Now I Never Knew That

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

That Magyar (as in Hungarians and as on their stamps - at least back when I collected as a lad) isn’t pronounced Mag-yar but Maw-dyar

Now after all these years of me thinking or saying The Magnificent Mag-yars … I now know.

Aside…I suspect that John Motson thought and said as I, but would have insisted that his pronunciation was how he had always said it and so how it would stay…because that was the ‘Mottie way’..(see also Ajax)

 

[IanM]

The video for Robbie Williams "Angels" was shot on Saunton Beach.

Wonder if he nipped in for a game? Mind you, don't think he was a golfer back then.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

The video for Robbie Williams "Angels" was shot on Saunton Beach.

Wonder if he nipped in for a game? Mind you, don't think he was a golfer beck then.

Why are you talking posh?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Why are you talking posh?

Edinburgh Morningside [Jean Brodie].. where they put their rubbish into in Blek Sex

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Edinburgh Morningside [Jean Brodie].. where they put their rubbish into in Blek Sex

Ooh! Blek Sex!
Tell me more!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Ooh! Blek Sex!
Tell me more!

In Morningside…or Kelvinside for that matter…sex is what you get your coal in.

(Well that was how it was way back then…)

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The UK national nuclear strike warning system was active until 1992 - I thought it had been discontinued much earlier. I recall hearing the klaxon by Whitecraigs station on Glasgow southside being tested through the 60s and 70s - don't recall hearing later tests…at the time it was a rather scary sound.

I wonder what of the last few weeks has made me reflect on that

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

The UK national nuclear strike warning system was active until 1992 - I thought it had been discontinued much earlier. I recall hearing the klaxon by Whitecraigs station on Glasgow southside being tested through the 60s and 70s - don't recall hearing later tests…at the time it was a rather scary sound.

I wonder what of the last few weeks has made me reflect on that

I mean without being a pessimist. No much point wondering what someone would think of it. Time you actually heard a nuclear warning sign you’d already be dead! Or if you weren’t probably be wishing you were due to the fall out and excruciating pain that would lead to inevitable death anyway.

With my previous role we were CBRN specialists, from my experience trust me if that ever happened I’d rather be gone in the first wave.

 

[RichA]

I mean without being a pessimist. No much point wondering what someone would think of it. Time you actually heard a nuclear warning sign you’d already be dead! Or if you weren’t probably be wishing you were due to the fall out and excruciating pain that would lead to inevitable death anyway.

With my previous role we were CBRN specialists, from my experience trust me if that ever happened I’d rather be gone in the first wave.

If that’s an attempt at a sandwich then I have to say that your technique needs a little fine tuning.

 

[The Squirrel]

I mean without being a pessimist. No much point wondering what someone would think of it. Time you actually heard a nuclear warning sign you’d already be dead! Or if you weren’t probably be wishing you were due to the fall out and excruciating pain that would lead to inevitable death anyway.

With my previous role we were CBRN specialists, from my experience trust me if that ever happened I’d rather be gone in the first wave.

Yep, ‘fun’ fact. A nuclear blast wave travels at a higher speed than the signals in the human nervous system do. Therefore you really are dead before you feel it.

I live close enough to a couple of notable facilities that my chances of survival would be zero.

Second ‘fun’ fact. For some time the Russians didn’t know what the small building right in the centre of the Pentagon inner courtyard was, although they could see people approaching them leaving it fairly frequently; maybe an ultra-secure entrance to a secret facility that the rest of the building protects or hides? So they targeted nuclear 3 warheads specifically on it just to make sure in case it was so solid it needed multiple strikes to penetrate.

It is in fact….. a hotdog stand .

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

If that’s an attempt at a sandwich then I have to say that your technique needs a little fine tuning.

Not an attempt at all. Just brutal honesty, if we ever get to that point far better to go in the initial wave than suffer the consequences. No point trying to fluff up the truth or hide from the facts

Yep, ‘fun’ fact. A nuclear blast wave travels at a higher speed than the signals in the human nervous system do. Therefore you really are dead before you feel it.

I live close enough to a couple of notable facilities that my chances of survival would be zero.

Second ‘fun’ fact. For some time the Russians didn’t know what the small building right in the centre of the Pentagon inner courtyard was, although they could see people approaching them leaving it fairly frequently; maybe an ultra-secure entrance to a secret facility that the rest of the building protects or hides? So they targeted nuclear 3 warheads specifically on it just to make sure in case it was so solid it needed multiple strikes to penetrate.

It is in fact….. a hotdog stand .

My point exactly

Although probably better off dying in a nuclear blast than eating the hotdogs in the Pentagon

 

[D-S]

The UK national nuclear strike warning system was active until 1992 - I thought it had been discontinued much earlier. I recall hearing the klaxon by Whitecraigs station on Glasgow southside being tested through the 60s and 70s - don't recall hearing later tests…at the time it was a rather scary sound.

I wonder what of the last few weeks has made me reflect on that

The government has the alert system on phones that they have been testing in the last couple of years. This is when everyone’s phone makes a squawking noise and displays a warning message.

We had repeated examples of this when we were stranded in Abu Dhabi, everyone’s phone went off (made a blaring klaxon noise) displaying a warning message saying ‘Incoming missile alert, please take shelter inside immediately’. You then heard a few explosions then about 40 minutes later everyone got a text saying, not the squawking warning message, saying threat was over please resume normal activities. This was happening 3 or 4 times a day just before we got out.

I assume our government would do the same.

 

[Fade and Die]

Jeez guys you know the rules of the Forum… keep it trivial

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