CaaC (John)

Edit: deleted, wrong thread.

Weird, I had a few hick-cups at first but everything is running fine here in Bonny Scotland with my Virgin media as my provider and Google chrome, I had a wee bit of a go-slow scenario in the afternoon but the wife on the other laptop experienced the same but it corrected itself and running fine now when it slows down we will clear our browsing data and do a disk clean up just to make sure.

He has your looks on top of his head.

Even when I decided to leave Australia I went by ship/jet which was a cheap form of travel, spent a few days at sea travelling from Fremantle on a ship but it was in hammocks as it sailed along when you were asleep the ship if it hit some rough water the hammock would swing and it was soothing as hell, I snored my head off, we landed in Singapore and stayed in the hotel Singapore for 2 days and the flew onto the UK, Heathrow I think it was, my mind kept flashing back to the sea trips emigrating years before and just then. I have been on a few ferries in my time, travelling back to Germany with the wife from Hull to Zeebrugge and then a train all the way to Dortmund, then in NI when we were returning from a tour of duty, also when we went on an exercise in my army days on a ship from Germany to Aberporth in Wales and years later went on holiday with the wife and kids on a ferry from Glasgow to the Isle of Bute.

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When we stopped (docked) in Aden that's when the Bum Boats came out and they would come beside the ship and throw ropes up to the decks with cups or tins attached, you would look at the gifts they had in their boats, point out what you wanted, they would call out or indicate with their hands how much to put in the cups/tins and then they would pull the rope down and your gift would arrive in the cup/tin. My old man being an ex-navy man knew all of their tricks what they would try to do, he kept hold of the rope until they put the gift in the tin as one of the guys tried to pull the cup down with the money in it and keep the gift, my old man just kept hold of the rope and tin with the money in and yelled out " PUT THE GIFT IN THE FUCKING TIN!!!", the guy did as he knew my old man would not give him the money without the gift. The only sad bit for me what I remember was stopping in Port Said and going on a walk around with my mum, dad, wee brother and sisters, you seen a lot of beggars and some of them were deformed with hands missing arms pulled out of joint and there was one young child must have been around 4 years old sitting on the side of the road with no arms or legs and with a tin cup around her neck with string crying and a note in English asking for money, my old man told me later that the parents would deform their children when they were young so they could beg for money, I never knew to this day if he was right about that.

It was nostalgic memories for me, sitting on a deck chair at the stern and looking around and seeing the deep blue ocean only and sky around and the slipstream of the ships propellers as it sailed along then you would get the occasional dolphins following the ship or you knew when you were nearing land as gulls were fighting over the ships jettison where the cookhouse would discharge leftover food from the mess kitchen.

What country did he come from? this new set-up doesn't show the countries like the last one.

Aye, over a year ago he last posted?

Good thread seeing my old man was a sailor in the subs during the war and in the merchant navy after WWll _______________________________________________________________________ I have mentioned this before one of the greatest experiences and a nostalgic one for me was when we emigrated to Australia in 1960 and we went by ship, the SS Himalaya, 6 weeks at sea and we stopped at Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden and through the Suez canal. And the funniest site we saw was an Arab dressed all in white and sitting in the sand with his cloak pulled up having a crap, we all yelled at him having a good laugh and waving to him and he stood up and waved back then continued where he had left doing his bit in the sand, I was only 11 years old then. But it was a brilliant time, when we crossed the equator the captain of the ship dressed up as King Neptune and sat on a pole stretched across the swimming pool with a pillow and we all took turns and slid across the pole and tried to knock him off with a pillow. We all were classed as emigrants so we were all allocated at the stern of the ship and paying passengers were at the front of the bow, many a time as kids we sneaked into the front end of the ship for a runaround and got chased back by sailors on duty. SS Himalaya When we were at primary school in the 50's our class spent a day travelling to London and a tour of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich.

Only 2 spring to mind and that was @Walker(aka @Cure) popped back in and posted a few times then vanished again (2019) then @Large, came back and said hello then vanished again (2019).

I googled the pic and it came up with a load in Pinterest like this one

Funny young lad but I always got on with him but he would rub some people up the wrong way, I will always remember him as Grizzly Bear.

Spectacular ice age landscapes have been revealed beneath the North Sea. These deep, kilometres-wide channels, known as tunnel valleys, were cut by fast-flowing rivers that ran under Northern Europe's ancient ice sheets. Today, the landforms are all hidden by the North Sea's bottom-muds, but new survey work has traced their outline in remarkable 3D detail. Scientists say the channels should give us clues as to how modern-day ice sheets, such as Greenland, will decay. That's because these features were all incised during periods of great melt. "These tunnel valleys were formed during the death throes of an ice sheet in extremely warm climates," said James Kirkham, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Cambridge University. "This makes them a great analogue for what Greenland, or even Antarctica, might begin to look like in the future, perhaps several 100 years down the line," he told BBC News. FULL REPORT

Disappeared like Berserker did last year sometime.

So far it looks like Brian is serious and won't be back this time around, he has had that many names when he has rejoined but I will always know him as Grizzly Bear, I noticed he had a wee look in here (Mpache) on July 5th.

Puddin's first vets visit today and had his first injections, the daughter said he has been crashed out on her bed and has not moved for hours.

Would not have a clue about this game but the wife has just bought this for wee Kaiden's Birthday coming up in a couple of weeks time, we had a fair idea that he loved this character with Super Mario next as he is always playing the games around here when visiting or on a sleepover, cost £40 odd's but who gives a fuck, it's his Birthday.

Off for a wee walk shortly, exercise my legs, I was gping to do a 10 mile run but i will do that another time...cough, cough

Doug was a fanatic and I tried to tell him it was all an act but he wouldn't have it and thought it was genuine, I tried to explain to him that if it was real then god help how many wrestling deaths there would be.

@Gunnersauraus This is the 60's wrestler I was on about and his real name was Killer Kowalski, 6ft 7 and built like a brick shit house.