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Think I’ll go there next year in my grandfather’s Royal Engineer battledress, complete with Pegasus and Red Beret. See how much they like that. Idiots.

Those epic movies with innumerable (real) movie stars that were so prevalent in the 50s-70s.

“Big pull.” Very clever.

Do annoying tourists get told to “Push off”….?

But the govt was right to be concerned at that early point in the war, given the tactics of imperial Japan's espionage activities.

What utter nonsense. No Italian-Americans were interned. No German-Americans were interned. Those that were, were not US citizens. Their loyalty to the US was never questioned, never in doubt. Contrast that with Japanese-Americans, approximately two-thirds of whom were overwhelmingly 2nd or 3rd generation US citizens. And their loyalty was always questioned, always doubted.

”I don't want any of them here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty... It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map.”

Lt.General John DeWitt to US Congress.

And yet it’s notable that every time there’s an article like this, here you are reading and commenting. Why bother if you are “tired of this silly wordplay”?

As for the movie in question, I personally won’t go to see it, as it has little interest for me, but it’s great to see it so popular and annoying so many in equal measure.

I usually watch DVDs, and will continue to do so. Especially if it’s mine. However, my wife and I have Amazon Prime which is OK, and cable TV, which includes Movie+ and WOWOW amongst other channels. I have noticed that movies previously available on Amazon, as part of the Prime package, get taken off if they are being shown elsewhere. And vice versa. For example, the John Wick series and Back to the Future series have both been shown recently on WOWOW, so aren’t available on Amazon. And I am sure they will be available on Amazon again soon. I wonder if the companies collude with each other?

Girls have been allowed in the (Venture) Scouts since 1976, later open to younger girls in 1991. Did you complain 30 years ago?

It looks like they’re leaving the Jamboree area, going home. So uniform not compulsory. Have you ever attended a Jamboree? Uniforms are worn on parade. When they relax, they wear everyday clothes, with their neckerchief and toggle. In the photos they are wearing the neckerchief, if you look closely. But then, you just seem to want to be on your high-horse, and go, “ooooh girls, girls.”

Any of the multitude of wildlife documentaries made by the BBC, presented and narrated by David Attenborough, starting with “Life on Earth.” No other programmer comes close.

shogun36Today  07:17 am JST

The condition of the customer and his beer are unclear but both were believed to be free of serious injury.

Please update us on the beer’s condition as soon as possible.

I gather it was a bit shaken, but still full of the fizz of life…

Cue all the Madonna-flies with buzzes of:

“I made it through the wilderness

Somehow I made it through…..”

Barbaric.

Yep, long and hot, the sky turned a Mediterranean blue as the vapour was burned out of it. Hard to work in, I was doing a dustbin round at the time.

The heat and the West Indies. Both ominous that year, especially Michael Holding.

And literally, my old man was a dustman, for over 20 years at Birmingham Salvage Dept. Used to take me on his rounds…….

Think the ‘X’ represents the guano landed on cars etc after the bird has shat….?

Same as the exceedingly good cake-maker, Mr Kipling. But I do remember the summer of 1976. Phew! Scorchio!!

Yeah, I really worry about all those potential naked Arnold Schwarzeneggers coming through their wormholes. Kinda feel sorry for them, tbh.

For the uninformed, who marked down my above post:

“You can look at hip-hop, and using samples, or scratching in music, the Beatles were doing that in Tomorrow Never Knows.”

Rick Rubin, record producer for the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Run DMC and Public Enemy

Not forgetting the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” in 1966, cited as a major influence.

A question here. How do you all like your whisky? Neat? A splash of water? Rocks? For me it’s a splash of water… unless it’s bad and then I’ll top it up with dry.

This is based on the knowledge of those that make it: if it’s a single malt and from the Highlands or Islands, never straight, and certainly never with ice. Take a separate pitcher of iced water, and add (the water only) according to taste. Been to plenty of distilleries in Scotland and they all said the same. I’m a big fan of anything from Islay, but my favourite is Talisker from Skye.

What’s the ‘British Open’? There’s no-such thing as the ‘British’ Open.

It’s ‘The Open’ and has been for 151 years. https://www.theopen.com/

drink one can of beer every thirty minutes 

Are you serious? This ‘advice’ is foolhardy at best.

Hope the photographer stopped her to ask for her permission……

No, no, no, no, no! Just No!

They already thunder past me, some must be doing 110/120kph, huge damn things.

Want to speed up deliveries? Make the motorways free. There. Solved it.

Miss this show. Loved the early series with “Radar” especially. Used to sit and watch it at my gran’s on Friday nights at 9pm.

Subtitles. Dubbing is the bane of all film and TV actors, who should be heard as they intended. I would never want to see “Seven Samurai” dubbed, nor understand why someone would watch “Poirot” without hearing David Suchet’s voice, instead preferring some “voice actor” put their interpretation on a character. Let them stick to anime and commercials.

I found a lovely cool stretch of woods in northern Ibaraki. It has a shallow stream running through it too. Exactly where, I don’t want to say. It is unbelievably peaceful there, that I’m not sure even the locals are aware of it. And in autumn, it is utterly stunning.

ClippetyClopToday  06:56 pm JST

I don't think AI is compatible with XP anyway.

See above. Forgot to copy….still using XP here!

To be fair, while your comment made me chuckle, the schools I work in are far more advanced. Some are even using Windoze 7.

No, the NHS is not on life-support. It’s shuffled-off this mortal coil, and is currently hammering the last nail into its coffin. And all because of successive tory governments, Boris bloody-Johnson, that red bus and for the want of £350 million every week.

Japan gets U.N. nuclear watchdog approval for Fukushima water release

Well, I dunno about you, but I’m convinced. /s

If you don’t understand your pets health and mental condition, don’t have one.

Until Golden Week this year, I had two cats for the best part of twenty years. I took them both to have their vaccination so that if my wife and I went away somewhere they could stay in a cat hotel.

After two days, “Cat” (19) was still fine. But “Fox” (18) was uncomfortable, she couldn’t settle; stopped eating when she had been a voracious eater; started to poop in places away from the toilet. The vet told us that she had a kidney problem, and that there wasn’t any chance of survival. She must have been ill beforehand, but showed absolutely no signs of it.

She took another four days to die. During that time she would want to sit with me, struggling to walk or to climb up to see me. The last time she did so, she died in my arms. Her final breath convulsing her tiny body, before she went limp in my arms.

I have never cried so much in my life. More than when my parents died. More than when I lost my first love. I understood her and she, me. She would be waiting at the door when I came home from work. She’d sit on my shoulder whilst I read a book. Now she’s not here. I’ve lost my best friend.