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Reply | The BBC (n/t)
at 22:01 11 Nov 2025
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Reply | The BBC
at 16:08 11 Nov 2025
They were good if you started 15+ years ago - one of the last places you could get a final salary pension if you were a mere serf.
Long gone now of course, like every other perk for the working class |
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Reply | The BBC
at 21:20 10 Nov 2025
I’ve got skin in this chat as have worked at the BBC twice over two separate occasions and have put in almost 20 years there over the years - as a local boy it was always my ambition to work there and was very proud to do so. Ironically I’ve just been paid up and one of the reasons I took the cheque was it was fast becoming chaotic and badly run, which I would never have said before. Lots of cowards and yes men and anonymous functionaries calling the shots
Wish it gone at your peril honestly, it’s a great institution and loved all over the world.
The noise about BBC News shouldn’t distract from everything else the BBC does, it’s the best deal going IMO across radio, World Service, eduction stuff for kids like Bitesize, random commissions that would never get a look in anywhere else, and the freedom to commission insanely expensive and non commercial but important programmes like David Attenborough over the years
Murdoch, Maxwell, every dishonest cnt going in the media landscape has been gunning for the BBC for decades and now with Trump on board and Robbie Gibb and his cronies running the news operation i do fear for the future. Tim Davie for me was an alright bloke but if he’s bailing too I think he’s seen the writing on the wall
We’ll miss it when it’s gone. [Post edited 10 Nov 22:47]
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Reply | Kolli
at 23:59 7 Nov 2025
Where I sit in Ellerslie there was a time when youth team players used to sit behind us for games, and Kolli was one of them (he had the hair even then so you couldn't really miss him)
Even as a young kid watching the games he came across as passionate and part of the club and a leader of his contemporaries. Also opinionated about a few players but IMO you want that in a good young kid and I'm not going to grass him up on what he said.
Bombing him out is a real shame, as others have said he feels like a potential part of the Eze/Chair/Adel history and it looks like we're abandoning a genuine youth product for politics [Post edited 8 Nov 0:00]
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Reply | Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 21:20 29 Oct 2025
Me and my brother were over in Amsterdam for Euro 2000 and ended up getting battered with a couple of Bristol City fans in a coffee shop and got on well.
After a while as the herb and beer kicked in to our young brains they started to hint that they were the ones that burned down Bristol Rovers’ old ground.
Looks like not much of a loss |
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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 22:33 26 Oct 2025
My missus is Canadian and her relatives have been sending merch over for a few years, so my eight year old has been wandering around west London in a Guerrero Jr Blue Jays top for a couple of years - his favourite T shirt
We went over there at the start of the summer and saw them destroy San Francisco. Took our seats, and Guerrero Jr hit a home run on the first ball he faced, it was like it had been written. You could feel the locals getting excited, been brilliant to see it play out
Now just trying to pick which 1am game during half term we sit and watch. 1-1 and could go either way [Post edited 26 Oct 22:36]
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Reply | Another one gone...
at 10:45 24 Oct 2025
Also later during the 90s he was in The Grid - excellent live show for the ravers |
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Reply | Prague
at 13:39 23 Oct 2025
The last time I went there was in 2001 organised by a company called “Prague Piss Up” for a mate’s stag do.
My recommendation is don’t do anything we did, or go to any of the places we went (which i can’t remember the names of anyway).
It’s a fantastic town, full of history. A great book to read before you go would be Alchemy by SJ Parris, murder mystery set in 17th century Prague |
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Reply | First 20mins
at 17:54 18 Oct 2025
Walked away from that feeling ok - we’re looking a much better side these days and playing some nice football, we lost on a couple of bad goals to concede. Basically exactly what we did to Bristol City
RND is looking like a great signing and Madsen is now consistent in his resurgent form, two bonuses none of us would have expected
Frey’s looking shot and surely it’s time for Kolli to step ahead of him in selection up front
Chair/Poku/JCS to come as well
Another shout out to Paul Smyth thought he was excellent [Post edited 18 Oct 17:55]
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Reply | Paul Smyth
at 21:33 13 Oct 2025
Been a good game this, Norn Iron giving them a game
Galbraith and Shea Charles look like real players |
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