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  1. Oldgateboatdriver

    CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

    Exactly. Right now, if I were a Dane, I would contact my member of the Folketing and ask them to start immediate hearings into whether Denmark should terminate the agreement it has with the US for basing forces in Greenland in view of the threat of invasion it represents. Just holding such...
  2. Oldgateboatdriver

    Continental Defence Corvette

    Actually, Oriole's hull is iron. Very magnetic.
  3. Oldgateboatdriver

    Continental Defence Corvette

    :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
  4. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    CORMORANT II anyone!
  5. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    But the "Ear-winged-Black-Forest-Swampland-Frog" needs protection.
  6. Oldgateboatdriver

    Continental Defence Corvette

    While you cannot operate a medium to large helicopter from a deck and hangar designed for a small one, the reverse, operating a small helicopter from a deck and hangar designed for a medium to large one, is perfectly possible. So to that extent, Topshee is wrong. He should have the CDC designed...
  7. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    I am just going to inject a bit of a different perspective here: Anybody noticed that Heggset didn't announce the operation on social media in advance of it occurring? :)
  8. Oldgateboatdriver

    Katy Perry ‘regrets public spectacle’ of Blue Origin space mission

    Partially, I guess. Part of him is in the ISS, whether the powers-that-be like it or not! But he was, and always will be the best and foremost Starship Chief Engineer. Ever!
  9. Oldgateboatdriver

    I reckon this driver was trained by the Royal Marines.

    Oh! I didn't have to curse. They were so stressed at seeing a Gate Vessel coming in, rocking, at speed, close to their precious ship, that it caused enough panic in them running around carrying every last fender they could get a hold of. :)
  10. Oldgateboatdriver

    Katy Perry ‘regrets public spectacle’ of Blue Origin space mission

    By the definition of space used by air forces and space organizations everywhere, they were in space. Are they astronauts? In the US, they are because they never updated the actual definition of the qualification: everyone who makes it into space, regardless of the way and in what position they...
  11. Oldgateboatdriver

    I reckon this driver was trained by the Royal Marines.

    @daftandbarmy , I wasn't being facetious. It is an actual shiphandling technique that we teach in classes.
  12. Oldgateboatdriver

    I reckon this driver was trained by the Royal Marines.

    Actually, the rocking is due to the need for the captain to use speed and power to turn, but lose the forward momentum almost as quickly. Basically, he is "rocking the boat" by going quickly into helm-counterhelm-helm-counterhelm, etc. in cycles, which creates drag and thus quick loss of forward...
  13. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    Because, just like in Canada, US railroads are so well developed in the North-South axis. ... NOT!
  14. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    So basically, Trump's original statement has been amended to this: "We don't need Canada's oil ... now that I stole someone else's instead".
  15. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    I would if I was him.
  16. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    What was it again that Roman had one of his character say in his crtoon book of Rendez Vous 81? Ah, yes! "Power corrupts, and absolute power is even better".
  17. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    It's not. And it is an even worse outlook for Trump: He can't, on the one hand, be mad at attacks on Putin by Ukraine, when Putin clearly goes around in a military uniform and claims to be the master of the war in Ukraine (making him a legitimate war target) saying that it is not on, and on the...
  18. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    I'd love to see how the alleged indictment will read, especially considering it will be drafted by our good friends at the DJT's Justice Department (i.e. Pam and her ilks). If it turns out to be another rambling political speech full of baseless rhetoric but failing to reveal an actual crime...
  19. Oldgateboatdriver

    2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

    That! Exactly.
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