chartpolski
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I had a great Canadian mate, we used to holiday with our families in Thailand, he called the $C the “Northern Peso” Cheers.
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KC135 just went down in the Gulf. They are usually air refuelling planes, I was seconded to an AREG during the Gulf War when I was on Jeddah Airbase. I doubt very much it’ll be anyone I met , far to long ago , but it makes me sad .Cheers.
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Or you can hedge your bets; I keep a fairly small portfolio of shares, cash in hand, (various currencies), cash in bank and a small collection of precious metals and stones. The worst transaction I’ve ever done, and I’ve mentioned it on here before , was to buy some shares in a bank, after all, what’s a safer investment than a bank ? Well they had a high of £11 but now have languished at around 60p for years ! I’ll just keep them and hope they make a recovery when my grandson gets them in my will Cheers.
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Socialist, Internationalist, globalists masquerading as patriots. Starmer let it slip when he was asked “ what do you prefer, Westminster or Davos ?” And he had absolutely no hesitation in saying “Davos” ! Cheers.
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I was listening to Jacob Rees-Mogg talking to an economist the other day and he said in the early 40’s you could take a pound note into the Bank of England and they would honour the promise to “pay the bearer on demand” as paper money was just a promissory note, and you would get a gold sovereign in return . Now the pound had less than 400th of the buying power it had in the 40’s and a sovereign costs more than £800 ! They both agreed fait currencies are worthless and central banks can increase or decrease the money supply as the markets demand. The vast majority of Britain’s s
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This is an absolutely true story, I swear on my bank managers life ! At the build up to the Falklands war, I took leave from my job and flew home from the Middle East and went to the Royal Navy Recruiting office in Newcastle and applied to join as a Direct Entry Technician on the premise I had once worked on RFA ships. The recruiting officer was very kind but explained they had the Royal Navy ( we had one then) and the Royal Navy Reserve and gave me the actors f**k off “we will let you know if we need you” I told my dad what I had been planning and he hit the roof ! “ I’ll not
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It’s a headache tablet I need after a discussion with my young, former , protege, not a drink Fine wines and whiskey are to be enjoyed, not used as a barrier against ignorance Cheers.
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Perhaps I should have said “ the media suite”, ( actually he back bedroom). I feel that at 73 and still have all my teeth and most of my faculties, I haven’t reached the late, lamented Shane’s sad state. Cheers.
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Covering all bases, ehh ? Clever Cheers.
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I’m in bed which a rather fine glass of American sippin’ whiskey watching the breaking news. My missus is downstairs watching the crime channel and seems unperturbed that Armageddon may be on the horizon A mindset possibly influenced by being married to me for almost 50 years ! Cheers.
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Being of a similar vintage, I can sympathise with your views on age Although I’m a stoic and a fatalist, I’m still a glass half full mindset; I hope that’s not a contradiction. I was talking to friends today about escalation, my cousin and his wife just got out of Cyprus and gave me a first hand update on what was happening there, not much apparently and they live 4 mile from Akrotiri and Greek war planes are patrolling the skies.The general consensus was that Russia is bogged down in a WW1 type war of attrition and Chinas economic growth is forecast to fall so the last thing they n
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Seven Iranians were arrested in two separate raids last year, Theres probably more incidents we don’t hear about. Cheers.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to infer you were doubting me Im just watching all the breaking news. Some of it will be true , some not so true. Cheers.
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Nothing false about the one in Michigan, Temple Isreal Synagogue complex. Cheers.
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“Situation evolving at a synagogue in Norway”, breaking news. Cheers.
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Synagogue. And evidently another attack ongoing . Cheers.
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Inside that 747 is like a warehouse; That’s me standing at the tail door, And that’s just the main deck, there’s also a lower cargo deck and an upper deck fitted with kitchen facilities and sleeping quarters for when it’s double crewed on long haul flights. Cheers.
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You couldn’t get an opening that size in the side of a fuselage. It can handle the biggest and longest pallets and containers . Also ease and speed of loading. Cheers.
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I’ve never worked on one. It’s a very specialised and dangerous job. I’ve walked around them as I have a lot of aircraft that were based or passing through where I happened to be. I spent a lot of time working with and socialising with many American pilots, both military and civilian, I’ve also had Saudi, Kuwaiti and UAE military pilots staying at my house here in the UK when they’ve been on training courses. Im checked out,(or was, I haven’t done any recurrent training for many years), on a few types of aircraft, including these two, 747F and Md11F; I don’
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Talk to fast jet pilots, they see it as a subsonic workhorse compared to supersonic attack jets. Its probably the best close air support platform there is. I certainly don’t underrate . Cheers.
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For the rest of the world ? An emphatic YES
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The A10 is a very underrated aircraft. It has titanium body panels protecting the pilot that can withstand direct hits. The engines are mounted high above the tail so they can be kept running while being “turned around “ during rearming and refuelling quickly, Cheers.
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How is it worse ? Saddam invaded Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Saddam wanted to control the entire Middle East oil supply. Saddam wanted to create a Muslim Caliphate stretching from North Africa to South East Asia. Saddam fought a 10 year war against Iran . You said we lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. We didn’t lose in Iraq, Afghan was a complete f**k up as every invasion for the past 200 years has been. Cheers.
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I don’t disagree mate, but to say we lost against Iraq is not only wrong, it’s insulting to the men and women who fought and died. Of course these wars have consequences, and as for Afghanistan, how many times have I mentioned “The Great Game” that has been going on there since the 18th century? The British have tried at least twice, the Russians have tried and the Americans have tried and failed ! Why can’t we learn from the failures oh the past and leave the Afghans to themselves ? It’s been seen as an extremely important bulwark between the west and the east, ( British Empire
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I’m surprised to hear we lost in Iraq ? I was in the area for both Gulf Wars and, although I may have been a REMF(), I was near enough to see the smoke and hear the explosions from “Shock & Awe” ! I thought the total subjugation of the Iraqi forces , the removal of Saddam and his Ba’athist government and a change of regime, and Iraq no longer threatening and invading its neighbours would constitute a win ? ”THERE ARE NO AMERICANS IN BAGDAD…..WE ARE WINNING” But evidently I’m mistaken Cheers.
