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AllenTC2

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  • Birthday 18/07/1967

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  1. Got Hulu today and started watching this. Thank you very much!!! It's hilarious! I hope to see Shaun, Ed, Liz and company in the future. ?
  2. Who would play Trump? My very first thought was Louie Anderson, but he's dead isn't he? Ooops, no, not dead. Not quite right though. I think Saturday Night Live has a guy who does a pretty good Trump. Alec Baldwin? That would be a hard one to cast. Obviously I have never spent much time seeing the Royal Family "in real life", so I'm not sure how close Foy and Coleman come to looking like the Queen. The guy playing Charles certainly seems to have the body language down pat though. And Trump.....not gonna lie, I find it hard to think of anything but comedic portrayals of him, and The Crown is not comedic. LOL Could Baldwin play Trump and keep it serious? I dunno. I kind of doubt it.
  3. When that series came on, productivity in the office came to a complete halt as all the combat arms type gathered 'round the coffee maker and discussed what stupid thing they did the night before. LOL I hope I can find Zomboat on YouTube. LOL But seems like the canals would be a poor defense against zombies of any sort. It's what.....4-5' deep? And you have to tie off going through locks, etc. I suppose your typical zombie would have a hard time climbing onto a canal boat though. Oooooo.....so maybe I'll get Hulu now.
  4. Sorry, no offense intended. Totally did not mean to be disrespectful. When you say properties, you mean just acreage, or like all the palaces, etc.? I noticed that the paintings and such in Buckingham Palace are not "theirs" per se, and often are rotated to the Queen's Gallery? Watching CountryHouse Gent and Cruising the Cut are what brought me here (to CW) initially. LOL I've been following the Minimal List on Facebook. I got on here to figure out the legalities of me coming over and staying for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, it looks like short of becoming a citizen of the UK, I could only do 6 months at a time. But the whole canal boat living thing looks incredible.
  5. Oh, I agree on the actual history being more interesting. But it's also a lot more time consuming and you can't just sit down and take 50-minute bites. LOL Maybe once I truly retire I can dig into that. Some of the stuff I found amazing/interesting..... 1. How "international" the Royal Family (it is supposed to be capitalized, right?) is. I guess on some level I recall that the French and Germans have some ties to English royalty, but the show has illustrated it more clearly to me. 2. The weirdness/duality of being royalty. I'm sure a lot of the drama is hyped up, but I imagine there is some truth to it. When QEII was talking to Phillip about what the Apollo astronauts were going through with being in the public eye....that was pretty cool. And talking to Charles about how they are supposed to be above politics and not take positions....yet if they say one thing, they have taken a position. 3. Wales...that sortas make the whole United KINGDOM thing make more sense. 4. Aberfan was eye opening. I Google-mapped the place and found it amazing they stacked spoil like that. Here in West Virginia, coal mining is still a big deal. We still have accidents occasionally. I am not 100% sure what happens with the spoil. Surface mining (or mountain-top removal/strip mining, if you prefer) creates a lot of spoil, but the mining company has to basically "rebuild" the mountain and seed it, so it doesn't just get stacked up. Our usual issue with spoil is they create these slurry ponds, which traps waste water (which is generally full of chemicals and coal dust). Sometimes the ponds burst their banks and spill into rivers, polluting them...though I think we had one not too long ago which caused a flood that killed some people. 5. They (the RF) get an allowance?!?!?! 6. It dawned on me every time she met with the PM for the first time, she said something to the effect of "go create a government in my name". I still don't understand how your system works, but the break between royalty and Parliament makes a little more sense. Do they really have some sort of emergency powers act where they can dissolve Parliament and install a new one???? As for my own family history, I'm adopted, so I never really got into the genealogy thing. My ex-wife did and was always mad that I was indifferent. I'm Caucasian, so that pretty much guarantees I've got European stock in me. LOL My son did one of those DNA things...he's got 1% Bantu/Congo/something or the other. Seeing that I was born in Georgia (the USA one LOL) I imagine at some point in my family tree, someone got overly familiar with the workforce. I must Google Zomboat now. Is it like a canal boat version of The Walking Dead???? SWEET BABY JESUS IT IS!!!!!!! ?
  6. So.....are any of you across the pond watching The Crown on Netflix, and if so, what do you think? I confess, I am addicted. Not sure why, as this sort of thing is not my usual fare. But much like canal boats, I am absolutely fascinated. I really need to read up on your history.
  7. Well, as you all have dashed all hopes of me having a multi-year float extravaganza (just kidding, I DO appreciate the reality check LOL) I have taken to telling my US RVing brethren and sistren about narrowboats. Needless to say many comparisons were made. One oft heard comment was "Well, we have endless miles of road compared to their 2,200 miles of canal". Despite the fact that our roads are indeed finite, I pointed out our roads are also full of idiot drivers texting while (whilst?) speeding and applying makeup or whatever. Even if you're totally preoccupied with your cup of tea, how much trouble can you cause at a max speed of 4 mph? Don't answer that, I'm sure you all have some epic 'idiot boater' stories. ANYWAY.....so batteries came up. Over here, AGM are fairly common. But coming up rapidly are these LiFePO4 batteries. They are lighter weight (which I don't imagine is a big concern for boaters?), are hard to kill (can be used down to something like 20% of their capacity), don't gradually decline in the juice they deliver.....big downside for them at the moment is cost (I have 2 300ah LiFEPO4s, each was about $2,500USD, about 33% of my whole solar install) and the fact they are temperature sensitive and need to be in an enclosed bay (thus losing some precious cargo space). Just curious as to how your energy needs are met when you're not on shore power (which now that I think of it, is also funny....that's what we call it when our land-locked vehicles are plugged up at a campground).
  8. Another shocker Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants.....is not by TMBG. It's from 1953, by The Four Lads.
  9. Same here. That said....Welcome to the Pleasure Dome is, in my humble opinion, one of the best albums ever.
  10. Edwin Starr would disagree DIG THAT FAT SAX!!!
  11. War pigs? Huh. Good God y'all, what are they good for?
  12. Definitely bonkers. And I do know what "queue" is,,,,,though there were several other words/slang that were totally over my head. To be fair, that "food" was in a can/tin of uncertain age. I would assume that infantrymen everywhere, regardless of nationality, hate their rations. But it looked foul. Meat pies, on the other hand (at least those seen in the YouTube videos) look interesting.
  13. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! ? As a kid, I remember watching Dave Allen at Large and Benny Hill. I also remember watching Tom Baker's "Dr. Who". There was an exercise we had in Germany around 1989 I think, where we had a squad from the 2nd Royal Green Jackets attached to our platoon. That was a lot of fun.....until we traded rations. Blood pudding???? But that is about the extent of my exposure to England. LOL
  14. Positive....though I do enjoy some Monty Python's Flying Circus.
  15. Keep in mind, the uniform is coming off (nudge nudge wink wink).......in a few years. LOL
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