"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Mr. Chips said:
I test drove, and wanted to buy a TR 3 in 1965. Dad talked me out of it. He was a wise man.
I owned a British car for a while, and came to the conclusion, that if the Americans had not entered the war, we would all be speaking German today!
I know I will annoy some people with these comments, but honestly, the British cars that I had anything to do with were junk.
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I have very little interest in cars, wherever they are/were made, but I was surprised to see you casually lob such a crass, arrogant, and insensitive remark, into a totally unrelated discussion, on a non-political forum, Mr Chips. I would have thought better of you :( Bearing in mind the VAST support given to the Nazis by leading elements of the American automobile industry (eg Ford, General Motors), and, for example, the mutual admiration between Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford, perhaps it would be better to leave WW2 (1939-1945) out of a discussion about cars. Thanks to those who served :thumbsup:
 
Mr. Chips said:
I test drove, and wanted to buy a TR 3 in 1965. Dad talked me out of it. He was a wise man.
I owned a British car for a while, and came to the conclusion, that if the Americans had not entered the war, we would all be speaking German today!
I know I will annoy some people with these comments, but honestly, the British cars that I had anything to do with were junk.
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But you aren't,because people like my grandfather and his generation stood up and did what was asked of them making the best of what was to hand.


You jogged my memory of a non political story of mine.

In the 70s in Germany,I was at a grass track motorcycle meeting I asked the young German couple near me to have a look at their programme.

A one armed ex Nazi tank commander a bit worse for wear on the beer heard me speak English.

He stood up and started ranting in German at me and the English in general,all the other Germans where deeply embarrassed.

It seems he had lost his arm (very careless) in a tank battle against us when our Tommy cookers had stood their ground against them.😁


no moral or punchline to the story.

Except maybe keep your arm close and your other arm closer still 🤣🤣🤣
 
If you’ve seen the opening scene of, “Saving Private Ryan”, there is a soldier wiring beach obstacles for detonation. He was a combat engineer. That was my father on D-Day on Omaha Beach. My dad was 19 and was a private. He survived that day. The next day he was promoted to corporal and squad leader because he was the only one who survived. When the Army discovered there was no NCO for his squad he became a Sargent. He fought his way through to Berlin and was in Patron’s Third Army. After the Germany surrendered he was sent to the south of France to be shipped out to the Pacific to prepare for the invasion of Japan. If President Truman had not made the decision to drop the atomic bombs I most likely wouldn’t be writing this. The survival rate for combat engineers was not high. Not a day goes by where I don’t thank the, “Greatest Generation” for their sacrifice. 😥😃
 
Alain Jolipapa Jolipapa if you can get hold of a copy of the book "Blitzed" ...its a very very interesting and quite shocking account of Hitlers physician Theo Morel....and the potions he shoved into Adolfs veins on a daily basis...also how methamphetamine came about...and other shenanigans the nazis were up to...
 
meako said:
Alain Jolipapa Jolipapa if you can get hold of a copy of the book "Blitzed" ...its a very very interesting and quite shocking account of Hitlers physician Theo Morel....and the potions he shoved into Adolfs veins on a daily basis...also how methamphetamine came about...and other shenanigans the nazis were up to...
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There's been several documentary films about this, yes. "Pervitin" and "Fliegermarzipan"... 😟
 
One thing leads to another.

I decided to listen to the Cramps this afty didnt realise it was a 45rpm LP,so as I had to change the drive belt (it sounded bad at 33rpm) 🤣

I decided to play some of my old punk singles from my youth some are rare and valuable though I wasn't to know that when I bought them.

1977 means something to me besides being a favourite Clash song, hence why I love my 77 SAK soldier and carry it around the house a lot.

Kids wouldn't get up and change a LP every 20/25 minutes nowadays,when you play the Ramones songs you dont have time to sit down 😁
























 
Me and a group of my friends had tickets to see the Cramps play in Manchester NH many, many years ago. The show got cancelled last minute because Lux was having some "issues". So, we went home and did our usual vampire zombie thing that we did back in the day...
 
Tyson A Wright said:
Johnnythefox Johnnythefox The Cramps originally formed in my hometown, but I was only a year old at the time. I did eventually see them play here, sometime in the mid 90's. Fun stuff. (But The Clash are still my favorite punk band.)
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The only time I saw the Cramps was in London,they where jet lagged I think and played the tamest, dullest show ever.

I saw the Clash 2 or 3 times but cant remember much about the older gigs I've seen.

I drove convoys into Sarajevo when we where being shot/mortared at on the way in I played White Riot (nothing more fitting the situation) at full volume to drown it out,on the return I played the Boss on the last leg home to keep me going.
 
Ya got some beauties there Johnnythefox Johnnythefox .
Heres a couple more (with a German knife just prove were all friends now)...I have at the moment a penchant for medieval and music of the middle ages..as well as Elizabethan and music of those early days...The main prize in this pic is Pablo Casals...a $2.00 op shop score....I only know the name of Casals from the monty python orchestra sketch..."The contizana Paduana...played by uh Pablo Casals... during his 400ft plunge into a vat of boiling fat." One of their best imo.
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Spiral Scratch is rareoh....but I think these two idiots settle the ww2 debate once and for all...
 
I only saw The Clash once, at Victoria Park in 1978 (saw Joe Strummer play, around '86). I never saw The Sex Pistols, but I saw a lot of those early punk bands, many on numerous occasions, some I've forgotten, some the world has forgotten ;)

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meako said:
Ya got some beauties there Johnnythefox Johnnythefox .
Heres a couple more (with a German knife just prove were all friends now)...I have at the moment a penchant for medieval and music of the middle ages..as well as Elizabethan and music of those early days...The main prize in this pic is Pablo Casals...a $2.00 op shop score....I only know the name of Casals from the monty python orchestra sketch..."The contizana Paduana...played by uh Pablo Casals... during his 400ft plunge into a vat of boiling fat." One of their best imo.
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I love the Buzzcocks,My brother and I had a Spinal Tap moment when we where invited back to see the band after I photographed them in concert.
We couldn't find the way out and nearly ended up in natalie imbruglia dressing room,then ended up on stage so jumped off and used the normal entrance door to escape.
Spiral scratch is a classic looks like you have the same copy as me.,Boredom budum budum.


A Aussie group that I've never met a Aussie who knew them I love em.

I was born in the punk generation.




meako said:
Spiral Scratch is rareoh....but I think these two idiots settle the ww2 debate once and for all...
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Johnnythefox said:
I love the Buzzcocks,My brother and I had a Spinal Tap moment when we where invited back to see the band after I photographed them in concert.
We couldn't find the way out and nearly ended up in natalie imbruglia dressing room,then ended up on stage so jumped off and used the normal entrance door to escape.
Spiral scratch is a classic looks like you have the same copy as me.,Boredom budum budum.


A Aussie group that I've never met a Aussie who knew them I love em.

I was born in the punk generation.




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Hello Cleveland!
 
I've listened to a lot of Punk bands, it's one of my favorite types of music.
My phone's music list is full of Punk bands and my sons both listen to it too.
Favorites are Ramones, Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Toy Dolls, Social D, Flogging Molly, and Dropkick Murphys.
I've never been to a Punk show and probably never will... I like the music but not the crowd or the scene.
 
JohnDF said:
I've listened to a lot of Punk bands, it's one of my favorite types of music.
My phone's music list is full of Punk bands and my sons both listen to it too.
Favorites are Ramones, Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Toy Dolls, Social D, Flogging Molly, and Dropkick Murphys.
I've never been to a Punk show and probably never will... I like the music but not the crowd or the scene.
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I still go to gigs well I did up 2 years ago its a bit daunting at times,when they start moshing I keep well out of the way.🤣

I still love it though and when I feel safe I will go again.


I was at the front for this gig,I had just returned from my first tour of NI 20 years old (I went alone) and as naïve as anything.

The only people who had short hair where skinheads and squaddies,so the skins thought I was one of them and dragged me forward.

It was blisteringly exciting,after I got to see the Jam headline,my favourites at the time.

Ended up at the railway station freezing in just a tee shirt,the police kept moving me on from the bench I was sleeping on.

Next year I went I ended up sleeping in a coal bunker after being promised somewhere to kip, nowadays I would want a hotel and somewhere warm. :)

Another favourite SAK is my 78 soldier.






 
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