http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 21:59:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21441 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:50:39 +0000 Svendo 21441@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Damn Scargill/Thatcher, The miners strike started on my 6th birthday in 1984 and finished on my 7th birthday in 1985. Living in a town which depended on the pit and my dad being a coal miner I didn't have the best year I can tell you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21432 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:19:07 +0000 saltire 21432@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Raoul Moat knuckle-walks into a bar.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21427 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:07:25 +0000 Griffin 21427@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, but coal is so un-ecological. However, all is not lost as we will all go back to it out of desperation. The biggest UK coal reserves are under Oxfordshire. Just think, Banbury becoming a mining town. Can't wait. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21424 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:50:51 +0000 Doctor Moptop 21424@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A quick internet search throws up some interesting facts about old Arthur:</p> <p>'In 1983, Britain had 170 working mines; by 2009, this number had decreased to four.During the strike, Scargill had constantly claimed that the government had a long-term plan to reduce the industry in this way' </p> <p>- seems the proof was in the pudding... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21395 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:42:00 +0000 Ostsee 21395@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I am not too sure about apologising to Arthur Scargill. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21344 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:33:33 +0000 BillyBitzer 21344@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I wonder how old it is. "Wat Tyler walks into an ale house..."? No, that doesn't work.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21331 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:01:19 +0000 Doctor Moptop 21331@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It might be old, but it's still funny and in delicious bad taste.</p> <p>(Might I suggest an edit? Raoul Moat walks into the drinks aisle in Asda ...) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=7851#post-21303 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:10:20 +0000 BillyBitzer 21303@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>With apologies to Arthur Scargill.... </p>