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Questions and Answers - Part 3

 
  

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Ron Stoppable
15:21 / 27.11.07
Hi all,

a very specific question for London 'lithers. Hoping you can help.

There have been poster ads on the tube recently for a photographic exhibition and no matter how I dredge the silty depths of my mind I can't for the life of me remember who, what, where or indeed any useful infrmation.

The image used on the poster is a black and white shot of two girls dressed in wartime civvies sitting on the edge of what looks like a trench or dugout. One is wearing a gasmask (maybe?) and the other a pair of metal goggles with Xs for eyeholes. It's quite striking.

Can anyone help identify it?

Thanks!
 
 
Ron Stoppable
15:31 / 27.11.07
And almost immediately after posting I find it. It's this, by the way:

Lee Miller at the V&A

Sorry to have wasted your time!
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
17:17 / 27.11.07
Thanks Phex - I shall investigate Virgin further, but I fear that I exist in some kind of Virgin black hole (which actually sounds quite disturbing). I would prefer to give them my money, though, as BT are both incompetent and difficult to deal with.
 
 
Spaniel
08:08 / 28.11.07
So, no help with my question then.

C'mon, you lot read loads, one of you must know of a good secondhand book site or something similar
 
 
Blake Head
08:31 / 28.11.07
Nothing cheaper on abebooks or bookfinder that I can see Boboss. Fairly new paperback so not that surprised. If the Amazon marketplace supplier can can get you 10 copies and -if- they'll charge you a reduced amount for postage it might be your best bet - the postage aint free. You might be better off buying 10 from Amazon new at £4 something and getting the free postage.
 
 
Spaniel
08:44 / 28.11.07
Boooo, can't get a reduced postage charge from sellers on the market place, which is supershit, and is, apparently, part of the contractual obligation sellers have with Amazon. I just went to seller's website, only to find this very issue being bitched about close to the top of the page.
 
 
Blake Head
09:07 / 28.11.07
It is a bit rubbish isn't it? Tesco are selling it for £4.74. Otherwise you could hang on and see if W H Smith or someone do 50% off or BOGOF on everything, it's been known.
 
 
Princess
09:07 / 28.11.07
Up thread I asked about male lapdancing clubs. Having done some "research" I've found out they are startlingly common and that there is at least one in most large cities.

Just in case anyone else was wondering.
 
 
Spaniel
10:09 / 28.11.07
I'm think W H Smith or similar might be the only way...
 
 
The Puck
10:23 / 28.11.07
princess - FYI the one in Birmingham is called "Tricky Dickies". Dont ask me how I know.
 
 
jentacular dreams
11:33 / 28.11.07
Borders are doing a 25% off all full-priced items this weekend. I can email you the voucher and barcode if you want it (that goes for anyone else too)?
 
 
Princess
16:21 / 28.11.07
I've just had an idea as to where the Birmingham Barbe-Meet should be...

Also, if I wanted to study physical theatre at degree level, and I wanted to that in New Zealand, what are the names of the institutions I should be looking at?
 
 
jamesPD
15:50 / 03.12.07
What's the origin of the offensive British V-sign? I always thought it was to do with archers, amputations and the battle of Agincourt, but an episode of QI claimed otherwise. Can anyone enlighten?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:48 / 03.12.07
Short answer - nobody knows. The legendary attribution is to archers at Agincourt (or, to add a bit of obscurity cred, Crécy or Poitiers) showing that they had not had their fingers cut off, and were able to draw a bow, but, you know, why would you cut off the fingers of a captive commoner? Why not just kill them?

There are no accounts of this happening in accounts from the time, and when Desmond Morris discussed the sign at length in 1979 he didn't mention this story. So... that explanation probably wasn't current until the 1980s, at a guess.
 
 
The Puck
16:58 / 03.12.07
Ive been using this story for years when teaching archery, just really as an excuse to get the kids to flick the V's at whatever teacher/leader thats looking after them. If they protested the kids could always casually say "its an archery thing". One teacher protested saying that it sign was older than that and was the female version of the middle finger. i never did bother to check whether it was true fact or not.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
17:12 / 03.12.07
Isn't it the opposite of the peace sign?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
18:47 / 03.12.07
It's a lot older than the peace sign, though, which was of course the victory sign before it was the peace sign.

Interestingly, Churchill started out doing the V-sign the wrong, i.e. rude, way around. Once he was told what it meant, he reversed it.
 
 
Olulabelle
08:32 / 05.12.07
My keyboard's gone funny again and replaced the pound sign with the hash symbol, (except when I type here on Barbelith, which is very odd indeed.) In Outlook and other software programs it has all swapped around. I know that I asked this before and it's jsut a case of pressing a certain combination of keys to make it go back to how it was, but I can't find that answer. I just want the £ sign to be shift and 3.

Can anyone help?
 
 
grant
14:25 / 05.12.07
You've changed your settings from British to USA-vian, somehow. Go back and change USA to Britain.
 
 
Olulabelle
14:29 / 05.12.07
Yes I wish I could, but it must be some irregular keyobard short cut which changes them over. I know not how I did it so I cannot reverse the process.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
19:02 / 05.12.07
This question for all the Asian film-freaks out there:

About 4 years ago me and a friend were lying in a hotel room in Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand smoking insane amounts of weed and flicking through the channels when one of the craziest, funniest and weirdest movies I ever saw came on. I've been trying to figure out what it's called, and for some reason I've never asked anyone here. Me stoopid.

Details of the plot are a bit hazy, but the following tidbits might spark some recognition out there:

* It had a martial arts/comedy/sci-fi feel to it, there was definitely some timetraveling going on
* It seemed to rip off characters from that 90's martial arts game where one of the guys you play has really stretchable limbs - he, whatever he was, was in it
* It was in Chinese or Japanese
* There was one scene where a guy had to eat a marble plinth or something like that as atonement for something I think.

Of course, one of the things that made the movie extra funny for us (besides the copious amounts of mj) was the fact there were no English subs, so we pretty much had to watch the pretty pitures.
 
 
grant
19:59 / 05.12.07
Lula, see if this helps.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:24 / 06.12.07
What kind of Russian tank should I buy a model of for the small relative? Any favourties on here?
 
 
Axolotl
14:38 / 06.12.07
I always liked the T-34 because of an unhealthy obsession with WWII tank battles in my youth.
 
 
grant
20:01 / 06.12.07
This one:

A giant motorbike powered by a Russian tank engine has been recognised as the heaviest in the world.

It's been dubbed the Led Zeppelin by creator Tilo Nieber, 39, who said: "You don't get much more heavy metal than this."

The four-and-a-half tonne machine has driven into the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest motorbike in the world.

It is 17ft 4ins long and 7ft 6ins tall and the engine alone weighs 1.8 tonnes after the armour plating tank cover has been stripped off.

The bike, which took a team of welders and mechanics almost a year to build at the Harzer Bike Schmiede in Zilly, Germany, is now hoping for a licence to travel on the road.
 
 
*
20:19 / 06.12.07
You know, they say the bike is hoping for a license, but do I see a direct quote from the bike about its hopes, its dreams, its aspirations? No. I ask you, is this what passes for journalism these days?
 
 
grant
20:31 / 06.12.07
THE TEAM IS THE BIKE. THE BIKE IS THE TEAM. THEY ARE MACHINE.
 
 
Tsuga
21:51 / 06.12.07
Reminds me of this one:

Though the other one, I suppose, is made of tank engine, steel, diesel, and WIN— and this one is made of...chainsaws.
What is it with Germans and the overcompensating motorcycles?
Though, I might as well substitute "German" with "American" and "motorcycles" with "everything".
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:22 / 07.12.07
Though, I might as well substitute "German" with "American" and "motorcycles" with "everything".

This might not be coincidental.

German Americans (...) are citizens of the United States of ethnic German ancestry and currently form the largest ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of the U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants entered the United States since then. (...) Germans form the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering even the Irish and English. (...) Over 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry. In the 1990 U.S. census, 58 million Americans claimed to be solely or partially of German descent.


Light blue indicates counties where persons of German ancestry form a plurality.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
08:43 / 07.12.07
Nolte - think you might mean a lightweight but fun Jackie Chan flick called City Hunter which ticks some of those boxes; martial arts, comedy and characters from Street Fighter

Stretchy-arm dude? Dhalsim.

Here's that fight scene.

It must be good being Jackie Chan. He's having a ball!
 
 
iamus
08:51 / 07.12.07
Oh man, I forgot just how good City Hunter is. I really need to watch that again soon.
 
 
Seth
08:54 / 07.12.07
What's the HEAVIEST motorbike in THE WORLD?
 
 
Closed for Business Time
08:58 / 07.12.07
Thanks Ron, but I already found what I was looking for, namely the 1993 HK Street Fighter rip-off Future Cops, links here, and here. The reviews crush it, but we had a great time. Mind you, we were awfully high on weed, sugar and carbs.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
09:00 / 07.12.07
iamus, I'm with you - I was thinking just the same.

In fact; it could be time for a full Jackie Chan revival: 'Project A', 'Armour Of God' - haven't seen those in the longest time.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
09:05 / 07.12.07
Ah Nolte, I see - same director, interestingly. In fact, that guy's filmography looks awesome.
 
  

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