Iron Maiden

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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts ... 3042666810

Iron Maiden fans somehow immune to self-consciousness epidemic

FANS of the band Iron Maiden are somehow unaffected by the self-consciousness epidemic sweeping the Western world.

As thousands of Maiden fans rushed to buy the band’s beer just because they like the band and they like beer, scientists marvelled at their integrity.

Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute for Studies said: “In an age where literally everything has to be arch, knowing, witty or retro, Iron Maiden fans somehow still don’t give a fuck.

“They just like their thing for what it is, their hairy backs aren’t a statement and when they wear double denim with a bumbag it’s in no way ironic.

“The rest of us will never achieve that level of enjoyment of anything, because our stupid aspirations have made us into dicks.”

46-year-old Maiden fan Roy Hobbs said: “I go to work doing a job I can’t even be bothered to describe, then I come home and eat either a pie or a casserole with my wife, who is also into Maiden, then we drink a couple of beers and listen to The Number of the Beast.

“We’re very happy. Why wouldn’t we be?”

Hobbs confirmed that he had no opinion whatsoever about stick-on moustaches, retro gaming, boutique camping, dieting, vintage things, banter, street food, garlic presses or Jude Law.

Professor Brubaker said: “Their houses may smell of feet and engine oil but they make everyone else in the country look like pretentious twats.”

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[Jason]

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I bought that picture disc in the early eighties....would be worth a fortune now if I knew where it was.

[Jason]

Uber-Nerdpoints to whoever can identify the Spit he's flying.

Tip: It has a bubble-pit, but only a standard reflector sight. (which narrows it down to about.. 15 or so marks).

[klr]

Probably a 1a, 'cos they had a song about the Battle of Britain (Aces High?), and also because there's another 1a in the background.

[Jason]

Points for identifying the spit in the background (no cannons), but the 1A didn't have the bubble-pit AFAIK.

[klr]

Points for identifying the spit in the background (no cannons), but the 1A didn't have the bubble-pit AFAIK.

Early Mk I aircraft had a two-bladed wooden propeller, and the flat canopy. During the Mk I production run, both the propeller and the canopy were changed. The bubble canopy actually dates from 1939, and I always associate the "flat" canopy with pre-Battle of Britain (maybe even pre-WW II) aircraft.

EDIT: BTW, there were other all-machine gun-only sub-marks as well (IIa, Va) but they were rare.

[Jason]

Huh, I didn't know that. I thought it was a mid-war innovation first stuck on the MK. VIII.

I defer to your superior knowledge sir.

[klr]

Huh, I didn't know that. I thought it was a mid-war innovation first stuck on the MK. VIII.

I defer to your superior knowledge sir.

I've been building Spitfire kits since about 1976*, so I naturally have acquired some knowledge in that time.

*An Airfix Spitfire Vb. Made very, very badly of course.

Actually, it was only in the last year or two that I finally got a kit of the "early" Mk I - thank you Airfix yet again. Being so rare a version, it was never a popular subject. So this is the first kit of the flat-canopied Spitfire that I have:


As well as the flat canopy and two-bladed prop, note the early-style aerial mast (very thin) and lack of rear-view mirror.