This is the 2nd video where the author got the Concorde story wrong... It became profitable 8 years into service (1984), largely due to BA raising ticket prices and making it more of a luxury. And the Concorde division remained profitable until the crash in France, when they grounded all Concordes while they investigated the root cause. After they started flying again, people were still wary to buy Concorde tickets, and airlines could get more profit out of 1st class tickets on larger, slower planes. So both BA and AF phased them out ~2003.

I've been on planes that have 2 ramps and load/unload from both the front and the back. The boarding order is by seat row. It's pretty rare though.
To answer your question though - they paid a lot more for 1st or business-class ticket, and so their "priority" is they get to get on first and off first, rather than stand around in line. But every plane I've been on, they will board handicapped people, and families with small children first, even before 1st class passengers.

I was in the Umeda Sky Building just a few weeks ago, and I totally missed this highway-through-a-building... pretty neat!

I knew of the Tacoma Narrows and Citicorp tower, but the others were new and interesting.

Sir Thomas Bouch got to keep his knighthood (is it even possible to un-knight someone?), but he died 18 months after the Tay bridge disaster.

The UK #1 Christmas song 2016 is about pole dancing?

Good to see Olbermann back in politics after his sportscaster hiatus, but GQ seems like an odd platform/backer...

Not sure which brand, but Mythbusters used spray-on bedliner to make a "house" bomb proof.

I agree that facts should be checked, but for this particular story the facts lead to more questions. Was there ever a safety incident in the past with Christmas lights strung between poles? It mentions the law doesn't allow using the electricity, but does it explicitly forbid it? Why not put a weight limit and wattage limit rather than an outright ban? (LEDs have come a long way)
"technical reasons" should have technical merit.

Even if the ban was to stop offending others, they are a sovereign nation and can pass laws however they like. I wouldn't of shared the story (if I had facebook) just because it was obvious trolling.

I think using the history of the usage of the word "font" is not the best, as it was only used alongside computers. Maybe they should have combined the sum of "font" and "typeface".

Also, there is a documentary called Helvetica. It's great (if you're into fonts).

now she just needs a planer and a joiner...

hope she doesn't plan to leave that table outside, as those screws will most certainly rust.

I sure hope 'literally' doesn't get a new definition in the dictionary because of its common misuse by "kids these days"...

This would come in handy for the zombie apocalypse.

Or when the next president gets elected (no matter who it is, gun sales will go up).

Just watching this video made me nervous, but I think I could do it in real life, assuming a pilot was giving instructions over the radio.
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I had a conversation with a commercial pilot before (at dinner, not in a flight) and he had flown both Boeing and Airbus and said they feel much different. Boeing spends a lot of time with the force-feedback so the planes behave much the same as their older analog counterparts, and lays things out based on pilot feedback ; whereas Airbus feels more like a video game, and they only care about fuel efficiency of the plane.

Either way, all pilots require hundreds of hours of training on a particular model (of large commercial airplane) before they get to be captain.