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mwnciboo wrote:The turrets do not rotate or elevate... so it's useless. Unless you want to bombard Scratchwood Motorway Services which is where they are aimed at.

That's hilarious, just looked up the service station to see where it was, and got this: "The guns in both forward turrets on the museum ship HMS Belfast, some 12.5 miles away in the centre of London, are trained and elevated on the London Gateway Motorway Services Area."

So now, if I was a terrorist, I would try and get into that ship just to pull the trigger.

Didn't someone say that the 'boom' sound heard over the south west of England a few weeks ago was some Eurofighters scrambling? Someone from Bath said there was one flying really slowly over the city in circles, then all of a sudden it high-tailed it.

It's the RAF, the pilot probably realized it was 14:00 on a Wednesday afternoon over Bath and went "Christ, I need to get back to base quick, the weekend has started". They are just Civilians in Co-ordinated clothing, damn amateurs they are the only organisation I know who moved a scheduled flight forward 10 hours and then used the excuse that because the passengers due on the flight weren't there they were entitled to leave, leaving us in Qatar for 6 days (who leaves 10 hours earlier than their time and then blames the passengers who all turned up 3 hours before the scheduled take off time) . They are the longest running April Fools Joke started in 1918 and still running.

You can blame the americans for those missles. They've been putting presue on Cameron for months to beef up security for the USA team. I know that area, those will probably get nab. Expect to hear about an escalation of gang warfare.

You call that a knife! This is a knife( pulls out SAM)

Brilliant, the Military Operation is called "Olympic Guardian", this in of it self shows it's political. All Military operations are named by a Computer system at MOD which generates a random name with no connection to the geographic region.

Afghanistan - OP HERRICK
IRAQ - OP TELIC
Sierra Leone - OP PALLISER

It's part of the Security, to call it "OLYMPIC GUARDIAN" is totally political and is supposed to make the public feel all Warm and fuzzy.

It used to be a source of Ribbing with my Yank Military Buddies that their Operation Names had to feature one of the following :-

Freedom, Strike, Storm, Eagle, Death...

The same with Calls Signs, NATO units would all be Alpha 1 or Bravo 7, but Yank units would always be "Raptor Death 77" or "Black Eagle 99" or "Spectre of Doom 69".

mwnciboo wrote:Brilliant, the Military Operation is called "Olympic Guardian", this in of it self shows it's political. All Military operations are named by a Computer system at MOD which generates a random name with no connection to the geographic region.

Well, speak for yourself, but I am glad that you are brave enough to stand up to the boogymen that haunt your nightmares. We've adopted a policy over here you might try where we enable our government to be so terrifying, it actually scares the imaginary terrorists away. I also just bought volcano insurance.

The same with Calls Signs, NATO units would all be Alpha 1 or Bravo 7, but Yank units would always be "Raptor Death 77" or "Black Eagle 99" or "Spectre of Doom 69".

Just because we're better at naming stuff doesn't mean you have to be jealous.

Offhand, do you know if we have a tank called the "Fortress of Arrogance"?

daedalus wrote:

mwnciboo wrote:Brilliant, the Military Operation is called "Olympic Guardian", this in of it self shows it's political. All Military operations are named by a Computer system at MOD which generates a random name with no connection to the geographic region.

Well, speak for yourself, but I am glad that you are brave enough to stand up to the boogymen that haunt your nightmares. We've adopted a policy over here you might try where we enable our government to be so terrifying, it actually scares the imaginary terrorists away. I also just bought volcano insurance.

The same with Calls Signs, NATO units would all be Alpha 1 or Bravo 7, but Yank units would always be "Raptor Death 77" or "Black Eagle 99" or "Spectre of Doom 69".

Just because we're better at naming stuff doesn't mean you have to be jealous.

Offhand, do you know if we have a tank called the "Fortress of Arrogance"?

If you don't you should get one...


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Actually if they are expecting something it might be worth buying some tickets just to watch it go down...

daedalus wrote:
Just because we're better at naming stuff doesn't mean you have to be jealous.

Offhand, do you know if we have a tank called the "Fortress of Arrogance"?

I've named my toilet the Destroyer of Worlds

That's odd, my mates Chihuhua is called Abbadon: Destroyer Of Worlds....

Abs for short....

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:That's odd, my mates Chihuhua is called Abbadon: Destroyer Of Worlds....

Abs for short....

Tbone walks so slow, at the park we were lapped by a guy with Chihuahas.

dog with big bark

purplefood wrote:The guns still work AFAIK...

If I remember correctly, last time that ship fired a broadside, it ripped the deck open.

loki old fart wrote:

purplefood wrote:The guns still work AFAIK...

If I remember correctly, last time that ship fired a broadside, it ripped the deck open.

They worked though, everything else is irrelevant...

purplefood wrote:

loki old fart wrote:

purplefood wrote:The guns still work AFAIK...

If I remember correctly, last time that ship fired a broadside, it ripped the deck open.

They worked though, everything else is irrelevant...

It's been standing around rusting since then

DOn't you guys have a few dreadnoughts laying about? Put one in the Thames. But a big banner up on the side with
"The British Empire. Chances are we owned you. Now have some tea. "

Frazzled wrote:DOn't you guys have a few dreadnoughts laying about? Put one in the Thames. But a big banner up on the side with
"The British Empire. Chances are we owned you. Now have some tea. "

Umm...
Not really...
Even the Belfast is only a light cruiser...
Though we do have this
We can use that, probably one of the most famous ships in the Royal Navy today...

Frazzled wrote:DOn't you guys have a few dreadnoughts laying about? Put one in the Thames. But a big banner up on the side with
"The British Empire. Chances are we owned you. Now have some tea. "

Thats kind of our current tourism policy, it works quite well (Napoleonic Era Guards, bouncing around outside Buck House and all that Military Pomp stuff) . You could have the same in D.C stick a ship on the Potomac with a banner saying

"We have either Saved your ass or bank rolled you for the last 100 years, so got to MacDonalds and have a nice day"

. You are right though, we should revell in our past, next we will be stationing Napoleonic Era Cannons with tudor crews around the stadium, incase the Zulu's come or Saxon/viking raiders come.

The Olympics is so corporate & political these days,

EDIT - Got to Love VICTORY, but the YANKS win hands down with the USS CONSTITUTION as it is older and still sea-worthy (Well it floats).

RossDas wrote:

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Yes, lighting the Torch with a SAM! How great would that be?! And if the aim was a little off and they just happened to hit Beckham and/or BoJo then so much the better!

Realistically it's the only way we're going to one-up China's opening ceremony!

Pfft. They should have gone with my idea of Iron Maiden performing a 2 hour gig as the opening ceremony with an enormous mechanical Eddie lighting the Olympic flame by holding the Torch and spitting Petrol into the big round bowl.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

RossDas wrote:

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Yes, lighting the Torch with a SAM! How great would that be?! And if the aim was a little off and they just happened to hit Beckham and/or BoJo then so much the better!

Realistically it's the only way we're going to one-up China's opening ceremony!

Pfft. They should have gone with my idea of Iron Maiden performing a 2 hour gig as the opening ceremony with an enormous mechanical Eddie lighting the Olympic flame by holding the Torch and spitting Petrol into the big round bowl.

Absurd..
They should have The Who on an Aston Martin playing against/racing against Iron Maiden atop a Jaguar. Both cars are driven by the Stig and at the end of the battle they jump out of the stadium and are shot down by Spitfires crash landing in the Thames...

purplefood wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:

RossDas wrote:

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Yes, lighting the Torch with a SAM! How great would that be?! And if the aim was a little off and they just happened to hit Beckham and/or BoJo then so much the better!

Realistically it's the only way we're going to one-up China's opening ceremony!

Pfft. They should have gone with my idea of Iron Maiden performing a 2 hour gig as the opening ceremony with an enormous mechanical Eddie lighting the Olympic flame by holding the Torch and spitting Petrol into the big round bowl.

Absurd..
They should have The Who on an Aston Martin playing against/racing against Iron Maiden atop a Jaguar. Both cars are driven by the Stig and at the end of the battle they jump out of the stadium and are shot down by Spitfires crash landing in the Thames...

And then Paul McCartney gets wheeled out to croak out a Beatles number and everyone is left with a feeling of acceptance that all our great moments are behind us

Putting on a big show to impress the olympic commission. How sad.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

purplefood wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:

RossDas wrote:

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Yes, lighting the Torch with a SAM! How great would that be?! And if the aim was a little off and they just happened to hit Beckham and/or BoJo then so much the better!

Realistically it's the only way we're going to one-up China's opening ceremony!

Pfft. They should have gone with my idea of Iron Maiden performing a 2 hour gig as the opening ceremony with an enormous mechanical Eddie lighting the Olympic flame by holding the Torch and spitting Petrol into the big round bowl.

Absurd..
They should have The Who on an Aston Martin playing against/racing against Iron Maiden atop a Jaguar. Both cars are driven by the Stig and at the end of the battle they jump out of the stadium and are shot down by Spitfires crash landing in the Thames...

And then Paul McCartney gets wheeled out to croak out a Beatles number and everyone is left with a feeling of acceptance that all our great moments are behind us

Nah, then the invasion begins!

Meh, have groups from all the countries you conquered perform karaoke, followed by 10,000 pasty Brits dressed up like Henry VIII doing a Haika war dance in front of Big Ben.

Now thats entertainment.

Frazzled wrote:Meh, have groups from all the countries you conquered perform karaoke, followed by 10,000 pasty Brits dressed up like Henry VIII doing a Haika war dance in front of Big Ben.

Now thats entertainment.

I would pay good money to see this.

MrDwhitey wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Meh, have groups from all the countries you conquered perform karaoke, followed by 10,000 pasty Brits dressed up like Henry VIII doing a Haika war dance in front of Big Ben.

Now thats entertainment.

I would pay good money to see this.

So would I actually.

I think New Zealand would declare war on us, for besmirching their cultural heritage.

This Topic....It's so Off right now.

mwnciboo wrote:I think New Zealand would declare war on us, for besmirching their cultural heritage.

This Topic....It's so Off right now.

Don't worry i have this.

The Telegraph wrote:
Home defense is best improved by a really good British Olympic opening ceremony says a new report.