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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 19, 2023 13:37:46 GMT
How very racist! It was called an entrenching tool, not a spade. Here on the farm we call a spade a spade. I was going to say, back in the day I could have put a little something under your tractor to make it go with a bang, but on reflection I don't want those nice chaps from SO15 kicking my door in, so I wont say it. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Sept 19, 2023 13:47:35 GMT
Here on the farm we call a spade a spade. I was going to say, back in the day I could have put a little something under your tractor to make it go with a bang, but on reflection I don't want those nice chaps from SO15 kicking my door in, so I wont say it. I'm sure you would never have been so irresponsible with explosives sgt Rackham ret. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 19, 2023 13:51:37 GMT
I was going to say, back in the day I could have put a little something under your tractor to make it go with a bang, but on reflection I don't want those nice chaps from SO15 kicking my door in, so I wont say it. I'm sure you would never have been so irresponsible with explosives sgt Rackham ret. Quite right, perish the thought. |
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Post by Ripley on Sept 19, 2023 14:28:10 GMT
I've been there without a uniform or a weapon, when we went to visit Belleek Pottery in Co. Fermanagh years ago. It was at the time of the mad cow outbreak and we all had to walk through disinfected mats at the entrance. Probably TB or foot and mouth. Mad cow disease wasn't contagious. It was caused by prions in feed made from scrapie infected sheep. The most unnecessary disease ever. I wasn't certain it was mad cow because foot and mouth occurred around the same time, I think, so thanks for solving that! A thick layer of pottery dust was everywhere inside the factory, and then the visitors, entering with wet boots after walking through the disinfectant at the door, left nice little muddy tracks. What a mess. I remember noticing that the employees were breathing in great clouds of dust without any protection. |
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Post by Handyman on Sept 20, 2023 11:31:31 GMT
I've never been, I have at times considered visiting though. It is a nice place much nicer and safer than it was, we went to see the Giants Causeway a few years back stunning, we stayed well away from Londonderry and Belfast stayed with friends for the weekend end than back over the border into the South |
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Post by johnofgwent on Sept 26, 2023 21:37:23 GMT
Yes. I went there - to Belfast - to sort out a mapping system capturing the power grid maps for Northern Ireland's Electricity Network Provider back in oh god about 1995 i think
It rained. A LOT
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Post by jonksy on Sept 29, 2023 7:11:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2023 15:33:29 GMT
Probably better as a new thread, but the story doesn't fit the headline. It relates to suspects who were never charged, people should be anonymous in those circumstances, because there are seriously unhinged people who will call them perverts, even though there was never any evidence against them, smash their windows and pour petrol through their letterboxes. Innocent until proven guilty. We can't have vigilante "law". |
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Post by johnofgwent on Nov 29, 2023 23:15:52 GMT
Coming back to the OP…
My daughter wants to take her daughter to the Titanic Museum.
That won’t be happening this side of one of us winning tbe bloody lottery.
I looked up the likely cost of four of us getting over there and back and staying for a long weekend.
Christ on a bike i won’t have much change from two and a half grand.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2023 10:02:09 GMT
Coming back to the OP… My daughter wants to take her daughter to the Titanic Museum. That won’t be happening this side of one of us winning tbe bloody lottery. I looked up the likely cost of four of us getting over there and back and staying for a long weekend. Christ on a bike i won’t have much change from two and a half grand. Now, if Boris had built that bridge . . .  |
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Post by Dogburger on Nov 30, 2023 10:03:25 GMT
Just the once , N Ireland v England 1979 euro qualifier . The inside of one crappy football ground is much the same as the inside of any other . Remember it pissed down all the time we were there ,the pitch was a bog but we won 5-1
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 24, 2023 22:19:00 GMT
Without a British Army uniform and rifle? No but I had a relative over there at the time. He was a doctor and I think he was connected to the military in some way, not quite sure, but he later on worked at Porton Down. Also my old Canadian woman when she was a little toddler lived in Londonderry. I believe that was a hotspot at the time. I think it is why she ended up so crazy. Maybe PTSD or something. |
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