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  1. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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  2. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Just finished Mad Men. Wow.
     
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    Bloody hell , is that ever relevant in the job I do now , but will the ( Senior ) management listen ? <steam>.
     
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  5. davecg69

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    That would be the one ......... :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  6. It’s Only A Game

    It’s Only A Game Well-Known Member

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  7. fatletiss

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    Is kindness in today's world so weird?

    A guy looks like he's broken down outside my house this morning. 15 mins later he is still there and sat in the car with his hazards on and I have seen the wife and kids off to school. The wife thinks I am mad for asking if he wants to wait in the warm or have a hot drink. The guy in the car tells me he is ok and will wait for the breakdown services and looks at me oddly when I ask him if he'd want a tea or coffee while he waits?

    Is kindness towards our fellow beings so bizarre today? We live in an odd world. I re3member when I was a kid and we had an accident, people nearby came and took me, my sister and mum in for a drink. I thought that was how things should be done.
     
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  8. King Grimlock

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    Anyone else watching Deutschland 83? Had a spare evening yesterday and caught the first 3 episodes. Really good
     
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  9. davecg69

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    Good man, Fats. That's exactly what I'd do in the same circumstances. I recall my bike breaking down in Four Marks about 1975 (engine seized due to a crack in the crank case - no oil!) and a bloke stopped to see if I was ok. Then he took me home and his wife gave me a cuppa whilst he made some calls to a mate, who then came out, took the bike back to his place, stripped the engine and replaced the piston rings and sent me on my way about 3 - 4 hours later, with a meal inside me. None of them would take any money and they were surprised when I stopped by the following week with a bunch of flowers and a bottle of Scotland's finest for them.

    Bet they wouldn't do it now ............ Such a sad, sad world we live in, really. If more people were kind, I think there'd be a lot less trouble ........
     
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  10. davecg69

    davecg69 Well-Known Member

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    Brilliant stuff - just watched the first one and it looks excellent.
     
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    Lovely story Dave..... but stopping in Four Marks? That's almost my home town and you need to count fingers :eek:
     
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  12. fatletiss

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    Synopsis?
     
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    One of the nice surprises when I started riding motocycles in the 70s was the offer of help from just about any passing biker if you broke down. You bought into this quickly and offered help yourself if you saw another biker in trouble. It may have reduced somewhat these days, allowing that bikes are a little more reliable and most people have breakdown cover. It's still there though, a bloke passed me last week only to turn around and track back to check I was ok as I had parked with my hazard lights on. I had to explain I was chasing my nipper to give him the homework he'd left behind that morning.

    Over the years I've had lifts, petrol and yes pretty much a full bike service offered by a variety of bikers when in trouble.
     
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  14. davecg69

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    Didn't have a lot of option - a lovely afternoon cruising back down the A31 to Southampton from Farnborough (I was working at the RAE there) and something went "bang ...... tinkle ...... tinkle ....." and everything stopped. I'm not the most mechanically-minded individual, so, after I got off, checked the wires and petrol, I just sat there debating what to do (and how far it was to a phone box so I could phone my mate, who's a biker who actually knows what goes on in the engine department) and this guy pulled up and asked if I needed help.
    Didn't need to count the fingers, but maybe I wasn't on the dodgy side of town where the likes of Fats grew up :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    Lifted from imdb.com

    Set in a divided Germany in 1983, during a peak period for Cold War tensions between East and West. Martin Rauch, a wide-eyed 24-year-old East German soldier plucked from obscurity, goes undercover as a West German soldier for the East Germany Secret Service.
    • Set in 1983, a 24 year old East German border guard is forcibly recruited by his government to pose as an assistant to a prominent West German official in order to gather intelligence regarding US plans to defend the West from Soviet aggression.
    • Interesting look back to the height of the cold war, taking place mostly in West Germany, but from an East German perspective. Spying under duress, partly out of conviction, partly for personal reasons, this young East German is at the epicenter of the mounting arms race. There is a mix of very real fear of their people being in danger, but also a questioning of both ideologies. Produced in Germany and spoken in German, with English subtitles.
    • DEUTSCHLAND 83 is a gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

      - Written by Hans Dampf
     
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    It's great to know that things haven't changed that much and people still stop to help. Brings back a little of my faith in humanity :emoticon-0100-smile

    Pity that car drivers don't feel the same - although with mobiles now, at least one isn't stranded. As for picking up hitch-hikers, do people do that any more? I used to stop for guys with trade plates (probably still would, though I haven't seen many for quite a while - probably cos I don't drive such long distances anymore) but I'm always nervous with individuals or couples. Silly really, isn't it? One shouldn't be thinking bad things all the time, but one can't help it. Is it worse now or are there still a few crazies out there?
     
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  17. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    It is.
     
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  18. fran-MLs little camera

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    Reminds me of when a friend (and his wife) built a replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and drove it from the IOW to Australia a few years ago. Sadly only found someone interested in filming it after they returned.....too late. They kept being stopped for photographs by locals, often policemen. One day they stopped in a Muslim country (possibly Pakistan) for the engine to cool and were alarmed by the attention when a man approached and beckoned them into his house, sat them down with his family and gave them tea and a snack. You get kindness everywhere.
     
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    Nasty outbreak of Zika in South American. Linked to microcephaly in children. Brazil has 4000 children born with small heads since October against a normal 150/yr. Extremely serious. El Salvador has recommended that women don't get pregnant for 2 years, Brazil suggesting 1 year. US suggesting that women don't go to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela or Puerto Rico.
     
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  20. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Yes I've been watching it. I agree, it's very good. Apart from the great storyline and brilliant acting I generally love hearing things done in the original language. It's funny how weird it sounds when someone starts talking in English!
     
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