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  1. #1331
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    Quote Originally Posted by mondo_notion View Post
    Which way would Brian from East 17 vote?
    He's only 27.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donsdaft View Post
    I’m always happy to vote for anything that’s not twitter.

    Alex Salmond - Scotland’s greatest ever politician.
    That’s great because the party on really exist in a Twitter bubble. I say party but it’s not as if they have any policies, elected leadership etc

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    Pretty funny seeing Starmer have a bit of a set too with a pub landlord earlier


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    This is gold (apart from the usual Pish & Jism editing).

    https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...tate-pubs/amp/

    The Broadsword was fearsome. I mind going in for a carry-out one Sunday evening about 20 minutes after the then 18.30 opening time, and as the mannies sat around playing dominoes and distractedly reading The Sunday Post, there was a full-scale rolling-in-the-sawdust catfight between two gruesome Tilly witches in the middle of the floor. The barman never even mentioned it as he sold me the cans.

    I believe I’m still barred from the Tower in Tilly (even if it was demolished years ago) after a particularly hairy Sunday lunchtime session in November 79, the day after those plastic Jute ****s beat us 3-0 at Pittodrie, and two days before the 2-Tone tour lit up (figuratively) Ruffles on Diamond Street. Like many premises owned by that venue’s proprietor, it accidentally caught fire a few years later.

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    I was speaking about our Iranian friend just a couple of days ago.

    I’ve known him since his chipper van in Dyce.

    Actually a really nice guy, just a shame so many things caught fire.

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    Haven’t seen him in ages. He used to be quite generous with a freebie or two when he owned erm...the Bon Accord Hotel (?) and I used to deliver tablecloths to him.

    Did he have some sort of caravan-type eaterie where Tesco now is, before the Parkway became a racetrack, and the road from Grandholm was still a rutted vehicle track? I’m sure I have heard tell of this.

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    Nae idea.

    The chipper van in Dyce ( circa 1972) was the first I knew.
    Then there was a steakhouse van which could have been the first of the “fires”

    I last saw him a couple of years ago when he came in for a sight test, I don’t know how well he is now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
    This is gold (apart from the usual Pish & Jism editing).

    https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...tate-pubs/amp/

    The Broadsword was fearsome. I mind going in for a carry-out one Sunday evening about 20 minutes after the then 18.30 opening time, and as the mannies sat around playing dominoes and distractedly reading The Sunday Post, there was a full-scale rolling-in-the-sawdust catfight between two gruesome Tilly witches in the middle of the floor. The barman never even mentioned it as he sold me the cans.

    I believe I’m still barred from the Tower in Tilly (even if it was demolished years ago) after a particularly hairy Sunday lunchtime session in November 79, the day after those plastic Jute ****s beat us 3-0 at Pittodrie, and two days before the 2-Tone tour lit up (figuratively) Ruffles on Diamond Street. Like many premises owned by that venue’s proprietor, it accidentally caught fire a few years later.
    That was pretty interesting. I did my four years national service behind the bar in The Abbot. Cannae believe its nearly 18 years since I left. Wasn't as bad as some of the pubs mentioned but then again we did have about 7 pages of A4 on the wall in the office containing the names of everyone that was barred.

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    I never realized that the Covenanter had changed it's name.

    Murdo's = Art Deco.......oh for f'uck sake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
    This is gold (apart from the usual Pish & Jism editing).

    https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...tate-pubs/amp/

    The Broadsword was fearsome. I mind going in for a carry-out one Sunday evening about 20 minutes after the then 18.30 opening time, and as the mannies sat around playing dominoes and distractedly reading The Sunday Post, there was a full-scale rolling-in-the-sawdust catfight between two gruesome Tilly witches in the middle of the floor. The barman never even mentioned it as he sold me the cans.

    I believe I’m still barred from the Tower in Tilly (even if it was demolished years ago) after a particularly hairy Sunday lunchtime session in November 79, the day after those plastic Jute ****s beat us 3-0 at Pittodrie, and two days before the 2-Tone tour lit up (figuratively) Ruffles on Diamond Street. Like many premises owned by that venue’s proprietor, it accidentally caught fire a few years later.
    The stealing of the 'Stair Runner Carpet' on its opening night clearly set the standard for the Dancing Cairns.

    I was also wondering what constituted "undesirable behaviour" in 1959 and what songs were tolerated in the Army only, that kept the good folk of Northfield up of an evening.

    I don't read the EE, but that was a nice bit of social history of the area.

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