THE BRITISH THREAD II

If you didn't know he was a sad 60 something year old man living on his own in Plymouth you'd swear he was some 15 year old kid from the bottom set at school. Exactly the right amount of arrogance and ignorance.

I thought it fortuitous, at the time, that the lady referee was not on duty when it was necessary to announce "two touching balls". However, it turned out later that she was on duty on the monitors which are used to get the balls back into the correct position after a "miss" has been declared. And she was excellent at this skill and, I must admit, deservedly so.

I am a very long way from being a Max Clifford fan but I thought the sentence he was given was a bit vindictive.

This whole thread is clogged up with boring football talk so I can't waste time trawling for your reply, so unless you say otherwise I'm assuming you're in favour of Scottish independence, in which case you're just another scrounging immigrant living on British soil taking our jobs, homes and welfare benefits!

If Scotland goes independent, you foreigners had better watch out when you walk our streets in case you run into English Defence League and British National Party anti-immigrant patrols..

The time might be coming, and coming quite soon, when the English have to try to make it on their own.
Have they got what it takes?

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England has got an Air Force, Navy and Army plus nuclear weapons, but Scotland has got NOTHING excpt a couple of trawlers, a Sopwith Camel and a few boy scouts..
PS- there'll also be the backlash felt by Scottish schoolkids in England if Scotland goes independent, because bullies will pick on them summat rotten, telling them to "eff off back to Scotland you effing foreigners!"

I think he he got off fairly lightly to get 8 years and possibly only serve 4. His youngest victim was 12, apparently. There were multiple offences which, had they taken place after 2003, would have been classed as rape, which carries a maximum life sentence.

I feel sorry for Clifford, it shows just what a sickening fiasco the British judicial system has become to jail a man simply because some women came forward 25 years after the event to make allegations.
It was just their word against Cliffords, so the case should have been thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
Same with Dave Lee Travis and anybody else accused many years after the alleged incidents, it should never come to court.
The law should be changed to only entertain claims made by women within a few months of the alleged incidents.
I mean, the alleged "abuse" can't have been serious or they'd have complained to the police way back then.
Same with the Jimmy Saville fiasco, they waited til the poor sod was dead before coming forward, that's just not on!
He raised millions for charities but now his name has been besmirched when he can't defend himself.
The charities are still hanging onto the cash though..

Max Clifford is a dirty bastard who made little girls as young as 12 suck his cock and worse. If you were 12 and that happened to you, maybe you might have kept quiet about it at the time.

I didn't know he had done that. I've not been following.

How come they didn't bite his cock off or into disrepair at least.

It's unusual to make sentences consecutive rather than concurrent. That's what I thought was vindictive. And he denied the charges and there was no evidence other than witness-box credibility and compensation was in the offing.

I would have locked the bastard up on looking at him. And the whole tabloid press for cultivating the soil from which he sprang.

Romeo Fabulini, Romeo Fabulini .... doesn't sound very British to me.

I believe that if you made a deeper inquiry you would find that though the Irish were indeed closely aligned with Britain for a long time, it wasn't exactly "one big family standing shoulder to shoulder on all battlefields". The ghosts of Roger Casement, Robert Emmet,of the Irish volunteers in the Spanish and later French Armies, and of the 19th century famine victims might have an issue with that.

Hi Brits ! I hope you are all well and enjoying life.

George O'Brien

Are you the Captain George O'Brien of a vessel moored at Pier 12 in the Naval Station Norfolk Va in 1981 George?

No. I don't think there is such a person. However in 1981 I was on USS Eisenhower (CVN 68) which was then based in Norfolk. I'm surprised you got the pier number right - they have changed the nomenclature for them several times. The vessels I later commanded were in the Pacific Fleet.

How are you Spendi??

I'm okay bearing in mind my decrepit state.

I know there isn't such a person now. Was there once?

Have you noticed yet that the only way to feel young again is to lie down? With a good book for company. One by some long-gone purveyor of wisdom who had a keen appreciation of the tragic mess we are all in and the utter futility of every ******* thing.

I hate the jollier-uppers. "Enjoy life" silly old Dawkins advises.

CVN-68 is the Nimitz. Eisenhower is 69.

I am/we are fine.Thanks for asking

That's a bit pedantic Walt. If you Google Captain George O'Brien you can see where he was moored over a lengthy period. That's more interesting than which ship he was on.

Not for me - he knows that I'm a nit-picker.

I've been only on one ship - A 64, used as a school ship from our naval college. (All the others were boats.)

Hi there George, nice to see you here.

I think Romeo is feeling the draught already. It will be strange for him living in Lesser Britain if the Scots secede.

Has anyone else been watching the German TV series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers" running on the Beeb at the moment?

Very gripping, very harrowing.

Prove it..