Wargaming has become the dominant power in your mind if...

Started by FierceKitty, 06 June 2019, 11:26:33 AM

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sunjester

It's knowing what a Cullin hedgerow cutter is without resorting to google! :D

paulr

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  ;)
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fsn

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.   
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Raider4

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.

fsn

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.
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Dave Fielder

I knew a Colin Hedge-Cutter once, he was very incisive in a closed environment but slowed down in open country.
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You have conversations with an old friend in Sainsbury about the rule for ship wrecked elephants in DBMM
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steve_holmes_11


Country walks / bicycle rides are interrupted by pondering over visibility, lines of sight, terrain types and levels of cover.

FierceKitty

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 .....
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fsn

You friend boasts of having an eight incher and you immediately think "cruiser squadron".
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FierceKitty

Well, I just feel that his wife settled for too little....
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Leman

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).
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fsn

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

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).
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