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Last post Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
by Ex-Ascot View the latest post Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:20 am
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A place to discuss politics and things related to Govts
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by llondel View the latest post Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:01 pm
Agony Aunt
By Popular Request - Modded by the Girls of Ops-Normal.
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by jimtherev View the latest post Mon May 09, 2022 9:02 am
Ops-normal Projects & Bashes
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by TheGreenGoblin View the latest post Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:55 pm
Where Are They Now
Lost forever.
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by FD2 View the latest post Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:59 am
We Band of Brothers
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers who have taken the Oath, worn the uniform & even loitered in harm's way occasionally.
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by EA01 View the latest post Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:46 am

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Birthdays

Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot « Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:16 am
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Congrats to Pinky! :ymparty:
How do/did you celebrate?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROUNDGRIPPER from us both :YMPARTY:
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Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:16 am
Photos of Everybody

Last post by ribrash « Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:06 am
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What would Jet Blast be without photos.

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Here's one taken the day that Dushan was inducted into the Right Wing...

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A double header from the mighty Mersey.
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Last post by ribrash
Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:06 am
Absent Friends

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:12 pm
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by GrumpyOldFart » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:49 pm
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Alison - I thought this would be a suitable place to keep absent friends' memories alive - somewhere we could visit to just, well, remember. You may...

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About 15 years ago, my doesn't time fly, I had agonising back pain. I can't remember what caused it but it was agony in any position and I was bed...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:12 pm
Well it happened.

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Fri Jun 10, 2022 3:39 pm
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For many of our UK residents and ex-pats BREXIT is probably one of the most momentous events to have taken place in decades. I suspect there will be...

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The roots of Brexit was the way Britain was taken into the EU.
The British people were never allowed a vote, and they didn't forget that.
I've heard...
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Fri Jun 10, 2022 3:39 pm
Rules for this forum

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This is how it is to be for now in this forum:

All members signed up and agreed to the following when they joined:

“You agree not to post any...

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Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:17 pm
The Capetonian WOE Thread

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:20 am
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The continuation of The Smokin' Hot Where On Earth Thread Mk III .

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Very topical.
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Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:20 am
The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

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Time to start a new one methinks.

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Cooler here, 20° on the mountain. South wind coming later. And also fresh orange juice from Mercadonna and FT from the news agent.
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Last post by OFSO
Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:12 am
Another reason we are a stupid country!

Last post by Undried Plum « Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:32 am
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by EA01 » Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:17 am
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This past week the East coast of Australia has been threatened with power blackouts due to insufficient energy supply....coal and gas, sold off to...

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Where would I begin to put a list together of the ways in which Scotland is a stupid country ?

To someone in Scotland, I would say circumspice .
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Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:32 am
Cats - They are cool!

Last post by Alisoncc « Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:18 am
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Both of the nincompoops have made friends with me, having ingratiated themselves, and within a day have taken over, and will not countenance a moment...

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Last post by Alisoncc
Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:18 am
One BIG Fish

Last post by llondel « Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:47 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:52 pm

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Largest freshwater fish ever caught hooked in Cambodia
A fisherman caught the 661-pound fish — which measured about 13 feet in length — near a...

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They did throw it back.

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Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:47 pm
WTF is happening in the UK?

Last post by llondel « Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:01 pm
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People I speak to hold normal opinions- but feel unable to express them.
Folk shrug, they don't understand what's happening, but they are sure it's...

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I've been listening to Tory politicians' excuses for yesterday's byelection results. Every reason given except one. Nobody has mentioned The Convict....
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Last post by llondel
Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:01 pm
A Forgotten Massacre

Last post by OFSO « Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:35 pm
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by OFSO » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:20 am

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... Although not by the Spanish and more especially, the Catalans. In 1939, over hundred thousand Spanish fled North over the Pyranees into France to...

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I knew the lady who ran the Pyrenees Oriental (PO) magazine. Very sincere

I'm just reading the biography of TE Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia. Amazing....

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Last post by OFSO
Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:35 pm
Looking for a new home (=country)

Last post by Rwy in Sight « Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:47 pm
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by boing » Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:43 pm

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All the factors are coming together that suggest we should move on. Our property is too big and requires more time put into maintenance than I am...

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I don't like to spend too much time on a Greek ship to an island hence my preference for island closer to the mainland.

I noticed a piece about...

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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:47 pm
The 'Other massacre/Civil war' thread

Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot « Fri Jun 24, 2022 12:31 pm
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by Undried Plum » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:46 pm

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'Civil war' must be the greatest of all oxymorons in European languages.

I remember, when working in Western Andalucia in the late 1980s, being...

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Now this is an interesting article despite being from the DM;

Shame that witnessning Babi-Yar didn't put him off mass murder.......... [-(

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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Fri Jun 24, 2022 12:31 pm
Electric Cars II - Not Silly!

Last post by OFSO « Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:51 am
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Hertz to buy up to 65,000 electric cars from Polestar

Swedish electric car maker Polestar is selling up to 65,000 electric vehicles to Hertz...

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If nearly 300 cars a day are going up in flames the UK might as well cancel alternative forms of heating for turbines to drive generators of...
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:51 am
Friday Jokes

Last post by ricardian « Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:39 am
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To kick off, here's one that had 'em rolling in the aisles (although I admit it was my Kindergarten aisles.)

There were four skunks: daddy skunk,...

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Now it can be revealed
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Last post by ricardian
Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:39 am
Rant of the Day v2.

Last post by fin « Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:02 am
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This one was getting a bit big too.

Admin/Alison

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What the heck has happened to Trip Advisor? Tried to write a review this evening, totally unuseable. Won't accept the town I entered or the fact...
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Last post by fin
Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:02 am
Elon Musk and Tesla Are Not Very Nice. Space X, Too.

Last post by prospector « Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:23 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:22 pm

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Tesla sued by former employees over 'mass layoff'
The lawsuit was filed late Sunday in Texas by two workers who said they were terminated from...

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Diaz alleged that his colleagues and a supervisor subjected him to a hostile work environment that included slurs, caricatures and swastikas in his...

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Last post by prospector
Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:23 pm
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Last post by 4mastacker « Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:52 pm
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Admin, I know that you closed down the Markle bashing thread but we think under current circumstances the situation should be able to be debated here...

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Eventually realising that they aren't as clever as they thought they were or Nutmeg planning when to change the door locks ?
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Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:52 pm
Bad Dog!

Last post by llondel « Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:43 pm
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by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:28 pm
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Florida man bitten by 7-foot alligator he mistook for dog
The victim believed the reptile was a dog on a long leash so he didn't move out of the way....

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Just think of the chaos that they are now causing in their new homes (and the pleasure for their new owners).

One is visiting the Grand Canyon...
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Last post by llondel
Tue Jun 21, 2022 7:43 pm
Another in the series 'world-famous-in-new-zealand'

Last post by Magnus « Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:20 pm
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by John Hill » Sat Jun 18, 2022 7:39 am

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There are still microlight flights operating. MrsP took the adventure about 4 years ago.

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Last post by Magnus
Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:20 pm
What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?

Last post by Karearea « Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:14 am
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Often, the day starts with a song in our head or the events will suddenly cue up music that seems the perfect soundtrack. Share yours here.

This...

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Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull
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Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:14 am
Aircraft I haven't flown but would like to!

Last post by Rossian « Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:54 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:46 pm
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I know that it is regarded as a bit infra dig to post aviation posts around the Crew Room but I cannot think of a better place to ask what if and...

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.....but have flown in. As a non-pilot I couldn't but the back seat ride I had in a Buccaneer was phantasmagorical. The pilot had heard me say to an...
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Last post by Rossian
Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:54 pm
SCAMMERS !

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:36 pm
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Transcript of a phone conversation:

Last Thursday phone rings here. Lady speaking with upper class accent.

"Can I speak to Ms (---)...

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I got this today on FB, complete with an email address in a separate message. Of course, the fact that I don't do Hangout and don't have a...
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:36 pm
Formula One

Last post by Wodrick « Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:00 am
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It looks as if the contract for the 'Spanish' Grand Prix will lapse after next week's race and that it will be the last one to be held at Barcelona...

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Angela, Kate, same difference really.
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