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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
Well a board that celebrates all things retro is likely to have more than a few folks on board who idealise the past! I made a few general statements earlier in the thread, general because it's just about impossible to debate the topic in any detail or with any specificity without straying...- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Anyone watching the rugby?
Watched the World Police/Fire Sevens a couple of weeks back, even the Kiwi firemen appear born it!- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!
Here's my proper oldy. Although the orange nylon, framed sac that took me through Scotland & Germany in my early teens probably qualifies as "vintage" for many of you! British Commando Bergan.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #167
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
True. I wonder the tales that a lot of my vintage purchases could tell if only they could speak. There's a very long established company on the outskirts of Belfast which has supplied survival equipment for ships/aircraft for generations. It might have fallen out the backdoor of their premises...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,776
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
This came home with me from the local tat market today. Bakelite match case, still has a few matches in it too.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #3,774
- Forum: The Display Case
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Anyone watching the rugby?
USA v Canada? Winner will be in the same group as Ireland in the 2015 RWC and hence my mortal enemy ;). (That's likely to be a Canuck BTW)- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
The first and most important change that can be made to education (in my opinion of course) is that we stop seeing it as a step towards something else. Education is both its own means and its own end. Education educates. Nothing more, nothing less. It's purpose is not to "equip" an...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #27
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I wouldn't be worried about counter tops, but living in an area where granite is prevalent or especially, mined. Can make a significant difference to your life-dose. Not looking both ways when crossing the street is statistically rather more dangerous than either.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #246
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
Whether the future will be good or bad depends entirely upon what is important to you.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #23
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Are FLers opimistic about the future?
Optimistic, pessimistic, The future doesn't care. It's coming anyway.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #14
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your radios!
U2... I know! I can make them work but I can't make them receive anything good.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #398
- Forum: Radio
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I don't suppose that I need to point out that we Europeans generally drive naught but "stick"? My mother, embarrassingly, has a penchant for autos.- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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A pair of (potentially) shiny stoves.
Beauty! Particularly the intact tin. Have the tin for my Burmos but it's ratty. I'd love a good half pinter. (I should probably also wait until I get home to take photos of stoves and such so they don't look like they've been taken in a flop house)- Dragon Soldier
- Post #5
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Your favorite toys as a kid?
A .75-ish scale S.L.R (UK version of an FN FAL) made for me by a friend's father. Combination of wood and plumbing supplies. His sons had an arsenal of modern and historic weapons in almost perfect scale to the size they were when their Dad made them. My mother and my grand parents bought me...- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
A classic statement madam!- Dragon Soldier
- Post #229
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your radios!
Now up and running. For the techies, it was surprisingly good! Rectifier tube had a physical fault to the base, patched up with epoxy and a replacement has been ordered from an auction site. Westector was knackered, replaced with a modern signal diode. The AF coupling & tone correction caps...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #396
- Forum: Radio
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
Re Gents hair. At a very early stage in my life I discovered that by keeping my hair very neat, a grade 2, I could have more time in bed, less time in front of a mirror and generally feel cleaner in grotty circumstances than if it were longer. I've deviated from it a couple of times, mostly...- Dragon Soldier
- Post #222
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Bialaddin 300x lantern & a Primus No.5S stove. Bought the stove almost entirely for the trivet ring and original windshield but it's a better example cosmetically than the one I already have, so I'll probably keep it.- Dragon Soldier
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- Forum: The Display Case
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
Ah... does it derive from "swagger" then, as in swagger stick? Because I believe that term is itself derived from swank. Extrapolate European English speakers. Extrapolate.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #190
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Chinese "Junk"
That they would be rather more benevolent if we play our cards right in the interim. Or rather more plainly, anyone who cheeses off the Chinese in the near/medium future is going to have a very hard time indeed in the longer term.- Dragon Soldier
- Post #54
- Forum: The Observation Bar
