Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: Should be allegiance to the Lodge first, King second. I know you’ll laugh etc, but i genuinely dont know a single mason, i have heard from folks who have retired and know it was massive right up until the 90’s but not now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 2 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I know that the oath of office for police in England and Wales is a pledge of allegiance to the king, id find that beyond what i’d be comfortable with. Given that big luggie apparently couldn't keep his own marriage oath to his first wife, he's got a d@mn cheek expecting anyone else to swear an oath to him. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 2 hours ago, BTFD said: I've just realised that's not the four-colour CGA original. She was probably magenta in that one. Modern kids don't know they're born, with their 16-colour EGA displays and 3.5" floppies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 Ah, the days when geeky VLs such as myself could make cutting-edge double-entendres about floppies that confused the auld yins. Now, we are the confused auld yins 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 2 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I know you’ll laugh etc, but i genuinely dont know a single mason, i have heard from folks who have retired and know it was massive right up until the 90’s but not now. No chance you don’t know a mason. You might not know they’re a mason, but you must know at least one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 11 minutes ago, mathematics said: No chance you don’t know a mason. You might not know they’re a mason, but you must know at least one. This might be a "I don't know any racists" situation, where ICR just hasn't looked at their social media. The only mason I've ever met was an auld boy who tried to sign me up at a few charity events, but it's possible there are tons of them kicking about who haven't died yet and they just don't talk about it with regular folk. You do get the impression that it's very much an aging organisation that'll probably be dead in a few decades, but maybe that's just what they want us all to think. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 38 minutes ago, mathematics said: No chance you don’t know a mason. You might not know they’re a mason, but you must know at least one. But the more general point, that freemasonry doesn’t seem as popular these days, still seems a good one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 54 minutes ago, mathematics said: No chance you don’t know a mason. You might not know they’re a mason, but you must know at least one. No, i know a few people who are masons, just not in the police. Tbh the guys i know are more interested in golfing than wearing an apron etc. given most of the folks in response teams now are 20-30’s id say theres very little interest in the masons etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 8 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: No, i know a few people who are masons, just not in the police. Tbh the guys i know are more interested in golfing than wearing an apron etc. given most of the folks in response teams now are 20-30’s id say theres very little interest in the masons etc. ah, my mistake, apologies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 9 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: No, i know a few people who are masons, just not in the police. Tbh the guys i know are more interested in golfing than wearing an apron etc. given most of the folks in response teams now are 20-30’s id say theres very little interest in the masons etc. Golfers, masons, same thing - rituals, funny clothes, misogynistic environment etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 13 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: I know you’ll laugh etc, but i genuinely dont know a single mason, i have heard from folks who have retired and know it was massive right up until the 90’s but not now. My dad was one, and my brother is one. One of my mates is a funeral director and he is one as well. He tells me that he has loads and loads of cases given to him by the family members of masons. Membership is falling so when old guys die, the families are left with all kinds of stuff they don't know what to do with. They give it to him and it ends up stacked with all the rest. It really is dying out. One thing my brother found interesting - when my dad died he got all his masonic stuff. Looking through it, there was stuff from the lodges in Egypt during WWII that my grandfather was a member of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandmac Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 12 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: No, i know a few people who are masons, just not in the police. Tbh the guys i know are more interested in golfing than wearing an apron etc. given most of the folks in response teams now are 20-30’s id say theres very little interest in the masons etc. As the very wise kaiser soze once said,the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was fooling people into thinking he didn't exist 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 4 hours ago, scottsdad said: My dad was one, and my brother is one. One thing my brother found interesting - when my dad died he got all his masonic stuff. Looking through it, there was stuff from the lodges in Egypt during WWII that my grandfather was a member of. Lodge Cheops 175 was the one to be in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Freemasonry is dying out- good news for Celtic then. They've really, really, suffered these last few years through masonic refereeing conspiracies... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 THE PEOPLE'S PAPER 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Masons are arseholes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 6 hours ago, Granny Danger said: Masons are arseholes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Masons are Stoners? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted August 31, 2023 Share Posted August 31, 2023 Masons are harmless. In fact they're probably a net good given the amount of charity work they do. The anti-catholic myth peddled by sonny jims is a load of rubbish too. It's the other way around. Pope Innocent 12th issued a papal bull in 1738 forbidding the faithful from joining the masons. The masonic policy of equality and especially secularism was a direct threat to the church's power at the time (and especially after a bunch of masons overthrew monarchic rule 40 years later and created a determinedly secular constitution for their new country). I'm not a mason, but one of our service users is obsessed with it, hence the knowledge. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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