Off Topic Your Dad ....

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I've written this post out at least 4 times now and just keep deleting it.

The truth is I've written it out in my head a million times in my life and just kept deleting it.

Good topic Smug. Men often keep this sort of stuff bottled up, you don't know who you might have helped with this one.

Oy! Don't be a stranger Manc!
 
Hard hitting thread in all honesty, but shows everyone's true colours at the same time.

I'm probably considerably younger than the majority on here so lucky enough my old man is still with us.

He wasn't really around as he worked abroad 9 out of 12 months of the year and when I was 8 or so he remarried and moved down south.

I have a good relationship with him now and he's about to become a grandad officially later this year.

My grandad was my hero, he was in the pub majority of my Mam's childhood so I think he felt like he had to make up for that with me and my sister, missed very dearly to this very day.

All the best gents :emoticon-0148-yes:

Wonderful post mate ..... made my night.
 
I've written this post out at least 4 times now and just keep deleting it.

The truth is I've written it out in my head a million times in my life and just kept deleting it.

Good topic Smug. Men often keep this sort of stuff bottled up, you don't know who you might have helped with this one.

Quite right Tel, we should all take the opportunity to say how we really feel ... it helps, that's all I'm saying.
 
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What do you think I would say

You said all you ever needed to say when you asked me to be your best man and told me why.

As for my own parents, mother died when I was 5 and dad died when I was 7. There was no time to tell either of them anything. It was a desperate time for a kid that age. There were many times when I wished it could have been different but if it had been I wouldn`t be what I am. I wouldn`t have the kids and grandkids I have now and wouldn`t change them for anything. No choice but to accept, although tough at times, it was for the best.
 
You said all you ever needed to say when you asked me to be your best man and told me why.

As for my own parents, mother died when I was 5 and dad died when I was 7. There was no time to tell either of them anything. It was a desperate time for a kid that age. There were many times when I wished it could have been different but if it had been I wouldn`t be what I am. I wouldn`t have the kids and grandkids I have now and wouldn`t change them for anything. No choice but to accept, although tough at times, it was for the best.

What a wonderful post ...... Byron never said anything more poetic mate.
 
You said all you ever needed to say when you asked me to be your best man and told me why.

As for my own parents, mother died when I was 5 and dad died when I was 7. There was no time to tell either of them anything. It was a desperate time for a kid that age. There were many times when I wished it could have been different but if it had been I wouldn`t be what I am. I wouldn`t have the kids and grandkids I have now and wouldn`t change them for anything. No choice but to accept, although tough at times, it was for the best.

Damn! Pops!

Just goes to show. You think you've had it bad and then you're humbled.
 
A miracle that I was even born, my father was 22 years old in 1914 when war was declared, he was one of the first ones to go , my mother used to discourage him from talking about it at home but I remember mentions of the Somme ( 30,000 dead in the first day ) and the Dardanelles in Turkey , he came home and fathered seven children in a land " Fit for heroes to live in " except that as a shipyard labourer he was unable to get a permanent job, he would have to queue up outside the shipyard and the foreman would select the number of men needed and the rest were sent home, One incident he told me was when he was working on the Tyne and one day the ferry was late and everyone had to run as the gates were shut at seven oclock , my father whose lungs were damaged with mustard gas was unable to keep up and the gates were shut with him in sight 50 yards away so he had to go home and return the next day ( Of course we do not need unions )
My biggest regret is that both of my parents were dead by the time I was in a position to be able to really make life easy for them
 
A miracle that I was even born, my father was 22 years old in 1914 when war was declared, he was one of the first ones to go , my mother used to discourage him from talking about it at home but I remember mentions of the Somme ( 30,000 dead in the first day ) and the Dardanelles in Turkey , he came home and fathered seven children in a land " Fit for heroes to live in " except that as a shipyard labourer he was unable to get a permanent job, he would have to queue up outside the shipyard and the foreman would select the number of men needed and the rest were sent home, One incident he told me was when he was working on the Tyne and one day the ferry was late and everyone had to run as the gates were shut at seven oclock , my father whose lungs were damaged with mustard gas was unable to keep up and the gates were shut with him in sight 50 yards away so he had to go home and return the next day ( Of course we do not need unions )
My biggest regret is that both of my parents were dead by the time I was in a position to be able to really help them

The previous owner of the house I'm now managing was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Harrison

His dad was on the dock labour scheme and his mam took in washing ..... the property is worth around £6 million so you have to say 'fair play'.
 
No. ****er.

Just look at this thread for proof.

This board has not missed you.even after many leaving threads.

It certainly has ...... the fact that the board is coming to life is killing you.

You'll do everything you can to kill the board but you're ****ed.

When you could act the big man, rebuilding Thailand and shagging every ladyboy, you could just about get away with it.

Now you're begging Billy to be your mate you're just a sad knacker.

Don't you have any real mates from all those incredible years in Sunderland?
 
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Stop trying to cause trouble all the time man.

He's a total drain on this board ..... if Comm isn't the centre of attention it results in toy throwing.

He could get away with it when he was a family man, with a business abroad, but now he's abandoned them he isn't the big bollix he claimed to be.
 
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No. ****er.

Just look at this thread for proof.

This board has not missed you.even after many leaving threads.

It bloody well has. These threads beat your "this board is ****e, you're all a bunch of ***ots" threads all the day long.

Lets take a look at one.

http://www.not606.com/threads/h.346305/

<applause>

Back off from a good thread and show some decency for once man.
 
He's a total drain on this board ..... if Comm isn't the centre of attention it results in toy throwing.

He could get away with it when he was a family man, with a business abroad, but now he's abandoned them he isn't the big bollix he claimed to be.

**** him. He's an arsehole. Back to the thread.

I'm from Cockfield by the way, left that out of my main post. :p