Editor in Chief Bill | 06 Dec 2021 11:13 a.m. PST |
…For some people, sharing their hobbies with a new boyfriend or girlfriend can be a nerve-racking experience. One man in Britain, for example, was worried that his new girlfriend might dump him if she found out… Fox News: link |
45thdiv | 06 Dec 2021 12:49 p.m. PST |
I think I saw a YouTube video on the terrain building for this a year or so ago. It was very good. |
CeruLucifus | 06 Dec 2021 4:29 p.m. PST |
It's wonderful that they're now engaged. Not telling her is one thing. He could be shy and planning to tell her eventually. But lying about his profession so that he could lie about why he owned the building … there are layers of deceit there that verge on pathological. This doesn't bode well for their long term future. Sure she's an artist and appreciates his modeling for that reason, so he is probably feeling relieved and wondering why he didn't tell her sooner. But I'm thinking the news story leaves out part of the conversation. What's his real job? I'm wondering if the punchline is, he's independently wealthy from an inheritance, and doesn't work, except for this hobby. |
Editor in Chief Bill | 06 Dec 2021 8:27 p.m. PST |
Well, look how much he apparently spent! |
Howler | 06 Dec 2021 8:30 p.m. PST |
$330,000.00 USD. I wonder is he told his fiancee? |
arthur1815 | 07 Dec 2021 3:34 a.m. PST |
His model layout featured recently in a UK television documentary about the Hornby company, so he must have been prepared to go public about his hobby when it was filmed, though whether that was before or after he came clean to his girlfriend I can't tell. |
20thmaine | 07 Dec 2021 4:38 a.m. PST |
Here's the BBC story link for those who don't want to support Fox ("ha ha ha we still call it that") News….. |
Aidan Campbell | 07 Dec 2021 8:27 a.m. PST |
"I'm wondering if the punchline is, he's independently wealthy from an inheritance, and doesn't work, except for this hobby." Apparently he funded this by selling his business which used to involve those "experience days" at race tracks driving dream cars, so if he owned a fleet of expensive super-cars he can't have been short of a bob or two. |
bobm1959 | 07 Dec 2021 9:10 a.m. PST |
I'm going to see the layout on Sunday. He's taking it on tour around the country. |
14Bore | 07 Dec 2021 5:25 p.m. PST |
Awesome train layout, often wonder If I went that direction and spent what I have what kind of train layout I would have. |
oldnorthstate | 07 Dec 2021 6:38 p.m. PST |
and of course 20th Main thinks the BBC is not a government mouthpiece…more delusional babble. |
Cerdic | 08 Dec 2021 10:32 a.m. PST |
Oldnorthstate…and yet, for decades, EVERY government, no matter which party is in power, has complained that the BBC is biased against it. If the BBC is really a government mouthpiece they are doing a pisspoor job of it… |
20thmaine | 08 Dec 2021 1:43 p.m. PST |
You should watch how the BBC have been ripping into the government about today's combination of the current unlawful Covid party at Prime Minister's home scandal / Prime Minister announces increase in Covid restrictions combined news stories. I don't think that's what a tame mouthpiece of the government does. Fox (ha ha ha, no really, you're killing me) News just outright lies repeatedly. I've seen some of their (ha ha ha, no really, stop it!) News reporting on UK events and they just twist stories to fit their own agenda. Not even subtle spin or taking a particular slant, more the "up is down, black is white, in is out" approach to reporting. Goodness only knows what they are doing with their local (i.e. in the USA) reporting. |
oldnorthstate | 08 Dec 2021 8:08 p.m. PST |
The BBC rips into the current government based on the pressumption that it is "conservative", which is silly…they are not conservative in the real sense. If Labor were in power all the COVID restrictions would be just fine. As far as Fox goes, 20th Maine, how about all that talk about a Russia Conspiracy from MSNCBC and CNN, that all turned out to be a lie…and of course there are many other examples. What is your example of Fox "lies". I'm all ears. |
20thmaine | 09 Dec 2021 4:47 a.m. PST |
The BBC rips into the current government based on the pressumption that it is "conservative", which is silly…they are not conservative in the real sense. If Labor were in power all the COVID restrictions would be just fine. That last is an unprovable hypothetical and is based it would seem on the incorrect assumption that the BBC is a left-wing organisation. As @Cerdic rightly pointed out "EVERY government, no matter which party is in power, has complained that the BBC is biased against it." For decades leading members of the BBC news team have been Conservatives – their professionalism managed to often hide this as they took Conservative as well as Labour governments to task. Jeremy Paxman is a Tory, Nick Robinson is a Tory, Laura Kuenssberg is a Tory. The lazy labeling of the BBC as being left-wing biased is patently untrue. To cap it all the current Director-General of the BBC was a Conservative politician. I doubt I'll convince you, but facts are facts. As the Russia Conspiracy comes under current politics (being less than 10 years old) I'll refrain from commenting other than to say you appear to have bought the very redacted Fox (lets just call it performance art instead) News version of the Mueller report which was actually rather finely nuanced in its conclusions. Again I doubt I'll convince you, but the full released document does exist and can be read to find what is actually in it. |
Bobgnar | 11 Dec 2021 7:02 p.m. PST |
I took my new fiancé to historicon early in our relationship. She liked shopping at the discount malls and the comedy club but also watching the games and meeting the people in particular She thought Dick Bryant, Don Featherstone, and Duke were fine gentleman and she was happy that I knew those people :-). She "loaned" me The money to buy an army that I purchased. I haven't yet paid her back and we've been married 25 years :-) |
ezza123 | 14 Dec 2021 3:27 a.m. PST |
Bobgnar, Great stuff, hope though that Mrs Bobgnar doesn't one day start talking about loan repayment schemes and interest rates. :) Ezza |
bobm1959 | 16 Dec 2021 5:53 a.m. PST |
In the flesh the layout is very impressive. It's O gauge (roughly 1:43) so the engines are BIG (roughly £500.00 GBP each). The water features are particularly well done and the vegetation being in early spring duller colours is well done. The people (not that many but one is himself as a boy) I think most wargamers would do better… |