Joe McMahon

NHS - But also Loud Gigs, the Great Outdoors, Cold Beer in Warm Weather. Existing in a Complicated World, and a Miserable Bluenose . Views are my own. #MDANT

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30 years ago I lived in the shadow of this beast but never went on it (being a skint student, no car etc). But at last today I walked on the Humber Bridge. When it opened in 1981, it was the longest bridge in the world.

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@frankmcglennon @l4pablo @DivockOrigi I'm not a huge fan, but he did save 2 pens in the Euro final penalty shootout v Italy. We should have won.

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@Look_its_Rhonda Some is good

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@TheHouseof08 Well I'll be Damned!

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@def_leppar20044 Seventies

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@Sorelle_Arduino He was horrible to her. Think he needs to look in the mirror.

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@Guitarbizon Hairy Mary

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@Michael21412246 @Jonefc000 Yup. No long term plan or strategy. I seriously wonder if I'll see us win anything again.

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@rocknrollofall The Passenger, and Message of Love by the Pretenders. But there are hundreds.

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@charles_stevo I'll raise you extended contracts for Tarks and Keane. The Burnley central defence from 10 years ago. Ben Mee was the one to go for. WTF have Everton become.

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@luiscalleo Police. I'm still not old enough for Dire Straights even at 56.

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@Daveinthe6ydbox @toffeeprogs His record for Liverpool in over 25 derbies is very impressive, including winning the first Derby at BMD.

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@IrishEfc1878 @Everton Agreed, Tarks and Keane already have relegation from premier league on their CVs , mind you so does Moyes. Its pathetic.

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@TheFigen_ Was there 2 weeks ago.

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@NilSatisNews New Manager
RB
LB
RM
CH
Strikers x 2 (and keep Beto)

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@CBeesleyEcho Let's just wait until we see him in the shirt outside FF. I just hope Moyes plays him, this is his career. He can't sit on the bench waiting for 5 minutes a match.

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@DoctorWhoWorld_ Of course, after Tom the best.

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@Maxy_stein @fckfmrocks I bought some Taco shells today, and we had black garlic chicken. That's the highlights.

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If ever there was a popular actor whose most famous role was diametrically opposite to his own life , surely it was Arnold Ridley. He became famous and very popular for playing Private Godfrey in the hugely popular tv series Dads Army. His character of Godfrey was elderly, doddery, kind, polite, mildly incontinent and a conscientious objector.
But Mr Ridley's life could not have been more different. Born in 1896 he tried to enlist at the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 but was turned away because of a hammer toe. But he was accepted by the Somerset Light infantry in 1915 and sent to the Western Front.

In the space of a year he saw much hand to hand fighting in the trenches He was stabbed in the groin with a bayonet and his legs were riddled with shrapnel. In 1916 at the Battle of the Somme his left hand was rendered forever almost unusable by another bayonet wound , at the same time he was smashed in the head by a German rifle butt which left a legacy of blackouts. He was then medically discharged that year.

He rejoined the army in 1939 as a 2nd Lt, his job was looking after journalists in France attached to the BEF, was evacuated on an overcrowded warship during Dunkirk operations from Boulougne. But by now his WW1 wounds were catching him up and he left the army on medical grounds in 1940.

He immediately joined the Home Guard in Caterham! He did of course go on to write The Ghost Train.

Arnold Ridley passed away in 1984. A true hero who gave so much to our country. R.I.P.

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@plinketyplink2 At least it's probably a safe atmosphere, no one being judged.