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Although the British army wasn't involved, there was an estimated 2000 British soldiers who fought by resigning for the British army and enlisting with the Australian and New Zealand forces. The poppy is a great way honour those brave British men who went to war, like the British Free Corps, those rascals.

FFS Leafs, Bishop ends the game with no teeth and you still can't win. Thinking of becoming a Raptors fan...

My old street is in Inverkeithing is clearly a mixing pot of different cultures; Ethnic Group White 117 Total 117 Country of Birth England 6 Wales 1 Scotland 107 Northern Ireland 1 Republic of Ireland 2 European Union 0 Other 0 Total 117 I can't get data for my current street or postal code by for my electoral district, the mother tongue by population is as follows; English 60,260 Italian 5,930 Ukrainian 4,805 Polish 4,135 Spanish 3,510 Serbian 3,015 Portuguese 2,295 Korean 1,865 Russian 1,785 Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 1,315 German 1,295 Croatian 1,220 Albanian 1,215 Urdu 1,150 French 1,085 Chinese, n.o.s. 1,070 Somali 1,005 Greek 830 Arabic 800 Hungarian 785 Persian (Farsi) 775 Romanian 760 Mandarin 680 Cantonese 525 Bulgarian 510 Tamil 485 Lithuanian 390 Vietnamese 385 Slovenian 370 Hindi 365 Panjabi (Punjabi) 360 Gujarati 355 Macedonian 355 Turkish 330 Bengali 325 Serbo-Croatian 315 Other 315 Maltese 310 Slovak 305 Bosnian 285 Czech 255 Dutch 190 Japanese 185 Akan (Twi) 165 Sinhala (Sinhalese) 165 Latvian 155 Amharic 125 Creoles 120 Estonian 120 Semitic languages, n.i.e. 75 Telugu 75 Armenian 70 Bisayan languages 70 Malayalam 70 Pashto 65 Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 55 Slavic languages, n.i.e. 55 Taiwanese 55 Finnish 50 Tigrigna 50 Swahili 45 Danish 40 Malay 40 Marathi 40 Tibetan languages 40 Ilocano 35 Kurdish 35 Nepali 35 Sindhi 35 Bantu languages, n.i.e. 30 Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 30 Swedish 20 Thai 20 Flemish 15 Oromo 15 Sign languages, n.i.e. 15 Afrikaans 10 Burmese 10 Fukien 10 Hakka 10 Lao 10 Norwegian 10 Rundi (Kirundi) 5 Shanghainese 5 Yiddish 5 So it's a little different

Nice, I'm sure they weren't cheap but if they get through it looks like some atmosphere at the games, judging by last year. As much as the bandwagon fans annoy me, it's pretty cool seeing the whole city behind the team, today at work we are encouraged to wear Blue Jays gear in the office. I kind of miss the days when they were shit though and I could get a ticket for $15. BMO Field is now almost an excellent looking stadium, reminds me a little of Anfield. I used to live near it and the speed of the building work was incredible, could see the floodlights on most nights as they worked through the night. I say almost as one end of the ground is horrible now, took away the seats to accommodate a CFL field. TFC fans were raging, for a North America city they take their football pretty seriously, no real surprise considering most of them are first or second generation Canadians from footballing countries

The racist, xenophobic and homophobic jokes were all just a laugh and banter though. It's not like one team's committee not staying behind for sandwiches or something, that would be no laughing matter! The main thing I found funny was the OP saying "keeping PC" and then people's interpretation of what PC was.

It appears the thread is now actually gone, opps.

Maybe not quite a Heads Gone thread but the You must be joking thread on the Junior section, the OP asking people for jokes and saying "Please keep them PC guys" Followed by his own joke where the punch line is a man being pleasured, then follows jokes about "Paddy", midgets, Chinese people, Muslims, Japanese people, homosexuals and native Americans. Ahh Juniors...

I have East End Park, Easter Road and Pittodrie

This has been a pretty good thread but the arguing back and forth about wither or not the away end at Celtic Park is awful is getting boring. I don’t think it can be argued that it’s not a great view from that area of the ground but the ground is pretty much identical in the South West corner, I’ve sat there for a couple of European games with a mate, the view wasn’t great either so home fans do experience it. Also why do fans take other fans complaining about the view/price of tickets so personally? The board/higher ups decide these things, not the fans. I’m not sure but I think Dunfermline are charging away fans for “big’ games more this season, I agree this is shite but it’s not like I can change it so why defend it so vigorously. Back to the point of the thread, not necessarily a quirk as such, but how many grounds in Scotland back onto or are very close to cemeteries? Off the top of my head I can think of quite a few

I'm sure I've seen seating in front of terracing at some lower league English grounds, Ninian Park had it behind one of the goals. I really like the layout of Cappielow, East End Park is very sterile in comparison

Do any other local papers (outside of the Glasgow area) suffer the strange phenomenon of people of people wearing their finest Celtic/Rangers top when they get there picture in the paper. Seems to happen fairly often in the Dunfermline Press, I remember an ongoing story about a girl suffering from a terminal disease and every time her dad appears he had some type of Oldco strip on, bizarre. Also the paper often describes them as Celtic/Rangers 'diehards', even though they've clearly never to a game expect maybe in the home end at East End Park

The way things are at the moment, there's a good chance the Blue Jays may be in the playoffs, though the ticket prices are a bit of a joke. Last year a lot of people suddenly remembered they were huge Jays fans once they got good. Depending how bothered you are to see an ice hockey game, Mississauga Steelheads (OHL best 16-20 year olds) have a game while you are over. As do the Oshawa Generals on the other side of the city, but neither are easy to get to without driving. The Argonauts games look a lot more fun since they moved to Toronto FC's ground with tailgating etc, though unless they play Hamilton or Saskatchewan the crowds aren't great

FTFY or should it be FTFU?

People saying 'f**k up'. Is this short for shut the f**k up?? I have no idea but it's awful. People being described as 'a weapon' Is this a bad thing?? It's shite either way. And finally people talking about 'the squad' when they mean them and their only two mates, usually never been on an actual squad in their life.

Absolutely appalling state of affairs! Playing rugby....

It looks like poor old Brian McCabe has never seen a camera before, looks terrified in that picture.

Shit the bed now and then?

Saw the second half of the Mexico - Uruguay game, pretty entertaining stuff in the end, perhaps because no English language channels are covering it in Canada so had to watch on Univision with their over excited Spanish commentators. It was mentioned earlier in this thread the USA might do well with their home crowd behind them but with Mexico's games in Arizona, California and Texas, they will surely benefit more from the crowd. Even if they are fond of throwing the odd bottle and homophobic chant around!

Irish - Weekly - By my boss, even though we have a guy with a thick Dublin accent in my team and I sound nothing like him.

My school, Inverkeithing, had a funny mix of pupils. We had the working class children from Inverkeithing and Rosyth, the slightly posh kids from Dalgety Bay and Aberdour, then for some reason I still don't understand. We would bus in feral kids from former mining villages like High Valleyfield, Toryburn etc. I remember more than once the mining village boys decided they just didn't fell like school that day, so kicked the upstairs windows out of their bus and throw the seats down after them. Some of the ringleaders also discussed how to get a spike onto the bus one day so they took stick it through the bus engine. They never did pull that one off though.