Drivers, sailors, hikers and golfers around the globe will share in the improved performance of their GPS devices.
From the films of Mike Leigh (Meantime to All or Nothing) to the television drama of Paul Abbott (Shameless), by way of Little Britain and Benefits Street, the creative elite has allegedly turned with vicious malice on the very people whom their artistic forefathers used to hail as cheerful, decent and dauntless Tommies, miners, dockers, drivers, sailors and millhands.
Mr. Fossett, an investment executive, is also a sailor and racecar driver.
Last summer, when I visited the island — a stunning patchwork of white-sand beaches, dune systems, and coastal plains, ringed by the cold northern seas — a sailor-taxi-driver told me that, during hard times, combers would light fires on the beach to lure boats to shore.
What would sailors, pilots, drivers, petrol station workers and doctors say?
Rubel's primary occupation (secondary occupations included frog farmer and sailor) was that of a school bus driver.
"You used to be a sailor?" asked the passenger, "Nah, rum-runner," the driver said.
A bootlegger becomes a taxi driver in order to do an off-the-ship business with sailors whom he meets by frequenting the dock.
But making propositions to drunk straight sailors or truck drivers could be dangerous.
