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Reply | Half decent tv
at 11:11 9 Sep 2024
What do people think of Pachinko? It looks great with a real epic feel, but it drags a bit and I find the grandson really dull. Not started on the second series yet. |
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Reply | Summer holiday book recommendations
at 09:46 6 Sep 2024
I got a long way in but I’m saving the last few chapters for a special occasion (probably). I read an excellent book called Unbelievers by an historian of religion called Alec Ryrie that covers some of the same ground - the questioning of religious authority encouraged by Protestantism led people to question God, while keeping the values of the old religion. Not my usual, but completely fascinating. |
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Reply | San Marino
at 00:07 6 Sep 2024
Geez, he might have rubbed it in a little more. No matter how bad it gets for Lichtenstein football, there’s always further to fall.
Actually this is why the Nations League is a brilliant innovation . One 1-0 scrap is worth any number of lucrative 10-0 stuffings. |
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Reply | Summer holiday book recommendations
at 00:02 6 Sep 2024
On the recommendation of The Rest Is History, I’ve finally made a proper attempt on the copy of Simon Schama’s monumental “Citizens”, that I bought over 30 years ago. I was instinctively repelled by the revolting spectacle of the decapitated Marie Antoinette at the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and disgusted by the director’s description of it as a “celebration of the revolutionary values of Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité. I was therefore gratified to read Schama (on page 631!) on the massacre of 1,400 prisoners that followed a month after the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792: “Disturbed by its horror and poorly trained in their professional discourse to contemplate it, historians at this point tend to avert their eyes and dismiss the event as somehow incidental or irrelevant to any serious analysis…the overall effect is meant to be comforting for the revolutionary historian: the scholarly normalisation of evil. |
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Reply | cheesiest group/singer ....whatever
at 23:30 5 Sep 2024
I love it. A man with the charisma and raw sex appeal of one of Howard Wilkinson’s Sheffield Wednesday midfield is gifted 48 hours when he can go up to women in Paris and say “Hey Babe, wanna be in my new video?” Ryan living La Dolce Vita. Oooh, we’re gonna get it right. |
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Reply | First Cinema you saw a film in?
at 22:10 4 Sep 2024
My mum saw Cliff Richard at the Kilburn State in 1958 and I was carol singing at Kilburn station one night Rod Stewart and the Faces played there in the early 70s, we made a ton from the tartan hordes.
Mrs Sheen and I saw Lou Reed at the Kensington Odeon in the early 90s. He was walking down the stairs just in front of us. |
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Reply | Ben Williams offski
at 22:03 4 Sep 2024
Let’s hope JCS doesn’t miss him.
Clearly an ambitious man who likes to try himself out in new surroundings. Good luck to him. |
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Reply | You Are FIFA
at 22:00 4 Sep 2024
Why not, when a goal is awarded, the side conceding will restart play from the centre spot after 30 seconds. Any player not in position in their half must leave the pitch and rejoin it at the next break in play.
Throw ins must be taken from a static position, but may be taken with one or both hands in any manner. |
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Reply | First film you ever see at the cinema/pictures.
at 19:13 4 Sep 2024
I think I remember the Granada as a derelict bingo hall. Where was the Cricklewood cinema? Was it up Cricklewood Lane towards the station? Later redeveloped for a supermarket.
By my time one of the Harlesden cinemas was the Roxy at Craven Park, very occasional music venue - The Clash, Sham 69 - while the other only seemed to show kung fu films. I remember a cinema on Ealing Road in Alperton showing Indian films, big colourful posters and long lines outside. [Post edited 4 Sep 19:17]
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Reply | Another Michael Caine Moment
at 15:29 4 Sep 2024
The 9th Vice President of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson (in office 1837-41), took a nine month sabbatical to open and run a pub/hotel on his farm, to try to make good losses he incurred in the Financial Panic of 1837. |
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Reply | If you could be any animal for a day ....
at 15:22 4 Sep 2024
The lifestyle of a crocodile appeals. The lizard metabolism means you only have to eat every three or four days, otherwise a gentle swim then sleep it off the rest of the day. |
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Reply | would you cancel your holiday....
at 11:26 4 Sep 2024
Nope. I spent the 2003 play-off final sitting in the car on one of the Frisian Islands, trying to coax a signal out of the radio. Couldn't get out of the wife's best friend's 30th birthday party the next year when we were playing at Hillsborough. |
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Reply | Another Michael Caine Moment
at 10:57 4 Sep 2024
Another thing they have in common is that neither sang on Boney M records.
Ferdinand I ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918. His third wife died in 2015. There's two things. [Post edited 4 Sep 11:05]
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Reply | First Cinema you saw a film in?
at 10:54 4 Sep 2024
Kilburn State and Grange were magnificent buildings as a small boy, especially the former. The Classic, not so much. |
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