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What the hell happened to the poll results!?

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As a man who makes up words on a regular basis and has naught but contempt for the tzars of grammar. I find myself less than qualified to comment I'd have rewritten the entire thing.

(the problem is one of punctuation, I would suggest replacing the comma with a full stop and putting a comma after the where/whilst/bacon/eggs/whatever). Looks odd but it would be more like the spoken equivalent.

You see there is a fundamental problem here. Nelson looks towards Portsmouth, he is wearing a Bicorne. In order to "clip it" you have to be travelling either towards or away from the direction he's facing. (it wasn't clipped from the top because TB2 has a bowl undercarriage. It would have taken his head off). Which suggests a wing tip, which are out at the sides. No streets line up with the way Nelson is facing, or behind him.

TB2 Would therefore after doing itself significant damage, park itself in Admiralty arch or St Martian in the fields..... Not the best thing for an object powered by Rocket fuel and an atomic pile....... :/

ClymAngus wrote:

You see there is a fundamental problem here. Nelson looks towards Portsmouth, he is wearing a Bicorne. In order to "clip it" you have to be travelling either towards or away from the direction he's facing. (it wasn't clipped from the top because TB2 has a bowl undercarriage. It would have taken his head off). Which suggests a wing tip, which are out at the sides. No streets line up with the way Nelson is facing, or behind him.

Well that just reduced my 'suspension-of-disbelief-o-meter' to new lows since hearing Sean Connery's Scottish accent in his portrayal of a Russian submarine captain. It's a wonder I overlooked the fact that the flying green brick could do a non-powered landing at anything less than close to supersonic speeds. Geez, I loved being a kid

edit: not sure if this reply should go in the TB thread. I'd hate to derail this one

ps I recast my vote too

SteveKing wrote:

It's a wonder I overlooked the fact that the flying green brick could do a non-powered landing at anything less than close to supersonic speeds.

Unpowered.

Bloody hell, I see a squiggly red line under "unpowered" - no wonder the kids today and English as a later language crowd have trouble with this. Technology is leading people astray here.

(As neither #KidsToday nor #FLOTE, what's your excuse, Steve?)

Seeing a squiggly red line
My first response was unpowered