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Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 20:47 17 Feb 2025

Be careful when relying on the internet as a pretence of being well informed, because it will inevitably trip you up. You get an answer but cannot compute its relative significance unless you know the subject already. Your throwing in mention of the Childers Reforms as a titbit is actually a telltale. Army reforms don't seem to have any relevance the derivation of "Pompey" at all, but mentioning them makes you look like an expert when saying it - or so you hope.
It would be obvious to any former sailor that the reason "Pompey" doesn't appear in official documents (although I dispute this) is because Naval slang was nearly all formed below decks and below decks almost all sailors before the 20th c were illiterate and did not usually contribute to official documents such as ships logs where slang would never be permitted in any case. In the wardrooms nicknames such as Pompey were known and often used in conversation but would have been demeaning for a gentleman (as all officers were deemed to be) to commit to writing. However when you examine the private letters from literate sailors and warrant officers to their families the name is often used along with other slang names for bases. It was in common use across the Royal Navy ships from the 17th century onwards. I checked your fanciful story about the Essex Regiment of Foot. Apart embarking from Portsmouth for an overseas posting, on their return in 1866 they stayed in the Town for a mere two years before being posted to Ireland. Hardly enough time to make an impact, let alone for their colours to be seen as somehow emblematic? And then to stretch this even further and claim that the name of the shade of pink would be somehow adopted by the populace as a name for their own city when it was unlikely any of the soldiers even came from the town stretches credibility to breaking point. They recruited in Essex, not in Portsmouth. And as a reminder, the team's shirts were described as "Salmon Pink", not "Pompadour Pink", in other words as little to do with the Essex regiment of Foot as that regiment was to do with the town.
The Pompey Pink or Sports Mail first appeared on Saturday evenings around 1900 and was for most of its life known by its nickname. If you have seen reference to Pompey Pink it is likely to of or about or because of the newspaper not the shirts, which lasted only a short while anyway.Apparently the team had several colours in the early years.
You can keep flogging this dead horse , but it isn't going anywhere.
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Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 20:05 17 Feb 2025

Hven't been called that for a while!
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Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 11:10 17 Feb 2025

I have enough books about Nelson's Navy on my shelves to show me that the name Pompey has been in jackspeak for far longer than Portsmouth FC have been in existence, and having read the works of Cicero I know who Pompey was. Oh yes and I was a serving officer in the Fleet Air Arm (mainly in Guz) , so I was surrounded with the traditions of the Service for 8 years, which I think counts for something, don't you? I don't know whether it's you doing some fancy reverse engineering or whether you just copied it from some fan site but in a town that has been the home of the Navy since the time of the Mary Rose the temporary presence of a territorial regiment is going to cut no ice in the town as a sensible historia n would realise before chasing his desired outcome. The club may have played in Salmon Pink (not "Pompadour pink") for a time but again as they were a small club in the SOuthern League for much of it that is not going to dent a tradition that predated it by 200 years or more.Moreover a local name in the pre internet days meaningless to anyone outside the town was not going to spread worldwide in a way that a name spread affectionately by sailors on land and at at sea has done. I have never put anything on here that wasn't sense and fact checked first. Your explanation is a classic case of wishful thinking because you think it makes them sound like a bunch of sissies. You need to apply some common sense.
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Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 09:41 17 Feb 2025

Pompey is a name that originated in the Royal Navy and was already in use during the Napoleonic Wars, which started a long time before any football club came into existence. You want to do a bit of reasoning before swallowing that sort of nonsense.
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Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 13:39 15 Feb 2025

I assume the Pompadour Pink bit is a joke?
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I think I will watch Rugby instead
at 10:12 11 Feb 2025

At least Rugby can operate a review process that works and doesn't treat the fans like unregarded money fodder.
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Typhoo Tea
at 13:23 29 Nov 2024

I made sure we switched to TyPhoo at our last shop. They taste better than PG Tips and if enough people did the same it might just save a few jobs.
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 10:04 18 Nov 2024

Because nobody had a crystal ball at the time it happened you fecking idiot. Acting in a snowstorm of conflicting information so that the information on which the planning was based was stale within an hour meant that any politician -even poor ones - will be risk averse rather than have the sword of History hanging over them saying "They knew this but did nothing". The problem with the Covid reaction was poor execution and poor Governance but in the face of believeing that every hour wasted in talking was going to cost thousands of lives. It resulted in decisions that in hindsight were utter failuresm such as the stampede to procure poor quality PPE, but it wasn't all some kind of conspiracy, it was incompetence. WHat would be the purpose or the point of hatching some machiavellian disease? "To Control the population FFS?" Playing with statistics after the dust has settled is a particularly pointless task. young people pass Covid on to old people too, so considering what vaccines are you need to give them to enough of the population to stop it spreading person to person. THe maths of that have been explained enough times to show that merely vaccinating over 60s or over 70s or over 80s would not work. Jesus Christ it only happened 5 years ago and already the narrative is being rewritten by David Fecking Icke.
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Brereton Diaz
at 09:39 19 Aug 2024

Sir sir, they did it first sir........ it goes on and on and on. Fans get cheated, and just because it sometimes works in their favour they keep tolerating it, then using some unrelated incident from seasons ago to justify it. Paraphrase Johnny Rotten - Do you ever get the feeling you;ve been cheated? Just remember that in a few games time when it;s a Southampton player sent off for an innocuous challenge, or a simulated dive in the box results in a penalty against Southampton. Sure as hell someone on Match of the Day will point out that Brereton Diaz fell over clutching his face in the opening game and the fans didn't complain at all.
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Brereton Diaz
at 13:41 18 Aug 2024

He;s a cheat and there should be a retrospective rule for incidents of simulation - a one game ban should see less of it. The fans are all cheated by gamesmanship and it balances out over a season so nobody wins in the end. Worse though, in this case it galvanised the opposition and their fans to up their game - if Diaz hadn't performed his theatrics at a time when Southampton looked more motivated and Newcastle more frustrated who knows what might have happened without that incident to fire them up?
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5 Things About West Brom
at 14:26 13 May 2024

Agree.
And re the" sped up" version of OWTS, that should read "The proper Southampton version"
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Skate Scum
at 13:22 21 Apr 2024

Moderate your language son. Not everyone on here is as immature as you.
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R. I. P Chris Nicholl
at 19:31 27 Feb 2024

RIP Chris Nicholl - and how good to hear "When the Saints" sung properly and not this ridiculous slow funereal dirge that seems to have been copied from somewhere. Does anyone really think singing it at less than half half pace is actually inspiring?
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France v South Africa
at 11:17 16 Oct 2023

Whereas Rugby Leagee consists of falling over 6 times then kicking the ball into touch and then just handing it to the opposition to do the same I suppose.
Well you started it!
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Rugby - A game for Gentlemen
at 11:14 16 Oct 2023

I liked that one.
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Sunaks Speech
at 07:51 5 Oct 2023

That's a bloody stupid remark on what had been a reasonable post. If you don't know about a subject keep your mouth shut. Every contract was scrutinised and ridicuously over-audited by so many civil servants in so many different groups from the ORR to the NAO it led to some of the delays that contributed to the cost overruns.
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Sunaks Speech
at 13:56 4 Oct 2023

SUnak has reannounced for the third or even fourth time something that was already pledged previously. Remember Northern Powerhouse? The East West infrastruture improvements for the north announced previously by George Osborne and Boris Johnson that have still not even started and which he has reannounced all over again? As for the £36bn "saved" from HS2 much of that money was included within the HS2 budget to build / rebuild stations at places like Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds that will now have to be funded out of that £36bn because we don't have the station capacity or the line capacity to actually run any extra trains between those cities. So the result of his great announcement is firstly to turn HS2 into a 150 mile version of the Waterloo and City Line, and secondly to spend a lot of the money on things that were going to be spent on anyway - only they'll be built with all the expensive 350kph track and signalling standards of the 21st century but with the slow train speeds no faster than when Jimmy Saville sat on an Inter City 125. What a great result. And to think Sunak bragged about long term infrastructure being safe in their hands, when he's just cancelled a project that Civil Engineering and construction companies have invested their own long term plans in and spend a fortune ordering equipment now no longer needed. Ask McAlpine and Balfour Beattie what they think about that and ask the young graduate engineers whose jobs have now shifted to places where High Speed Rail project are going full speed to completion - Saudi Arabia for example.
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The hypocrisy of Liverpool fans
at 18:16 8 May 2023

No President could ever do one tenth of what the Prince's Trust has done for thousands of young people in this country, to name just one thing, and if you aren't proud of that it's because you are too stupid to have thought about it . As for the usual unsubstantiated think-of-a-number cost bullsh1t the only real cost in the end was the overtime paid to police and local authority workers who will have been glad of the extra money or are you adding up the costs of all the food at all the street parties as well? By the way you are a citizen irrespective of being a subject or not. For all this hangup about being a "subject" - has the Royal Family forced you to show obeisance to them as a civilian? I was in the Armed Forces and proud to salute them in uniform, and if there had been a president there instead I would still have had to salute some here today gone tomorrow failed politician in a suit. Why you think that is somehow better is a mystery. The Monarch hasn't had any autocratic power since 1688, but to hear berks like you whinge about being a "subject" as though a concept that tailed off in Cromwell's time has cost you one second of inconvenience in your entire lifetime is as ridiculous as it is uninformed.
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What do the typical footballing fans make of this?
at 17:44 8 May 2023

1) Yes. Don't let a red card be a badge of honour.
2) No. The losers will feel patronised, the winners angry, so it doesn't help control the teams
3) Not without a warning or two first. Giving it on 6 seconds dead with no warning is the sort of thing that arch berk Clive Thomas would have done.
4) Yes, caution them. Goal celebrations are parthetic intimidatory bits of gamesmanship. Do anything to break up the party.
5) Yes good idea first time. In rugby officials are addressed as "Sir". Wouldn't go amiss as a reminder that respect of officials is not negotiable.
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VAR has failed - time for post match reviews
at 15:44 27 Apr 2023

You could say that VAR works in cricket and rugby because those sports are not populated by cheats who set out to deliberately con the referee, where Premiership players will spend as much training time practising how to dive as they do for their dumb little celebration antics when they do manage to score. The second reason it works in cricket and rugby is that players in those sports respect the referee/umpire and regardless of what they might think will not abuse or threaten the officials and if they do they will be immediately dismissed and then subject to a huge disciplinary penalty afterwards. Football Authorities have tolerated ever more abuse of officials on the pitch and once again the reason for that tolerance (as with VAR) is that it adds to the "theatre" of the moment. Perhaps the third reason is the behaviour of the supporters. In rugby, "Respect the Kicker" is often observed to the letter, in cricket, most fans will applaud a century even by an opposition player. In football you get moronic partisan bawling from stubble covered slapheads with replica shirts stretched over bellies sponsored by Uber Eats.
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