Luton has the airport and Stevenage used to have MBDA - I don't know if they're still there.
Get your childhood trauma ready.... BBC to show Threads again.
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Luton has the airport and Stevenage used to have MBDA - I don't know if they're still there.
Soldato
Same here, and IIRC when the "Russian Attack List" of which UK targets get hit first by Nukes was published, I'm within the "Oh, why has the Sun been switched on at night...................wow its getting hot in here" zone between those three bases, so at least I won't have to deal with the post-apocalyptic world, which is good because films make it look so dreary!
I've not visited, but I did hear that Sheffield has some very good real ale pubs...
I've only just got over my childhood trauma!
I still think of that show whenever I hear pipes banging.
There's a similar US film I watched a few months ago from 1983 that was pretty good and harrowing too
Starring a young Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow
Starring a young Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow
Is it any surprise that two out of the three pictured on the DVD cover are now deceased? I think not. Smith, suspiciously died years after surviving a helicopter "accident". Parky, supposedly was "old". Sarah Greene is living on borrowed time I can tell you.I've only just got over my childhood trauma!
I still think of that show whenever I hear pipes banging.
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Mad max was pretty sunny,
Hopefully with Rolls Royce down the road and EMA a bright flash of light and eternal nothingness will come quick. It wouldn't take many warheads to get through and end the UK, a missiles worth in London to take care of that same for Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds then all the tactical targets, I reckon 7 or 8 should do the trick thats 50 or so warheads ?
Very morbid thread, happy days
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depends how fast you want the UK taken out. a couple of well-placed hits could cut the country in half and just let the radiation/infrastructure failure to do the rest. too many unburied dead, virtually zero meds and food after a very short time, panic and riots will do the job quite effectively.
Soldato
Yes, I must have watched the 2003 show. It was a pretty grim film from what I can remember.
Ah, I remember that experience at primary school. Sitting down on the floor and out comes the TV, where they showed various videos of all the ways you can die by walking on railway tracks, or going into electricity substations etc. Don’t think we got treated to Threads however!
Those were the days!
There was a series about dangers on a farm with a grim reaper character and one of the kids drowned in a grain silo.
My mum was a primary head teacher and had the videos on VHS. Somehow I found that one and watched it when I was far too young to see stuff like that. It scarred me for life!
The grain silo rings a bell! I wish there was a way to see what the curriculum was.
‘After lunch - scare the kids ****less’
I watched this again recently. It's a little more exaggerated than reality...
The whole bomb bit is realistic, with the radiation killing a lot but the nuclear winter scenario is extreme. I know they never mention who many countries were nuked etc but to cause a decade long winter it would have to be 100s of bombs, all over the world.
I appreciate that it's just a bleak story to illustrate a worst case scenario but I think they pushed it a little.
The whole bomb bit is realistic, with the radiation killing a lot but the nuclear winter scenario is extreme. I know they never mention who many countries were nuked etc but to cause a decade long winter it would have to be 100s of bombs, all over the world.
I appreciate that it's just a bleak story to illustrate a worst case scenario but I think they pushed it a little.
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Will it not be on iplayer for 30 days or whatever they normally do?
I hope so but it didn't say in the BBC article.
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Set this to record. Old enough, but never saw it first time around, so will be interesting given all the horrors written about it over the years.