costard
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Bah, go to page two to find it and its this rubbish? May your best friend fall in love with you, then serve you your dog for thanksgiving.
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Heh, I cocked up twice. 95th Rifles wore dark green, not khaki.
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Better than being the arse end of nowhere.
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Producing them more quickly was beyond UK industry at that point - new plant would have had to be set up in the US and the bombs shipped. As it was they had enough to assign to relatively few crews on strategic targets. Wasn't Tirpitz was sunk by a Tallboy? Smashed out its bottom and sank upright in the fjord or something, fooling the recon planes.
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It begs the question - were pith helmets of the Victorian era mass produced to a single formula and standard design, or were they produced in separate and small manufactories using different materials and techniques of craft, giving a variation in the formation's kit (overseas and home)? Thus, it might be deduced that the representation might well be legitimate for a pith helmet in active service in 1879, and therefore qualify in the lending of its silhouette.
Kahki was used in the Peninsular War (1808) by the 95th Rifles Regiment.
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Aff, the painting is of the 92nd Highlanders fighting in Afghanistan in 1879. The artist could well be wrong with this detail but the odds are against it. 1879, pith helmet, historical source, great work by the hoolaman: what's not to like?
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I think we have a winner, hoolaman. If you can't copyright it, let us know and we'll shame Rune into mailing you the equivalent of a slab.
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How about this. A few to choose from here.
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To cool your beer, you will need 1 esky full of water (melted ice), 1 handful ammonium nitrate (not too easy to get hold of unless you're on an explosives crew in an iron ore mine. Don't go looking for some unless you're cool with being put on a watch list somewhere.) Put beer in water, add AN to water - endothermic reaction and cool beer.
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Good lord, Noba has bred. We're doomed.
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Steve,
WEGO. It happens in setup when the team is put back with its squad, when the squad icon is clicked instead of the ground the squad occupies. The team remains hanging in the air for the duration of the game, but unfortunately behaves as if it is with the rest of the squad (I was hoping for some proto-Javelin moves and extra spotting advantages;)).
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Not sure if this has been sighted yet: I split an AT team from its squad to scrounge some spare Bazooka rounds. When I put it back with the squad (in a two story building) I clicked on the squad icon. Save game available.
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Maybe you can get Stuka to take his weiner for a walk in Central Park, show it off to all the ladies sort of fing. Bound to get some good results there. (We're talking about dogs, yes?)
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I think one of the great changes in the makeup of western society in the years since the second world war has been the reversion to a feudal system: promotion now follows familial/status relationships and less frequently makes the choice of greatest capability. This has occurred in all areas, including our political leadership and our education institutions. As a result, the possibility of bringing about the successful conclusion of another such great project is diminishing.
It would appear that we have wars because it is the only way we can manage to promote capable leadership. The rest of the time we devolve in line with the weaknesses of the human animal; sloth, greed, pride, all corruption and ill-discipline leads us to be ruled by leaders who have no requirement to behave any better than we do ourselves. We've squandered that which so many fought and died for, it very much looks like we'll be having to do the same (again and again, that's the history of the human race) if we wish to recover those freedoms and that wealth.
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Banned in 1, 2, 3...
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Those are pancakes.
Nope, fritters they be. Corned beef fritters, banana fritters, corn fritters - all grist to Stuka's heroically challenged alimentary canal.
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Possibly (more likely, anyway) Chavez is looking at building a big oil terminal and is getting engineering help from Iran.
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Riding the donkey to the top of the page - bump, bump, bumpity bump. *E-OOR*, snort shuffle, slurp.
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Yep, hope is all it is likely to be. I see the UK banks went quietly after all for their mis-selling of insurance: you have to figure that losing a few billion quid of your shareholders money is preferable to spending time in jail for fraud. Shows that the UK justice system is somewhat serious about prosecuting crimes, anyway.
What is really sad is that I'm here writing this instead of doing important stuff - CM:BN!
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The logistics cost is far less than that for Afghanistan or Iraq, and Venezuela is an oil rich nation (with a mostly catholic populace?). Sounds like a good prize for the US military-industrial complex if they can get the front story right.... another ****ing war??!!??
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Rugby injury: hit a guy in a tackle hard enough smash his hip - and my collar bone. My captain said "Don't let 'em see you're hurt!", so I finished the game (playing at hooker). Played trombone in a concert that evening, too (I had to skip a few of the lower notes).
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I could point out that you are using 105mm vs Boo's 75mm, Stuka, but for sure its a redundant observation.
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Actually, one carked it today. Older bloke, probably past his use-by date. (Press statement said no indication of radiation poisoning.)
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OK, so well off topic but:
AMTRAK was brought into being and gave participating railway companies with the right not to provide passenger services (demanded by federal legislation, The Rail Passenger Service Act).
AMTRAK also funds the railway pensions (whether the former employees were AMTRAK or otherwise). From Wiki:
Today, the burden of nascent railroad worker pensions, including those of freight railroad workers, are financed by Amtrak, regardless of whether such workers were ever employed by Amtrak or worked in passenger railroad service. In effect, Amtrak subsidizes the pensions of thousands of railroad workers who would otherwise not receive any pensionAny railroad operating intercity passenger service could contract with the NRPC, thereby joining the national system.
Participating railroads bought into the NRPC using a formula based on their recent intercity passenger losses. The purchase price could be satisfied either by cash or rolling stock; in exchange, the railroads received NRPC common stock.
Any participating railroad was freed of the obligation to operate intercity passenger service after May 1, 1971, except for those services chosen by the Department of Transportation as part of a "basic system" of service and paid for by NRPC using its federal funds.
Railroads that chose not to join the NRPC system were required to continue operating their existing passenger service until 1975 and thenceforth had to pursue the customary Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) approval process for any discontinuance or alteration to the service.
Through the late 1990s and very early 21st century, Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other services to break even. By 2002, it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency, but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement.Amtrak's leader at the time, David L. Gunn, was polite but direct in response to congressional criticism. In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term, Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured. Highways, airports, and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate, coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees, highway fuel and road taxes, and, in the case of the General Fund, by people who own cars and do not.
Before a congressional hearing, Gunn answered a demand by leading Amtrak critic Arizona Senator John McCain to eliminate all operating subsidies by asking the Senator if he would also demand the same of the commuter airlines, upon which the citizens of Arizona are dependent. McCain, usually not at a loss for words when debating Amtrak funding, did not reply.
Under Gunn, almost all the controversial express freight business was eliminated. The practice of tolerating deferred maintenance was reversed to eliminate a safety issue.
AMTRAK offered to buy out the common stock shareholders (i.e. other railway companies) in 2002: they declined. Obviously it is in their interest to maintain the current arrangement and it is difficult to see how the US federal government would get support to dismantle AMTRAK (or get it to operate at a profit for that matter).
ICC issues arrest warrant for Gaddafi
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Standard tactic: knowing that you have performed an illegal act, indict the victim for the same crime.