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  1. I spent a lot of time in Germany with the BAOR, One thing I remember very clearly was sitting in a pub chatting to some Germans among them was a elderly gent. He explained it like this "Yes most of us knew about the atrocities, where I lived I could smell it, but did I say anything, no way never otherwise I and my family would have been in the same camp." Just about says it all I think.
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  2. 873. I agreed with you then, Fly and I still do. As always the winners tend to write the history. I am not defending Hitler or Nazism, but most of what I have read and heard about ww2 was written by the allies. I do not remember anything at all being taught about it in school. We were just the good guys and the only good German was a dead one. I have great respect for the many fine men who gave their lives in two world wars, but I'm sure there were many equally decent blokes on the other side who gave their lives too. Over the years I've learned the phrase 'if you want to g
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  3. Since moving I don't have any garden, so I invested in a plastic green house, I managed to get in two tomato plants and one cucumber in large pots. Touch wood I have had 3 years of good crops. A friend of mine told me that you could not grow these two plants together in such a small space, but hell !!! what doe's he know (men don't like it when they are wrong). My potatoes I also grow in large pots and have had good results. This year I'm trying kidney beans in grow bags at the moment all is well. Now don't get me wrong I used to love my garden also when I was knee high to a grass hopper I spe
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  4. The winners reap the rewards as they say. It's the poor old foot troops that suffered most. I always say that not every German was a Nazi, neither was every Confederate soldier a slave owner. However, the Japs ! ......... Now that's a different story!
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  5. Straight after chemo on Thursday I went down to the Park Hotel (ex Savoy) where I met Mrs C and Pat and John McKenzie. Pat (nee Bond), a Sherwood girl, was Linda's friend and at school with her, and emigrated to Australia 42 years a go. We haven't seen them since. After a drinks we used the bar menu at the hotel - between us there was a mixture of hot and cold dishes, some soup and glasses of wine. John's brother was there also, so there were five of us. The bill came to £81. Perhaps a little steep, but it was hotel prices and the occasion was special. The photo was taken two hours after chemo
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  6. One of my father's favourite sayings was "The scum always rises to the top!" How right he was!
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  7. Not going there. The thread will get labeled political. All I would say is, don't believe everything the media tells you. There are a few barm pots on there too.
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  8. There's nothing wrong with Germans. Heinrich Heine, Wilhelm Muller, Beethoven, Schiller, Nietzsche, Brahms, Mendelssohn and of course Johann Sebastian Bach. All brilliant minds. Every country throws up the odd barm pot now and again. The thing to do is to avoid following the herd.
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  9. Playgrounds are for kids NOT pubs, with ONE exception, pubs are OK for WELL BEHAVED kids, not noisy chav scrotes.
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  10. You know you're reaching maturity, when you feel like the day after the night before, and you didn't even go out,
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  11. If that's unsuccessful then I begin muttering about 'Come back King Herod'.
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  12. I always reckon there should be dining in certain pubs, but I prefer a restaurant, especially mid week and in school term time. I more often than not choose a table well away from kids, but if anyone brings in kids and attempts to sit near me, then I give them one of my 'looks'.
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  13. It keeps them open, but pubs are for drinking not eating, kids in pubs? No not for me if you want to go to the pub get a babysitter.
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  14. Loppy, have a quick peep at the topic 'Why we hate the British' post #41. That's my view in a nutshell.
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  15. Recently watched the movie "The Boat That Rocked" - well worth watching, the story of a fictitious pirate radio station in the 60's I did not know that under the terms of issue of your "Wireless License" it was an offence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to listen to unauthorised broadcasts which probably included those of Radio Luxembourg and almost certainly all the "pirate" stations. Hands up all of you that broke the law!
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  16. Duh!!!! Sorry mate. Force of habit. At least I don't say it to the ladies. I can't edit it now or I would rephrase it to 'Gentlemen."
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  17. We're ALL dual heritage for goodness sake. Romans, Normans, Celts, Danes, Vikings, Goths, Jutes, Vandals, Druids. Just when will this stupidity end and we wake up and come to our senses ? Also, the other day, some half witted news reader informed the population that it was .... Wait for it ! ..... National Standing on Your Hands Day. You what ! The worrying thing is, that some over educated, oxygen wasting, over paid useless article is getting damn good money for thinking up this crap, and who's paying for it ?...... You got.it, US. As dad would say 'It makes you want to spit '
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  18. Shurrup moaning you lot, it's nice to go out to a good restaurant occasionally.
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  19. Amos and andy show was old world comedy I found it very funny but it would have no chance with the pc riddled luvvies today Calhoun the lawyer was hilarious he always got amos in more trouble than he was in the first place and the wonderful saphire long time ago meeowed
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  20. Went to the dentist the other day and as usual things were running late. Why is it that parents allow their children to run riot in waiting rooms?. The parent in question was more concerned with activity on her mobile than what her two little horrors were up to. They found the water dispenser to start with, the eldest paying five visits to it and the younger one making more noise than I thought was humanly possible with a cup of water. They then decided to start kicking two balloons about as if they were in a field. It was a good job the dentist was not checking my blood pressure because it wo
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  21. Have you noticed that JS is on her third avatar; each one depicting her a little older. I like the latest - nice décolletage (love that word). In August we are going to see her as she really is - I am selling tickets.
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  22. Yes please Ben, don't forget your tool box! First instruction was 'Take cap off'. We couldn't even work that out as neither of us was wearing a cap.
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  23. I agree with all above comments, but I think in the late 50/60s it was fashion / fashion / and more fashion. Most of us can remember shopping at C/A British Home Stores (before Mr Green owned it) Marks and Spencer all though this at the time was for the hummm! older ladies. We did not get paid a lot but you could always buy from the catalogues Littlewoods, Empire Stores and many more where you could pay a little money each week. HOOOPS Sorry gents I forgot your fashions well best place to go for a suit was of course Burton's /John Collier/ or Hepworths. The master all-ways chose Bu
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  24. Going back I thought for men a 3 piece suit, nice cut jacket tailored trousers and four button waist coat also loved a man in a real shirt. For women nice stiletto 4inch at least a full skirt belt around waist, cap sleeve blouse, and hair done nice and tidy (long or short) won't mention stockings with seems might get some members excited, OH for the days of Mary Quant, Vidal Sassoon and many other's. To-days fashions well!! I wish some of the girls/boys/men/women/ would just take a look at their selves before going out of the front door. Though we must not tar every one with the
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  25. #1. Christ!!! Someone who got it right first time. She has achieved the impossible.
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