Where are you based?

[Arch]

He was talking about the Spitfire rather than the bicycle, but he's got a point.

*wells up with patriotic pride*

Mind you, until they stopped trying to build it out of melted down park railings, it was a bit sluggish....

 

[TheDoctor]

Mind you, until they stopped trying to build it out of melted down park railings, it was a bit sluggish....

Park railings? it was aluminium pots and pans, I thought...
Though it pains me to admit this, the book was damn good. Spitfires, Concorde, the Millennium Falcon, the Hoover dam. Triumphs of engineering and bloody great heaps of raw materials.

Bloody spellchecker is trying to spell aluminium the 'merkin way.

 

[Arch]

Park railings? it was aluminium pots and pans, I thought...
Though it pains me to admit this, the book was damn good. Spitfires, Concorde, the Millennium Falcon, the Hoover dam. Triumphs of engineering and bloody great heaps of raw materials.

Bloody spellchecker is trying to spell aluminium the 'merkin way.

Yeah, but they took all the railings away as well.

And I don't think you can reuse pots and pans like that - I seem to remember hearing that it was all actually a bit of a morale drive...

Have you read "The Backroom Boys" by Francis Spofforth? Good book about similar acheivements, I must re read it.

Dear me, this little diversion has brought me to the brink of standing up and singing God Save the Queen. I do love being patriotic, but it's hard when so many things are shoot nowadays....

I think the rot set in when they started to scrap the EE Lightning.

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm dreading the forthcoming Hollywood remake of Dambusters. How the 'merkins came up with the idea, designed the planes and the bombs, implemented the plan over Brit intransigence and high-fived off into the sunset.
I think i need to come up to York and punch your colleague.
[/minor rant]
And breathe...

 

[Arch]

I think i need to come up to York and punch your colleague.

I'd be delighted to show you where she is, dear boy...

Yes, I dread the upcoming film.

But, skim reading the stuff Peter Jackson says here, it MIGHT be alright.

http://board.dogbomb.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-48192.html

To be honest, for me, they could just do a Star Wars on it - re-release the original film, but just improve those slightly dodgy effect waterspout explosions with modern CGI. Nothing else needs changing.

I think, for me, it'll be like the Italian Job. I'll see it, but I won't expect it to be the same film, and I'll set my expectations low.

 

[Fnaar]

I'm dreading the forthcoming Hollywood remake of Dambusters. How the 'merkins came up with the idea,

Did someone mention merkins? (NOT REALLY WORKSAFE IF YOU WORK IN AN OFFICE WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER)

 

[TheDoctor]

Heh-heh!
I actually picked the expression up on b3ta.com. If you imaging George Dubya saying 'Ma fellow merkins' and talking about the place we live in as being 'Yurp', it all makes sense.

 

[HJ]

Did someone mention merkins? (NOT REALLY WORKSAFE IF YOU WORK IN AN OFFICE WHERE SOMEONE MIGHT LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER)

That looks more like a pink sporran...

 

[HJ]

four gigabytes of RAM, i.e. memory, and hard drives conneted by SCSI interface (not sure what it stands for) as opposed to most computer's hard drives which are either IDE or SATA interfaces. SCSI is faster, and the drives themselves are much more expensive for an equivalent storage size.

SCSI Small Computer Serial Interface, and you might not find 4Gb of RAM as useful as you think if you are using a 32bit OS, ie Vista as it can only address (see) a max of 3Gb...

 

[Maverick Goose]

Heh-heh!
I actually picked the expression up on b3ta.com. If you imaging George Dubya saying 'Ma fellow merkins' and talking about the place we live in as being 'Yurp', it all makes sense.

You mean Dubya actually said something that made sense?

 

[bonj2]

Monkey Boy and Wolvesandy now on
http://www.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=...44,-2.900391&spn=11.102652,29.267578&z=5&om=0

 

[simonali]

Bloody spellchecker is trying to spell aluminium the 'merkin way.

Technically, they spell it the correct way! Us Brits added the extra i to make it sound a bit more better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Nomenclature_history

 

[4F]

Technically, they spell it the correct way! Us Brits added the extra i to make it sound a bit more better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Nomenclature_history

Surely if they are speaking English then our way is correct.

 

[Bad Company]

I'm over here

 

[curve]

I'm in sunny Brighton.