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22 hours ago, bennett said:

Don't mind Blackpool for a wee break every so often,  though I usually stick a few rods in the car and when I'm doon there I can bugger off for a while.

 

 

 

I like that. "I don't mind going to Blackpool as long as I can fúck off elsewhere when I get there."

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2 hours ago, mathematics said:

We don’t do birthday/Christmas/anniversary gifts. However, I’ll get it for her, maybe even one for me for when we like to dress like the shining twins.

 

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Just going through some old family documents and being accident prone must run in the family. One some Euro trips my grandpa picked up trench foot on one visit and got a mild case of being shot in another.

 

 

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Just going through some old family documents and being accident prone must run in the family. One some Euro trips my grandpa picked up trench foot on one visit and got a mild case of being shot in another.

 

 

 

 

 

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If the Shandon family feet have looked similar down the generations then it's understandable why someone shot it. Probably mistook it for a wild animal. 

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1 hour ago, Shandon Par said:

Just going through some old family documents and being accident prone must run in the family. One some Euro trips my grandpa picked up trench foot on one visit and got a mild case of being shot in another.

 

 

 

 

 

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Charley's War Vol IX.

I wonder if being shot in the arm was a "Blighty one"meaning you went back to Britain to recuperate.

My grandad got shot in the right hand at Passchendaele and was invalided out the Gordons. He had to learn to write with his left hand and became a civil engineer.

In WWII he joined the Home Guard, I've got a photo of him in his Dad's Army uniform.

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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

Remember the olden days when there used to be decent satire on the telly?

 

I think the problem nowadays for satire writers is that the reality is more ludicrous than the fiction could ever hope to be. 

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59 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

I enjoyed those spoof press conferences they had on at 5pm for a while, but they seem to have stopped them

The current UK government has put the nails in the coffin of satire. How is a satirist meant to compete with driving to a castle with the family to test eyesight? Or a PM that goes around shaking hands with a load of people with a killer disease and then ending up in intensive care? And so on...

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