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Taipan wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:38 pm :D


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Funny name for a cat. :wtf:
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Lutin wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:19 pm Funny name for a cat. :wtf:
I've heard plenty of them called,'fuck off'.
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"I don't care. I WANT a balcony!"
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Wossname wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:13 pm "I don't care. I WANT a balcony!"
I thought it was a half-hearted attempt at a fire escape. Out the window and fireman's slide down the supporting girder. :D
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The Cutty Sark arriving in Greenwich in 1954.


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That's how to cut a wedding cake. Use his naval ceremony sword. We had to hide it later...
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Explosion of IRA car-bomb in progress; Great Scotland Yard , Whitehall , London March 1973.


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Yorick wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:11 pm That's how to cut a wedding cake. Use his naval ceremony sword. We had to hide it later...

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My Nephew recently became an officer in the Army and has himself a sword now. He's adamant he's going to be cutting his wedding cake with it at his wedding next month, his other half is adamant he won't be :)
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Yorick wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:11 pm That's how to cut a wedding cake. Use his naval ceremony sword. We had to hide it later...

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I’m not sure holding a sharp implement by its sharp edge is how to do anything.

Is it the Marines he’s in?
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Thames barrier doing its barriering...

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Dr.Feelgood posing at the Crescent bar in belfast 1977.

Jeez,how we lived in those days and considered it normal. :roll:

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Skub wrote: Tue Apr 05, 2022 2:18 pm Dr.Feelgood posing at the Crescent bar in belfast 1977.

Jeez,how we lived in those days and considered it normal. :roll:

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Never seen Wilko looking so sedate :D