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Mudgie

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It's OK, it was one of ours.

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"No Fokker comes close" - oh, no, that's Spitfire.
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Gramaisc

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"No Fokker comes close" - oh, no, that's Spitfire.
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There will have been very few entanglements of Spitfires and Fokkers - Focke-Wulf issues, on the other hand, were a bit more common.

The original marketing material for that beer used a French roundel - I had a series of bizarre emails to and from the manufacturers, before I gave up in despair.
 

BobClay

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Got the flu jab this morning. Straight in and out of local GP surgery.

I've got a Radio Officers Association re-union jolly coming next week in Portsmouth. Drive down to Southsea on Tuesday come back Thursday. Basically a piss up for old farts reminiscing about ships and radio comms in what looks like a fairly plush hotel, but we are apparently booked to go to the Naval Museum.

I filled the car up on Wednesday before all this nonsense started with fuel, and I think that's enough to get me there and back but I'm hoping everybody has come to their senses by then and stop believing the shit they read in the Sun.

Strange days for someone who used to play a part in bringing vast quantities of oil into the country. :eek:
 

Mudgie

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There will have been very few entanglements of Spitfires and Fokkers - Focke-Wulf issues, on the other hand, were a bit more common.

The original marketing material for that beer used a French roundel - I had a series of bizarre emails to and from the manufacturers, before I gave up in despair.
Yes, at the time of that advertising campaign it was quite widely known that Fokkers were mainly used in the First World War but brewers Shepherd Neame knew that "No Heinkel comes close" or "No Messerschmitt comes close" wouldn't have had the same impact.
 

Gramaisc

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Yes, at the time of that advertising campaign it was quite widely known that Fokkers were mainly used in the First World War but brewers Shepherd Neame knew that "No Heinkel comes close" or "No Messerschmitt comes close" wouldn't have had the same impact.
There were Fokkers about for Round 2, but, being Dutch, it meant there was a greatly reduced likelihood of them being used against Spitfires.


If only Bücker had made more substantial armed aircraft.

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Mudgie

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Ah ok. I'd wondered if it had been sent over to celebrate some sort of special Stafford event, like the permanent closure of the Coach and Horses, perhaps. Now that would be worth celebrating.
So you'd celebrate another nail in our town centre's coffin ?
 

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So you'd celebrate another nail in our town centre's coffin ?
It would actually be a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre.

But from the perspective that it keeps the scum element out of other pubs which makes them nicer for the rest of us then, yes, it would be a shame.
 

Mudgie

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It would actually be a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre.

But from the perspective that it keeps the scum element out of other pubs which makes them nicer for the rest of us then, yes, it would be a shame.
I very much doubt if "a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre" is from your experience of using the pub.
 

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So you just moan about it ?
No, of course not.

Instead of watching the two drunken vermin who came out of the Coach and Horses and were knocking the shit out of each other (over an equally verminous girl, as it turned out), I abandoned my drink and my safe vantage point outside the Post House, so I could run across and intervene and get the shit kicked out of me and probably catch something off them.

Are you for real???
 

Mudgie

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No, of course not.

Instead of watching the two drunken vermin who came out of the Coach and Horses and were knocking the shit out of each other (over an equally verminous girl, as it turned out), I abandoned my drink and my safe vantage point outside the Post House, so I could run across and intervene and get the shit kicked out of me and probably catch something off them.

Are you for real???
Now I'm beginning to understand.
Intervening would have been a rather foolhardy thing to do and getting the shit kicked out of you and probably catching something off "the two drunken vermin" could easily explain your hostility towards the pub.
I've never seen anything remotely like that but suspect you might have been out on a Friday or Saturday evening when "shit behaviour" is hardly unexpected in any town centre.
That incident isn't grounds for closing a pub.
 
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