-to-europe-12289465

600 jobs to move from NE and Yorkshire to the EU.

Noticed that. I won’t be eating Kit Kats anymore.

 

[gary1064]

Another blow for UK fishing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56932551

Norwegians not falling over themselves to do a deal with us, seems our trade negotiators need to up their game. If only we were part of a larger block with more leverage...

 

[Colin Barron]

Noticed that. I won’t be eating Kit Kats anymore.

At least we will not be providing subsidies to eastern European countries where some of this production will be moved.

 

[TheDecameron]

Another blow for UK fishing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56932551

Norwegians not falling over themselves to do a deal with us, seems our trade negotiators need to up their game. If only we were part of a larger block with more leverage...

Liz Truss shrugged.

 

[misterdog]

Occasionally however I slip back into 'but why did we shoot ourselves in the foot ?'.

To get a shot in the arm ?

 

[Bob McC]

I shall only eat Kit Kat biscuits from now on.

 

[Bob McC]

Drones to me means the Brexit supporting mob on here droning on and on and on ad infinitude.

 

[misterdog]

These Brexit 'debates' have been going on now for longer than WW11, I can see another four years of hot air before people run out of steam.

Will there be consensus by then ?

 

[TheDecameron]

To get a shot in the arm ?

The repetition of this alternative truth even extends to Johnson. He got the same lie in while incontinent with fury, swinging his nappy round his head under pressure from the leader of the opposition. Britain’s ability to acquire and approve vaccines has nothing to do with being in or out of the EU. There.

 

[misterdog]

Time to draw the curtains over this non news then.

 

[ff1d1l]

At least we will not be providing subsidies to eastern European countries where some of this production will be moved.

Whew, yeah, at least.

 

[TheDecameron]

In other words, benefits of Brexit are so incredibly elusive that it’s necessary for the Prime Minister to fabricate them. Nasty though to exploit a pandemic that’s killed 127k Britons and the anxiety around it to push a political lie.