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Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:44 pm

Thor can recall mjolnir if he is wearing his gauntlets, jangreipr. Or at least in the Norse myths he can. Odin only knows how Stan Lee garbled that story.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:37 pm

You never got Kirby, Malcolm? But The New Gods is superb!

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:40 pm

Never liked it. Remember I was weaned on Gil Kane, Curt Swan and Carmine Infantino. Rather more refined, limbs only bend in anatomically feasible ways etc. And no over-reliance on garbling myths and legends, radioactive spiders, mysterious radiation belts, gamma ray irradiation changing people into hulks and so forth. In the late fifties to early sixties the mojo wasn't with Marvel. Apart from Wally Wood and Steve Ditko.

Ant-Man, I ask you...

Abernathy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:41 pm

Where do you stand on Dr. Strange?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:15 pm

Interesting question.
Nice style, Ditko, different sorts of plots. I never got into any of the DC magicians, but I quite liked him.

But then, I liked the Doom Patrol.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:50 pm

Hey, I liked Doom Patrol! Well, the Grant Morrison run, certainly.

And no love for the Phantom Stranger, Malcolm?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:22 pm

I'm talking Arnold Drake, 1963-68. So bad it was good. Or if not bad, old-fashioned. An interesting group which sort-of copies the Fantastic Four and yet appears before the X-Men (including wheelchaired leader motif).

I don't think I ever bought a Phantom Stranger - though that was partly because when I was doing most of my buying (1960-69) there were very few specialist sellers within easy reach and most local places wouldn't have stocked it, or not with superhero titles - I used to read of secondhand sellers in the USA and salivate! I must have/have had some, but they don't register any more.

I liked team comics, Blackhawk, Metal Men, JLA, JSA, even the Avengers (one of the few Marvel titles I bought).

Amazonian · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:17 am

Yes, I always loved that the Patrol was a team of superhuman freaks and cripples - a slap in the face of the typical Olympian physical perfection of other superheroes.

"We can prove them wrong. We can turn their scorn to grudging admiration. Join with me, my friends. Together we can make a difference!"

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

World's highest bridge meets the world's most lax 'elf and safety rules: Daredevil Chinese workers put finishing touches to amazing new structure

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1qzIOOHjG

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:49 pm

Messianic Trees wrote:

World's highest bridge meets the world's most lax 'elf and safety rules: Daredevil Chinese workers put finishing touches to amazing new structure

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1qzIOOHjG

The two first pictures look photoshopped.

Oh, and the daredevil bridge painter is wearing a harness attached to a safety cable. All the boxes ticked on the elf 'n' safety list.

There was a time that bridge builders factored in an acceptable death rate amongst the work force.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

Typical idiocy from the Mailtards:

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This was what Britain used to do, invent, create and build. Now look at our pathetic country.
- Martin, Eastbourne, A Once Great Britain, 3/4/2012 14:57

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No doubt our 'elf and safety people will be flying to China to protest, and try to enforce our OTP laws on the Chinese.
- P.Smith, London, 3/4/2012 15:00

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If it was in this country they'd still be deciding where to put the toilet blocks and asking for more money as it was going over budget!
- Michael, Herts, 3/4/2012 15:49

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Brits would have spent more on scaffolding and heath and safety than on the actual bridge.
- peter, london , 3/4/2012 14:44

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too many ropes, too much oversight, too many people behind the scenes has crippled the West's ability to plan test and build quickly. The Chinese are the new Victorians!
- david, oxford,uk, 3/4/2012 10:48

At the same time, a few of them don't seem too keen on the idea that forrin commies might actually be better at something than "us" Brits:

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Big deal! Brunel was building these in the 19th century.
- Henry Grey , Lutterworth, 3/4/2012 15:43

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... nying.html
Oxford student in intensive care following 25ft fall after taking part in new 'balconying' craze

Not the right place for this but it involves doing something unsafe, namely, leaping from balcony to balcony in a hotel. I mention this because it is described as the new craze. Without wanting to detract from the seriousness of this story I'm sure I've read about this umpteen times over many years, including in the Mail. Not much of a craze is it?

MisterMuncher · **Joined:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:19 am **Posts:** 927

I often presume such things are labelled crazes in media in the morbid hope they become so, making for acres of easy column inches.
This point of view has been called cynical before.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

25 firemen sent to rescue one seagull from 3ft deep pond (and then volunteer had to do it as 'elf and safety said it was too dangerous to enter the water)
Emergency crews forced to watch as bird centre volunteers don waders and rescue bird from waist deep waters
Rules prevented firefighters from risking their lives in the shallow pond
Latest in a string of incidents in which health and safety rules have left 999 crews powerless during an emergency

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1rqT9yuXn

Amazonian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:55 pm

Nice of them to drag in the PCSOs just "standing by" as Jordan Lyons drowned, AGAIN.

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