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Reply | Spurs v Man U
at 11:14 20 Dec 2024
Small sample size to go on, but I haven’t the foggiest idea what United saw in that goalkeeper. |
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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 19:56 19 Dec 2024
Bertrand Russell was sent to Brixton Prison for six months in 1917 as a conscientious objector. His brother the Earl Russell visited him there and was delighted to renew acquaintances with some of the warders who had guarded him there 15 years before when he was serving time for bigamy. |
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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 17:10 19 Dec 2024
William Patrick Hitler was born in Liverpool in 1911, son of Adolf’s brother Alois. Alois left the family to return to Germany and had another family. William joined him after leaving school but got into his uncle’s bad books after some press interviews and thought it safer to go home. He was turned down for service in the British armed forces because of his background, went to the US and initially had the same treatment before being accepted for service by the US Navy as a pharmacist’s mate.
https://lyonairmuseum.org/blog/corpsman-hitler-us-navy/ |
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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 10:11 18 Dec 2024
Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest for about 400 years until they dismantled a spire there and let someone else have a go.
An earlier cathedral at Lincoln was destroyed by an earthquake in 1188. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 08:36 17 Dec 2024
Perhaps, but he’s a historical not fictional character. Not much point having a spoiler alert on Julius Caesar. [Post edited 17 Dec 8:36]
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 18:01 16 Dec 2024
I haven’t but Mrs Sheen loved it.
On other matters ecclesiastical, Wolf Hall had a happy ending with that thieving Putney heretic getting it in the neck. Fantastic writing and performances. |
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Reply | Smyth,s Goal?
at 16:15 14 Dec 2024
Go away and sin no more my son. Doesn’t clicking the up arrow just cancel it out? |
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Reply | QPR v Bristol City match thread
at 13:01 14 Dec 2024
I’m thrilled Bristol City have an Earthy and a Wells in their team. Are they looking for any of the following?
Gates
Seed
Barnes
Muddyman
Orchard
Ditching
Field/s
Shepherd |
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Reply | England’s World Cup Qualifying Group
at 00:01 14 Dec 2024
Not Soviet Union 1.0, more like 1.1. Only swallowed up by the Soviet Union in 1940 post Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, though part of the Tsarist Empire pre-revolution. [Post edited 14 Dec 0:03]
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Reply | Best Sports Films
at 17:19 13 Dec 2024
This Sporting Life. Not only is the on-pitch action (rugby league) unusually convincing, but it’s a time capsule of a suffocatingly tight-knit community about to be swept aside by individualism and economic disaster. |
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Reply | Best Sports Films
at 14:51 13 Dec 2024
I saw it in the cinema when it came out because Mrs Sheen loved Kevin Costner so much. The people in front of us left after three minutes and we knew they had made the right call, but we were too polite and/or mean to follow them. |
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Reply | Best Sports Films
at 13:47 13 Dec 2024
Slap Shot, for the rust belt locations and Paul Newman’s tan leather suit if nothing else. |
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Reply | Paul Nardi
at 13:19 13 Dec 2024
Not a goalie who suits the Championship? You silver-tounged seductive devil. Freddie Woodman has played 197 games in the Championship, and he’s plops. |
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