Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

watched about 20mins of Mad Max Fury Road.. couldnt get into it..

i have no issues with it either, just all the people jumping on the bandwagon for gay colours and sharing gay shit..

I went to a 50's car museum today. Not 100% just 50's, but some very cool and rare big American cruisers.
They had the 1966 Batmobile. ..which i knew in advance. And i just happen to have a 1966 batman costume. So i took it. ..wore it. ..and got photos in the batmobile.
Loved it. Haha

Oh man, Alfa are knocking it out of the park atm. Have you seen the interior of that thing? FAAARRRKKKK. If the price is right I'd MUCH rather have it over any of the German competition.

Also:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-apar...point-120094837
That's that, last Australian real estate going, and the Merc is sold.

Goodbye old life, lol

I went to a 50's car museum today.

Not 100% just 50's, but some very cool and rare big American cruisers.
They had the 1966 Batmobile. ..which i knew in advance.

And i just happen to have a 1966 batman costume.

So i took it. ..wore it. ..and got photos in the batmobile.
Loved it.

Haha

Lol, "And i just happen to have a 1966 batman costume" where was this place?

I went to a 50's car museum today. Not 100% just 50's, but some very cool and rare big American cruisers.
They had the 1966 Batmobile. ..which i knew in advance. And i just happen to have a 1966 batman costume. So i took it. ..wore it. ..and got photos in the batmobile.
Loved it. Haha

sick of all this gay pride shit on FB

Veeks...new design team? Have Alfa EVER not made gorgeous cars? It's reliabiity that's always been the issue. But lately...man. The 4c is probably the only car under 200k that lights my fire ATM, and if this Giulia delivers on its promises...wow.

The apartment just sold at 565k, which is better than I was hoping.
The merc got 45, if anyone is wondering. Which the guy decided to pay in cash. Tradie.

R8 will be going when I move (maybe feb) as although it will be a while before I get my next cars over there (R8 GT and SLR) I don't want it to sit here depreciating. Bimmer will stay for trips back.

Veeks...new design team? Have Alfa EVER not made gorgeous cars? It's reliabiity that's always been the issue. But lately...man. The 4c is probably the only car under 200k that lights my fire ATM, and if this Giulia delivers on its promises...wow.

The apartment just sold at 565k, which is better than I was hoping.
The merc got 45, if anyone is wondering. Which the guy decided to pay in cash. Tradie.

R8 will be going when I move (maybe feb) as although it will be a while before I get my next cars over there (R8 GT and SLR) I don't want it to sit here depreciating. Bimmer will stay for trips back.

Just bought Batman Arkham Knight for ps4 but sadly wont be able to play for a month. Very keen to go on the Autobahn and see how German drivers differ from Aus

I'll never forgive them for cancelling that bounty hunter game last year.

Kindertransport Organizer Nicholas Winton Dies at 106

Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was 106.

Son-in-law Stephen Watson said Winton died on Wednesday. The Rotary Club of Maidenhead, of which Winton was a former president, said his daughter Barbara and two grandchildren were at his side.

Winton arranged trains to carry children from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death — and then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.

Born in London in 1909 to parents of German Jewish descent, Winton himself was raised as a Christian. He was a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when a friend contacted him and told him to cancel the skiing holiday they had planned in late 1938 and travel instead to Czechoslovakia.

Alarmed by the influx of refugees from the Sudetenland region recently annexed by Germany, Winton and his friend feared — correctly — that Czechoslovakia soon would be invaded by the Nazis and Jewish residents from there would be sent to concentration camps.

While supporters in Britain were working to get Jewish intellectuals and communists out of Czechoslovakia, no one was trying to save the children, so Winton took the task upon himself.

Returning to Britain, Winton persuaded British officials to accept children, as long as foster homes were found and a 50-pound guarantee was paid for each one to ensure they had enough money to return home later. Their stays were only expected to be temporary.

Setting himself up as the one-man children's section of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Winton set about finding homes and guarantors, drawing up lists of about 6,000 children, publishing pictures to encourage British families to agree to take them.

The first 20 children arrived by plane, but once the German army reached Prague in March 1939, they could only be brought out by train.

In the months before the outbreak of World War II, eight trains carried children through Germany to Britain. In all, Winton got 669 children out. The largest evacuation was scheduled for Sept. 3, 1939, the day that Britain declared war on Germany. That train never left, and almost none of the 250 children trying to flee on it survived the war.

The children from Prague were among some 10,000 mostly Jewish children who made it to Britain on what were known as the Kindertransports (children's transports). Few of them would see their parents again.

Although many more children were saved from Berlin and Vienna, those operations were better organized and better financed. Winton's operation was unique because he worked almost alone.

"Maybe a lot more could have been done. But much more time would have been needed, much more help would have been needed from other countries, much more money would have been needed, much more organization," Winton later said.

He also acknowledged that not all the children who made it to Britain were well-treated in their foster homes. Some British foster parents used the children as cheap domestic servants.

"I wouldn't claim that it was 100 percent successful. But I would claim that everybody who came over was alive at the end of the war," he was quoted as saying in the book "Into the Arms of Strangers."