Gmu 2019 Banter

Doesn't look like he wants to come to Ireland

 

Ahh is that the sweetest thing, ya big softie you.

 

I can attest to that.

Back in the late sixties, one summer school holidays down Corby Tube Works, I was working my shift on the tube straightening furnace. I was advised by the charge-hand to be wary not to cross my new work mate who'd be transferring over after tea break. My new colleague was a proper chiselled hard-man looking bloke in his early forties. About five eight, lean and mean, dressed in denim jeans, shirt and jacket, sporting close cropped hair the days when your hair was considered short if your ears were visible, all the more intimidating due to the scar that ran prominently from his forehead, down the side of his nose and across his cheek.

He introduced himself in a proper Glaswegian taciturn growl. "They call me Billy tha' Beef. Ahm jest efter dane eighteen yairs in Peterheed."

If it was meant to impress me, he succeeded.

"Oh aye", says I "And, er ,,,"

"Kilt tha' wife wi' an axe".

I decided to leave it at that and didn't delve any further. He wasn't much of a conversationalist anyway.

 

Peterhead closed a couple of years ago. I was always led to believe that in itslatter days it housed the worst of Scotland's category A prisoners including violent sex offenders.

Auntie Google reckons the SAS were dispatched in 1987 to end the riot there, in what was known as "Scotland's gulag, a prison of no hope."

 

A discussion on where forum members can meet ends up as a discussion on where the worst prisoners are.
Some sort of connection there?

 

Top thread derailing at its best!

 

I’m waiting until crayons and cake enter the discussion

 

I once drew a picture of a chocolate cake with crayons.

 

Did the cake have a cream filling

 

You’ve not been playing with matches again have you Andy e

 

Oh yes? And how long was your”visit”?

 

Peterhead used to be the baddest and hardest then they moved them and filled it with sex criminals, by all accounts its a very stressful job either way.