Seeing as this forum is becoming banal...what it the most memorable experience in your life???
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Seeing as this forum is becoming banal...what it the most memorable experience in your life???
Children being born. Easy.
Your own, or are you a midwife? 🙂Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
I agree btw - twice over
Considering he thought the board was getting banal these replies are going well.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Definitely the kids being born.
Nothing comes close:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
It has to be when you condemned all the posters on here for starting threads unrelated to CCFC. Very memorable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maurice Swan
Making a raft out of polystyrene packaging, pinched from the Panasonic factory and attempting to sail it down the rhymney river, about eight ten year olds. Got stuck in mud and it broke into pieces. My wife has also had three kids that are mine, although nothing matches the raft.
Wales beating Belgium?Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
Probably 9/11. Unfortunately.
Nearly getting my head caved in at Exeter and Hereford
Very memorable , I still wake up in a cold sweat
Mothercare had private areas, where mothers could feed their babies, as a result of these very incidents.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Surviving a deliberate attempt on my life.
Apart from family matters, seeing mother and calf Humpback whales around a ship I was working on off Angola, the calf was so close to the ship, constantly breeching, that I actually got wet. I've seen plenty of whales, but never so close. At the moment we have five Peregrine falcons who have remained on the vessel for days, despite us moving to avoid Hurricane Delta. One of them plucked a small bird out of the choppy sea yesterday, something I hadn't realised they could do. Came so close I managed to get a (crap) photo with my mobile.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
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I love the City, music, films, books, but nothing comes close to nature for me, the aerial prowess of these Peregrines is breathtaking, though no one else on board takes much notice. Everyone was running around looking at the whales though.
Where is this mate ?Quote:
Originally Posted by elytillidie
Sounds nastyQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Getting into Wigan Casino alnighter as a 14 year old kid from Merthyr was mind blowing something I always look back on with fond memories.
Bit different to the 'Brandy Bridge' I bet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Whisperer
You can't say that without giving more detailsQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
My son being born
And the euros 2016 I will take that tournament to the grave.
:hehe: I seen some epic fights outside the BB though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Like others my children being born.
In addition having played football in the Rhondda for many years, capturing the fun, camaraderie and community that exists in local football in my book is up there.
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The ‘cans’ table as you walked in serving Colt 45, Breaker and Special VAT and people used to wonder why there was ructions in there weekly:biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Whisperer
Not sure if you, or any of the other Merthyr lads on this thread are on Facebook, but there's a page called ''Merthyr nightclub memories'' which has some great pictures and stories of the BB, Charbonniers etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
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Originally Posted by Hilts
Me too - times four!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Luckily i found out what was causing it and got snipped.
Much earlier, lining up for the mile race on sports day when I was 13, looking for my parents in the crowd, running the race of my life and winning by over half a lap
94-lap race), then seeing my parents drive into the car park 10 minutes too late! :cry:
Inter-rail 1999 .
four-lap race, obvs :facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
like many the birth of your kids after that
seeing my daughter recover from a major operation
seeing my lad represent Wales in 2 different sports
Why can't I?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
People say about having babies without givng any details. :biggrin:
It stops you getting spots. Adrenalin cleans the blood :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Losing my virginity. Not sure Father Brendan felt the same though :cry:
Gulf of Mexico, we're off Alabama, but moved east to avoid the hurricane, the peregrines came with us, and returned with us. They been half heartedly pestering some of the seabirds, Magnificent Frigate Birds (see photo), Booby's and Little Egrets (you'll have seen loads being an angler) they call them Snowy Egrets over here. I watch Peregrines a lot at home, the Wales coastal path has plenty, and there's a pair at Porthkerry.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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They seem to be eating plenty.
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Nothing can top this.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepster
End of thread.
I have seen peregrines all along the coast , Porthkerry cliffs , fontygary , some huge ravens there as well , Nash point cliffs , llantwit cliffsQuote:
Originally Posted by elytillidie
Saw one take out a sand wader once , fecking clinical
nothing can top having children ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
I beg to differ
Me too!!Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Nice photos!Quote:
Originally Posted by elytillidie
Is it the merchant navy you're in? If so, I would imagine you have some kind of specialised skill - British AB's these days are as rare as hen's teeth, aren't they (mostly Filipino or Indonesia crews)?
Was in the Merchant Navy, offshore now, Crane Operator on a pipelayer, we're gradually getting shunted out of this industry too. We've got Filipino's on here operating the smaller cranes. Can't be many British jobs in the Merchant Navy now, RFA, some ferries, used to have a massive fleet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
I graduated out of Denton, Gravesend in January '78 as a' deckie'. Never went to sea though, I was missing a homelife I never really had. I didn't take the ship that was lined up for me (Holder Bros, Liverpool - South Africa) - one of my life's regrets when I look back on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by elytillidie
My mate, also from Cardiff (we were both at Gravesend together), used to send me postcards from the Shell tankers he was on, all of the crew pictured on deck, wearing just shorts and flip-flops with a can of beer in hand. This was early '80s...they probably thought they had jobs for life at that time.
Now, any still lucky enough to be employed on ferries are wearing boilersuits, hard-hats, steel toe caps and high-viz... how times have changed, eh!