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I trust Blackadder was a hit over the other side of the pond?
It's one of my SO's all time favorite programs along with Ab Fab.
But then we watch a fair bit of British import TV. The sister of a friend from England came to visit and she said it was very disconcerting to hear someone (me) use British slang in regular conversation with an American accent.
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I trust Blackadder was a hit over the other side of the pond?
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Which series is her favourite? It usually comes down to II (Elizabethan) or IV (First World War) for most people.
I just asked: IV is her least favorite, II and III are tied for first with I getting close to the top for good writing but poor production quality. Alas she's not a fan of war. She came of age during the Vietnam draft and a lot of her male friends were consumed with fears of getting drafted (one of her cousins joined the air force to avoid getting drafted and when it looked like he was going to get shipped out to Vietnam he took such a large dose of LSD he had a psychotic break and they medically discharged as unfit, he was in the hospital a month).
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I trust Blackadder was a hit over the other side of the pond?
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Which series is her favourite? It usually comes down to II (Elizabethan) or IV (First World War) for most people.
I just asked: IV is her least favorite, II and III are tied for first with I getting close to the top for good writing but poor production quality. Alas she's not a fan of war. She came of age during the Vietnam draft and a lot of her male friends were consumed with fears of getting drafted (one of her cousins joined the air force to avoid getting drafted and when it looked like he was going to get shipped out to Vietnam he took such a large dose of LSD he had a psychotic break and they medically discharged as unfit, he was in the hospital a month).
Bill
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Sorry to hear about her cousin
Good choice on Blackadder though. I personally think III was very underrated - Hugh Laurie was excellent as the Prince Regent and there are some brilliant characters - Stephen Fry as the Duke of Wellington and Robbie Coltrane as Dr Johnson.
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Can you name the ship?
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Looks like a Queen Elizabeth-class - although where is her sternwalk. Not QE as she was the only one fitted with one at the outset. So one of four.
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a) too late b) how did you know it was Barham from this picture?
No idea who Barnham is....
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I can't see how she is identified - please tell?
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
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Do I get extra points for telling you that the water in the picture is the Clyde?
Quite right.
Do you mind telling us how you knew exactly what ship of the class it was?
I remarked to Lokasenna in our PBEM exchanges about how I live a couple of miles away from where most of his RN ships were built. I stumbled across that photo looking into the history of the QE battleships, as they were the second largest warships ever built on the Clyde? First place went to Duke of York, IIRC.
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match
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The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match
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You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
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Right then, this should not be too difficult for the peeps here, but when I first saw this picture some years ago I thought they had labelled her incorrectly....
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match
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You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
Can't blame us someone from Kent sailing her into two torpedoes!
In spite of everything, I like you; you give as good as you get.
Just be glad John Brown and Co didn't build the Sea-lion invasion barges
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The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match
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You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
Can't blame us someone from Kent sailing her into two torpedoes!
In spite of everything, I like you; you give as good as you get.
Just be glad John Brown and Co didn't build the Sea-lion invasion barges
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I don't think John Brown building the barges would have made any difference. From the way they have been described they would have been impregnable whoever built them!!! In fact I am surprised the Allies didn't simply take the German designs, build them to match and use them for D-Day!
But more importantly - it looks like I have stumped the panel with the picture! Hussah!
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Right then, this should not be too difficult for the peeps here, but when I first saw this picture some years ago I thought they had labelled her incorrectly....
So who am dat?
Could you give me a clue since no one seems to be able to name the ship?
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I thought you would know Gilbert
It is HMS London from the county-class with their distinctive 3-stack profile.... well not anymore . HMS London was extensively modified (note the sexy superstructure/bridge design that the RN adopted in the late 30's). Sadly the re-build was not, at least initially, a success as the alterations (and the weight added) actually over-stressed the hull. Whoops!
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Who is it? When was it? And where was it?
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HMS Warspite - Bremerton in 1942?
You got one right.
Want to have another go at where and when?
Edit: I really like this picture.
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I thought with that colour scheme it must be no earlier than her 1942 refit following the damage incurred off Crete. Are you sure about this Ormster? That looks like her AA above B turret being mounted. That was her 1942 refit at Bremerton I thought.
EDIT: Could be 1941 as the refit does not look near completion (she sailed in January 1942), but I am convinced this is Bremerton.
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