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by Corky
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: O\T roadworks/ temporary traffic lights
Replies: 174
Views: 13525

Re: O\T roadworks/ temporary traffic lights

gandhisflipflop wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:47 pm
We all need to be seriously complaining about this. It’s a joke.
But how seriously should we take a joke?
by Corky
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Royals.
Replies: 46
Views: 3377

Re: The Royals.

For me a minimum requirement for a head of state would be an ability to use a fountain pen. I know that is setting the bar quite low but this current incumbent can’t even do that.
by Corky
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Team bonding.
Replies: 36
Views: 3386

Re: Team bonding.

It wasn’t a success. Apparently they could only afford Bostick and they just all fell apart after 15 minutes.
by Corky
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Directors box
Replies: 92
Views: 6063

Re: Directors box

The Krays were always very smartly turned out. In fact very Mormon in style with a crisp white shirt and black tie.
by Corky
Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: No Nay Never...
Replies: 29
Views: 2505

Re: No Nay Never...

When I first started singing it I am pretty sure the penniless manager I saw in the ale house was Gordon Lee.
by Corky
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan's Voice
Replies: 106
Views: 5180

Re: Fan's Voice

I didn’t know who Natalie Bromley was until it was explained above. I guess when reality finally kicks you in the teeth it can have a way of making you re-assess your initial views. Mind you, the little piece itself was OK. Stating the obvious really.
by Corky
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Security at Turf Moor
Replies: 27
Views: 2585

Re: Security at Turf Moor

bfcjg wrote:
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:09 pm
Apparently they also searched the players coming down the tunnel, none of them had any bottle.
Well done, that made me chuckle.
by Corky
Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The only way is up
Replies: 40
Views: 3525

Re: The only way is up

Otis Clay will be turning in his grave.
by Corky
Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:01 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Covers better than the original
Replies: 240
Views: 16869

Re: Covers better than the original

Help (yes the pop band song) given a rocking r&b makeover by the great Clara Ward on Verve Records.
by Corky
Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Reece James
Replies: 5
Views: 955

Re: Reece James

aclaretinstevenage wrote:
Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:49 pm
I think Sky said he's currently injured but the ban will be served this Saturday V Burnley.

Is Pointless still on TV!
Pointless...well sort of, it's on but they all appear to be repeats.
by Corky
Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Darrell Smith.
Replies: 5
Views: 1024

Re: Darrell Smith.

He's from Blackburn; get over yourself!!!!!
by Corky
Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:10 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sutton
Replies: 43
Views: 3477

Re: Sutton

timshorts wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2023 7:28 am
It's just a bus stop in Croydon.....
I'll have you know I spent many a happy hour in Sutton Scamps nightclub!!!!
by Corky
Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Last Man Standing
Replies: 40
Views: 3122

Re: Last Man Standing

You can add me, also.
by Corky
Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Trippier assisting us up the league
Replies: 10
Views: 1048

Re: Trippier assisting us up the league

My old Dad used to say that it was not wise to use up all your goals in one game. Let’s hope that proves true.
by Corky
Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter
Replies: 150
Views: 9428

Re: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter

Nori1958 wrote:
Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:01 am
Wooooosssssshhhhhh
I’m afraid infantile nonsense like this doesn’t do anything for me or add anything to the discussion. But perhaps you’re not able to?
by Corky
Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter
Replies: 150
Views: 9428

Re: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter

Peter Townsend was a sociologist who co-founded the Child Poverty Action Group in 1965. He also wrote about understanding Islam. Try looking him up.
by Corky
Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:58 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Han-Noah Massengo..
Replies: 58
Views: 9153

Re: Han-Noah Massengo..

He'll do for me. Looks very smart in his white socks and Doc Marten loafers.
by Corky
Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:07 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets v Spurs Match Thread
Replies: 421
Views: 16968

Re: Clarets v Spurs Match Thread

burnleymik wrote:
Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:55 pm
Corky has made us look better.
I do my best but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
by Corky
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Points by end of October
Replies: 80
Views: 7474

Re: Points by end of October

I also think only 3.
by Corky
Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:29 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Culvert work starting
Replies: 249
Views: 31170

Re: Culvert work starting

Come on guys. Us out of towners need pictures!!!
by Corky
Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Overrated things...
Replies: 235
Views: 11423

Re: Overrated things...

The Monarchy.
by Corky
Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)
Replies: 868
Views: 51629

Re: Mission to Burnley

As long as it doesn’t impact my personal life let them get on with it I say But it does impact our lives and has done for a long time. We have what is referred to as a Constitutional Monarch who is also the head of the Church of England. And as such we have almost 30 CoE Bishops in the House of Lor...
by Corky
Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Jobs, careers, vocation, occupation
Replies: 129
Views: 7413

Re: Jobs, careers, vocation, occupation

Went to St Teds where the careers advice in 1970/71 was pretty useless. Bummed around for a year with no clue what to do and then my Dad saw an Ad. in the paper for the Civil Service. Apply to Alencon Links in Basingstoke. Never heard of the place (now live about 15/20 mins from there). At 17 moved ...
by Corky
Mon Jul 31, 2023 8:39 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Free Nathan Tella!
Replies: 350
Views: 24721

Re: Free Nathan Tella!

I think for me the tipping point is that this has been done by the Chairmans daughter and as such has a level of official patronage that I am not comfortable with. It makes it feel cheap and tacky and incredibly unprofessional. However if this had been done by a fan I would have found it quite amusi...
by Corky
Fri Jul 28, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Mission to Burnley (including spoilers from page 9)
Replies: 868
Views: 51629

Re: Mission to Burnley

i don't think i've ever seen a piece on the telly about the club and its relationship with the town that didn't show back streets and rows of terraced housing. i agree it's a lazy way to represent the place and that is the point that seems to have gone above the heads of rather a few on here. but n...
by Corky
Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Reading & Wokingham Borough Based Clarets
Replies: 43
Views: 2432

Re: Reading & Wokingham Borough Based Clarets

I live in Fleet, have done for the last 20 years. I would be interested in a meet up in or around Reading.
by Corky
Tue Jul 25, 2023 4:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pace family vlog
Replies: 26
Views: 2674

Re: Pace family vlog

We’re the three young people in the vlog his children?
by Corky
Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July
Replies: 13
Views: 1679

Re: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July

Scepticism misplaced IMO. Was a great production and a great atmosphere created by everyone there. Watch it and make your own mind up 26th August. I’ve already listened to some of it and to be fair, overall, thus far, it has been better than I thought it would be. A bit patchy in places and some re...
by Corky
Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July
Replies: 13
Views: 1679

Re: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July

God help us, where to begin.
by Corky
Wed Jul 12, 2023 6:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July
Replies: 13
Views: 1679

Re: Northern Soul Prom - Saturday 15 July

Oh dear oh dear. Curated by someone who knows little to nothing about the Northern scene per se and absolutely nothing about the current scene.
by Corky
Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan Advisory Board Update from the Clarets Trust
Replies: 24
Views: 3071

Re: Fan Advisory Board Update from the Clarets Trust

Evening all! Thanks to the OP for sharing this update on the messageboard, it's a real help. I am the George in question from the Clarets Trust and if anyone has any extra questions that my horrendously long update hasn't answered, feel free to ping them my way haha! For all future minutes can you ...
by Corky
Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:02 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: A I in football ?
Replies: 12
Views: 722

Re: A I in football ?

In the true sense of the term AI, we are not using it yet. Computers are not self aware. They have been programmed with, in some cases, incredibly complex data and given a huge set of parameters but they do not think for themselves they just choose from the programming they have to make a decision. ...
by Corky
Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cornwall Advice
Replies: 45
Views: 2526

Re: Cornwall Advice

In 2022 I was driving us towards Mawgan Porth beach (single track road, miles between passing places - standard Cornwall stuff!) with a line of traffic behind me. I am climbing a hill and what appears in front of me coming over the top? A flat bed lorry carrying A HOUSE. I had to reverse about 9 mi...
by Corky
Wed Jun 28, 2023 9:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thames water
Replies: 33
Views: 2414

Re: Thames water

I’m sure I read somewhere that since privatisation the water utilities have collectively paid out £70 billion to shareholders whilst getting into debt to the tune of around £54 billion. Bonkers.
by Corky
Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Glastonbury 2023
Replies: 563
Views: 25462

Re: Glastonbury 2023

It was great to see The Gabriel’s getting some recognition.
by Corky
Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sub goes Missing
Replies: 189
Views: 13293

Re: Sub goes Missing

I think the one thing we have learnt is never to let Heath Robinson anywhere near designing submersibles.
by Corky
Sun May 28, 2023 8:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Play off final 2009 - did you enjoy it?
Replies: 46
Views: 2527

Re: Play off final 2009 - did you enjoy it?

It was a bit of a strange day for me. I had to work that day. But as it was in an office in Rathbone Place, just off Oxford street, I arranged for a colleague to cover for me for a few hours so I could go to the match. So it was almost a surreal event. On the one hand quite normal; walk down Oxford ...
by Corky
Fri May 19, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Songs You Play Over & Over
Replies: 80
Views: 2581

Re: Songs You Play Over & Over

Terry Callier Bowling Green
Grace Love Mean To Me
by Corky
Wed May 17, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dambusters.
Replies: 29
Views: 2251

Re: Dambusters.

Whilst the Dambuster raid was an amazing feat carried out by some incredibly courageous young men, ultimately it did not have the long term hoped for adverse affect on the Ruhr industries. And of course it was a tad controversial because of the mass drowning of civilians and some POWs. Now the great...
by Corky
Fri May 12, 2023 8:16 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
Replies: 278
Views: 16466

Re: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?

Born in Accrington, grew up in Padiham. Moved to London in '72 for work and stayed. Lived mostly in SW London, Surrey and now for the last 20 years in Hampshire. Son was born in Surrey but as I have clearly brought him up right he is a committed Burnley fan. Oh and for Croydon Claret I have heard of...
by Corky
Wed May 10, 2023 10:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Flag ideas
Replies: 17
Views: 1688

Re: Flag ideas

Plain white one for when we go to Man City😳😂
by Corky
Sun May 07, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The King’s Coronation Message
Replies: 289
Views: 10984

Re: The King’s Coronation Message

Spot on. It's been restructured and tampered with that much it has become a shambles. It needs stopping and totally re-starting/re-imagining. Too many on the gravy train in pen pushing nonsense roles. Needs getting back to basics and money going to the front line. Throwing more money at it is point...
by Corky
Sun May 07, 2023 7:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley documentary coming to Sky from this season
Replies: 283
Views: 13396

Re: Burnley documentary coming to Sky from this season

I share Spirals concerns maybe not as deeply but they are there. From the title of the trailer to the religious content contained therein there seems to be an emphasis on the fact that our new owners are Mormons. And whilst they are seen as a somewhat benign bunch they do strike me as being a bit of...
by Corky
Thu May 04, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: There’s a star man
Replies: 24
Views: 3243

Re: There’s a star man

I still buy CDs and plenty of 7inch vinyl singles.
by Corky
Tue May 02, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ground Developments
Replies: 190
Views: 10684

Re: Ground Developments

Having recently been to Reading to watch the Clarets, I have no wish to experience being plonked out of town on a retail park for every home game. And an aerial view of the Turf shows that their is scope for limited expansion upwards and outwards. However if we could buy the Cricket Club ground then...
by Corky
Mon May 01, 2023 11:58 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Allegiance
Replies: 134
Views: 6345

Re: Allegiance

Nori1958 wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 10:34 am
He's recently got married!!!!....has he divorced Camilla, who he married in 2005?
As opposed to his previous who clearly didn’t prostitute herself. She was our queen of hearts😂Keep up.
by Corky
Mon May 01, 2023 10:00 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Allegiance
Replies: 134
Views: 6345

Re: Allegiance

Nori1958 wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 9:18 am
Which prostitute did he go with....I must have missed that scandal
The one he recently married. Prostituted herself to get where she is now. Keep up!!!!
by Corky
Mon May 01, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Allegiance
Replies: 134
Views: 6345

Re: Allegiance

A man in his 30s who gets engaged to a teenage girl. Weird right. Sort of spin that the Mail and Express would put on it if they were trying to discredit someone. A man who we expect to represent our country as the head of state and he doesn't have the basic knowledge on how to work a fountain pen!!...
by Corky
Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Allegiance
Replies: 134
Views: 6345

Re: Allegiance

Rileybobs wrote:
Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:47 pm
Would it be rude to not RSVP by the way?
It’s a tricky one as one does not know which of his Palaces to send it too, does one.
by Corky
Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Allegiance
Replies: 134
Views: 6345

Re: Allegiance

Surely, in a Parliamentary Democracy where we allow the monarchy to exist as a constitutional monarch, it is the responsibility of the monarch to swear allegiance to us not the other way round. Just as well it is an invitation which I will respectfully refuse. And there’s me thinking he was going to...