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Reply | Nearest pub to where you live
at 18:18 6 Jun 2024
Yeah the Island's always busy when I go - it was still very much the Buccaneer when I moved to Kensal rise in 97.
The Chamberlayne (or what ever it's called now) was the Banker's Draft back then. Bit grim.
And the Greyhound didn't exist. The first version was called the Chambers and was a bit shit. The Greyhound became my home from home when it opened. I was just round the corners
Basically, back in the late 90'sI used to spend all my time in the Paradise until the William opened - that was a blast for the first few years. |
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Reply | What is your second sport.
at 19:00 4 Jun 2024
Other than watching QPR at home and, occassionally, away I don't really watch much league football except the various playoffs on TV.
I'll stick a lot Scotland games on TV, same for England. And I wander up to Wembley a few times a year to watch England live. Usually I try to restrict it to qualifiers but I did have a laugh at the recent Belgium friendly and am going back on Friday for the Iceland game. It's more just a night out with mates than anything else and I sometimes get my son or daughter along. Daughter this time. Three stops on the tube, can't really say no.
I'll watch all the Scotland and England Euros and WC games on TV obvs.
Other than that, I sometimes watch the odd six nations rugby game but am not really that interested. Despite my user name. Which wasn't meant to have anything to do with the rugby team of the same name. [Post edited 4 Jun 19:01]
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Reply | Nearest pub to where you live
at 18:17 4 Jun 2024
Christ that's grim. Used to go there a lot when I lived round there.
Has the William come back to life? That looked shut for a long time whenever I passed it
Now I'm up in Willesden Green and my only real local, the Queensbury gave up last year.
Apart from anything else. it was great pre-Wembley pub being opposite the tube and 3 stops from Wembley Parkway.
There are still places to get a pint near the tube but not a proper pub like that. Shame. [Post edited 4 Jun 18:17]
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Reply | Cricket 2024 County/International Thread
at 14:24 3 Jun 2024
Are you talking about yesterday's game?
If so, I was there and really enjoyed the T20 format. I'd only been to one game before; day 3 of a 5 day test at Lord's when NZ were batting for a draw. I saw 78 runs and 1 wicket that day......
The high speed nature of yesterday appealed to me. Even my wife enjoyed it. |
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Reply | Leicester’s Maresca to Chelsea
at 10:12 28 May 2024
Maybe "hating" is too strong a word but we all know how frustrating it can be if your manager persists in playing a certain way even if it clearly isn't working against the set up of another team.
That's what my mate was saying during the season. |
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Reply | Leicester’s Maresca to Chelsea
at 09:54 28 May 2024
My mate's a Leicester st holder and he's really happy.
Last season he was infuriated by the "this is way I'm going to play and that's that" attitude of the bloke. |
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Reply | Playoff final
at 10:23 27 May 2024
My son's at uni up there so I can look forward to Leeds away again.
As some sort of atonement for the slop that GA's team served up back in October. I'm still embarrassed about that as my BIL persuaded me to take my 2 Spurs-supporting nephews along too. I was lost for words at HT. They were slack-jawed at how shit Rangers were. |
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Reply | MUSICAL TOP FIVES - You HATE!!!
at 10:02 26 May 2024
Music is subjective and I hate it.
OK; I quite liked some of the early trip-hop stuff and some of the Jamaican toasting that kicked of the whole telling-a-story-over-music thing in the first place. But they were quite melodic.
All the rap since, to my ears, is just one bloke grunting into a mike over some plastic beats. Telling us all about cars guns and ho's.
Make it stop. Please. |
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Reply | MUSICAL TOP FIVES - You HATE!!!
at 11:44 24 May 2024
Anything autotune. Fingers down a blackboard.
Any rap. One note over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
Bruce Springsteen. Fake working class bilge
Maria Carey and all the other honking/screeching/warbling/hollering "divas"
The Killers. Fake rock band from a fake city entirely devoid of musical talent with a **** in a shiny suit doing stupid fake rock poses all night. My BIL once made we watch a Killers concert on TV and it was one of the worst 45 minutes of my life. Not quite as bad as the first half of Leeds away this season, true, but that band is as devoid of musical ability as a GA team is of football |
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Reply | The Old Bill
at 08:20 23 May 2024
This will almost certainly be about the misuse of pronouns. |
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Reply | Wet Spam
at 17:47 20 May 2024
City can pay for 100 top lawyers. They'll get away with it. |
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Reply | The Andy Sinton Scream…….
at 11:32 19 May 2024
Sints has been on the comms forever, of course, but the club added a semi-regular podcast with him a few years ago. I think that died a death in the 22/23 season. It was reborn as the Rangers Report at the start of this season.
I've been listening to it as a pod all this time (along with Open All Rs, W12 and WLS) but only noticed yesterday that it also comes in video format.
Might go back and watch the previous 2 or 3 as the clips add a lot of context. |
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Reply | We all love our music....
at 08:07 12 May 2024
I'm reading David Byrne's book How Music Works and I came across this.
"It's sometimes the words. But just as often the content comes from a combination of sounds, rhythms and vocal textures that communicate in ways that bypass the reasoning centres of our brains and go straight to our emotions",
Sums up how I listen to music. |
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