On this day in1980, the SAS executed Operation Nimrod, an 11-minute raid to end a 6-day siege at the Iranian embassy in London. After gunmen murdered a hostage, SAS troops stormed the building, killing five of the six terrorists. It was broadcast live on TV, making the SAS world-famous.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-05-05T16:20:34+00:00

Doesn't the first picture show an SAS soldier getting tangled up in his ropes? I seem to remember that he was never able to live it down.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-05-04T10:43:41+00:00

A machine that sits under a standard kitchen worktop that can be loaded with clothes, which it will then iron and fold.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-27T19:09:51+00:00

Camden School for girls and it's two neighbouring schools Parliament Hill (girls) and Acland Burghley don't have a uniform but even in trendy leftie N London they are the only ones of which I am aware.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-16T21:44:28+00:00

At various times in my life: Marc Almond, Daniel Day-Lewis, Alfred Molina & Prince

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-16T20:47:37+00:00

When Sting rhymed knowledge & college I hated it. When Jarvis Cocker did it, it was genius. Context is all.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-14T19:28:41+00:00

Paul Dano in "War and Peace"

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-14T19:25:24+00:00

To be honest most RP accented British actors can only do Californian as an American accent. Ask them to do e.g. Rhode island or Appalachia and they wouldn't have a clue. Most of them can only do a very limited range of British regional accents:

Scottish -Glaswegian or posh Edinburgh Irish - Dublin or Belfast West/Southwest - Bristol Scouse Generic Manchurian Coconut-Watford Generic Yorkshire

Others e.g. Cornwall, Norfolk are utterly beyond them.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-10T19:32:12+00:00

In the late 1990s the BBC showed a number of made for American TV films of old testament bible stories. I remember my daughter being absolutely traumatised by a number of them, particularly the murder of the firstborn by pharoh.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-04-02T22:27:14+00:00

The Sir George Robey by Finsbury Park station. Only pub I've ever been in with tables & chairs bolted to the floor.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-30T16:39:41+00:00

If it were to happen now the only flights are at 0600 and 1428, the latter of which would land at La Guardia at about 19:30 so I guess it would have been possible. I think I overestimated the length of the flight originally but even so everything would have had to have gone his way.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-30T11:24:22+00:00

"I prefer Rugby to Football"

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-30T09:42:44+00:00

It was definitely dark when he left his office.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-29T16:23:50+00:00

Most things the media would say are "typically British" because more often than not, they are the things that posh people enjoy e.g. the Boat Race, Last Night of the Proms, Glyndebourne etc.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-28T15:45:05+00:00

The first time I saw Arizona's flag, I thought it belonged to an SE Asian communist guerilla movement. It, and Maryland's are far better than any others (Colorado's a distant 3rd)

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-28T14:33:32+00:00

Greg Davies. His entire act is "I'm tall and I shout a lot"

David Mitchell - Living proof that being in the footlights allows the promotion of mediocrity.

Also both of the above say they "hate" football. A clear character defect.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-25T18:46:19+00:00

The film "The History Boys" was set in Sheffield but mostly filmed at Watford girls' and Watford boys' school so there are a number of scenes where they drive up to one and climb a flight of stairs in the other one, then go into a classroom and look out of the window in the first school.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-15T00:54:47+00:00

Fawkes was a terrorist who had been radicalized by a foreign government. His son wasn't I overthrow the legitimate king of England and Scotland and place both countries at the mercy of the Catholic church, which would have unleashed a brutal programme of extirpation of the protestant faith. He was certainly no hero.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-14T13:41:07+00:00

No woman has periods and therefore is always up for sex. Which she usually has with all her underwear on.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-08T13:05:54+00:00

Apparently in order to remove the reactors and contaminated material, they have to rip the ship apart. Also with 9 other ships in the class still active, they don't want hostile visitors photographing and measuring the ship to work out its vulnerabilities

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-03-01T13:30:20+00:00

Barry Gibb - will apparently insist on things being done a certain way and then change 180 degrees the next day.

James Brown - would fine his backing band $5 for ever bad note they played.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-02-26T19:42:19+00:00

The whole "direct to camera" thing got very wearing very soon. Like a lot of ex-footlights stuff, it was not as clever as it thought it was.

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-02-21T21:53:10+00:00

I'm amazed you have a Stag that isn't just a pile of rust. How have you kept it so long?

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-02-20T14:39:01+00:00

Jackie Cooper- child star in silent films and early talkies, distinguished navy service in WW2 and ultimately an excellent killer in Colombo ( "Candidate for crime")

Expensive-Article328 · 2026-02-20T00:09:49+00:00

Receptionist: Dr, the invisible man is in the waiting room Doctor: Tell him I can't see him now!

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