The New Coffee Room

He's Lord High Admiral, but all his titles are honorary and our government would have to 'grant permission', not that it would ever have been refused.
It was a perfect gift.

It is a very very nice looking boat bell, they are obviously rare and pricey when from a serving vessel.
I'd love to hear it's ring.
Wonder how Charles acquired it? RN submarine museum perhaps?

We have a submarine base bell, 9", from the 1950's, that has a lovely chime; I rigged it up as our doorbell in our previous house.
But damn, I'd love to be gifted a proper ships bell!

Life for everybody

jon you tease. Is that ten strings 🤪 my fingers and brain have enough to cope with four

Promised myself to learn when retired so no excuse, and even prepared by aquiring a few nice instruments. Here's the nicest being played by an American professional on his cd,
unBEATabLE Songs. Oh to play and compose arrangements like David:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0XaZ9IgWI4nWW7dXZaCkTpssWb-vNnRw

You folk have encouraged me to pick up my guitar again, but my fingers bend like a piano player if you know what I mean. But I'm determined to learn. Maybe a bit of this

Quite obviously we haven't won this little war yet, so in addition to targetting any weapons & soldiers we need to bomb their ports, ships, bridges, railways, factories, governent buildings and all means of energy production, countrywide.
Show these Iranian men of iron-will what we can do.

Then warn the remaining leaders if they attack any ship we will carpet-bomb the nearest two port areas, and show them the true meaning of the phrase obliteration bombing.

Say we expect nothing less than 'unconditional surrender'

Whatever worked for Venezuela.
Certainly stay at a reasonably safe distance but where you can respond to intelligence quickly. The seas to the south of the Strait.

Winner?

I'd do exactly what he's doing and blow Kharg out of the water. And destroy every Iranian coastal landing area for miles.
It's costing a billion a day, what's a few more missiles.

Though a much larger area under the Eiffel Tower, the speed of a mirage jet must add significant risk?

I forgot to mention the bridge is about 15 miles from where I now live.

A TV series about the RAF in 1940 (A piece of cake, 1988) had a truly remarkable scene that would be computer generated these days.
Here as broadcast:

Here's the real mccoy

Anyone fancy a try?

Ein frau?

I hate his leopard frock pattern more than anything.

@Doctor-Phibes said:

OK, here's a challenge from yesteryear. Where is Phibes? It's a very exciting location.

Your kitchen
(Or on a Speyside sampling holiday)

@taiwan_girl said:

Well, no one has gotten the first picture of me in this thread correct. 555

Edited photo to exclude person and from google image got this:

And Google image search will identify any famous or unusual building or geographical feature in seconds.

Yup.
If all you need is 4% enriched uranium for power plants, why do the Iranians, while also vowing to kill Americans, enrich their uranium in deep secretive bunkers to 60% and more? While also developing long range missile capabilities.

It's a no brainer.
Something proactive needed to be done.