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Just checked with my eldest niece, who still goes, takes a couple of sisters, their various kids and grandkids, all with Season cards. Yes, you’re right, it was Gary Charles, niece says I am getting senile, to which I replied she is only 7 years younger than me, so her turn soon. There is a photo she sent me somewhere of the whole family, plus friends, taking up almost a whole row in the BC Stand. She is the family custodian of all things Forest and will get my memorabilia when I fall off my perch. Or her lads will. 2 years ago near Christmas, we lost her kid brother, the family Black Sheep, a real rogue but Forest bonkers, had “COYR” on the back of his neck and “FTID” on the front. He had mountains of Forest gear in his drawers and wardrobe, strips going back to when I took him all over the grounds as a kid. Including Europe. He had face and neck cancer, could not talk, not an easy death, but retained the Willaims SOH. When we were pretending (as you do) that he might beat it, I asked him what first thing he would want when he was better. He thought for a bit, then wrote on his pad: “A WOMAN!” Then erased it and wrote “A BAD WOMAN!” His ashes are in with my mam & dad, where he lived for a couple of years after his dad my self-righteous bro, kicked him out.
Gazza should have had a red card nailed to his head while being carried off on the stretcher, IMO. I have never understood the leeway that he received, as if all his problems were not his own daft fault. One of the most talented players England ever had, so many people tried to help him and he just boozed it all away.
Please don’t remind me of Jason Lee, no talent or ability but have to say, gave 100%. He ended up in the back of the opposition net more times than the ball did. ?
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Fixed that as well!
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I'm out.Pompey won yesterday “Everyone favourite second team” Rob
Not my fave second team, sorry Rob. That would be Nottingham Forest Reserves…..?
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I'm out.Stephen had a good day. It’s 3am, and one is about to retire. Also one is struggling to type with one eye closed.
Then one should type with one eye closed from now on: grammar and spelling perfect! Maybe alcohol is a cure for dyslexia???
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I'm out.I remember that Semi, BL. Keane, Psycho and the 2 Gary’s, Charles and Crosby, scored. Have to admit it was a bad sending-off, never a Red card. Hackett was supposed to be Top Ref, but he made a lot of errors. I have just finished reading Big Sam’s autobigraphy, titled (what else?) “Big Sam – My Autobography” and he has some uncomplementary words for most refs. No, on second thoughts, make that all refs! It’s worth a read, especially if you are a supporter of one of the many clubs he played for or managed. It’s honest and straightforward, also full of some very funny stories, but only goes up to 2015 so doesn’t say anything about life after leaving the Hammers.
The aggro towards London teams, began after bad experiences at QPR, involving London Mounted coppers. Queueing on South Africa Road, some of the Forest lads were being pushed against the wall in the tunnel there. One with more mouth than sense, said loudly, “This horse must be a Mare, it has a C*** halfway up its back!” The officer in question shoved the horse into him, he fell and was injured by hooves, taken to hospital. The aggro got worse at the game, a 1-1 replayed draw with 2 disallowed Forest penalties. Fans started fighting, me and mates made our way out and back to the station, well before the final whistle. Every club has its minority of nutters who come to make trouble, Forest no exception, but in the minds of the Forest nutters, after that, all London clubs were tarred with the same brush. It’s daft, but they also believe that all Londoners are Cockneys, which is the same delusion as saying that all Scots are Highlanders. We won the replay and went on to win the League Cup, or whatever version of it was running at the time. Steve’s lot would call it The Mickey Mouse Cup.
The FA cup final after the WHU Semi, was a horrible game for us, against Spurs. Gazza should have been sent off for kicking Gary Crosby in the chest, never even received a yellow. The best defender we ever had (Des Walker) of all people, scored an own goal. It just made the nutters see London clubs as the villains again.
The pub you mention is the TBI (Trent Bridge Inn) and does a roaring trade during both football and cricket matches. The only time there was ever serious trouble there, was against the worst, most obnoxious fans in Britain: Leeds. They started a fight in there one Saturday before the game, all the Forest lads and the staff left, police moved in and lost it, so they actually chained the doors shut and left them to wreck the place. In the end the Leeds “fans” were fighting each other, all pi**ed and raving. The Riot Squad opened the doors and the survivors (!) were either arrested or taken to hospital. One of my mates knew the landlord at the time and he says they did him a favour, as the insurance paid for doing the place up.
Usually that pub is a good mix of opposing fans, with no trouble, but Leeds fans are detested almost everywhere. Personally, after Hammers fans looked after me in 1966 when I was AWOL to watch England win the World Cup, I have nothing but good words for WHU fans. But some Millwall fans are as bad as most Leeds fans.
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I'm out.Yes the first £1million player, TF. Repaid that with his 1979 Euro Final goal, great to watch him working with Robbo, but he became injury-prone and missed the second Final, when Robbo scored the winner. Cloughie didn’t help matters, having taken a dislike to TF, based (according to a mate who was a long-term Scout and a mate of Peter Taylor, in the mid-60’s to late 80’s) on pure jealousy. Remember that BC had been a high-scoring striker for Middlesborough, Sunderland and England before his injury. TF was brought in by Peter Taylor, not BC, and Clough himself always had a thing about highly-rated players. He apparently believed they were all ego, although Francis was a good guy: I met him at a couple of Supporters Club functions and he was fine, no attitude and always had time for fans. I dread to think what BC would make of some of todays “stars”! We got that £million back from Man City, but he was always on the treatment table there too.
Forest also paid the first £100,000 fee for a player – Jim Baxter, in December ’67. That did not go to plan either, although he started well. His 1st and 2nd games were during the Christmas holidays. I was over at my aunts in Stoke and my cousin drove me to the first game, at Stoke. “Slim Jim” was fantastic, made all 3 goals for Lyons and Hilley, in a 3-1 win. The return was at Forest and he again made a goal each for Joe Baker and Hilley, scoring himself with a brilliant run from his own half. 3 – 0 this time. I saw both games with my cousin Bill and his mates from the old Boothen End at Stoke’s Victoria Ground. They were all quiet on the way home, so was I, although that was hard! Fortunately my cuz was a Port Vale supporter, so the atmosphere was OK back at my aunts…
Forest gave Slim Jim a “Free” back to Rangers in ’69. He was a heavy boozer, would be paralytic until the early hours of Saturday, then go out and play a great game. All caught up with him in the end of course.
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I'm out.Don’t get excited, she had probably read the Weather Report. ??
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I'm out.Defo!
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I'm out.After a Forest first game of the season win* last night Steve, anything is possible. Just be careful how you slip away, don’t upset the Duchess.
*We rarely win the first game! Blacklion will be chuffed, it was Millwall.
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I'm out.There’s always a stampede…
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I'm out.No good deed goes unpunished…
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I'm out.Fricking Cornish, they are all nuts.
As a Devonian, I agree wholeheartedly.
I remember a hag in Truro once, as I got my car into a Blue Badge space before she could. The vile stuff spewing from between her black teeth, had to be heard to be believed. When she paused for breath, I asked if she had a Blue Badge: “NO oi don’t need no “”!!!****???**! Blue Badge, oi lives ‘ere!”
I pointed out that she still needed a BB to park in this space, but as she was a local, if she could produce a legal BB, I would move and let her take the space. More obscenities followed. Having had enough, I proceeded to inform her that I had once worked for a boss who had a pig farm, and his best Sow was not only better-looking and smelled much better than her, but had more interesting conversation and probably made better bacon. I really thought she would have a heart attack, but she eventually drove off in a cloud of Red diesel smoke.
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I'm out.Thanks for the link Ed, I will be getting that book, I love scary-future stuff.
Steve you get scarier and stalkier. (is that a word? Yes I just used it, it’s official.) ?
But a completely digital monetary system may well be the end run. It could be the way that the current government would like it to be, at least until another lot make it to the Westminster Home For The Bewildered. Making it easy to control the size of Welfare payments, and even who gets what, must be Theresa’s Wet Dream. Corbyn’s Wet Dream is nationalised railways, using Steam locomotives, because that’s what worked in 1947.
But the truth is that some form of cash economy will always exist, as long as Brit natives will not do the work that immigrants carry out. Those workers need cash to send home and set up a business back in their own country. However, now the £ is reduced in value against the €, the UK may not look particularly beneficial as a place to earn money. There is talk that a lot of Portugese workers have already left Boston, but there may be replacements from – let’s say – non-first World countries.
The future is one of Corbyn’s steam loco’s coming down the tunnel, and we are all rabbits on the line, gone Tharn* in the headlamps.
*From “Watership Down”.
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I'm out.IMO the problem is caused by China’s attitude to a citizen’s right to privacy, which does not exist in the PRC. They do not understand such rights, as their government does not abide by the practice, on any level. The individuality of Western peoples, is not something they can easily comprehend.
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I'm out.I saw so many scenes in Afghan and Iraq, where lads were hung about with so much crap. We had it better I think in some ways, not in others. EG; the webbing we had was bloody awful, but we were not hung about with too much of it. We just carried as much ammo as we could get into BD pockets and webbing pouches, but it was heavy 7.62 stuff.
I often wonder if I could have handled the RM training. I believe that I could, because at that age I just did not give up and I hated being “beasted” to make me pack it in, it just made me more determined. On the Para course, I told my mate back in my unit that I would see him in 2 weeks. Friday night, came back, collapsed on the bunk covered in mud, woke at 2 am, went into the showers still in my gear and hosed-off the mud. Cleaned and dried it all, went for a run after another sleep. I knew I had to be fitter than ever to do it. I lost pounds in that 6 weeks, but it improved my running and I could tab (yomp to you?) for hours. P company 20 miles, was 4½ hours, what was equivalent RM distance/time?
I feel knackered just remembering it all! But it taught you what you were capable of. It also helped me, being a distance runner, which I loved.
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I'm out.The only problems I get on my Hotmail account (now under Outlook) are the “Adult Dating” emails I get, usually two a day. They are all shoved into Junk by Outlook and I Block them from there. The address changes slightly every day and back they come next day, must be electronically-generated. I have been offered several “Dates” by several female names that look British. Only problem they have, is running out of names: some are coming back for the 3rd and 4th time. I look upon it as the brown and smelly disappearing into the electronic sewer.
I also have a gmail account which puts lots of Scaninavian Naughties into Spam, from where I do a Sweep once a week and Delete Forever.
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I'm out.Chris that looks like some kind of Flight Helmet, maybe the love child of an Apache Pilot’s helmet and a respirator from an NBC suit. ? I have never seen anything like that. I also hated helmets, as a matter of fact I liked the old RM woolly hat, was it a helmet liner Steve? Comfortable, nice for sticking bits of camo in the weave, and the right colour. A big Welsh REME mate who had served on attachment with Booties gave me one, he had several in his locker, never asked where from. I have a pic wearing it somewhere with the lads, me looking all desperately warry.
I still have my old Jungly hat from the Borneo job, well most of it. I had 3 altogether, because all sorts of crap dropped onto them, they rotted. Always turned it inside out before wearing, all kinds of crawlies fell out. We used to bring Geckos back to the block in them, stick them on the walls to catch and eat bugs. Geckos happy, we were happy!
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I'm out.Which link Tadaska? The cheapo Wilkos one, or the Logitech K290?
I just found a new, cheaper link for the Logitech at Amazon, at £26.03 – https://tinyurl.com/ydfbvj8u
Remember my warning, I love it but it does not suit everyone.
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I'm out.In the AAC they were all Aircraft, differentiated as Rotary or Fixed wing. We called a gpmg a gimpy, yes, but all weapons were Personal Weapons, whether pistols (then a 9mm Browning) or the old SLR, or in my case, an L42A1, the rebarrelled old .303 Lee Enfield. I loved that weapon, it was such a stable firing platform. I would have enjoyed a shoot with one of those .50 calibre Barretts that SF’s use now.
Agree, Steve: bullets and guns do not exist. It’s bulleted rounds and weapons.
The SLR, before I changed to the L42, ejected across to the right and up. As a LH shot, that made things dangerous for my eyes, so I had to turn up the gas regulator. Which meant more cleaning for me, as the barrel soon carboned-up. As daft as the Army is, I always had to have an SLR in the Armoury, even after I had the L42, which I had to Qualify on 4 times a year. So I had 2 personal Weapons, later 3 as they had all sniper-qualified personnel take a 9mm Browning. I got good with that too, after a great instructor showed me how to tuck it into the web of thumb and index finger, forcing it down onto my thigh. That makes the grip rock-steady. Never had to use it in anger though, which for a sniper is good news. If you have to use one in action, the opposition are too close and you are probably well-frigged if they are in numbers.
I could run and zig-zag pretty quickly then, as well! I think the AAC in my day had to have some all-purpose people like me, as the Regiment was still small then. Only pilots wore the AAC badge at first, the rest of us were still REME.
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I'm out.I have a Logitech Comfort K290 KB – https://tinyurl.com/j8e3qj2
This is the most comfortable KB for my arthritic hands, as it has a sloping front palm rest and the rear tilt legs are slightly higher than normal. Does not suit everyone though: a mate who bought one also has bad fingers and could not get on with it, although I suspect that is a factor connected to impatience. Before I got my new Hearing Aid, I couldn’t hear the mechanical keys in action, but now they make a real racket! I switch off the HA, which also has the benefit that I cannot hear SWMBO 2 rooms away. ? The Logitech has more features than I need really, but I got it for the comfort option.
I do have an old Trust KB in one of my Bits Boxes, if the Logitech dies.
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