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  1. Archers Road

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    Top right is really a painting of the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. We actually won that one, I believe.
     
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  2. Archers Road

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    A British squaddie compared Basra favourably to Portsmouth. Probably ****ing paradise compared to Sunderland <ok>
     
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    Basra has a Premier League football team, to be fair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mina'a_SC
     
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    ... very true and a good spot ... although, in reality, we got lucky (or rather, that Irishman, Sir Arthur Wellesley did <laugh>) ... Old Boney was kicking our collective arse until Blucher and the Prussians turned up with typical German efficiency ...<ok>.
     
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    Must have been bloody difficult creating the biggest empire the world had ever seen with all those defeats going on. Wonder how that worked?
     
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    Not that well ... Genghiz Khan ensured our attempt never quite made it into the Guinness Book Of Empires ... the git <laugh>
     
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  7. Archers Road

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    The world was a simpler place when these chaps ruled it...

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    No one stops for tiffin anymore.
     
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    They don't like it up 'em!
     
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  9. Archers Road

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    Keep a stiff upper lip...
    ...I'm not standing around all day waiting for mine to stiffen.
     
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  10. Burly Hurley

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    Genghiz was a weekend tourist compared to the British empire mate.
     
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    Hmmm ... not so sure from what I've read buddy ... old Genghiz was pretty hard core and if his grandson hadn't died whilst one of his armies was approaching the gates of Vienna, the world might be a very different place today ...
     
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    how do you mong a war? <confused><confused><confused>
     
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    Get the yanks to fight it <ok>
     
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