Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

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Brooklands Blue said:
You make a great point. Liverpool and its council is mired in corruption hence the recent arrest of its mayor Joe Anderson and his cabal on suspicion of allegedly taking sweeteners on construction contracts. My dad used to drive a lorry for a living and has told me that he used to have to pay a union 'tax' to either collect or drop goods off at the docks at Seaforth. My brother in law is the finance director of the scaffolding firm set up by his father and uncles and has told me if they win a contract in Liverpool before they can begin any scaffolding they have to pay the right 'security' firm their fee otherwise any scaffolding put up goes missing until payment is made.
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Liverpool was and always will be ran by gangsters
 
Brooklands Blue said:
You make a great point. Liverpool and its council is mired in corruption hence the recent arrest of its mayor Joe Anderson and his cabal on suspicion of allegedly taking sweeteners on construction contracts. My dad used to drive a lorry for a living and has told me that he used to have to pay a union 'tax' to either collect or drop goods off at the docks at Seaforth. My brother in law is the finance director of the scaffolding firm set up by his father and uncles and has told me if they win a contract in Liverpool before they can begin any scaffolding they have to pay the right 'security' firm their fee otherwise any scaffolding put up goes missing until payment is made.
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My dad had a green grocers in Moss Side back in the 60’s. It was an immigrant area and his customers were either the tail end of the Irish influx or, in the main, from the West Indies. All good folk one and all.
My dad catered for those from the West Indies by stocking mangoes, yams, cooking bananas, sugar cane etc. Fruit and veg that wasn’t generally available from the wholesale markets in those days.
Thus he’d order it and buy it directly from the docks - but the cost of the extortion / backhanders demanded at Liverpool meant that he’d drive to Felixstowe or London to get his stock - and that was in an ex-post office Commer van in the days before motorways, so it was a major undertaking every time.
He’d rather do that than pay a tribute to the scouse gangsters - it makes me especially proud for him every time I remember that, and makes me remember why I can’t stand the feral scouse.
 
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Bluesince1979 said:
Liverpool was and always will be ran by gangsters
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Knew a lad back in the 80s who delivered truck-loads of washing machines all around the north. Every time he had to deliver in Liverpool he was told (i.e. threatened) by the receiving warehouse to drop the trailer and come back an hour later to actually check in. Needless to say, he was then always a few machines short. He then had to write down the manifest. When he reported it back to the main warehouse, they’d just shrug their shoulders and write off the missing machines as ‘damaged in transit’. They all knew it was just the MO of having to deal with scousers.
 
OccupiedPalestineBlues said:
My dad had green grocers in Moss Side back in the 60’s. It was an immigrant area and of his customers were either the tail end of the Irish influx or, in the main, from the West Indies. All good folk one and all.
My dad catered for those from the West Indies by stocking mangoes, yams, cooking bananas, sugar cane etc. Fruit and veg that wasn’t generally available from the wholesale markets in those days.
Thus he’d order it and buy it directly from the docks - but the cost of the extortion / backhanders demanded at Liverpool meant that he’d drive to Felixstowe or London to get his stock - and that was in an ex-post office Commer van in the days before motorways, so it was a major undertaking every time.
He’d rather do that than pay a tribute the the scouse gangsters - it makes me especially proud for him every time I remember that, and makes me remember why I can’t stand the feral scouse.
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That’s a great story. What a guy!
Good chance my parents and extended family were customers of his.
 
GY.Blue said:
Just them being vile fuckers again,they thought they’d just ruin probably the biggest day in that girls life singing the National anthem.
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Pity she didn't break down in tears and stopped singing half way through. How would they have felt then?
 
roman totale said:
That’s a great story. What a guy!
Good chance my parents and extended family were customers of his.
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The shop was called the Orchard and it was on Great Western Street.
He loved the people in the area, he always said that the immigrants were the most honest folk you could ever meet, country folk who took pride in the verity of their words - if someone couldn’t afford their weekly shopping, and said that they’d pay him for it before the end of the week, then he knew that they’d do so by Saturday closing or it would have be posted through the door and on the mat when he opened up on Monday morning.
 
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roman totale said:
Knew a lad back in the 80s who delivered truck-loads of washing machines all around the north. Every time he had to deliver in Liverpool he was told (i.e. threatened) by the receiving warehouse to drop the trailer and come back an hour later to actually check in. Needless to say, he was then always a few machines short. He then had to write down the manifest. When he reported it back to the main warehouse, they’d just shrug their shoulders and write off the missing machines as ‘damaged in transit’. They all knew it was just the MO of having to deal with scousers.
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My dad drove for Hotpoint in the late 1980s after years of general haulage work involving lots of European and middle east work. Whilst working for Hotpoint out of Trafford park he would sometimes do house deliveries in Liverpool. He was threatened at knifepoint twice in Liverpool and they attempted to steal his lorry. Silly bastards didn't know how to operate the higher and lower range gearbox they had on lorries back then and so dumped the vehicle about 200 metres from where they had taken off my dad. Having seen events unfold he calmly walked over and drove his lorry onto his next delivery. My dad is 86 years old and has been a deeply committed Christian from childhood and for sometime was a shop steward and always taught his 8 children to look beyond people's faults and see the best in someone with the exception of scousers who he says god will forgive him for "hating those odious vermin".
 
OccupiedPalestineBlues said:
My dad had green grocers in Moss Side back in the 60’s. It was an immigrant area and his customers were either the tail end of the Irish influx or, in the main, from the West Indies. All good folk one and all.
My dad catered for those from the West Indies by stocking mangoes, yams, cooking bananas, sugar cane etc. Fruit and veg that wasn’t generally available from the wholesale markets in those days.
Thus he’d order it and buy it directly from the docks - but the cost of the extortion / backhanders demanded at Liverpool meant that he’d drive to Felixstowe or London to get his stock - and that was in an ex-post office Commer van in the days before motorways, so it was a major undertaking every time.
He’d rather do that than pay a tribute the the scouse gangsters - it makes me especially proud for him every time I remember that, and makes me remember why I can’t stand the feral scouse.
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Your dad sounds like a top gentleman.
 
roman totale said:
Knew a lad back in the 80s who delivered truck-loads of washing machines all around the north. Every time he had to deliver in Liverpool he was told (i.e. threatened) by the receiving warehouse to drop the trailer and come back an hour later to actually check in. Needless to say, he was then always a few machines short. He then had to write down the manifest. When he reported it back to the main warehouse, they’d just shrug their shoulders and write off the missing machines as ‘damaged in transit’. They all knew it was just the MO of having to deal with scousers.
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A lot of port citys are the same. .

They kicked off like fuck when the containers were sealed at the docks :))
 
Nellies left peg said:
How this bunch of feral cunts have got a reputation as cheeky scallies is beyond me. They are nothing more than thieving scum and I'd never trust one.
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Heard a radio caller today (cockney LFC fan) who, when discussing the booing of the anthem, said: "Liverpool fans are always respectful." This must be one of the most absurd things I have ever heard. Surely not even most LFC fans believe this. They are the most disrespectful fans in the world, probably in the history of football. In fact they pride themselves on it. They treat other clubs and their fans with total contempt (not just City, United and Everton) They would win any trophy awarded for lack of self awareness.
 
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