Glenconner
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What a shit deal you got if you were of military age between 1914 and 1918. Conscripted to fight in a horrible, pointless conflict which lead to the loss of millions of lives or go to prison; get killed or disabled, or if you survive, as yet unrecognised PTSD or maybe picked off by the Spanish influenza.
But hey, in 100 years time at least you'll get Rangers fans demanding everyone wears a red plastic thing, X factor judges will wear even more elaborate red things, and members of the aristocracy will put down red things at stone pillars, and none of them will probably even be able to point out on a map where you suffered.
That's all you get. I'm not going to part of celebrating that so no poppy for me. The old lie - dulce et decorum est etc...
Conscription started in 1916 except in Ireland for some reason.
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Not any more, stopped about 5 years ago, I think.
If I was still smoking i doubt if I'd still be here.
The consultant said stopping smoking was the best thing I could have done, but he would say that, wouldn't he?
Quite frankly, I've never felt right since I stopped!
Do you still get the notion for a ciggie?
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I'm now down to 46%, but as it was 47% last year, the nurse was reasonably happy. I was delighted, as I thought it would have been worse, as I felt I had deteriorated this year.
I'm being put on a new inhaler, my wife's friend is on it, and she swears by it "F*****g brilliant", she says.
Last year's result was so disastrous I ended up getting an X-ray, a scan and a consultation with a specialist!
Are you a smoker?
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Belfast next week should be fun.
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It was a common thing years ago for the poppy sellers to go door to door. No big shop displays then, just a collecting tin and a wee bag of poppies next to it at the till
Remember a couple of women going round the doors.
Think they were local Church of Scotland members, totally harmless.
Remember the auld fella kidding them on "so where abouts were you two on D-Day?".
In the 1960/70s your average 40/50 year old man had been in a war.
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Loved looking through this thread. Would've loved to have been to some of these old stadiums back then. Completely different era of football nowadays
The Beach End at Aberdeen pre seating (wooden benches) circa 1973 was class.
Surprised how little that gets mentioned.
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Im sure I heard a story that the game was played in the afternoon and a few hours later that evening Queens Park played a rearranged league match at Hampden
May have been a load of pish but has anyone else heard of that?
Celtic played at Hampden on a Saturday night about 40 odd years ago when the old main stand at Celtic Park was getting a new roof.
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I'd like night vision goggles if anyone's buying.
Would it be possible to drive wearing those goggles?
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I'd like night vision goggles if anyone's buying.
Why?, does your team not have floodlights?
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GlenConner - police informant.
Beware of all informers lurking in our midst.......
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Is Annabel Goldie too old for Ruth Davidson?
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I wear a poppy in memory of the stupidity of both my grandfathers who volunteered for WW1,.
A 100 years on the volunteering part seems odd.
And the strange part about singing and dancing in the streets when war was declared.
Can only think the public had been wound up for years regarding hating Germany.
Probably have saved millions long term had they fought with Germany.
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Apparently George Orwell and his friends used to play a game of guessing who would be a collaborator if the Nazis won the war and occupied England.
Might be a good game to play with regards to P&B posters....
A good start would be the 2 million No voters.
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Insightful. You should write books with your acute historical knowledge.
That was 1935 and is shameful but retrospectively so. They weren't over there endorsing genocide.
Behave.
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Heard of another British Legion social club. i won't name it, that ended up by run by the local underworld.
Thought that was slightly surreal.
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Think they built a new town there, naw hawd oan.
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They knocked down the British Legion is Kilsyth. It sold the cheapest beer in the town. I would guess there are other towns that are suffering the same fate.
Lest we forget.
Castlemilk is gone as well.
What about the one in Motherwell that had the reb nights.
Oi, don't shoot the messenger.
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Didn't some leader chap from the Royal British Legion go and visit Mr Hitler?
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I've noticed portakabins on both Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street in the last week, both of which are selling all manner of poppy-related goods - tshirts, hats, hoodies, etc.
Is this now a thing? I've never noticed anything like it before.
One's Poppy Scotland no argument there.
The other is some hardcore loyalist outfit who give money to terrorists.
So i was told.
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Then everything seemed to freeze then bang bang bang the shops lights wen't out one after the other untill there was complete darkness.
Everyone screaming could hear kids cry but the intire sky was like a bottle green colour and the sun seemed 10 times closer and it was pitch black, so i have started running all i can hear is screams and the sound of the bombing sirens and police sirens.
I being to run around in the direction of my home the same way i walk home everyday yet the building had been knocked down years back and replaced the old buildings were all still there so i'm still running trying to get past hundereds of people then i look back up to the sky and all i can see now is green smoke in the air with the pitch black sun still there then people infront of me start dropping like flys one after the other until i see two people infront of me drop then finally me.
I drop to the floor i can feel my organs collapsing and i'm choking on the smoke, then i wake up out of my sleep but i still can't get out of the dream i'm still there yet part of me is telling myself i have woke
sounds like he has ended up sitting next to the green brigade imo
Good one.
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Going by an old article about Bailleston Juniors in the Evening Times, sure the original plan was to move the ground into land between Garrowhill and Easterhouse behind what was then called Smillie's Garage.
Think a five a side outfit have been on the site now for years.
Pity it never came off.
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What great nostalgic pictures of fantastic old football stadiums, Archibald Leitch would of been proud.
Archie was a strange fellow.
Manages to kill at least 25 people and injure hundreds more at his first attempt.
Then goes on to have a great career!!!
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Poor sods never made two bob out of being the BCRs.
How much talent they had is open to question.
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Yip, not everyone who voted no is a flag waving unionists.
True, some of them are Vichy French.
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