That begs the question: is there a place called Dim in England?
FYI:
- Begging the question, or assuming the answer, is a logical fallacy that occurs when the conclusion of an argument is used as a premise of that same argument; i.e., the premises would not work if the conclusion wasn’t already assumed to be true.
Andrew Moore said:
FYI:
- Begging the question, or assuming the answer, is a logical fallacy that occurs when the conclusion of an argument is used as a premise of that same argument; i.e., the premises would not work if the conclusion wasn’t already assumed to be true.
Actually I googled “Dim” as an English place name, but it showed no results, hence my question. 
There is a town called Wankdorf in Switzerland , complete with the Hotel Wanker .
Mike Brit
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
That begs the question: is there a place called Dim in England?
Not that I am aware of HJ, but there is a Dymchurch in Kent, famous, I believe, for its 18th. century smuggling. It is also famous for this railway:
Alan Lott said:
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
That begs the question: is there a place called Dim in England?
Not that I am aware of HJ, but there is a Dymchurch in Kent, famous, I believe, for its 18th. century smuggling. It is also famous for this railway:
There are some fine places to be from in this world; myself I’m from Zürich CH, world renown for “The Gnomes of Zürich”. A term near and dear to some Brits. 
Heh! Nice to see some folks with a sense of humor.
There’s Great Snoring. and there is a Little Snoring (old RAF airfield) In East Anglia UK.
In that area during WW2 there were more USAAF and RAF bomber and fighter stations than you could shake a stick at with odd (and silly names to visitors).
They were so close that one could land at the wrong field! (Many did when coming back shot up).
Many of these villages (and some still are villages) were quite used to having ex US WW2 fighter and bomber crews coming back with their families to revist and to visit the big US war cemetery at Cambridge.
Silly little names to some…Big memories to others.
There’s Donna Nook in Lincolnshire .
Who the heck was she ?
My next door neighbour keeps gnomes in his garden . They are weird , too .
Mike
Mike Morgan said:
Ther’s Donna Nook in Lincolnshire .
Who the heck was she ?
My next door neighbour keeps gnomes in his garden . They are weird , too .
Mike
Here you are Mike…seems health and Safety only 50% according to the notice!!
see figure to left…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Donna_Nook(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Donna_Nook_bombing_range.jpg/800px-Donna_Nook_bombing_range.jpg)
Yes , that “keep out when warning flags …” rather spoils the fun , too .
Mike Brit
Within the county of Cambridge, in which we live when here in yUK, there are the following WW2 and present day RAF and 8AAF airfields, and over six thousand aircrew who flew from them who never went home again -
Alconbury
Bassingbourn
Bottisham
Bourn
Cambridge
Castle Camps
Caxton Gibbet
Duxford
Fowlmere
Glatton
Gransden Lodge
Gravely
Kimbolton
Little Staughton
Lords bridge
Mepal
Molesworth
Oakington
Peterborough
Sibson
Somersham
Snailwell
Steeple Morden
Upwood
Warboys
Waterbeach
Witchford
Wittering
Wrattling Common
Wyton
For the Americans here, ‘Memphis Belle’ flew from Bassingbourn. The RAF Pathfinders flew from Alconbury, Bourn, Oakington and Warboys, and suffered the highest loss ratio of any part of RAF Bomber Command.
Just on on the border with Northamptonshire there is Polebrook and another eight airfields.
In total, there were ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN airfields in East Anglia - an area of mainland UK about 1/5th the size of Maine.
Aircrew lossses were horrendous - no other word applies. In just one operation on the night of 16/17 December 1943 - Black Thursday - the RAF lost 70 aircraft and 330 dead. 97 Sqn alone - a Pathfinder unit, lost over a quarter of its entire flying strength of 150 personnel.
tac
Pathfinders…THAT was a job and a half…stooging around at a lower level than the bombers and going round and round time and time again marking the target…I think Bpmber Command lost 45,000 men from UK and the then Dominions. Not sure how many the USAAF lost but it must have been nearly the same…
US readers check this out…it’s .unbelievable even now.
TAC: When I worked in Air Traffic I found a 1946 map showing every airfield in the UK used 1939-45…it looked as though someone had sprayed ink all across East Anglia…
Bomber Command lost 56,000 .
The UK was WW2’s biggest aircraft carrier—and unsinkable .
Mind you , it went a bit deeper in the water with all the military stuff on it .
I have the map that you mention Ross , in fact I have a couple showing routes I took on navigation exercises .
Mike Brit
Alan Lott said:
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
That begs the question: is there a place called Dim in England?
Not that I am aware of HJ, but there is a Dymchurch in Kent, famous, I believe, for its 18th. century smuggling. It is also famous for this railway:
Yes, that is a fine railway. BTW what were they smuggling? sausages from the Continent?? 
I’m also impressed how some took the title of the thread, punched it up a notch to the next level which would/could/should be “Duller and more Boring”. Doesn’t happen all that often with the general thread drift, eh?!?
Mike Morgan said:
Bomber Command lost 56,000 .
The UK was WW2’s biggest aircraft carrier—and unsinkable .
Mind you , it went a bit deeper in the water with all the military stuff on it .
I have the map that you mention Ross , in fact I have a couple showing routes I took on navigation exercises .
Mike Brit
Naw Mike. During the war, all the barrage balloons kept the UK from sinking.
David Maynard said:
Mike Morgan said:
Bomber Command lost 56,000 .
The UK was WW2’s biggest aircraft carrier—and unsinkable .
Mind you , it went a bit deeper in the water with all the military stuff on it .
I have the map that you mention Ross , in fact I have a couple showing routes I took on navigation exercises .
Mike Brit
Naw Mike. During the war, all the barrage balloons kept the UK from sinking.
Actually, I heard it differently from a disgruntled Brit, but I shall refrain …
“Actually, I heard it differently from a disgruntled Brit, but I shall refrain …”
Can’t have been me , Hans , my gruntle is still intact .
Mike Brit
PS . Hans . I really have no wish to cramp your style , I know you said you would not answer any more of my posts , but you do give out very useful information and not so doing because I posted something may mean others missing out on your sound advice .
Carry on and even insult me , far better doing that than biting your tongue on a well thought reply.
Nobody will think any the worse of you for doing so .
But of course , I will understand completely if you do not respond to this .