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Sorry. A quick hospital stay!

@tuffyears – who doesn’t love WA? My current favaourite is…

@mage – I do like the 40K beast thing. 100pts. I would have made a few of those if I were still playing. Same as those flying daemon ‘aircraft’ – conversion heaven!

As for your ‘Transformer’ – the age is at the bottom. 200pts. Dave has loads of the older era ones. He still has his VHS collection from when he was a teenager. Still don’t get it.

1. Ghostrider was my favourite comic when I was in my early teens. I won’t mention the movie. Those FF movies were appauling. Really bad. As for ‘Thor’ did they forget that he is supposed to be a god? He just looks, and acts, like a poofy male model. Liberace would have played it toughter. 100pts. I love Liberace. There is a real performer. The man centrally heated his garden and it was carpeted. He would drive onstage in a diamond encrusted, gold Rolls-Royce. Style.

Pop culture is not what it used to be. It ought to be a task to get in there, but now any chump can make it. -1pt to me.

Don’t watch the first one as it is mince. I tried twice and fell asleep bith times. The new one is great if you just ignore the human bits. Skull Island, if you haven’t seen it, is great too. Who doesn’t love monsters fighting?

The last time I went to the cinema was to see ‘Cowboys & Aliens’. Boys day out…Jamie and I took my dad out as he wanted to see it. I loved it. Since then there is nothing I really want to see. When I was at Uni in 97-99 I would go three times a week, sometimes seeing two movies back-to-back if I had the time.

A good friend of mine and I would just go and see anything, but now I just don’t see anything that inspires me to go out and make the effort to see it. I see the latest trailers on YouTube and they all just blow. Over the last few months I can’t think of anything where I thought, “Wow, got to see that!” That used to happen all the time. Maybe I am just too old…

Girlfriend? More information please. 200pts.

I just mentioned the Blue Meth theory to Jamie and he almost choked on his bacon sanger. I am now hearing the full story. He mentioned that you see bags of it the Fear the Walking Dead too. Nerds.

Mr. Mercedes – we have never heard of it. Do tell.

‘Chernobyl’ is typically Soviet. Very harsh in it’s delivery. Some brutal scenes. It is only 5 episodes and I have 1 left. There is also a thing called ‘The Terror’ that is pretty good.

Implants? Not for me. If all that Black Mirror stuff becomes available then count me out. San Junipero maybe, but that one about the soldiers getting implants to prevent combat stress really gave me the fear.

2. Why don’t I like Wacoshop? The prices started it. I can easily afford the prices, but they were just becoming not worth it. The rules were just becoming more stupid with each edition and the constant messing with the Codexes’ was annoying too. They the stores became like a cult. I mean that in the classic sense.

One staff member that used to live at my house if he was doing a late shift, because it was too far to go home and get back the next morning, totally turned on me. Heather would cook him a meal and wash/iron his work t-shirt for him, but after further indoctrination at HQ he just couldn’t give me the time of day. He went to Ireland to manage a store and I thought I would give him a ring one day and just let him know I was now living in Sheffield for a while and if he was going to be in Nottingham then let me know and we can meet up. He answered the phone in the store and when I said it was me he just said, “What do you want?”

They also dropped a store manager who had a mental health problem and he almost went to the jail.

As for the minis they are making now…they are without soul. They cover a bad design with ‘detail’ to try and make it look as though you should like it.

Some of those minis are tempting. I did find a few Plague Marines/Thousand Sons that I might mess with. I even found a few Grey Knights!

Creepy vibes?

I sold or gave away all of my Wacoshop stuff years ago. So did the boy. Every now and again I find a box of stuff, but I have almost cleared the house and caravan of everything. Let me have a look about for a GW mini. Would a FW mini count? Might be a fun challenge. However, you can only use one-and-a-half arms!

3. Nae problems. PM me if you want, but I don’t mind if you want to keep quiet. I had to stop loosing weight. Orders from the doctor as he thought I needed to take it much slower. I am still carrying a fair bit of extra from the strokes.

It sucks you were that close. Nil desperandum. I have a few black belts if you want to borrow one! A black sash too. I will see a video on YT and think to myself, “Go and find somewhere to do a bit of training…”, but I don’t. I am not sure I am up to training properly anyway.

Gear? What gear do we need? I am sure neither of us need gear to do a bit of sparring.

Touch ‘wood’. 100pts. I have never been in a fight before. The closest was a pissed nutter from 7RHA that tried to decapitate me with a road sign. Silly boy.

I am way too old to go back to Karate. Goju Ryu maybe, but there is nobode close to here. I still do a bit of Kenjutsu and Hanbo when I feel up to it. I should do more.

I will have to visit BoW at some point. If I could still ride it would be no problem. If they do another Infinity bootcamp then me and the boy would be there!

No gym…just go out the back and get to work. Some conditioning exercises, CQB drills, Taijutsu, and maybe some stick fighting.

I do make an evil Hot Chocco. Grated too…none of this instant stuff. I live just outside Durham. For geographic reference.

Steel Panther’s stage show is awesome. The bass player kept going to the side to do his hair in a mirror!

A loud gig is great, but it does stay with you. The last time we saw Gary Numan we were right at the front and it was very bassy. Three days before the pressure went. I think my ears are still humming from when I saw Motorhead when I was 14! Fuck me, that was loud. Lemmy came out and turned everything up. It was humming and he just yelled “WAAAAGH” into the mic. The first three rows fell over!

It is a tank. Maybe the most famous non-German tank ever. A Sherman. Even Heather can identify one of them…get it together! 500pts.

DRILL THOSE BARRELS! Don’t make me send Derek.

I love those older helmets. Are they MkIV?