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.

"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."

isil is islam and it must be destroyed or they will destroy us their is no inbetween its them or us

all planes are now targets no plane is now safe .

World War 3 anyone?

Shooting the jet was one thing , but shooting the pilots in their parachutes as they dropped and shooting at the recovery helicopter is the worst to me . I don't see what danger they presented to the rebels .

if they were to be captured by "unfriendlies", then the pilots should actually be glad to be shot (dead)

The government won the Trident debate 330 votes to 64. Corbyn ordered his party to stay away from the Trident debate today. Quite a few spoke in favour of Trident during the debate.

These are the 14 Labour rebels who defied Jeremy Corbyn and voted to keep Trident this evening:

Kevin Barron
Ben Bradshaw
Mary Creagh
Chris Evans
Jim Fitzpatrick
Liz Kendall
Chris Leslie
Madeleine Moon
Albert Owen
Jamie Reed
Emma Reynolds
Angela Smith
Gisela Stuart
John Woodcock

And these are the six who ignored Corbyn’s order to abstain and voted to scrap it:

Roger Godsiff
Ronnie Campbell
Kelvin Hopkins
Graham Stringer
Dennis Skinner
Geoffrey Robinson

Worse than a drone killing civilians?

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Cynic.

I think "OLD SAM'S CHRISTMAS PUDDING"
Marriott Edgar (Monologue)

Recorded by Holloway and another was Albert and the lion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKovQRzIQwI

I use to wind the handle.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-must-show-leadership-and-stop-making-inappropriate-remarks-says-union-boss-len-a6746961.html

Jeremy Corbyn must 'show leadership and stop making inappropriate remarks' says union boss Len McCluskey

The Unite general secretary, who was one of Jeremy Corbyn's most vocal supporters during the Labour leadership election, says he must realise he can no longer 'say what he likes'

Good ol Dennis Skinner, consistant as ever!

We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from apes. Apes and monkeys are different.