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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostIs the EU really trying to insist ever device has the same charger? Is that really a priority?
Is it a priority? Not really, but you have to make small changes as well as big
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Hilariously, Apple are now shipping iphones without chargers to save the environment, but they've changed the charger end of the cable from USB to USB-C. So to use the cable, you're highly likely to require a new charger anyway. (Which they of course will sell you for £40 in it's own box and packaging etc.)
When I pointed out to the person in the shop that I had lots of Apple chargers I was told "but they won't charge as fast." I can live with that.
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Originally posted by Mr Delicieux View PostGonna buy some *checks notes* German world war 2 soldiers for the kids this Christmas.
He has British ones too, I should add - he's not Father Fitzpatrick. But you can't do WW2 with only one side.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostHang on... This can't be real can it?
https://twitter.com/almostconverge/status/1441700171226783744?s=19
Just read the comments (recommended by the way. God as T Rex for example cracked me up) and it seems to be genuinely true
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostThe manufacturers seem to make it pretty clear from the face designs of the toy soldiers who the baddies were.
Actually this reminds me, the Airfix planes come with transfers, but while the German ones include the Balkenkreuz for the wings and fuselage, they omit the swastikas for the tail. I wonder how many emails and meetings it took to make that decision.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View Post
I'm not sure I see what's so odd about this. My son has a Wehrmarcht tank, two Luftwaffe planes and a German ground crew in his Airfix collection.
He has British ones too, I should add - he's not Father Fitzpatrick. But you can't do WW2 with only one side.
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- Oct 2011
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- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
There's a few others these days, though not loads and loads. But if you're at a loose end with €10 burning a hole in your pocket you could have a go at a Zero:
https://www.shadylanemodels.co.uk/ou...r-Set-172.html
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I do like how there is a whole secondary market for extra, more detailed parts for kits as well as wide ranges of decals. For no real reason I found myself looking to see if you could do all the Polish and Czech RAF units and I think you can do most with aftermarket support.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostThere's a few others these days, though not loads and loads. But if you're at a loose end with €10 burning a hole in your pocket you could have a go at a Zero:
https://www.shadylanemodels.co.uk/ou...r-Set-172.html
I would be shocked if there wasn't a yamato model given how prominent it has become in the discovery channel era of history
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- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View Post
I'm trying to remember if I had a zero. I think I had some form of us carrier fighter, but it was likely also used by the Royal navy.
I would be shocked if there wasn't a yamato model given how prominent it has become in the discovery channel era of history
I think my only ever model kit was the Yamato.
Mighty, heavily-armed battleship it might have been, but you should have seen the state of it after my mum accidentally booted it into my bedroom wall.
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This isn't really WTF but I didn't know how to find the Italian politics thread.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1442808299972407298
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostThis isn't really WTF but I didn't know how to find the Italian politics thread.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1442808299972407298
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We all know how ghastly they are, but some of the specific examples on the #ExposeChristianSchools hashtag are still mindboggling. This is the pick so far. Content Warning for bizarre institutional abuse.
https://twitter.com/Code_ith/status/1443246567297855489
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