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

[franks brother]

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]

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

 

[Nottseagull]

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

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

 

[BBassic]

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

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]

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

Palace match is 14 December

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

 

[Fungus]

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

 

[blue-shifted]

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]

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

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).

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

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

 

[Weststander]

Looking forward to @BG's Home Guard anecdotes.

 

[Gazwag]

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]

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

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]

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. . . .

Where do they work then? Asking for a friend.

 

[maltaseagull]

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.

At least it will be a civil war?