Saw this on Twitter & it amused me more than it should.

It was originally assumed these well-decorated chaps were North Korean, & as it's a very long time since they've had a proper war, the Tweeter mused on what they had done to get so many gongs. Then someone suggested they may be Vietnamese soldiers, and of course they've had a bit of a war. Even so, them's a lot of medals.

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Mind you if the Yanks didn't use the ribbon system they'd be looking similar. Medals for serving in different places, medals for being able to shoot, medals for passing training courses. To the point that the nickname for the ribbon bar is a fruit salad.

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Looking further into it I picked a bad example - I'd love to hear this guy’s story.

This bar starts with the Distinguished Service  Cross, but is on an Air Force Uniform with the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal after it, less than 50 DSC's have been given to Air Force ever, mostly during the Korean War.
 includes a Purple Heart for being wounded in combat (with 2 oak leaf clusters, so 3 Purple Hearts) and ends with the UN Service Medal (for Korea) & the  Vietnam Campaign Medal, so not all for minor things of course in fact I'd guess there could have been a lot  more but whoever this was they've left the minor awards off.

..... relative to their talent in line with their wages.

I don't think anyone can compare to this guesser.   He has made huge cash relatively compared to his output.  He must have an amazing agent to get the big clubs to constantly overpay him as he slides down the ladder.   Is there anyone worse than SS?  Guys like Bale don't count because they have done it at the top level.   SS has probably made £25m out of football and done nothing of note.  I only found him tonight because i was looking at pukki's goal total this year and SS appeared with 9 goals for Preston.  £15k a week at preston for this guesser ?  is that too much?  He doesn't have an England cap but 7 u21 caps.  He has several kids with his air head coronation st missus who probably can't believe her luck but kinda knew she was pay pay for life on meeting him in Manc a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sinclair

Feel free to add your own guessers to the list.   It has to be relatiive to their wages not just guys who haven't produced.  SS was massively over paid at Man City and Villa and Celtic (rangers were bankrupt in this era)

Was outstanding his first 2 seasons at Celtic - beating men for fun and scoring goals. 25 goals in first season, 6 goals in 11 Champions League games second season. Fell away after Brendan Rodgers left. Not convinced he was overpaid either. Rangers were in the league when he was playing for Celtic.

Saying that I can't totally disagree, when his head dropped it really dropped & I was happy enough to see him gone. Think if he can be enthused and excited he's brilliant, problem may be with him needing the attention and support to keep him there.

I’m with Rod I don’t go out at night unless I’m working obv
Close by is an extendable wheel brace a Stanley knife and a long thin screwdriver

With Red . I've never been bothered much about going out at night, spent years living in Glasgow and walked through the city at all hours. Likewise Liverpool when I worked there & Hamburg & Amsterdam when I would visit. Only time I've been a bit concerned was London when I travelled in from Reading to watch a Celtic game at a pub there & found the walk back to the station after had me a bit on edge.

What did Marvin hagler  die from ?
I wonder how Vito antofermo is after being punched like that ? Dementia/ Brain damage wise ?
Does anyone Know ?
Great video Rod thanks

Family saying natural causes. Anti-Vaxers trying to hi-jack it as from Covid 19 vaccine, not helped by Tommy Hearns tweeting that he was in ICU with after-effects of the vaccine not long before news of his death broke.

While on quirky things - how Dundee United became Nigerian slang for an idiot

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/11/the-unlikely-story-of-how-dundee-united-became-an-insult-in-nigeria

I Just wish I knew a United fan to annoy about it

I love strange stories like this, like the Albanian President starting a Celtic Supporter's Club, or Stenhousemuir having a Supporters Club in Norway.

RIP Marvellous Marvin Hagler - my boxing hero when I was a kid.

Bowling alley vidoe bloke has his own channel where you can see similar work, but this is pretty quirky.

Quirky but really well done. Cheers Doobs.

Filmed in 1 shot apparently.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-12/hollywood-drone-video-minnesota-bowling-alley/13241718?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=abc_news_web&fbclid=IwAR1OoZgRdY8GdNIvrVs4WTqjDQWrLjKMi1ue9BbU3X8sz5YAvk9OTK3inlw

I'm amazed, would be very interested in what tech they used then. Transmitter relays? Wifi extenders?

Extraordinary what can be done with a camera on a drone, if that's what it is. What you reckon, Rod Paradise?

Incredibly clever, but I'll wait for the 'the making of video' before I accept it was one flight.

I'm sceptical of how they could get the signal to the drone through the building tbh. There are drone pilots with the ability to do the manoeuvres,, but a power line nearby can and has fucked up the signal for me before, going through buildings like that and the interference to signal makes me doubt it. Also you'd NEVER get permission for this over here, unless every person was part of the production.

I'm thinking they did a lot of small flights, with definite cut-off points where they could be spliced to make one seemingly continuous shot.

apologies for the music, but the manoeuvrability of the drones and control of the pilots is shown well here.

This case doesn't even bear thinking about, especially if it gets overturned.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56355695

Horrible.

Was reading this morning about a guy suing Hertz car rentals, he was accused of a murder in 2011 and claimed he was renting a car at the airport. Hertz refused to produce a receipt and he was found guilty in 2016. His lawyers kept at Hertz and in 2018 they 'found' the receipt, which led to his freedom. Hertz claim the 'technology' wasn't good enough to find the receipt till 2018.

Does beg questions:
Police didn't investigate the car rental claim, why not?
Were there no cameras at the airport?
How can repeat subpoenas not get a better reaction from a company?
How much should they have to compensate him?

The compensation issue is a difficult one because the people at fault don't pay, it usually just means there will be a big dollop of cash missing from the budget.

Same with medical negligence cases.

In this case it's the Car company being sued though.

This case doesn't even bear thinking about, especially if it gets overturned.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56355695

Horrible.

Was reading this morning about a guy suing Hertz car rentals, he was accused of a murder in 2011 and claimed he was renting a car at the airport. Hertz refused to produce a receipt and he was found guilty in 2016. His lawyers kept at Hertz and in 2018 they 'found' the receipt, which led to his freedom. Hertz claim the 'technology' wasn't good enough to find the receipt till 2018.

Does beg questions:
Police didn't investigate the car rental claim, why not?
Were there no cameras at the airport?
How can repeat subpoenas not get a better reaction from a company?
How much should they have to compensate him?

And where does this woman in her 30s, who was arrested in Kent on suspicion of assisting an offender fit in?

She is the suspect's wife.  Feel sorry for their two kids, how do they begin to process the news.  It isn't like something that would be easy to keep from them, particularly as they took their mpther away too.  Their kids are close to the age of mine.

Going to be awful for the kids.

My Dad taught at the school attended by the kids of a police inspector found guilty of multiple rapes (mostly while on duty). Thankfully it was a small village primary and they managed to keep the kids from much bullying over it during the case, pretty sure they moved away after he was found guilty.

Me and Mrs Red love the theatre too Tony. We especially like the smaller ones where one cast member plays several roles and the props and scenery are basic but really clever.

You've set off memories with that Red.

Many years ago I saw The Gambler by Mel Smith (of Alas Smith and Jones). One of my drinking buddies had a cousin in it so a squad of us went to the Everyman in Liverpool.

The Everyman was (is?) a small amphitheatre style setup, with seats raised around a stage.

The play started with the 4 actors popping in and out all over the theatre and playing the different sounds and shouts of a racecourse. They then explained that the play was about gambling so they'd be asking the audience to take a gamble, heads or tails, and if you won you got free tickets to the venue, if you lost you sat on stage as an extra.

I lost and sat at a pub table on the edge of the stage enthralled at how 4 people could play so many characters so well with minor changes of stance, prop etc making the characters clearly different. One memorable bit where 2 racing horse owners are discussing a horse and one introduces his jockey - as he turned away the other owner span round the back of him to the other side  onto his knees, owner one slapped a jockeys hat on his head and the conversation continued.

At times an actor would join the table for a pub scene - which included him getting us all to murmur  'rhubarb rhubarb' to make up the background noise of the racecourse boozer.

I was also given 2 tickets for any show in the next 3 months at the end.

We then went for a few with the cast who told us that they did the bet at the beginning for £20 in the original run in London, allowing double or quits until losing crowd members got even (which got quite high and had the audiences hooked).


I enjoyed the play that much that I got another group of workmates to go a couple of nights later, when I refused the gamble as I wanted to see it from the audience. Still really enjoyed it.

A few suggesting Morgan doing his own publicity before leaving to join Andrew Neil's new version of Fox news....

Did you ever see someone with an easel?

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