En Passant
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1 hour ago, maryportfuncity said:Fuck knows which thread this really belongs on but...
There was awesome turbulence, the plane's landed safely albeit with a load of injured and one dead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8889d7x8j4o
Too late to fasten the seatbelt, heart attack in terror or thrown around to the point of a neck break, or summat?
Doutbless it'll be revealed in time
FWIW, my guess would be no seatbelt, out of chair, broke neck or such on roof/overhead locker. Clear air turbulence can occasionally be that bad. I barely fly anymore but have always kept the seatbelt on.
33 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:Boeing. 'Nuff said.
Not this time Willz. Their behaviour as a corporation has been attrocious and it's not an unreasonable thought at all but this could as easily have been an Airbus, it wasn't due to a fault with the plane.
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21 May
51 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
48 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
43 America - A Horse With No Name
34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain
29 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
26 Hawkwind - Silver Machine +4
18 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday
18 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
17 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack -6
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Just now, Sir Creep said:
We graduated fae the same school!This will come as a complete surprise to.....oh yeah, nobody.
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1 hour ago, TQR said:Tell you who is evil: those who plant insane ideas in the minds of vulnerable, mentally feeble people like the engineer. Cruelty.
They are, but I personally don't think he is particularly mentally feeble (he has at least the strength of character to keep turning up here despite what must be around the 3rd highest facepalm count).
Merely misguided and seeking conspiracy theories under every rock using his tin-foil-hat device.
On the plus side, it's his first comment in what must be years now that isn't about the illuminati sponsored vaccine armageddon. Small steps.
ETA: Mere seconds ago I just read This which seems extraordinarily apposite just at this precise moment. I wonder if it's a sign from God? (
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1 hour ago, wannamaker said:Because it's an amazing song (an all-time favourite of mine), at first the goofy sound effects makes it a bit funny, but at the end you genuinely feel sad for the girl. In some kind of way this song is like a proto-Stan, songs that tell a sad story with silly sound effects where the guy ends up dying on a crash.
I hear you - after a fashion anyway.
But the problem for me is that it's exactly that, the interest is that it's a novelty song with a sad tale.
What that doesn't do, for me at least, is make it repeatable. Musically it's banal at best and an earworm at worst.
Still, if we all liked the same stuff these threads would be damn short lived.
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16 minutes ago, TQR said:Honestly thought Hawkwind was a safe bet to qualify
So did I but I guess it's a bit marmite.
It's also not really representative of their general output. I really like the album Quark Strangeness and Charm (as an example only, there's quite a lot), which I think is much better than this oddity of a single.
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24 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:My first time flying from London City Airport.
It is so compact
A bit too compact for my liking. In another life I learned to fly: One of aviations most useless commodites - runway that's behind you.
I'm kidding again
. It's fine so long as you're not in an A380.
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These how people look 'on the outside' lists are godawful.
I wouldn't fuck Kim Kardashian with yours. Jo Brand is beautiful on the inside.
I'd kick both of them out for Ruth Gemmel any day.
Also reminded of - 'Of course I'd swap you for Michelle Pfeifer, but I'd have the grace to feel guilty about it'. (not perhaps verbatim, it's from memory only and a bonus point to anyone remembers where it's from).
*this post is not fckin serious, none of these people would touch me with a bargepole, and rightly so.
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20 May
51 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4
49 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
40 America - A Horse With No Name
33 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain
32 Hawkwind - Silver Machine
30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
27 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
20 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday
6 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6
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19 May
47 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4
46 America - A Horse With No Name
45 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
37 Hawkwind - Silver Machine
36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
31 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain
30 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
30 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
26 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday
12 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6
06 Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream
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17 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:My name has nothing to do with a dog, I assure you!
Nah, only me messing about for (my usual lame) comedic effect. In truth I assumed it was something to do with Blackburn Rovers and football in general.
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1 minute ago, Toast said:It's really selfish not to name them Alfred. Gives them the option of Fred or Freddie, and is the name of an iconic King.
Such a great name for a dog, but you never hear it now.
I was tempted to go with Rover, but we've got our own @RoverAndOut and don't want to cause offence
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Fenton also crossed my mind, but too many people don't know the video or mishear it as Benton.
So, yes, don't know what happened to Fido really, seems dogs names have the same fashion issue as humans.
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56 minutes ago, Sod's Law said:Alfie, I'm starting to see it as a dog's name and I'm taken aback when I hear parents call their kids that name in public.
Tell that to my mates kid Fido.
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35 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:Charles is his surname so it's okay. I can't stand Firstname Middlename. No one thinks your surname's Zoë.
You don't know some of my friends ......
Edit: And now whilst I think of it the only Craig I actually know is a player on my pool team. But I forgot that - because - he detests it so much himself that he goes by 'Sally'.
And no, I'm not making this up, it seems to amuse him (and other teams we play when we cheer him on).
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17 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:The majority of Craigs I've met have been solid. Charles/Charlie on the other hand, worstcunts.
So where does that leave the actor Craig Charles?
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May 18
43 America - A Horse With No Name
42 David Bowie - Life on Mars?
42 Hawkwind - Silver Machine
39 Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes +4
36 Suzi Quatro - 48 Crash
34 Carly Simon - You’re So Vain
28 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
28 The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
27 David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday
18 Python Lee Jackson - In a Broken Dream
15 The Drifters - At The Club/Saturday Night At The Movies -6
13 Medicine Head - One and One is One
07 Limmie and the Family Cookin’ - You Can Do Magic
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Hank Kudzik, who left high school in Bethlehem to join the Navy and served on a submarine that attacked Japanese warships in the epic Battle of Midway, died Saturday at a hospital in La Mesa, Calif. He was 99.
His daughter, Wanda Frecks, said his heart had been failing. In 2022, he moved from Allen Township to the San Diego area to be with her.
“America has lost a national treasure, one of the few left,” said Frecks, herself a Navy veteran. “He loved his country and served it well. He will be missed.”
A gunners mate on the USS Nautilus, Kudzik went on eight patrols that included stalking the enemy in the pivotal clash at Midway, carrying Marines to Japanese-held Makin Island for a raid made famous in the 1943 film “Gung Ho!” and rescuing American nuns trapped on Bougainville Island. After that, he had six more patrols as chief gunner on the sub Gar.
Last year, he was one of three Midway veterans who received standing ovations at a dinner marking the Pacific battle’s 81st anniversary, held on board the USS Midway Museum in San Diego.
“I was frightened,” he said of his state of mind in 1942. “I wanted combat. I wanted to see what I could do.”
In 2019, Kudzik got red-carpet treatment at the gala Hollywood premiere of the film “Midway,” which he gave a thumbs-up. Ten years earlier, he was the only Nautilus crew member present for the San Diego commissioning of the amphibious assault ship Makin Island.
Kudzik proudly wore his old uniform and could talk about his combat experiences for hours. He was a familiar face at the Lehigh Valley Veterans History Project Roundtable, the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s World War II Weekend near Reading and the Allentown Band’s annual tribute to veterans at Miller Symphony Hall.
A son of Polish immigrants, Kudzik quit Liberty High School after Pearl Harbor. His first assignment on Oahu was helping to remove sailors’ bodies from the capsized battleship Oklahoma. He volunteered for submarine duty and got a berth on the Nautilus. He was just 17 when the big boat went after the Japanese at Midway.
Early June 4, 1942, the first of four days of fighting, the Nautilus was strafed by an enemy plane and fired torpedoes at a battleship and destroyer.
Hours later, the Nautilus attacked an aircraft carrier. A destroyer tracked the sub and dropped depth charges, causing underwater explosions louder than anything Kudzik had ever heard. He was in the control room, operating the trim manifold, which moves water from one tank to another to keep the boat level. An officer asked how much water was moved, but the boy was too rattled to speak.
The captain saw Kudzik’s distress, put his arm around him and said, “You’re doing a good job.” When another charge went off close by, he patted Kudzik on the back and said, “Hang in there. We’re not going to sink.”
The Nautilus fired three torpedoes at the carrier, but the first two missed and the third was a dud. Still, the Navy credited the sub with assisting dive-bombers from the carriers Enterprise and Yorktown in sinking three Japanese carriers.
At home in Bethlehem after the war, Kudzik finished high school and married Jacqueline Boemio, a seamstress who made military uniforms during the war. They had two daughters, Wanda, a travel agent who was a Navy cryptologic technician, and Renae Behrens, a nurse. Jacqueline died in 2016. Renae died the next year.
Kudzik was a Navy reservist for a dozen years and left the service as a chief petty officer. He worked for cement-industry supplier Fuller Co. as a draftsman and sales engineer, and retired in 1985.
In 2012, he received an Audie Murphy Award, named after one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II, from the American Veterans Center. The next year, he was honored at the Battle of Midway Commemoration in Washington.
Frecks said a celebration of life will be held in the Lehigh Valley at a time and place to be announced. Her father will be interred in Bethlehem Memorial Park alongside Jacqueline.
David Venditta is a freelance writer.
Not only region barred but also behind a bloody paywall. I'm a sneaky bastard though on occasion.
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5 minutes ago, TQR said:"Where were you when Jimmy Carter died?"
Me? Discussing marsupial cocks.
This thread went to shit so long ago it hardly matters. Admins could just lock it until something actually noteworthy happened to him if they cared to.
At least Kangaroo cocks are more interesting than mangoes - though ymmv.
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2 minutes ago, Toast said:Is it true that male kangaroos have two penises?
Sort of - It would seem.
You muck about for a couple of seconds and it's amazing the rabbit holes you find yourself burrowing down. And no, lets not start on rabbit porn, they do just fine without it apparently.
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1 minute ago, Toast said:I don't see anything like that in my feed. It's like everywhere, the more you click on something, the more similar stuff you're shown.
I get a lot of posts featuring art, architecture, photography, ancient landscapes, stone circles, animal behaviour, loads of things.
And funny stuff like Fesshole.
If you follow the right sort of posters it's fine.
Oh, that explains the Kangaroo porn then. I thought there were a lot more, er, followers of it than mere chance would suggest.
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2 minutes ago, lilham said:I believe one of the other men is David Geffen.
I read Carly's book years ago.
Could well be so. But as far as I'm aware she's never confirmed it. Let's be honest, she's probably got a point with quite a lot of them, named or not.
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1 minute ago, TQR said:I didn't add the spaces.
Ok, pedant by proxy. It's a fine line.
(oi fackoff tqr, as you well know, it's not like I'm any different).
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3 hours ago, TQR said:but for adding the spaces
Pedant.
Interesting Ways To Die...
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Aye, I know mate. And I'm no defender of Boeing. Just rather focus on their actual flaws.
It isn't, not by a long way. That's an absolutely massive drop.
No, they don't because - as above.
Whistle under seat in case of ditch in ocean 2000 miles from land. Handy. Oh wait not that kind of whistle blower. Yeah, they can
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