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Reply | Some pr*ck at the scum v manure game
at 12:16 5 Apr 2024
Can't stand either of them. But the Scum's season is already fcked beyond redemption and after last night's result, it looks like Manure's is too!  |
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Reply | Swansea Away Reflection
at 11:08 2 Apr 2024
I trust that Chair took Ayer's side - always thought Wittgenstein's later work lacked rigour. |
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Reply | Swimming pool at Craven Cottage
at 11:38 28 Mar 2024
And yet since the NFL started playing fixtures in London the team that has played here most often is the Jaguars. Apparently they get more fans attending their games in London than they do in Jacksonville!  |
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Reply | Film Night
at 13:34 26 Mar 2024
What makes The Zone of Interest exceptional is how it portrays the normality of life even when lived right up against the walls of Auschwitz. The Hoess family is shown with all the hopes and preoccupations of any family: childcare, relatives, money, career progression. Managing mass murder is a career like any other. The mother, played by the incomparable Sandra Hueller, is a model of self-deception, concerned about status and material comfort within earshot and nose-shot of the guns and ovens next door. Absolutely chilling. [Post edited 26 Mar 15:19]
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Reply | Calendar question.
at 13:04 29 Feb 2024
Our calendar used to start the year in April until we adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1751. The rest of Europe switched in 1582, but we held back because we thought the Gregorian calendar was a fiendish plot devised by the Pope. |
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Reply | QPR in the 1950s
at 09:53 28 Feb 2024
The former Labour MP Alan Johnson grew up in West London in the 1950s. He was and is a fervent QPR supporter and talks about going to matches in his autobiography "This Boy". Recommended. |
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Reply | Car insurance
at 16:27 21 Feb 2024
"SheffieldHoop"? [Post edited 21 Feb 16:31]
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Thread | Some things are worth preserving
at 17:03 14 Feb 2024
Outside my local tube station is a stretch of pavement with a drain cover and a concrete surround. For as long as I can remember there has been a "QPR" carved into the concrete. Yesterday I walked past and saw barriers around a new drain cover set in fresh cement. In exactly the same position, someone had written in the wet cement "QPR". I somehow found that reassuring. |
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Reply | Ilias
at 13:42 7 Feb 2024
So if I were older and Turkish I'd understand? |
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Reply | Ilias
at 13:09 7 Feb 2024
You're going to have to unpack that extended metaphor as I'm no wiser about Trabzonspor supporters  |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 12:40 17 Jan 2024
Are you watching season 1 or 2 Chef? (lots of people call each other "Chef" in The Bear). Season 1 is good but Season 2 is outstanding! Lots of characters grow in front of your eyes, issues get resolved, the story gathers momentum. Some episodes concentrate on just one character or one event. It really works. [Post edited 17 Jan 13:28]
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Reply | Non QPR podcasts?
at 13:57 16 Jan 2024
"The Rest is History" is a wide range of podcasts on historical subjects. The two historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sambrook, are well informed and easy to listen to. Subjects are widely varied from ancient to contemporary history. Available on BBC Sounds. |
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Reply | It's going to be a scum v ruperts final isn't it
at 10:22 12 Jan 2024
Was walking through the local park with my son the other day. Some kids were kicking a ball around and one little gobshite in a Chelsea shirt was taking a penalty. When it was saved my son instinctively went into a fist-pump celebration. So proud. |
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Reply | Post office / Horizon show
at 16:09 9 Jan 2024
It seems to me that Paula Vennells has done a pretty effective job of trashing her own reputation.
Just when she thought she was coasting into a comfortable retirement with a portfolio of lucrative sinecures, her past caught up with her. She's had to drop her board seats at Imperial Healthcare Trust and Morrisons, her sanctimonious glow as an Anglican priest and now her CBE. Given her shameful role in persecuting people she knew to be innocent she doesn't deserve a shred of sympathy. Perjury is a criminal offence and there is plenty of prima facie evidence that it has been committed in this case. |
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Reply | Post office / Horizon show
at 12:42 3 Jan 2024
Computer Weekly deserve credit for originally publishing this story, but a trade paper was never going to achieve national recognition. The main broadcasters dipped in and out of the story over 20+ years. Only Private Eye stuck with it, through fortnightly reports, year in, year out, in their "In the Back" investigative journalism section.
Many media outlets simply couldn't believe that an institution which (pre-privatisation) was considered trustworthy could be so mendacious and cruel. The entire board at the time should face criminal prosecution, especially Chief Executive Paula Vennells who has never had to answer for disgracefully and knowingly persecuting over 700 entirely innocent postmasters. |
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Reply | A long time between drinks - Preview
at 13:29 13 Dec 2023
You've surpassed yourself there, Clive. Wonderful rush of nostalgia - capturing an era in three players' names. I haven't felt this much affection for the R's for a very long time - helped by our form of course! |
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Reply | Terry Venables RIP
at 12:30 27 Nov 2023
47 years of supporting QPR and the Venables years were the best. Supporters of other clubs would look at you with envy because he was our manager. Great times. |
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Reply | Yet Another Alcohol Thread
at 11:37 20 Nov 2023
My sister trained as a hospital nurse in Dublin in the 70s. She told me that for gastric problems they used to prescribe a "Guinness Sandwich": a pint of milk, then a pint of Guinness, then another pint of milk. Worked a treat, she said. |
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