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  1. Chucky has had a half decent career as a night watchman, although he was stuck in the dressing room padded up for years waiting for the Geoffrey Boycott of the World Royals test 11 to edge one to first slip. He's came in ready to land a quick 50 knock but has been dismissed 3rd ball to a steaming seamer from Nicholas Whitchell in his last over of the day for the BBC arselickers 11. Howzatt.

  2. 25 minutes ago, MazzyStar said:

    Is HCMC worth visiting? 

    Only been here 2 days it's a big city with a few things to see, the independence palace and the war museum are cool as you get it from the vietnam perspective, only stopping by then hitting the coast and heading north. Too much traffic though but a lot cheaper than Cambodia.

  3. I'm wrecked in Ho Chi Minh city thinking it was a 4 o'clock kick off, I forgot we have a globe with different time zones.  Ah well I'm back in my hotel with some beer. A link in a PM would be much appreciated. as my usual reddit ones have been shite lately.  I think a draw would be an acceptable result in Tbilisi especially without 3/4 shoe ins. 

  4. 5 hours ago, Autistisches Nilpferd said:

    Scotland's number one Darts player showing how much he remembers

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    Do all these overtly crass displays and fancy dress remembering goons not realise how stupid and disrespectful they look. Wearing a poppy is fine by me but FFS these clowns are making it all about themselves  or using it as some kind of get it up ye

  5. 1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:

    If Sunak doesn’t sack Braverman over her latest stunt then she will do something just as provocative in the next couple of weeks.  She wants to be a martyr and it’s just a matter of time before he’s forced to boot her out.

    The longer he waits the more his credibility suffers.

    If he had any balls he'd do a re-shuffle and give her the NI post.

  6. 2 hours ago, BMunro said:

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    You need to see the context of these photos (read below)   Was Donaldson a Nazi sympathiser? I doubt he was a political Nazi but probably seen them as the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Mind you The former king Edward III was seen as sympathetic to the Nazi cause and actually visited with Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler. The government at the time knew he was OFTW. Viscount Caldecote, a member of Churchill's cabinet, warned him that the Duke "is well-known to be pro-Nazi and he may become a center of intrigue." 

    In July 1933, he told former Kaiser Wilhelm II’s grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, that it was 'no business of ours to interfere in Germany’s internal affairs either re Jews or re anything else.' 'Dictators are very popular these days,' Edward had added. 'We might want one in England before long.'

     

     

    It's known that at least seven substantial Hitler Youth groups, each of about twenty young men, took cycling holidays in Britain in the 1930s. These were generally the older members of the Hitler Youth: in their late teens or early twenties.

    Their itineraries were usually built round visits to the great English historic sites - Oxford, Cambridge, London. Though one party was touring Scotland and another finished in Wales.

    In July 1937, 22 young German university students, who were members of the South Bavarian troop of the Hitler Youth, toured Lincolnshire and were entertained by Spalding Rotary Club who fed them a 'sausage and mashed potato supper'. Apparently they charmed the local people with their good manners.

    Some of the Hitler Youth groups met or shared camps with British Boy Scout groups. The most striking was the Tamworth Scout troop - for whom this was a return visit. They had already been guests of the Hitler Youth in Hamburg earlier in the summer, thanks to their very pro-German Scoutmaster.

    They had stayed at a Hitler Youth camp and even taken part in a torchlight rally. One of the boys, Les Fardon, told Radio 4's Document Programme some years ago: "It was like a Roman legion," he said. "You had these long banners and you were marching to tune... it was very stirring"

    Another of his fellow Scouts remembered it as being a very exciting trip, and he recalled how even the British boys fell into doing the "Heil Hitler" salute. "They liked you to do it," he added. Both boys made friends with some of the Germans.

    When the Hitler Youth came to visit them in England, it proved controversial, and prompted intense debate in the pages of the local paper, the Birmingham Post. The head of MI5 asked to see the letters sent to the newspaper.

    The most pro-German was R. Charles Lines who wrote about the farewell supper for the Hitler Youth: "Many remarks passed to me by Tamworth residents showed very plainly what a wonderful impression these boys have made during their stay. There is no doubt that Tamworth has thoroughly enjoyed entertaining them and I know how splendidly local people have risen to the occasion"
    In 1938 Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout movement, had a warm meeting with two Hitler Youth leaders, Hartmann Lautenbacher and Jochen Beneman, as well as the then German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop - later Hitler's foreign minister.

    Baden-Powell wrote to von Ribbentrop: 'I want to offer my grateful thanks for your kindness in receiving me yesterday and giving me the opportunity of meeting Mr Beneman and Mr Hartmann Lautenbacher.

    'More especially, I am grateful for the kind conversation you accorded me which opened my eyes to the feeling of your country towards Britain, which I may say, reciprocates exactly the feeling which I have for Germany.'

    'True peace between the two nations will depend on the youth being brought up on friendly terms together in forgetfulness of past differences.'

    Baden-Powell was invited to visit Hitler in Berlin. However, no meeting took place because war broke out the following year.

    2 hours ago, BMunro said:

     

     

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