020210us Th1ngs

[touchingcloth]

Sinead disnae agree.

[Cerys]

I see what you did there.

[olliebean]

This thread is past its use-by date.

[dissolute ocelot]

This thread is past its use-by date.

It's not 20210 yet.

[touchingcloth]

You need to qualify for the limpic, so it's not every sport has 1 x entrant from every country on the planet.

[Icehaven]

The Met police force only covers Greater London, so Cressida Dick wasn't the chief police officer of the whole country, just of London.

[Replies From View]

Only Greater London as well, not Great or Greatest Londons.

[Icehaven]

And The City Of London, which is a little hole in the middle of Greater, has it's own police force, who presumably spend all day telling city boys to stop pissing in the street.

[touchingcloth]

The City of London police have bowler hats instead of helmets and canes instead of truncheons.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The City of London police have bowler hats instead of helmets and canes instead of truncheons.

yeah but they only arrest people for saying 'fuck the pound'.

[touchingcloth]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which I dimly remember from the subprime mortgage crash aren't banks named after people with those names, but phoneticised acronyms of government bodies. It's not really a surprise the crash happened given the people involved thought that Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) and  Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) were anything close to Freddie and Fannie.

[buttgammon]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which I dimly remember from the subprime mortgage crash aren't banks named after people with those names, but phoneticised acronyms of government bodies. It's not really a surprise the crash happened given the people involved thought that Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) and  Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) were anything close to Freddie and Fannie.

Never knew that! As bad as the phonetics are, it does make some degree of sense because I always thought they were very silly names for what I presumed were finance companies.

[seepage]

cf. M2 = 'Ma Deuce'

[Paul Calf]

Lowest-common-demoninator novelty bollock rapper Bhad Bhabie is the same person as cultural sewer-dredger and virtuoso barrel-bottom-scraper Danielle 'Cash Me Outside HowBow Dah' Bregoli.

And - one really for the hatfuck thread - she has a personal fortune of $8m.

Warning: contains swears and is so irritating you'll need Anthisan.

[gilbertharding]

I haven't heard 'how bow da?' for ages. Bit sad it never caught on as a saying.

[gilbertharding]

Never knew that! As bad as the phonetics are, it does make some degree of sense because I always thought they were very silly names for what I presumed were finance companies.

Americans can (seemingly) only remember phone numbers (remember remembering phone numbers?) if they form acronyms. Same with PIN numbers - there was a whole Seinfeld episode about it, which my wife simply didn't understand.

*cue Buzbyposter to post about STD codes spelling the names of telephone exchanges*

[Starlit]

Ready Salted isn't a flavour, but a description.

You don't neat to add salt, these crisps are already salted.

[touchingcloth]

I haven't heard 'how bow da?' for ages. Bit sad it never caught on as a saying.

[Ferris]

EXCOOZ BEEF! HAV ANYBODY GOCK ANY BOCKLE ORAN DOOF!!

[studpuppet]

And The City Of London, which is a little hole in the middle of Greater, has it's own police force, who presumably spend all day telling city boys to stop pissing in the street.

TBF, for a decade or so they also spent their day telling van drivers with Irish accents not to drive through their patch thankyouverymuch.

[touchingcloth]

The Apollo 1 Command Module was sat atop a Saturn V rocket on the launchpad when it caught fire.

I must have known this, but the mental image I had was of it happening with the Command Module in a hangar on the ground - I've probably seen images of one being tested in the ground, or else heard audio of the Apollo fire overlaid over images of that sort.

[Sonny_Jim]

Yeah it was a 'plugs out' test IIRC, so everything as it would be on a launch day sans fuel in the rocket.

[famethrowa]

General MacArthur's famous catchphrase "I will return" was first said by him at a tiny South Australian railway station. I always assumed it was bellowed from the deck of a mighty ship, or a rocky headland, not whilst changing trains across platforms outside Adelaide.

[dissolute ocelot]

General MacArthur's famous catchphrase "I will return" was first said by him at a tiny South Australian railway station. I always assumed it was bellowed from the deck of a mighty ship, or a rocky headland, not whilst changing trains across platforms outside Adelaide.

Churchill's "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" speech was delivered at an obscure private college in Missouri. At least Reagan's "Tear down this wall!" speech was in Berlin. (Although Wikipedia says Reagan's speech was barely reported at the time and only became famous after the Wall was down, so it's unlikely to have influenced anybody to tear anything down.)

[NoSleep]

At least Reagan's "Tear down this wall!" speech was in Berlin. (Although Wikipedia says Reagan's speech was barely reported at the time and only became famous after the Wall was down, so it's unlikely to have influenced anybody to tear anything down.)

Perhaps not as memorable as "I am a doughnut."

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Or a grinning Jimmy Carter in 1977 assuring a crowd in Warsaw that he desired the Poles carnally.

[gilbertharding]

Perhaps not as memorable as "I am a doughnut."

Or is it, according to Alan, a newspaper format between a tabloid and a broadsheet?

[JesusAndYourBush]

The Apollo 1 Command Module was sat atop a Saturn V rocket on the launchpad when it caught fire.

I must have known this, but the mental image I had was of it happening with the Command Module in a hangar on the ground - I've probably seen images of one being tested in the ground, or else heard audio of the Apollo fire overlaid over images of that sort.

I've seen a couple of documentaries about it within the last year, and they did give the impression the Command Module was on the ground  with all the crew literally a few feet away just outside the doors. Can't remember exactly why I got that impression but they must have used misleading photographs.

I remember documentaries in the 80s saying that the audio would never be broadcast. The recent documentaries did play the audio.

[touchingcloth]

I've seen a couple of documentaries about it within the last year, and they did give the impression the Command Module was on the ground  with all the crew literally a few feet away just outside the doors. Can't remember exactly why I got that impression but they must have used misleading photographs.

I remember documentaries in the 80s saying that the audio would never be broadcast. The recent documentaries did play the audio.

I've probably seen the same documentary(ies) as you have. The mental image I have when I think of the fire is one of a still photo of the Command Module in a hangar with a bit of Ken Burns-ing going on.

I've long known that the test was "plugs out", which makes the idea of it being disconnected from the rocket more plausible somehow. The plugs were completely out!

[JesusAndYourBush]

I've probably seen the same documentary(ies) as you have. The mental image I have when I think of the fire is one of a still photo of the Command Module in a hangar with a bit of Ken Burns-ing going on.

The ones I saw were on the PBS America channel.  When I'm stuck for something to watch I always like a space documentary even though I've seen similar documentaries countless times over the years.

I think it was also when they said they opened the capsule as quick as possible but were too late, then they show a photo of the capsule on the hangar floor, which added to the impression that it was there during the test.