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Reply | What are we trying to do?
at 17:19 6 Oct 2024
I remember Mike Channon in an interview, in response to a question about poor performance/results regarding an expensively-assembled Man City team under Malcolm Allison in the70s, saying, 'He's asking them to do things they just don't know how to do.' |
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Reply | National Poetry Day
at 22:41 4 Oct 2024
Mist to the Grill
All the teachers were marking bad,
all the judges too, lore or mess.
One mob-story Sinister of the Crown
was found, got with his own shun.
Howling, the media punted in hacks.
Wired and teary doctors and nurses
treated soldiers, deft for lead.
Outside, at dark, the bogs darked;
the light brittle children were lost,
searching in every crook and nanny,
crying for their dummies and maddies.
A TV chef added mist to the grill. |
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Reply | Never a straight Red Card
at 10:57 29 Sep 2024
Agree - ref hesitated for ages, then gave into pressure from being surrounded (although, true to form, no-one except Frey on our side seemed to try to persuade him otherwise). |
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Reply | SWEET F'IN CAROLINE. Played every half time
at 14:16 23 Sep 2024
Its all great before ko, loud rock, London Calling etc. If we've won then you can sing what the fk you like, but if you ask me we need more of the same, particularly if its a 12.30. We need aggression! Take no fkg prisoners! Sweet fkg Caroline can fk off. |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 09:24 23 Sep 2024
St. Peter and Satan were having an argument about the outcome of a recent Championship game. Satan proposed they settle the argument by hosting their own game, but insisted that the match be played on neutral ground.
“Ok,” said Peter, the gatekeeper of Heaven. “But it's only fair to remind you that we’ve got most of the best players AND the best coaches.”
“ Yeah yeah,” Satan answered unperturbed. “And I might remind YOU that we’ve got all the referees.” |
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Reply | Genius Eze inevitably wraps return narrative – Report
at 17:31 19 Sep 2024
"Fundamentally, I’d have gone all in on this game, and if that meant a scratchy team and a
defeat at the weekend in a league where everybody beats everybody anyway and we’ve
got 30+ games and eight months to go then so be it. I’m in a minority. The sport, as a
whole, now disagrees with me."
This. [Post edited 19 Sep 17:31]
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Reply | Random irritations..
at 09:18 12 Sep 2024
Couldn't agree more. Even some pubs/restaurants inviting you to download an app or scan a code on arrival - just give me a fkg menu for christ's sake! |
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Reply | Car tax
at 20:29 8 Sep 2024
Yes - as long as they're built before Ist Jan 84 (ie 40 years old) |
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Reply | When you realised there was no meaning to life and no God
at 15:50 6 Sep 2024
Sorry to get heavy, but I think you can have 'meaning' without necessarily believing in 'God' (however you define it)
Looking out of the window at someone being carted off, a few years before she died, my mum asked me - what do you think?
I said, 'what do i think?'
'You know - life, the after life, all that'
I said, 'seems unlikely, doesn't it?'
She said, so 'what's the point of it all?'
I said, 'this'.
And I kissed her and told her I loved her. And she smiled and we hugged. And our dog, perhaps sensing something, came and nuzzled up too.
I don't know if there's a God, but 'meaning'? Yes. |
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Reply | First film you ever see at the cinema/pictures.
at 09:23 4 Sep 2024
In Scunthorpe in those days there were two cinemas, one was the big one, normally used for blockbusters, and another one, a smaller one used for less mainstream stuff. My dad intended to take me & my brother to Jungle Book at the main cinema, but dad being dad, got muddled and booked us into the wrong cinema. Dad being dad also, he didn't actually bother seeing the film too, just buggered off to the betting shop with a cheery 'see you later.' We stayed for about 10 minutes before being chucked out.
That concludes the case for the defence m'lud as to why the first film I ever saw was Confessions of a Window Cleaner. It made quite an impression on me. [Post edited 4 Sep 9:25]
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Reply | Bird Advice
at 10:20 3 Sep 2024
As dublinr says, they are quite fond of soft fruit such as ripe pears, berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries) and seeds such as oats and cooked rice. He'll love you for life. |
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Reply | Most expensive pub.
at 19:26 30 Aug 2024
Was in one of those places in the City last night, you know, one of those pubs that now looks like a posh hotel foyer - was charged £7 for 330ml (wtf's that?) Which my reckoning isn't even 2/3 of a pint, although I'm still doing the maths. We're well and truly fkd |
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Reply | Where's the Luton Town (w@nk w@nk w@nk) Match Thread Match Thread?
at 16:46 30 Aug 2024
I'd forgotten what a sh*t hole this place is - looks like some film set for Clockwork Orange. Anyway, in a pub calling itself the Jolly Topers, which, despite being Greene King (don't) isn't bad at all, and despite my Dennis the Menace top am being treated surprisingly well by the locals. C'mon team. |
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Reply | Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas
at 15:58 30 Aug 2024
It was in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, itself no stranger to safe-search filters over the years, when the then Conservative government under Ted Heath came up with the bright idea of abolishing counties that had existed since Doomsday Book and coming up with new titles for them. So, North Lincolnshire became South Humberside.
There was this place, North Lindsey College of Technology, NLCT, which, following the logic, had to be renamed. They came up with 'South Humberside Institute of Technology', and proudly exhibited the new four letters, each twenty feet high, at the entrance to the college.
Then, they realised what they'd done. |
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Reply | Smoking outside pubs
at 09:08 30 Aug 2024
Agree. It's not so much this as a) haven't they got more serious things to be going on with and b) what's on the health people's radar next - I fear it's going to be some form of attack on alcohol sales/consumption, which would simply ruin my life. [Post edited 30 Aug 11:29]
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 16:39 28 Aug 2024
My son told me he didn't want to go to school this morning because all the kids made fun of him, called him names and were generally making his life an absolute misery, leaving him in tears at the end of the day.
I had to tell him straight, 'Sorry, mate, you just have to go to school'.
'But why?'
'Because you're the headmaster'. |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 11:05 23 Aug 2024
I can't believe I locked myself out of the car today.
However, I managed to get in by rubbing my leg on the lock.
Luckily, I was wearing my khaki trousers. |
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Reply | Saito
at 17:14 17 Aug 2024
賛成です |
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Reply | Orange wine
at 12:34 31 Jul 2024
It's basically a form of white wine. It's made from white wine grapes, but the grape skins stay in contact with the juice for much longer. This contrasts with conventional white wine production, which involves crushing the grapes and quickly moving the juice off the skins before fermentation. The skins contain stuff like colour pigment and tannins which give it an amber or more orangey colour. It's an older way (some say the original) of making white wine that became fashionable in some regions from the late 90s onwards. [Post edited 31 Jul 13:05]
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