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Reply | Abuse in modern football
at 12:46 28 Jan 2025
At an old job a work colleague went to the nearby burger van one day to buy his lunch and as he was waiting for his bacon & egg bap to cook the lady on the van asked him if he wanted sauce.
After he hesitated she jumped in telling him "don't worry love, it all ends up as a turd in the end anyway".
Deep wisdom. |
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Reply | Owls not impressed with the school end
at 12:39 28 Jan 2025
I have long maintained that the building of a jumbotron TV screen on top of the School End without the entire stand falling down on top of itself is one of the engineering marvels of our lifetime. It should have TV programmes made about it. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 18:15 26 Jan 2025
Maybe the case is Barbet wanted to stay here, but when we decided to part terms he didn't really want to play elsewhere in England and then looked to going home.
Who knows! Poor bugger's in Saudi Arabia now since Bordeaux went bust. |
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Reply | Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days?
at 18:07 26 Jan 2025
We had the heating element go on our oven a couple of years ago - the top oven and grill worked fine but we couldnt use both at the same time.
I'm not capable of fixing it - we thought about whether to replace it (we'd had it a good 7 or 8 years at least) but decided to pay fixed fee of £149 to repair it. The wife was here, the guy took about 20 minutes I think to do it so probably a great profit margin for them, but we decided at the time that the cost of that, whilst probably a bit uneconimical, was better for us to have it immediately up and running again rather than go through the faff of shopping for a new one, waiting for delivery, dealing with the install etc... |
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Reply | Wednesday first goal
at 07:47 26 Jan 2025
He might have been ropey overall, bit we do have the goalline tech installed and the ref looked at his wrist and only gave it after he saw it do whatever it does to say it's a goal.
Nardi let himself get caught in no-mans land for it, he started coming for the cross then stopped, then was neither close to the ball nor the line. |
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Reply | Adel Taarabt coming back?
at 10:11 23 Jan 2025
To be fair Adel at 35 is very different from Adel at 21. Part of me would just for the nostalgia element but I suspect there's absolutely zero way it would happen.
It would be nice to see him back at Loftus Road for Forever R's one day though, he has previously said he would come back. |
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Reply | Dry socket
at 16:43 22 Jan 2025
Yes, I had to have mine out just over a year ago and also got dry socket after it, the pain was awful but subsided eventually. I think I was on the antibiotics for a week afterward then the pain did start to subside. Lots of soup for lunches!
My issue was my two lower wisdom teeth grow sideways and the one on my right hand jaw had basically drilled through the molar. I've had my left hand lower wisdom tooth removed now to stop the same happening the other side. The pain from the wisdom tooth was worse and lasted longer! |
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Reply | (Feasible) players you most wished had/hadn't played for QPR
at 12:57 21 Jan 2025
There's so many you could go for here - but looking at the Warnock era I wonder how we'd have been in the title winning season with Darren Ambrose instead of Shaun Derry as I think we were originally meant to be.
Then the following year how we may have been better if Jon Walters had come to us instead of going to Stoke. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 16:40 20 Jan 2025
Jonjo Shelvey to Burnley? Scott Parker must be the best supported manager in Championship history! |
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Reply | In other news !!!
at 08:50 20 Jan 2025
Well we tried to win at Leicester last week, got beat 6-2, and you spent the entire following week throwing an enormous strop about it.
Contradictory as ever Mr SE  |
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Reply | In other news !!!
at 21:34 19 Jan 2025
Principles are all well and good when you're winning, but I'd rather win first and get principles later.
Sport, after all, is fundamentally about winning. |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 21:33 19 Jan 2025
All three require enormous amounts of mental strength and ability as well as game ability.
I'd actually go for Golf, simply because I think financially that is much harder to get to the top level at than the other sports are.
I mean...I know very little about all three, but if you were to ask me which one costs the most money to get to the top (and is therefore going to be the biggest blocker for any budding star) I'd say golf. |
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Reply | Kolli signs new deal!
at 12:35 17 Jan 2025
Is it me or are Nourry's comments in this one coming across a bit pointy?
Great news though, I really like him and he's getting better, his composed finish against Leicester was excellent. |
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Reply | Golazzo!
at 08:45 17 Jan 2025
Sort of on topic but sort of not, but eagles are really impressive birds. That fkr's huge! (The bird, not the prosthetic penis, I can't comment on that...) |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 08:38 17 Jan 2025
There were some really good podcast series done on BBC Sounds last year around the 40th anniversary of the miners strikes, one series done by BBC Leicester about the "Dirty Thirty" who were the only ones to go on strike in the county and the effect it still has four decades on.
Well worth digging out to listen, there was lots I learned on the social history that I never really knew. |
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Reply | 9 points off 6th, 9 points off 22nd...
at 08:35 17 Jan 2025
It might be the trauma of the last few seasons speaking but I still see us as perfectly capable of going on a 6 match losing streak and hurtling back toward that bottom three.
Far more than I do going on a 6 match winning run and flying up toward the top six anyway! |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 11:06 16 Jan 2025
This is a really interesting topic, the traditional background of working mens clubs being based around the major local industries/employers are long gone.
I'm thinking the railway clubs, the miners welfare clubs, clubs attached to the major factory in a small town.
And where these clubs have seen major structural, community and demographic changes they've died out.
There is though, as others have said, still a need for third places for people to be in community with each other - it is so unhealthy for our lives to be work -> home -> work -> home etc.
There's a village just outside Leicester called Desford, and there they've got a Sports centre called Sport in Desford. It's got a football pitch and tennis courts there, but its an absolute hub of community activity. There's loads of different sports clubs based there (football teams, running clubs, tennis clubs, indoor sport stuff for the hall, yoga groups, mums & tots etc). Every time I go there its an absolute hub of community activity every day of the week, I think it's a brilliant place.
We need more of this (and those mentioning board game nights etc are just as valid). This is where the traditional club needs to adapt to to survive IMO. |
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Reply | New Match of the Day Presenters...
at 17:08 15 Jan 2025
The BBC got quite annoying in the Olympics coverage last year of missing out athletics action because they were too busy doing all the nostalgic yadda yadda chatter in the studio.
Same with the swimming. There was a desire to turn everything into a soap opera rather than just showing us sport. Diamond League coverage is always excellent because it cuts all that nonsense out. |
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Reply | Blackburn v QPR game off
at 16:34 14 Jan 2025
We did do this in Holloway's second spell didn't we? Had a midweek home match to Burton brought forward to an FA Cup Saturday as we were both out.
We then lost as well. |
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