snafuSounds a bit highbrow to me. Carry On England?;o)
snafuis it Sunday?
It was…remembrance Sunday.
And problems, I’ve had a few, but then again, too bloody many to mention.
snafuIf that’s the way you feel about the Daily Mail, perhaps you should stop reading it!
I don’t read it, but it is so easy to find out what stupidness they are up to without reading it – this is the internet and there are several blogs dedicated to illustrating what and why the Mail is doing what it does.
Once managed to turn down a (freelance) job with them, but I can sleep soundly at night comfortable with the fact that I have not worked for the acceptable face of the right-wing bullying media. (It was doorstepping a ‘sleb’ – I forget who – who had made a comment about something that the Mail took issue with. It was a last minute thing, they needed a quote for the following issue and I knew that if the local agency they were using had called me then they just didn’t have anyone else. And this was the Daily Mail, who said they would never doorstep or chase people for the story like they – and others – did with Princess Diana.)
P.S. I trust your are returning all your free Lego?
No way. Perks of the job and all that. Where else can you get a cheap anti-intruder home defence system that can be (and usually is) freely deployed by children?
snafuR&@#$$£%h?.><* @@@! I posted an answer around 9am-ish this morning and it isn’t here!
The serials, as Scotavia says, are for tracking BUT also they give some items (historic or otherwise) an identity.
For example the only serial that Alcock and Brown’s Vimy has is BAPC 51, it having no military or civil registration. The same with a number of Mignet Pou-Du-Ciels that were under construction when the design suffered from CoA certification withdrawal, so they were left without registration until listed by the BAPC. It gave anonymous airframes, ie those found in barns or behind hangars hidden in the long grass, an identity, as well as the full scale (although not necessarily accurate) models and replicas, since they rarely keep the same (false) serial from construction.
There were a few anomalies initially, such as half scale museum models, but that can be forgiven since the normal civil register also suffered one or two weird ones – is that manhole cover preserved, anyone?
snafuI posted but the post can be seen but not selecting back to the top of the list, very strange
So you could see your post on the main page; don’t understand ‘not selecting back to the top of the list’, but what is very strange is that you are usually sober and coherent by this time on a Sunday morning…;o)
snafuNeed to ask…when?
There were a few different greys used after the Falklands, and not too sure how settled the colour situation has been this century.
snafuKnew I should have gone for the one syllable option. Would have put a few pictures in, since they say a picture speaks a thousand words, but they might have been big pictures speaking longs words with lots of syllables, so I didn’t.
I don’t mind if you hold a finger under each word as you read, if it helps…;o)
I’m afraid snafu your logic, like a great deal of the remoaners, is flawed in that you think people who voted to leave the EU don’t like European people (in your words) ‘Coz they are from Europe. Not from Britain. , or anything else to do with the continent of Europe.
Have you ever read a copy of the Daily Mail? It matters little who voted for what – the Daily Mail has its opinion and it is right, because they said so.
That is the great misconception you have.
John Green will agree with you, but I am the one sitting here giggling at you and you are the one frothing at the mouth and wiping spittle off your screen.
Go on, stamp your feet if it makes you feel better.
The majority of the UK electorate voted to leave the EU – the European Union, which, in case you don’t know, also has a great many people from European countries who dislike it, and do not want to be part of it.
i/ The majority who voted voted out. The majority did not vote out. It is just a figure, and it works both ways, so why did I mention it other than to wind you up? Go on, guess. Fun.
ii/ Can you please provide figures for the ‘great many people from European countries’, complete with references for independent sources please? This is a wonderful example of plucked out of thin air statistics, well employed by 99%* of politicians the world over.
* Figure plucked out of the air, as if you couldn’t guess
That it would seem is the very thing that most remoaners can’t seem to understand!
Indeed. But I am having difficulty understanding a word in your above sentence. Maybe you could explain that instead? Is it a European word, since it isn’t in my English dictionary…
They have this strange and rather stupid notion that by leaving the EU, the UK is no longer ‘European friendly’, multicultural, or a tolerant place for ‘these foreigners’ to work and live, be it if they are from a European country or the rest of the world.
They probably do, but they are not (stupidly dragging this answer back to the subject) what this is about.
The Daily Mail will have you believe that Europe is out to grab anything and everything that Britain has for themselves, the Mail insists that Europe is not UK friendly and is not a tolerant place for decent people from these fair lands.
One day though (maybe by the time the Euro is no longer and the whole EU project is consigned to the history books), the penny might just drop!
I guess you are still on, and always will be, your high horse about the EU. I also guess the penny hasn’t dropped that the thread I posted had nothing directly to do with the EU and everything to do with how the Daily Mail is attempting to lead a rabble storming of the barricades – enticing parents to buy their propaganda with ‘free’ Lego toys, tearing into judges who followed the letter of the law over making a judgement by bringing up their sexuality, going over the top by blaming migrants for all the ills in this country and frightening the elderly against people with accents (we had a smart meter installed at home the other week; the young chap who did it was Welsh with a strong accent and deep voice – a bit like Windsor Davies, still alive – but had been accused twice of stealing jobs from Brits and told to go back to Poland. He said it was even worse for his work mate who was of West Indian heritage, born in London with a Cockney accent). Why are they doing it? What does the Mail hope to achieve, other than the knowledge that it has bought about a change is society through editorial decree? Do you remember when a baying mob attacked the home of a consultant paediatrician after the News of the World ‘outed’ paedophiles on their front page in 2000? The Mail would really like to be able to say it did something of a similar ilk.
Of course, when the body is lying there in its pool of blood, they will be amongst the first to moan about migrants bringing it all upon themselves. If they haven’t already
I do hope someone helped you with the big words and you now understand – sorry – now know that I was flippantly (hell, need a word of one syllable for that? Never mind) moaning about the Euro-phobic sensibilities of the Daily Mail.
snafuAnd as for Lego being a European company, I fail to see what that has to do with it.
They are obviously trying to undermine the will of the British people. Being Europeans and all that. You know, the enemy of the proud little Englander. ‘Coz they are from Europe. Not from Britain. (Do you understand now or should I try to explain in words with fewer syllables that might make it easier for you to understand what even John Green understood…)
I won’t be playing with my enormous Lego anymore.
It really isn’t that big, is it John.
I’ll now be buying extra copies of the Holy Grail to make up for any deficit.
If that floats your boat, but surely you ought to be buying the Mail so they can keep their numbers up?
snafuThere is probably something like 200 to 300 tons of lead in a submarine of that era, in the lead-acid batteries and keel weights; not sure if that is economic to recover as it would be extremely difficult to access in an intact wreck.
No, church roofs are a lot easier to access.
snafuVery likely, but the character wasn’t a headline role and he was not given top billing; you ask anyone who was in The Magnificent Seven and Robert Vaughn would probably not have been in the first four or five names that spring to mind of those who hadn’t seen it in the last month or so. Not that I recall him in Superman III – not sure I remember Superman III, if I’ve actually seen it.
On the other hand he was the Man from UNCLE, especially when you remember they recently remade it (which the actual actors probably don’t! I appear to have a complete downer on remakes).
snafuSuart48 does not say the latter crew did salvage it, just that it was ‘destroyed with explosives’, which gives the impression of smashing the remains – human and vessel – to pieces and (probably) distributing the remaining 20-odd tons of mercury across the area. As they say…different times.
I have no more than a general idea about what happens when mercury is let loose in a fluid; being heavy does it pool in dips, or would it be affected by tides and get pushed around? Would it eventually dilute, or just become many smaller and smaller ‘blobs’ until absorbed into the local wildlife?
Not sure there would be enough precious metal on a submarine – any generic submarine – for anyone to want to try any form of salvage other than for historic purposes, and these days there are all sorts of one off (in cost outlay but still expensive) equipment to help them, which obviously implies there would be no profit in it, even with the fact that the metals recovered would be pre radiation era…
snafuMaybe Hitler was on board…;o)
snafuNo, mine are spelt correctly. (As opposed to korrektlee in JohnGreenWorld)
snafuA man from uncle…
Robert Vaughn has died aged 83 after a short battle with acute leukaemia.
The actor, best known for his roles in Man From UNCLE and Superman III, died 11 days before his 84th birthday with his family by his bedside, according to his manager, Matthew Sullivan.
snafuPsst… John only believes things without any reference if it comes from the Sunday Sport.
Crashed bombers on the moon, John?
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