Tilbury feck me I used to sail into Tilbury port years ago, and people slag off Liverpool, at least we stopped eating our young years ago.
There used to be a pub just out side the dock gates , name escapes me just now. I was standing having a quiet pint and this big fecker says to me, your not local are you? a hush fell all around me. I thought here we go !!!were are you from? Belfast I says !!! oh a Paddy eh! No mate just a lad of a ship having a quiet pint do we have a problem here? not if you buy me a pint !!
I thought feck it regardless I am in for a kicking here. In 1972 and being from Belfast and in England there was not a lot down for me. Call it a pre-emptive strike but I decked the twat in one. I am not a hard case by any means, but before we had got to this I cast my eye around the bar , I had about 15 Filipino crew mates dotted around the bar so thought I was on pretty safe ground.
Some say the Irish are thick lol.