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Reply | Today i am mostly eating......
at 12:03 6 Sep 2024
While a student in 1976 I worked at Geales in Hillgate Street 4 nights a week. Ate cod & chips every night and never tired of it. Best memory was the Geales Christmas Party that year. There was a sudden burst of excitement when some guests arrived late. In walked Rodney Marsh, Gerry Francis and George Best. Honest. I've got a photograph somewhere. |
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Reply | Over-rated books
at 12:56 21 Aug 2024
What other football club forum could generate this level of interest in an "over-rated books" thread? Brilliant!
I like crime fiction but cannot stand Agatha Christie. Twee, contrived plots set in bucolic English country towns peopled by one-dimensional stereotypes. Much prefer the worldly, hard-boiled cynicism of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett or George V Higgins.
Chandler once memorably said that in his novels "people kill for reasons, not just to provide a corpse, and they use the means at hand, not antique duelling pistols or tropical fish"
(PS: thoroughly agree with those who nominated "The Alchemist". Self-help drivel) |
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Reply | Daley Thompson
at 23:16 17 Jul 2024
I remember listening to Daley Thompson decades ago on one of those retrospective radio programmes - might have been Desert Island Disks. The interviewer asked "you've been so successful, won so many medals, is there anything left that you would like to achieve?" Daley said "Yes - I'd like to be able to touch my toes". He was serious. |
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Reply | Rory Gallagher
at 14:16 10 Jul 2024
I love the idea that Rory Gallagher "constantly giggled and toured". He must have been great company.
I remember sitting in my friend Pat's bedroom shaking our heads to the eponymous first album. Happy days. |
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Reply | England vs some other team. Euros Semi Final match thread.
at 14:42 8 Jul 2024
"we're pretty embarrassing on the global football stage so far, as my work colleagues from various countries are quick to point out."
Is one of those countries France? If so, you might want to remind them that France has yet to score a goal from open play in this tournament. |
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Reply | Family
at 17:53 17 Jun 2024
Don't know this album but I played Bandstand until it wore out. Burlesque was down and dirty. Great band that broke up too soon. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 16:17 7 Jun 2024
This thread has been fascinating. Many contributors have been very open about the experiences that have changed their lives. It has made me realise how lucky I have been. Sure, I've had significant moments (relationships, births of kids etc) but they have overall been positive. Three things stand out:
(1) I became an adult at a time when good jobs were much easier to come by. Anyone with a modicum of talent and the ability to work hard and learn could be successful.
(2) I met and married a perfect woman and we are still married 41 years later.
(3) Nobody from my generation in this country has ever had to go to war.
Uneventful maybe, but generally life has been good and I'm thankful for it. |
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Reply | Earworms
at 10:02 1 Jun 2024
Midnight Train to Georgia contains one of the great lines in modern popular music:
"I'd rather live in his world, than live without him, in mine."
A simple, elegant expression of devotion. |
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Reply | Spurs stadium
at 12:28 27 May 2024
When the NFL is in town I work getting sponsors and VIP fans to and from the new Spurs stadium. Even the Americans are impressed by the stadium. But getting from Park Lane to the industrial estate in N17 where the coaches park takes the shine off somewhat. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:57 23 May 2024
I spent years as an official guide in the Palace of Westminster. Remembering when King Edward 1st first consulted with the Shires, or the issues behind the Great Reform Bill was the easy bit. Far harder was explaining the contribution to democracy made by 900+ unelected peers, or convincing cynical visitors that most MPs are not the conniving schemers the media picture them to be.
We may as well accept that under our FPTP system only one of two parties can form a government. There are only a handful of constituencies where tactical voting can move the dial. Nevertheless it is important to vote, even if you have to hold your nose while doing it. |
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Reply | Petty Insanities
at 17:29 16 May 2024
Misplacing something and looking for it everywhere until I find it. Just to throw it away. |
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Reply | Some pr*ck at the scum v manure game
at 12:16 5 Apr 2024
Can't stand either of them. But the Scum's season is already fcked beyond redemption and after last night's result, it looks like Manure's is too!  |
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Reply | Swansea Away Reflection
at 11:08 2 Apr 2024
I trust that Chair took Ayer's side - always thought Wittgenstein's later work lacked rigour. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 11:38 28 Mar 2024
And yet since the NFL started playing fixtures in London the team that has played here most often is the Jaguars. Apparently they get more fans attending their games in London than they do in Jacksonville!  |
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Reply | Film Night
at 13:34 26 Mar 2024
What makes The Zone of Interest exceptional is how it portrays the normality of life even when lived right up against the walls of Auschwitz. The Hoess family is shown with all the hopes and preoccupations of any family: childcare, relatives, money, career progression. Managing mass murder is a career like any other. The mother, played by the incomparable Sandra Hueller, is a model of self-deception, concerned about status and material comfort within earshot and nose-shot of the guns and ovens next door. Absolutely chilling. [Post edited 26 Mar 15:19]
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Reply | Calendar question.
at 13:04 29 Feb 2024
Our calendar used to start the year in April until we adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1751. The rest of Europe switched in 1582, but we held back because we thought the Gregorian calendar was a fiendish plot devised by the Pope. |
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Reply | QPR in the 1950s
at 09:53 28 Feb 2024
The former Labour MP Alan Johnson grew up in West London in the 1950s. He was and is a fervent QPR supporter and talks about going to matches in his autobiography "This Boy". Recommended. |
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