Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
"The accident was truly caused by the crew in both cases"
"It amounted to just a runaway trim"
"There was never a reason to ground [the MAX]"
"[Boeing's] largest mistake was to overestimate the quality of the pilots it was selling its airplane to"
Video: CNBC interview with William Langewiesche
Those opinions of Mr L+12 suggest a level of a depth of knowledge in the matter of causation that would be able to be written in large font on the business end of a pin.
Brings to mind:
- [Brian is writing graffiti on the palace wall. The Centurion catches him in the act]
- Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
- Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
- Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the Latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
- Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
- Centurion: Goes like?
- Brian: "..annus"?
- Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
- Brian: Er, er, "..anni" ?
- Centurion: "Romani"[Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"?
- Brian: Er, "Go"
- Centurion: Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
- Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
- Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
- Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
- Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use the...?
- [He twists Brian's ear]
- Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
- Centurion: Which is...?
- Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
- Centurion: How many Romans?
- Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
- Centurion: "Ite"[Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" this is motion towards, isn't it boy?
- Brian: Dative, sir !
- [the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
- Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, accusative, "domum", sir, "Ad Domum" !
- Centurion: Except that "Domus" takes the...?
- Brian: The locative, sir!
- Centurion: Which is...?
- Brian: Er, "Domum" !
- Centurion: "Domum"[Writes "Domum"] "..um". Understand?
- Brian: Yes sir!
- Centurion: Now, write it out a hundred times.
- Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
- Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
- Brian: Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!
That size "roman" font.. written with a camel hair brush