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Reply | Half decent tv
at 23:08 7 Jun 2024
Just finished the second season of Tokyo Vice on iPlayer. Pretty far-fetched but still looks great and Tozawa-sama is a cracking villain. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne Podcast
at 23:03 7 Jun 2024
I forgot how far north Dundalk is. I wondered if the view out the window was Carlingford Lough with Rostrevor the other side. |
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Reply | England 🏴 v Iceland 🇮🇸 Match Thread
at 22:08 7 Jun 2024
Foden didn’t look a proper ten, pushed the ball sideways instead of threading the needle forwards, but he might need smarter runners in front of him. To be fair to Iceland, they were suffocating so the obvious lesson is never let them score first |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne Podcast
at 14:17 7 Jun 2024
I enjoyed that, he’s no Rowan Vine, that’s for sure. It’ll be interesting how long he keeps that hair colour. I had the first mention of us about 30.00 |
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Reply | D-Day
at 11:05 6 Jun 2024
We happened across a Chinese WW1 cemetery at Noyelles sur Mer in the Somme estuary (just off the motorway) with nearly 900 graves. Apparently thousands of Chinese workers took contracts to cross the world to work behind the lines in field kitchens, laundries, haulage and disinterring and reburying battlefield dead. Though a few were killed by hidden shells recovering bodies, most died of influenza in the last months of the war or straight after. A strange and tragic story, but an immaculately cared for place, as they always are.
Funnily enough, I spent an afternoon in Vichy on my recent trip. It’s a beautiful place, like a cross between Bath and Cheltenham, though there’s an enormous amount of renovation going on now. There’s a solemn monument to the deportees and resisters, but if there is any addressing of Le Maréchal and his supporters I didn’t see it. Easy to mock them with hindsight but they were probably thinking like 1870 France, keep quiet until the Germans go away and have a rematch in 40 years. They didn’t see Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad and Auschwitz coming. |
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Reply | D-Day
at 21:47 5 Jun 2024
I was in Normandy yesterday on the way home from holiday. We had lunch on the beach at Trouville and four or five Dakotas circled very low over the beach. We also saw a lot of cars towing old military vehicles towards the beaches, looked like a big spectacle planned for tomorrow.
None of my lot involved on the day, my Dad’s side up a mountain in Tipperary though apparently my other Grandad tarmaced some runways for the US airforce in Cambridgeshire (no medals awarded!) |
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Reply | Bush Hall Fundraiser
at 18:27 5 Jun 2024
Cook and Jones were quite happy to ambush visiting fans in the market but watched their football at the other place. Wormholt Estate? |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 12:52 5 Jun 2024
That’s a stunner. Really hard on the Blues after their second half, but brilliant by DCE. |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 11:36 5 Jun 2024
Klein was the ref who gave a penalty try against Australia in a home World Cup Final, wasn't he? Ganson the VR. They got an earful from Ricky Stuart in the hotel the next day, but nothing Ganson hasn't heard before in a taxi queue most weekends. |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 11:16 5 Jun 2024
red card surely?
No arms surely. Kudos to Patsy, or whoever decided on it. [Post edited 5 Jun 11:19]
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 11:10 5 Jun 2024
Nice of them to give the refs the night off for the biggest game of the year. |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 11:07 5 Jun 2024
Mood killer letting Toby Rudolph strum the anthem.
Oh no, Channel 9 coverage. |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 11:05 5 Jun 2024
I haven't watched the FA Cup Final for about 20 years, since that lot camped out at Wembley... |
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Reply | Man City - "Tryanny of the majority"
at 11:00 5 Jun 2024
Football was much better when Bob Lord was putting dog meat in his pies* to buy the First Division for Burnley.
* I just made this bit up but as my brother-in-law is from Blackburn I would be able to find one witness to support it in court. |
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