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Topic starter
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
31/03/2026 6:29 pm
On to the lambtex, off with the playtex and on with the durex! 😆Â
01/04/2026 4:04 pm
Bongo Bongo Land comes to "ONCE" Great Britain. Best deterrant against the fukkers? A few bursts on the Gympi! that shud soort the kunts out, ideal compost for the farmers!
Topic starter
01/04/2026 4:25 pm
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01/04/2026 6:22 pm
Just don,t ferget ta put the kunts thru the wood chipper first, cos az they say, "Every Little Helps!"
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03/04/2026 1:34 pm
Send in clear, over.Cheaper just ta av lego,er on lambtex in fronta jeremiah! 😍Â
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03/04/2026 3:43 pm
OK Don, Much cheaper to have the legover on the lambtex in front of the fire, copy that? 😝Â
Topic starter
03/04/2026 5:10 pm
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03/04/2026 6:25 pm
Bloke once told me Dave, he had his leg over in front of the fire when a log splintered with a crack a piece of which burnt his arse!Â
03/04/2026 7:16 pm
Never set fire to damp timber Bob! Once got some coyle off the beach ta burn n fukkin ell! Spent the neet behind the sofa out o the line o fire! 😮Â
04/04/2026 7:10 pm
The sea coal men used to make a Bob or two collecting it off the beach in the north east, flogging it to people who weren't pitmen!
05/04/2026 8:19 am
Used to be stacks of it on the beaches round here from all the Kelly's coal boats that sank over the years, mostly due to terrible maintenance. I've dived on a lot of them, in one place 2 one on top of another that sank in the same place a year or so apart, maybe insurance jobs! There's one near Portavogie that went down in a snow storm on St Patrick's day 1917 called The Upas, when it's cargo shifted turning it turtle. The cargo, lumps of coal twice the size of yer head fell in one pile on the sea bed and we once planned to use a heli cargo net to raise it a ton at a time and make our fortune, but never got round to it. A mate found a pair of binos and was able to give them to the son of one of the 3 survivors who bought them the day before he sailed on her, as he'd told an interview on the wireless in the 60's just before he karked it! Interesting days, now sadly over as I haven't dived since being spasticked! 🙄Â
05/04/2026 10:49 am
I see they have been talking about the USS Montgomery which is submerged in the Thames Estuary with tons of volatile WW2 munitions onboard, I'm sure the Russians and other not so friendly people throughout the world would be delighted to know that for future reference!
05/04/2026 12:58 pm
I fished over that once while on a course at Chatham, not realising till later why it had all those 'danger stay away' signs attached to it's masts that still stick out of the water! They reckon if it went up it would wipe out the 3 Medway Towns! 😜Â
06/04/2026 1:32 pm
Just hope nobody is stupid enough to disturb it!
