"sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
@mid.individual.net:

> YTC#1 wrote:
>
>> > We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>> > sure. Didn't everyone?
>> >
>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>
>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>
> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp and
> a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived here was
> playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>

I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them green
or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.

On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:20:58 UTC+1, Mike Fleming wrote:

> Dad got partially scattered on a beach in Cornwall. I keep meaning to
> scoop some sand up from the beach next time I'm there, so I can have a
> homeopathic dad.

Ha!

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
<stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:

>I've not expressed it in my will, yet, but I'm pretty convinced I don't want a funeral.
>Just want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific spot in some
>woodlands.

I have already suggested verbally "cheapest and most convenient legal
means" but I won't put that in writing. Any surviving relatives might
want some ceremony, I suppose. As I won't be there except as cold,
rotting meat, provided there's no defamation of my good character, I
don't really care.

--

-Pip

On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 17:58:25 UTC+1, Pipl wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
> <stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I've not expressed it in my will, yet, but I'm pretty convinced I don't want a funeral.
> >Just want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific spot in some
> >woodlands.
> I have already suggested verbally "cheapest and most convenient legal
> means" but I won't put that in writing. Any surviving relatives might
> want some ceremony, I suppose. As I won't be there except as cold,
> rotting meat, provided there's no defamation of my good character, I
> don't really care.

Have you considered that a sufficiently high speed/energy incident would obviate the meat issue.

On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 08:30:07 +0100, Eddie <eddie@deguello.org> wrote:

>On 03/09/2021 07:05, Gyp wrote:
>> On 02/09/2021 11:39, Dave Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ditto (1), humanist I think, followed by a scattering at a challenging
>>> location yet TBC.
>>>
>> Which is all very funny until you discover that your relatives will
>> requires them to be scattered from a Vulcan on a low level fly past and
>> you're left to sort that out.
>
>https://uk.airfix.com/products/avro-vulcan-b2-a12011
>https://www.therange.co.uk/household/laundry/clothes-airers-and-washing-lines/washing-lines/replacement-washing-line/#401892
>https://www.therange.co.uk/diy/hardware-and-accessories/household/fittings/cup-hooks-shouldered/#163723
>
>Sorted

<applause>
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>"sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>@mid.individual.net:
>
>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>
>>> > We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>> > sure. Didn't everyone?
>>> >
>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>
>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>
>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp and
>> a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived here was
>> playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>
>
>I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them green
>or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.

And once again, Wessie's and my childhood memories overlap :-)
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On 3 Sep 2021 10:33:57 GMT, "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>I had quite a bit of Action Man - hand me downs and Christmas presents
>mostly but enough new stuff to save up the stars to get a [drum roll]
>sentry box.
>
>I had a mixture of hard hands with painted hair to the more "modern"
>gripping hands and real hair - no eagle eyes though.
>
>One was adventure Action Man with a beard, and a penchant for tying up
>Cindy.

Fuck but this made me laugh !
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old

On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:13:01 -0700 (PDT), Hog <york996@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 17:58:25 UTC+1, Pipl wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
>> <stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I've not expressed it in my will, yet, but I'm pretty convinced I don't want a funeral.
>> >Just want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific spot in some
>> >woodlands.
>> I have already suggested verbally "cheapest and most convenient legal
>> means" but I won't put that in writing. Any surviving relatives might
>> want some ceremony, I suppose. As I won't be there except as cold,
>> rotting meat, provided there's no defamation of my good character, I
>> don't really care.
>
>Have you considered that a sufficiently high speed/energy incident would obviate the meat issue.

Don't think I ride fast enough for that to ever be possible. For a
deliberate exit, I suspect that inert gas is the way to go. Or try to
build a rocket.

--

-Pip

On 9/3/2021 10:22 AM, Champ wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
> <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>>>> sure. Didn't everyone?
>>>>>
>>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>>
>>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>>
>>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp and
>>> a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived here was
>>> playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>>
>>
>> I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them green
>> or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.
>
> And once again, Wessie's and my childhood memories overlap :-)
>
How far apart did you grow up?

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On 04/09/2021 00:58 Pipl penned these words:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
> <stephen.packer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've not expressed it in my will, yet, but I'm pretty convinced I don't want a funeral.
>> Just want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific spot in some
>> woodlands.
>
> I have already suggested verbally "cheapest and most convenient legal
> means" but I won't put that in writing. Any surviving relatives might
> want some ceremony, I suppose. As I won't be there except as cold,
> rotting meat, provided there's no defamation of my good character, I
> don't really care.
>

Our wills specify cheapest, may as well save any money for a party.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On 9/3/2021 10:25 AM, Pipl wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:13:01 -0700 (PDT), Hog <york996@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 17:58:25 UTC+1, Pipl wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 01:46:52 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Packer
>>> <stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've not expressed it in my will, yet, but I'm pretty convinced I don't want a funeral.
>>>> Just want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in a specific spot in some
>>>> woodlands.
>>> I have already suggested verbally "cheapest and most convenient legal
>>> means" but I won't put that in writing. Any surviving relatives might
>>> want some ceremony, I suppose. As I won't be there except as cold,
>>> rotting meat, provided there's no defamation of my good character, I
>>> don't really care.
>>
>> Have you considered that a sufficiently high speed/energy incident would obviate the meat issue.
>
> Don't think I ride fast enough for that to ever be possible. For a
> deliberate exit, I suspect that inert gas is the way to go. Or try to
> build a rocket.
>
This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
at home.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
<willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

>"sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>@mid.individual.net:
>
>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>
>>> > We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>> > sure. Didn't everyone?
>>> >
>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>
>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>
>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp and
>> a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived here was
>> playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>
>
>I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them green
>or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.

I never got my head round wh some kids, including at least one of my
brothers, would bother painting airfkx models, let alone toy soldiers.
Sure, I'd stick the transfers on, but painting them just seemed like
faff for the sake of faff.

--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

On 04/09/2021 09:18, Ace wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
> <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>>>> sure. Didn't everyone?
>>>>>
>>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>>
>>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>>
>>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp and
>>> a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived here was
>>> playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>>
>>
>> I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them green
>> or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.
>
> I never got my head round wh some kids, including at least one of my
> brothers, would bother painting airfkx models, let alone toy soldiers.
> Sure, I'd stick the transfers on, but painting them just seemed like
> faff for the sake of faff.
>

Oh no, painting was part of the fun. It had to look like the one on the box.
And the paint had a nice aroma as well.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
https://the-ytc1-shed.blogspot.com/ Deprected(http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/)
There *is* an alternative! https://www.libreoffice.org/

Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote in
news:fsa6jg5gbqdan3ugoic6rli5snc6ms9nl6@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
> <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>>"sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>>@mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> > We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>>> > sure. Didn't everyone?
>>>> >
>>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>>
>>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>>
>>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp
>>> and a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived
>>> here was playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>>
>>
>>I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them
>>green or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.
>
> I never got my head round wh some kids, including at least one of my
> brothers, would bother painting airfkx models, let alone toy soldiers.
> Sure, I'd stick the transfers on, but painting them just seemed like
> faff for the sake of faff.
>

didn't the little pot of paint come in the kit? It's not like we had much
more to do with our time in 1969.

Turby <xsurf@xmail.com> wrote in news:sgucll$a05$2@dont-email.me:

> On 9/3/2021 10:22 AM, Champ wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
>> <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>>
>>> "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>>> @mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>>>>> sure. Didn't everyone?
>>>>>>
>>>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>>>
>>>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp
>>>> and a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived
>>>> here was playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting
>>> them green or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based
>>> paint.
>>
>> And once again, Wessie's and my childhood memories overlap :-)
>>
> How far apart did you grow up?
>

Champ is older by about 2 weeks and we grew up in adjacent counties about
20 miles apart - I would have to go to Gloucester city where he lived to
catch a train or go to certain shops not in my little market town.

On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 04:25:09 UTC+1, Turby wrote:

> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
> at home.

A beach bum like you should hope for better.
Nobody else should have to clean up your shit and it's fair exchange for all the fish and crustaceans you have necked ;o)

A dynamic final experience, off the 300ft cliffs of Dunnet Head (or similar) with a North Atlantic storm smashing in. That has to have been an incredible (brief) experience.

On 04/09/2021 12:27, wessie wrote:
> Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote in
> news:fsa6jg5gbqdan3ugoic6rli5snc6ms9nl6@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:20:34 -0000 (UTC), wessie
>> <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:
>>
>>> "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:ipec3jFgdktU1
>>> @mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> YTC#1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> We was too poor for Action Man, but little plastic toy soldiers,
>>>>>> sure. Didn't everyone?
>>>>>>
>>>>> <phew> not alone then.</p>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahh,yes, they died a lot as well
>>>>
>>>> I dig them up in this garden from time to time - mostly Afika Corp
>>>> and a smattering of Eighth Army - no idea what the lad who lived
>>>> here was playing at as it's more like the Western Front.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had both of those sets aged about 7 - got quite messy painting them
>>> green or blue. May have been a bit high on the solvent based paint.
>>
>> I never got my head round wh some kids, including at least one of my
>> brothers, would bother painting airfkx models, let alone toy soldiers.
>> Sure, I'd stick the transfers on, but painting them just seemed like
>> faff for the sake of faff.
>>
>
> didn't the little pot of paint come in the kit? It's not like we had much
> more to do with our time in 1969.
>

Hmm, can't remember. Must have been the fumes.

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
https://the-ytc1-shed.blogspot.com/ Deprected(http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/)
There *is* an alternative! https://www.libreoffice.org/

On 04/09/2021 04:25, Turby wrote:

> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
> at home.

Party helium comes with added oxygen so it won't work. You'd need to
find an industrial supplier.

--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, England

YTC#1 wrote:

> > didn't the little pot of paint come in the kit? It's not like we
> > had much more to do with our time in 1969.
>
> Hmm, can't remember. Must have been the fumes.

They were bought separately - only the remedial level kits had paint
included.

--
Simon

On 9/4/2021 5:12 AM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> On 04/09/2021 04:25, Turby wrote:
>
>> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
>> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
>> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
>> at home.
>
> Party helium comes with added oxygen so it won't work. You'd need to
> find an industrial supplier.
>
Ta.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On 9/4/2021 4:32 AM, Hog wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 04:25:09 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
>
>> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
>> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
>> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
>> at home.
>
> A beach bum like you should hope for better.
> Nobody else should have to clean up your shit and it's fair exchange for all the fish and crustaceans you have necked ;o)
>
> A dynamic final experience, off the 300ft cliffs of Dunnet Head (or similar) with a North Atlantic storm smashing in. That has to have been an incredible (brief) experience.
>

Many of my friends are firemen or lifeguards. Picking up dead bodies is
incredibly stressful. I wouldn't want to inflict that on them.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 14:29:13 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
> On 9/4/2021 4:32 AM, Hog wrote:
> > On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 04:25:09 UTC+1, Turby wrote:
> >
> >> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
> >> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
> >> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
> >> at home.
> >
> > A beach bum like you should hope for better.
> > Nobody else should have to clean up your shit and it's fair exchange for all the fish and crustaceans you have necked ;o)
> >
> > A dynamic final experience, off the 300ft cliffs of Dunnet Head (or similar) with a North Atlantic storm smashing in. That has to have been an incredible (brief) experience.
> >
> Many of my friends are firemen or lifeguards. Picking up dead bodies is
> incredibly stressful. I wouldn't want to inflict that on them.

Cliffs. 30ft crashing waves. Nothing left to recover. Was rather my point.
I expect your local hospice can also do without the hassle

I believed intact bodies do not surface from cold deep water. By the wonders of the interweb:
https://www.livescience.com/48480-what-happens-to-dead-body-in-ocean.html

On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:19:25 -0700 (PDT), Hog <york996@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Cliffs. 30ft crashing waves. Nothing left to recover. Was rather my point.
>I expect your local hospice can also do without the hassle

Or you could survive just long enough to make your last minutes a
living hell.

--

-Pip

On 9/4/2021 10:13 AM, Pipl wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 07:19:25 -0700 (PDT), Hog <york996@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cliffs. 30ft crashing waves. Nothing left to recover. Was rather my point.
>> I expect your local hospice can also do without the hassle
>
The lifeguards have recovered too many bodies off the cliffs which
proves that false. An old friend had a yacht and sailed miles offshore
where he disappeared, but I don't own a yacht.

> Or you could survive just long enough to make your last minutes a
> living hell.
>
This. Helium is painless.

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)

On 04/09/2021 20:12 Bruce Horrocks penned these words:
> On 04/09/2021 04:25, Turby wrote:
>
>> This. Rent a tank of helium from a party company, then tape a balloon
>> over your head in the parking lot of a local final hospice care
>> facility. They deal with death and won't be as stressed out as someone
>> at home.
>
> Party helium comes with added oxygen so it won't work. You'd need to
> find an industrial supplier.
>
Helium is expensive, argon ought to do it and it is way cheaper.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"