Tell Me Something............Anything!

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No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..

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I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays :D

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Originally Posted by struth

was once known as ligorno; think thats where leghorn came from

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yes. It's still the most amusing English bastardization of a place-name though.

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

I remember fifties/sixties Soviet cameras marked with the 'Kiev' brand. Quite liked them.

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Yes, they were modelled on the early German Contax designs. I used to have a Russian 'Fed 3', which was based on the German Leica.

https://i.etsystatic.com/19034834/r/...46647_h9vi.jpg

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I'm off to East Prussia on my holidays :D

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Which part: Russian, Polish or Lithuanian?

You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

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You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

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60's.. yes its kept alive as folk liked it as a place and be damned to the bureaucrats.. more power to them

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You still see Middlesex on people's addresses and that's not existed since the 1970s.

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I still use it.

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all you'll get is a load of hot air and empty rhetoric from Boris and the rest

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I was right. Loads of indignant waffle from House of Commons. Nothing they can do though, any sanctions will be maneuvered around by Russia.

Moldova may well be on Putin's wish list after Ukraine. After that, we need to watch what the US may do if Lithuania are threatened. They are NATO! Could go very badly indeed.

Interesting that in the PM’s statement to MP’s when outlining the UK’s response he said “eventually Military” :eek:

I am still convinced we’re living in some sort of computer simulation - on the day that most COVID restrictions are dropped, the Third World War starts...

And I never knew that Middlesex wasn’t actually a thing since before I was born!

I give up, time for wine.

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I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.

Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?

Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”

or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”

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:lol: Thanks Martin, I'll take that and use it whenever possible!

Never really believed that it would get this mad - Putin seems to have made a veiled threat about nukes if Nato (or anyone else) gets too involved.
China will be watching very carefully (watch out Taiwan).
North Korea could then chance its arm. Could be "end of days".

Sod it, I'm off to the pub.

I thought I’d put the RT (Russia Today) news channel on... they’re re-running documentaries about how the Ukrainians are the aggressors in the separatist controlled (Russian backed) states and how Ukraine are breaking the Minsk agreement...

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Never really believed that it would get this mad - Putin seems to have made a veiled threat about nukes if Nato (or anyone else) gets too involved.
China will be watching very carefully (watch out Taiwan).
North Korea could then chance its arm. Could be "end of days".

Sod it, I'm off to the pub.

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It's a M.A.D.* world, and so Putin really would have to be mental to risk that.

*Mutually Assured Destruction

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It's a M.A.D.* world, and so Putin really would have to be mental to risk that.

*Mutually Assured Destruction

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We wouldn't know it was coming.

The Russians have been surveying undersea installations for years and with the onset of a war situation would destroy all cable and optical links to the UK, not to mention power, oil and gas supplies. And our government would shut down all internet, phones and media transmissions.

im on my way out anyway so it wont bother me... a five minute warning and i'll arse my best bottle of whisky;) shame for my kids and grandkids and everyone elses' tho.
but russia will be a wasteland; as will china, so not all bad. yanks have plenty space in bunkers.

I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!

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I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!

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I think I can remember what to do from that episode of The Young Ones.

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I’m up in the loft tomorrow, I’m sure I’ve still got a “Protect and Survive” pamphlet from the 80’s up there somewhere, doors will be off and my “inner refuge” will be created. Emergency supplies will be entirely bottles of wine!

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Your doors are what's keeping the looters from getting your wine. Besides you'll find a few newspapers are just as effective :) Up here for thinking, down there for dancing.

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I think I can remember what to do from that episode of The Young Ones.

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:lol:

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Your doors are what's keeping the looters from getting your wine. Besides you'll find a few newspapers are just as effective :) Up here for thinking, down there for dancing.

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I’m clearly not thinking this through properly after the third glass. Maybe the looters getting the wine is the best outcome!


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I’m clearly not thinking this through properly after the third glass. Maybe the looters getting the wine is the best outcome!


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Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.

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Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.

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:lol:

Good night out - ran the pub quiz, and hadn't realised that drinks were "on the pub" :cool:

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Good night out - ran the pub quiz, and hadn't realised that drinks were "on the pub" :cool:

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It's ten past one! On a school night! I bet they're regretting giving you free drinks :doh:

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Just leave the case of Peruvian Riesling out for them to take. Or steam off the labels from all the Piat d'Or you have, and write Chateau Margaux 1787 in their place. The looters will never know.

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I don't know, thieves can sometimes be quite discerning. A work colleague once told me his car was broken into while visiting his girlfriend, and they'd made off with about 30 albums he had left in the boot. but they left behind his copy of "Living in the Material World" by George Harrison. I used to have that album and thought it was pretty good, in fact I even paid for my copy.

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It's ten past one! On a school night! I bet they're regretting giving you free drinks :doh:

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I'm retired now :)

Just to liven her day up. When the missus came downstairs, I told her the Americans had bombed Moscow overnight.

Not sure she believed me :).

What have you got against Muscovites? I found them perfectly charming, but that was 30 years ago!

When my mate had a holiday in St. Petersburg and Moscow a few years ago, he brought me back a souvenir mug featuring a topless Putin riding a grizzly bear. That has been my regular coffee mug ever since. But now I think I'd use a felt marker to draw some tassels onto his nipples.

And that is about as severe a sanction as anything Boris will have the stomach for.

that mug could get you in to a lot of trouble when they invade UK. Just remember "don't tell them your name Pike"

"We're doomed! Doomed I tell ye!"

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I'm retired now :)

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Really? You sound so young :)

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Really? You sound so young :)

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You silver tongued charmer :)

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When my mate had a holiday in St. Petersburg and Moscow a few years ago, he brought me back a souvenir mug featuring a topless Putin riding a grizzly bear. That has been my regular coffee mug ever since. But now I think I'd use a felt marker to draw some tassels onto his nipples.

And that is about as severe a sanction as anything Boris will have the stomach for.

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I wonder if there would be any interest in Putin babushka dolls: wherein each successive inner doll shows Putin in a greater state of undress? :D

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Originally Posted by Barry

I wonder if there would be any interest in Putin babushka dolls: wherein each successive inner doll shows Putin in a greater state of undress? :D

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Whenever I've been to Bulgaria there has always been items for sale featuring Putin doing something which may be considered macho - examples include previously mentioned mug with Putin bareback riding a grizzly bear, or (I got my mate one of these) a beach towel with Putin hugging a tiger. I don't know if the objects were promoting Vlad as a superhero, or just taking the piss.

Now there's a business opportunity - Y fronts with Vlad on them (hugging a python perhaps. Where is Marco when you need him?)

I see some reports say the Ruskies are getting bogged down in their advance. I was wondering if that would happen. Although you can't rely on the information we are getting one way or the other.

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I see some reports say the Ruskies are getting bogged down in their advance. I was wondering if that would happen. Although you can't rely on the information we are getting one way or the other.

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putin has put his nukes on standby apparently. and he is demanding belarus join the war. about time someone in russia topples him before the world goes mad.

The world has always been mad.

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The world has always been mad.

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But it's gone from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest mad, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining mad.

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But it's gone from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest mad, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining mad.

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It think it sort of perpetually alternates between the two Jakes.

For 'The Shining' I'm a big fan of the 'Wendy Theory' which, if correct, means Jack isn't mad at all, but Wendy is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRr_0W-9hWg

I don’t think Putin was expecting the strong resistance of the Ukrainians, or the united response from the West. I agree with Grant, this needs to be an “inside job” - you have to feel sorry for the Russian population, but they, the government and military need to say enough is enough...

interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)

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interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)

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I was doing that too - their heads were nodding agreement while their eyes barely managed to conceal their horror. I don't expect they'll ever be seen again.

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interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness :)

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I expect they are likely to have been told how to look. The whole thing may well be rehearsed.

There's a lot of 'spin' coming from all directions I think, notice how we mostly hear about the difficulties the Russians are encountering. It's likely negative news about Ukraine progress is suppressed.

Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.

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Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.

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That is exactly what he has done - during the past couple of years over half a million Russian passports have been issued to residents of Donbass region of Ukraine.
He is now going in to protect those Russian citizens.

Putin doesn't need a handbook from anyone, he was trained as a lawyer and worked for the KGB for quite a few years before entering in to a career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement (whoops should read "politics", but spell checker took over :lol:)

well he has pretty much got whole world bar belarus and to an extent, china agaist his country now. their finances are going back to stone age. he needs to wise up fast before someone in the kremlin does it for him.

China knows what side its bread is buttered, and will know that a few million skint Russian citizens won't be enough to prop up their economy. They're already on a yellow card with me.

Also China can't be too anti Russia over this invasion because they plan to do similar with Taiwan.
Sensible to sit back, be non committal and see what the west does with Russia.