PaddockLad

They voted dubya in twice ....of course he could win... In other news, Labour are voting for a new leader... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/16/labour-leadership-candidates-boring-rightwing-frankie-boyle Is it ok to say I think Liz Kendall is a tiny bit hot in a sort of "sexy librarian" kind of way?....

9am tomorrow....away at Bournemouth first game...

Takes the biscuit this like... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-transfers-brighton-defender-lewis-5894542

I'd rather watch pro -celebrity brass rubbing with Sandy Toskvig

Those pictures of the area managers wife came in handy then mate

Great news mate are you still doing the sponsored bike ride thing?...

I bet with his sparkling wit and smart repartee he's an absolute fuckin whizz at parties...raconteur, bon viveur, cunt.....

Cat don't you live in Washington??

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how many Toontastic'ers would pass this??. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/could-you-pass-the-poshness-test-to-get-a-job-in-the-city-prove-it--bylZgc_Kwbx Alex if your out there my money's on you

From 2:09....

Classic mackem comment no. 1: "obsessed" The mask is slipping makkers...

Forces tv disagree. I know who my money would be on.... I imagine he was of the old school when it comes what happened when he signed he official secrets act. In other words he kept things secret. And he was probably asked about it quite often during interviews in a 60+ year film career.

http://forces.tv/60797077#uYqiRD3FvMmbgHAi.01

I lean pretty much to the left but even I think the BBC can be pretty biased the same way. Its not so much the content, its the choice of things like the items the they lead with..the individual journos are pretty straight iyam, apart from the fuckin old tory twat Paxo..

Can I say that you're a boring self regarding prick?

Caulkin is a great journalist and for me cares deeply about Newcastle United and its supporters but I think he sometimes forgets he works for Rupert Murdoch

Christopher Lee in the wickerman was one of the great cameos of cinema iyam...he's a fuckin loon Ron Moody....Oliver and??....Am sure he was doing something in the west end in the lady decade or so?...

Mission accomplished CT

Its a tiny bit encouraging iyam, time as always will tell..I cant see what will change unless Charnley is being handed a budget with complete control over it and the err "football three" decide on the players who come in, without Ashley rubber stamping everything. If Ashley is still having the final say not a fucking thing will have changed.

Why do they all dress like members of an SAS squadron thats just been dropped from a Chinook near Leipzig circa 1972?...

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Clearly an Edwardian gentleman of some standing..thats a great pic I think grandad was attached to the 118th siege battery RGA, when I was looking at all this I'd half convinced myself that he must've been with one of the Scottish based batteries but its pretty certain he wasnt as (I think) the likes of the Inchkeith battery exisited before the war started and the 118th was raised speciffically for the Flanders punch up. Theres a book called "Intermittent Gunfire" which is the diary of a RGA officer from around that time, I got it for my old man but it seems to have disappeared from google...there appears to be a good few more on amazon though http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=node%3D271431&field-keywords=siege+battery&rh=n%3A271431%2Ck%3Asiege+battery

Yeah he died in 1979 aged 81. I remember him pretty clearly, but most of what I know about him comes from my old man. He seems to have talked a fair bit about the Western Front.He was in a siege battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery loading shells on to 9" Howitzers that sat on rails to make the huge recoil easier to control.Apprarently he like thousands of others lied to join up at 16 or 17. Him and his mate walked the 15 miles from their village in Berwickshire to the recruiting centre at Galashiels. He got to the front and the officer took one look at his young features and lead him back behind lines where he waited on tables at the officers mess at the battery HQ for 6 months until he was 18. He was good at this as he was brought up on large country estates as the son of a gamekeeper and so knew how to address the gentry correctly. He was behind the front line when he got injured at a chateau the officers used when they were withdrawn for a few days "r & r". There was supposedly a "gentlemans agreement" between the hun artillery and ours that this gaff wouldnt get targeted if we didnt aim at their place but they always sent one or two shells a week close by just to keep our lot on thier toes, it was one of these that got him. He had a long period of recuperation when he got back in various hospitals one of which was called Bangour in West Lothain. He and my old man were sat in a bar in Edinburgh sometime in the 70s where he got into conversation with an old woman sat at the bar. Turns out in her younger day she was a lady of extremely easy virtue ( ) and she and other women in the same trade were "encouraged" to spend time with the recuperating soldiers..she actually asked him "were you in Bangour after the war?" so Grandad must have made a distinct impression on her After all that, he was apparently scared of absoloutely nothing, theres stories of him killing rats with his bare hands, and he was exceedingly sceptical about the church after he returned, barely setting foot in one after his return which was unusual. I dont suppose he was much different to thousands of other lads who returned (as did his two brothers, one from Ireland where he was serving with the KOSB during the 1918 Easter rising in Dublin) but sat here 100 years on its pretty plain he personally and his generation in general were truly remarkable men. He's here with my nan, old man and auntie in the mid thirties: