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23/10/2024 9:59 am
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Watched a Doco on BBC 4 last night
Dave Tompkins was a petty thief who craved adventure. His career as an international mercenary began in Africa and took him all over the world - to Afghanistan, Croatia and later to Colombia, where he led a team commissioned to assassinate notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He went out with Callan and Copland to Angola he was the explosives guy in the team. While laying some mines he was injured by one going off. Got casavact back to uk just before Callan executed some of his men. Peter McAleese featured. We had one guy in our squadron who was out there he told me that the only way he survived was to keep to SOP’s staying in the bush and no tracks/roads
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024986/storyville-dogs-of-war
08/02/2026 12:19 pm
Used as paint brushes by many a shithouse artists! 😝Â
08/02/2026 10:03 pm
Another thing with IZAL was when you wiped your arse it ended up halfway up your back. Here we are talking shite again
08/02/2026 10:05 pm
Do not stand upon the seat the crabs in here can jump six feet!
09/02/2026 10:03 am
Using the wrong side then Bob.Another thing with IZAL was when you wiped your arse it ended up halfway up your back. Here we are talking shite again
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09/02/2026 10:50 am
🤣 🤣 🤣 Story of my life Don!
09/02/2026 7:36 pm
Romans ad the reight idea, weshed their aresoyle wi sponge on a stick dipped in a bucket o watter, early form o bidet. 🤔Â
10/02/2026 12:43 pm
🤣 🤣 🤣 wonder if anyone got poked in the gob with one and told to stop talking shite!
10/02/2026 7:13 pm
Especially the Roman geezers missis! 😆Â
11/02/2026 2:10 pm
Tiberius dear the slave has just used my shit sponge 😀Â
11/02/2026 7:47 pm
I,ve been sniffing it all day! 😆Â
13/02/2026 2:03 pm
🤣🤣🤣 A Roman slave what a job eh? You can just imagine it at the communal shitter. The overseer detailing the jobs for the day, Right Septumis your on shit sponge cleaning duty today! Heart sinking eh?
13/02/2026 7:13 pm
Fukkin Ell" Chocolate Parade agee-an!" 😝Â
13/02/2026 7:17 pm
There were some cracking jobs in those days, like collecting all the piss to use for bleaching material and tanning leather, then standing knee deep in it all day to trample the stuff round. Night soil (shit) collectors, and of course tasting the ruler's piss and shit to see if he was healthy or not!
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13/02/2026 7:20 pm
What,s that fukkin crab duin in theer? 😆Â
13/02/2026 7:24 pm
Back stroke? 🤔Â
