[News] British Declaration Of War - 3 September, 1939

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franks brother

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQ9Bn8DR74&t=40s
80 years today. May we never hear the like again. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have listened to this live on the wireless

 

zefarelly

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different kinds of wars these days . . . lets see what its like on 3rd November.

 

Nottseagull

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franks brother said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQ9Bn8DR74&t=40s
80 years today. May we never hear the like again. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have listened to this live on the wireless

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It's not as if it hadn't been coming for months, or speculated upon for years.

 

BBassic

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zefarelly said:

different kinds of wars these days . . . lets see what its like on 3rd November.

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Ah damn! You got there before I could do my "In before someone claims there'll probably be a war of some kind regardless of what happens after Brexit" post.

 

Nottseagull

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zefarelly said:

different kinds of wars these days . . . lets see what its like on 3rd November.

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Palace match is 14 December

(Although I expect Shane's been warned off another head-butt.)

 

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My mum's third birthday. She and her sister were immediately packed off to relatives in Scotland, leaving their family behind in London.

 

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You’re right mate. I generally have a dark sense of foreboding when I watch the news now. That would have been even worse

 

GT49er

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• Sep 3, 2019

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franks brother said:

80 years today. May we never hear the like again. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have listened to this live on the wireless

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Absolutely this - terrible times; I'm sure it would have chilled the blood, especially as many people alive then would have vivid memories of the 1914-28 blood-bath. Women who had lost their husbands now fearing to lose their sons as well (and many did).

zefarelly said:

different kinds of wars these days . . . lets see what its like on 3rd November.

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.....and along comes someone with a cheapskate quip comparing it to Brexit. Pathetic.

 

Weststander

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Looking forward to @BG's Home Guard anecdotes.

 

Gazwag

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So in 80 short years we have moved from the whole country fighting a common foe to half the country fighting the other half

 

zefarelly

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Gazwag said:

So in 80 short years we have moved from the whole country fighting a common foe to half the country fighting the other half

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in a nutshell, yes . . . we'll be fighting squirrels for those possibly too. . In fact I already lost that one, ****ing tree rats stripped my hazlenut tree bare last week . . . unless it was the lesbian Polish car wash team. . . .

 

Igzilla

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• Sep 3, 2019

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zefarelly said:

in a nutshell, yes . . . we'll be fighting squirrels for those possibly too. . In fact I already lost that one, ****ing tree rats stripped my hazlenut tree bare last week . . . unless it was the lesbian Polish car wash team. . . .

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Where do they work then? Asking for a friend.

 

maltaseagull

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BBassic said:

Ah damn! You got there before I could do my "In before someone claims there'll probably be a war of some kind regardless of what happens after Brexit" post.

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At least it will be a civil war?