RE: From Grange Hill to Eastenders

Oh, and when talking about Eastenders: wasn’t one of the Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet in it? Just to get some 1980s-nostalgia in here too, of course.

RE: Eastenders

Anyone remember ‘Cracker’? By far the best police/crime/forensics TV-series ever. The whole series was so incredibly dark and gloomy, full of disgusting side-dishes of humanity, some episodes really depressed me for a number of days. Absolutely brilliant.
Robbie Coltrane was an extremely credible, cynical, hopeless forensic psychologist. I believe there was another series with another actor as psychologist, but i’ve never bothered to watch those. It would take away the shivers too much, i guess.

As for British comedy, i always preferred the more absurd and right-in-your-face ones. ‘The Young Ones’, ‘Bottom’, ‘Filthy, Rich and Catflap’, ‘Red Dwarf’, ‘Monty Python’, ‘Blackadder’, the lot. What i find rather amazing is that even the extremely corny comedies usually are bearable and actually fun to watch. Although i can’t stand ‘Are you being served’, i did enjoy stupid stuff like ‘On the Buses’, ‘Dad’s Army’, ‘Some mothers do ‘ave ’em’, ‘Keeping up appearances’…

As for British SF series, Dr. Who was definately the best, with Blake’s 7 coming up second. Never liked Space 1999 or that one which used to be running on the BBC a while ago.

RE: SS Enterprise……………

Buck Rogers was fun, especially the early episodes which were set on earth. New Chicago was the name of the place, some shiny white plastic city in some sort of deserted wasteland. Ah, a series from the days when nobody had to ask what actually happened with Old Chicago }>

The later in-space series weren’t as much fun anymore. Probably because those were filled with waaaaaaaay to much stuff they picked up from the floor in the room where Battlestar Galactica was edited. And Twiki & his talking disco-dinnerplate Theo got a bunch of friends in those series, and their annoyance level is 11.

I preferred Battlestar Galactica back then though (hey, i was six or seven years old, i had other interests as what kind of plastic foil Wilma was wearing), i really liked the Cylon fighters. A lot cooler than those silly-looking Vipers on board Galactica… no wonder the F-16s unofficial nickname is derived from that totally boring SF-fighter.

Bidibidibi… Bück dich!

RE: Newest member

so you are saying that i am a prick?

Well, unless you can come up with a better explanation of my original statement… yes, i guess i am saying that.

RE: Artillery

Artillery has
greatly improved since the days of World War I and II. It
has become more accurate, long ranged, more powerful, and
overall more effective. In my opinion it will be very
necessary in any future conflict, at least IMHO.

Arty more powerful after WWI and WWII? Quite the contrary. You will need to look hard nowadays to find tubes with more than 203mm in service anywhere these days. During WWI (and to a lesser extent WW2) however, you had these massive ultra-heavy siege guns (Dicke Bertha mortars for example) with calibres sometimes over 400mm. Such heavy, powerful guns are now obsolete, because their role has been taken over by aircraft. Aircraft which also are a great threat to such massive targets as well.

On a tactical level, arty support will of course remain, but the power of the first half of the 20th century definately won’t come back.

RE: Your fav. lyrics?

Well, if you like literature in your lyrics, nothing beats I like traffic lights by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Please read the full lyrics or the more refined details of this piece of art might be lost on you… or better, listen to this song over and over again.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
No matter where they’ve been.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
But only when they’re green.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
No matter where they’ve been.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
But only when they’re green.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
That is what I said.

I Like traffic lights
I Like traffic lights
I Like traffic lights,
But not when they are red.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
That is what he said.

He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights.
He likes traffic lights,
But not when they are red.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights,
Although my name’s not Bamber.

I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I Like traffic lights.
I– Oh, God!

RE: Newest member

The above statement is free to all kinds of explanation. So far, i think both of you are well within the spirit of it 😀

RE: Newest member

I Hate to see what his posts are like

&l;sarcasm&r;
Well, having Hellaid as part of your handle is usually the sign of well-informed, polite, on-topic and very much aviation related posts. I don’t think this reincarnation of the Hellaid Bliss will be much different.
&l;/sarcasm&r;