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Reply | Another New Signing?
at 17:21 14 Feb 2025
reminds me of my 2nd favourite classical music joke……
Why could Beethoven never find his music teacher?
Because he was Haydn
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Reply | Portsmouth tickets
at 19:44 13 Feb 2025
edit: sorry, duplicate post [Post edited 13 Feb 19:44]
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Reply | Another New Signing?
at 18:26 13 Feb 2025
Beethoven didn't write his first symphony aged 4. In fact he was well into adulthood when he first ventured into the symphonic form.
You might be confusing him with Mozart who was the child prodigy of that era but even he didn't write a symphony until he was 8.
Mozart & Haydn (who taught both Mozart & Beethoven at different times) were the 2 who really popularised the symphony in Vienna and beyond. Both were prolific, Haydn wrote more than 100. Mozart wrote 42 (I believe that's why Douglas Adams chose that particular number to be the answer to life, the universe and everything). Especially impressive when you think that Moz died in his 30s.
Good old Ludwig Van lived into his 50s and only turned out a mere 9 symphonies. But man, what symphonies they are. Completely revolutionised music and the whole idea of the composer as tortured artist. And that's why he's the GOAT.
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Reply | Film 2025
at 21:53 9 Feb 2025
Yes I’ve seen Beyond The Infinite 2 Minutes & I really liked that too.
Didn’t realise until after that River was made by the same writer and director.
Talking of really enjoyable Japanese films, I really liked Fish Story.
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:59 9 Feb 2025
Sleep cannot hide thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else
(Faster, Manic Street Preachers) |
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:57 9 Feb 2025
Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon
And a wolf begins to howl in tune
I announced for all mankind
A boon
Stand aside you big baboon
Now I'm the a prize invention, girl
You're the image of yourself
Forget your cares
Your disapproving stares
I'm not here to try to jump your borders
Just ask your nieces and daughters
I'm flat as sole, I'm happy as a clam
But they don't know the kind of man I am
Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal
Now my net is overflowing
And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing
I've got something right there
You might want to hear
I have no fear
Lend a hand
Lend an ear
If your rent-money is in arrears
We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand
Long of hair and loose of tooth
There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands
And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth
When all is said that then redundant
They gallivant in peg-leg pants
I'll be your servant
You'll be my pal
And I'll be faithful you know I shall
There's no fool like an old fool
Who blames it all upon his youth
When times are tough and you find you're down
Without a star to wish upon
Listen for a voice in the dark
(A Voice In The Dark, Elvis Costello) |
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Reply | Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it.
at 09:55 9 Feb 2025
Aliens have landed
I don’t know what they’ve demanded
but the Earth will never be the same again
They said: “Take us to your leader,”
you know, the usual procedure
They demolished all our barricades
and then I woke up and the world was just the same as it was yesterday
We broke up but I still call your name, like I do every day
And, in the not-so-distant future,
the world’s run by a computer
that takes care of every single thing we need
but, if you’ve seen any movie,
you’ll know things never go smoothly
and we’ll face a huge disaster, guaranteed
And then I woke up and the world was just the same as it was yesterday
We broke up but I still call your name, like I do every day
And I’d do anything, anything, anything, anything to stop myself from thinking about you
And I really need to shake off this addiction
but, instead, I’m sat here watching science fiction
I took this retro spaceship
for an interstellar day trip
and I went as fast as Einstein would allow
It belongs to some mad scientist;
I don’t know how he acquired it
but a time machine would suit me better now
So I could wake up and have the world be just the same as it was yesterday
We didn’t break up and you still call my name, you never went away
And I’d do anything, anything, anything, anything to stop myself from thinking about you
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Reply | West London La La La...
at 22:58 6 Feb 2025
is this Narrow Boat the same pub that was called the Western Arms when I used to go there? (90s/early 2000s) |
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Reply | West London La La La...
at 17:24 6 Feb 2025
West London LaLaLa was my user name on the old Rivals forum.
Should’ve stuck with that name because now people on here occasionally think I am actually Peter Hucker. (I’m not) |
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Reply | Calling NY Rs
at 19:44 5 Feb 2025
Get in contact with Dunstan, he’s @qprnyc on Twitter. He’ll tell you everything you need to know.
They usually watch matches at Legends. That’s on West 33rd Street near the Empire State Building.
I was over there for the Plymouth match in August, what a thoroughly lovely bunch the NY R/s fans are. |
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Reply | Stupidest things ever said to you - QPR related or otherwise !!!
at 22:06 2 Feb 2025
I heard this conversation in a sandwich shop in Finchley about 25 years ago & it's stuck with me ever since.
Bloke in front of me ordered his sandwich. and just before wrapping it the lady behind the counter said "Would you like me to cut it into 2 or 4?"
Reply: "2 please. I couldn't eat 4." |
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Reply | Barton
at 10:38 25 Jan 2025
By some considerable distance the biggest cúnt to ever wear our shirt. |
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Reply | Ashby throwing the jersey to the floor
at 19:22 22 Jan 2025
Very harsh on Terrell Forbes.
He was a pretty solid defender. Not as good going forward but still a reliable fullback and pretty much ever present for our 3 seasons in League 1. Was voted player of the season in 1 of those years too, which I don't remember many having a problem with at the time.
Significantly better player than Harrison Ashby has shown himself to be (so far at least)
History will judge Forbes harshly because of the very unsavoury off-pitch stuff that led to his departure, but I remember him being a popular player up until the details of that started to emerge. |
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Reply | Chelshite song
at 21:29 12 Jan 2025
You're right, but it was definitely sung more frequently than at a normal away game. And the first airing of it was pretty early in the game too.
Predictable really. Telling people not to sing a particular song just makes some people want to sing it even more. |
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Thread | Blackburn v QPR game off
at 18:34 12 Jan 2025
this was supposed to be on 8th Feb, but Blackburn are in something called the 4th round of the FA Cup.
So that game will need to be re-arranged for midweek.
I guess the only upside to that is that it's fcked up Sky's plans for a 12:30 kickoff. |
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Reply | Film 2025
at 17:00 12 Jan 2025
I thought she looked a bit rough in the later scenes.
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best film I've seen recently was River (Japanese film with a time loop, very imaginative film)
I also really liked The Wailing (Korean horror film)
if you're a Bruce Springsteen fan, the Road Diary documentary on Disney+ is brilliant.
recently watched Cocaine Bear which has just appeared on Netflix. Hmmm. I like daft horror stuff but this was just *too* daft.
Like Snakes On A Plan and Sharknado, the title is more entertaining than the actual film. |
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