...you can't resist getting drawn into the argument when there's a Hollywood vs history thread.
...you watched a GoT battle scene and found yourself thinking "-1 vs airborne, reroll for charisma special effect..."
...you're in a train in Tuscany and find yourself looking out of the window at those ravishing landscapes and trying to work out the best approach for a squadron of gensd'armes.
...you instinctively hold the lid of a pot like a buckler in your left hand and the wooden spoon like a sword in your right until your better half reminds you to stir the curry.
...the word Tango doesn't make you think primarily of a passionate Argentinian dance.
...you think Barry Lyndon is a war movie.
...you think Miranda Otto looks better in a mailshirt than nude.
Contributions are invited.
Just for those who do not know who Miranda Otto is (and an excuse to put up pictures of an attractive woman)
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Naked (Use your imagination this is a child friendly forum)
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You pick up a Baguette in a supermarket and instantly make lightsaber noises...
You've had a nice night at the pub, you come home, your wife goes to bed ... and you think to yourself ... B)
... I'll dig out the paints and do some cross belts.
p.s. what a disaster when you view your efforts the next day. #-o
You look at an eggshell and wonder if it would be any use crushed up as a basing material ...
ditto cat litter ...
ditto cat ...
I used some cats' whiskers as stems for some fantasy vegetation.........about 35 years ago. X_X
Cheers - Phil
I've heard of catkins and p**** willows before....
(Stupid censor)
The plumber tells you need to replace the tank and you picture Panzer 3 / Sherman / Centurion before realising he means the water tank.
Any mention of a Hedgehog and you think beach defences.
You always call tins of Corned beef "Bully Beef"
You think the main purpose of High Street coffee shops is to supply strips to stick your figures to before painting.
When out shopping you spend more time looking at stuff thinking "can I use that for wargaming" than you spend looking at the stuff you have gone to buy.
The plumber tells you need to replace the tank and you imagine he means the water tank until you realise you've picked up a rather nicely painted IS-2 and he'd like you to put it back on the table so he can get on with firing.
Any mention of a Hedgehog and you think beach defences ASW.
You always call tins of Corned beef "Bully Beef" "Corned Dog" or "Alte Mann"
You think the main purpose of High Street coffee shops is to supply strips to stick your figures to before painting seating and sustenance while you peruse your freshly acquired wargaming items.
When out shopping you spend more so much time looking at stuff thinking "can I use that for wargaming" than you spend looking at that you forget to buy the stuff you have gone for.
Daggnabit, I was going to correct item 2 about Hedgehogs too...
Every time I see dice, I think of the number '1'
Every time I see dice in someone else's hand, I think of the number '6'
...you can't walk past a deal on super glue without picking some up "just in case".
Quote from: mad lemmey on 06 June 2019, 05:03:15 PM
Daggnabit, I was going to correct item 2 about Hedgehogs too...
Czech Hedgehog - google it.
Quote from: mmcv on 06 June 2019, 07:11:59 PM
...you can't walk past a deal on super glue without picking some up "just in case".
Oh. Yes. :-[
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 06 June 2019, 08:24:54 PM
Czech Hedgehog - google it.
Don't need to ... it's what Cullin Hedgerow Cutters are made from (among other sources) :)
It's knowing what a Cullin hedgerow cutter is without resorting to google! :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 06 June 2019, 05:03:15 PM
Daggnabit, I was going to correct item 2 about Hedgehogs too...
More an alternative meaning than a correction ;)
I work on the 7th Floor of Walker House in Liverpool. The companion building is Horton House. In the tunnels underneath is the HQ for the RN in the Battle of the Atlantic.
(Sounds of lightbulbs going off all round the Forum.*)
I got in the lift with the Chief Exec yesterday. He looked at me and said "You there! Peasant! Do you know why these buildings are called Walker and Horton?" Well, 7 floors is just not long enough! I have a biography of Walker queued up on my Kindle.
*For those whose bent does not extend. I'm feel sorry for you. For those of you not into your WWII RN, Max Horton was the Admiral who was in command of great chunks of the UK response to the U-boat threat, and Johnnie Walker was somewhat of a fearsome U-boat killer.
Quote from: fsn on 07 June 2019, 07:44:37 AM
I got in the lift with the Chief Exec yesterday. He looked at me and said "You there! Peasant! Do you know why these buildings are called Walker and Horton?" Well, 7 floors is just not long enough! I have a biography of Walker queued up on my Kindle.
Careful there! CEOs ask questions like that to show how clever
they are, not you.
Yeah. I know. :(
But I'm such a wargamer that I just couldn't resist.
Then there were the videos that LindyBeige did from here ...
I was doomed from the start.
I knew a Colin Hedge-Cutter once, he was very incisive in a closed environment but slowed down in open country.
Your man cave has two 5x9 ping pong tables set up that have never been used for ping pong. :D
You have conversations with an old friend in Sainsbury about the rule for ship wrecked elephants in DBMM
Country walks / bicycle rides are interrupted by pondering over visibility, lines of sight, terrain types and levels of cover.
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 11 June 2019, 08:05:01 AM
You have conversations with an old friend in Sainsbury about the rule for ship wrecked elephants in DBMM
Only Ele (X) in the new edition. Others automatically convert to Kt (I) if shipwrecked, unless supported by Bw (S) or .....
You friend boasts of having an eight incher and you immediately think "cruiser squadron".
Well, I just feel that his wife settled for too little....
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 11 June 2019, 08:06:41 AM
Country walks / bicycle rides are interrupted by pondering over visibility, lines of sight, terrain types and levels of cover.
I can empathise with that one as walking, including battlefield walking, is my other major hobby. I have also had that experience whilst travelling from Formby to Liverpool on Merseyrail. Behind Fort Crosby, just before Hall Road station, there is a wide expanse of farmland up towards Little Crosby and Blundell Hall - a marvellous field of fire if Jerry had landed on that part of the coast. It Reminds of the field of fire from St Marie aux Chenes to St.Privat (no idea how to get accents on this computer).
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 June 2019, 10:59:58 AM
Well, I just feel that his wife settled for too little....
As do so many, eh Kitty?
Quote from: Leman on 11 June 2019, 11:08:45 AM
I can empathise with that one as walking, including battlefield walking, is my other major hobby. I have also had that experience whilst travelling from Formby to Liverpool on Merseyrail. Behind Fort Crosby, just before Hall Road station, there is a wide expanse of farmland up towards Little Crosby and Blundell Hall - a marvellous field of fire if Jerry had landed on that part of the coast. It Reminds of the field of fire from St Marie aux Chenes to St.Privat (no idea how to get accents on this computer).
Håvíng wáłķĕď þhãț řøůțé ãț łěåšț ťwïćé, þhăț mú§þ bë ā həĺľ õf ă fïęłđ óf fįřë!
Enough accents?
Show off ;)
But I dont 'av a accent
EVERYONE has an accent. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Oft times quite accentuated, boyo.
You don't need a h after a 'thorn'.
Î ķňów. ;D
Quote from: Techno on 11 June 2019, 04:29:53 PM
EVERYONE has an accent. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Once Dad retired from the Civil Service he worked part time as Safety Officer for a major London corporation.
They received bomb threats and the like from time to time and treated all of the incidents as potentially serious though, fortunately, none of them were while Dad was around.
On one occasion they received a bomb threat by phone that included an IRA code word.
Dad was brought in to the police interview with the girl who took the call and so was party to ...
Policeman: Was there anything distinctive about the caller? Anything about his voice that might tell us if this might be a genuine IRA call?
Receptionist: Nothing at all, he just sounded really ordinary.
Policeman: Well, for example, what sort of accent did he have?
Receptionist: He didn't have any accent at all.
Policeman: So, how did he sound?
Receptionist: Ordinary. Just like me.
She was from Belfast. X_X
;D ;D ;D - good grief!
...you spend four hours driving through the beautiful Scottish and northern English countryside and just think about how inspiring it is for getting the finger out and making some terrain when you get back.
You drive across a nice open ridge, down to a picture post card village in the valley, and wonder "What is the range from that hill to the edge of the village?" You organise a special trip to London. .... so you can spend five hours in the British Library researching which Prussian Dragoon regiments wore light blue, and which white, at the Battle of Kesselsdorf in 1745, in German language books over a hundred years old. Whoopeee! :D :D :D
Just a quiet trip then... ;D
When you're driving along the road (well, some people drive cross-country :Ph ) and you wonder if the gap between the traffic lights at the pedestrian crossing is wide enough for a modern MBT and its transporter to pass .... even a Warrior IFV ..... or (dare I hope) .... a Boxer 8x8. :-\
Quote from: Westmarcher on 19 June 2019, 11:36:59 AM
When you're driving along the road (well, some people drive cross-country :Ph ) and you wonder if the gap between the traffic lights at the pedestrian crossing is wide enough for a modern MBT and its transporter to pass .... even a Warrior IFV ..... or (dare I hope) .... a Boxer 8x8. :-
Be a bit of a surprise if 64 Boxers suddenly appeared on the high street. Send for the naval brigade and a couple of gatlings to see the blighters off!
Looking at a Osprey has nothing to do with bird watching/
=D>
That is so true. ;D ;D ;D
I time traffic lights. I find it less frustrating if I know that this traffic light takes 45 seconds rather than 15 (BTW, I counted 42 CCTV cameras on my walk in to work today ... not OCD at all) ... and I found myself counting 1, 2, 3, 4, Panther, Tiger ...
Does that signify?
Have you come off the pretty pink pills, recently, Nobby ? :-\
Cheers - Phil :-*
Quote from: fsn on 20 June 2019, 07:26:12 AM
I time traffic lights. I find it less frustrating if I know that this traffic light takes 45 seconds rather than 15 (BTW, I counted 42 CCTV cameras on my walk in to work today ... not OCD at all) ... and I found myself counting 1, 2, 3, 4, Panther, Tiger ...
Does that signify?
That's the correct way to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, Panther, Tiger ,Tiger Maus,9,10 11.......... :)
Surely it's I,II,III,IV,Panther, Tiger, Lion, Maus, IX, X
Though IIRC IX and X existed only as drawings in "Signal"
Then we jump straight to P. 1000 "Ratte"
Makes for an odd counting system - a bit like the debatable "1,2,3, many" system
:)
I've only got Tiger fingers on one hand. :-[
Quote from: fsn on 21 June 2019, 07:25:45 AM
I've only got Tiger fingers on one hand. :-[
N.F.N. as the doctors used to say.
I've got muddy tiger feet.
;D ;D ;D
You're about to hang the laundry out, but first make a weather roll.
You've attended all sorts of great events like the Cup Final your home town team won, great concerts like Paul Simon, Hall & Oates, etc., but the ticket you kept and come across in your house (when searching for something else) relates to your visit to the Waterloo battlefield in 2001.