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Old January 27th, 2014, 09:00 AM   #3261
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I was just joking about Stoker - were the other ones true then? - but Albert Camus, novelist and philosopher, was the goalkeeper for his university junior team, Racing Universitaire d'Alger. He was prevented from pursuing a professional career by the contraction of tuberculosis. He later said that it was with that team that he learned 'what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man', although according to the Albert Camus Society:
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People have read more into these words than, perhaps, Camus would want them to. He was referring to a kind of simple morality he wrote about in his early essays, an ethic of sticking up for your friends, of valuing courage and fair-play. Camus believed that the people of politics and religion try to confuse us with convoluted moral systems to make things appear more complicated than they really are, possibly to suit their own agendas. People may do better to look to the simple morality of the football field than to politicians and philosophers.
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Old January 27th, 2014, 09:40 AM   #3262
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Old January 27th, 2014, 04:47 PM   #3263
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The film 'Escape to Victory' has possibly one of the best casts of real footballers ever assembled. If you are a child of the 70s you will revel in the sight of Pele running rings around those nasty Germans("I do this, this, this, this, this, and score!" Osvaldo Ardilles-superior Argentina and later 'Tottingham' Hotspur player and the late great Bobby Moore who showed he could act as well as play. Michael Caine played Colby who gets a team together despite being accused of playing to the propaganda of Major Steiner(Max von Sydow) who has convinced German high command of it's moral-boosting of the troops(his of course) Sylvester Stallone is completely miscast as an American intelligence officer and poor old Kevin O'Callaghan(real life goalkeeper) has to break his arm in order of Stallone to go in goal "where do I stand for a corner-kick?" He then commits probably the worst two-footed tackle in history on a poor German striker-so not that bad then It is seen as cult classic even with footballers like Russell Osman & John Wark who couldn't really act, but at the time it was seen as a bit of a joke. As a war film it's a rollicking good one and has some great football sequences in it.
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I was just joking about Stoker - were the other ones true then? - but Albert Camus, novelist and philosopher, was the goalkeeper for his university junior team, Racing Universitaire d'Alger. He was prevented from pursuing a professional career by the contraction of tuberculosis. He later said that it was with that team that he learned 'what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man', although according to the Albert Camus Society:
Well, Conan Doyle did keep goal for Pompey and Pavarotti was a goalie too,I don't think De Gaulle was though...
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Old January 27th, 2014, 07:48 PM   #3265
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The De Gaulle thing was a very obvious pun and is not based on fact-I just thought I would clear that up - it comes from a joke -"The President of the United States has the FBI to look after him, the British Prime Minister had Special Branch, so who looked after De Gaulle - answer de gaulle keeper! mon dieu!!

Did you know that being in prison is called Porridge not from the television series starring Ronnie Barker but much further back than that when in the 17th/18th century a thin gruel or porridge was given to all prisoners in their cells, whch was usually lumpy and fairly unappetising. Doing stir was also about being in prison and mostly meant going mad with boredom although your levels of anxiety, frustration etc could rise hence the other phrase 'stir crazy' where a prisoner would become mentally unbalanced at being locked up for so long - man is a social animal so being on your own for days on end is enough to send anyone mad.
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Prison Officers (the term warder hasnt been used since the twenties) are often referred to as screws. This stems from when prisoners had to work a treadmill. If a prisoner was finding it easy then the Officer would turn a screw to increase the resistance and make it harder for the inmate.
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Which also gives rise to the expression for increasing pressure on an individual of 'turning the screw'.
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found this story from a link on a pet care discussion webwise~elsewhere, it was not something I was aware of, so I thought, "Did You Know..."

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As an animal-loving nation, it is hard to believe that a blunder in national printing press during the outbreak of the Second World War led to the destruction of 750,000 British household pets in less than a week.

It is not hard, however, to imagine why the mass culling of pets during this time is scarcely reported or talked about, with the extent of human death and hardship prevailing over other wartime news. Also, being such an uncharacteristic act of animal destruction for the nation, is it likely a degree of guilt or embarrassment still exists?

With the outbreak of WWII in 1939, the government and National Air-Raid Precautions Committee released a pamphlet instructing all British citizens to ‘kindly destroy’ their family pets if they could not be cared for by neighbours or alternate means in the state of an emergency.

The pamphlet, perhaps intended to ease the panicked minds of Britons during wartime when food and provisions would be scarce, resulted in even greater panic, causing many to abandon their cats and dogs or have them immediately euthanised.

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home was one establishment whose doors these domestic pets were dumped outside during the period of hysteria. Those working at the RSPCA reported that ‘their primary task [had become] the destruction of animals,’ as people went off to war, had their homes destroyed or could no longer afford the ‘luxury’ of a pet.

In London alone, some 400,000 animals were taken to veterinary surgeries or animal care shelters to be exterminated in advance of war, while all the exotic animals (many of which were endangered) at London Zoo were also put to death.

The pamphlet, which read: ‘If at all possible, send or take your household animals into the country [...] if you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed’ was taken quite literally by scared Britons, even more so when the Blitz bombings began in 1940.

Those directly affected by the orders of the national pamphlet have spoken out about the horrors of the time, when people no longer felt they could feed or care for their beloved pets in the face of rationing and disaster. Clare Campbell, the author of a topical book, Bonzo’s War: Animals Under Fire, discusses the sad story of her uncle who, following news of the invasion of Poland, decided to immediately euthanize the family pet, Paddy.

"Such was the extent of people’s sorrow for their acts of killing that many animal headstones were engraved with the words ‘please forgive us’."

While the government eventually tried to back-track, realising too late what its careless words had begun, the seed had already been sown and the mass destruction continued. Those that did not have their animals put down but were ashamed to keep them, thinking them too much of an extravagance during wartime, had them sent abroad to help in the war effort. It is likely they died in a far worse way than had they been euthanised at home, but some argue this handful did not die in vain.

The expression ‘all’s fair in love and war’ implies that with everything else going on, the death of a few animals was neither here nor there. While the destruction of domestic pets was inevitable during six long years of war, the scale of it was unimaginable and, had the pamphlet taken a different approach to the issue, would far fewer family pets have been prematurely killed?
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At the outbreak of WWII vrts were a reserved occupation.
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This is a bizarre one and a little cruel but according the reference book '1,339 QI Questions to make your Jaw Drop' In World War I, it was patriotic in this country to kick dachshounds.

During World War II, the Americans renamed German measles as 'liberty measles'

A Rabbit was the only casualty of the first bomb in World War II to fall on British soil.
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