I'm a good nurse when Mrs Vagabond's ill.
The rest of the world can get tae fuck.

Alt: I watched Top Gun for the first time. Dear Christ - I'd heard about it being really gay and homoerotic, but I always assumed people were over-exaggerating. And it's shit - really shit. Even by the standards of the day. Awful film.

I also watched Robocop for the first time. That were good.

No - I dint watch much cinema as a kid - my dad didn't believe in it and my school only had a couple of tellies, the viewing on which were dominated by the big kids.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 10:51, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

Top Gun is absolute gash
Mainly because they tried to pass off Northrop F-5s (US aircraft) as MiGs (Soviet aircraft).

/ExtremeGeekBlog
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:01, Reply)

Excellent geeking here.
WWII is more my field - I recently overheard a someone refer to a Westland Lysander as "cargo plane" which rather upset me.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:06, Reply)

For a *very* small amount of cargo.....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:20, Reply)

Well quite.
It was far more of a transit plane for injecting spies/parachutists into an area or for unique well-targeted bombings.

Cargo is like ... Lancasters, Wellingtons and shiz, inner.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:28, Reply)

Yer
the Lysander was very STOL so could land in a field, many stories of being landed/taken off in distances substantially shorter than the designers ever intended....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:31, Reply)

I seem to remember something about them being able to fly at 40mph or something? But that can't be right - they couldn't maintain airspeed velocity at that.
Laden or unladen. But yeah - landing and taking off from a field = very useful.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:34, Reply)

I can see your neckbeards

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:36, Reply)

Touch it.
It's silky-smooth.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:55, Reply)

The original Robocop or the new one?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:03, Reply)

Original.
I've been advised that the Director's Cut is even better.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:05, Reply)

I love the original

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:05, Reply)

Yer - it's still pretty gritty for what it is.
Also I like how it's a little bit funny.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:07, Reply)

*buys that for a dollar*
The hand shooting scene is one of the few things I cannot watch. See also Blade Runner when Harrison Ford's fingers get broken
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:09, Reply)

What surprised me was the other robot - the first version - Ed 9000 or whatever.
The models were fine, but the photography was awful - considering it was about 10 years after Star Wars and that.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:17, Reply)

They did only have 20 seconds to comply though

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:27, Reply)

I thought it was 15 seconds.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:28, Reply)