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1 hour ago, Red Shift said:

Back in ‘49, as an 18 year old Merchant Cadet, my Dad was in Hamburg. He needed a sextant as he was studying navigation. He found one for sale in a private advert in a Hamburg newspaper. There was an address. He went there, and was greeted by a war widow. Yes, the sextant was for sale, and if he was interested, some war memorabilia. She was living in a hovel with no money - like so many. He offered to buy the sextant and a German Iron Cross with oak leaves caught his eye. She didn’t want it. She wanted nothing to do with the war. I can only imagine the personal tragedy of the family.

 

Anyway, the point. He asked about a price for both, prepared to pay well. She didn’t want money, because it had bugger all value. She wanted.........coffee. Coffee was the currency of a bombed out Hamburg 4 yrs after the war. Not gold.

 

Dad returned to the ship and bought a case of coffee off the Purser, who was doing a pretty good trade on the ship’s extra supply specifically for this trip. 
 

And that’s why In amongst my family’s war medals, which now belong to me, is an Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

That's your story, Herr Oberst Rotverschiebung, and you're sticking to it.

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14 hours ago, Red Shift said:

Back in ‘49, as an 18 year old Merchant Cadet, my Dad was in Hamburg. He needed a sextant as he was studying navigation. He found one for sale in a private advert in a Hamburg newspaper. There was an address. He went there, and was greeted by a war widow. Yes, the sextant was for sale, and if he was interested, some war memorabilia. She was living in a hovel with no money - like so many. He offered to buy the sextant and a German Iron Cross with oak leaves caught his eye. She didn’t want it. She wanted nothing to do with the war. I can only imagine the personal tragedy of the family.

 

Anyway, the point. He asked about a price for both, prepared to pay well. She didn’t want money, because it had bugger all value. She wanted.........coffee. Coffee was the currency of a bombed out Hamburg 4 yrs after the war. Not gold.

 

Dad returned to the ship and bought a case of coffee off the Purser, who was doing a pretty good trade on the ship’s extra supply specifically for this trip. 
 

And that’s why In amongst my family’s war medals, which now belong to me, is an Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.


Anyone else read this whole story in this voice?

 

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22 hours ago, SilverSong said:

Can only be inferring 1 thing. Were all doomed, the end is nigh.

 

In which case, don't buy gold - buy weapons, and get your mates, to buy weapons. Next, form a gang of brutal raiders and roam the postapocolyptic wasteland; liberating all those softy gold hoarders from their treasures, critical resources and their women.

 

Fucking gold. Amateurs.

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25 minutes ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

 

In which case, don't buy gold - buy weapons, and get your mates, to buy weapons. Next, form a gang of brutal raiders and roam the postapocolyptic wasteland; liberating all those softy gold hoarders from their treasures, critical resources and their women.

 

Fucking gold. Amateurs.

 

December 2023

The lads off for a bit of Xmas raiding

 

 

 

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17 hours ago, Doc Pheezin said:

I'd invest in archery lessons if preparing for the end of times 

Then buy yourself an English Long Bow and you’ll have the best firepower on your street. A two or three story house might come in handy as well. With battlements.

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4 hours ago, Red Shift said:

Then buy yourself an English Long Bow and you’ll have the best firepower on your street. A two or three story house might come in handy as well. With battlements.


struggling to get hold of boiling oil now that every cunt uses an air fryer 

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