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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 11, 2018 12:29:10 GMT
Hey, Jack, I trust you were out at 11 am on the dot banging your pot lids together to spoil the minute's silence for Bristolians!? ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/nk8u6zh5l/blah.gif) I played the Wolfe Tones, and gave me dogs the guard command... The good boys dutifully charged to the front gate barking their heads off until I recalled them 👍 ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/tek3suwt5/laugh.gif)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2018 13:17:53 GMT
I played the Wolfe Tones, and gave me dogs the guard command... The good boys dutifully charged to the front gate barking their heads off until I recalled them 👍 ![](https://s26.postimg.cc/tek3suwt5/laugh.gif) To be honest mate, this isn't an area where anyone would give a fuck one way or the other. Seeing someone wearing a poppy is the exception rather than the rule. I know a few other local folk who won't wear one on principle, or who wear a white poppy. Most don't bother one way or the other, it's not on their radar. I had an Irish flag up this morning. No British flags to be seen. Nobody knows or cares why I wear an Easter Lily. My neighbours know I am a provo supporter.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 11, 2018 13:26:20 GMT
Most people here don't seem to bother wearing one either. I have one on today (mainly just to annoy you!) but most years I forget.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2018 13:39:34 GMT
Most people here don't seem to bother wearing one either. I have one on today (mainly just to annoy you!) but most years I forget. That's alright mate. I respect your decision to wear one... My da wears one every year. His da was the only one of five brothers to come back from WW1. He was lucky, served at Ypres and the Somme. Gassed back from the Somme, and invalided out. My other granda was a royal navy gunner on Arctic convoy duty in WW2. His wife, my gran was killed in German bombing. I respect my da's choices, he respects mine.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 11, 2018 13:45:20 GMT
Most people here don't seem to bother wearing one either. I have one on today (mainly just to annoy you!) but most years I forget. That's alright mate. I respect your decision to wear one... My da wears one every year. His da was the only one of five brothers to come back from WW1. He was lucky, served at Ypres and the Somme. Gassed back from the Somme, and invalided out. My other granda was a royal navy gunner on Arctic convoy duty in WW2. His wife, my gran was killed in German bombing. I respect my da's choices, he respects mine. Yeah, that's a big loss. No one if my family died in either war AFAIK.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2018 14:01:54 GMT
That's alright mate. I respect your decision to wear one... My da wears one every year. His da was the only one of five brothers to come back from WW1. He was lucky, served at Ypres and the Somme. Gassed back from the Somme, and invalided out. My other granda was a royal navy gunner on Arctic convoy duty in WW2. His wife, my gran was killed in German bombing. I respect my da's choices, he respects mine. Yeah, that's a big loss. No one if my family died in either war AFAIK. My WW1 granda was a Grenadier Guardsman attached to the Irish Guards. Did you know... The Irish soldiers were treated as cannon fodder by the British army? Thrown in to the worst fronts. About 1 in 8 or 9 British soldiers died. 1 in 4 Irish soldiers didn't come home. Irish soldiers were 2% of the 'British' army, but 8% of those the British shot for 'cowardice' etc.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 13, 2018 11:40:14 GMT
Yeah, that's a big loss. No one if my family died in either war AFAIK. My WW1 granda was a Grenadier Guardsman attached to the Irish Guards. Did you know... The Irish soldiers were treated as cannon fodder by the British army? Thrown in to the worst fronts. About 1 in 8 or 9 British soldiers died. 1 in 4 Irish soldiers didn't come home. Irish soldiers were 2% of the 'British' army, but 8% of those the British shot for 'cowardice' etc. Shocking stuff. I'll remember them especially next year at the silence.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 13, 2018 11:40:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 14:07:30 GMT
Not clicking that... But will say, there is something wrong with these self styled so called paedophile hunters... Can't quite put my finger on why, but I don't like or trust them. CEOPS should have a good rummage through their hard drives.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 13, 2018 14:34:27 GMT
Not clicking that... But will say, there is something wrong with these self styled so called paedophile hunters... Can't quite put my finger on why, but I don't like or trust them. CEOPS should have a good rummage through their hard drives. Stout fellows! (and they usually are quite stout!)
Late but still beautiful ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 15:14:40 GMT
Not clicking that... But will say, there is something wrong with these self styled so called paedophile hunters... Can't quite put my finger on why, but I don't like or trust them. CEOPS should have a good rummage through their hard drives. Stout fellows! (and they usually are quite stout!)
Late but still beautiful ...
They are wrong uns mate. Creepy bastards themselfs.
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