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It's all relative.ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
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ORIGINAL: Zorch
Much better than all that moaning Lisa was doing. [:D]
You don't like when Lisa moans? [:-] You prefer it quiet?
Zorch, I thought that you did not like pictures of feet posted. Since you included the picture with the feet in your reply, I guess that you don't mind me posting pictures of feet . . . [8D]
I'm afraid to ask how Gorns clean their toes. [X(]ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Zorch
It's all relative.
That would be incest.
What do you think the long tongue is for?ORIGINAL: Zorch
I'm afraid to ask how Gorns clean their toes. [X(]ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Zorch
It's all relative.
That would be incest.
ORIGINAL: Zorch
The real important question is who will have the best Covid-19 April Fools Day joke?
And some of them are *stupid*, too.ORIGINAL: USSAmerica
I'm skipping April Fool's Day this year. Too many fools running about as it is. [:D]
Why don't we skip the next 6 months in the calendar? Let's bag April, May, etc. and resume with October 1. It worked before [:D]ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Zorch
The real important question is who will have the best Covid-19 April Fools Day joke?
Or Halloween costume?
ORIGINAL: Zorch
Why don't we skip the next 6 months in the calendar? Let's bag April, May, etc. and resume with October 1. It worked before [:D]ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Zorch
The real important question is who will have the best Covid-19 April Fools Day joke?
Or Halloween costume?
; Julia Child
Skipping worked for 11 days...ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
ORIGINAL: Zorch
Why don't we skip the next 6 months in the calendar? Let's bag April, May, etc. and resume with October 1. It worked before [:D]ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Or Halloween costume?
A medically induced coma? That could also work for weight loss!
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
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I stood there for several minutes pondering our formation, pondering the likelihood of another Arg strike before dark.
At this moment Hermes was about four miles north of Invincible. John Coward in the improving Brilliant was keeping ‘goal’ for us and, ranged in a north-south line facing west, the fleet auxiliaries formed what I hoped was some kind of a ‘chaff’ wall in case of incoming threat. In the most brutal terms, I could afford to lose a big merchant ship, or even a tanker, a whole lot more than I could afford to lose a carrier – not that I thought very highly of either option. It was simply a matter of the lesser of two evils.
Point taken, but if I am reading this correctly they were still part of the same formation ("a 'chaff' wall" isn't going to work if the chaff deploying ships are too far away, far enough away to be pickets), so the lesser value ships were not sent out on their own.ORIGINAL: L0ckAndL0ad
Wasn't sure where to post this, so I'll leave it here.
Some time ago I've seen AARs where people used less valuable ships, like unarmed transports, as pickets, to lessen/divert the offensive enemy effort. A tactic which most of us may reasonably call gamey, abusive and non realistic.
Today I stumbled upon this while reading "One Hundred Days" by Sandy Woodward (about the Falkland War), and thought many of you on these forums may find it interesting:
I stood there for several minutes pondering our formation, pondering the likelihood of another Arg strike before dark.
At this moment Hermes was about four miles north of Invincible. John Coward in the improving Brilliant was keeping ‘goal’ for us and, ranged in a north-south line facing west, the fleet auxiliaries formed what I hoped was some kind of a ‘chaff’ wall in case of incoming threat. In the most brutal terms, I could afford to lose a big merchant ship, or even a tanker, a whole lot more than I could afford to lose a carrier – not that I thought very highly of either option. It was simply a matter of the lesser of two evils.
There were A LOT of things going wrong during this conflict, and this particular part was written just after yet another British ship was lost due to unreliable SAMs, and Woodward found himself short of escort/screening ships, and reliable anti-aircraft weapon systems in general.
I think it's because those names were already taken by the astronomers who decided Pluto is not a planet.*ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I know, it's just me, but sometimes I get into some really deep thinking, and I was wondering, when astronomers decided Pluto wasn't a planet anymore, why didn't they rename it Dopey, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, or Sneezy?
