Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Doesn't stop him though.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    All he is is the right winger's pop-psychologist. It's amazing no one has thought of the grift before really...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    rick_chasey said:

    Doesn't stop him though.

    Stop him what? Selling self help books?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    ddraver said:

    All he is is the right winger's pop-psychologist. It's amazing no one has thought of the grift before really...

    Selling people comforting rubbish is hardly limited to JP.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,374
    A St Emilion from a grateful pupil... :smile:


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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    rjsterry said:

    ddraver said:

    All he is is the right winger's pop-psychologist. It's amazing no one has thought of the grift before really...

    Selling people comforting rubbish is hardly limited to JP.
    No, but couching it in terms that right-wingers will accept, rather than call "wokey, liberal hippy nonsense" is a form of genius...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,330
    I have observed in the past that bidons were designed around the dimensions of a wine bottle. 😉 Can be quite rattly though so go slow.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    ddraver said:

    rjsterry said:

    ddraver said:

    All he is is the right winger's pop-psychologist. It's amazing no one has thought of the grift before really...

    Selling people comforting rubbish is hardly limited to JP.
    No, but couching it in terms that right-wingers will accept, rather than call "wokey, liberal hippy nonsense" is a form of genius...
    Pfft. That's a every broad definition of genius.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    He's back on Twitter, thank Musk for that.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    See a Lancaster bomber fly over my parents' house earlier. I'd seen people mention seeing it yesterday but I missed it. Presumably it was heading back from Swansea airshow.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151

    Imagine those poor sods all cramped up in one of those (especially the turrets) on a mission out to Germany in WWII.

  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,230
    Watching Lorde's Glastonbury set, that lady is good.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    orraloon said:

    Watching Lorde's Glastonbury set, that lady is good.

    Meh, you should be watching the tennis court.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    I was stuck in the party on the M5 today. Slightly refreshing to hear even obviously non-woke folk talking about how mental health is so important as the news about what sort of incident it was began filtering around the cars.

    Less so an hour later mind...

    (And us southbounders were the lucky ones frankly...)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rakkor
    rakkor Posts: 53
    focuszing723 said:


    Imagine those poor sods all cramped up in one of those (especially the turrets) on a mission out to Germany in WWII.

    I did a jolly in a Shackleton {based on the Lanc's airframe) back in the early 80's and I can confirm it's very cramped. I spent most of the eight hours we spent chasing Lightnings over the North Sea in the bomb aimer's position
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,327
    focuszing723 said:


    Imagine those poor sods all cramped up in one of those (especially the turrets) on a mission out to Germany in WWII.

    That's an Airfix model.
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,658
    pinno said:

    focuszing723 said:


    Imagine those poor sods all cramped up in one of those (especially the turrets) on a mission out to Germany in WWII.

    That's an Airfix model.
    No wonder it's cramped in there
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,424
    masjer said:

    pinno said:

    focuszing723 said:


    Imagine those poor sods all cramped up in one of those (especially the turrets) on a mission out to Germany in WWII.

    That's an Airfix model.
    No wonder it's cramped in there
    Somebody tell Rick that his country needs him :)
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  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    Been inside the Lancaster at Duxford. It's a lot smaller inside than I imagined, and the alu skin is disturbingly thin. Must've been absolute hell in there hoping to avoid being shredded by AA fire or picked off by a Messerschmitt. Heroism of the highest order
  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    briantrumpet said:

    A St Emilion from a grateful pupil... :smile:


    And I just got a bottle of whisky from a grateful Tesco Mobile after the phone order / contract I'd done in store on Saturday vanished without trace. Sh1t happens; good customer service I thought
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    The Lanc was an incredible machine of it's time, but you're all correct, being there helpless as you fly over enemy territory must have been horrific
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    edited July 2022
    Christ! I've only just found my mojo again after the salt saga, now I find myself in a Borrowers faux pas.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Munsford0 said:

    Been inside the Lancaster at Duxford. It's a lot smaller inside than I imagined, and the alu skin is disturbingly thin. Must've been absolute hell in there hoping to avoid being shredded by AA fire or picked off by a Messerschmitt. Heroism of the highest order

    The attrition of air crews was pretty horrific. Having been looking at the bomb damage maps and photographs for London recently, I find it difficult to to get all misty-eyed about the equipment designed for obliterating cities.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Tashman said:

    The Lanc was an incredible machine of it's time, but you're all correct, being there helpless as you fly over enemy territory must have been horrific

    Yeah, it must have been terrifying. I guess they must have got used to it in the end.

    Less we forget.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    edited July 2022
    Lest*. You're having an absolute shocker
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    shirley_basso said:

    Lest*. You're having an absolute shocker

    Fvck! Yep I'm just going to have to hide away for a bit.

    Bye, bygones.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,919
    rjsterry said:

    Munsford0 said:

    Been inside the Lancaster at Duxford. It's a lot smaller inside than I imagined, and the alu skin is disturbingly thin. Must've been absolute hell in there hoping to avoid being shredded by AA fire or picked off by a Messerschmitt. Heroism of the highest order

    The attrition of air crews was pretty horrific. Having been looking at the bomb damage maps and photographs for London recently, I find it difficult to to get all misty-eyed about the equipment designed for obliterating cities.
    It's a generational thing. Many people brought up just after the war idolised everything about it.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    focuszing723 said:

    Tashman said:

    The Lanc was an incredible machine of it's time, but you're all correct, being there helpless as you fly over enemy territory must have been horrific

    Yeah, it must have been terrifying. I guess they must have got used to it in the end.

    Less we forget.
    They mostly didn't have time to get used to it. 51% died in action and only 1 in 4 made it through the war unscathed.
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  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    TheBigBean said:

    rjsterry said:

    Munsford0 said:

    Been inside the Lancaster at Duxford. It's a lot smaller inside than I imagined, and the alu skin is disturbingly thin. Must've been absolute hell in there hoping to avoid being shredded by AA fire or picked off by a Messerschmitt. Heroism of the highest order

    The attrition of air crews was pretty horrific. Having been looking at the bomb damage maps and photographs for London recently, I find it difficult to to get all misty-eyed about the equipment designed for obliterating cities.
    It's a generational thing. Many people brought up just after the war idolised everything about it.
    While those who served in it rarely spoke about their experiences. My dad for one.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rjsterry said:

    Munsford0 said:

    Been inside the Lancaster at Duxford. It's a lot smaller inside than I imagined, and the alu skin is disturbingly thin. Must've been absolute hell in there hoping to avoid being shredded by AA fire or picked off by a Messerschmitt. Heroism of the highest order

    The attrition of air crews was pretty horrific. Having been looking at the bomb damage maps and photographs for London recently, I find it difficult to to get all misty-eyed about the equipment designed for obliterating cities.
    I think you can appreciate design and engineering without in some way condoning its purpose. For me seeing a very rare, eighty year old aircraft flying over unexpectedly was enjoyable - doesn't mean I'm misty-eyed that it may have helped wipe Dresden off the map.

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