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17-11-2019, 10:10 AM
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Knowing a loved one has had a good life and was loved is always a comfort when their time comes to leave us with our thoughts...and I'm sure she was with you, Phyllis and family at that send off in spirit enjoying the craic.

This tarnishing things gets a bit much at times. Seems to be "well it's a bit old" so it doesn't matter if we fiddle with it. I'm a bit old and like Dame Vera I don't want to be fiddled with or see things I have enjoyed in the past fiddled with either.

Take the latest Tescos Clubcard ad. They have only used a clip from Casablanca of all films to promote their crap...shame on them and their witless ad team. I didn't need a glass of Mothers Ruin to start weeping over the slaughtering of a great film moment between Humph and Ingrid

Of all the films in all the world they had to choose that one.



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When I first saw that ad Solo I seriously thought it was a trailer for the film, I says to myself what a lovely sharp clear remastering job, I’ll have a look at that, then I heard the dialogue, alas they ruined it, commercialism knows no bounds these days.

Spitty’s thread reminded me of the old Dublin Metropolitan Police, they, just like the London bobbies, had a big black tit on their head for a helmet, my grandfather’s generation as kids used to call the local copper “Tit face”, then run for their lives, you didn’t mess with the DMP, they were all six footers.
Here’s a good example of a DMP officer I came across online, a fine figure of a man as they say.






This article below would have been a real “scoop” for the climate change enthusiasts had they been around then.
But it sort of puts the damper on looking forward to Spring doesn’t it?

Coldest Irish April for 36 years.

Strabane, 12 April 1917 - There has not been as cold a spring in Ireland since records began, according to a British meteorologist, Dr Mill.
Ireland is currently in the midst of a brutal spell of April weather. Frost is playing havoc with crops - snowfalls around Dublin are heavy and frequent. Sheep have perished and, in Ulster, a girl living five miles from Strabane was said to have become ‘insane’ after she lost her way in a blizzard and wandered in the fields all night.
Trains have been forced to stop running in various parts after the snowfall was too deep to plough through. There is no likelihood that conditions will ease in the coming days.
(Article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.)
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Bad weather is a pain, the perfect storm seems to loom, we need to Bob and Weave.
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Fine figure of a fellow that DMP chap..certainly looks the part with his helmet. Our lads only had a pimple on top of their helmets .

I don't ever remember seeing a small bobby when I was a kid. They were all giants so perhaps there was a height thing in those days. You had to be be big to join our gang mentality... anyway it worked as they always loomed over us....but whilst we may have been scared of them we respected them at the same time. If a bobby waved his truncheon at you..you listened and if you shook with fright you were innocent and if you didn't you were either a real hard nut..or guilty. No psychology needed back then...just a bit of common sense.

I watched a programme the other day about underground fare dodgers and was shocked at seeing how some of the public spoke to and openly daring the police to have a go if they dared. Didn't make for easy viewing knowing that no matter how much they are armed to the teeth with flak jackets, spray guns, tasers, lasers, stun guns and not forgetting the walkie talkie what little authority the poor sods really have these day. No respect for the uniform at all and when I think how we used to want to know deep down that there was always a bobby just around the corner whether we liked it or not...waiting to give us a friendly warning clip round the ears just in case we were thinking of doing a bit if mischief... It was comforting.

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18-11-2019, 10:24 PM
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Yes you respected the coppers back then if you had any sense, not only did you get a clip on the ear from the cop but you also got a good hiding from your dad too.

Strangely enough Dixon of Dock Green was my father-in-laws’s favourite program on TV, come to think of it he actually looked a bit like Jack Warner, a little shorter maybe.
He was a TV engineer and the house had TV’s everywhere waiting for repair, it used to drive his missus up the wall, I did a lot of my courting sitting on a Pye 14” mahogany TV in the hall before we got married, it was a huge long thing that incorporated a record player and radio, sort of a TV-O-Gram, it must have weighed a ton, lovely piece of furniture too, those were the days when all the TV cabinets were made from wood, yes REAL wood, remember that stuff.
God help him he was a terrible businessman, when he’d deliver a repaired set and the ordinary people hadn’t got the right money he’s tell then to forget it but the next time don’t ask him to fix it, but manys the time he still repaired it for them, an auld softie.
He was branch manager of a big British TV rental company with several branches over here and was a well liked man in the area, he knew everyone, his wife used to joke that he was more popular than the Lord Mayor, of course that was in the days when we actually had popular politicians.
He had just mastered the new colour TV’s in 1970 when he died after a short illness, God rest him he was just 60 at the time, his wife died two years later, they were very close, so sad.

This is the type of thing I mean, doors an all on it, very costly items back then, but look at the work that went into them.


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Seeing that work of art, and knowing the gubbings, and, a geezer that used to be here, is strange, never understood the workings of a "Dropper".
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Tough School, tough kid, I went to a tough school, and the class I was in contained some of the best bare knuckle students. Last night, I bumped into a fellow who was in the same year as me, and I enquired about some of the names that were big noise back then, and, was surprised that the toughest of the tough had departed this world.
Upon Googling his name, a result came up because of his status as an ardent football fan which stated, he passed on a decade and half ago to cancer.
Its strange, he was a sort of legend, locally infamous, sure to live on in local infamity.
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Past reputation is a funny old thing spitty.....through our school days there were 2 brothers...one a saint who was bound for better things and one a sinner who was hell bent on ending up in jail as he was thoroughly 'no good' to all that knew him.

All seemed to be going as predicted by those with so called second sighters who could predict all that was going to happen in the future. The saint got a good job, was the twinkle in proud parents eyes whilst our sinner just went from bad to worse barely escaping going into the slammer and was the despair of his parents....then they both took a shine to my childhood friend.

She chose the saint, fell preganant and our saint denied all knowledge, blamed his brother and walked away.

That sinner married my friend so she would not be shamed and it was kept very hush hush and whilst they had their early problems they became devoted to each other...then came the car crash which almost killed my friend but left her a virtual cabbage which took years of rehabiltation to even gain back something of what she used to be.. Our sinner spent those years looking after her, encouraging her, caring for his brothers daughter and keeping the home going.

Those that had predicted he would end up no good said "she was the makings of him" but I and my friend knew she had the better man and that if you want to see bad you will see it regardless of the good that is within.
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Very interesting posts there Spitty and Solo. You never really know how children will turn out in adulthood, and it’s foolish to try to predict.

Reminded me of the Smith family on our street, four boys and a girl, the eldest boy Paddy, nicknamed “Whacker” as anyone called Paddy was in Dublin those days, he was the terror of the street, any balls that went through windows Whacker Smith was the culprit, If your prize pigeon was nicked it was he who nicked it to sell on, he was blamed on everything, though in fairness it wasn’t always him. he hated school and would go on the “Mitch”, that was to be his downfall with the law.
I liked him, there was kindness somewhere inside his tough exterior, he had no respect for authority but he always had respect for old people and would happily do chores and run errands for them for nothing.
Whacker was finally sent to an industrial school as they were called back them, notorious places in Ireland back in the 50’s, but I won’t go into that it makes me too angry, this place was in Cork, a long train journey and well away from his family in Dublin so visits were very rare especially to a family on the breadline.
He was let home for two weeks in Summertime, but he still had to wear the school carb so all the other kids would know he was an “Offender”, hairy rough tweed short trousers that made big red rings on the skin around the lower thighs, jacket of the same material, skull cap, thick wooly socks and hob nailed boots. He spent three years in that dump before he eventually ran away aged 15 and ended up somewhere in Scotland and that was the last we heard of him for a very long time.
Then I bumped into his sister in the local one night in the 70’s and asked her about Paddy, I nearly fell off me stool when she told me he was a priest in Mexico!
She laughed and said “Yes Jem I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s a fact, he joined a Spanish order in England and was ordained two years ago”
“Seems there’s hope for us all then” Says I to her with a wink.

Here’s an old song I always liked about a gentle giant.

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Grant, a semi rogue went Jehovah, the Estate must have been some sort of ecclesiastical training ground.
 

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