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YE OLDE LARGE LAD GETS PROMOTED

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  ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐ŸŽ–️ YE OLDE LARGE LAD GETS PROMOTED From Legendary Misfit to Second-in-Command There are moments in every military organisation when a commanding officer has to stop, look around, take a deep breath and ask himself one very important question. “Who on earth can I trust with this?” For Stg. Salty, the answer had become increasingly obvious. Ye Olde Large Lad. It was not necessarily an obvious answer to everyone else. In fact, several members of the Salty Gang nearly fell off their chairs when Stg. Salty made the announcement. But after everything Ye Olde Large Lad had been through, everything he had survived, and every completely ridiculous military operation he had somehow managed to return from, Stg. Salty had finally decided that the time had come. Ye Olde Large Lad was getting promoted. Not just a little promotion. Not a ceremonial promotion. Not one of those promotions where someone gets an impressive-looking badge and then spends the next six months wondering what they a...

Brats on scramblers on the M50

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  ๐Ÿ️ TWO ABSOLUTE BRATS ON SCRAMBLERS TURN THE M50 INTO THEIR OWN STUNT SHOW BigSaltyDog Exclusive. The M50 Had Seen Some Things. But Yesterday Was Something Else. There are certain things you expect to see when driving around Dublin. Traffic. Traffic jams. Someone indicating approximately three business days after changing lanes. A taxi driver who appears to have developed a personal hatred of lane discipline. A van parked somewhere it absolutely should not be parked. And, if you are particularly unlucky, someone doing 47 km/h in the outside lane while apparently contemplating the meaning of life. What you do not necessarily expect to see is two absolute brats on scrambler bikes treating the M50 like their own personal stunt arena. But that is precisely what happened yesterday. And Stg. Salty happened to be there to witness the madness. The two lads appeared on scramblers and immediately looked like they had decided that the normal rules of motorway motoring were simply suggestio...