Friday joke - WARNING - contains swearing.

[Mrs Trellis]

After the drama of the penalty shoot-out the Lionesses relax with a game of darts.........

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Oh no - this is going to take me ages.............

 

[Mrs Trellis]

 

[Oceanrower]

I am getting considerably less MPG.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Huge protest ..................

 

[Pitlamp]

I can empathise with that sentiment . . . .

 

[ZombieCake]

Saw this recently:

"What's the best way to end a relationship?
Going to a Coldplay concert, apparently."

 

[hyweldavies]

Huge protest ..................

Back in the day as I student in Aberystwyth we went down to London for an anti-apartheid demo, and our ringleader with a megaphone led the various chants. Initially it was all respectable stuff like "free Nelson Mandela" and "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!" and so on and after a while it got a bit boring so we had refrains of "what do we want?" "Soft bogroll" and such like much to the disgust of the more serious minded Socialist Workers and Militant Tendency types. I think the guy with the megaphone ended up as president of NUS wales at some point too and was a sound chap all round

 

[Mrs Trellis]

 

[Graigwen]

Back in the day as I student in Aberystwyth we went down to London for an anti-apartheid demo, and our ringleader with a megaphone led the various chants. Initially it was all respectable stuff like "free Nelson Mandela" and "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!" and so on and after a while it got a bit boring so we had refrains of "what do we want?" "Soft bogroll" and such like much to the disgust of the more serious minded Socialist Workers and Militant Tendency types. I think the guy with the megaphone ended up as president of NUS wales at some point too and was a sound chap all round

Back in the day, Aber cavers went to the Grosvenor Square riots wearing their caving helmets and fought their way through police lines in South Audley Street. We had bags of marbles in our underpants - these could be used to dissuade police horse charges.
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[Chocolate fireguard]

We had bags of marbles in our underpants - these could be used to dissuade police horse charges.
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Or impress the ladies of course.
"Is that a big shooter in your Y-fronts or are you just pleased to see me?"

 

[Mrs Trellis]

 

[Jenny P]

The sad thing is that he wouldn't realise why this is funny ... !

So OK, who's going to do a picture by Raphael with similar comments from the MAGA man ?

 

[Mark]

Back in the day, Aber cavers went to the Grosvenor Square riots wearing their caving helmets and fought their way through police lines in South Audley Street. We had bags of marbles in our underpants - these could be used to dissuade police horse charges.
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Sounds like that’s all you have in your underpants

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Sounds like that’s all you have in your underpants

Harsh but fair.

 

[Graigwen]

Sounds like that’s all you have in your underpants

For the avoidance of confusion I will explain what was going on.

The evening before the event vehicles entering London from the west on main roads and judged by the police to possibly be carrying students were liable to be stopped and searched. A favorite spot for the police to stage these interceptions was on the A40 west of Hanger Lane. Anyone in possession of anything that could be judged to be an offensive weapon was liable to be arrested and held in a police cell for 24 hours (although not generally prosecuted). In those days police body searches did not include fondling the genitals of males, so bags of marbles in underpants were never detected as far as I know.

It was never necessary to deploy the marbles as weapons. The bags were ostentatiously displayed to the police from a safe distance if horses were seen to be marshaling for a possible charge. A pretty girl was sent forward to give a helpful message to the police along the lines of "Please don't send your horses down this road. They have got marbles and will spread them on the road and I am worried that the horses will get hurt."

So horses did not charge and marbles were not rolled, a more peaceable outcome than might have been expected. Apart from the rest of the street fighting.

 

[Graigwen]

Harsh but fair.

You were invited to the 1968 event I believe.

Although you were not present you could take credit for the matching white V guard helmets club members wore.
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[Oceanrower]

For the avoidance of confusion I will explain what was going on.

The evening before the event vehicles entering London from the west on main roads and judged by the police to possibly be carrying students were liable to be stopped and searched. A favorite spot for the police to stage these interceptions was on the A40 west of Hanger Lane. Anyone in possession of anything that could be judged to be an offensive weapon was liable to be arrested and held in a police cell for 24 hours (although not generally prosecuted). In those days police body searches did not include fondling the genitals of males, so bags of marbles in underpants were never detected as far as I know.

It was never necessary to deploy the marbles as weapons. The bags were ostentatiously displayed to the police from a safe distance if horses were seen to be marshaling for a possible charge. A pretty girl was sent forward to give a helpful message to the police along the lines of "Please don't send your horses down this road. They have got marbles and will spread them on the road and I am worried that the horses will get hurt."

So horses did not charge and marbles were not rolled, a more peaceable outcome than might have been expected. Apart from the rest of the street fighting.

For the avoidance of confusion, it sounds to me like you and your mates were a bunch of ****!

Moderator comment: swearing redacted - please refrain from personal attacks on the forum.

 

[TheBitterEnd]