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    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Stanley Baker in Hell Drivers (1957)
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    Jacket addiction: A very serious health issue

    That's what single people would say, I'm sure. :) I'm looking at some of the prices out there …. that's a rarefied atmosphere for me. And a health hazard. My girlfriend would kill me.
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    Jacket addiction: A very serious health issue

    And if you wear your Bulova watch on the moon, it really amplifies its value! Just sold for a million: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/614190/Bulova-lunar-watch-moon-auction
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    Jacket addiction: A very serious health issue

    Thank you for that, ingineer. I have my dad's old Rolex 1958 black face Oyster Royal and that has that ability - but I had NO idea that that was what it was called! It can just do it! Thanks!
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    Jacket addiction: A very serious health issue

    Found a watch thread on Page 2, thanks Fanch. And … Ohhhhh!!! :) So in an example of a 1942 Elgin Type A-11 wrist watch on eBay, what is meant be a "Hack set feature"? And I can see this as being very addictive. Approach With Caution should be attached to the title of this thread! Love it...
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    Jacket addiction: A very serious health issue

    I hardly even dare to ask this question for risk of what may entail as a result … but … does the TFL have a watch section ??? It must - somewhere. There. I said it. Someone now show me … Bring it on. I can just look … right?
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    When did the penny drop?

    Well that explains the "Prohibited category: Hate speech" that immediately sprang up on my monitor. I'm sorry that IT will have flagged me for it. Lesson learned. Thanks.
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    When did the penny drop?

    Now that's odd. I only frequent TFL here at work in-between tasks and I can't access the link as it says it's prohibited by my workplace for "Hate Speech". Goodness. I wonder what that was all about?
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    When did the penny drop?

    And furthermore, I think the penny would also have dropped for me looking up at all those formations of B-17s flying over Germany in 1943. In 1942, the Luftwaffe was giving them a serious kicking (just as the Afrika Korps were to the fledgling US Army in N. Africa) and the USAAF was suffering...
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    What are you listening to?

    I'm listening to Absolute 80s - a great internet radio station from the UK - as today is "Back To The Future Day" (the day that BTTF2 was set in), they're playing all the music from 1985 - when I was 18 and the first movie came out! I'm loving it!
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    When did the penny drop?

    Allow me to refer you to the Bar Rules as set by Paddy himself: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?26902-RULES-OF-THE-HOUSE-(To-serve-support-and-protect-all-our-great-members-in-here) I don't care what justification you may feel you have for the above. We can all disagree and yet...
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    When did the penny drop?

    I try to imagine how I would have felt had I been serving in the German military of the time - and of course without any benefits of hindsight and being swept up in the optimism of the early conquests, as I'm sure so many were - and when the penny would have dropped for me, bearing in mind the...
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    When did the penny drop?

    Hmmm. Following your most recent comments Stanley, I would go as far as to agree with you that past history and current geo-politics are very complex affairs (such as the Middle East as you say, and the former Yugoslavian conflict being another) but at this juncture, with 75 years of...
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    New Buzz Rickson Roughwear AC-27752

    I've never seen a Buzz A2 in person, and I'd really love to someday and I wish it could be next to a great ELC A2 like yours, Marv, so I could do a good comparison. Yours looks great, man.
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    New Buzz Rickson Roughwear AC-27752

    Ah, like Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch! Well, I'm glad I asked as I assumed it was meant towards A2s - I'd never have got that. "Roughwear something Label …. er …. RL??? No. Erm ….". I'd have been there all day. Thank you, Otter!
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    New Buzz Rickson Roughwear AC-27752

    May I please ask what an RRL jacket is, Butte? Nothing comes to mind what it may stand for … (maybe I need more coffee this morning!) Thanks!
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    Trouser break on shoes

    Man, that's good! How many takes did that take to do - to remember all the lines and get right - and not crack up laughing ?!?! Very clever. Word.
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    Trouser break on shoes

    What gets me are the kids at wedding receptions these days; the boys in suits with a shirt and tie. Forget the importance of a nice trouser break there; they're wearing white runners and high-tops !!! With a suit ! And the parents let them out like that! (Jesus. Listen to me. I sound like my...
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    When did the penny drop?

    An interesting question for a thread … I think it's tricky to say definitively and would be different for different people. For those who knew that Hitler's intention was always to wage war but in 1941 - but then Britain and her allies declared war in 1939, before Nazi Germany was fully...
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    Trouser break on shoes

    Great clip. What show is that from?! And yes, I know the situation in the shop only too well … <sigh>. :) I remember when I got my first A2 back in the late 80's and I was just sick and tired of wearing jeans and first put a pair of chinos on with the A2 and went to the pub - and my mates were...

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