I’ve got two legs

I’ve got two legs
from my hips to the ground

and if i move ’em
I walk around.

If i lift them
i climb the stairs

And if i shave them
they ain’t got hairs
….

I assume that’s a different Sharpe than Tom Sharpe…

Although it’s been a while since i’ve read them, i rarely laughed so hard when reading a book.

Originally posted by ink
Surcin – i.e. Belgrade International. Arthur, you were within spitting distance with your guess mate.

I plead ignorance – i didn’t know the museum was called Surcin, as indeed a fart in the museum can be smelled in Batajnica.

And wouldn’t it be obvious the helo is a Mi-4?

Batajnica of course!

Call me weird, but…

… i actually like it when an aircraft is in a terrible derelict state. Of course, rare types should definately be preserved but to me the appearance of a derelict Lightning, Mystère, Flagon or Phantom looks a lot more ‘real’ than a super-polished display aircraft which during it’s operational career never looked as slick.

Also, i think a derelict former military aircraft gives a much better impression of the fact that, as interesting and appealing as they might be, aircraft are utility products which are advanced at one stage in time, and obsolete by the next.

To me this is even stronger for military aircraft. I find a place like AMARC or Chateaudun a far better testimony to an aircraft’s history than a museum: those F-100s which threw napalm on Vietnam to me look a lot more peaceful and quiet gathering dust than if they are displayed fully polished at some flag-waiving monument. More like the peace and quiet of a cemetary, rather than an aircraft on display which actually appears to be a composite airframe built of 3 aircraft, of which not a single identity is represented in the display object.

Don’t get me wrong, i am all in favour of preserving aircraft, and i absolutely hate it when an aircraft is scrapped. But i strongly reject the idea that an old aircraft should either be scrapped, or sent to the taxidermist.

Equally, governments in development countries are immensely pressurised by allowing Reebok-like behaviour because such a company at leasts ‘invests’ in that country. No matter how badly the workforce is exploited, at least it keeps a large number of slum dwellers occupied with other things than either crime or hustling (either micro-corruption or living by the darkest pit of no-currency black economy) to stay alive.

Nice byproduct is that those workers are effectively banned to organise in any way by their employers, and that they spend most of the time in the factory. Not much chance for them to organise a truely proletarian-style revolution against the government.

Sven Hassel is (according to himself) a Dane who joined the SS in WW2 out of boredom, later got transferred to a penal unit. After the war, he has written about that.

However, if that what Hassel described is what happened to him… yeah, right! Absolutely hilarious books though.

Check it out at Porta’s Kitchen.