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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:24 am Have you ever had the Wild Turkey Rate Breed, that stuff is proper braincell killer.
Not yet, I'll add it to the list, got a bottle of Eagle Rare turning up today.
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Obviously I meant RARE breed, cos I ain't no good at typing.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:51 pm Britain's fastest ever fighter aircraft

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and a slightly slower motorcycle.
One of my outstanding memories as a kid in the Air Cadets was going to an air show and while we were watching some other plane a lightning came up from behind the crowd, and went almost vertical with the afterburners on above us. It was epic!
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Ah yes, I can remember the days when displays weren't confined to X metres in front of the crowd line.

My memory is the Italian display team sneaking up behind and bomb bursting.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:34 pm Ah yes, I can remember the days when displays weren't confined to X metres in front of the crowd line.

My memory is the Italian display team sneaking up behind and bomb bursting.
Be lucky it was just a display burst......

(They've hit each other twice.)
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Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:55 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:34 pm Ah yes, I can remember the days when displays weren't confined to X metres in front of the crowd line.

My memory is the Italian display team sneaking up behind and bomb bursting.
Be lucky it was just a display burst......

(They've hit each other twice.)
Once is just an accident, but twice.......... :o
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MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:05 am
KungFooBob wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:24 am Have you ever had the Wild Turkey Rate Breed, that stuff is proper braincell killer.
Not yet, I'll add it to the list, got a bottle of Eagle Rare turning up today.
It's nice
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The wishbone's a nice touch but the clock is completely wrong/stopped. :(
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Count Steer wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:17 pm Image

The wishbone's a nice touch but the clock is completely wrong/stopped. :(
Wot you doin in my manor?
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Rockburner wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:19 pm
Count Steer wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:17 pm Image

The wishbone's a nice touch but the clock is completely wrong/stopped. :(
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I've always got a jar of potted dog in the larder, just for emergencies.
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Count Steer wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:17 pm Image

The wishbone's a nice touch but the clock is completely wrong/stopped. :(
Its right twice a day!

S'funny this should pop up, as they were mentioned in a work conversation yesterday. I thought they were long gone, but apparently, you can still buy them? Various versions of their pastes on toast were regular Sunday night fodder when I was growing up.
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I totally read that as Meat & Fish pasties - I was a bit confused as didn't think that would go together that well! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:28 pm I totally read that as Meat & Fish pasties - I was a bit confused as didn't think that would go together that well! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Surf N' Turf pasties! :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:45 pm
Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:28 pm I totally read that as Meat & Fish pasties - I was a bit confused as didn't think that would go together that well! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Surf N' Turf pasties! :thumbup:
True - but you just know they won't use the good steak or surf bits, so then it won't be too lovely!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:28 pm I totally read that as Meat & Fish pasties - I was a bit confused as didn't think that would go together that well! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh God. I did as well. I'm as daft as her now :(
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Yorick wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:54 pm
Noggin wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:28 pm I totally read that as Meat & Fish pasties - I was a bit confused as didn't think that would go together that well! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh God. I did as well. I'm as daft as her now :(
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I can pretty much guarantee that you've all seen a photo of this hillside before many many times, but you've probably not seen this photo of it.

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Windows XP?
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ChrisW wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 8:33 pmWindows XP?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image)

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