CameronL Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 (edited) 3 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Oh yes! We forgot to include Rockall. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DpRc9uOZfCF0&ved=2ahUKEwitjca8tuOGAxXHS0EAHaZKCusQ78AJegQIDBAB&usg=AOvVaw2JkUNkRl5Rn5uh43w8_Xv8 Edited June 17 by CameronL 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted June 17 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17 I'll just leave this here... HAMPSON, F. W.The Railways of Rockall 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 13 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: This diagram should be required reading in all schools. There needs to be another circle for Britain covering Great Britain (as shown) and Little Britain (Brittany). Although Ireland historically referred to Wales as Little Britain (An Bhreatain Bheag). 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted June 18 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18 8 hours ago, Nick C said: If it's any help, Wikipedia defines the Channel Islands as an archipelago of their own... Didn't The Goodies do something on 'Home Rule for the Isle of Wight'? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 2 hours ago, kevinlms said: Didn't The Goodies do something on 'Home Rule for the Isle of Wight'? Not that I can recall, but Graeme Garden dropped "home rule for Wales" into many things he did over the years going right back to Cambridge Footlights. Truth is stranger than fiction. It was a Home Rule campaign in 1888 that led to the Isle of Wight becoming a county separate from Hampshire. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 12 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: Or just "The Cold Country". "Great White North" it usually called, or the "Frozen Tundra". 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 13 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: "Great White North" it usually called, or the "Frozen Tundra". As celebrated in song: https://youtu.be/ot70G4wSQi0?feature=shared (Note the actual musicians!) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 On 18/06/2024 at 00:50, DavidB-AU said: There needs to be another circle for Britain covering Great Britain (as shown) and Little Britain (Brittany). Although Ireland historically referred to Wales as Little Britain (An Bhreatain Bheag). Oh I say, yes! By all rights, the entire Bretagne peninsula is an extension of Great Britain, by ancient migration from the Arthurian Wasteland and the British Exodus from the South West, especially Devon and Cornwall, with a mass migration of Britons southwards across the Channel. - from Dumnonia (Devon) to Domnonea - from Kernow (Cornwall) to Cornouaille Both of which eventually became part of Armorica (Brittany). 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 (edited) 9 hours ago, pH said: As celebrated in song: https://youtu.be/ot70G4wSQi0?feature=shared (Note the actual musicians!) Hilarious. - "Take off, you hoser." 😉 Plenty of original "Bob and Doug McKenzie" content from SCTV on YouTube. I remember them from when SCTV was still played on US television. Your link is an interesting "homage" to "Bob and Doug" by Rush. Funny! Looking up Rick Moranis I did not realize this: Quote Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family. He attended elementary school with Geddy Lee, frontman of the rock band Rush. Edited June 19 by Ozexpatriate 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steve1 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 On 18/06/2024 at 00:50, DavidB-AU said: There needs to be another circle for Britain covering Great Britain (as shown) and Little Britain (Brittany). Although Ireland historically referred to Wales as Little Britain (An Bhreatain Bheag). Looked at logically, all countries are man-made constructs. There are no such things as “Great Britain”, “Germany”, “USA”, etc. in nature. There are, obviously, land masses that make up the world but the names are all human inventions. Maybe if people better appreciated this fact, there would be less poisonous nationalism about… steve 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 But humans are territorial animals and have always been antagonistic to tribes that they share borderlands with. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Hroth Posted June 19 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19 17 minutes ago, big jim said: The bells have stopped - you'll be late... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium Reorte Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 4 hours ago, steve1 said: Looked at logically, all countries are man-made constructs. There are no such things as “Great Britain”, “Germany”, “USA”, etc. in nature. There are, obviously, land masses that make up the world but the names are all human inventions. Maybe if people better appreciated this fact, there would be less poisonous nationalism about… Countries are 100% man made, although sometimes very much shaped by the geography in which they're made. But there are plenty of geographical features that aren't man-made, and whilst the names obviously are the same's true for any word - the words "land masses" are also man-made. Describing specific natural features by using names isn't a problem. Great Britain is the man-made name of a natural feature (the large island that quite a lot of RMWeb posters live on), Germany and USA though are entirely political human creations. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 2 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: Eh? steve 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 Not sure if this is a repeat, but hey-ho. Here's Hollywood's authentic story of the Six-Seventeenth Eagle Bomb Squadron of the Royal British Air Corps. THE INTRO.... It is 1941. Hitler has invaded Europe and England alone fights back Aided by a handful of international volunteers, including GI Gibson (Tom Cruise) an American pilot who had already had a key role in winning the Battle of Britain. Intelligence has identified that the destruction of a giant dam in central Germany is the key to Allied victory. THE FIRST RAID.... A raid on the dam by the British Lan-Casters of the 6-17th is ordered, to be led by its war-weary cockney CO (Michael Caine). The crews are filmed boarding the Confederate Air Force's Liberator. A background of sun-drenched Texan prairie substitutes for Scamppington Air Force Base and the East Anglian Fens in January. Colour-enhanced black and white library shots are then used for the Raid - DC-6 engine start, taxiing Halifaxes, Spitfire mass take-off, formation of B24s, Lan-caster at night, bombs dropping from a Mitchell, a B-17 and Focke-Wulf Condor being shot down, the FAA's Boeing 707 crashing in flames. As with all US aviation films since the invention of "talkies", the aircraft soundtrack consists only of the roar of Pratt & Whitney radial engines, specially recorded during a Harvard mass flypast at the annual Oshkosh air show. But the raid is a failure, and only GI and his crew survive to try again. Danny De Vito plays the part of the bomb aimer. THE WEAPON.... After the disastrous first dam raid, it is obvious a new type of weapon is needed. By chance Barn S. Wallace (Morgan Freeman), the leading US scientist And aviation expert, is in London explaining his invention of the jet engine to an unknown British engineer, Frank V. Tel. Thinking back to his childhood, Barn remembers skimming rocks across a Lake in native New Hampshire, and quickly comes up with a design for a bouncing bomb - but it is too large for any British aircraft to carry. THE AIRCRAFT.... Fortunately, Wallace has brought with him to England the only example of his latest bomber design, the B-29. Cut to the CAF's B-29, painted gloss caramel and vivid green with French roundels, being pulled from its Hangar at Midland, TX, so that GI and his crew can test fly the new bouncing munition over the neighbouring Scotland, and prepare for the raid. THE RAID.... Shots of Cruise and gang boarding the B-29, plus take-off shots over The American Midwest. Then computer-generated images for outbound flight, the final - and successful - bombing run using the last remaining weapon on board, and the dogfights on the return leg. Throughout, the standard CGI conventions are used. All WW2 single-seat fighters fly at a minimum Mach 0.9 in +7g manoeuvres, while any multi-engine aeroplane drones along straight and level at 130 kt. THE COMMAND CENTER.... In a map-encrusted bunker, Barn waits tensely for the results of the raid. Although the news is of success, he starts to become saddened by the loss of aircrew involved. But, just at that moment, a well-spoken Home Counties WAAF officer (Catherine Zeta Jones) in a starched Virginia McKenna military blouse appears, bearing a tray of Starbucks mugs. She utters that immortal line - "Cocoa Latte, Sir?" - and all is well. Information comes in that the flooding from the broken dam has flooded Hitler's bunker (clip from Chaplin as the Great Dictator), thwarting the launch of a new V3 rocket aimed at the Summit Conference being held in Buckingham Palace, London, England. The water also slows the Russian advance, allowing Patton (Harrison Ford) to capture Berlin and Eastern Germany for the Allies. THE LANDFALL.... Meanwhile, with three engines blazing and feathered, Gibson and the surviving crew nurse the crippled B-29 back across the Channel. They just manage to climb over the White Cliffs of Dover to see in the near-distance the welcoming runway lights of their Lincolnshire airfield. Having studied brain surgery before joining up, the B-29's chirpy Australian assistant cook (Kylie Minogue) saves the lives of injured crew members as the bomber belly-lands onto its home base. It slides to a halt a few Feet from the control tower, where Winston Churchill (Dan Ackroyd) watches proudly. Also in the scene, in a technology enhancement, is Ronnie Reagan on his horse Trigger. THE FINALE.... GI stands framed by the blazing wreckage of a redundant Fokker Friendship airliner bought especially for this scene. Since a wholesome happy ending is mandatory in today's commercial cinema, in a final shot he is joined by "Native-African-American", his loyal dog. Despite the pair of Artificial legs and prosthetic tail fitted after being injured in three major road accidents on the Great North Road during his master's absence, the Labrador bounds joyfully into the sunset with some dame called Vera Lynn singing about the White Cliffs. 1 1 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted June 19 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19 (edited) 3 hours ago, steve1 said: Eh? steve Turkey (Türkiye, to use the correct name) is the go-to place for “value-for-money” dental, and other forms of surgery (including hair transplants) these days. A typical flight from Istanbul to the UK will have an assortment of people who look like extras from a zombie apocalypse film and one or two people who find it uncomfortable to sit down. Edited June 19 by The Pilotman 3 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted June 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 19 I'll bet no one in turkey uses our correct name. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 @billy_anorak59 - Excellent! Can I suggest a minor addition to cope with modern MSM reactions? 2 hours ago, billy_anorak59 said: Despite the pair of Artificial legs and prosthetic tail fitted after being injured in three major road accidents on the Great North Road during his master's absence, the Labrador bounds joyfully into the sunset with some dame called Vera Lynn singing about the White Cliffs. The premier is boycotted by RSPCA activists complaining about the Labrador. Reviews of the filum in the Guardian and Indy are inundated with comments that the inclusion of White Cliffs proves the whole film was racist. The film is re-mastered to include the Royal British Air Corps' transexual air crew in appropriate period costume like full ball gowns. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted June 19 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19 7 hours ago, TheQ said: I'll bet no one in turkey uses our correct name. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Same as not many in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland would refer to ‘turkey’s’ correct name, The Republic of Turkiye (not a spelling mistake of transposed letters but I don’t know how to put the two little dots above the u). Note the capital letters. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 19 Share Posted June 19 (edited) 9 hours ago, billy_anorak59 said: It is 1941. Hitler has invaded Europe and England alone fights back Aided by a handful of international volunteers, including GI Gibson (Tom Cruise) an American pilot … Cruise’s character would be based on Joe McCarthy, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McCarthy_(RCAF_officer) There was another American pilot with 617 Squadron later in the war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Knilans who, for several months, flew a Lancaster which had had the elevators fitted upside-down - see the post by “blue up” on 10th Dec 2021 on this site, quoting Paul Brickhill’s book “The Dambusters”: https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-640900.html Edited June 19 by pH 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted June 20 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Johnster said: Same as not many in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland would refer to ‘turkey’s’ correct name, The Republic of Turkiye (not a spelling mistake of transposed letters but I don’t know how to put the two little dots above the u). Note the capital letters. Like this? ü ü Just hold down the "Alt" key while entering 0252 Türkiye. Türkiye is not in my computer's dictionary so the replacement word suggested was teriyaki. EDIT: There is a website with all of the "alt" codes: https://www.alt-codes.net/ Edited June 20 by J. S. Bach To add some information 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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