Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 35)
Discussion
P5BNij said:
StuntmanMike said:
Is that the old TV adaption of 'Quatermass & The Pit'...? The mid '60s film version was on Talking Pictures the other week, the one with Barbara Shelley and Andrew Kerr.
I’m rooting for Magoo, he will be a hard man to replace in station F.
Bobberoo99 said:
r159 said:
Indian takeaway tonight.
Ooohhhh nice, what are you having???Chicken balti with spinach
Chicken Korma
1/2 tandoori chicken
sundries
Lager (Heineken I’m afraid but will make up for quality with quantity)
Indigestion
Not sure what the wife a child are having.
It’s breakfast of champions for me as I coming off night shift.
Only 10 mins till they’re open..
Thanks for the good wishes chaps, much appreciated.
Right, I've found the keys now, thanks all.
It would've been nice to have something with a touch of pinpoint accuracy to use against the Honey Otters, something like a Paveway I suppose. However, needs must:
"Grand Slam," all 22,000 pounds of the bugger.
'What he lacks in accuracy he makes up for with enthusiasm'
Right, I've found the keys now, thanks all.
It would've been nice to have something with a touch of pinpoint accuracy to use against the Honey Otters, something like a Paveway I suppose. However, needs must:
"Grand Slam," all 22,000 pounds of the bugger.
'What he lacks in accuracy he makes up for with enthusiasm'
StuntmanMike said:
It’s Magoo and the pit.
I’m rooting for Magoo, he will be a hard man to replace in station F.
Don't worry Mike I'm made of strong stuff as I don't mind putting my head into sI’m rooting for Magoo, he will be a hard man to replace in station F.
t pipes in the everyday hunt of the magic €.Myself and agent Mavis aka little sod are at this moment having our usual training session after her evening meal where we wrestle and I eventually end up bleeding and she ends up shagging cushions!
All in readiness for combating those pesky moles and honey otters.
Even just last Sunday we both chased off a dozy Western whip snake that was intruding into our trivial outpost!
DickyC said:
Ah, Bomma, there you are, old boy. Have a shufti in the small hanger and see if any of these are missing can you?
A number of them landed on the lawn overnight and are causing consternation.
If anyone else can help identify them I would be grateful.
There's nothing like that in the small hangar old chap, maybe someone half-inched them and lobbed them over the fence in the wee small hours?A number of them landed on the lawn overnight and are causing consternation.
If anyone else can help identify them I would be grateful.
What sort of size are they, out of interest?
Magooagain said:
StuntmanMike said:
It’s Magoo and the pit.
I’m rooting for Magoo, he will be a hard man to replace in station F.
Don't worry Mike I'm made of strong stuff as I don't mind putting my head into sI’m rooting for Magoo, he will be a hard man to replace in station F.
t pipes in the everyday hunt of the magic €.Myself and agent Mavis aka little sod are at this moment having our usual training session after her evening meal where we wrestle and I eventually end up bleeding and she ends up shagging cushions!
All in readiness for combating those pesky moles and honey otters.
Even just last Sunday we both chased off a dozy Western whip snake that was intruding into our trivial outpost!
Bobberoo99 said:
r159 said:
That sounds good, are they baked in the sauce?
Order placed 25mins before collection, I’m getting it so no pre drinks...
They are indeed old chap, and bloody lovely they were too!!! Order placed 25mins before collection, I’m getting it so no pre drinks...
Enjoy your Indian!!!
Just squeezing in the beers.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm now, and quite likely a little nap.
r159 said:
Bobberoo99 said:
r159 said:
Indian takeaway tonight.
Ooohhhh nice, what are you having???Chicken balti with spinach
Chicken Korma
1/2 tandoori chicken
sundries
Lager (Heineken I’m afraid but will make up for quality with quantity)
Indigestion
Not sure what the wife a child are having.
It’s breakfast of champions for me as I coming off night shift.
Only 10 mins till they’re open..
That a sounds bloody marvellous. Apart from the chicken khorma, which is a bit insipid and wishy-washy for my tastes.
I wasn't hungry because I had a largeish brunch, but now I am. Bugger.
Never mind, I'll have another beer.
Beer 3 for the new Tier 3. Cheers!
If it's not too late, may I declare a TTVPU* this evening?
* TT Virtual Piss Up for the uninitiated, who have it all to look forward to!
Bomma R1 said:
Thanks for the good wishes chaps, much appreciated.
Right, I've found the keys now, thanks all.
It would've been nice to have something with a touch of pinpoint accuracy to use against the Honey Otters, something like a Paveway I suppose. However, needs must:
"Grand Slam," all 22,000 pounds of the bugger.
'What he lacks in accuracy he makes up for with enthusiasm'
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaactually.......Right, I've found the keys now, thanks all.
It would've been nice to have something with a touch of pinpoint accuracy to use against the Honey Otters, something like a Paveway I suppose. However, needs must:
"Grand Slam," all 22,000 pounds of the bugger.
'What he lacks in accuracy he makes up for with enthusiasm'
The grand slam was very much a precision weapon. It didn't obliterate its target with a super-sized version of a normal bomb burst - rather, it fell at nearly supersonic velocity and buried itself many metres below the earth right next to key bridges, viaducts, dams, submarine pens, railways and various bits of hardened infrastructure immune to normal munitions. It then detonated it's 22000lb of Torpex (a forerunner to TNT) with enough force to cause an enormous earthquake and demolish the target in question.
That Barnes Wallis was a damned smart fellow.
There is also the story/urban legend about the Grand Slam that was for many years a Gate Guardian outside RAF Scampton, of course the home of the Dambusters.
It goes thus:
"The road outside the base was to be widenedz which entailed repositioning the gate guardians which were a Lancaster and a Grand Slam bomb.
When they went to lift the Grand Slam, thought for years to just be an empty casing, with an RAF 8 Ton
Coles Crane, it wouldn’t budge. “Oh, it must be filled with concrete” they said. Then somebody had a horrible thought.....
'No!….. Couldn’t be? … Not after all these years out here open to the public to climb over and be photographed sitting astride! …. Could it?'
Then everyone raced off to get the Station ARMO. He carefully scraped off many layers of paint and gingerly unscrewed the base plate. Yes, you guessed it, live 1944 explosive filling!
The beast was very gently lifted onto an RAF ‘Queen Mary’ low loader, using a much larger civvy crane (I often wonder what, if anything, they told the crane driver), then driven slowly under massive police escort to the coastal experimental range at Shoeburyness. There it was rigged for demolition, and when it ‘high ordered’, it proved in no uncertain terms to anyone within a ten mile radius that the filling was still very much alive!
Exhaustive investigations then took place, but nobody could find the long-gone 1944, 1945 or 1946 records which might have shown how a live 22,000 lb bomb became a gate guard for nearly the next decade and a half. Some safety distance calculations were done, however, about the effect of a Grand Slam detonating at ground level in the open. Apart from the entire RAF Station, most of the northern part of the City of Lincoln, including Lincoln Cathedral, would have been flattened...."
Bomma R1 said:
There's nothing like that in the small hangar old chap, maybe someone half-inched them and lobbed them over the fence in the wee small hours?
What sort of size are they, out of interest?
What sort of size are they, out of interest?
A bit over a foot long. Very thin aluminium pressings in an injection molded mount.
Part of an aerial?
The smaller piece, also in the back garden, was five metres away or so. Not too heavy but too awkward for a magpie to carry and get fed up with, I would have thought.
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