ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Hobo-Ken** · 07-03-2010, 14:42

Originally Posted by Oddball_101

Originally Posted by sapperbraindead

Anyone got a copy/remember/link to 'Belfast,Belfast,it's a wonderful town,it doesn't matter if your skin is brown,Belfast,Belfast I love you,if you're out of work you can get the brew'.'71/72 I think

Boney M did a song "Belfast" not sure if that was it. Are they still going? Mega afro on the bloke I remember.

So did Katie Melua. But she at least lived there - which Boney M probably didn't.

**gloworm** · 19-03-2010, 21:05

That leaves a heavy, empty feeling, not often I am at a loss for words

**ScouseD** · 19-03-2010, 21:21

I found many of the pictures uncomfortable for all sorts of reasons and emotions. Still, thanks for posting.

RIP Jock D, you are not forgotten.

**tropper66** · 19-03-2010, 21:24

Originally Posted by whatnow?

click here

More pictures for the older and bolder

A picture of our old "Skyshout" Sioux helicopter, wrongly named as a Scout, I remember we got a bolliking for flying it over Belfast playing Christmas Carols, on the morning of the 25th Dec 1971

**IndianaDel** · 19-03-2010, 21:32

Was it a cold morning in Belfast, that Christmas?
I ask, because we are all pretty clued up on what the ambient temp' the night before!

**CDT gruntfuttock** · 17-06-2012, 18:04

I was actually just talking to a guy I know about the troubles, he's of the opinion that the British army and the RUC were unspeakably cruel etc to the protesters , terrorists and various naer-do-wells of that period , at the time I politely disagreed. Now, I'd really love to wring the bastards neck.. I mean , any organisation that declares it's for the 'freedom' of a people, and goes about obtaining that goal by killing, wounding and terrorising parts of that people has no ground to stand on. And the fact that the feckers are fighting about two sides of the same bloody religion... I've a mind to...write a letter and have a cup of tea.

**Pull-up-a-sandbag** · 17-06-2012, 18:34

That bought back some memories. Question, did any arrester get Clarabell to work?

**chocolate_frog** · 17-06-2012, 20:06

Remember watching the protesters try to tip the Snatch... thinking to myself 'if tht thing rolls, it's going to be a win!' Whichever way it rolled it was going to crush about 20 odd scroats.

Pretty disheartening really. The kids only wanted to go to school and grow up. We should have corralled the cnuts wanting to have a ruck to the waste ground and told them to crack on. The tears and crying by the kids was pretty disheartening, who even brought up inthe situation they had been couldn't fathom the hatred or the reasons for it.

Don't remember the Posty though... certainly puts the current postal situation in Doncaster in perspective!

**fu2** · 17-06-2012, 20:43

Got a really sick feeling looking at the photos of David Howes and Derick wood being dragged from thier car.

**JT0475** · 17-06-2012, 21:13

^ Both good lads - Bob Howes was in the same sqn as me in Harrogate, good lad. Last saw him down in Port Stanley as I was on my way back to the UK from South Georgia, smashing fella.