I can’t pretend to enjoy Newcastle Brown Ale. Having said all that, the Americans have some far greater health concerns than some slightly dated limey beer.

“sexual orientation”?

All I ever hear him chuntering on about are ‘willies’ and ‘anal’ jokes.

He does far more than that. What have you been watching, and why??

I don’t think there is much need for another atheists vs christians argument on the Internet. I consider Stephen Fry to be mildly overrated as both an entertainer and as a man of learning. People love him because he seems jolly and because he remembers a lot of random trivia that he can churn out on QI. Having said all that, he does read those Harry Potter books in a very soothing tone…

If I had to come up with a chosen voice for atheism, something that reeks of the sort of hierarchical collectivism we are supposedly above, I would probably pick Richard Holloway. I’m reading his Leaving Alexandria at the moment and broadly drawing parallels with my own experiences growing up, though I was raised in an overtly Christian household, unlike his.

I don’t think an ‘atheists vs christians’ debate will ever work because I’ve noticed, time and time again, that the religious tend not to understand how atheists and/or members of the scientific community come to their own beliefs, and regard them as simply ‘wrong’ because they imagine said individuals arrive at their beliefs through the same route as the religious arrive at theirs. To counter #8, I would think the distinct lack of direct or empirical evidence would be sufficient for somebody to say, in 2015 no less, that there isn’t a god. Everything we know about god(s) comes from the word-of-mouth or writings of man.

So my best bet is a NOS (new old stock) mug? I’ve found one source that prints the NAAFI logo onto a modern cup but none reproducing the pleasantly domed profile of the original. A gap in the market perhaps? A stack of these in the Duxford shop would sell like hot cakes! :very_drunk:

Nice to see VP293 sneaking in to shot there!

It looks like there is a distinct white dust cloud from the aircraft striking the van. Radiator steam perhaps? It also looks, in the video footage, as though something is going on with the starboard elevator after the initial collision though I’m not sure if that is actually debris closer to the camera causing this illusion.

Seeing an ATR.72 from this angle, I’m surprised at how small the wings are. :confused:

Edit to add photo;

From what I can make out as a lay person, the pilot hasn’t feathered the props, which presumably causes a lot of drag if you have a dead engine.

Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson has an ex-TCA Viscount.
http://www.pimaair.org/visit/aircraft-by-name/item/vickers-744-viscount

The museum has a nice selection of UK aircraft: 3 Harriers, a Hunter, Hurricane, JP, Gnat, Lightning, Vampire, the well-known Shackelton, and a Gannet which was a surprise.

They have a Mk IV Blenheim as well, which was a surprise when I saw pictures of it. PIMA is on my bucketlist of things to do when I make it to the US.

Very little scratching indeed. The North-West side of Cramond Island was awash in white crockery pieces when I was there last. I was lucky to turn over the NAAFI piece, but I’m sure the majority of the stuff there is of the same vintage and just not as readily marked. I will have to go back for another look and see what else turns up.

I used to comb the beach at Cramond fairly often for older crockery. I believe that sailing ships used to be ballasted with crockery and roof tiles, and would dump these in the Forth. I’ve had good luck finding intricately-painted crockery on Aberdour beach, but a lot less luck finding anything around Cramond. The majority of the material I picked up in Aberdour is much older, and even the NAAFI piece was not really the subject of my interest when I picked it up.