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Makom

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  1. Please. I'm not an idiot, so kindly don't treat me like one. If you don't know (or are just pretending not to remember) how that particular campaign was meant to be implemented, kindly go and read the proposal first, and then come back to me with something that makes sense. Suffice to say, various things needed to happen first before it would be announced, either by an individual or by a group.
  2. Which was a quality idea. One of many. Would have achieved the stated objectives, and then some, because it's bold. Shame that people decide to obsess on that one, which I freely admitted was pretty 'out there' and risky, to the point of even lying about what it proposed, instead of focussing on the other more reasonable ones, such as the Puma campaign. Which frankly had a darn sight more chance of succeeding than the genius 'don't buy anything from any company that has ever been associated with Ashley ever' nonsense, which I guarantee has made zero impact. Unless anyone here wants to tell us who in their circle has either even heard of it, or is indeed carrying that idiotic list around with them in the aim of adhering to it.
  3. Some of you people. Man alive, get a hold of yourselves. I'm simply an NUFC fan who lives in the west of Newcastle, barely a 20 mins bus ride from SJP, who has for a few years now made a stand against Ashley by not giving him any money. I'm also doubtful about the strategy of the SackPardew.com/AO.com peeps, and I'm not afraid to express those views on fans forums. I'm also not remotely convinced that recent developments in the club represent any kind of meaningful change, and therefore I'm not about to change my mind about going to the game, or otherwise start being cautiously optimistic, based on nothing. And most importantly, I don't crumble and have an emotional breakdown whenever some tool on the internet decides to call me a mackem troll instead of trying to have a decent conversation with me, and I certainly don't care when someone has to actually change my username on an internet forum in a desperate attempt to get my attention. I know it must come as a shock to the people here who have perhaps developed some weird clique (which is what I assume all those references to perpetuality etc are about), but I'm not remotely out of the ordinary, and if you actually stopped to think for a second, I could be any one of a few thousand people in this city, possibly even more - I can only estimate the numbers from my own experiences IRL of course. I think a fair few of you simply detest me because, in truth, you're probably still part of the broad church of supporters who are still giving Ashley your hard earned cash, and therefore will never like what I have to say about you. But no, I'm not about to change my mind because people are mean to me on the internet. Sorry like, Tom et al, if that ruins your day, or indeed your whole reason for existing.
  4. It's their problem if they let spackas like "Wallsend Mag" hound me out for being a mackem troll, and it later turns out that I'm not and actually live closer to SJP than 95% of their members (much like this place), and that most of what I told them that was wrong about SackPardew.com which would be repeated with AO.com if run by the same people has come to pass. It's their loss, they're the people who now need to figure out how to maintain the integrity and honesty of a supposed NUFC fans forum when it's quite clear that over there, due to the unchecked nutter element, if you don't like Ashley but don't back AO.com unfailingly 100%, then you're not a true fan and you will be banned for being a "mackem troll". Of course I don't expect you to have a fucking clue what I'm on about, because you've got no fucking idea why they banned me or what I was saying over there. Your only interest here is to show much you don't care about me, by telling me you don't care on an hourly basis.
  5. Aye but you just don't care, right. Fucking obsessed.
  6. It's a reference to the lazy and ignorant way they react to opinions they can't handle. Anyone whose spent any time there would know what I'm on about.
  7. 24 hours of Le Mans is on right now on Eurosport, finishing tomorrow (Sun) 2pm.
  8. Too cool to be schooled. Or just genuinely not bothered whether or not Lee was trying to inflate his record of the backs of those who did do these things. But yes, I'm the cunt here.....
  9. http://www.griffonmerlin.com/ww2_interviews/christopher-lee/ I think he's actually let the cat out of the bag in this very interview - as he says, he doesn't write about these supposedly secret parts of his service, both because they're secret, but also because it's "not very interesting" to talk about the war. He says he was attached to Paddy Maine's unit, but as anyone who knows anything about this subject knows that pretty much every day of Paddy's military career has been documented in one form or another (because, secrets or no secrets, stories of the original SAS are in high demand), and pretty much every man who fired a gun during the period of airfield raids in the desert is documented as part of that narrative. And yet his name comes up nowhere, nobody has thought to include this notable association, not even as a footnote. It all only ever comes from him, it would appear. Clearly, whatever it is he was doing when on these attachments, it was certainly not running around the desert at night, silently stabbing airfield sentries in the back. Anyone who reads his anecdotes or learns about how he 'can't talk about his special forces' work, and gets the impression he was intimately familiar with the business of killing in the way the LRDG et al went about it, frankly deserves to know the truth, because as you'll know if you read up on it, many of the guys who were doing that never survived the war, while others went off their nut with what we now know to be PTSD, or otherwise came to a miserable end after failing to re-integrate with civilian life and developing issues like alcoholism. Those lucky enough to go on to have successful civilian lives invariably got written about by others, whether they liked it or not, unless that is, what they did was not particularly dangerous or daring (granted, the intel work that he may have done was vital, but not dangerous). Edit: And as I said earlier, thanks to the military obsessives on Wikipedia, you can easily compare and contrast what is known about what Paddy got up to during the war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Mayne, with what little was written in Lee's biography about his time with the SAS. Bearing in mind that all of time he was with Paddy is the time he's claiming is Secret.
  10. As long as you're happy, that's the main thing. As for funny, well, we can work on that I guess.
  11. Like I said, you're the funny one. Change it or not, if you genuinely don't care, stop wasting my time with this nonsense.
  12. Cans of what? Tartan paint? Pull the other one. I was there, I saw it happen with my own eyes.
  13. Like I said, you're the funny one. "Makom" Hilarious. Still, you don't care, right.
  14. Whatever. There's been more fake outrage in this RIP thread for this much loved actor, which now also contains a pic of a cat's balls, than there was in the RIP thread on the army forum, where the suggestion that his record may not be all that wasn't greeted with much surprise at all. I guess that's the difference though, different readers, different expectations of reality. But even so, unless some of you are actually Lee's secret love children, then quite clearly you've gone way over the top this time with your own little desperate fixations on me. Like I said, the fastest way to restore this thread to some kind of dignity would be to roll it right back - but what a shocker that that doesn't seem to be being considered.
  15. And I'd rather people didn't fuck with my username for no good reason and then claim they don't care about it, but shit happens. But yes, it would be a travesty to lock the thread just because certain people can't get a grip of themselves and allow what was almost a sensible conversation about Lee's special forces record break out, and instead simply pollute the thread with mindless insults. My suggestion would be to simply delete all posts up to and including my original one, since it's pretty obvious nobody here cares about that issue either way, and I'll simply not post in it again.
  16. My username says different.....if it doesn't bother you, change it back. I'm pretty certain you were the one who changed it - the only other admin here is Ant, and I remember him because he's the Irish guy who wanted to fight me after I said something about gypsies. It's how I tell you two apart, he's the fighter, you're the comedian.
  17. Still not a mackem though, which must absolutely boil your piss. You were so certain of it.
  18. Change the record, you've been calling me a cunt ever since I said whatever it was I said about Scots that got your panties in a twist. You just tediously turn up and repeat it wherever I happen to be posting, like, well, like a typical Scottish cunt if I'm being honest.
  19. I don't need to see it to believe it, I just need to hear it from someone who knows it actually happened other than the person who claims it happened. I'd have made a good copper really.
  20. Right, just to satisfy you twats, I've just checked the most well known army forum. There's only a 4 page RIP thread on Lee, and barely any of it talks about his army service, and most of what is said on it is no different than I've said - impressive, if true. And they appear to know as much about that as anyone else it seems. The only evidence offered up that he was anything to do with special operations is funnily enough the sort of third hand anecdotal stuff that simply casts him as someone who was quite fond of having people believe it was true, without actually talking about it in enough detail for anyone to be able to verify if it happened. He was apparently a keen collector of military insignia in later life, which is not normally something that interest the people who actually lived it. He was even said to be friends with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Peniakoff in later life, who is someone who was also coy about his wartime exploits (but which at least appear to be far more known about than Lee's) - and yet even he appears to have over-egged the pudding by claiming to have done things he arguably never did based on what's actually known (that's according to the society dedicated to venerating him btw). So, if Lee was a stand up official secrets kind of guy, would he have been friends with someone like that? Or is it not more likely that these two were kindred spirits, and rather liked people thinking they'd done things they perhaps never did.
  21. I really don't need to look to know the likely truth of this. A good sign there's no verification out there is the Wikipedia biography. It's incredibly detailed regarding all his non-secret service, giving an almost month by month account, so obviously historians/biographers have written about it at length, yet there's no independent verification for the SAS/SOE claims. As bad as Wikipedia is on other stuff, they absolutely love to write about military history. So you can pretty much take it as read that when all they have to say on the issue is that the person themselves simply used to say that's what they did, you know there's nobody out there at all who has verified it. The only conclusion can be that either every single person who knows Lee was ever attached to the SAS or SOE has decided to stay schtum and nobody else has found a single shred of evidence to say what he did or even that he did, or he just made it up or is otherwise sexing up what might have been a very trivlal/minor role - attached to the SOE for example could mean he was simply sitting behind a radio set in London, just like attached to the LRDG can simply mean his squadron was ferrying them around.
  22. How would I go about looking into it, if it's supposedly still classified? I don't think I'd learn anything from a military forum that I don't already know about what's out there to independently verify these claims (or isn't), which is kind of the point.....
  23. You're the only one in here desperate for a reply from a certain someone......
  24. You've got no evidence either, that's what's hilarious about this whole thing. Him saying he was in (or attached to) the SAS and SOE appears to be the only evidence out there that it even happened. That's what peaked my interest, because its rare to find so little information about the war record of someone who served in these units and then later became famous. You can respect someone's privacy while still saying you were serving in unit X, Y, Z at the same time as Lee (since he's not taking the view that this is such an issue of privacy or 'official secrecy' he doesn't want anyone to even know he was in these units), and indeed I've seen plenty of such mentions. Which reminds me, I'm pretty sure the official text in the official secrets act is that even saying you were in the SOE is a violation of it - just as you wouldn't today be able to say, yes, I was in MI5, I just can't tell you what I did.
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