Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Tal]

Get the family lawyer on the case...

Good idea, kinbos....waaaaait a minute!

[scotty77]

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/europe.html

Some colour photographs taken over 100 years ago.  Just incred

[bobAlike]

Faggot ftw

My grandad used to eat faggot every Sunday afternoon.

I hate Faggots.

One of THE most disgusting foods on the planet

I too think the word 'hero' is used lightly and inappropriately. It's ok for a sports star to be a hero but only in reference to their talent being admired by others. My sports hero was/still is a welsh rugby player by the name of Scott Gibbs. Gibbs was one of the names I suggested (unsucessfully) to my wife for a boys name.

My other hero is my Grandad(Taidie as he was known to us). He served in Burma during WWII as a Chindit. He never complained about being there and often during an Uncle Albertesque 'during the war' moment would tell us an amusing anecdote about his time there and in the Army. It was a running joke in the family as to how long it would be before a story came out. After he passed I decided to honour him and the first tattoo i got was of a Burma Star, the medal he was awarded for his time in burma. He fits the description of hero in both senses(along with millions more veterans) and only saw it as the right thing to do.

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I miss my Taidies war stories.

Great story but why did you get the tattoo of Arnold from Different Strokes?

[AndrewT]

'What you talkin' 'bout bobalike?'

[bobAlike]

'What you talkin' 'bout bobalike?'

Look closely and a paler Arnold stares back at you.

[taximan007]

'What you talkin' 'bout bobalike?'

As usual Just too good

[Mohican]

Great story but why did you get the tattoo of Arnold from Different Strokes?

It's a tribute to the japanese version- '別のストローク " ('-Betsu no sutorōku")

[tikay]

http://www.albertkahn.co.uk/europe.html

Some colour photographs taken over 100 years ago.  Just incred

Just a bit, wonderfully evocative.

Tell me, Ryan, I know you pretty well, from being a Luton regular, we work together, we've chilled in Vegas, you are a successful multi-table cash regular, this & that, but you keep surprising me. How did you stumble upon that website - what non-poker interests do you have?

I loved this photo, especially.....

[tikay]

I wonder what this couple would have thought if you told them that 100 years later, people would sit in their bedroom, playing cards on a computer, 10 or 20 tables at a time, risking thousands of pounds a night, under the guise of fun?

[tikay]

I too think the word 'hero' is used lightly and inappropriately. It's ok for a sports star to be a hero but only in reference to their talent being admired by others. My sports hero was/still is a welsh rugby player by the name of Scott Gibbs. Gibbs was one of the names I suggested (unsucessfully) to my wife for a boys name.

Now Scotty Gibbs is a hero, if only for that try in 1999!

You can't tell people they are using it inappropriately if they don't mean what you mean by the word. Language is dynamic and if they are using a word that gives the correct meaning for their audience then they are using it entirely appropriately. Language is just a communication tool at the end of the day.

But yes anyone who thinks a war hero and a gambling hero are the same needs their head examining.

You only said that because Scott Gibbs was Welsh.....

Types of "hero"? Well I think we have agreement now, but in my personal view, the meaning of the word has never changed, but we have devalued it, just as social-media has devalued "friend". There is nothing wrong with the current usage, but it must be a cheaper, or devalued, version of the original.  Which, really, is what your final sentence suggests.

I think we're in terrible danger here of agreeing with each other after having listened to the other's views and modified our original position slightly. This is not what the internet is for!

I think it has been a gross misuse of the internet, Alun.

We are supposed to debate by one word replies "lol", "joke", & call each other morons, tossers, & idiots because we happen to have a different view on a particular subject.

Do try harder. 

[tikay]

All this WW1/2 talk is getting me excited, if you like stories about this then hold your horses for 2014 when its the 100th Anniversary of WW1. There will be alot of coverage, documentaries, news about real life heartache from the trenches. I am heading to the trenches in Northern France to do something for Imperial War museum after Xmas as one of 20 bloggers to produce a website of all the WW1 major battle scenes.. Ohh Hell yeah Somme here i come.

Oddly, whilst I am wholly respectful of so much bravery, & lives lost, the First World War holds little interest to me, & only a little more for the Second World War, I just struggle to relate to the enormity of it.

More modern stuff absolutely fascinates me though, because it was in my time, & it meant something to me. The Six Day War was the first war that fixated me, but nothing ever "bettered" the Falklands conflict, about which I'm pretty sure I have read every single book published, & there are hundreds.

In some ways, it was summarised by that quite extraordinary "yomp" into Port Stanley.

I went to an exhibition thing somewhere a few years back, where we were invited to lift up the "pack" the soldiers had to cart over those wet & soggy hills in pitch dark. I could barely even lift it, let alone carry it.

I am totally in awe of those guys who did that yomp, if I had been part of it, that would have been THE greatest moment of my life. Team work, the strong supporting the weak, spitting in the eye of adversity, "fuck you, I won't be beaten". 

PS - I hope the Somme Anniversary thing is everything you wish it to be.

[tikay]

+1

Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar

Great pictures and sentiment, the name alone is something to be proud of

Very much that. Highlight of the week for me.

[tikay]

+1

Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar

Great pictures and sentiment, the name alone is something to be proud of

I don't pass much comment on Blonde but Read Lots of posts but things like this give me a good feeling about the country i live in.

Dai

Top man Dai, well put.

I hope you & poor Mrs Dai are both well, & have a grand Christmas down there in Wales, assuming the Welsh celebrate Christmas?

[tikay]

I don't know the first thing about Military traditions, but this filled me with pride & happiness this morning, though I'm struggling to explain why.

Congratulations to Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, who belongs to the Scots Guards Regiment.

How proud must he be, too?

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And not surprisingly the net is full of trolls giving it the "why should tradition be changed to accommodate someones religion etc etc."

Really chuffed for the lad and bet he is proud as punch. I actually view it as a recognition to all the Sikhs that have served and especially those who have lost their life, in service with the British Army.

I posted this previously in my troops thread and believe it stops many young men like Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar having a similar chance:

There was actually a move at one time for the British Army to set up a Sikh regiment which was shelved, it seems, after pressure from the PC brigade. It appears that the community leaders had thought it a good idea, after all there were many Sikh regiments that fought and died with our own during both world wars.
Some interesting reading here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1555507/Sikh-regiment-dumped-over-racism-fears.html

Had to remove the first link as it appears the site no longer exists

Geo

Thanks Geo, I was hoping you might comment, & I knew you'd paraphrase it far better than I could.

[bobby1]

How about this for warming the cockles Tony.

Keith Horne, a journeyman golfer from South Africa is playing in the Alfred Dunhill Championship golf this week and in his second round on Friday he managed to make a hole in 1 on the par 3 12th hole, which happened to be the 'win a car' for a hole in one hole this week. The only problem was some confusion over which days the promotion took place. It turned out his hole in one didn't qualify for the car promotion which he was rightly disappointed about.

On the tee at the 12th hole in his 3rd round he was jokingly asking if the 'win a car promo' stood for today's third round and was told it didn't. The promo was only in play for Sunday's final round. He then holed his tee shot for a second day for back to back hole in ones on the hole but again on the wrong day to win the car.

After finding out he had again managed to make a hole in one the car firm running the promo decided to give him a car anyway, which was nice.

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2012096/leaderboard/index.html