Glasseye Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 I do. Fcuk it's hard sometimes.... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyguy Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 Yes , I often think about old pals 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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biggles Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 Yes, I do. Unfortunately at 78 a great many of my long time friends have passed away or suffer serious health problems. I settled in Pattaya and then the Philippines after leaving OZ at 53. We would often meet up in Pattaya but that is not so easy now as we all age. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 In the end people move etc, and you just lose touch with them. But yeah, I do miss some of my old friends from my younger days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 1 Author Share Posted June 1 15 minutes ago, galenkia said: In the end people move etc, and you just lose touch with them. But yeah, I do miss some of my old friends from my younger days. I think about some of them all the time. It just kicks in. And you are so right, life moves on. There ain't shit we can do about it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 I miss my drinking buddy from the slums.......and of course the occasional visits by some on here for my homebrew testing ...!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirchenfeld Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 I wouldn't say I miss them, past is past, but I do wonder what happened to them, and just hope they are doing fine. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambo Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 I had a friend last seen in 1986. I did mean to get in touch and found his contact on the internet. He'd emigrated to Canada which i recall was something he'd mentioned. I nearly conacted him and then i saw he'd died of cancer in his mid fifties. Luckily i have a small group of friends from the early nineties and we meet up very occasionaly usually in BKK or KL. All fit and well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 48 minutes ago, Zambo said: I had a friend last seen in 1986. I did mean to get in touch and found his contact on the internet. He'd emigrated to Canada which i recall was something he'd mentioned. I nearly conacted him and then i saw he'd died of cancer in his mid fifties. Luckily i have a small group of friends from the early nineties and we meet up very occasionaly usually in BKK or KL. All fit and well. Good to hear your friends are well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 I keep in touch with guys I knew in the RAF in the 70's & guys I knew in the sandpits from 80 to 92. I go to bi-annual Jaguar(aircraft) reunions & every year my former boss in Oman has a barbie where a diminishing number of old mates attend. Yes I do miss the departed. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Derek Dangleberries Posted June 1 Popular Post Share Posted June 1 53 minutes ago, coxyhog said: Yes I do miss the departed. Yep. I deal with it by randomly wearing a metal Poppy from a few I bought from the SSAFA website when they were available. Each one has its own significance to me. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted June 1 Share Posted June 1 8 hours ago, coxyhog said: I keep in touch with guys I knew in the RAF in the 70's & guys I knew in the sandpits from 80 to 92. I go to bi-annual Jaguar(aircraft) reunions & every year my former boss in Oman has a barbie where a diminishing number of old mates attend. Yes I do miss the departed. I've got a massive pic somewhere of 2 Jaguars in flight at close quarters in Oman with sand camo- I'll have a look for it here but I think it's stored in my lock up - if I ever find it I'll take a pic of a pic. I miss a few mates, but my current circle of friends is literally single digits, as I tend to choose them wisely. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yessongs Posted June 2 Popular Post Share Posted June 2 Met these 3 guys back in 1971 in High School in San Jose, Calif. We have all kept up with each other over 53 years. These are my 3 best friends still today. God, we have all been through the journey in life and have all had/shared the same experiences for sure. 2 of them were in my first wedding to my first wife back in 1986. Some of the places we have gone together over the last 4 decades and the experiences we have all shared are for ever etched in the memory banks. My buddy John ( in the glasses) retired to Maui and then sadly his condo actually survived the recent fires there but....the cluster f**k of the Gov't in helping these people has been a real eye opener. They are just now starting to clear the debris from the area where him and his wife lived....it took them this long to get a proper " bid" on the organization that won the contract to start the clean up.....mind boggling. I will see him and the the 2 others next month on my return trip back to Calif....looking forward to it. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggles Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 A positive of Internet, FB etc is how much easier it makes it I was in a Telegraphist in Training class in 1964 and a few years ago discovered a FB Group for them all. Guys I worked with 60 years ago. Nice to catch up. My Dad ran away from home in the UK at 15, joined the Merchant Navy. He had no further contact with his family and died at 70 in OZ. A few years ago I got a message from a lady who turned out to be the daughter of one of his 3 brothers. Imagine how hard it would have been to track someone down pre internet. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 2 hours ago, Yessongs said: Met these 3 guys back in 1971 in High School in San Jose, Calif. We have all kept up with each other over 53 years. These are my 3 best friends still today. God, we have all been through the journey in life and have all had/shared the same experiences for sure. 2 of them were in my first wedding to my first wife back in 1986. Some of the places we have gone together over the last 4 decades and the experiences we have all shared are for ever etched in the memory banks. My buddy John ( in the glasses) retired to Maui and then sadly his condo actually survived the recent fires there but....the cluster f**k of the Gov't in helping these people has been a real eye opener. They are just now starting to clear the debris from the area where him and his wife lived....it took them this long to get a proper " bid" on the organization that won the contract to start the clean up.....mind boggling. I will see him and the the 2 others next month on my return trip back to Calif....looking forward to it. Nice one Mike. I have recently reestablished regular contact with one of the main amigos from a group back during the same period as yours (72-76). There were five of us that I would consider super tight. It has been great swapping stories and sharing emails. The other day he shared a recent incident that he went through. After reading about the incident I instantly visualized his body language and mannerisms in how he probably reacted. It was if he was in the same room with me. The last time I saw him in person was probably 1985. It's amazing how well we know each other, yet how much has changed. There are two others from those four that I plan to reach out to in the near future. We had a big reunion planned back in 2018, we were all excited as a five year old on Christmas Day. But the main organizer (fourth guy of the group) who was putting it all togehter (best human being I've ever known) dropped dead with a heart attack. We were all too devastated to follow through after that. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 When I started visiting Thailand regularly I rather put some lifelong friends on the back burner. These were three guys that every previous year I went on a week long fishing/golfing/gambling/drinking holiday with in September. Eventually one of them followed me out to Thailand where he lives to this day. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Having worked in the international oil industry all my life, my friends are scattered across the globe, from Vancouver to New Plymouth, and Houston to Perth. We keep in touch via social media, though, and every once in a blue moon we get a chance to actually meet up in person again. Funnily enough, I've been thinking lately that I should probably make one last effort to go and see some of them as it I'm still fully mobile, but it's not going to get any easier as I enter my 70's. The trouble is that I'm a very domesticated creature these days and hate leaving my cosy home. Being a lazy cnut doesn't help either, lol. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 3 minutes ago, Toy Boy said: Having worked in the international oil industry all my life, my friends are scattered across the globe, from Vancouver to New Plymouth, and Houston to Perth. We keep in touch via social media, though, and every once in a blue moon we get a chance to actually meet up in person again. Funnily enough, I've been thinking lately that I should probably make one last effort to go and see some of them as it I'm still fully mobile, but it's not going to get any easier as I enter my 70's. The trouble is that I'm a very domesticated creature these days and hate leaving my cosy home. Being a lazy cnut doesn't help either, lol. I hear ya. Now that I have settled where I am the travel bug has diminished substantially. Having everything I need within arms reach or a few steps away is very nice. Much easier to communicate with folks you care about now a days who are distant. Seeing them in person would also be brilliant. I sometimes wonder if the emotions of seeing loved ones that I haven't seen for years or even decades would be a bit overwhelming emotionally though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 12 hours ago, Butch said: I've got a massive pic somewhere of 2 Jaguars in flight at close quarters in Oman with sand camo- I'll have a look for it here but I think it's stored in my lock up - if I ever find it I'll take a pic of a pic. Did you ever go to Thumrait?(formerly Midway) https://www.facebook.com/groups/thuggies is a FB group of ex-Thumrait Thuggies but it's for anyone who ever went there.Some great pics on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxyhog Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 12 hours ago, Butch said: I've got a massive pic somewhere of 2 Jaguars in flight at close quarters in Oman with sand camo- I'll have a look for it here but I think it's stored in my lock up - if I ever find it I'll take a pic of a pic. The Jags in Oman used to go very low & one day a Brit Jag pilot spotted a car he recognised as a Hunter Pilot's & decided to buzz it.One of the strakes on the aft lower of the Jag made a right mess of the car & nearly killed the drive.The Jag pilot was on the BA flight to London that night. Apologies for the thread fcuk. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 1 hour ago, coxyhog said: The Jags in Oman used to go very low & one day a Brit Jag pilot spotted a car he recognised as a Hunter Pilot's & decided to buzz it.One of the strakes on the aft lower of the Jag made a right mess of the car & nearly killed the drive.The Jag pilot was on the BA flight to London that night. Apologies for the thread fcuk. FFS ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 13 Author Share Posted June 13 Gets me every damn time...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasseye Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 God damn I miss my loved ones sometimes. Often, it's like they're sitting right next to me, and then they're gone. The memories are great, but sometimes it just pisses me fcuking off. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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