Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I don't know you lot, I go out for a couple of hours or more and come back to 52 posts!

Can't you keep it down a bit in future? -):

Iv'e only got 2 to read the other 50 were Fred being a terrorist jihadi loving loony .

Tut Tut James please.

stanley holloway methinks, but with northern rather than southern intonation :-)

..Or Franke Howard maybe.

victim the uk is now a cesspit it will be a evil cesspit in 5 years , the scum coming here are just that low life scum benefit scroungers ,
the soldiers all died for fcuk all the mps have pissed on their graves

and most on these threads to scared to air their views they are just white flag wavers

I'm in the club a old soldier as just brought a pint over he is 96 years old and he is disgusted at the uk

no .... stanley holloway; before your time

Stanley Holloway wrote the Sam Small pick up tha' musket!

Remember the record.

so turkey have blown up a plane because it stops their trade of oil with the Syria terrorists .

assad should be knighted as a hero
come on you yanks support a hero

I bow to your superior knowledge on such things Alf.. yes I am prepared to make a rare exception on this occasion -):

Actually thinking about it so do I Fred.

"assad should be knighted as a hero" .. well he was a mate of our Queen piece was he not in the past?

but what was on the other side of that 78?
damned if i can remember

One of the enduring sights of my time in Texas was seeing the space shuttle racing across the sky, like a flaming meteorite, to land at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida about 12 mins later.
A regular non-stop flight from Miami to DallasFortWorth takes about 3h 15 mins. Gives an idea of the incredible speeds involved on re-entry and landing.

78 !! you old git !!!!

it was pre-vinyl
i'm not sure it wasn't bakelite for they were certainly very brittle

fred'll know

Did you have to turn a handle to listen to it ?

no, but they were wind-up gramophones

The US military on Tuesday backed up Turkey's claim that Turkish pilots had warned a Russian jet 10 times -- but failed to get a response -- before shooting it down.
"We were able to hear everything that was going on, these (communications) were on open channels," Baghdad-based military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a video call with reporters.
Asked if he could confirm reports 10 warnings were issued by Turkish pilots without response, Warren said: "I can confirm that, yes."
He added it was not immediately clear on which side of the Turkish-Syrian border the Russian jet had been flying, and it would take some time to analyze data before arriving at that determination.
The Pentagon says no US forces were involved in the Turkish downing of the Russian jet.
The United States has a strong presence in Turkey and regularly flies warplanes out of the air base in Incirlik as it conducts bombing runs against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq.
Pentagon officials have previously condemned the actions and tactics of Russian pilots after Russian jets violated Turkish airspace last month.
In Tuesday's incident, the Turkish army said the plane was shot down by two Turkish F-16s after violating Turkish airspace 10 times within a five-minute period.
Russia insists the jet was inside Syrian airspace and condemned the downing as "a very serious incident."