Jonbwfc MadAndy You may well be right - I took a quoted measure of the ‘shore distance’ and just approximated it to be a circle 😃. Given that, it would be about thirty times my estimates!
Alex Glasgow has been dressed as 1969 New York for filming of the new Indiana Jones movie. Harrison Ford’s stunt double riding a horse down St Vincent street during a tickertape parade. I used to literally live about a hundred metres from here!
Alex Alex the followup on my post from last year, the trailer from the new Indiana Jones is out and Glasgow’s looking pretty great. Glasgow visible first at 8 seconds in, then again for the tickertape parade at 55 seconds.
Brave Hehe. That’s amazing! I remember the first time I watched World War Z and going “Haaaaang on a minute”. Marvel stuff getting filmed in Edinburgh was a bit mental as well. 🙂
Alex Yeah, Glasgow uses the same grid system as a lot of US cities, and has quite similar architecture, so it works well as a stand in.
Gordon I wonder if the screenplay called for rain in these scenes. No way they could anticipate this weather. My office (when we still had one) was just round the corner, was surprising how little they had to change for the WWZ shoot to sell it as the US.
Alex The Scottish Government give massive tax breaks to film companies to film here, as they believe it promotes Scotland. Also it is probably easier to convince GCC to shutdown central Glasgow for several days rather than New York.
Gordon Quite possibly the smallest working arcade machine in the world. Made by a friend of my mate Dan from work. It’s entirely self contained aside from the USB cable for power. I’ve asked for pics of the insides.
Brave Gamers be crazy https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-17-war-thunder-player-posts-classified-military-documents-to-try-to-convince-dev-to-make-a-virtual-tank-more-realistic
Brave This is great https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/25/tobacco-firm-philip-morris-calls-for-ban-on-cigarettes-within-decade But
GassyHaggis I couldn’t get my head around that until they mentioned transitioning to health and wellbeing company. Kinda makes sense but why wait? Otherwise it is hypocritical.
Jonbwfc This is amazing - a thread that starts off talking about Brexit then veers off into how beer production affects the London Underground, and the measures the British government took to ensure the U.K. was kept supplied with tea during WWII. And how in the process the British government was effectively given distribution control of all the tea in the world, literally. It’s the kind of bonkers history we need to hear more about.
Jonbwfc NOW it’s a crisis… https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/irn-bru-production-under-threat-due-to-carbon-dioxide-shortage-3389313
BritishBean Jonbwfc Boris paying the American company 10s of millions of pounds to reopen two factories did the trick then…
BritishBean MadAndy any spare to also stun those morally vacant crunts filling up their car and 5 jerry cans at petrol stations?
