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Thanks for that mick yep living next door to you as ankle biters was always fun along with Paul and John over the road ,growing up with my dad was experience for me and any friends we had. When you first knew us he could go away for 18 months at a time ,in those days a company would not fly you home you just stayed on ship until you came back to the UK. My dad grew up on the Isle of Arran and when he was eleven he had to go to school on the mainland .So on a Monday morning he would catch the first ferry to Ardrossan and stay on the mainland all week before catching the ferry back Friday afternoon.I guess it is what steered him into a life at sea. He left school at 15 and signed up with British Petroleum ,he worked for them until he retired aged 67. By then he had been a ships captain for more than 30 years. He sailed all over the world from Alaska to New Zealand , spent years working around the Persian gulf running through the difficult years of the Suez crisis .Breaking the oil embargoes into South Africa , by the mid seventies company contracts improved and he got a month leave for his 6 months work and home life became easier for my mother. As a child i never saw anyone that had a dad like mine, get up, put a sharp suit on and then gone for 5/6 months working all over the world.Before the Falklands he did a lot of work with the Royal Navy to figure out the way to refuel naval ships from commercial tankers. BP produced a calendar with photos of 2 huge ships sailing parallel transferring bunkers. In the 1980s the Ayatolla returned from French exile and the Iran Iraq war kicked off , my dad was working for the Iranians under a BP flag. Iran paid to build the tankers , UK lads worked on them training Iranians ,they regularly had to get out of ports under gun fire , nobody wants to be on a 250,000 ton tanker when people start shooting. He was home on leave about 1982 , phone ringing then MOD at our house the Iranians had abandoned both ships and they were loose full of oil in the Persian gulf. He flew out that night with Navy personnel and a team of other senior BP crew and regained control. Whenever he came home in those days within 24 hours MOD would be at the door . When Ghadaffi was being a pain my old man was in Tripoli harbour taking depth readings all over it.Eventually my parents moved away from Bolton to Devon where he retired to play golf and for more than ten years race yachts. He joined a yacht club in Dawlish , no one in it had ever sailed across the English channel , from then on he would take them over to the Channel islands every summer and into the french canal system when i left school i worked on the tankers too for a while and it gave me a tiny insight into the life he had, one with only 3 christmas days before i was 20 , never there for birthdays , anniversaries or funerals. He did not get to attend either of his parents When i worked in his industry i met so many people that spoke so highly of him to me ,but we brought them up from Devon this year and covid locked them in a care home. Captain Michael Tennant Gordon ,RIP an extraordinary life lived to the full with a smile on his face and always an eye for the ladies

Femi😅 Anyway, who said this? We don't all have to resort to novicely copying and pasting entire articles from our newspaper of choice because we can't form our own arguments. Some of us can actually discuss things.

Took the Mrs to watch Adele a few years back, it was the MEN so I knew the beer would be guff. I trotted off to the bar and asked how much was the newcy brown, the lass said it wasn’t on the till because no one buys it so she put it through as a soft drink. £2, so I ordered 5. That got me through the pain of Adele crying for 2 hours

He's already got two "Sir David Attenborough, the naturalist and broadcaster who became the environmental conscience of the nation, has been awarded a second knighthood at the age of 94. Attenborough who was knighted in 1985, has been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael And St George for services to television broadcasting and conservation. He said: “I am, of course, most honoured that my work should have been recognised in this way.” The Order of St Michael and St George recognises service in a foreign country, or in relation to foreign and Commonwealth affairs."

Brexit is old news. Time to move forward. But Boris's lies won't be old news. Hard to argue with much in that video because all he's done is point to the absolute shite that comes out of the buffoon's mouth. He says one thing and does another, always has. I was up for giving him a chance last Christmas. Then he fucked off five Cobra meetings at the start of global pandemic. The rest is history.

I enjoyed reading that, fantastic stuff. real life tales are always more interesting than any fiction can produce. you are right, an afternoon with a few pints listening to your dad would have been fascinating. RIP Captain Michael Tennant Gordon

Also let’s remember this is the Oxford University vaccine that AZ are producing. If you want a real reason to be massively proud of this country watch the documentary about the development of the vaccine. From day 1 the intention was to develop a vaccine that was suitable in terms of logistics and cost to save lives all round the world not just the highest bidder. We should refer to it as the Oxford vaccine.

Spider can sort you out some new gear from the Czech Republic. You just have to wait 8 months for delivery 😁

You were the one who couldn't wait to tell everyone you were going for a coupler of pints in a boozer before you were locked down, plus southerners are cunts

Lets shoot him

I did offer my condolences, but he resorted to bad-mouthing my mother for no reason, so it seemed fair game at the time. It was a juvenile and pathetic exchange, so I apologise to @crawshawbooth, and send him my condolences again.

I've read its faster meaning more people need treatment so hospitals fill up quicker And when that happens, more people die covid or otherwise

😁 That’s got to be worth booking something for her surely. Although I’m sure she will see straight through it your phone will be fun to look through the next days that’s for sure 😂😂

I imagine an Adele concert is basically a bunch of weight watchers crying whilst leaving their exes voicemails

Unless he’s a Green Party vegan. Or has a poster of the ‘Cunts of 92’ on his wall.

You really ought to have started. You’ve some catching up to do. Bizarrely, I have a case of McEwan’s Export that someone bought me. Its a @Youri McAnespie approved tipple so if I start at 2pm I should be eating my own vomit by 6

Will you fuck off 😂😂

Even though its not a mainstream movie, the shocking reveal in "Fistmaster Fightclub" was when it turns out that all three main characters in the film were actually the same person, brilliantly played by our very own @Rudy how he didn't win an AVN award for it, especially the scene where he's administering a full thrust rattling to, as it turns out, himself, is a travesty. No wonder he left the industry.

I was at a bus stop in Sheffield where there was advertisement for Usual Suspects. Someone had spray painted "Hes Keyser Soze" with an arrow pointing to Kevin Spacey.

This thread was a very "interesting", and telling, read. We have some proper bipolar folk in here. At no point on Saturday was I thinking that we weren't going to get it back in the second half. Not once. They left it a little later than I'd have liked, but even at 3-0 down I was saying that we would get it back in the second half. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that the weather was having an awfully adverse affect on our game. Santos couldn't get a read on their high balls in the wind, and gave away foul after foul which led to both of their first goals (from free kicks). For their third, nine times out of ten Baptiste clears that, but for this one time it spooned off his boot right into the path of a Carlisle player with a clear shot on goal. Fast-forward to the second half, and Carlisle showed exactly what kind of team they are. Their tactics did not change an ounce, and they didn't know whether to stick or twist which gave us more of the ball (with the wind at our backs) and of course we put pressure on them. There was only one team going to score in that second half. Also, anyone having a go at Thomason... give your heads a wobble. He's 18, and we've already seen him come on leaps and bounds in each and every game he's played. Add that the fact that his goal put on the road to recovery in this game and he narrowly missed giving us a winning goal in the dying minutes. Sometimes, I despair.

Gets a 1-1 draw at Anfield. First half his formation was 6-4-0. Good for him. Feck 'em.

Certainly been a strange year. Next year must Shirley be better. Ill trump your Harry j with some classic Prince Buster. Happy Christmas.

Mate I'm not one bit surprised he hunts deadly spiders, he was always frightened of fuck all.

Bloody stunning car. I’d love to drive a proper muscle car like that. I took my RS to a Ford fair meet and there’s was a Shelby gt500 mustang which had been fitted with a supercharger,’it was incredible. I’ve seen a few for a decent price. My Mrs thought when I sold my RS that was it, then I went and bought a e30 M3, I’ve seen a beauty mkII Ford in pristine condition. She said if I buy any more cars or bikes she’ll leave me. I’ll miss her