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by Beastro
Fri Jan 23, 2026 10:16 pm
Forum: History and Warfare
Topic: Recovering a Stuart Post.
Replies: 6
Views: 299

Re: Recovering a Stuart Post.

I remember him mentioning a few years before he passed away a bit about Soviet aircraft guns and how they weren't built to last because Soviet pilots weren't expected to live long enough for their guns to get worn out. The mentality was in the are instances where their life was up, they'd be straig...
by Beastro
Fri Jan 23, 2026 9:42 pm
Forum: History and Warfare
Topic: Recovering a Stuart Post.
Replies: 6
Views: 299

Recovering a Stuart Post.

I remember him mentioning a few years before he passed away a bit about Soviet aircraft guns and how they weren't built to last because Soviet pilots weren't expected to live long enough for their guns to get worn out. The mentality was in the are instances where their life was up, they'd be straigh...
by Beastro
Fri Jan 09, 2026 6:11 am
Forum: The Bar
Topic: Mother Road
Replies: 3
Views: 340

Re: Mother Road

jemhouston wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 10:18 pm Since it was disestablished, it's not easy to use on GPS, so you'll need maps and books.
Google map is spotty with it or something else?
by Beastro
Fri Jan 09, 2026 6:09 am
Forum: The Bar
Topic: What’s up with certain young(ish) people speaking English like robots?
Replies: 3
Views: 306

Re: What’s up with certain young(ish) people speaking English like robots?

It's a profusion of people making video presentations mixed with a decline in very proficiencies like rhetoric.

Yet another thing to love social media for.

... especially Tik Tok.
by Beastro
Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:23 am
Forum: The Media Center
Topic: Hammer Horror as a Parable for Multimedia Universes
Replies: 9
Views: 6992

Re: Hammer Horror as a Parable for Multimedia Universes

Yet 007 seems to have maintained a rather inconsistent trajectory of quality. If we ignore CR(1) then you have Dr No - which had some insanely Dr Who- ish sets but also a lot of glamour and fun, From Russia with Love, a surprisingly conventional spy story, then somebody hits the go button and we ge...
by Beastro
Tue Jun 03, 2025 6:13 am
Forum: The Bar
Topic: The Stuart = Supatra Conspiracy theory
Replies: 42
Views: 10227

Re: The Stuart = Supatra Conspiracy theory

The other problem with the man playing woman theory is that Stuart very clearly said he met her. He said that to me himself in person. Well, we are talking about Thailand here, so that can still remain accurate. OK, I'm convinced. Do you know what happened to Soren? He retired from warships1 a good...
by Beastro
Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: History and Warfare
Topic: HMS Victory: "Potting Compost"...
Replies: 7
Views: 909

Re: HMS Victory: "Potting Compost"...

That is rather disconcerting, though Britain was poor in 1955 and she had been bombed. I think it's more that the pool of institutional knowledge on how to properly keep a large, wooden hulled vessel nice and repaired had died off by that point. The Grandfather's Axe where the Father's handle gets ...
by Beastro
Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:59 pm
Forum: The Media Center
Topic: Quotes by our favorite fictional charcters
Replies: 24
Views: 4025

Re: Quotes by our favorite fictional charcters

https://youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c After fighting and saving the village in Seven Samurai the surviving ronin having nothing left but to leave and wander off somewhere else: So. Again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us. Kambei Shimada “It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warde...
by Beastro
Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: The Bar
Topic: Thoughts and prayers please. . .
Replies: 20
Views: 4066

Re: Thoughts and prayers please. . .

OTW
by Beastro
Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:50 am
Forum: Essays
Topic: Warship Hull Service Lives and Building Standards
Replies: 1
Views: 740

Re: Warship Hull Service Lives and Building Standards

Between this with CV-66 and what later has gone on with LHA-6, America doesn't feel like a fortunate name.
by Beastro
Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:42 am
Forum: The Bar
Topic: I'm Back
Replies: 20
Views: 3421

Re: I'm Back

Craiglxviii wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:17 pm
Beastro wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:53 pmHi!
Well hello!! Good to see you!
JBG wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:45 am
Beastro wrote: Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:53 pmHi!
Hi Beastro.

I am very glad to see you here again.

Jonathan
Thanks.:)
by Beastro
Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:53 pm
Forum: The Bar
Topic: I'm Back
Replies: 20
Views: 3421

Re: I'm Back

Hi!