Mudgie
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"No Fokker comes close" - oh, no, that's Spitfire.It's OK, it was one of ours.
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"No Fokker comes close" - oh, no, that's Spitfire.It's OK, it was one of ours.
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.Apparently it's called 'Thumper'....
It's a memorial flight to a show at Lincoln, so I've been told elsewhere.....
RAF 80th Anniversary?
https://www.raf.mod.uk/display-team...PnLSCsRQKe-sN2gzmoqC6L5PpR5N0VRNr7Ix1A3EQvCgQ
There will have been very few entanglements of Spitfires and Fokkers - Focke-Wulf issues, on the other hand, were a bit more common."No Fokker comes close" - oh, no, that's Spitfire.
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 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.
There were Fokkers about for Round 2, but, being Dutch, it meant there was a greatly reduced likelihood of them being used against Spitfires.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.
So you'd celebrate another nail in our town centre's coffin ?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.
It would actually be a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre.So you'd celebrate another nail in our town centre's coffin ?
I very much doubt if "a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre" is from your experience of using the pub.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've no I idea what your trying to say there, I'm afraid.I very much doubt if "a massive plus for the ambiance of the town centre" is from your experience of using the pub.
That those who use any establishment are best qualified to comment about it.I've no I idea what your trying to say there, I'm afraid.
And what did you do about any "shit behaviour"?Those who witness what shit behaviour spills out from it are even more qualified, as they aren't part of the problem.
What?And what did you do about any "shit behaviour"?
So you just moan about it ?What?
No, of course not.So you just moan about it ?
Now I'm beginning to understand.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???