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11 Dec 2025 21:32:35
Job done tonight. Not brilliant, but good enough.

As a total aside, for those of you interested in the subject - I've been using any (rare) spare time that I've had over the last 6 months to investigate the Jack the Ripper case. It has intrigued me for years.

So many potential suspects. I've looked at them all in depth and with my ex-Int Corps head on, I plumb on a guy called Albert Bachert/ Backert as the killer.

Mrs Legolas got me really thinking about this ages ago when we watched a documentary about the subject. Stokey will know all about this - she said that in the majority of murder cases the victim knows/ trusts their murderer.

Albert was a complete narcissist and loved the media attention around him being a member (and then leader) of the Whitechapel Vigilante Group. As such, he went out at night to 'protect' the local prostitute community. They would have trusted him. Albert also showed up at various Ripper murder scenes 'trying to help' the police. Very much an Ian Huntley character.

Do you own research if you're interested in this Reds. I'm convinced that this guy was the Ripper.

11 Dec 2025 21:56:14
I've watched many programs on theory from historians lego about Jack the ripper
All might have some credibility, but the bottom line is it will never be solved,

11 Dec 2025 23:02:40
Of course not DTP. But we can, however, piece together scraps of info from the time to at least come to a reasoned judgement. I've read a couple of books about the Ripper in the past and also seen a couple of documentaries. Albert was only mentioned briefly as a possible suspect in each.

I've done a load of research and I'm convinced it was him. For me, what his former landlady said about him was very telling.

11 Dec 2025 23:41:55
All ill say is put your evidence forward to a a media group to investigate.

12 Dec 2025 03:13:18
Can see it now, the residential recreation area of the care home, who done it? Lego with his Sherlock Holmes cap on, DTP with his Harry Potter specs on, both of them studying the cards. Then in comes Stokey "Cluedo" 🌳.

12 Dec 2025 06:23:16
The majority of murder victims do know their killer but serial killers are a completely different type of murderer. They kill at random at opportunity and kill strangers not people that they know. Who Jack the Ripper was will never be known.

12 Dec 2025 10:51:25
I'd say it was you winter, in the closet with your French kickers and suspender belt on, and strangulation using your bra 😁.

12 Dec 2025 11:51:57
Hey, Red Robin I taught Clouseau all he knew. I once managed to detect a foul smell in a 💩house I’ll have you know! 😂😂😂👍.

10 Dec 2025 13:23:47
Carlo, I’ve been going to the bog for 50 years mate but it doesn’t mean I’m a great fan of it 🤷🏻‍♂️😂
Constantly moaning about things you can’t change is very likely to get you down and the people you mix with-enjoy your time and moan about things you might be able to change-it’s not all bad.

10 Dec 2025 22:38:28
Brilliant 2 tone 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

08 Dec 2025 23:40:58
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ' 🌳.

09 Dec 2025 20:25:18
“Democracy is the very worst form of Government apart from all the other types that have been tried from time to time “ Sir Winston Churchill said.
Red, anti intellectualism is a tool from every tyrants playbook from time immemorial mate. And every Trumpian would be tyrant. It’s why “dumbing down “ and “fake news” are the modern buzz words.
It’s no coincidence that the intellectuals were amongst the first to sent to the Gulags in Stalin’s Russia and the concentration camps in Hitlers Germany.
The last thing any aspiring “Dear Leader” wants is a free thinking and challenging section of society. It’s why all the major Education Acts were passed in the middle to late 19th century in the UK following the European Social Revolutions of 1848, the so called “Springtime of the Nations”. Before then, what limited Education was available in the UK was provided by the Church, particularly of the dissenting type, the same people who had settled in America and won Independence in the American Revolution.

The last thing any Government wanted was a troublesome educated working class. So, they brought it under State Control as soon as possible.
The Church dissidents were Social Reformers and the forerunners of the Labour Party.
Before 1848 the people in power, for centuries, hadn’t given a toss about Education ( apart from the upper echelons mainly the Aristocracy). Suddenly, with the Industrial Revolution following the Agrarian Revolution, the last thing the money makers wanted was a bout of free thinking and an educated working class. Even worse, they might demand universal suffrage and vote any Government out of power or seize it anyway…….

09 Dec 2025 21:06:55
Yes the church has a lot to answer for as does the cult of anti-intellectualism especially in the United States. Just watched the interview with Trump regarding the Ukraine peace process and when he said European countries were slowly being eradicated by migration i couldn't help but laugh.

Wasn't the States founded on imagination? Coming from a country that's barely 300 years old give or take a few, have they forgotten where they come from? 🌳.

09 Dec 2025 21:23:19
I've just rang for an ambulance after reading that Stokey.

10 Dec 2025 01:43:00
As a little side note, is it just a coincidence that Venezuela has the biggest proven oil reserves in the world? 🤔🌳.

10 Dec 2025 17:18:37
Don't normally join in political stuff, but we do have to very watchful over Populism sweeping up frustrated, angry, bitter, people offering them what might ostensibly be a better world; but I fear would be authoritarianism!
Trump is playing his hand now. Wait for the next 'big'anouncement from the toilet of AFO with the flush still splashing away!

Really good posts from both RRR and Stokey!

10 Dec 2025 19:18:20
Red Robin just a few thoughts on your post.
Firstly, if Trump was serious about drug smuggling he wouldn’t have granted a pardon to the former President of Honduras ( and associate of Joaquin “El Chappo Guzman currently serving life plus 30 years in a high security prison in Florida for running a huge drugs empire) Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited, found guilty by a US jury of massive drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison just 6 months ago. That’s in addition to around 100 others convicted of Federal ( ie serious) drugs offences amongst around 1700 pardons granted in just under a year in Office ( mind you Sleepy Joe holds the record for pardons at 8000 plus including many of his family).
Fentanyl is NOT smuggled into the US from Venezuela on the boats that are being strafed. The chemicals for the drug ( mostly legal) are sent from China to Mexico and Columbia where they are turned into fentanyl then smuggled across the US Mexican border. The distance from Venezuela to the nearest US landfall is 1100 miles. Those boats have outboard motors only and would need 10 to 15 re fuelling stops at sea to go that distance. They are mostly fishing boats, or at worst, low level fuel and currency smugglers to other Central American countries ( Not the US).

It’s basically murder at sea and a war crime inspired by Trumps desire for regime change in oil rich Venezuela.
There are signs of uneasiness amongst American legal circles. They have brought in laws absolving the military from war crimes liability but unfortunately for Trump and Hesgeth it won’t be tried in the US but in the International Court in The Hague which takes precedent and will follow the precedents set at Nuremberg and Tokyo that following orders is no defence.
It’s why the Royal Navy have quietly and discreetly withdrawn from that particular operation and are not aiding and abetting the Americans by sharing information and intelligence for fear of complicity.
It’s also no coincidence that the boats are destroyed and survivors finished off. They don’t want any witnesses. With an entire battle fleet in the area they could quite easily board these boats and take prisoners but they know they won’t find any fentanyl on board, which removes Trumps excuse to invade Venezuela and seize the oil.
Ps you’d better call that Ambulance back Lego! 💤💤💤.

10 Dec 2025 20:00:09
Thanks Norfolk! By the way I’m increasingly getting alarmed by the parallels between Trump and Hitler.
Both democratically elected
Both fostered the myth that they weren’t defeated (Hitler on WW1 Trump on Bidens election win)
Both survived assassination attempts
Bith blame ethnic minorities for their countries woes
Both offer desperate and down trodden people a vision of a great future golden age
Both expansionist and militaristic.


Both wrote books explaining their world view, ( Mein Kampf and The Art of the Deal ( although Trumps book was ghost written ) ……
The only differences I can see is that Hitler was a soldier in WW1 decorated and wounded, Trump a draft dodger and Hitler hated Russia Trump loves it….

10 Dec 2025 22:20:38
Yep Stokey, it was kinda what i was getting at, sometimes mate it's honestly better to agree and leave others to do their own research on the matter if interested. Also kinda (kinda i'm loving this word lately, bloody teessiders influencing my country bumkin dialect) goes back to Anti-intellectualism. See it in the media from one angle and believe. 🌳.

10 Dec 2025 22:28:29
And by the way Stokey that's not me telling you to stop and restrain your detailed posts, i love em and if i had the patience to type i can talk forever🤣🌳.

10 Dec 2025 22:48:59
Are you Stokey and Norfolk brothers? In A&E again now with my eyes bleeding profusely.

11 Dec 2025 10:49:38
As a rough rule of thumb I generally follow the old saying that you believe nothing you are told and only half what you read ( until you’ve made your own enquiries). Served me well in the Police and life generally.
By the way, as I predicted and right on cue, oil tanker and contents seized by the US fleet. I’d imagine the next step will be to “arrange “ a provocation (perhaps Venezuelan air force plane coming too close? ) to facilitate ground invasion by overwhelming American Forces?
It’s the American way of war. Like the USS Maine destroyed in Havana Harbour in 1898 ( 200 plus American dead) and blamed on Spain whereas in fact one of its boilers blew up.

This led to the one sided American Spanish War ( lasted 4 months, the US Government and press fuelling blame with the motto “ Remember the Maine and to hell with Spain) Spain defeated and Guam, the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico taken over by the Americans. History always repeats itself…….
If you get time have a read of “The Untold History of the US” by Oliver Stone ( film director Platoon etc ) and Peter Kuznick. Also have a look at some of Al Murray’s stuff ( pub landlord but also Oxford history Graduate) particularly “Command. How the Allies Learned to Win WW2”.

11 Dec 2025 11:06:20
Sorry Lego, at this rate, mate, you are never going to get out of hospital…. 😂😂😂🙄🙄
Norfolk, I know you like your Dickens, mate. I’ve just finished reading “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver, a modernized version of the great “ David Copperfield “ set in the modern druggie world in Virginia USA.

It’s a hard but brilliant read. I liked her “Poisonwood Bible “ from a few years ago too.

11 Dec 2025 11:10:54
No, Legolas sir, but I do enjoy his contribution and determination to inform us. I hope this site doesn't count as social media as DT will ban him from the States for the World Cup, after the last excellent post from him.

( This post is better than the efforts of my very average lecturers at University in the 8o's).
Getting seriously worried about America now and how the media is being used RRR!
Your posts make me chortle as well Lego!

11 Dec 2025 13:43:59
Norfolk I’m afraid we have decided not to go to the US whilst DT is President already. We did have trips to Savannah and Charleston plus cruises down the Mississippi and St Lawrence Seaway but they have been put on a back burner sadly …….
We are perhaps being over cautious but with his latest dictums on social media checks going back 5 years etc it’s a no from us.
Recently read Julia Boyd’s excellent book “Travellers in the Third Reich…the Rise of Fascism through the eyes of everyday people”.
The Nazis were very welcoming to us Brits for all sorts of cultural and political reasons and everyone forgets that WW1 was fought mainly in France with very little if any damage done to Germany ( unlike WW2 when it was flattened).


Hard to imagine that Hitler personally was very welcoming and charming.
There’s an amazing photo in the book of Adolf posting and smiling with the family of a respectable Bournemouth GP including his 4 daughters. The Doctor proudly displayed it in his Surgery Waiting Room for years until War broke out and the local Bobby popped in and suggested it might be advisable to hide it somewhere for the time being ….

11 Dec 2025 14:46:50
Yes, Stokey it was the ruling classes that seemed to have a fascination with the far right, and it seems to be trying hard to bear its teeth in Europe ATM. Watching closely as new people are emerging with smooth PR and crisp haircuts, (and financial backing from nefarious individuals. ), thinking of the French guy with Farage!

11 Dec 2025 15:59:49
Bowie will be in floods of tears reading what you've put about his messiah, King Lord Trumpty. Trumpty's issue with Venezuela and Nigeria is purely about oil. Nothing else.

{Ed001's Note - Venezuela's large cache of rare earth minerals, which are currently untapped, would beg to differ.}

11 Dec 2025 23:11:15
The old colonial era is in fashion. 🌳.

12 Dec 2025 12:06:38
Ed 1 Venezuela is, like the Middle East, cursed by its geology. Apart from the rare earth it has an estimated 300 BILLION barrels of oil reserves and produces only a fraction of that due to lack of investment and infrastructure. Chevron, the American company, extracts around 20% of what is actually brought up but they, and Trump, see a win win situation. Trump, with his serial insider trading expertise will create enormous personal wealth for himself and the US will, with a new compliant Venezuelan Government installed, get cheap oil on its doorstep with non of the volatility of the Middle East to worry about.

Once he’s installed his own “oligarchs” it will be straight out of the Putin playbook….
Of course, many Venezuelans ( and some Americans) will have to die before that comes to pass but I guess that s just “collateral damage “….

{Ed001's Note - many already have died and been dumped at sea sadly. What a crap world we live in.}

06 Dec 2025 08:20:30
Good post from Legolas down the thread needs a mention. Used to be a good site to chat on but quite personal attacks from the odd member or two has made me now mainly post elsewhere.

It’s a broad church being a Forest fan, but there is one poster in particular that I am sure is a Derby fan in disguise- just here to sew division and disruption without contributing anything meaningful.

You know who you are and yes you’ve been rumbled.

06 Dec 2025 17:24:17
Come on redfrog tell us who is a sheep
Don't leave everyone in suspense.

06 Dec 2025 20:46:25
Come on redfrog we won't laugh😁 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

07 Dec 2025 11:36:27
🐑🐑🐑🪓🌳.

07 Dec 2025 15:13:26
I, d like to see him Barrrrrred!

07 Dec 2025 17:33:00
I'd like to see who redfrog thinks it is?
Going to be hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

07 Dec 2025 17:40:50
Frog - I rumbled Stokey as the impostor in our midst a long time ago.

07 Dec 2025 19:28:01
I think it's redfrog himself lego
Always complaining about the club? 😁🤣🤣.

07 Dec 2025 20:05:19
I don't think so DTP. Have you noticed that Stokey is always trying to blindside us with his long, historical/ poetic posts? This is just a diversion technique. I met with the guy once and, frankly, I'm sure that it wasn't his cheap aftershave that made him smell of, umm, sheep-dip.

07 Dec 2025 20:09:14
It can't be the sandman aka Stokey. 🌳.

07 Dec 2025 20:56:52
It must be me then? 😁😎🤣🤣🤣.

08 Dec 2025 08:06:59
Do you mind Lego? I ve always used “Stallion” aftershave since I first tried it at Skeggy and a donkey followed me home …….

08 Dec 2025 12:42:42
Can donkeys live in pigstys? Sorry below the belt i know but couldn't resist 😉🌳.

08 Dec 2025 17:37:32
Winter - Stokey knows me well enough to know that I'm joking when I say to you, if pigs could fly they wouldn't need cars.

08 Dec 2025 17:48:27
I do admire the work of the Flying Squad.

08 Dec 2025 18:23:10
Anyone fancy Saucisson, bacon et d'Arles? 🤤🌳.

08 Dec 2025 19:03:51
I’d much rather be a member of the Jovial Crime Squad than the Serious….

08 Dec 2025 21:43:18
You have to be very careful when dealing with pigs though Winter. Under-cooked pork can infest a human gut with serious bacteria. I prefer cooking any pigs that I come across very well done on the BBQ. Delicious, and I also view it as a service to society.

(Sorry Stokey - dry Squddie humour).

09 Dec 2025 10:45:12
Poor little piggies, have to watch what we say or we might have an Animal Farm style situation on our hands. 🌳.

09 Dec 2025 19:47:15
Frog - I've just re-read this thread and thought just how much it emphasises and builds on both of our original posts. Let's face it, there can sometimes be a thin line on this site between p'taking banter between people who like and respect each other, as opposed to open hostility between posters who don't take to each other.

We are, indeed, a broad church being Forest fans. All of us are individuals and some, naturally, won't get on with others. All I'm saying is that we are all part of 'the same clan' and I suppose it's down to each individual's boundaries. Personally, I just don't like open hostility. No need for it IMO.

10 Dec 2025 15:38:07
A bit of banter is alright, but sometimes it's just relentless b"lls""t, between posters about the same thing!, the site has lost some very good posters because of it🤷.

10 Dec 2025 17:40:29
I agree with you Mossy. I particularly miss Creepy - I thought his post-match analyses were brilliant. Thank goodness we still have Chim to fill that void!

11 Dec 2025 23:06:26
Crepy was well gone lego before your time mate
He was an ex policeman I believe
Edd invited him to give his view after games and they where pretty accurate, had an avatar of a black labrador
Redinexile and his famous lucky red pants?
Loved him to bits and dearly muss him
But funniest thing on this site ever was steve the taxi driver years ago giving a free ride from Birmingham airport to what he thought was new fench signings for forest 🤣🤣🤣.

05 Dec 2025 17:30:42
Has Trump getting a peace prize at the WC draw really cheapened world football?

05 Dec 2025 22:02:00
Its just a shameless gimmick.

07 Dec 2025 20:12:03
It's American so it's obviously trash
It will be all the way through it apart from 90minutes.

09 Dec 2025 19:48:29
Carlo - yes, if that is even possible.

30 Nov 2025 18:25:47
I rest my case on skeggs, balloons, winter, Bowie 😁🤣🤣🤣🤣.

30 Nov 2025 19:05:39
I think it's becoming an obsession, feeling left out? Lonely? Horny? 😏🌳.

02 Dec 2025 18:07:54
Who's in the thumbing battle with me then? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🌳.

03 Dec 2025 21:34:23
When my Mrs looks over at me and I'm literally crying with laughter, then looks at my phone and says "whats that guys problem? " you should be ashamed DTP. It was up there with the most dire games of the last decade and we somehow won. How you can give us 💩 for saying what it is is beyond me. 🌳.

03 Dec 2025 22:21:21
Keep trying winter, one day you'll get there
You'll probably need your missus to help you though 😁🤣🤣🤣.

03 Dec 2025 22:55:52
Huh? It's there for all to read on live chat, dismal game and we were trying to have a laugh, then you come on giving us abuse. Get a grip, maybe dementia is kicking in? 🌳.

04 Dec 2025 12:39:24
Just trying to help you out with your midlife identity crisis winter 😁🤣🤣🤣.

04 Dec 2025 14:44:17
Somehow i think its you with the issues Dr Jekyll or is it Mr Hyde today? 🌳.

04 Dec 2025 14:51:32
Reading RedRobinHoods post I assume DTP came on and ruffled a few feathers, sorry I missed it 🙂.
And people who are suffering from dementia is no joke!.

04 Dec 2025 16:25:50
Just a bit of banter mossy towards end of the game
Loved all them dancing emojis.

05 Dec 2025 14:28:39
Keep doing that DTP and they will have to employ a bouncer in there "Pub"🙂🤦.

05 Dec 2025 20:27:02
I watch the game mossy, you can't text every 30 seconds and watch a game, only pop on intervals or near the end of a game, you should try it mossy they'd all buy you an imaginary pint.

07 Dec 2025 11:38:20
Would rather have our imaginary "bouncer" than you pairs imaginary "friends" 😋🌳.

27 Nov 2025 13:31:12
The lifting of the two child cap will be a real help to Boris, possibly persuade him to have more 👶🏻👶🏻.

27 Nov 2025 15:19:15
I’m in no way being racist here Carlo but it’s a move to secure the “brown” vote in the next election. In particular our Islamic friends have traditionally large extended families with more than 2 kids, unlike the white British. It’s no coincidence that “Mohammed” or its variants such as “Muhammad “ was the most popular boys name in 2023 and 2024and looks likely to continue as such mate.


I believe “Noah” is the next most popular because I guess we are all in the same boat …. 😀😀🙄🙄.

27 Nov 2025 15:20:18
That’s in England and Wales …….

27 Nov 2025 16:37:00
Something that didn't need altering, the two child cap will once again be abused, couples having more children for financial gain, not just the Muslims Stokey, I bet there's already another Mick Philpott doing the sums. Only way to make sure the money is spent on the children and not scratch cards, fags, vapes etc is receipts are collected and randomly checked by DWP at anytime!.

27 Nov 2025 18:12:46
I find some of the comments above really insulting. Due to my cornish heritage 6-8 months of the year i'm brown, mainly due to working outdoors but not the point, if i walked into a mosque in the height of the summer not one person would bat an eyelid.


I have two kids and don't plan to have anymore.
So don't go pointing that brown finger willy nilly. 🥷🤣🤣🌳.

27 Nov 2025 19:21:56
How about N. Ireland and Scotland, Stokey? Radio 4 had a feature today about the larger families there and the reaction to the removal of the cap.
Wonder what the most popular boys name is these countries?

28 Nov 2025 00:11:13
Carlo
You can't answer a question about your beloved in competent labour party and everything they are doing is wrong?
You try a crap joke about someone that used to be head of Conservative Party
Try one about starmer, cus he's areal joke
And he's a sir from. the establishment you so hate.

28 Nov 2025 11:12:43
Red Robin, mate, just a word of advice, don’t go posting words like “brown finger willy nilly” …. You’ll end up on the Register mark my words…😂😂😳
Norfolk I’ve no information on Scotland and Northern Ireland my friend. Perhaps Angus and Seamus? If twins then an amalgamation perhaps Anus……………. 🤔🤔😂😂.

28 Nov 2025 12:12:52
Brown Willy is actually the highest point in Kernow, has some great mountain bike routes. I suppose you could say you could ride up and down Brown Willy all day long. 😉🌳.

28 Nov 2025 12:41:05
Oh God RRH it’s getting like Finbar Saunders and his double entendres from Viz magazine mate! Ffnnnr Ffnnr ……. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

28 Nov 2025 16:49:10
Nice swerve Stokey, you resisted the stereotype nicely as I expected. James and Michael are universal names!

29 Nov 2025 21:50:13
I climbed Brown Willy in a wheelchair as part of my training before climbing Pen Y Fan mountain. In comparison, it was quite easy. As an aside though Winter - is your 2nd toe longer than your big toe? It does seem to be a trait amongst the true Cornish. Obviously, it's not something that I personally think about.

30 Nov 2025 09:40:08
🤣🤣Lego, actually no sorry to disappoint. My second toes about even with my big toes. 🌳.