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View sickboy's Profile sickboy Flag Deal or Croydon 16 Jul 21 1.23am Send a Private Message to sickboy Add sickboy as a friend

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

i heard a rumour that Henry viii died from either sepsis or an STD. Which would make sense considering the large number of Courtesans any King has access to over his life.

certainly very few people got past their 55th birthday. Death everywhere.

Lefty Historian Mary Beard said that the battlefield took out large numbers of men but that childbirth was Women's deadly battlefield. Certainly the statistics today are in stark contrast.

It is now thought it was probably a combination of diabetes and heart failure due to his morbid obesity.
Always a big man, once named the finest athlete in Europe, he piled on the weight after breaking his leg in a jousting accident, which never healed properly.
The std thing is now viewed as an urban myth, especially as it is thought he was incapable of sexual activity in his latter years.
Edited by Tudor Willow.
(Sorry Willow)

 

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View Ouzo Dan's Profile Ouzo Dan Online 16 Jul 21 12.01pm Send a Private Message to Ouzo Dan Add Ouzo Dan as a friend

Some villages out here in Slovakia are still like the 1900's now.

When we bought this place there was a little old lady in her late 80's who lived here.
Her husband died of hard work/industrial accident before he could finish building the house so the top floor was never finished and was full of asbestos tiles.

The house had some electricity that worked some of the time although running more than a light bulb in one room would trip the ghetto communist fuse box and that would be the end of it until someone would turn up to bodge it back to life again.
She had no heating except for an old wood fired oven that kept one room hot & she would hang her clothes she washed in a bucket over the oven.
Toilet was blocked and clearly hadnt been fixed in years, was literally years of granny hair & Kapustnica turds had to be scooped out by hand.

She clearly had a proper hard lonely life & I cant help but think of the times she must of sat huddled over the oven at 11pm at night the weather outside a bone chilling -30c and her only light bulb dies and thats it, shes sat in the dark until someone might come and visit her in the morning if shes lucky.

tbh I lived that life here for a year, honestly never been so happy for spring to arrive and it not be so cold that you have ice form on the inside of your windows/walls

 


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View Ouzo Dan's Profile Ouzo Dan Online 16 Jul 21 12.06pm Send a Private Message to Ouzo Dan Add Ouzo Dan as a friend

How the Gypsies live here is genuinely the most eye opening thing I have ever seen and the majority of them live the way they do to protect/maintain their culture.

 


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View Far away fan's Profile Far away fan Flag On the border of jungle 16 Jul 21 12.29pm Send a Private Message to Far away fan Add Far away fan as a friend

Where I live In Thailand Cambodian borders asbestos is still being sold even today, until 3 years ago French and Canadian governments was allowing asbestos to be made maybe still making, it is still sold in Asia, I have in my home here which I will take out soon, there are companies still making asbestos here in Asia.

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 16 Jul 21 12.38pm Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by Ouzo Dan


tbh I lived that life here for a year, honestly never been so happy for spring to arrive and it not beso cold that you have ice form on the inside of your windows/walls

Sounds tough Dan. Assume you've now got a nice, smart, fully functional place to live in.

However, I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers frosted patterns on the inside of our windows. I used to huff on a penny and hold it on my bedroom window so I could peer outside through the hole it melted.

Our central heating was a Valor paraffin stove turned down low which Dad put in the hall overnight. Not very effective as I recall.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 16 Jul 21 1.37pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

Sounds tough Dan. Assume you've now got a nice, smart, fully functional place to live in.

However, I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers frosted patterns on the inside of our windows. I used to huff on a penny and hold it on my bedroom window so I could peer outside through the hole it melted.

Our central heating was a Valor paraffin stove turned down low which Dad put in the hall overnight. Not very effective as I recall.

Lugging home a can of paraffin in the snow was a miserable experience. I’m pretty sure it was Esso Blue but could have been pink. Smoky too when the wick hadn’t been trimmed (!).

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 16 Jul 21 2.27pm Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Lugging home a can of paraffin in the snow was a miserable experience. I’m pretty sure it was Esso Blue but could have been pink. Smoky too when the wick hadn’t been trimmed (!).

Yes that's right, Esso Blue. Wasn't there a pink paraffin too? My folk preferred the blue for some reason. No idea why.

 


Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

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View Far away fan's Profile Far away fan Flag On the border of jungle 16 Jul 21 2.34pm Send a Private Message to Far away fan Add Far away fan as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Old Geezer

Yes that's right, Esso Blue. Wasn't there a pink paraffin too? My folk preferred the blue for some reason. No idea why.

I use to deliver paraffin as a kid to homes in a tanker, I can't remember if it was blue or pink, always in the evening we delivered as people was home then, after finishing shift Bath wash clothes as they stunk.

 

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I don't know why, but I read most of that thread humming the Hovis tune.

 

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There was an advert with a Northern bloke in it which went
Boom Boom Boom Boom Esso Blue
and he’d say
Shall I take m’can?

 

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croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 16 Jul 21 3.22pm

Originally posted by Far away fan

Where I live In Thailand Cambodian borders asbestos is still being sold even today, until 3 years ago French and Canadian governments was allowing asbestos to be made maybe still making, it is still sold in Asia, I have in my home here which I will take out soon, there are companies still making asbestos here in Asia.

I seem to recall , in the London borough of Kensington and chelsea, the council putting up flammable cladding on a 20 odd storey building,and saving themselves a mighty £6000 on doing the job with fireproof cladding! The storey goes 79 people perished in an inferno soon after! So far, nobody has ended up in jail from the Conservative council or the cladding firm! Hard to believe this is great britain , only 5 years ago! Thats the rumours anyway, not sure if i can believe it, surely this couldn"t happen in gb, could it?

 

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View ASCPFC's Profile ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 16 Jul 21 3.25pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle


There was an advert with a Northern bloke in it which went
Boom Boom Boom Boom Esso Blue
and he’d say
Shall I take m’can?

I think you're mixing it up with the new Top Gear.

 


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