Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it is for you, your longest post is 318 words.
Trafalgar Day 21 October
- Thread starter A380
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"Hail Columbia! Happy land.
If we don't burn you I'll be damned"
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
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Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Yorkshire tea advert?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
PTK
Paul Kegan
Is that an actual photograph?
PTK
Paul Kegan
Young people today have no idea of the sacrifices that Canberra air crew made in those days.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I’m glad you explained that as “Tapping the admiral” sounds like some obscure and obscene act of sexual deviancy described on urbandictionary!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
It’s probably that too…
ska invita
back on the other side
not long now to the thousand year anniversary of the french conquest of 1066 
ska invita
back on the other side
fucking hell
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Found myself watching the latest David Olusoga programme the other night and learnt a couple of things that I didn't know,
1. the first city in the Union to erect a large-scale monument to Nelson was ......drum-roll......Dublin. So keen were the protestant elite of the city to prove their allegiance to the, then 5 year old union, that they managed to erect their pillar 34 years before the London version!
2. The IRA blew it up in 1966.
1. the first city in the Union to erect a large-scale monument to Nelson was ......drum-roll......Dublin. So keen were the protestant elite of the city to prove their allegiance to the, then 5 year old union, that they managed to erect their pillar 34 years before the London version!
2. The IRA blew it up in 1966.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Out at the moment (in Dublin) but I’ve always been told that the IRA (actually Saor Eire according to my dad sitting opposite me) bomb caused very little damage to neighbouring buildings but when the Irish Army tried to finish off the job to tidy it up they blew out every window in a half mile radius.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Saor Eire seem to have been formed too late to attack the pillar Saor Éire (1967–1975) - Wikipedia at least according to wikipediaOut at the moment (in Dublin) but I’ve always been told that the IRA (actually Saor Eire according to my dad sitting opposite me) bomb caused very little damage to neighbouring buildings but when the Irish Army tried to finish off the job to tidy it up they blew out every window in a half mile radius.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I would love to be around to see that , I'll only be 101not long now to the thousand year anniversary of the french conquest of 1066
PTK
Paul Kegan
There was an earlier group called Saor Eire.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Ah Mr. Model. I’ve been expecting you.
He said he wasn’t sure but he seemed to remember it was not officially sanctioned and was done by a splinter group.
Was a bit before his time tbf.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Wikipedia, it say:
“No further information was forthcoming until 2000, when during a Raidió Teilifís Éireann interview a former IRA member, Liam Sutcliffe, claimed he had placed the bomb which detonated in the Pillar. In the 1950s Sutcliffe was associated with a group of dissident volunteers led by Joe Christle (1927–98), who had been expelled from the IRA in 1956 for "recklessness". In early 1966 Sutcliffe learned that Christle's group was planning "Operation Humpty Dumpty", an attack on the Pillar, and offered his services. According to Sutcliffe, on 28 February he placed a bomb within the Pillar, timed to go off in the early hours of the next morning. The explosive was a mixture of gelignite and ammonal. It failed to detonate; Sutcliffe says that he returned early the next morning, recovered the device and redesigned its timer. On 7 March, shortly before the Pillar closed for the day, he climbed the inner stairway and placed the refurbished bomb near to the top of the shaft before going home. He learned of the success of his mission the next day, he says, having slept undisturbed through the night”
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Interesting thread here by garius on the other commander at Trafalgar. Collingwood.
bsky.app
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John Bull (@garius.bsky.social)
Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
The rare oul times
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Everybody must respect imperialism, rape and warcrimes, otherwise they should be tortured to show them how it's done.some utter pillocks tagged Nelson's column. they ought to end up in the SBS's dark room in Poole and discover what the Nations naval traditions are all about think pulp fiction
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