onetrack Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Katherine Hepburn was the heroine in "The African Queen", Nev - your fuzzy memory has struck again. Never mind, it was released in 1951, so we'll cut you some slack. I can only just remember 1951, it was the year we moved onto the farm in "the bush", and I can remember all the moving effort. It was all pretty memorable to a 2 yr old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 (edited) BUT 1953 Was the best year . That was the year we tossed the English " Ration Book " . Kids could buy lollies ' IF ' they had any pennies. LoL. spacesailor PS , the Queen was crowned that year too . Edited December 28, 2023 by spacesailor A little more ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 Katherine Hepburn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 There's much written about his marriage to Bacall so I mixed that up.. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 I haven't watched the movie in a long time. I seem to remember Katherine starting the journey as a cranky old bat and Bogey as a bit of a grog artist. If my memory serves me well, he eventually buttered her up. Didn't she tip his grog overboard at one stage? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 He didn't have to practice being a Grog and smoking addict. My main recollection is the "clunky" motor in the boat. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share Posted December 29, 2023 Spacey, I read that the poorer kids never ate as well as they did during rationing. Further, the pommy conscripts in ww1 were 3" shorter that the german ones. Due to the much poorer diet of poor kids in pommyland. To the extent these things are true, the pommy homeland was a rotten and corrupt place. I think though that they are more democratic than Nth Korea, that emerging monarchy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Rotten & corrupt. Those " poor " starving north England people. Had to.sell their " Ration books " to afford to eat . Or they " ate " whatever they could catch . spacesailor PS : no more ' Carrier Pigeons ' left . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 They HAVE a "God-King" in North Korea. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Interesting article on the Novocherkassk. Apparently, it wasn't F16s, but UIkranian missiles that hit it while it was probably carring explosive cargo causing a second explosion. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-intelligence-explains-russian-ship-novocherkassk-intense-elimination-blast/ar-AA1m9u2w 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said: Interesting article on the Novocherkassk. Apparently, it wasn't F16s, but UIkranian missiles that hit it while it was probably carring explosive cargo causing a second explosion. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-intelligence-explains-russian-ship-novocherkassk-intense-elimination-blast/ar-AA1m9u2w Thanks Jerry, that explains a lot. I thought the destruction to the ship looked a lot more than what the missiles would do, so that's why. The Ukrainian intelligence must have found out it had Shahed drones on board. Edited December 30, 2023 by willedoo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 A pro-Putin politician has been found dead after allegedly falling from a third-floor window in Russia. Vladimir Egorov, 46, who was a member of the ruling United Russia party, is the latest of Russian elites to have been found dead in strange circumstances. Local media reported on Thursday that the regional politician was found in a courtyard outside his home in Tobolsk, central Russia. A Russian news agency reported that Mr Egorov fell from the third-floor window of his house. “A body was discovered, the fact of death was confirmed, the investigator is establishing all the circumstances,” the Investigative Committee for the Tyumen region told Russian state news agency TASS. The committee also told Russian media that there were no “external signs of criminal death” on Egorov’s body and that they “could not confirm the information about the circumstances of the deputy’s death” as they are still conducting an autopsy. Meanwhile, Tobolsk City Duma published an obituary on Thursday saying that Egorov died “as a result of an accident.” They praised the politician – its deputy chairman before his death – for providing “comprehensive support to the participants of the Special Military Operation and the families of military personnel” fighting in Ukraine. Mr Egorov was forced out of the city administration in 2016 following a corruption scandal for which he was not convicted. He then returned to the political fray in 2020. He is the latest of a series of mysterious deaths in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle since the war in Ukraine began. Most recently, the deputy editor of a Russian tabloid newspaper died under strange circumstances just one year after her boss. Anna Tsavera was the deputy editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, a daily tabloid newspaper described by Mr Putin as his “favourite newspaper”, according to a document from the European Commission. The 35-year-old was found by her parents at her Moscow apartment in early December. Police have opened an investigation but initial reports suggest there were no signs of a struggle or a violent death but she had complained of feeling unwell to her parents the previous day. Her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68, died suddenly during a business trip in September 2022. A colleague at Komsomolskaya Pravda said he died shortly after suggesting to staff they “find a nice place somewhere” for lunch. A few minutes later he began to suffocate and by the time he was taken outside for fresh air he was already unconscious. Another mysterious fate includes Ravil Maganov, the chairman Russia’s second-biggest oil and gas company, which had previously taken a public stance against Russia’s war in Ukraine. Maganov died after falling out of the window of a hospital in Moscow in September last year, according to TASS. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 The Russian way of "falling from Grace" It's not a window of opportunity or a "send off" you would want. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 Personally, I am still nonplussed at how you could give guns to people who hate you and not get shot straight away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 No. 1 rule in Russia - stay away from the window. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 As a public safety measure I think Russia should ban opening windows. However something tells me the problem would shift to staircases, elevator shafts, radios falling into bathtubs, slippery bathroom floors and various other household risks... 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It’s defenestration, a very old political move. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 getting back to nth Korea, I reckon we are seeing how a monarchy starts... you have a really good murderer as a dictator, and he becomes so powerful that he can pass on his authority to his son, even if that son is goofy-looking. But, I hasten to say, as time passes, the plebs get more powerful and begin to limit the king's powers. This is what we have these days in GB.... which is counted as a democracy, I think. It can't be a very good democracy, or we would have a vote on Charles' tenure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 WE used to be British citizens by virtue of being Australian. That's not the case now and we have no access to advise King Charles as British citizens do. It HAS to be sorted. There is NO British EMPIRE. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 I like your post nev, but the fact is that we had a referendum on the monarchy subject and I lost. To this day, I can't decide if Turnbull was a fool or a traitor, so bad were the pro-republic arguments. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I blame Howard mostly for the confusion aided by the usuals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 BUT As usual for the ' monarchy ' dumping . We Will , try again, untill , We loose the vote . By Not being a democracy! . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 In reference to the original thread topic, the sanctions are a cruel joke on the Ukrainian people. They've only just now on January 1st banned the import into EU countries of non-industrial natural diamonds, artificial diamonds and jewelry containing diamonds from Russia. For almost two years of this war, they've been happily supporting the Russian diamond industry. They're jerking our chains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Just like the Biden administration's press releases of strong condemnation and official protests. The Ukrainians want F-16's and long range ATACMS, not hot air and weasel words. The US mantra of 'as long as it takes' has now been modified to 'as long as we can'. The Ukrainians are being shafted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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