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2024-02-04 Britain

Back she goes: Britain's £3billion Big Lizzie warship moors in Portsmouth docks after navy chiefs she wouldn't take part in NATO drills after they found 'issue' with propeller shaft

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-04 08:42|| || Front Page|| [38 views ] Top

#1 The days when Britannia ruled the wave in the wake of history.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2024-02-04 14:36|| 2024-02-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Now days Britania is ruled by the wave of immigrants.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-04 14:41|| 2024-02-04 14:41|| Front Page Top

#3 ghost of Admiral Beatty:

"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."

Posted by badanov 2024-02-04 15:02|| 2024-02-04 15:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Admiral Nelson does the facepalm.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-04 15:05|| 2024-02-04 15:05|| Front Page Top

#5 What’s the naval version of a hanger queen?

Don't anyone say the Kuznetsov...

Posted by badanov 2024-02-04 16:01|| 2024-02-04 16:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Ugh; Big Lizzo.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-04 16:47|| 2024-02-04 16:47|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ NOT the size of a hanger

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-04 16:54|| 2024-02-04 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Slay Queen!

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-04 16:57|| 2024-02-04 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 @#5 How about 'Schmidt' then?

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-04 17:23|| 2024-02-04 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 To serve on a carrier's neato,
Especially wielding a veto:
"We couldn't be prouder
Of Choudary's chowder!"
Cue Cookie, hijabed, incognito.

I forget... is rhyming with yourself three times or four? More than two, anyway.

Posted by Angusogum Brown2016 2024-02-04 17:33|| 2024-02-04 17:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Well played!

Limeric - a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-04 17:55|| 2024-02-04 17:55|| Front Page Top

#12 What’s the naval version of a hanger queen?

Dock condo.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-02-04 19:27|| 2024-02-04 19:27|| Front Page Top

#13 If I have a propellor shaft problem, half a Vi@gra will fix it.

Posted by Raj 2024-02-04 20:18|| 2024-02-04 20:18|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Yeah, a bad screw can ruin your hole day!

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-02-04 20:36|| 2024-02-04 20:36|| Front Page Top

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