Affentitten
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Appropriately for a sailor, Nelson was pickled in a cask of brandy and then in a tub of neat spirits tp preserve him for his return to England.
It was pretty unknown at the time for naval casualties to be returned home, for obvious reasons. In fact during these times dead men were pitched off the side of the ship even in the middle of battle to prevent them becoming obstructions. They weren't even buried per se, but just dumped.
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Well it's not winter here. Nor Thanksgiving.
(Just thought I would welcome you back with a contrary opinion!)
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Navy frigate sent to Libya with four missiles
KInd of like the whole "Every second man gets a rifle" thing. Even worse, the story says "the Royal Navy said it was unable to spare a warship to guard British waters for the whole of October after last year’s defence cuts".
First they came for the Harriers....
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Interesting how the fence/wall along the starboard side of the aircraft kept changing in the different pics over the years.
Michael
Perhaps we have different definitions of interesting!
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Well I have no experience with other NZ cities, so I'm just trying to be fair about target designation.
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Why bother - you guys are provide us with more airpower than we could ever afford anyway.
Personally I would love to be flying over AKL with a full bomb load.
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Well I suggest it would be a worthwhile investment for the RNZAF. It would be a huge force muiltiplier.
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Not to mention the generational difference between what the Argies can field versus a Eurofighter.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058213/RAF-Supermarine-Swift-jet-auctioned-eBay-250-000.html
RAF reserves on hand to fill the gap
1/4 million quid for that?? Somebody needs to edit a few zeroes out of the price.
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Well 4 Eurofighters would probably just about do it. I never realised just how **** the Argie Air Force was these days until I just looked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinian_Air_Force
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The US has agreed to buy all of Britain's decommed Harriers and spare parts. What happens next time the Argies invade?
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Yeah it doesn't really matter if the Earth is slagged into glass if we don't see daylight for 12 months afterwards and are breathing in all those nasty isotopes to boot.
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Oh goody, more depressing news.
Michael
Well Logan, time to stop being a burden on the rest of us...
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I used to work with a cameraman who had been a nuclear weapons armourer with the RAF during the early 1980s. His job was to fit the weapons onto the aircraft. He told me that they would be locked in to hardened bunkers with the plane crew and other techs on a week on, week off basis. During their week inside they were cut off from any outside media. The only contact they had was with their chain of command. It was designed to stop them from making judgement calls about whether they were doing the right thing or not if the order came to bomb up and attack.
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Because a 12 year old NZ air cadet could have been the key to the future survival of humanity!
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I guess the fallout volume is all a bit of a moot point if a full-scale nuke war had kicked off. None of us would have been around to stress about whether we were going to get a demographic increase in cancer in 10 years' time.
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I also wondered, seeing as it descends by chute, what the chances were of knackering one with AA fire?
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You forgot to mention Speznaz.
Regards
KR
Spetznaz = Russian = non-NATO = Lawful Good.
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And now the French have been fined for advancing on the Haka. The IRB seriously need to be locked in a sack and dropped into the Pacific.
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That is why I was amazed to read it in this newspaper, which is certainly not the worst available in Austria. Very strange that they write something like this without having proof.
Best regards,
Thomm
The current Kettlerisation I have read is that:
1) NATO forces knew Gaddafi was in the convoy.
2) They bombed it.
3) They "rapidly despatched" an undercover assassination squad to the site. This squad moved through the convoy survivors and located Gaddafi.
4) They shot him in the legs to stop him escaping and then stuck him in the drain pipe.
5) They then alerted rebel fighters to his location.
6) When the rebels arrived, the SAS / DSGE / GSG 9 / Rainbow 6 dudes hyped everyone up to the point where somebody shot the Colonel or the NATO guys shot him without anybody having a clear idea of what went on.
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A self-proclaimed expert is referring me to wikipedia?!?!
Why not? It's where I learnt everything.
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I have not followed the development over the weekend, but I read in a daily newspaper on Friday that a SAS special forces soldier shot G. in the head! Fact? Myth?
Will there be a murder trial?
Best regards,
Thomm
That's the current Kettlerian conspiracy theory. You'll find it propagated on plenty of anti-globalisation, anti-Western sites. It's part of the logic chain that West = Evil and that pardoxically makes a martyr out of Gaddafi and pretty much says anybody from Libya is a chump who couldn't possibly organsie anything for themselves.
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Woodcock was $40 for a try, and $100 for the first try!!
As for the reffing - Bollocks - as everyone told us 4 years ago, and as we learned to do - get over it!
The article is more about things like referees penalising the same thing (scrum wheels) in opposite ways and the overall poor management of the actual game by the IRB, as opposed to their attention to detail on the $$$ making aspects of the sport.
Nelson would be rolling in his grave
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You don't think they tipped the brandy away afterwards, do you? Not the Jack Tars of the RN. What do you think they toasted his immortal memory with?