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Reply | Belgium v. Sweden abandoned after 2 Swedes shot dead in Brussels
at 17:07 17 Oct 2023
Whilst I broadly agree with what you are saying the line when, '"most people get to a stage in their lives where no one is able to force them to believe and do anything" it is sometimes/often not that easy to escape from what they have been brainwashed/indoctrinated with every day of their lives up until that point.
I should know because having been brought up in that situation when I reached the age of 17 I ran away from home (in 1984...) not because I suddenly decided not to believe what I had been force-fed with for 17 years, but because I wanted to have a foray into the big wide world (football, girls, travel, alcohol etc) before returning to the fold and settling down.
I was very lucky really because once 'out' it slowly dawned on me that it maybe wasn't actually the only 'right' place to be in the whole wide world, but actually a highly controlled, oppressive and misogynistic environment where money was really the true God. Most believers of that particular 'religion' do not make the same choice that I made and once married with kids etc it is a lot harder choice to make.
All my family/relatives are still 'in' which is maybe not a bad thing because I am not sure how they would cope out here in the real world, especially if they chose to follow my lead in choice of football club.... |
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Reply | Murphy Mahoney (How is he not Irish) Great Saves
at 18:28 4 Oct 2023
According to that ever so reliable font of information tinternet, Murphy Mahoney is 6'2 whereas Paddy Kenny was (and probably still is) 6'1 and he didn't do so badly... |
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Reply | London ULEZ, who can afford it now
at 14:05 15 Aug 2023
This morning I happened to notice that the ULEZ camera on Strand-on the Green Chiswick, W4. at the junction with Spring Grove has had it's wire cut...... What a shame...  [Post edited 15 Aug 2023 14:10]
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Reply | Few Thoughts
at 17:43 6 Aug 2023
One thing that I don't quite understand is GA, in his after match interview, said something along the lines of 'We could see that our tactics were not working so we changed a few things at half time'....... Well I could see that after about, what, one minute?.... Why wait until half time? Why not after the second goal went in for example?... Over the years I have seen many a manager make a substitution during the first half and/or change the shape of the team.... |
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Reply | Asmir Begovic
at 13:25 12 Jul 2023
And from from a business point of view, if he is indeed opening a soccer school in Chiswick, what better sales spiel than saying that I have got an 'in' at one of the most local professional football clubs, the mighty Queens Park Rangers..... |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 18:16 2 May 2023
An Irishman walks up to a bar and orders 10 beers.. 'Do you want a tray with that mate?' says the barman.
'Feck off' says the Irishman, 'I've got enough to carry with all this beer'... |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 18:27 14 Apr 2023
An expert biologist from the Natural History passes a record shop and is surprised to see an LP in the window with a picture of wasps on the cover. He is a wasp specialist so can't help himself but go in and enquire what the record is all about. The man in the shop says the LP consists of field recordings of rare species of wasps in the wild. Enthralled by this he asks to hear it. But after a few minutes of skipping through the grooves he turns to the shopkeeper and says he is sure that the noises on the record are not wasps. The shopkeeper comes over, looks at the disc and says...
'Oh yeh, sorry mate, that's the B-side....' [Post edited 15 Apr 2023 4:46]
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 21:14 12 Apr 2023
An Irishman applies for a job as an apprentice blacksmith.
'Do you have any experience of shoeing horses?' asks the blacksmith.
'No' replies the Irishman, 'but I did once tell a donkey to feck off....' |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 20:51 12 Apr 2023
What's small, yellow and lives off dead beatles....
Yoko Ono |
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Reply | Bungee Jump Tickets
at 19:38 20 Mar 2023
Actually I once tied a bungee rope to the roof at school.
I was suspended... |
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Reply | January Transfer Window Rumours
at 11:32 10 Jan 2023
I notice that our old friend from Feltham Steven Caulker has just signed for Wigan. It seems a very long time ago that he was with us earning more in a week than most earn in a year.
What a signing he turned out to be.... |
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Reply | Worst ever player
at 23:28 4 Aug 2022
Tony Scully... Super fast but so frustrating as his end product was virtually nil... Last heard of as being a postie in Cambridge. I can imagine that he is super fast on his round but firing the letters into the wrong houses, if he actually takes them with him in the first place... |
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Reply | Schteeeeve coach at Manure
at 15:28 23 May 2022
What with the new manager being Dutch, maybe he has just gone in there to translate? I seem to recall that in his time in the Netherlands as manager of FC Twente Schteeeeeve was that good at the language even I more or less understood...... |
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Reply | Olympic action
at 16:08 24 Jul 2021
Been watching the women's beach volleyball, 10 minutes into the game and there's been a wrist injury already...
Hopefully I will be okay for work on Monday.... |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 18:12 4 Jul 2021
A Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishman walk into a bar (there's normally an Englishman but we are still at the Euros....) |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 10:18 14 Jun 2021
My girlfriend thinks I am a stalker. Well, she is not actually my girlfriend as yet... |
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