Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/12/2024 13:08, D wrote:

  On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 04/12/2024 09:24, D wrote:

Now, due to the Ukraine situation, I've twice seen fighter jets above my house.

 I live within nuclear blast range of *two* RAF/USAAF airbases. When I hear the rumble of jets and no corresponding ADSB transponders I know the middle east is in for a strike.
 Or if the tankers show up, and the SIGINT planes, that someone is peeping into Russia on behalf of Ukraine...
 And of course the Imperial war museums Spitfires and Hurricanes do test flights here all summer.
 Nothing to crash into or upon. Just farmland

 Sounds like you have the basis of a nice little intelligence-business there! ;)

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Damned if I am going to do Putin's work for him. Someone is flying drones over them already and then it all went quite.
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The USAAF, like God, likes to move in mysterious ways.
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Meet nice people off the bases sometimes.

That reminds me of when there was some Nato event in Stockholm and a small US aircraft carrier was parked in the middle of the city. I was walking along the water and 3 young boys, with short hair cuts came along screaming in american english.
I asked them "so how was the trip on the boat"?
One of them said, how did you know that?!?!
While the other said... hush, you're not supposed to say that!
I was just laughing and went on my way.