RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 To be clear, in the 2010 analogy, Nick I've-forgotten-his-name-LD-leader was Saruman (the White Wizard) to Cameron's Sauron. Blair was the ancient history of a former age. Heck, the 20th century seems an alarmingly long time ago now, even though it was only yesterday... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 Clegg.... Reminds you a bit of Cleggy in Last of the Summer Wine..... Ag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 36 minutes ago, uax6 said: Clegg.... Ah yes that was it. Blotted from memory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 14 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Ah yes that was it. Blotted from memory. This may help you to remember .... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 25, 2020 Author Share Posted August 25, 2020 2 hours ago, Nearholmer said: I'm not into LoTR, but if The White Wizard was a chap who made a truly enormous mistake, because he was too caught-up with his belief-systems and his friends, sort-of eventually half-realised that he had been party to creating a disaster, and afterwards spent eternity wandering around trying his best to do good, and to wheedle his way back into public affection, instead of going off to live the life of a penitent hermit, which is what everyone wanted him to do, then I can see that working. This may help you to remember .... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 7 minutes ago, Edwardian said: This may help you to remember .... Thank you but I'd really rather not. Though I suppose one might say, Happy Days - in comparison. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 54 minutes ago, Edwardian said: This may help you to remember .... Nope. All new to me. Didn't even realise the film was a musical. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Nearholmer said: Didn't even realise the film was a musical. The book was. (Or tried to be, in amongst the turgid prose.) Thankfully, the films weren’t. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 All this LotR stuff is way over my head – I never got further than the Golden Bough... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 11 hours ago, Edwardian said: So, about 14-15 years ago I found myself sitting in the paradise of the sunny Caribbean, missing the cold, dark, damp and rain of home, and re-reading Tolkien. You go to the sunny Caribbean and read a book? Brian. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, wagonman said: All this LotR stuff is way over my head – I never got further than the Golden Bough... A very strange book but at least of the CA era. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 19 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: A very strange book but at least of the CA era. More like a Yellow Pages than a proper book, IMO. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 In light of the nightmarish images I offer this as normality CONSTANTlNE, one of the earliest Fowler locomotives, had a worksplate on the frames giving the date (1866) but not the works number (691). The cabside plate read "LONDON CHATHAM AND DOVER RAILWAY Co SEPTEMBER 1866". As LC&DR 127, CONSTANTlNE worked both goods and passenger trains until withdrawn in 1907 as South Eastern & Chatham No.591. (John Fowler & Co (Leeds) Ltd) Nick B 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 25, 2020 Normally I would post this in Book Corner on my own digital modelling thread, but if you want images to delight your eyes hasten off the the LNWR Society and purchase a copy of 'The Railway Photographs of P.W. Pilcher'. Starting from around 1881 Mr Pilcher began to take photographs of the railways in the surrounding area where he lived and his photographs are absolutely stunning. The LNWR Society was completely helpful when I enquired about purchasing this book and I can very much recommend them. 3 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Holliday Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 25 October 2019 at 10:04, Compound2632 said: It's interesting that Adams' Mogul already has many of the characteristic features of the classic American mogul - highly asymmetric wheelbase, to clear the outside cylinders and the long firebox; long front platform, raised running plate, side window cab, and boiler-mounted sandbox. The American mogul goes back to the 1860s, so had Adams been looking across the Atlantic? Resurrecting this theme, the latest Steam Days (September 2020) has a nicely illustrated article entitled "Born in the USA - The British Moguls" by Paul Gower, which covers the MR, GNR and GCR classes, and throws in the GER and M&SWJR cousins for good measure. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 Apparently Tony - the suppository of all wisdom - Abbott will be helping the UK with our post-BREXIT trade negotiations. Perhaps the Antipodeans of the parish can tell us what we need to know.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted August 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 27, 2020 It seems he said doing anything about climate change was like primitive people sacrificing goats to appease the volcano gods. Last time I looked there were kangaroos hopping round in the snow. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) Where to start...?! Believes climate change isnt happenning but if it is its good because plants love carbon dioxide and anyway more heat is better because lots of people die of cold each year but no one dies of heat so a warmer planet will save lives. Or something. All in all, You're welcome to him back (he was born in the UK..). Edited August 27, 2020 by monkeysarefun 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted August 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 27, 2020 15 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: You're welcome to him. we are already f&cked so what another ar$ehole Nick B 15 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 27, 2020 @nick_bastable, are you suggesting that he will initiate a change in our negotiating position? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 (edited) Well, thank you to the Honourable Member for Sydney. Clearly, we were already so f*cked that it was beyond belief well before Covid. Mr Abbott could just be finale to the Make-Britain-a-Joke campaign that Johnson, Gove et al have been successfully leading since 2016. While the Left indulges in pointless revisionist onanism over the 'de-colonisation' of history, the Right just gets madder than ever. Truly there is no hope for us! If you want some great colonial madness, by the way, there's a good film about the last Spanish troops in the Philippines. They held out against the forces of independence for about a year after Spain cut the colony loose by selling it to Uncle Sam (that noted colonial Power), and their paranoia was so extreme that nothing would convince them that the war was over, including newspaper reports and visits from sundry Spanish officers. After their magnificent, and entirely unnecessary, feat of endurance finally came to an end, naturally the survivors were national heroes on their return to Spain. 'Of course, they're all raving mad, you know' Edited August 27, 2020 by Edwardian Picture 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted August 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2020 21 minutes ago, Edwardian said: the Make-Britain-a-Joke campaign that Johnson, Gove et al have been successfully leading since 2016. Never in the history of the British people was so much damage inflicted by so few, onto so many... 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted August 27, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 27, 2020 54 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: @nick_bastable, are you suggesting that he will initiate a change in our negotiating position? alas I fear not but has been brought in to continue the madness Nick B Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 If you use Firefox browser, you can at least get a bit of a chuckle when reading news stories about your governments latest achievements.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/boris-johnson-adject-failure/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On the plus side, the UK weather means there'll be a lot less photos of him tooling around in his budgie smugglers from now on. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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