Med/MadHatter

5 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

He would just turn it into another branch of Sports Direct.

Better than whats there already!

Mike Ashley is looking for an EFL club to buy apparently. If he bought them and then they were relegated perhaps the newspaper headline would be "Ashley Down"........I'll get me coat

23 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

My wife has done the same to me, now I'm getting suggestions for 80s hair metal bands and country music ffs!

48 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

As I recall, Darrell Clarke was a huge fan of the Bulldogs.

And 2 stroke apparently 

1 hour ago, pillred said:

Blimey I thought I was old!! (or was that the 80s version?)

The 70s version, I was still at school so had to bicycle down there from Winterbourne :laugh:

26 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

I’d never been to Eastville. I didn’t start watching football until they’d @#@#@# off to Bath. 
When you hear tales reminiscing about their spiritual home, it paints a picture of an impressive old ground - whereas, in reality, from what I can see, it’s was a ramshackle dump. 
Probably only matched in its Chernobyl like appearance by their current ramshackle dump..!

They really have, always, been a stain on this City! 
Absolute festering blight on the landscape, wherever they have left their skid mark stain of existence. 
 

I used to love going to Eastville Stadium every week.............to watch the speedway! :laugh:

5 hours ago, Slippin cider said:

There was a clothes shop near the bus station that sold all the top gear of the day , Paradise Garage? ....

I bought some beautiful ocelot trimmed winklepickers from there!

2 minutes ago, TomF said:

Hope he misses out on the Canello gig now

Couldn't see it happening anyways once the Corona lockdown came into play, his one chance was this May I feel.

5 hours ago, Super said:

This moron should be thrown out of boxing. He is a disgrace.

He really is a Grade A idiot!

4 hours ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Shouldn’t laugh really but 

Ooof! Expect a backlash Billy Boy, perhaps he should leave the social media alone, he's not clever enough to talk his way out of his blundering idiotness

 Recommend "Oz", the prison drama from HBO,which you can get from streaming sites, if you have plenty if time on your hands! One of my all time favourites 

Hunters on Prime

The Staircase on Netflix

47 minutes ago, myol'man said:

He'd have to use his clowns outfit instead

I still think the best description of "da faymuss quar'ers" I've seen on here that sums it up perfectly for me is "Jester wear" :laugh:

5 hours ago, NOTBLUE said:

People wearing snide gear and people buying snide gear.

We were poor so alot of my clothes came from Eastville market, :laugh:, some really odd shaped coats, jumpers etc

9 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Mary loves Dick.

I'm can't wait for  the Clinton Baptiste podcast that deals with the passing of Derek Acorah, will be riotous :laugh:

18 minutes ago, Lordofthebling said:

 

Clinton Baptiste, now I'm getting the word........... :laugh:!

I put "buy more big screens from Steve Lansdown" as one of my answers

4 hours ago, Cider_boy said:

https://www.surveygizmo.eu/s3/90205355/Fan-Survey-2019-20-Mid-Season

:laugh:, have completed the survey, I'm sure they won't like it!

4 hours ago, RED4LIFE said:

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.

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.

13 hours ago, bcfc01 said:

Don't forget Hillman, my old man had a Husky followed by a Super Minx - had a hell of a kick back when starting it on the crank handle.

And Triumph, I had a Dolomite Sprint and followed that up with a Stag - both blew head gaskets twice. Loved both of them though. But the love of my life was my first motor, a Lambretta Li150 which got me and my Mrs to Weymouth and back on many occasions.

Back on topic, that memorial "stadium" looks like a tinpot shower of shite which belongs a few tiers down in the football pyramid. Its shockingly bad for a football league club. How much is a bit of paint FFS.

 

 

Aaaahh! Those were the days! Forgot all about the kick back from the cranking handle :laugh:

On 09/08/2019 at 01:05, Markman said:

Becki B was from Bristol I think?

Clem Burke (Drummer Blondie) is playing at the Thunderbolt next week (Thursday I think) with a band called the Tearaways - I shall pop up for a visit - certainly worth the £12 or so - I will wear colours in case any other City turn up 

(the emoji is a safety pin)!

Becki was from Frampton Cotterell, went to school with her

Watch Wilder suddenly change his plans now! 

My feed must be a long way behind

Ruiz is taking the belts as it stands

18 hours ago, Midlands Robin said:

Another issue the sags owners have to contend with is currency fluctuations. I presume the money that has been underwritten by the family is paid through Dibley sports from Jordan therefore it has to be converted from Dinar to Sterling in order to then go on and pay the bills. Every big movement in value can add or subtract thousands of pounds. 

:laugh:, Dibley Sports, nice one!