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Post by Sly Boots » Sun May 22, 2022 9:22 pm

:lol:

Took me a second

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Post by Drarok » Mon May 23, 2022 3:36 pm

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And that's the story of why I'm not allowed near pregnant women for the next few weeks.

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Post by Alan » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:08 am

A man who could tell more truth and eat fewer pies.

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Post by eny » Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:23 pm

Ben Stokes.

His new captaincy of the test side is revolutionary. 3-0 whitewash of the best side in the world, with 3 of the top 4 fastest +275 runs innings in the entire England 145-year test history coming in the last fortnight. Positive, aggressive, free-playing cricket that gives players full rein, encouragement and praise, and it is reaping dividends. He has literally come of age, and it is a joy to see his genius shine.
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Post by eny » Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:12 pm

Yet another imperious win, England getting their highest ever 4th innings run chase — 378 — with 2 brilliant centuries from Root and Bairstow in a partnership of 269, both not out, to win by 7 wickets. This side is mighty!

Root has 5 test centuries so far this year, and Bairstow has 6 — 4 in the last 5 innings, the other being 71 not out. Both have already matched the record of 6 in a year set by Denis Compton and Michael Vaughan, with 3 tests against South Africa to come, and Pakistan later in the year. They are in the form of their life, and it is repeatable form, just astounding how this team is working.


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Post by Animalmother » Tue Jul 12, 2022 4:06 pm

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/godd ... iverse-yet

"Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe"

Amazing stuff :P

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Post by Alan » Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:59 pm

Yeah, the spiral galaxy in the top right is amazing. Assuming that’s what it is :-k
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Post by Lenny Solidus » Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:22 pm

Beautiful, how far we've come yet we're distant observers. Less than gnats in the aether.
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Post by eny » Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:27 am

Best illustration yet on just how utterly remarkable that image is:





Astounding!
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Post by Animalmother » Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:27 am

The amazing thing is some of those galaxies probably don't even exist anymore, that light is billions of years old.

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Post by Animalmother » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:51 am

A Lancaster bomber just flew past where I live, there's something I thought I'd never see :o

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Post by Raid » Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:54 am

Or hear, hopefully. I live under the flightpath for the Battle of Britain Memorial flight when they head to Morecambe airshow, and you can usually hear the Lancaster a good while before you can see it. It's one of the best sounds in existence.
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Post by Animalmother » Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:04 am

It's really windy today so the sound didn't travel so well, I just barely heard it to run to window and get a look.

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Post by eny » Mon Jul 25, 2022 11:15 am

I have the fortune of where I live to see regular flypasts—generally en route to Windsor, London, Farnborough etc. and back to their respective halts, with White Waltham, Wycombe and Benson airfields nearby. Merlins are a 7th sense to me now...hear them from miles away.

The best was when I spent a hot Summer Saturday afternoon wrapping silage bales out in a field that was under the turning point for a Spitfire giving the late Lord McAlpine a birthday display...I climbed up on the Tractor roof and sat mesmerised at its beauty, climbing down again halfway through after remembering I had binoculars in my lunch bag and got back up again to watch even closer. At the end of his display, the pilot buzzed me and waved, I nearly fell off!
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Post by eny » Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:29 pm

Hal Sparks ripping into Fear Farmer Brand....fucking hilarious! :lol:


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