I've seen things you people wouldn’t believe. The gunroom piano on fire going over the stern of a carrier. I've watched a Sub Lieutenant stick a condom up his nose and pull it out of his mo… (View Post)

I once saw a Lynx pilot smoke 100 cigarettes simultaneously at a Taranto Night dinner by putting an elastic band around them and improvising a funnel from a plastic bottle. What courage. Makes you pr… (View Post)

Who's going to get on a 24 hour flight to be made to look like a c**t on national television if they don't have to? Nobody. (View Post)

Plenty of people on here having a shockingly naive view of policy formulation; getting itchy fannies about whether something will "work" or not. Will people vote for it is the only consider… (View Post)

Here's a long and interesting article on Johnson's miscarried gin palace. https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/yacht-design/national-flagship-yacht-design-competition I hadn't real… (View Post)