Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[RED-DOG]

According to Sky News there is going to be "An overhead fly past".

[tikay]

According to Sky News there is going to be "An overhead fly past".

I'm very relieved it will be overhead.

[tikay]

Another fabulous photo from Twitter.


In North Africa, men of the SAS "L Detachment" return from a heavily armed long-range patrol in the desert:

https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1365433304955187200/photo/1



Are those jerry cans water or petrol?

Why are the gun barrels that odd shape at the pointy end?

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[Rod Paradise]

Vickers K, the end is a flash suppressor. It doesn't look like it would be too effective but the Vickers was a repurposed aircraft machine gun, so the flash suppression stopping anything burning the plane it was designed to be shot out of could explain it.

The far away gun is a Browning .50 Aircraft Pattern - another aircraft gun repurposed for the LRDG/SAS - one of those on a jeep was considered capable of taking on a light tank due to the half inch wide bullets and the manoeuvrability of the jeep.

I would be wanting the jerry cans in front to be water at least - bugger driving into battle with fuel cans on the bonnet and no windscreen.....

[tikay]

This is ingenious. Stick your postcode in & see the area from now to back in the day via the slider.


https://www.archiuk.com/archi/archi_maps.htm

[tikay]

Shit just got real for Sarkozy.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56237818


If that does not make Boris nervous, nothing will.

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[RED-DOG]

3 years with 2 years suspended and he can serve it at home?

I'm surprised the Judge didn't give him a BJ as a parting gift.

[AndrewT]

Teeks, I assume you're already all over this, but this year's newsletter from Warren Buffet is out.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2020ltr.pdf

[tikay]

Teeks, I assume you're already all over this, but this year's newsletter from Warren Buffet is out.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2020ltr.pdf

Ooh, lovely. I had not seen it, thank you.

[tikay]

I received my 2021 Census Reminder today.

I wonder what % of those required to answer it will actually do so. More or less than 50%?

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[Jon MW]

I received my 2021 Census Reminder today.

I wonder what % of those required to answer it will actually do so. More or less than 50%?

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If people don't fill it in online they'll get paper copies followed by census takers at their door.

I had a look - there was a shortfall in 2011 of about a million censuses, but most of them were accounted for by properties being unexpectedly unoccupied.

There were less than 200 actual prosecutions for not filling a census in - so the people who didn't fill it in seems to be somewhere between a 100 and a million.

[tikay]

Thanks Jon.

The world has changed beyond recognition since 2011, and I'm pretty sure a whole lot more will dodge it this time.

[Tal]

What stories this man could tell:

https://pleasekillme.com/sonny-franzese/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/nyregion/john-franzese-dead.html

Not that he ever would, mind.

[tonytats]

Did you watch the ch5 Everest programme last night tony ?

[tikay]

What stories this man could tell:

https://pleasekillme.com/sonny-franzese/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/nyregion/john-franzese-dead.html

Not that he ever would, mind.

Hi Simon, great to hear from you. Hope work, family etc are all good & well. Did you have a successful NFL season? All revved up for Chelters?

Enjoyed those links immensely, thank you. Ended up spending way too much time on googling doing a deep dive.

What a story. As underboss of the Colombo crime family, one of the 5 New York Mafia families, he was grassed up by his son, & at the age of 93 sentenced to 8 years in prison - & actually survived it. Not many 93 year olds with an 8 year stretch ever see daylight again. 

How did you happen across those stories? Never knew you was into the gangster & mobster scene. I still love all the gangster books, can't get enough of them.





Take care Simon, & do stay in touch please.