Prince Harry

[Smokeandsteam]

Yes. It's absolutely impossible to have more than one discussion going on the boards, as the lack of threads about the pandemic and coronavirus attests to.

Or loads of utterly pointless threads from disgruntled/pissy remainers.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That used to be a regular haunt of ours along with a nightclub down the road called Pantiles.

Now an old folks home.

 

[krtek a houby]

Or loads of utterly pointless threads from disgruntled/pissy remainers.

Remainers should fucking leave

 

[Spymaster]

Now an old folks home.

Oh is it?

It was quite well known in the 80s as being a posing joint for Matt and Luke Goss. Amusingly, soon after they had their first hit record and got written about in the press, it became known that they were under age so they weren't allowed in anymore

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oh is it?

It was quite well known in the 80s as being a posing joint for Matt and Luke Goss. Amusingly, soon after they had their first hit record and got written about in the press, it became known that they were under age so they weren't allowed in anymore

My sister works in a school near there and Matt Goss hosted an online assembly last month, she’s still a gibbering wreck now, was a Brossette back when these things mattered...

 

[Badgers]

That used to be a regular haunt of ours along with a nightclub down the road called Pantiles.

Blast from the past there had half forgotten about that toilet of a nightclub. Did not realise it had closed in 2007.

 

[strung out]

Now an old folks home.

Presumably retains the same clientele though.

 

[Badgers]

Is the Agincourt still going?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Is the Agincourt still going?

Yep.

 

[Badgers]

Yep.

FFS

 

[Spymaster]

Blast from the past there had half forgotten about that toilet of a nightclub. Did not realise it had closed in 2007.

I think we considered it to be at the better end of the spectrum in an admittedly piss-poor general offering. It was Pantiles, the squaddie places in Camberley, spit-and-sawdust Wednesdays/Oceans in Bracknell, or the far more expensive (and harder to get in) Skindles/Valbonne in Maidenhead. Otherwise we had to go out the other way to Sindlesham Mill and the punch-up gaffs in Reading.

Were you a local?

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I think we considered it to be at the better end of the spectrum in an admittedly piss-poor general offering. It was Pantiles, the squaddie places in Camberley, spit-and-sawdust Wednesdays/Oceans in Bracknell, or the far more expensive (and harder to get in) Skindles/Valbonne in Maidenhead. Otherwise we had to go out the other way to Sindlesham Mill and the punch-up gaffs in Reading.

Were you a local?

This is why I grabbed the free party scene firmly with both hands!

 

[Pickman's model]

That's it - Edward lives a fairly comfortable life, he does the odd royal duty, and he's then able to live in relative obscurity/privacy. His Mrs does the same - she did a visit to a place I worked, did all the normal stuff, and then a day later I bumped into her in Sir Kiers favourite supermarket down near you. She was on her own, just shopping like anyone else there without anyone else twigging who she was.

She's stunning btw, funny, engaging, interested (or good at taking it), and good company.

I know there was some Ill feeling when he, Andrew and Anne got 'down-graded' by Charlie boy, but I think I know who's life I'd prefer.

The life of a man who 'withdrew' from royal marines training - that surprises me

 

[Badgers]

I think we considered it to be at the better end of the spectrum in an admittedly piss-poor general offering. It was Pantiles, the squaddie places in Camberley, spit-and-sawdust Wednesdays/Oceans in Bracknell, or the far more expensive (and harder to get in) Skindles/Valbonne in Maidenhead. Otherwise we had to go out the other way to Sindlesham Mill and the punch-up gaffs in Reading.

Were you a local?

Aldershot lad

Aldershot was a bit too 'fighty' so Farnham, Farnborough and Guildford where my usual drinking spots. Not that they were much better

 

[strung out]

I think we considered it to be at the better end of the spectrum in an admittedly piss-poor general offering. It was Pantiles, the squaddie places in Camberley, spit-and-sawdust Wednesdays/Oceans in Bracknell, or the far more expensive (and harder to get in) Skindles/Valbonne in Maidenhead. Otherwise we had to go out the other way to Sindlesham Mill and the punch-up gaffs in Reading.

Were you a local?

Talking about squaddie places, that reminds me of when I was at university in Reading in about 2005/06, and Prince Harry turned up at the Reading University students union with a bunch of his mates from Sandhurst. The doormen turned them away at first because the university had a strict no squaddies policy on the door. One of Harry's personal security had a word with the doormen, who let him in and cordoned off an area of the mezzanine for him and his mates. A friend of a friend who was dressed as a bumblebee tried talking her way past the security, but got denied.

Original news story about it here: Harry enjoys another night out in Reading

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Talking about squaddie places, that reminds me of when I was at university in Reading in about 2005/06, and Prince Harry turned up at the Reading University students union with a bunch of his mates from Sandhurst. The doormen turned them away at first because the university had a strict no squaddies policy on the door. One of Harry's personal security had a word with the doormen, who let him in and cordoned off an area of the mezzanine for him and his mates. A friend of a friend who was dressed as a bumblebee tried talking her way past the security, but got denied.

Original news story about it here: Harry enjoys another night out in Reading

Your amigo?

 

[Spymaster]

Aldershot lad

Aldershot was a bit too 'fighty' so Farnham, Farnborough and Guildford where my usual drinking spots. Not that they were much better

Even the hard cases used to avoid Aldershot.

A mate and his girlfriend were coming back from the coast once and she wanted to go for a piss when they were going through Aldershot. He said he didn't want to stop at a pub there because there was invariably trouble and they were nearly home to Crowthorne anyway. She was desperate though so he stopped at a boozer and whilst she was in the toilet someone chucked a pint glass at his car.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Even the hard cases used to avoid Aldershot.

A mate and his girlfriend were coming back from the coast once and she wanted to go for a piss when they were going through Aldershot. He said he didn't want to stop at a pub there because there was invariably trouble and they were nearly home to Crowthorne anyway. She was desperate though so he stopped at a boozer and whilst she was in the toilet someone chucked a pint glass at his car.

The roundabout by the station has a fucking Howitzer on it. By any standards that's hard.

 

[Pickman's model]

Even the hard cases used to avoid Aldershot.

A mate and his girlfriend were coming back from the coast once and she wanted to go for a piss when they were going through Aldershot. He said he didn't want to stop at a pub there because there was invariably trouble and they were nearly home to Crowthorne anyway. She was desperate though so he stopped at a boozer and whilst she was in the toilet someone chucked a pint glass at his car.

My brother was best man for someone who lived near Aldershot and while out planning the wedding with the happy couple they were assaulted by a pair of squaddies. Only my brother is a very keen martial artist and soon saw off the dastardly duo, who proceeded to the nearest police station with a rucksack they'd wrested during the melee. They told the cops they'd been attacked by a pair of black men and offered the rucksack in evidence. Sadly for them the material in the bag undermined rather than supported their assertion

 

[Badgers]

I have endless tales of horror from Aldershot

To be fair Camberley and Farnborough were (are?) pretty rough but nowhere near the Aldershot levels.

A pub called the Rat Pit was a good laugh

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I have endless tales of horror from Aldershot

To be fair Camberley and Farnborough were (are?) pretty rough but nowhere near the Aldershot levels.

A pub called the Rat Pit was a good laugh

When hyper desperate we'd go to Farnborough to score at the Louis. Like so desperate that Mandela Court in Reading was off type desperate.

 

[Badgers]

When hyper desperate we'd go to Farnborough to score at the Louis. Like so desperate that Mandela Court in Reading was off type desperate.

There were a couple of estates in Farnborough/Guildford that were really dodgy for sure.

Anyone go to the Rhythm Station in Aldershot or Flicks in Guildford?

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Or loads of utterly pointless threads from disgruntled/pissy remainers.

If brexit was such a great idea surely you'd simply ignore them and not mention them at all lol

 

[Pickman's model]

If brexit was such a success you'd simply ignore them and not mention them at all lol

Nothing Boris Johnson has turned his meagre powers to has ever been a success

 

[kebabking]

The life of a man who 'withdrew' from royal marines training - that surprises me

There's nothing clever or brave spending your life doing something you've decided you no longer want to do...

 

[Pickman's model]

There's nothing clever or brave spending your life doing something you've decided you no longer want to do...

No indeed. But I can't see you being happy in the profession of arms with such a blot on your escutcheon

 

[two sheds]

Or even having an escutcheon at all after all this time.

 

[andysays]

There's nothing clever or brave spending your life doing something you've decided you no longer want to do...

I vaguely remember thinking at the time it might have looked better if he'd completed the training and then said he didn't want to do it for the next three years or whatever, but whatever he did he would have been criticised and it actually took some courage to do what he did.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Oh brave sir Robin.