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Wargamer, model maker, gardener, amateur history buff, husband and Geoffo

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Oxford university started before the Aztec empire

05.10.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Teenage job in Halfords. First bike I built fell apart as kid was riding it. Had been signed off as ok by my manager. Store manager gave parents vouchers to keep them quiet.

24.09.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Better at it and less enamoured by it for the same reason. We know it's all smoke and mirrors

22.09.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Try again. Subdivided into 13 what can go wrong? Make America Great Britain Again

18.09.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not all land is equal quality and not all years have equal outputs. So little variations compound over time in wealth accumulation

14.09.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

From the stick and ice skates, clearly playing hockey!

11.09.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will not!

01.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my most conservative takes is that aspiring to extreme wealth is a motivator of a lot of socially useful behavior and that many of the problems we have with the wealthy are because we have allowed the pathways for them to trade wealth for honor to atrophy.

14.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I remember reading back in my degree that it was a terror weapon. You didn't just see your comrade hit and killed, you saw him hit repeatedly and his body destroyed.

05.08.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When you write it down. See similar mythbusters line about the difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.

29.07.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a commonly told story with very little evidence. In the UK it probably has more to do with the first schools for general education copying the older universities' calendar and how impossible it was to keep wealthy families in stinking towns in summer.

20.07.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is the scientist. Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the monster.

07.07.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is very much a bias against in UK universities. They just haven't been able to kill it off

22.06.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Great Rebuilding in England haunts my nightmares and tries to hide what was before.

11.06.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have you not considered the state the world is in before making this statement?

31.05.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A key question I ask. Is government useless/stupid/morally wrong/a dick? Can often answer yes. However the important thing is if I am able to ask and answer that question then we are still 'the good guys'. I'm in the UK. I see the dumb comments from others on your threads as proof of your argument.

22.05.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's about helping people of Bradford identify themselves with the natural space. For similar see Plymouth Sound National Marine Park which is actively trying to get more people to be both responsible environmentally and identify with it. E.g. Many don't even go to the beach where they live.

13.05.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You may be angry.

But I do not believe you can be angry enough. Some of the material getting ghosted out of the Arlington website are for medal of honor recipients.

I mean this very literally: the Nazis have come and they are defiling the graves of our most honored dead.

13.03.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 698    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

During the 2020 lockdown a colleague asked me how managed it with my kids. I said I didn't. They're smart enough to see the hypocrisy. So I concentrate on the media they consume not the medium they consume by.

06.03.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact so am I!

16.02.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in this one!

23.12.2024 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Festivetankchallenge update. I pity those doing more complex kits. Or maybe I'm just jealous.

22.12.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time to start #FestiveTankChallenge

21.12.2024 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out them sleeves! Fashion at it's finest.

20.12.2024 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've got one stashed untouched for years. Sounds like a plan!

04.12.2024 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fallen down the rabbit hole. Re-watched Sharpe. What are the best British Napoleonics rifles in 28mm? #wargaming

02.12.2024 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If someone *cough* was painting 28mm Napoleonics, would you recommend they base for mass battle or skirmish rulesets?

14.11.2024 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ahh... The 3rd Ed #WH40K vehicle design rules. I caught 90's internet forum hate for the #DarkEldar Rampage. It was odd because I was just demonstrating an extreme #Drukhari vehicle build.

Although the vehicle shredded Land Raiders in our play-tests 😁

#warhammer40K #warhammercommunity

12.11.2024 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
Regiment of zombies for Warhammer fantasy

Regiment of zombies for Warhammer fantasy

Bases without models on them

Bases without models on them

Old Warhammer basing kit long out of production

Old Warhammer basing kit long out of production

Resin basing materials and oyumaru for making press moulds.

Resin basing materials and oyumaru for making press moulds.

Making bases for #theoldworld Warhammer fantasy.
Take 1 oop basing kit, oyumaru/instamould, filler, sand, skulls and rocks. Add in a rainy Sunday and regiment kit of your choice.

12.11.2023 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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