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Reply | Last night’s ref
at 11:25 12 Dec 2024
Offside? Only reasonable explanation, but TV didn't show the lino. |
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Reply | Last night’s ref
at 10:27 12 Dec 2024
There was another handball in the corner near the end. Their player “did a Smyth” and fell down under no contact from Morgan and grabbed the ball on the presumption of a foul. The ref saw through it, gave a handball, but didn’t book him. Presumably thought they had suffered enough by then.
Still, they have to learn and that includes putting them in the middle to make some educational mistakes. As it happens, I had an operation yesterday under local anaesthetic. I was lying on the table listening to a senior surgeon telling his junior where she was going wrong slicing into my eyeball and stitching up the incision. “No, slice smoothly, don’t squeeze the eyeball, the tissue will bunch up. What are you doing now? The needle should be horizontal, not vertical!” It was all I could do not to shout, “Why aren’t you doing it then, know-all?” Still, fingers crossed… |
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Reply | Home comforts - Preview
at 10:19 8 Dec 2024
Great preview Clive. I missed yesterday to go to my uncle’s 80th Birthday party, so I gave my tickets to my friend to take his 13 year old son, both West Ham fans. Hopefully I might have planted the seed that it’s more fun to watch football in a ground that’s not like an airport. |
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Reply | Mothers Milk
at 08:46 6 Dec 2024
My first job after college was at Park Royal Guinness. When it was built about 1930, the Irish government was so anxious about the risk to the future of St James’s Gate that the Guinness family signed a covenant that 30% of the Guinness sold in Britain would be exported from Dublin in perpetuity, so it was never just Liverpool, but much of the North and Scotland. When sales weakened at the end of the last century, there was no question of St James’s Gate closing because of the covenant so Park Royal had to go.
The recipe was the same in London and Dublin (indeed draught and bottled both came out of a single brewing process and were separated for different conditioning after 72 hours in the kettle) though the sourcing of the contents was different obviously, including the water. The main reason for the different flavour in the pub was turnover/barrel life, pouring and temperature - Irish beer always came out a few degrees colder. |
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Reply | Mothers Milk
at 15:20 5 Dec 2024
I read an interesting piece about the lack of non alcoholic keg beer. I’m no chemist but it claimed that the lack of alcohol meant it soured more quickly, particularly what was trapped in the line between the tap and the keg. One solution was to surround the beer line with a casing with chilled water circulating in it, but less trouble just to sell expensive bottles. |
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Reply | Mothers Milk
at 15:12 5 Dec 2024
I happened to be reading a different article about the global popularity of Guinness this year, which they put down to “Splitting the G”. It’s a social media craze where you’re filmed glugging the first swig of a pint but stopping so the divide between black and white divides the lettering on the glass, or alternatively the name and the harp. My daughter confirms this is a thing with her friends. Bars in New York admit to ordering glasses with lower lettering to sell more. Were we this impressionable (very possibly)?
I’m another that laments the end of the pint bottle, much preferred it to Draught despite the ghastly wreckage left behind the morning after. |
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Reply | UB40 at Hammersmith Apollo last night
at 10:09 4 Dec 2024
A couple of friends from school were there, said it was more rowdy than football. Loads of windows still boarded up around Wembley Park days later. |
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Thread | UB40 at Hammersmith Apollo last night
at 08:26 4 Dec 2024
I was taking a class at the Irish centre last night and we went for an end of term drink. When we were leaving, the pub and the streets were full of people who had been to UB40, and they were really unhappy. A couple of women stopped us to vent at how frustrating and disappointed they were, apparently sparing with the hits and generally grumpy and lacklustre. Anyone here go? I’ve not seen a street reaction like that since Rainbow fans broke windows in Wembley about 1980! |
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Reply | random
at 23:15 3 Dec 2024
WHYT pudding please. |
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Reply | Domo origato Mr Saito
at 12:30 2 Dec 2024
On the subject of Japan, their cricketers played India in the Asia Under-19 50 overs cup in Sharjah today and it went…about as well as could be expected - India 339/6, Japan 128/8. But let’s hear it for Japanese hero Hugo Kelly (!), 8-0-42-2 in the Indian innings, then a 50 (OK, off 111 balls) in Japan’s. And he’s 15! |
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Reply | Where Are They Now?
at 10:18 2 Dec 2024
Bob Malcolm seems to have sold his ice cream van to Private Equity investors. Or he was banned again. |
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Reply | Domo origato Mr Saito
at 09:21 2 Dec 2024
Famously fixed though. Classic Japan, “Tatemae” façade is one thing, “honne” reality rather different. |
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