Anyone been assaulted at work?

[Mick Dempsey]

On 13/12/2022 at 22:14, Steve Bullman said:

Once said that to a young Scot girl I was having a bit of fun with, then remembered her dad died in the alpha piper disaster…still cringe to this day when I hear that phrase!

 

glad you didn’t come off worse anyhow 

I was down the Mucky Duck once (2000), bit pissed, and going on about the Hanse Cronje match fixing scandal.

’Typical bloody South African’ I said ‘corrupt as the day is long’

Who was I talking to? Honest to God it was Bruce Grobbelar!

He is one scary dude by the way.

[Puffingbilly413]

12 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Who was I talking to? Honest to God it was Bruce Grobbelar!

He of the wobbly legs.  One of my LFC favourites when I was a kid - his kids went to the school next to ours and we used to see him picking them up.  Was awestruck at that age.

I guess two years as a late teenager fighting in the Rhodesian bush war cements your character a bit though.

[AHPP]

16 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I was down the Mucky Duck once (2000), bit pissed, and going on about the Hanse Cronje match fixing scandal.

’Typical bloody South African’ I said ‘corrupt as the day is long’

Who was I talking to? Honest to God it was Bruce Grobbelar!

He is one scary dude by the way.

 

I don't think of South Africans as corrupt as much as I think of them as scary. He'd have shit you up all the same if you'd complimented him on his car, wife and dog.

[Mick Dempsey]

I can honestly say, I didn’t like him or trust him (he lived next door to the pub and I did a little bit of tree work and stump work) but cross him or take him on? No way!

[Puffingbilly413]

19 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

going on about the Hanse Cronje match fixing scandal.

Just remembered Mick that Grobbelaar was also accused of match fxing and is still extremely bitter about it!  Perhaps he remembers you...

[Mick Dempsey]

Just now, Puffingbilly413 said:

Just remembered Mick that Grobbelaar was also accused of match fxing and is still extremely bitter about it!  Perhaps he remembers you...

That was sort of the point!

[Puffingbilly413]

2 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

I don't think of South Africans as corrupt as much as I think of them as scary. He'd have shit you up all the same if you'd complimented him on his car, wife and dog.

He's Rhodesian/Zimbabwean though mind...

[Puffingbilly413]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

That was sort of the point!

Yes I realised that after I typed it doh

[Doug Tait]

23 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I was down the Mucky Duck once (2000), bit pissed, and going on about the Hanse Cronje match fixing scandal.

’Typical bloody South African’ I said ‘corrupt as the day is long’

Who was I talking to? Honest to God it was Bruce Grobbelar!

He is one scary dude by the way.

 

Did he call you Dempsey after that

[AHPP]

Just now, Puffingbilly413 said:

He's Rhodesian/Zimbabwean though mind...

I'm generalising. Is there a big difference with borders? I just think of any white man in the southern quarter of the African continent as being like the characters in Blood Diamond.