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At the going down of the sun, and in the golf club bar, we'll forget what fucking year it is

Aye, troo paytreeuts thems is.

Some years ago a bloke from our pub (known as 'Fireman Fuckwit') managed to persuade his watch that they should parade at 11 minutes past 11, so as everyone else was going back about their business they were somewhat surprised to see a lot of firefighters in full uniform traipse out and parade, including bugles, Last Post and two minutes silence - bemused that no-one else was.

(He was the man who was told to take a foam clean up truck to Heathrow after an emergency landing. He managed to take the truck used for cleaning up after RTAs...)

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:03 pm I'm reminded of the telecoms company who, in the 1990s, discovered that the Republican community didn't take too kindly to their strapline "The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange".

That's a bit of an urban myth, I'm afraid - when Orange were expanding their mobile network coverage in NI in the late 90's they deliberately avoided using the slogan "The future's bright, the future's Orange" in local advertising largely for the reasons you mentioned, not to forget the potential for the likes of billboards/advertising to get hijacked etc. although I was told one billboard with said slogan was put up in Lisburn.

As it were, my first mobile phone was with Orange back in 2000 and they were reasonably popular with students in Belfast back then - though their coverage wasn't as good as either Vodafone or the then BT Cellnet, especially outside towns & cities and even within them.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:44 pm As it were, my first mobile phone was with Orange back in 2000 and they were reasonably popular with students in Belfast back then - though their coverage wasn't as good as either Vodafone or the then BT Cellnet, especially outside towns & cities and even within them.

They weren't nicknamed "No Range" for nothing, you know...

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 5:21 pm

Twitterers suggesting the pictures are American trops.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:44 pm

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:03 pm I'm reminded of the telecoms company who, in the 1990s, discovered that the Republican community didn't take too kindly to their strapline "The Future's Bright, The Future's Orange".

That's a bit of an urban myth, I'm afraid - when Orange were expanding their mobile network coverage in NI in the late 90's they deliberately avoided using the slogan "The future's bright, the future's Orange" in local advertising largely for the reasons you mentioned, not to forget the potential for the likes of billboards/advertising to get hijacked etc. although I was told one billboard with said slogan was put up in Lisburn.

Yes, that's basically what happened. Orange prepared the campaign, including local Marketing Research (the findings of which they initially ignored), and even got as far as putting up some billboards (maybe it was only one) before the executive accepted that this might not be the smartest move and pulled the plug.

It's cited in numerous Marketing textbooks as an example of failure in international marketing.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:14 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 5:21 pm

Twitterers suggesting the pictures are American trops.

Upon closer inspection the water bottle carried by the chap in the middle is definitely a US Army one.

Yes, those are US haversacks and those rifles are not Lee Enfields, I presume they're M1903 Springfields.

USA 1911- Viva Pershing, Viva los Federales!!

Corporal Francois of the Catering Corps is self publishing his Brexit memoir because all real publishers are Remoaners apparently. Here's an extract of what you're missing.

The fact he couldn’t get bite back to publish it tells you something.

Looks like no newspaper wanted to serialise it either. Such a tragedy.

".........but when you've got Bill Cash, Des Swayne and John Redwood by your side, anything feels possible" - such as the onset of advanced neurosyphilis, perhaps?

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:00 pm Looks like no newspaper wanted to serialise it either. Such a tragedy.

The Sunday Sport folded some years ago, didn't it?

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:00 pm Looks like no newspaper wanted to serialise it either. Such a tragedy.

Maybe

Telegraph’s in Corporal Jones mode.

I'm sure all the scaremongering dreamed up by the boffins at Project Fear will manifest themselves in their own good time.

Let's hope the EU nations don't read that Torygraph article and take it as a challenge. Things are bad enough as it is.