Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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I may be wrong with my black and tans reference !! anyway, I prefer to try and write from memory than google for accuracy !!! anyway you get the idea about longevity and who people may have met and their stories from the past.
anyway, bless him, Mr A is a damn sight more interesting to talk to than the general 100 yr old's you meet, or older people. mainly because he is fully coherent and not gaga.
once walked the "pendle witch way". got in conversation with an old bloke in a pub who was having it on about having seen the witches being burnt. Yeah right, in what the 15th C !!??
anyway, bless him, Mr A is a damn sight more interesting to talk to than the general 100 yr old's you meet, or older people. mainly because he is fully coherent and not gaga.
once walked the "pendle witch way". got in conversation with an old bloke in a pub who was having it on about having seen the witches being burnt. Yeah right, in what the 15th C !!??
thainy77 said:
Exactly the same happened to me at Sea World, my ex was trying to shoe horn me out of my seat, she had more chance of moving Shamu!
They only seem to do that at SeaWorld. I was there a couple of weeks back and coming from the UK it was a major cringe fest. I don't mean that disrespectfully just that we're far more reserved. The US is just far more patriotic. It's hammered home in their schools.
At Epcot they have an area called The American Adventure. While we were waiting to go in they rolled out some a cappella singers (Voices of Liberty I think they were called). The crowd was mostly American and once they started singing, they managed to whip the crowd up into near hysterics. It was bizarre to watch from a British point of view.
thainy77 said:
98elise said:
I agree. In florida we were at a show in one of the theme parks, and they asked for all serving and ex members of the armed forces to stand up (not just American). They then asked for a round of appause. I'm glad I remained seated.
Exactly the same happened to me at Sea World, my ex was trying to shoe horn me out of my seat, she had more chance of moving Shamu!Picking up on the Waterloo veteran thing, there was a 14yr old subaltern with, I think, the Skins, who were on the frontal slope during the French barrage who survived the battle despite huge losses to his battalion. He lived until a ripe old age as I recall & anyone who was born in the 1880's could have met him. Plenty of young soldiers of similar age who saw action in the Napoleonic wars & later Crimea. My dads mum was born in the 1880s & only croaked in the late 70's. She had relatives still alive in the 30's who'd fought in the Crimea. The generational gaps can be quite significant & span centuries in short order.
Fat Racist C**t of Hearts said:
"Celebrating with us tonight, down at the front here, we have some lads who were in the Falklands, fighting at Goose Green..." (pauses to rapturous applause from the audience).
[i]"They're Argentinian...and if you want to clap for sh*t like this, that's your f**king problem!"
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[i]"They're Argentinian...and if you want to clap for sh*t like this, that's your f**king problem!"
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It would make Gervais and that walking turd Corden look like angels
Edited by silverfoxcc on Tuesday 24th May 15:55
austinsmirk said:
I may be wrong with my black and tans reference !! anyway, I prefer to try and write from memory than google for accuracy !!! anyway you get the idea about longevity and who people may have met and their stories from the past.
anyway, bless him, Mr A is a damn sight more interesting to talk to than the general 100 yr old's you meet, or older people. mainly because he is fully coherent and not gaga.
once walked the "pendle witch way". got in conversation with an old bloke in a pub who was having it on about having seen the witches being burnt. Yeah right, in what the 15th C !!??
Just making sure he wasn't spinning you a yarn - or maybe he really is the world's oldest man.anyway, bless him, Mr A is a damn sight more interesting to talk to than the general 100 yr old's you meet, or older people. mainly because he is fully coherent and not gaga.
once walked the "pendle witch way". got in conversation with an old bloke in a pub who was having it on about having seen the witches being burnt. Yeah right, in what the 15th C !!??
Echo66 said:
Picking up on the Waterloo veteran thing, there was a 14yr old subaltern with, I think, the Skins, who were on the frontal slope during the French barrage who survived the battle despite huge losses to his battalion. He lived until a ripe old age as I recall & anyone who was born in the 1880's could have met him. Plenty of young soldiers of similar age who saw action in the Napoleonic wars & later Crimea. My dads mum was born in the 1880s & only croaked in the late 70's. She had relatives still alive in the 30's who'd fought in the Crimea. The generational gaps can be quite significant & span centuries in short order.
Indeed. The last survivor of the Crimean War actually died in 2004. TTwiggy said:
Echo66 said:
Picking up on the Waterloo veteran thing, there was a 14yr old subaltern with, I think, the Skins, who were on the frontal slope during the French barrage who survived the battle despite huge losses to his battalion. He lived until a ripe old age as I recall & anyone who was born in the 1880's could have met him. Plenty of young soldiers of similar age who saw action in the Napoleonic wars & later Crimea. My dads mum was born in the 1880s & only croaked in the late 70's. She had relatives still alive in the 30's who'd fought in the Crimea. The generational gaps can be quite significant & span centuries in short order.
Indeed. The last survivor of the Crimean War actually died in 2004. He was torpedoed 3 times (twice in WW1 and once in WW2). His name was not Albert!
My dad was a Staff Sergeant who served in North Africa during WW2.
I'm rather pround of both of them.
ThunderGuts said:
Similar with my grandfather, didn't mention a word about his time in the RAF, until in his 80s a speech was given about him / his life story by another relative at a random, unrelated event.
Somehow ended up with the BBC then wanting to do a special for one of the anniversary celebrations. That was put to and end when he had a stroke.
Some of the correspondence between him, the UK and the US war depts poat-war is pretty interesting.
Kind of makes me look upon 'look at me in my important hi viz, spotlight shining 4x4xfar' a little dimly
Yes we had the same thing Granddad would not talk about what he did in the war. He took keeping quiet seriously even up to the day he died.Somehow ended up with the BBC then wanting to do a special for one of the anniversary celebrations. That was put to and end when he had a stroke.
Some of the correspondence between him, the UK and the US war depts poat-war is pretty interesting.
Kind of makes me look upon 'look at me in my important hi viz, spotlight shining 4x4xfar' a little dimly
It was only his wife grandmother who a few years before her death and about 15 after Grandad did tell a bit of what he did do but she was very reluctant as she was told by him not to tell.
We understand and from cross referencing - Granddad apparently was delivering orders and sensitive information under cover as being a tailor - he was going all over the place, onto ships/bases/abroad under the pretence of making uniforms. Other bits we could not tie up and were never told. He was an officer in the RAF but also had an officers naval uniform. He lived in Portsmouth and then moved during the war to Scotland for the RAF He went away a lot. He was a big fek off bloke you would not want to meet in a dark alley. So most 2nd hand from Grandmother but he would not tell us. He was not a tailor.
baldy1926 said:
baldy1926 said:
Theres a guy who lives a couple of streets away from me.
He's got a crew cab 130 defender which has the light bar etc, he's just had another vehicle turn up.
A transit van which he has been busily putting stickers on. He has nice battenburgs each side now and markings on the rear door similar to motorway maintenance.
I've not figured out yet if he is pretend rescue or pretend police yet.
Didn't have my phone with me today but another van has appeared and hes started putting battenburg stickers on that as well.He's got a crew cab 130 defender which has the light bar etc, he's just had another vehicle turn up.
A transit van which he has been busily putting stickers on. He has nice battenburgs each side now and markings on the rear door similar to motorway maintenance.
I've not figured out yet if he is pretend rescue or pretend police yet.
The transit i saw yesterday has plenty of extra lights so i cant wait to see what goes on the new van
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Had my phone with me today but only 2 of his vehicles there
baldy1926 said:
The landy has a solar panel charger on the dash so no problem with a flat battery for those emergency call outs
baldy1926 said:
Didn't have my phone with me today but another van has appeared and hes started putting battenburg stickers on that as well.
The transit i saw yesterday has plenty of extra lights so i cant wait to see what goes on the new van
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Had my phone with me today but only 2 of his vehicles there
I would be reporting him to the police - he is clearly intending to impersonate a police officer.The transit i saw yesterday has plenty of extra lights so i cant wait to see what goes on the new van
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Had my phone with me today but only 2 of his vehicles there
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EnglishTony said:
baldy1926 said:
The landy has a solar panel charger on the dash so no problem with a flat battery for those emergency call outs
B. Underneath the roofrack and above the windscreen is a sticker I can't quite make out. Something 4x4.
Yep i think they are blue lights and the headlights have a blue tint as well
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