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2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

I've rediscovered my old sweet cigarette cards (and others) - here's a selection of the football ones for your entertainment (with apologies for them being a bit too England-heavy)

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2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

Oh I suppose you need the answers to the above. 

The 4 unidentified players are D Cowie; Willie Bauld; ?; Charles Tully 

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2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

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Apologies for taking over the thread, but I was a heavy pretend smoker. That's yer lot.

Stick them in the Photographic History of Scottish Football thread.

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Just now, Jacksgranda said:

 

 

Stick them in the Photographic History of Scottish Football thread.

Only thought about that after the deed was done, so put a notification in there instead. Can you identify the Aberdeen player beside Charlie Tully - unluckily I don't have card 13 with the answer.

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20 minutes ago, House Bartender said:

Only thought about that after the deed was done, so put a notification in there instead. Can you identify the Aberdeen player beside Charlie Tully - unluckily I don't have card 13 with the answer.

Graham Leggatt?

Or even Graham Leggat.

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I've got a shoebox stuffed full of cigarette cards that I rescued from the bin at work, as I couldn't bear to see them chucked out.

Unfortunately, they must have been sitting in somebody's damp garage for years, as they're all stuck together. Well, that's what I've been telling myself, anyway.

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22 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

Watching Das Boot on Sky atm, and having decided that U Boats appear more perilous places to be than I had assumed, googled it and found out an enormous number of them were wiped out by the Allies.

I had sort of thought that U boat hunting in them days was a bit of pot luck, and that they would have been the safest option if you had to be in the Navy.

Yeah, sabout 3 quarters of their entire personnel died. They had their 'happy times' when sinking of freight tonnage became worrisome to the British, but the British side generally stayed ahead in terms of tactics and technology. You won't find it dramatised into a mid budget oscar bait starring Benedict Cumberbatch - but the development of centimetric radar really was a massive game changer, alongside long range patrol aircraft and forward throwing ASW weapons: A depth charge would be rolled off the back of a frigate, which meant the frigate basically had to run over the U-boat's position, generating so much noise that sonar contact with the U-boat was lost, allowing the U-boat to quickly shift position during the black out window and escape. Later they had the hedgehog and finally the Squid ASW Mortar which lobbed a ring of munition a 100 metres out in front of the ship, with their depth fuses set by the ship's own sonar,  designed to detonate above and below the U-boat and crush it in a compression wave.

Most dangerous job in the Atlantic was being a merchant sailor on a tanker. Especially the ones carrying aviation fuel. Those guys got extra pay due to the extreme unliklieness of them being able to abandon ship if it were hit.

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And seriously, on a New Order FB group a video was posted to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their single "Temptation". However, rather than play either of the versions which came out in 1982, the musical accompaniment to the video is the dreadful 1987 remix which appeared on their compilation LP "Substance".

I opined as such and it looks like Bernard agrees with me.

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On 06/06/2022 at 12:49, Bairnardo said:

Watching Das Boot on Sky atm, and having decided that U Boats appear more perilous places to be than I had assumed, googled it and found out an enormous number of them were wiped out by the Allies.

I had sort of thought that U boat hunting in them days was a bit of pot luck, and that they would have been the safest option if you had to be in the Navy.

Hopefully this was the outstanding film and not the lesser TV adaptation 

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41 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

And seriously, on a New Order FB group a video was posted to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their single "Temptation". However, rather than play either of the versions which came out in 1982, the musical accompaniment to the video is the dreadful 1987 remix which appeared on their compilation LP "Substance".

I opined as such and it looks like Bernard agrees with me.

Cheers! Was watching the vid of them doing Rock around the Ckock (in about 1986 or 7) with Bernard wearing some obscenely short shorts.

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1 hour ago, Arch Stanton said:

And seriously, on a New Order FB group a video was posted to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their single "Temptation". However, rather than play either of the versions which came out in 1982, the musical accompaniment to the video is the dreadful 1987 remix which appeared on their compilation LP "Substance".

I opined as such and it looks like Bernard agrees with me.

Man liked his shorts short

 

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