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Forum: General Chat 14-08-2016, 14:45
Replies: 374
Views: 375
Posted By umpire
Re: Labour Party

Sorry, got truncated somehow.
When I started work my dad said " a working man is his own worst enemy" but I didn't understand at the time.
Then came the.........
Don't know how to stitch it back...
Forum: General Chat 14-08-2016, 14:34
Replies: 374
Views: 375
Posted By umpire
Re: Labour Party

disaster that was the NHS and Nationalisation. They both became hideaways for lazy incompetents abetted by bent Labour polititions and shop stewards. I never figured out how they turned up rich when...
Forum: General Chat 25-07-2016, 14:38
Replies: 13
Views: 14
Posted By umpire
Re: Sir Phillip Green

He's only done what Brown or Bust did when he increased the tax on Occupational Pension Schemes and forced a lot to close
Forum: General Chat 19-07-2016, 14:54
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

Just seen that legal challenge has been accepted by a court, put this together with the petition being debated, the devious civil service and I can see how the Ungodlly are gathering to frustrate our...
Forum: General Chat 26-06-2016, 13:29
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

I should have added compared with the debate on aid which the wanted.
Forum: General Chat 26-06-2016, 13:24
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

I notice that an online petition has been raised against the Referendum result, it will be VERY interesting to observe how quickly this is dealt with and how our masters react, given that so few of...
Forum: General Chat 24-06-2016, 06:29
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

After 50 years of shift work it was easy to fall back into the habit, I stayed up.

YYYYIIIIIPPPPEEEE !!!!!!!!
Forum: General Chat 22-06-2016, 07:52
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

WE'VE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE
IF IT'S THE LAST THING WE EVER DO.
Right now all the Brussels copiers are being loaded up to print the backlog of regulations dreamt up by the clerks, Osbourne's...
Forum: General Chat 16-06-2016, 15:10
Replies: 3,653
Views: 3,654
Posted By umpire
Re: Referendum is a load of crap.!!

You should read the 4 hour debate on the petition, never heard such back slapping. it's obvious, petition or not, the attitude to Overseas aid is quite right, everything in the world is wonderful and...
Forum: Anything Goes 10-05-2015, 00:06
Replies: 51
Views: 52
Posted By umpire
Re: Charging devices while hiking

The single led torches knock out about 1.5v at 20ma, about a fiver at H***b**se last I saw. There are bigger ones about which will supply more current.
Forum: Anything Goes 09-05-2015, 23:11
Replies: 51
Views: 52
Posted By umpire
Re: Charging devices while hiking

No problems, they work O.K., but not much current unless you get a large temperature between hot and cold junction.
Why not try a wind up generator, you could cannibalise a cheapo windup torch quite...
Forum: Heritage and History 02-12-2014, 16:33
Replies: 6
Views: 7
Posted By umpire
Re: Captain George Edge

If it's the same chap, lived on Blackburn Rd, next to Sacred Heart Church. Skipper on SS Patroclus; Blue Funnel Line in 1960.
Couldn't resolve the Link but if Medon is part of the story she was also...
Forum: General Chat 21-10-2014, 18:32
Replies: 92
Views: 2,042
Posted By umpire
Re: Testing the limits.

I'm no great fan of Mr Putin, but he has been recently quoted " there are no minorities in Russia; if you live here you conform to our society or you go somewhere else, we do not tolerate we do not...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-08-2014, 01:18
Replies: 67
Views: 4,689
Posted By umpire
Re: Mary's Music

If I remember rightly, Mary was Joe Mortimer's missus, he of Morts ballroom. By heck I had some fun there, Sunday afternoon dances; steering the old girls around the floor in exchange for dancing...
Forum: General Chat 12-05-2014, 16:13
Replies: 15
Views: 624
Posted By umpire
Re: i had to laugh today

Add in the Peer, recently released from prison who took us for £3,300 for work he had no intention of doing and has been suspended for 12 months. He will be missed!!,
Forum: General Chat 13-01-2014, 09:11
Replies: 24
Views: 841
Posted By umpire
Re: Abuse in care

I so much agree with a lot that is being said in response to this thread, I live close to this home and am approaching the age at which I may need the use of it, or another like it. I am afraid; very...
Forum: General Chat 09-10-2013, 07:53
Replies: 12
Views: 495
Posted By umpire
Re: England lags behind in young adult literacy tables

Have done but didn't need it all.
Forum: General Chat 08-10-2013, 17:16
Replies: 12
Views: 495
Posted By umpire
Re: England lags behind in young adult literacy tables

Quite right and a deliberate policy of social engineering to keep the toffs in control, anyone who has made a success of their lives has done so in spite of the system not because of it but are so...
Forum: Questions and Answers 13-09-2013, 09:02
Replies: 35
Views: 1,396
Posted By umpire
Re: Where is this?

No way Accrington, too much industry on left, no footbridge, no station canopies.
There was no platform on south to west line as shown.
Forum: General Chat 02-09-2013, 16:24
Replies: 17
Views: 670
Posted By umpire
Re: Where does the money come from.

I remember when I first had to have my wage paid into the bank/

I was a Client

Then somehow I became a Customer

Now I am just a Wallet to be emptied as often and as thoroughly as possible
...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-08-2013, 19:24
Replies: 290
Views: 31,204
Posted By umpire
Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68

Remember Sid well from both Whitebirk and Heysham, haven't seen them for a while, I got the impression that he and I were remotely related. Also ended up working on the old computor system, there...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-08-2013, 19:03
Replies: 290
Views: 31,204
Posted By umpire
Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68

Worked with what must have been John Sargeant's dad; Cornelius by name; at Steiners, he was a electrician of the really old school, when he made me carry his tool box I realised why he was so bow...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 25-08-2013, 07:45
Replies: 13
Views: 558
Posted By umpire
Re: Hippodrome Theatre

That's what got me here in the first place!. I felt that a new thread looking at the acts and the social effects of the theatre might be of use to preserve some of the history.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 24-08-2013, 11:37
Replies: 13
Views: 558
Posted By umpire
Hippodrome Theatre

I've been prompted by the thread about the location of the theatre; and other than remembering that it was near the bus depot and backing on to Ellison's Tenement I can't help much.
However it did...
Forum: General Chat 22-08-2013, 14:25
Replies: 69
Views: 2,424
Posted By umpire
Re: Go Home signs

I've seen a simple solution to this problem.
During foot and mouth and mad cow, government decreed that all cattle should be computer tagged and traceable. Therefore all the border agency needs to...
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