Happy Battle of Waterloo day!

[Tail End Charlie]

A time to commemorate the day when we gave those beastly Germans a damn good licking.

Er, the French Sir, they're the ones we gave a good licking.
Don't be disgusting, Darling, I wouldn't lick a Frenchman ......

 

[Drago]

My Great Grandad, who was very hard of hearing, only signed up for WWI because he had heard that "we're off to give the nun a good licking."

 

[Nollaig]

I read the title and it reminded me of the big feed of indian curry etc i had the other night oh fantastic, although the following day wasn't kind to me .

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I read the title and it reminded me of the big feed of indian curry etc i had the other night oh fantastic, although the following day wasn't kind to me .

Yes, we got wind of that...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I read the title and it reminded me of the big feed of indian curry etc i had the other night oh fantastic, although the following day wasn't kind to me .

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/tv2gD3a1qC0?si=tkAi93FpVMZYbfFk

 

[Profpointy]

Reminds me of a shared house we were in back in the day. The estate agent's inventory mentioned "picture of battle of Waterloo", featuring a naval battle, presumably trafalgar.

Even more absurdly it listed "glass with a crack in it". It was clearly a free glass from esso tokens rather than waterford crystal so it was utterly bonkers. And to add the fun, one day we all came home from the office to see a car parked in our drive with a guy asleep in it. We left him to it and went in the house and a little later he woke up and rang the bell. Turned out he was the landlord and explained the estate agent, who was a former mayor of Chipenham, had done a runner with several months' rent from a number of properties. As he was the landlord's agent rather than ours we paid him directly thereafter and all was well. I mentioned the list cracked glass and pulled a face and said chuck it away

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Our Curling Club was founded in 1815.
It's not even anywhere near the oldest either!

 

[Nollaig]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/tv2gD3a1qC0?si=tkAi93FpVMZYbfFk

LMAO

 

[Tail End Charlie]

In all seriousness, even if you have only a fleeting interest in history, the battlefield site is well worth visiting. The visitor centre is very good and do make the effort to visit Hougoumont (it's a walk of about a mile). That place alone was worth the visit. It hasn't changed too much since the battle.

 

[MichaelW2]

1815, the year they invented dental floss.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not long till the Battle of the Bog which occurred in Ireland in 1690

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not long till the Battle of the Bog which occurred in Ireland in 1690

I think there is a 'Battle Of The Bog' regularly in a lot of houses in the morning or when people come back from being somewhere and there are not enough 'facilities' 🤣

 

[accountantpete]

Back in the 80's the Battle of Waterloo referred to getting a seat on the British Rail 18.15 to Poole from platform 5