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    As of today the Berlin Wall has been down longer than it was up.

    Spare a thought for all those mourning the loss of the Soviet Utopia. Poor Jeremy, Owen and peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Spare a thought for all those mourning the loss of the Soviet Utopia. Poor Jeremy, Owen and peter
    Gosh. For some reason, that thought makes me feel very old.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Gosh. For some reason, that thought makes me feel very old.
    I had the same feeling when reading an article on Rob Lee's two sons playing for Luton against Newcastle. The oldest is 26. I thought Rob Lee only retired a couple of seasons back

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    I had the same feeling when reading an article on Rob Lee's two sons playing for Luton against Newcastle. The oldest is 26. I thought Rob Lee only retired a couple of seasons back
    He did always look rather old, though.

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    Lived in West Berlin as a kid and went back for the

    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Spare a thought for all those mourning the loss of the Soviet Utopia. Poor Jeremy, Owen and peter
    first time in 45 years recently and have to admit, I missed the wall. Checkpoint Charlie even had people inaccurately dressed as GI's for selfies. Walking through a pristine Brandenburg Gate was bizarre given I knew it as a grim edifice standing in the Death Strip, riddled with bullet holes and Hitler's bunker still in sight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    first time in 45 years recently and have to admit, I missed the wall. Checkpoint Charlie even had people inaccurately dressed as GI's for selfies. Walking through a pristine Brandenburg Gate was bizarre given I knew it as a grim edifice standing in the Death Strip, riddled with bullet holes and Hitler's bunker still in sight.
    Apart from anything else, without the wall, it's a rather unremarkable city.

    Granted, it may have been rather more interesting before we, the Yanks and the Russians smashed the ever-living shît out of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    first time in 45 years recently and have to admit, I missed the wall. Checkpoint Charlie even had people inaccurately dressed as GI's for selfies. Walking through a pristine Brandenburg Gate was bizarre given I knew it as a grim edifice standing in the Death Strip, riddled with bullet holes and Hitler's bunker still in sight.
    Yes, I haven't been back since the 80s. The whole place really was a living Le Carré novel back in the day.

    Never mind. Corbyn will soon Ceaucescu our arses into poverty, malnutrition and denunciation for impure thoughts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Yes, I haven't been back since the 80s. The whole place really was a living Le Carré novel back in the day.

    Never mind. Corbyn will soon Ceaucescu our arses into poverty, malnutrition and denunciation for impure thoughts.
    Have you seen where he's been on his hollibobs?

    https://order-order.com/2018/01/05/c...e-mexico-city/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Have you seen where he's been on his hollibobs?

    https://order-order.com/2018/01/05/c...e-mexico-city/
    Whose responsibility is it, do you think? As a homegorwn threat you'd imagine 5 would b tasked with pulling the trigger, but as he's financed by Iran and (probably) Cuba and Venezuela, SIS must be itching to set the scalphunters onto him. Maybe they would be too obvious and the job should be leftto that organisation which doesn't exist, Defence of the Realm?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Whose responsibility is it, do you think? As a homegorwn threat you'd imagine 5 would b tasked with pulling the trigger, but as he's financed by Iran and (probably) Cuba and Venezuela, SIS must be itching to set the scalphunters onto him. Maybe they would be too obvious and the job should be leftto that organisation which doesn't exist, Defence of the Realm?
    Well MI5 absolutely insist they don't kill people, but they would say that, wouldn't they? And there was that odd business a few years ago when all those chaps who'd worked on some defence IT project kept dying in mysterious circumstances, so who knows?

    If they'd any sense, they'd set up some far right nutters to do the job. Plausible deniability and all that.

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