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[Movie Moments Analyst @Movies_analyst]

The Blues Brothers (1980) set a Guinness World Record by destroying 103 cars. For this scene, filmmakers lifted a Ford Pinto 1,200 feet into the air from a helicopter and dropped it. The film’s crashes were 100% practical, with no CGI, just 4,000 pounds of American steel flying.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

British Motor Corp, owners of the Mini, refused to donate any cars for "The Italian Job" (1969). The chief of Fiat Motors offered to donate all of the cars needed, including Fiat 500s in place of the Minis. Peter Collinson, the director of the movie decided that, as it was a very British movie, the cars should be British Minis.

Fiat still donated scores of cars for filming, as well as the factory grounds. The authorities refused to close the roads, but the Italian Mafia stepped in and shut whole sections of Turin down for filming. The traffic jams in this movie are real, as are people's actions during them.

(Source: IMDb)

P.S: On this day, 56 years ago, "The Italian Job" (1969) premiered in London, UK.

[Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista]

The Old Queensway Tunnel in Birkenhead, which also has a Harry Potter link.
When the Queensway Tunnel opened in 1934, it featured this special branch tunnel that led straight to the Birkenhead docks and towards New Brighton. Known as the Rendel Street branch (or the "Dock Exit"), it was a two-way tunnel with its very own set of underground traffic lights where it met the main carriageway. Imagine having to stop at a red light deep under the River Mersey to let oncoming traffic turn right🙄
As traffic increased over the decades, the underground junction caused too many delays, and the branch was permanently closed to vehicles in 1965.
In September 2009, Warner Bros. took over the tunnel to film a major action sequence (as Dartford Tunnel) for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.

[🍀Louie Kerr 🇮🇪💚 @LouieKerr8]

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[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

ジェットコースターの仮装をするドイツ人達まだ面白い

[Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista]

Red telephone kiosk inside Liverpool Cathedral. The connection is architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who designed them both.

[kate @KatydearKate]

Please can all my medical/clinical/nursing and AHP colleagues take a read of this 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I'm running to raise awareness for these cancers . Over 50% are diagnosed stage 3/4..there's more we can do 🙏🏻❤️

[Anthony Teasdale @AnthonyTeasdale]

This, as you can see, is the greatest map in the history of the world.

At Manchester Victoria station.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

That time Leslie Nielsen brought back THE NAKED GUN's Frank Drebin for one of the best beer commercials of the 1990s.

[Anthony Teasdale @AnthonyTeasdale]

One of my favourite underground railways stations is not in London, but Liverpool.

We're talking about James St, the last stop before the Merseyrail train goes under the river to Birkenhead.

This is the entrance on Water Street.

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

"It's over Obi-Wan, I have the high ground"

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Someone in Somerset nailed two old boots to a tree and a pair of tits have started using them as a nest.

Photos by Somerset Levels Friends https://t.co/n45WPqkzdh

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Death Star climax in A New Hope (1977) still hits like lightning. Han suddenly returning, Luke finally letting go and trusting the Force for the first time, and that impossible shot changing everything. Goosebumps every time.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Meanwhile in recurring news over decades........🤣

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

Robert Kenyon of Reform hates this quote being shared...

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Retiring from the British Army can be complicated...

Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.

The letter read:

“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,

We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366.

Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Army Paymaster”

Col Maclaren replied:

“Dear Paymaster,

Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month.

I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.

By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.

I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)”

A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:

“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,

We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst.

We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month.

We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p.

However,

We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles:

*The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton)

*The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland)

*The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War)

*The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade)

*The Boer War (1899 -1902).

We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:

*9765 Cannon
*26,785 Swords
*12,889 Pikes
*127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
*28,987 horses (fully kitted)

Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.

We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p.

WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.

Yours sincerely . . . .”

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

21 kicked out. 28 defected. 39 resigned. 5 suspended. 1 disqualified. 5 lost seats. That's approximately 99 Reform UK councillors and representatives who have left the party.

22 of them since the local elections just two weeks ago. The party claims "some of the strongest vetting in the country."

Here's the full list 👇

[Jennifer Stewart @JenniferJS_]

UK coup resignations:
Blair - 7 ministers in 2006
Corbyn - 17 in 2016 coup & 10 quit the party in 2019
Johnson - 48 ministers over 5 days in 2022

Starmer - 4 ministers. Streeting's alleged 'coup' fizzled out.

Puts it in perspective.

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

The BBC refuse to hold scammer Farage to account. MPs are meant to declare ALL gifts over £300 in the calendar year leading up to their election.

I refuse to look away. Repost if you feel the same.