Discologist
Member Since: 19 May 2014
Location: Yorkshire
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How many bods should the RAF lob in to France for their effort to be considered sufficient? It’s an act of remembrance, not an exercise. 2013 Orkney Grey D4 SDV6 HSE
2005 Cairns blue D3 TDV6 SE - Gone to a new home
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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And the UK has the capability.  New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 27th May 2024 12:04 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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HWN wrote:Enough to make it look like the UK cares.
It is, of course, possible that the majority don't care... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 27th May 2024 12:22 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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Marking of Armistice Day, etc., is as much about the Establishment keeping the idea of "dying for King and Country" in the minds of those that will be expected to do so, as actually saying "thank you" to those that did it last time.
Wars are young men killing other young men who they don't know, so that old men at home can thump their chests. Very few 18-25 year olds start wars but they are the ones that end up dying in them. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 27th May 2024 3:52 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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I see the BBC is showing The Longest Day this afternoon. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 2nd Jun 2024 12:58 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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RRSTDV8 wrote:Marking of Armistice Day, etc., is as much about the Establishment keeping the idea of "dying for King and Country" in the minds of those that will be expected to do so, as actually saying "thank you" to those that did it last time.
Wars are young men killing other young men who they don't know, so that old men at home can thump their chests. Very few 18-25 year olds start wars but they are the ones that end up dying in them.
From what I've read, any call up will potentially include those up to 60 years old.  New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 2nd Jun 2024 2:15 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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HWN wrote:Isn't watching WW II films considered by Prevent to be an indication of right-wing extremism?
If so then attending Remembrance Day parades ought to be too. So that's the whole of the Establishment in the dock then... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 2nd Jun 2024 7:20 pm |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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Watching a war film is an action, not a thought, so we're ok watching The Longest Day, Sink the Bismark! and The Cruel Sea. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 2nd Jun 2024 10:06 pm |
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DAZ110
Member Since: 12 Jul 2017
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 78
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A few DC3’s over my house today. 👍🏼
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| 3rd Jun 2024 8:07 am |
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GrumpyPenguin
Member Since: 06 Mar 2024
Location: Thanet Kent
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HWN wrote:A recent poll showed the majority of young people think marking the two World Wars is no longer appropriate - apathy through comfort. The last eighty (mostly) conflict-free years in Europe is historically abnormal and shouldn't be taken for granted. It has to be worked-at, constantly. My parents' and my generations may well be the first two not to be involved in a conflict. My children's generation? Who knows. There are a lot of things that are just black dots on the horizon that could become fully-fledged shadows of doom.
A friend of mine works with young people through social services, many of them with serious issues - most of them have this attitude until he points out that if it was not for those who paid the price & the Nazi's had won they would have been "disposed of" - instant attitude change.
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