Meplat
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You're kidding, right? How about the Costa-Mesa AR-18 i bought from J. Curtis Earl for 1000 dollars? (when it was worth 800). (I mean, I have more. Like the guy at the swap meet in Prescott Valley who wanted to sell me an unpapered M1A1 Thompson, New in cosmo, or the guy who was selling slices from a block of C4 as "camping fuel". I'll run to the nearest British embassy and claim asylum, having been influenced by John Cleese...
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Hahah! IT WAS ILLEGAL! I watched the fuckbags shove it through. I wish I still had the tape of it. it is when I am wearing nothing but a pair of briefs and bunny slippers, with a semi-inflated condom pulled over my head... At that point it becomes high comedy. I'm even related to far too many. That aside, "yes". Hence my utter loathing for federal "officers" and law enforcement.
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And I could completely fuck with them by merely fertilizing my veggy garden, and forgetting to wash my hands. Reasons. Getting most people to really understand how thouroughly illegal the Hughes amendment was would take an act of God.
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No this was a concern out of HK. (And really being a British company, offering German armor, but no Comet or Centurion? I know there are a lot of wehraboos with fat wallets, but still. )... -
Were there LL Scammels?
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Been hearing about it. A bit depressing, but almost par for the course for Italy.
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Oh those early Tamiya kits were fodder for a full pan car like the RC-10. A good tap to the transaxle would kill them. But they ramming my RC-10 would do nothing . But their tanks? Beautiful. Also there is some company doing 1/4 scale stuff now. Absurd money, but good looking. I'll stick to the armor I can put on a shelf, thanks. The full size stuff takes up too much room.
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Oh sure, it was also absurdly expensive for what it was. A friend had one, it was pretty terrible. I ended up buying a very early Associated RC-10 for very cheap from someone I worked with who could not figure out how to assemble it (They were fairly sophisticated for their day) and ended up building something that would run rings around that Radio Shack tank. I think I had ~$90.00 in the RC-10, including the absurdly fuzzy "Tower Hobbies" six channel dual stick radio. All that aside- I have the innards from a cheap chinese 1/30 scale RC M4 I intend to install in a Tamiya kit, when I finally get my shop in order. (Provided I don't stuff it in the M3 I have half-built on the shelf)
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Yes, same as "lindberg", and others. Once toured Lingberg's factory when it was in Michigan. They had some horribly old (but interesting) molds. Testors later offered a 1/72 SBD that was a Hawk via lindberg mold that was almost solid chunks of polystyrene. The markings/insignia were even molded in. Still, with a lot of filing and scribing it was a stupidly accurate (externally) model. Yeah, that's not the one I remember. Ever build the 1/48(?) Monogram M48, that had the tracks and bogies as one piece? Yeah it was that kind of quality..
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Europe cooperating has some good points (Airbus, Typhoon), but it seems (of late) like the EU has now turned toward using it's will to bullying member nations into compliance with less than sensible directives.
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An aside- My parents were stationed in England for about 12 years. Every time the antenna man showed up, he'd basically go "Bloody Yanks".. My mom even said she offered to have them come in for tea as they looked for the "telly" but they usually refused once they heard her accent, and heard she worked at Lakenheath.. (They never had a TV in that house).
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Meh, not like the U.S. hasn't fucked with a few elections.. This last one, we had a choice between a "Circus Peanut", and "The Wicked Witch of the West". No amount of foreign chicanery was going to really change the direction this country was/is heading.
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In his cabinet? Probably not yet.
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He's the president, not "God-Emperor of Dune". Wait a bit, and we'll have another fruitcake to warm the seat.
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And it'd still be shit. "Mediocrity" is not an export to aspire toward. Heaven knows Hollywood is shitting out enough big budget "meh" as it is.
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Meh, just considered it harmless banter for the most part. I'm more saddened to see a once great nation being driven into insanity by an out of control government. I also see the state England is in, as being a potential future for the U.S..
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Obviously, you have not been paying attention as to how many of us think our own (U.S.) government is chock full of microcephalic mouthbreathing mollusks.. Why should we treat a foreign government any better when it's acting just as moronically (if not moreso)?
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Oh FFS England. What's he going to do, really damage someone's jacket potato?
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So it seems, this judge has someone else doing his cooking. Or he really likes microwave meals.
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Meh, about as unbiased as I could expect. Lots of simplification, but it might educate some of the fringe, and get them to ask questions.
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Oh that's not the one I'm thinking of. I know the packaging you mean though. From the 80's/early 90's. There was an earlier one, I think it was a Hawk/Aurora mold, and it had weird bits like you were meant to put batteries in it. Like some of the earlier Tamiya kits. Except with a lot less detail.
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Apples and oranges, but in the same basket. One is part of a methodical system of investigation and detection, and the other is an easy way to circumvent that pesky fourth amendment. You'll note that the dog is not the sole method of detection in the case of "cancer sniffing". it is still very much experimental, and likely will never be the sole detector.
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The old, weird "box scale" kit? If it's the one I remember, it was like 1/30 scale or something.
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The whole concept is absurd, and is just another example of the slow erosion of rights in the name of "safety".
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And I'll trust that about as much as I trust the "drug dog". Too much chance of them being influenced by handler's behavior, and too much potential for false positives/evidence chicanery. "Warrant on a leash"
