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[johnnydun]

13 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

If Jocky Scott had become national team manager we'd have been World Champions... probably...

 

No probably about it.

 

[Arch Stanton]

When Paul Anka "wrote" "My Way" he based it on a French song called "Comme d'habitude" (As Usual), written 2 years before "My Way" was recorded by Frank Sinatra.

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

When you’re a kid clothes are a terrible gift.

No one remembers that blue t-shirt from 1996 but will remember playing 13 Dead End Drive.

 

[BFTD]

18 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

Pork. Lots of pork.

That list is obviously nonsense though.

During that horse meat scandal, I seem to remember that a lot of it seemed to have come from Romania, but that they don't eat a lot of it themselves.

A quick Google reveals that their most popular dishes include cabbage rolls, beef tripe soup, and something called beef salad. Doesn't it look tasty?

11 hours ago, tamthebam said:

If Jocky Scott had become national team manager we'd have been World Champions... probably...

Only a matter of time before Scotland Gemmill gets the job.

[Jacksgranda]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

 

 

Somebody's been sick on that plate.

[scottsdad]

18 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

2013 John Hughes relegates Hartlepool, 2017 John Hughes relegates Raith Rovers, 2022 John Hughes relegates Dunfermline.

His media pals still think he's a good spud because he won a cup.

Relegating Fife clubs doesn't count, though. 

[Stellaboz]

It counts to us Fifers...

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

9 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

When Paul Anka "wrote" "My Way" he based it on a French song called "Comme d'habitude" (As Usual), written 2 years before "My Way" was recorded by Frank Sinatra.

 

I was expecting Rambling Sid Rumpole.

[Bairnardo]

Watching Das Boot on Sky atm, and having decided that U Boats appear more perilous places to be than I had assumed, googled it and found out an enormous number of them were wiped out by the Allies.

I had sort of thought that U boat hunting in them days was a bit of pot luck, and that they would have been the safest option if you had to be in the Navy.

[tamthebam]

2 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

I was expecting Rambling Sid Rumpole.

How are your moulies, Zen? 

[House Bartender]

I've rediscovered my old sweet cigarette cards (and others) - here's a selection of the football ones for your entertainment (with apologies for them being a bit too England-heavy)

[House Bartender]

Oh I suppose you need the answers to the above. 

The 4 unidentified players are D Cowie; Willie Bauld; ?; Charles Tully 

[House Bartender]

Apologies for taking over the thread, but I was a heavy pretend smoker. That's yer lot.

[Jacksgranda]

2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

I've rediscovered my old sweet cigarette cards (and others) - here's a selection of the football ones for your entertainment (with apologies for them being a bit too England-heavy)

 

2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

Oh I suppose you need the answers to the above. 

The 4 unidentified players are D Cowie; Willie Bauld; ?; Charles Tully 

 

2 hours ago, House Bartender said:

Apologies for taking over the thread, but I was a heavy pretend smoker. That's yer lot.

Stick them in the Photographic History of Scottish Football thread.

[House Bartender]

Just now, Jacksgranda said:

 

 

Stick them in the Photographic History of Scottish Football thread.

Only thought about that after the deed was done, so put a notification in there instead. Can you identify the Aberdeen player beside Charlie Tully - unluckily I don't have card 13 with the answer.

[Jacksgranda]

20 minutes ago, House Bartender said:

Only thought about that after the deed was done, so put a notification in there instead. Can you identify the Aberdeen player beside Charlie Tully - unluckily I don't have card 13 with the answer.

Graham Leggatt?

Or even Graham Leggat.

Edited June 6, 2022 by Jacksgranda
Sleppnig

[Arch Stanton]

Bernard Sumner liked one of my FB posts.

 

[BFTD]

I've got a shoebox stuffed full of cigarette cards that I rescued from the bin at work, as I couldn't bear to see them chucked out.

Unfortunately, they must have been sitting in somebody's damp garage for years, as they're all stuck together. Well, that's what I've been telling myself, anyway.

[philpy]

51 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

Bernard Sumner liked one of my FB posts.

 

How does It feel??

[renton]

22 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

Watching Das Boot on Sky atm, and having decided that U Boats appear more perilous places to be than I had assumed, googled it and found out an enormous number of them were wiped out by the Allies.

I had sort of thought that U boat hunting in them days was a bit of pot luck, and that they would have been the safest option if you had to be in the Navy.

Yeah, sabout 3 quarters of their entire personnel died. They had their 'happy times' when sinking of freight tonnage became worrisome to the British, but the British side generally stayed ahead in terms of tactics and technology. You won't find it dramatised into a mid budget oscar bait starring Benedict Cumberbatch - but the development of centimetric radar really was a massive game changer, alongside long range patrol aircraft and forward throwing ASW weapons: A depth charge would be rolled off the back of a frigate, which meant the frigate basically had to run over the U-boat's position, generating so much noise that sonar contact with the U-boat was lost, allowing the U-boat to quickly shift position during the black out window and escape. Later they had the hedgehog and finally the Squid ASW Mortar which lobbed a ring of munition a 100 metres out in front of the ship, with their depth fuses set by the ship's own sonar,  designed to detonate above and below the U-boat and crush it in a compression wave.

Most dangerous job in the Atlantic was being a merchant sailor on a tanker. Especially the ones carrying aviation fuel. Those guys got extra pay due to the extreme unliklieness of them being able to abandon ship if it were hit.