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  1. Thought I'd share this one with my Cinema friends here. I dont want to spoil anything too much, but the official movie trailer below does more than hint at it ! Its a strange film to watch, funny and sad ... I mean, we're all getting old and cling on to our hopes and dreams I suppose? We cant all cling on to our faculties forever .. and this film deals with that in a very eloquent and respectful way. Life is life and we will all sooner or later have to deal with something like this ... sorry to be blunt there. If you have not seen it before, please make room for it in the future ... Its a good film, always admired Bruce Dern ... he is perfect in this.
  2. Adding to this post and still straying away from political stuff, this is how the movie crew did it ... a fascinating watch.
  3. Take care Dave ... I probably shouldn't be doing this? Considering I had a freak fall and collapse last night. But disabled people are allowed to have a life too, so just mere hours ago for my efforts, went a looking at a last minute deal at Glasgow Hydro for the Monday Judas Priest/Saxon/Uriah Heep show ... the god damn best of British Metal. It took some smooth talking, even on the disability dedicated line, but after some negation ... got my 2 tickets for the Metal feast on Monday at Glasgow Hydro ... damn I sore needing this, its's gonna be fun ... Rock N Roll. If there is anything I can say ... if you or loved ones have a disability, please let people know ... I hid mine for years, even from the doctors and medicals at work ...and I wish I hadn't.
  4. Crumbs, last night and after the morning's very intense, physiotherapy, went home and had a nap, decided ... enough was enough, and took my new fangled walking sticks down to the local pub for a pint for a test drive ... I mean walk I knew I could make it downhill, if I took my time with my sticks ... and I did, but knew also I'd be scoffing at least two pints and need a taxi home ... short tho the distance is. In the end I had three pints of lovely cold Gunness and cuddled some lovely lady's and caught up with old mates too, it was exactly what I needed for my four wall live alone itis. So then and about 9PM ish, called a taxi home, got home inside my house and promptly collapsed .. flat out on the deck in my hallway?? Fortunately I had my mobile phone on me and after several attempts trying to pick my self up, gave up. Called the emergency service and about 45 mins later, some guys came to help me from the NHS, excellent guys, highly professional in every way, they got me back on my feet, took health monitoring tests inc a blood sugar test at my finger tip, because I have the dreaded type 2 Diabetes now as well, and all was OK they said within limits. follow up appointments have been made because of this fall ... and its not the first sudden fall I've had ... Crumbs Sometimes I wonder what its all about, Alfie ... but I plug on. I'm not depressive, life can be tough. but its the tough that keep us going ... hopefully I will get my hips replaced soon, have quite a few bucket list thing to experience before I expire, ... Hope is everything. Sincerely.
  5. Just watched it and remember watching the news next day about this and .... Thinking, Oh Wow!!! Upon watching this film, had to go google IMDB, and its, from start to finish and other sources, fairly accurate compared to most movies based on real life war time events. I was surprised about that. The teams multi night vision lens goggles do exist in real life and are apparently designed for better peripheral vision, we knew the stealth version of the BlackHawk existed and is no Sci Fi, because one was lost in landing accident at the compound but not quite blown up upon the teams exit from site. I'm honestly surprised nobody has attempted a scale model of the Stealth Black Hawk yet? Indeed, its been told the mock ups of it used during filming were apparently quite close to the real thing! I'll take that with a pinch of salt though. I wonder if the Stealth Black Hawk still exists and will ever be used again?, we'll never know? Its truly a black project. But anyway, this is a tension City clip from the movie, hope "SOME" don't consider it ghoulish and I get complaints, this war scene is far less graphic than your typical Rambo flick and even older war movies, honestly
  6. Take care Dave, going in, anytime now for my right ... my side Hip Opp total replacement, once that's done and recovered from, my other hip gets done too, at least after that I should be able to get around without walking sticks, will always have Ankylosing Spondylitis and fixed neck of course ... but at least after that I can roam again, walk ... because I cant just now and its not good being an ambitious wannabe outdoor person like my self. Take care mate n Keep well
  7. Hi Dave, (and other sufferers) been following topic on n off for a while now mate, and if you ever want to chat with a fellow sufferer of pain, feel free to PM me and I'll call ya back. that goes for any other suffers too. Am serious about that. Basically I've just been plugging on with a gradually getting worse bone disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis since my early 20's, though it was not until I was 30 I was finally diagnosed with this .... basically it means all the joints in my spine fused together, inc my neck, not only is it inconvenient and meant I had to give up my beloved Motorcycle riding, but give up car driving too. I have for the most part, managed to fulfil a highly productive life since then and lived with my form of AS working at an Oil Rig construction yard at Ardersier N Scotland where I was able to do CNC milling, welding and other cool operated amazing machinery too ... however, all good production times come to an end, our N Scotland oil rig fabrication yards were shut down and I wont complain about why. Thats a highly political topic indeed. So, after that went on to a nearby call centre for only a quarter of the wages I used to make in the oil industry and did 5 years at that, but towards the end, all that seated in front of a computer took its tool ... My Ankylosing Spondylitis was getting worse. rapidly. They let me go in a kinda respectful way and I've been unable to work, ever since, no redundancy money from them, despite being there 5 years after the oil yards where I got good redundancy pay off from 25 years +. Since then I had a terrible accident at home with a bad fall, my particular form of spine disease made my spine more brittle and easier to damage ... I have a tall Freezer with stuff stored on top of it, so got out a wee stool and managed to stand on it when it went out from underneath me, fell only a short distance but heard a snap, my brittle spine had snapped at the neck and fractured my cervical 6 and 7 vertebrae in clean breaks and as post surgery pics show below, had two titanium rods and 12 screws put in. its still painful, every single day and I have a dedicated microwave oven beside me, just for those neck wrap wheat bags I use constantly ... I get through 4 wheat bags a month, LOL, I get greedy and they over heat with repetitive use, sadly. So subsequently and unfortunately, went into deep and dark depression for what seemed like Yonks ... eventually clawed my way back into life and started seeing my friends again and going to my beloved Music concerts ... and sadly that brings me to more recent times ... I too have type 2 Diabetes now and fear the original diagnosis was missed because of Covid Lockdown? perhaps? but iits deffo with me now and have been trying to control it with appropriate help, also my hips are long over due for replacement and am awaiting surgery any time soon after being on the waiting list for far too long and having successfully lost a stone as recommended, but damn ... I live in constant pain, cant sleep at night, its not good, its not fine ... I'm 64 now and 65 this July, cant even get my pension I worked hard for because its been pushed back to 66 for me. Thinking about a Mobility Scooter in the short term, damn I used to ride GSXR's ETC. I suffer from Male Pride I guess, and need to learn to accept help, more readily. Pain is an absolute curse ... Whats it all about Alfie? Whats it all about?
  8. Or maybe its just me? but for sure I'm seeing a lot more of it on the telly just now, and enjoying it too. New stars these days, but looking at TV just now I see Stephen Hendry commentating, very well I might add, he seemed like a teenager when I last followed this sport, so many decades ago ... oh My, the years are flying in, will be 65 this July myself! I used to love playing snooker with my pal's, but a severe form of arthritis called Ankylosing Spondylitis and more overcame me and had to give it up ... no regrets, it was fun while it lasted ... glad I have re-discovered Snooker again after all these years. I hark back to the old years of Snooker of wild men like Alex Hurricane Higgins and Jimi Whirlwind White, those were the Halcoyn days of Snooker, when it was mega fun. The players were larger then life back then, witness this moment from Alex and Jimi ... But ... its still a great sport and am enjoying it all over again.
  9. Hi Chris. I get where you are coming from mate, but at the end of the day, most disasters have a documentary, inc Concorde, 9/11 and so forth, it does not mean people are ghoulish and I know you are not suggesting that, but a lot of folk inc me want to find out why it happened and how it can be avoided again. In truth and the day after the accident, it was the usual like The Sun and other such gutter press tabloid newspapers that seem to enthuse over the ghoulish details that happened that day and I can more or less guarantee that wont be discussed ... unless in brief and non de-script and certainly without graphic content ... on a good produced documentary. Thats all it is really. Aviation enthusiasts wanting some verified facts and hoping things can be learned from them ,,,, if on rare occasions I watch a doc that gets too graphic I switch it off. Cheers. Colin
  10. Now that's .... Different, i kinda like it
  11. Watched this again last night, maybe my third watch since its original release ... Absolute riving tense stuff from start to finish. This film is not an easy watch and upon first viewing it left me with lots of unanswered thoughts, like ... Huh? But upon repeat viewing it does make a lot more sense. No answers for what happened to Chigurh of course at the end? But all my other thoughts were answered upon last nights watch, including what happened to Carla (Kelly Macdonald) Scottish actress who did the accent so well and the part ... This is a tension city film, folks from start to finish, and beautifully filmed too.
  12. In 'The Abyss' there was a scene where Cameron ordered Ed Harris to frantically slap Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio while performing CPR. When they yelled cut Mary Elizabeth snapped at Cameron yelling "We are not animals" and walked out of the set. There is no doubt Cameron seeks his own idea of perfection in his work, but also its true, he can be a Bar Steward to his actors to go that extra mile ... I think he's calmed down somewhat now? but in his early hits, he went to far for sure ... love his work, but he's no angel, uh uh.
  13. RIP. He has passed to early, used to listen and enjoy his show a lot.
  14. Honestly, it is a very mediocre product at best, but us customers rode out a similar price hike just two years ago that amounted to the same, so in effect of a two-year span, Ring have now increased the price for basic services by almost 100% with nothing to justify even a fraction of that increase, that is all most customers like I need. That's just bonkers greed IMHO, and I am cancelling my subscription to them forthwith. There must be better or similar products than this. The BBC and other News channels have picked up on this greed, check our Rings own forums too, it's just flooded with hundreds of complaints https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68250127 and https://community.ring.com/t/ring-increases-basic-subscription-fee-to-49-99-per-device/257553
  15. I hear you Colin, by the way, My name is Colin too. Hear what you say about working with computers by day and wanting to get home and do something different, we are similar ... I've worked with computers most of my life, CNC welding, precision steel flame cutting and milling at the old Ardersier oil rig fabrication yard in NE Scotland, then with the oil downturn took a turn at the local call centre at Forres on the phones as customer support for a few companies for 5 years, you would think after doing that I would be sick and tired of a PC screen .. but NO, it never worked like that for me, to me at day and behind a computer screen was a totally different concept, at work it was a tool, at home and when I was in the mood, it was and still is a passion. And I really have created a very impressive and dedicated PC for Flight Simulation and am really looking forward to flying this Phantom and learning in DCS, its no arcade thing, is a high-tech study model that might take me months of learning to fly and understand properly, then there is team play, multiplay too, oh my, the virtual skies do beckon There are no rights and wrongs here, my friend, but I can relate from my own personal experience of times building a scale model and wondering what it is like to fly the real thing? Believe it or not, Colin and whilst at the Ardersier Oil Rig Fabrication yard ... I was taking real flying lessons, but as bad luck befell me with ill health had to give that up, so a full PPL never came to fruition ... But I had lots of fun trying and I gave it my best shot, nearly every private pilot I've met in real life does flight Simulator at home, inc Bruce Dickenson from Iron Maiden. Ask me how I know, LOL, as Bruce would say, Aviation is an all encompassing and all consuming passion and I agree with him. Same thing too Mate, many a time I have flight simmed and after a good session I felt the need to go build a scale model of the Aircraft I had just virtually flown ... have done this so many times, honest. This formula works for me ... I totally understand it might not work for all, but I honestly think Scale Modelling, especially Aircraft stuff, Real Aviation and even modern high-tech Flight simulation is all intertwined for lots of us. There is a dedicated Flight Sim forum here somewhere, will post some new pics of my PC FS Rig there soon .. I've spent a fortune on this hobby and Scale modelling too, for me, it JUST works 👍 Colin M
  16. This is not a troll post, but in the case of more recent A2A releases that admittedly are more about the flight model than looks, it's just jaw dropping in detail to see what can be done these days with flight sim software. This is latest Heatblur F4 E Phantom for DCS, coming out soon, have it on advance order already. Oh My, please watch this in its entirety ... it's one thing building a Phantom scale model kit, but learning how to fly it in a realistic simulation situation is another thing altogether. I love scale modelling and realistic Flight Simulation too. Watch n enjoy please, this clip Is stunning.
  17. RIP Ian Lavender AKA Private Pike ... Dads Army, I still watch Dads Army sketches to this very day, the best comedy series ever, sometimes I suffer from bouts of depression, but always, watching Dads Army cheers me up, no end. RIP Pike, you were not such a Stupid Boy, after all ... respect
  18. This Phantom module from Heatblur looks stunning, doesn't it? Oh wow and have had this on pre-order since day it was released, it looks superb and can't be too far away now Apparently we'll get Navy Phantoms and A6-Intuders too in the near future, with the long promised Dynamic Campaign add on for DCS ... we have a lot to look fwd to. Bring it on please.
  19. Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed! I got this in one today, but its not always so easy. Clickety clicks needed here. Its safe to click. https://framed.wtf/
  20. I heard about this Mate and remember when it happened ... so tragic, but would like to learn more about it and the events leading up to this tragedy, will look out for this documentary.
  21. Mine is my Trumpeter 1/200 Titanic kit with some basic lighting, its a good kit and I had big ambitions of even improving on that, very expensive kit and I soon found out it would cost just as more for the best add-ons .... I'm not that perfect, I'm afraid, so by hook or by crook she gets built this year. OOB I know where to put her, just in front of my new 72" TV and then invite friends round for a movie night and of course play James Cameron excellent Titanic movie too and switch on my model ship lights at the appropriate moment for effect I love Camerons Titanic epic, really do. It was this video from a guy at E-Models convinced me I needed the 1/200 Titanic, its one massive box and hull, but not so hard to build I reckon. Its just daunting. Not promoting this company in any way, it's just where I bought mine and ironically snowy weather here just now too
  22. Just curious here, but what is the little propeller device on wing for? ... I know modern airliners have them to deploy in emergency to provide power ,,, and WW2 Stuka's used similar for scare tactics, but what was the reason for this on the Bulldog?
  23. Just wondering, but this model will need some rather intricate wing wiring rigging, will Airfix have this out of the box? Probably not? But achievable for most of us, I guess.
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