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  1. They only took 500 up to London today, another pathetic following. Too busy sliming around Millenium Square dishing out blow jobs to Swansea fans I expect...
    13 points
  2. I'm not sure how to word this as I would never try to belittle what happened there as it was utterly horrendous, but for me, Belsen shocked me more. I'm not going to try and use numbers as a reference as to why I think that as humans should never be referenced as just a number but Belsen was harrowing. Especially considering they never actually had gas chambers there (no matter what the Sex Pistols may have sang about) I suppose it didn't help that my grandad was one of the first wave of troops that helped liberate Belsen. From listening to the people that knew him before that (especially my nan) they all say he was never the same afterwards. As a kid growing up he would tell me loads of stories about certain parts of the war (he was a desert rat fighting Rommel through Africa/Egypt and Italy). He told me about scratching his name on the sphinx and how his best friend burned to death in a tank that he escaped from, but he absolutely refused to speak about Belsen and what he saw. One of the great British reporters of the time Richard Dimbleby (father of David Dimbleby) said at the time "Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which... The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them ... Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live ... A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days. This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life." Every day of our lives we should be thankful that we have never had to see or live through the absolute horror that people of only two or three generations past had to live.
    6 points
  3. I worked at the army base just up the road from Belsen, the old train station warehouse was still there and chillingly the cobbled road made by the inmates that led to the concentration camp. During a snowy day, work was called off so me and a friend decided to pay a visit to Belsen camp, it was staggeringly quiet, no birds could be heard, but the huge mounds all around you with the numbers of buried interred, unbelievable, a haunting place that was uncomfortable to see today so God knows what it was like for the soldiers liberating it, don't forget this was a work camp, not an extermination camp, horrendous place.
    5 points
  4. This is probably very near to the truth.
    4 points
  5. Things we take for granted. I was chatting to a Pompey fan and when I said I was from Bristol he asked me did I support rovers to which I replied there's only one team in Bristol. I then relayed a few facts to him such as the one testicled Austrian who saved them the ignominy of having to apply for re election for finishing rather embarrassingly bottom of the entire football league in 1939. Or the poor chap buying a season ticket for row N of one of the tented stands only to find out that it doesn't exist. How embarrassing. Or the hugely embarassing time they were relegated to non league by a team wearing their own kit. After recovering his composure from laughing uncontrollably for several minutes the Pompey fan duly agreed that there is in fact only one team in Bristol
    3 points
  6. 2 points
  7. M for Mansfield....too painful to add that row. Better to pretend it never happened.
    2 points
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  9. L As a PH Driver in Bristol I’m often asked if I’m from the Red half or Blue half of the town. I always reply I’m from the Red two thirds, but I’m soon going to have to say the Red Three Quarters.
    2 points
  10. People, I commend your discussions on Belsen and that abhorrent time in our history, I think you have fully put that brain dead idiot with the flag in his place. So, moving on..... any news on the Azteca Kumquat? By my reckoning they only have 22 moths left to meet Wael of fortunes “realistic” deadline.
    2 points
  11. Row M mate, not N. Bloody Teds always exaggerating for comedic effect.
    2 points
  12. Quick reminder that Bristol Rovers are scum and I for one, ******* despise them.
    2 points
  13. one that requires a season ticket to a padded cell I would suggest - on the subject of suggestions, can anyone else name another club who's fans are so odd? Their conduct is absolutely bizarre to put it politely
    1 point
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  15. Fantastic story.Shame it never happened.
    1 point
  16. ******* hell that is pathetic. @_dhoty candidate.
    1 point
  17. Shame for them that most BRISTOLIANS prefer City and think Rovers are a laughing stock. Strange that, isn’t it? I suppose it’s far better to be more popular among the people who’s opinions really matter. I guess we’ll just have to console ourselves with that ?
    1 point
  18. Perhaps they should, henceforth be renamed “da famous quarter”
    1 point
  19. The Fokkers who flew out of Wally’s wallet when he last opened it .
    1 point
  20. Co-op was pretty empty the last time I was in there. The dates on the crisps were fine though.
    1 point
  21. Looks like someone has stolen their line.......
    1 point
  22. I was out having drink after work tonight and pointed out to one of the prowed loyal and true that we will have 3x, almost 4x more than their attendance vs Gillingham. His response...? "You sound bitter" #gaslogic
    1 point
  23. "Six goals, a red card, and a highly memorable overhead bicycle kick from Rovers striker Jonson Clarke-Harris which will be spoken about for years is certainly a good advert for the third tier of English football" Really?? A rather industrial overhead kick in a 3-3- draw against Accrington Stanley in front of 6500 fans?? Hardly going to be remembered once a long hard winter kicks in and results/attendances flounder. However, a sublime pass from none other then Matty Taylor for Korey Smith to slide in a 93rd minute winner against Man United in the quarter finals of the cup in front of 26,000 fans and millions worldwide.....now THAT will be spoken about for years!
    1 point
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