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36 minutes ago, Loonytoons said:
Add Whoops Apocalypse, Staggering stories of Ferdinand de Bargos and Yes, Minister to the list.
However, the negative list IS quite substantial.
Never the twain, Ain't half hot mum, Are you being served?, Hi De Hi etc.
It's like everything - people only remember the good stuff.
Hipsters like to bang on about how they were born in the wrong time because they just LOVE Seventies/Eighties/Nineties music, completely oblivious to the horrors that were inflicted on young people on a weekly basis during those eras.
34 minutes ago, scottsdad said:The first series of Allo Allo is fantastic.
Sook on that, unpopular opinions thread.
I'd assumed that would be a show that would've aged terribly until I ended up watching a couple of episodes with my old man on UKTV Gammon or whatever. It was still surprisingly entertaining.
Edit: can't imagine it lends itself well to bingewatching, though. "Oh, the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies again, is it?"
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On 04/05/2024 at 11:36, Venti said:
'Side hustle'
Ffs just say 'other income'. You aren't Del Trotter.
A few years back, the press were full of stuff about young people choosing to work "side hustles" in their spare time, apparently oblivious to the fact that a lot of them had no choice. It took a while before the cost of living increased enough to affect affluent media types and become a crisis.
Anyway, I don't know how many times this has to be said, but 4-2 IS NOT A THRASHING. Thrashings start at 5-0. Thank you.
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3 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
The other possibility I missed out was AI and robots taking over our jobs leaving us free to look after our families.. Hurrah!
I deliberately ignored that because it'll be for people with a bit of money/decent health insurance, well past the point that it would be entirely affordable for the paupers.
More likely that, in the future, there'll be a rush to do something about the auld yins in the street begging for help changing their adult nappies, and the answer will surrepticiously be "give them/their families the option of a pentobarbital jag".
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5 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
You mean Orally?
Yes, we are Orally men.
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9 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Just popping in a thought that if we want continue to provide a cradle to the grave welfare state, we'll have to either have to take on a lot more family child and elderly care responsibilities on our own, or free up immigration to people willing to take it on.
You forgot Option #3 - legalise euthanasia for humans.
The welfare state's being wound up, and racism's making a comeback, so I'm thinking we'll see more of a push towards that from the new, humane Conservative Party that takes over from New New Labour.
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8 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:
Sexy Hitler?
Don't search for that on Steam, by the way. I made that mistake once, but I think I got away with it.
Spoiler
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The number of goals we've conceded is concerning too TBH, but Norn Iron was the only genuinely poor performance. Also annoying that we didn't push Spain a bit harder in the final two group games; didn't matter in the end, but we've ended up in a better position in groups before because one of our competitors made a c**t of a game they'd have expected to win.
Fingers crossed our uncatastrophically bald boss can sort out the porous defence, as we were doing OK there for a while.
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1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:
Does the pale-coloured soggy inner part of the pastry on a steak pie have a name, and if so, what is it called?
The beef rectum.
Yum.
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Hitler was dynamic and sexy, and look where that got us.
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I've never seen Gavin & Stacey. From the adverts, I have a vague memory of it looking like your bog-standard ITV sitcom. So shite, in other words.
Of course, it might just have been the stench of Corden that put me off. Maybe it's great.
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13 hours ago, Burnieman said:
An expanded bottom division can happen if the L1 and L2 clubs want it to but they don't, I doubt Premiership clubs give a rats.
SPFL money is king at the bottom levels and clubs are shit scared of the drop and losing it without actually looking at the bigger picture. Four years ago McMenemy at Stenny tried to get pro/rel suspended entirely for 3 seasons to "protect" clubs post covid. Didn't happen, so he worked towards getting Bronze licence adopted instread to try and slow things down, that worked.
However they can't shut the trapdoor entirely, and one day if the drop happens to them and they end up on the other side they'll quickly realise that climbing back through it is expectionally difficult due to the rules they themselves stubbornly refused to amend.
Expanding League Two isn't the issue, but the increased movement between leagues. I only mentioned having a bigger basement league because if you mention having up to four teams relegated, people always freak out about as many as four teams being relegated from a ten team league every season. A bigger bottom division makes no difference on its own.
There'll only be agreement on this issue if lower league clubs can see a potential route back, and if relegation isn't virtual exile. Kind of like how the SPL breakaway clubs found that Celtgers' superleague idea wasn't quite so great when anyone other than the top two could potentially be cast into the void they left behind.
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5 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:
At least that "look between this letter and that letter on your keyboard" shite from X hasn't found its way here.
Why would you be looking between letters on the keyboard? Because you'll be horrified by how much dust, crumbs, and pubic hair has accumulated under the keys?
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2 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:
In the day’s least surprising news, Laurence Fox loses yet another deposit, winning only 0.005% of the vote in his bid to become a London Assembly member and not just an utter member.
Apparently he was "barred" from standing for Mayor of London.
Aye, in the same way any of us who didn't submit the correct paperwork was "barred".
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3 minutes ago, strichener said:
Was taken on a tour of Varosha which involved having a Turkish Cypriot guide. He introduced me to the phrase Islamafascist which he used every time he mentioned Erdoğan.
It was quite unexpected as I thought the guide would have been vetted or a government actor like those used in communist countries.
Just Googled 'Islamofascist' and the first page had a hit that seems to describe how they want to bring about World War IV.
Curious to know why they're being polite enough to let someone else have a go at World War III first, but not curious enough to click.
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Absolutely going to put the word 'gammon' in white text at the bottom of every post from now on.
Ah, the good old days of fucking with Supras when he searched for his own name every day.
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1 hour ago, scottsdad said:
I have had a few drinks. I know i have a full head of hair, shaving foam and a razor.
Tempted...again...
Get it done fast before you sober up/the wife comes in. You know you won't regret it.
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45 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:
The teams that finish lower down in the league should get the most "prize money" because clearly their need is greater.
If life was fair, that's the way it would be, only you'd need some kind of monitoring to make sure money isn't taken out of the clubs by their owners, and their finances were closely watched to stop any stockpiling of basement cash for a one-season title push with Mbappe up front.
(let's be honest, it'd be some English Premiership jobber in their mid-Thirties)
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1 hour ago, scottsdad said:
Fawlty Towers is unfunny pish
The stage play? I'm inclined to believe it, especially as John Cleese is involved. Read an interview with him about a decade ago where he was saying he stopped being a comedian years before, and he's been trying to prove it ever since.
...you'll notice I'm giving you a massive out here, so I suggest you take it
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My only problem with the pyramid is that there's nothing like enough movement. As things stand, none of these sides have much of a chance of ever coming back. Make League Two a bit bigger, bottom two go down, champions go up, with third and fourth bottom involved in play-offs with the Highland + Lowland league sides from second to fourth. If you can't make fourth in an eighteen team league, you can't have too many complaints.
Absolutely won't happen unless Celtgers get their reserves in the Championship, nor any other significant change, unless they find a bigger issue they'd like to push through.
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12 minutes ago, flyingscot said:
Khan winning and upsetting some racists, weirdos and cab drivers is pleasing to see, especially as many of them were convinced he was gone.
Hall was a terrible candidate, Tories have put up some woeful candidates and campaigns against Khan. Running on a driver's platform in a city where a high proportion don't drive is mad.
Aye, it's an issue of importance to people who work in London but don't live there and, crucially, don't get a vote. Londoners generally fail to appreciate how stellar their public transport is, but they aren't stupid enough to think their lives would improve by having more cars driving about in the city. I lived there thirty years ago, long before the cyclists took over the roads, and the air quality was horrific during the hot summer months.
The "best watch out because the Muslamics are coming" subtext - which seems to have become overt in recent times - will also have fallen on deaf ears among actual Londoners who live among people of different ethnicities without problems, and will be another "issue" aimed more at Home Counties Tory voters, who still don't get a fucking vote.
I wonder if there'll be an attempt to expand voter registration to people who work in London too.
17 minutes ago, ICTChris said:Just seeing some of Susan Hall’s campaign literature for the first time. It’s not that long since the Tory party were a renowned election winning machine. Now they go into a winnable election with this
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2 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:
Why are Milton Keynes getting involved here?
I dunno, they almost ended up in Dublin twenty years ago. Anything's possible.
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^^^ I recommend looking this shit up if you haven't already. YouTube's full of it right now.
Classic tunes from an alternate reality where no language or topics were off-limits in popular culture.
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3 minutes ago, GordonS said:
When you started this thread Clyde were 8 points behind Stranraer having played a game more, and only 11 games left. In that time you turned round 10 points on them, taking 20 points from 11 to their 10 points from 12.
Clyde were the best team in the league in those 11 matches, with Peterhead next best with 18 points.
Not many teams would have the testicular fortitude to pull that off. That's worth celebrating.
It probably feels like a disappointment at this point.
If East Kilbride has put them down, they'd have had a shot at a title next season.
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59 minutes ago, keyser_soze said:
Ahh, shit, sorry, this one is from next year
You promise? I've been waiting for decades for this, but I'd like a few days warning as I've never tried cocaine nor hookers before, and I don't want to be left hanging like those Rapture-chasing fruitcakes.
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