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Reply | Irish & Scottish Rs
at 22:43 22 Jan 2025
Slightly downgraded for Kerry to 90mph gusts, seemingly raised for everyone else. |
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Reply | Irish & Scottish Rs
at 14:20 22 Jan 2025
100mph gusts in South Kerry. I don’t remember seeing any higher. Here’s hoping it’s not that bad. |
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Thread | Irish & Scottish Rs
at 12:20 22 Jan 2025
Good luck on Friday and if you find any pieces of my house, hold on to them for me. |
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Reply | Lloyd and saito
at 22:32 21 Jan 2025
Can’t see that myself, Slade was as weak as a new born foal, Lloyd is powerful as well as quick. |
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Reply | Ruben Amorim
at 08:20 21 Jan 2025
Harsh, you have to judge Mudryk based on the full 8 years of his contract. |
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Reply | RIP Denis Law
at 19:48 17 Jan 2025
King of the cheeky back-heel. |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 12:35 17 Jan 2025
Anyone else a regular in the Catholic Club at Quex Road (more accurately Mazenod Avenue, crazy names like 1970s toilet paper) in Kilburn? Every Sunday lunchtime in the 70s with my dad and my Grandad and his brother Michael, the old boys having pipes with their Guinness while we played football in the school playground next door. Later my Dad would take me to play 25 on midweek nights in the school holidays, teaching me to drink. There was a huge dance hall there, wonder if it’s used at all now…Polish or Filipino weddings I guess. |
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Reply | Golazzo!
at 21:45 16 Jan 2025
Perhaps he thought it would be a spectacle to have the bird landing on it. Can you imagine the grief someone would get in this country from 70,000 football fans if he owned up to having a knob-job?
(Cough, cough, Steed Malbranque, allegedly.) |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 14:18 16 Jan 2025
Out of interest, why is the beer so much cheaper? Some tax concession, volunteer staff, no rent to pay or margin targets to meet? Combination of the above? |
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Reply | New Match of the Day Presenters...
at 12:04 16 Jan 2025
I was in Ireland for most of London 2012, and the RTE coverage was an eye opener…taking you from an athletics final to see an Irish competitor coming 23rd in canoeing. The country stopped for Katie Taylor, other boxers and the rowing brothers but you’d hardly know about GB medals apart from grumbling about over-the-top coverage in the British press. |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 10:27 16 Jan 2025
Remember building society “carpet-baggers”, small speculators who opened multiple accounts in the hope of a demutualisation windfall? I’m surprised there aren’t vultures joining clubs with the intention of voting to close them. I imagine it’s been thought of and some protections put in place. |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 08:40 16 Jan 2025
There have been a lot of factors behind the decline of the clubs: homes becoming more comfortable with better entertainment and cheaper drinks from the supermarket, the expectation that men should spend more time helping out at home, the loss of big factories where neighbours worked and the scattering of office workers on long distance commutes and even working from home, to name a few….more generally shyness and discomfort around strangers.
At the same time, you wonder if the clubs and their members want to change to make them more likely to survive. It’s their club so it reflects their tastes, but the clubs are dying out with their core customers. My son and his friends went to one in Kingston thinking they could watch football there more cheaply than the pub; you’d think someone would see them as potential new blood, but they were grudgingly signed in and no-one thought to discuss membership. I’ve seen mothers and their young kids in Wetherspoons after schools, the Mums having a quick one, the kids doing homework. Do clubs offer homework clubs and maybe sandwiches in a side room?
I can imagine the reaction of some old boys to having kids running around, or the blue-hairs in the bar if they ran a board games night or some other hobby groups, but it would be good for those people to get out into more mixed company and offer the clubs more of a future than nothing, which seems to be the current option. The Barnes Home Guard club I mentioned was lucky enough to have space to pull off a development jackpot and keep the two member groups largely as separate as they want to be.
All big talk from me. I’m not a member of one. My nearest in my new location is a Conservative Club, which doesn’t look particularly enticing, but I suppose I should check it out. |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 22:40 15 Jan 2025
In the next road up from me in Sheen was the Home Guards Club…not making those any more. It had a really low profile apart from an annual music festival on Mayday weekend, until some bright spark talked them into building a small indoor swimming pool at the end of their garden, they were charging a fortune for “swimming” membership . The older members weren’t interested. We had the funeral drinks for both of my mum’s parents at the Home Guards club in North Harrow.
I wonder what happens when a WMC closes. Do the last members standing split the proceeds from selling the premises? |
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