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Drunken British sailors are invading Florida and beating each other up, because why not?
navytimes.com | Sept. 9, 2018 | J.D. Simkins

Posted on 09/09/2018 5:03:30 PM PDT by PROCON

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: alcohol; britishsailors; drunk; earlyinthemorning; florida; wod
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To: MrEdd

Shave his belly with a rusty razor.

CC


21 posted on 09/09/2018 6:15:04 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
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To: PAR35

Thanks.

After I posted that, it just did not sound right. Guess my old teachers did better than I imagined.


22 posted on 09/09/2018 6:17:15 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: SamAdams76

“(I lost my virginity there but that’s a story that I’m not ready to tell)”

Yes, but how did he feel about it?


23 posted on 09/09/2018 6:19:05 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: SamAdams76
Rory Gallagher

He is Irish actually and was (he passed in the mid '90s) awesome!!

He was the opening act in 1971 or '72 at a concert headlined by Edgar Winter and White Trash. Gallagher stole the show. Much to his credit Winter brought Gallagher back on stage for the encore.................great show!

Gallagher is well worth looking into if you still enjoy that style of hard guitar.

24 posted on 09/09/2018 6:19:05 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: Gamecock

“If I was a woman I’d be down at the dock waiting for the fleet to come in.”

If you were a woman and waiting at the dock, the fleet would never make landfall.


25 posted on 09/09/2018 6:21:14 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: yarddog

I figured from the two posts that your subconscious got it right, but then you started overthinking it.


26 posted on 09/09/2018 6:22:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SamAdams76

PS: Condolences on being stationed in El Centro!


27 posted on 09/09/2018 6:24:58 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: John S Mosby

Thanks, never heard of Danny Gatton but I had many Roy Buchanan albums back in the early to mid 1970’s. I still have all of Rory’s albums.


28 posted on 09/09/2018 6:29:19 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: SamAdams76

“and one of the Brits produced a tape of Rory Gallagher, who I take it, was their answer to Thorogood.”

Rory was a hell of a guitar player. But he was Irish.

L


29 posted on 09/09/2018 6:31:43 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: PROCON

The British have a Navy?


30 posted on 09/09/2018 6:39:21 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: PROCON

What’s a bloke to do? Beat the crap out of each other first chance....


31 posted on 09/09/2018 6:53:43 PM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: SamAdams76
"El Centro is a rather small place (I lost my virginity there but that's a story that I'm not ready to tell)"

There is a rumor that 50% of all those guys who lost their virginity in El Centro did so in the stock yards...{:-)

32 posted on 09/09/2018 6:55:56 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: PROCON
I had an experience of drinking with British sailors at a Gulfport bar one night. I don't remember anything after the introductions and that they thought I'd lost my accent since I had been born near Liverpool. Oh, I also don't remember being hauled to the barracks either.
33 posted on 09/09/2018 6:57:07 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: PROCON

Kipling wrote it about British soldiers, but it still applies...

“An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints”


34 posted on 09/09/2018 7:11:56 PM PDT by notloud
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To: PROCON

“The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash” - Winston Churchill


35 posted on 09/09/2018 7:15:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gamecock
"If I was a woman......."

You really to get that worked out witb a head shrink.

36 posted on 09/09/2018 7:24:23 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: PROCON

What, America has the concession on drunken sailors?


37 posted on 09/09/2018 7:33:24 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

I recall seeing Brit sailors throwing beer kegs through bar windows in Toulon back in 86 - they were basically rioting..


38 posted on 09/09/2018 8:08:12 PM PDT by nvcdl
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To: SuperLuminal
There is a rumor that 50% of all those guys who lost their virginity in El Centro did so in the stock yards...

Guess that's where that Navy meme comes into play; "Any port in a storm"...

39 posted on 09/09/2018 8:26:20 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: PROCON

I forget what year (’74 or ‘75) it was in Oahu but there were 3 Carriers all docked, the EM Club was Packed, the Platters were the Entertainment (at First)
One Australian Sailor stood up Downed his Drink and exclaimed “The Queen is a Bloody Whore” and slammed his glass upside down on the table... Next thing I know tables and chairs glasses and bottles are flying everywhere... Americans may not have gotten into the Scrap right away but it was everyone punching everyone within seconds.
I carried one Australian out that had a broken leg and put him on a Gurney and went back in and was doing First Aid on a guy that had a broken glass stuck in his face and what do I see? The Australian with a broken leg climbing over a wall to get back in the Fight.
It was awesome to watch as a teenager as my Father had described a few of these incidents that he had participated in and he had described the Brits and Aussies and the Americans exactly as it went down... I wrote Dad a long letter with details and he told me “That is why you put a roll of dimes in your neckerchief”
PS I carried the broke leg Aussie back out again and this time he was transported before he could escape to return to the fight, Shore Patrol then grabbed me stuck me in a Van hauled me away at the same time. I actually just walked away during processing and never got in any trouble.
GOOD TIMES


40 posted on 09/09/2018 9:22:51 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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