Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

Started by Leon, 24 February 2013, 05:21:09 PM

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d_Guy

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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

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steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 May 2018, 05:46:30 PM
From Tank Encyclopaedia

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T-35.php

"A T-35A before the addition of the P-40 AA mount. This scheme is from the 1936 summer maneuvers." (my emphasis)



Looks similar to WW1 warship turret markings.
I think they were designed to teh turrets could be laid on "manual" should communications fail.
Most nation's navies had the markings, but the Russians (at least their black sea fleet) went as far as grouping their predreads into groups of 3 using common fire solutions.
Result: A poor man's 12 x 12" barrage, on par with what the earlier dreadnoughts could manage.

I wonder whether the Russians envisaged their T35 squadrons working in similar fashion.
Lumbering across teh steppe in echelon, laying down a coordinated barrage form their 76s.

fsn

Heard today in Liverpool:

"Great t-shirt - Led Zepplein"
"Yeah. Apparently they were a band."


Echoes of a bus ride I took in Sheffield in the 1980s
"That Paul McCartney and Wings is good"
"Yeah. Apparently he was in another band before Wings."

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FierceKitty

Not as bad as an American student I once had; she didn't know who Satchmo or George Washington were, at the age of 22.


Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
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fsn

Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 01:39:58 PM
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
Presumably a Scouse airship.

I type it as he said it.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 01:39:58 PM
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?

It's a common alternate spelling of Zeppelin, much seen online :)
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Techno

Quote from: fsn on 28 June 2018, 12:54:26 PM
Heard today in Liverpool:
"Great t-shirt - Led Zepplein"

Give me ****ing strength......

Cheers - 'James' Page.

steve_holmes_11

Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 01:39:58 PM
Not as bad as an American student I once had; she didn't know who Satchmo or George Washington were, at the age of 22.


Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?

A flying trapeze for Jimmy Page to take the stage.

He's a bit old to use the stairway ... (I'll get my coat)

fsn

Techno.

You know your exploding sculpts? Can I just check you weren't using some "special" putty from Leon?  

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Techno

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

(No, Nobby.....where on Earth did you find that ?)     

Cheers - Phil



fsn

WH Smiths.

They do all sorts of colours, but I thought "Mermaid Glitter Green" was probably the closest to what you use.  :D
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Techno

Apropos of absolutely nothing....

This morning the radio has been banging on & on about 'petrichor'....... (The smell that's in the air, when rain falls on dry and dusty ground, after a period of 'drought'.)

Supposedly, everyone thinks this is a wonderfully 'fresh' smell.

I can't stand it.....To me, it smells of something beginning to decompose....It doesn't smell 'fresh' at all....Just rotting.

I've never found anyone else that doesn't find it a lovely fresh 'bouquet'.

Anyone else find the smell a bit 'off'.

Cheers - Puzzled of Wales

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xccam

Well petrichor is the smell of geosmin in the soil which is a product of dead soil bacteria.

Humans are acutely attuned to geosmin/petrichor and it is theorised that in our evolutionary past it helped us find water and fertile lands in times of drought.

You are right that it smells a tad "dead" but most people are likely to consider it as smelling fresh due to the connection to water.