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  • in reply to: 707 and 720 #1820216
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    I think Eric hits the nail on the head. You don’t know (or at least hardly) realise what you’ve got until it’s gone. With the rate of thnigs going over the last fifteen years or so, it’s a bit strange to realise that the mundane stuff of sometimes just ten years ago now suddenly is something really exotic and nostalgic.

    It was only some fifteen years ago when the skies over here were filled with Phantoms, Mirage Vs, and very regular visits of Buccaneers, Canberras, Victors, Wessexes or Jet Provosts (typically coming in side-by-side with three, impossible to read if you were all by yourself).

    in reply to: Flying high #714059
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    There are plenty of prescription drugs which are far worse than marijuana – a pretty normal (but hefty) painkiller like Tramal for example is little more than tablet-form opium, and even fairly common medicines like ritalin are a lot more dope-like (ritalin sells well in the circuit!) than marijuana.

    Funny thing is that the country which is the most rigid on any sort of (even remotely) entertainment drugs, is also the country which has the right to pursue happiness in it’s constitution. Somehow, i can’t rhyme those two.

    in reply to: Quick! Write your own "User Reputation"… #1820242
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    There were really nice flamewars back in the ratings-era. Somehow, i’m not so sure if our collective psyches have changed that much since…

    in reply to: General Discussion #375365
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    For those who like jigsaw puzzles: the Baluchistan borders of the Iranian and Pakistani borders as posted by Barfhouse fit snugly.

    in reply to: Enoughs Enough! Iran Your Next! #1962232
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    For those who like jigsaw puzzles: the Baluchistan borders of the Iranian and Pakistani borders as posted by Barfhouse fit snugly.

    in reply to: General Discussion #375368
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    What’s next? No more drinking in a tabac?

    It’s a stupid law anyway. Irish pubs are so impregated with cigarette smoke that a ban won’t help a thing. It will take centuries before those drinking holes are aired enough to make them noticably less dangerous. But by that time we’d be dead anyway.

    The stupid thing is, with all those nice schemes and laws to promote everyone’s health and stop ourselves from dying in traffic and such… i’m going to die at some point anyway, could i at least die from doing something fun? I don’t think anyone has been given eternal life yet because of a smoking ban or a job-sponsored membership to the gym.

    Anyone fancy going to a pub in Ireland with me? Bring a file or a saw and some asbestos. That’s legal.

    in reply to: Smoking ban in Ireland #1962237
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    What’s next? No more drinking in a tabac?

    It’s a stupid law anyway. Irish pubs are so impregated with cigarette smoke that a ban won’t help a thing. It will take centuries before those drinking holes are aired enough to make them noticably less dangerous. But by that time we’d be dead anyway.

    The stupid thing is, with all those nice schemes and laws to promote everyone’s health and stop ourselves from dying in traffic and such… i’m going to die at some point anyway, could i at least die from doing something fun? I don’t think anyone has been given eternal life yet because of a smoking ban or a job-sponsored membership to the gym.

    Anyone fancy going to a pub in Ireland with me? Bring a file or a saw and some asbestos. That’s legal.

    in reply to: Appaling… #2650352
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    Originally posted by frankvw
    No, I’m just sad to see another squadron equipped with that so called fighter.

    Hey, at least it’s a VX-9 bird. You know, the Evaluators. And any test reporting on the Subpar Hornet can only be… well, ‘constructive’. If there is one unit where they will blatantly admit having traded a hangar queen for a drag queen, it will be VX-9.

    The fuselage tank is of the former VX-5 Vampires though. I guess there isn’t enough money to repaint fuel tanks or something…

    in reply to: General Discussion #375613
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    Can anyone please put Bahnhaus out of our misery?

    in reply to: Enoughs Enough! Iran Your Next! #1962419
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    Can anyone please put Bahnhaus out of our misery?

    in reply to: 707 and 720 #1821829
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    I agree they are historic. But having them come over my house on a daily basis (Geilenkirchen’s E-3As, domeless 707s and temporarily deployed KC-135s) did make me lose interest some time ago…

    in reply to: Denmark to send planes to Baltic states? #2650711
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    And Estonia has Peetri Piizza, but you can’t take a dump there as nicely as in the Riga McDonalds. I’m proud to say that the two times i was in Riga, i visited McD both times for doing just the final stage of my digestion. No matter how much they loathe the Russians, they still have some nice shashlizhnayas there.

    I just can’t understand why a city like Daugavpils needs to be protected by the NATO umbrella though. I can accept cities like Kaunas, Vilnius, Riga and even Tallinn, but Daugavpils? Pure Hell.

    in reply to: Trip to England #1822582
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    Steve,

    Don’t know where exactly you are going to in China, but there are a few museums with an interesting collection to be found… Datang Shan just north of Beijing being of course the most famous one, and it is absolutely worthwile. I don’t think anyone will not be impressed by three Tu-2s in a row, or a Be-6, or two Tu-4/B-29s…

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    Jaaahaaa…. SORRY!
    😮 😮 😮 😮

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    With apologies for my two errors and the bit belated corrections, the answers are now up, with an illustration here and there.

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