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  • in reply to: Anyone know what the memorial at Blackbushe is for? #385030
    hampden98
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    Thanks for the replies.
    That white post looks like an old distance marker.
    It isn’t an official memorial. It’s a private memorial but a little more substantial than the usual bunch of flowers for a car crash victim.
    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.320082,-0.8679627,3a,68.6y,313.89h,79.52t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sVZl9aylM6eWpnP1TkOzXEA!2e0
    Not very easy to make out. See the yellow flowers in the bushes.
    I need to find a place to stop to take some photo’s.
    Like I say it could be a car crash victim but it’s well maintained. Quite a large memorial and away from the kerb. The sort of place a plane might crash.

    On the subject of memorials are there any in Hartney Wintney? Several military jets crashed there in the 50’s.

    in reply to: Being A Celebrity Doesn't Make You Any Better A Re-enactor #1838600
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    Ah, U-571 (link). I remember a mate and I going to visit another mate who was living and working on his own in a small town in the depths of winter, years ago. We went out and had a meal and a couple of beers and then, given the lack of other entertainment options, went and watched that film in a multiplex cinema about the size of a postage stamp. I think we were the only ones there, which was just as well – a genuinely laugh-out-loud awful film. Hilariously bad. If you think the description sounds bad – it’s even worse. :highly_amused:

    Didn’t the Poles beat both the Yanks and Brits in obtaining the first Enigma?

    in reply to: The Last Film You Watched….. IV #1838785
    hampden98
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    The Wolf of Wallstreet.
    Funny, Intelligent Tit-fest sware-aphon!

    in reply to: Being A Celebrity Doesn't Make You Any Better A Re-enactor #1838791
    hampden98
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    I wasn’t knocking Fury for being like Pulp Fiction. I quite like the film and certainly better than most.
    Modern war films are getting far too `realistic`. While I think there is a place to tell of the horrors of war
    I think there is still a place for the `old fashioned` war movie, but with a more modern take. Like Angels 1-5 or the Dambusters.
    Films are for entertainment at the end of the day.
    The ticking clock in Dambusters says as much as the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan IMHO.

    in reply to: Mosquito Flying In UK 2015 #912619
    hampden98
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    The engine and prop are there, you can just make out the vertical prop blade lining up perfectly with the center of the hangar door join.

    What colours was the Mosquito painted in that picture?
    Would make an interesting model.

    in reply to: Being A Celebrity Doesn't Make You Any Better A Re-enactor #1838879
    hampden98
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    Contrast this with ‘Inglorious Basterds’ by Quentin Tarantino, another director who I have a lot of respect for, but who managed to produce a joke of a film that actually had me feeling respect for the Nazis at one point!

    The end of Fury is very Pulp Fiction.

    in reply to: Being A Celebrity Doesn't Make You Any Better A Re-enactor #1838999
    hampden98
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    Dear Brad Pitt.

    WW2 tank commanders were generally in their early twenties or younger.

    You are 51

    Can you see the problem?

    Moggy

    Hi Moggy,

    I went to see Fury yesterday. The film, `kindof` works and Brad Pitt is a good choice for the role of tank commander IMHO.
    I would rather see a good actor who was older than a youngster who isn’t right.
    It’s a good war film and portrays a tank crew at war very well. The tank battle is very well done and the interior scenes are
    powerful. The demise of some of the tanks is quite realistic.
    The end is far fetched but very watchable.
    Predictable, American but better than most.
    7-10.

    in reply to: Bengal cats. Are they good to have around ? #1839490
    hampden98
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    http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqSUciINES86S9iipa_dWdyI0tPc8Z48YsqAzu8K3Yycq3tYNAOQ
    Go on, you know you want one!

    in reply to: GCE O level 1955 #1839492
    hampden98
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    Is the answer 1 Goat, 5 Chickens and a Gerbil?

    in reply to: Being A Celebrity Doesn't Make You Any Better A Re-enactor #1839495
    hampden98
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    Shamelessly stolen from AiB’s Facebook page. Master Race re-enacted.

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    That must be the Battle of the Bulge.

    in reply to: Revell QRA Shelter #218739
    hampden98
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    That’s really good, I like it.
    Can you use these shelters for a Lightning QRA?

    in reply to: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth #1839576
    hampden98
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    But we did go to the Tower of London to see the Poppies – and they were AWESOME!

    To be honest that was the reason I went and yes they are very impressive.
    Bit surprised that only 10% of the proceeds goes to charity. But £25 * 856’000 10 percents is still a tidy sum.

    in reply to: 29 October at 11:45am, BBC1 Sea Fury on BBC1 Close Calls #926261
    hampden98
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    Is that type of failure considered `catastrophic` ?
    It certainly failed but it seemed to do so quite sedately. `Catastrophic` in my book would be bits flying all over the place.

    in reply to: Guilty of not wearing a seat belt. #1840181
    hampden98
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    If you are killed for not wearing a seatbelt it hurts your family.
    If your son or daughter is killed while driving isn’t that a pretty strong reason to make it compulsory?
    I wear my seltbelt and don’t even notice it’s on.
    Whiplash is better than dead any day.

    in reply to: Afraid To Be Atheist? #1841110
    hampden98
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    Because women wailing is something men don’t want to hear? Something for the Westboro Baptists to protest about, I imagine…

    What does it matter? The wall won’t care one way or another, and any passing deity that exists – which they don’t ;o) – in the locality will have better things to do than take the cries of wall visitors into account when wondering what to do that day.

    Having segregation in religion just demonstrates that religion was created by a man. Segregation, control. It’s the same thing.
    Religion is a way for a select few to control the masses.

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