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- Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Dervişoğlu signs in from Brentford
- Replies: 152
- Views: 10439
Re: ARTICLE: Dervişoğlu signs in from Brentford
I think we need a pronunciation guide! [/ I will give it my best shot bearing in mind that English phonetic system is not regular so here goes… Der - vish -oh - lu The g with the hat on top works more like a separating letter to make sure you pronounce both letters either side of it to make two sep...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ukrainian refugees sponsorship scheme
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5359
Re: Ukrainian refugees sponsorship scheme
I think too many people are using the war as an excuse to just move to a more desirable country. Jesus wept! Their country is being reduced to rubble and people are being annihilated. Any country is more desirable in comparison right now. The fact that the vast majority of the refugees are in Polan...
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 8:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10735
- Views: 820288
Re: Russia Invades
Anyone know if there is anywhere locally or online where you can give a cash donation to give a little help to the Ukranian people. Its heartbreaking to see these women and kids fleeing there country and having to leave loved ones behind. Yes, it really is heartbreaking. I asked a Ukrainian friend ...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gone are the days of
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4015
Re: Gone are the days of
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Straight to Youboatshed bill wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:26 pmGone are the days of rainbows...
gone are the night sof swinging from the stars....
Can anyone name the song and artist?
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Make a band name edible
- Replies: 209
- Views: 17196
Re: Make a band name edible
And who can forget the classic U2 album about Indian food, The Rogan Joshua Tree?
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Make a band name edible
- Replies: 209
- Views: 17196
Re: Make a band name edible
Sushi and the Banshees
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:37 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Make a band name edible
- Replies: 209
- Views: 17196
Re: Make a band name edible
Iggy Pop-adom
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Make a band name edible
- Replies: 209
- Views: 17196
Re: Make a band name edible
Cha-patti Smith
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
- Replies: 12775
- Views: 1262078
Re: ALK Capital or Farnell/Elkashashy takeover
That Pace bloke talks a good game but I am not convinced. It seems to me that people are so keen on a few signings in the short term that they will overlook the implications of being saddled with debt by a company that is seeking to maximise its profits. The more I think about this, the more I am su...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The wait is over - ALK Capital buy Burnley FC
- Replies: 219
- Views: 27336
Re: The wait is over - ALK Capital buy Burnley FC
I am not so confident about all this. I just do not see what the next level for Burnley is and what these investors stand to gain in taking us there. As it stands, we have had success beyond all our expectations this past decade. To get above what we have achieved so far would mean finishing above m...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rashford
- Replies: 64
- Views: 5570
Re: Rashford
If there's only the narrowest overlap on the playground, school bus or PE changing rooms between literacy/hard work/intelligence and perceived social ability (and that delineation most definitely exists in the playground), it means kids don't value their education and in fact might see it is a barr...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cancel Culture ?
- Replies: 486
- Views: 32713
Re: Cancel Culture ?
It's pretty tough to indefinitely continue a discussion about something that doesn't exist. I refer you to my initial post on this thread. Please take the time to read about the case of Ronald Sullivan of the Harvey Weinstein defence team and then think about the implications of it. I could have ch...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cancel Culture ?
- Replies: 486
- Views: 32713
Re: Cancel Culture ?
Could have been an interesting thread but it seems to have got derailed quite a bit. Seems to me that a lot of people on here are just stuck in repeating their entrenched world view and splitting hairs to try to win petty squabbles without actually discussing the subject itself that much. Pity.
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cancel Culture ?
- Replies: 486
- Views: 32713
Re: Cancel Culture ?
You seem to be falling for it. Nothing what the right are calling "cancel culture" is new, and none of it is anything the right don't do every bit as often, and often far more violently than the left. It's the new "snowflake". They are guilty of the exact thing they're criticising others for. It ki...
- Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:42 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bury : No Wages
- Replies: 898
- Views: 139204
Re: Bury : No Wages
It seems as though the Accy chairman was in the know https://mobile.twitter.com/andyhholt/status/1166612123503538179" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Just read that tweet. Completely nailed it. The Stanley chairman is basically saying what must be totally obvious even to the layman bu...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accrington Stanley
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3173
Re: Accrington Stanley
Today, my son got taken to Stanley with his school. He got to meet the players and received a free home shirt. To say he was impressed was an understatement. Fair play to them, done some important work there to get the next generation of fans interested. Can’t imagine, even with our millions, that ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Northern rail strike
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4428
Re: Northern rail strike
Dont you just love those two carriages stinking of p!ss and stale ale carrying its cargo of northern powerhouse folk to a minimum paid job.... That line between Preston and Nelson takes twice as long as with a car. How can that be right? It is filthy and noisy too. It looks like it hasn't been mode...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5069
Re: Jordan Peterson
Many on the so called liberal, "progressive" left claim to love diversity. They detest diversity of opinion..... As it goes, I do not agree with most of what you post on here and would probably fit your idea of a liberal lefty or whatever but I respect your right to your opinion and I would hope mo...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5069
Re: Jordan Peterson
I`d say he got a fair crack of the whip - would have been nice to have heard his opinions beefed out a little bit more but his contributions were, as always, incredibly erudite. Thought he came across well myself too. I do not know much about his cranky diet, nor do I care, and I am probably not be...
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:55 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Usain Bolt
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2304
Re: Usain Bolt
Been speaking with a work mate this morning about this and apparently he has seen him play (for a German team?) and says if you take away his speed there is nothing there. No awareness, no control, no passing ability and for a guy at 6'5' he's not very good in the air. In other words he's not a foo...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accrington Stanley
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5919
Re: Accrington Stanley
It was an excellent game and Stanley never gave up trying to play proper football to feet. The last minute goal was the icing on the cake. Their fans are noisy as well and they even sung a version on Anarchy in the UK with a Stanley theme! Great evening of football. Their success is well-deserved in...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
- Replies: 154
- Views: 10219
Re: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
Most labour candidates would get similar in the constituency with the reaction to the Brexit vote, the council is similar and that's gone through a fair variety of scandals and controversy in recent years. (It's been a labour seat for the past hundred years or so.) I'm in that constituency so proba...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
- Replies: 154
- Views: 10219
Re: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
Talks a good game but he's not particularly popular in his constituency. Following on from the riots a few years back he's achieved very little in the area. From talking to people who've had dealings with him the consensus seems to be that he's limited which is why he's stalled from being one of th...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
- Replies: 154
- Views: 10219
Re: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
Aye, I listened to him being interviewed for a podcast and he's a million miles away from that. Came across really well. His basic mantra seems to be one of "rights and responsibilities". I think this would sit well with a lot of people on here if given a chance. In general though, I think if some ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
- Replies: 154
- Views: 10219
Re: We'll keep the Palestinian flag flying high
As bad as the tories are, it isn't hard to see why a group of people who support the likes of Corbyn McDonnell Lammy Rayner Nandy Abbott Thornberry Butler Starmer Dent-Coad Long-Bailey and many other dickheads I have probably missed off come across as full blown lunatics. The fact that Labour can't...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: How long
- Replies: 89
- Views: 8732
Re: How long
Are you seriously suggesting that Dyche is a better manager than Allerdyce or Moyes? Give your head a shake sir, Sean’s record in management doesn’t even come close to either of them. Fat Sam and Moyes have both been in management longer. It is daft to compare records on that basis. So far, Dyche's...
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: How long
- Replies: 89
- Views: 8732
Re: How long
There’s plenty who’d do a better job. I’d take Allerdyce and Moyes for sure over Mr 1 dimensional. "Plenty who'd do a better job?" Can not believe I have just read that. Sorry to tell you but you are delusional if you think that the two you mentioned are better than Dyche or if you think there are ...
- Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hampstead recommendations
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2907
Re: Hampstead recommendations
Hampstead himself suggested it was 4 trains and 2 taxis from Turf Moor? Are you actually travelling from Turf Moor itself? The train to Preston for your connection stops off at pretty much every small town from Colne onwards. The tube to Hampstead goes directly from Kings Cross. Perhaps Hampstead h...
- Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hampstead recommendations
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2907
Re: Hampstead recommendations
Thanks. Ive looked at options but looks like i need to get a kings taxi to burnley central. Will then get the train to preston. Change there for the train to burnley manchester road. Once there get the train to Preston for the train to Euston. Will then get the a taxi to kings cross to get the over...
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Election rigging - UK Edition
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3406
Re: Election rigging - UK Edition
If MP's had been sent to Parliament based on the share of the National vote in 2015, then UKIP would have had 82 of the 650 MP's elected. This would have been enough for them to have held the balance of power, and this Board would have made for very interesting reading, as certain posters would hav...
- Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Election rigging - UK Edition
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3406
Re: Election rigging - UK Edition
The only way to change anything in this country is voting for someone outside of the main 2-3 parties. Part of the reason people do not vote for someone outside the main parties is because of First Past The Post. If you want to vote for a smaller party in a lot of wards you night as well just throw...
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Church
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4148
Re: The Church
The story of the creation, supposedly God's first big trick is proven to be untrue. Not a good start in the proving he exists stakes. The writers of the Old Testament did not have the scientific language of the 21st century that we use. By the same token, we shouldn't assume that the stories they t...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
- Replies: 124
- Views: 8840
Re: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
Ok, fair do's.Chip Harrison wrote:Thank you Walter. I have since re-read the post and all I can say is what are they on about?
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
- Replies: 124
- Views: 8840
Re: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
Chavez came to (and remained in) power in elections that were considered by outsiders to be fair and open. He may have had an outlandish style, but it wouldn't be correct to call him a dictator. What he did that was good, as you say, building hospitals and schools, looking after the poor, enabling ...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
- Replies: 124
- Views: 8840
Re: Jeremy Corbyn's favorite Socialist paradise....
I could understand what he/she was saying and thought it was one of the better posts on here. Try reading it again perhaps.Chip Harrison wrote:What are you on about?
- Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v Croatia
- Replies: 283
- Views: 17041
Re: England v Croatia
Although I am a bit disappointed, the best team won on the day and it will also be great to see someone unexpected in the World Cup final. I have never really been so into an England team since probably 1990 but this team have made me feel really proud. It is obvious that we are lacking in truly wor...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Possible General Election who would you vote for
- Replies: 114
- Views: 7112
Re: Possible General Election who would you vote for
You've no idea what you're talking about. Alt-right talking points and lies are disproven all the time. So what do they do? Scream "fake news". The alt-right are debated seriously, the problem is they don't take facts seriously. And here you are making them grin from ear to ear as they see you blam...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Possible General Election who would you vote for
- Replies: 114
- Views: 7112
Re: Possible General Election who would you vote for
The danger with that is then you'd be lumping in the 'media savvy provocateur **** posters' in with people that genuinely have views of white supremacism and advocate things such as an ethnostate... - Take Milo Yiannopoulos; can you really say he's 'alt right' - he's married to a black dude after a...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Possible General Election who would you vote for
- Replies: 114
- Views: 7112
Re: Possible General Election who would you vote for
The party that occupies the centre ground, has a sensible centrist/centre left policy offering, and which offers the best current option on Brexit, i.e. to have another referendum now we've all seen how utterly impossible the exit process is. So that would be the Lib Dems then. Clearly, no one is g...
- Tue May 15, 2018 7:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 41 Palestinians Killed in Gaza
- Replies: 206
- Views: 11954
Re: 41 Palestinians Killed in Gaza
How about you spending some time getting out of your bedroom and visiting a death camp, and then judge?bluelabrador16 wrote:Walton
Spend some time looking at the site, and then judge!
- Sat May 05, 2018 9:20 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Atmospheric CO2 at highest point in 800,000 years
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1982
Re: Atmospheric CO2 at highest point in 800,000 years
Who was there to measure it 800,000 years ago? You did not actually need someone there at the time to measure it as the scientific method behind the analysis of previous climates is remarkably simple in its methodology. Even a layman like myself can understand it so I hope I can explain it well. Ev...
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sajid Javid
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3108
Re: Sajid Javid
Javid's background doesn't make his position on immigration weird; it explains his position on immigration. Totally agree with the sentiment Rowls regarding his background. People should be able to think and say what they want and be what they want to be regardless of their background as long as th...
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Wind Turbines - New York Times report
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3529
Re: Wind Turbines - New York Times report
Eyesore. Stunning drive into Scotland on M74 has been blighted because of these. View from North Wales Coast ruined again. Most Skylines on The Pennines ruined too. Unfortunately, we are in a situation where the world wants power and there are more and more of us. The scientists are pretty unanimou...
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Windrush Scandal
- Replies: 231
- Views: 14525
Re: Windrush Scandal
I'm not going to name them personally because it's a family connection. You might be better telling your "family connection" that they are wasting their time as according to the law... "Children born in the UK to parents who are not British citizens and do not have indefinite leave to remain do not...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Stephen Lawrence Day..
- Replies: 126
- Views: 8845
Re: Stephen Lawrence Day..
Never enough times you can remind white, middle aged and old people that the country has changed, and you can have as many votes as you like, but those times where you could do what the hell you wanted to people who were not white are not, and never will, come back. Its time for you lot to deal wit...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Marney to Forest
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6660
Re: Marney to Forest
Well, if he does end up going, I hope he gets a big send off from the fans because he is one player who has always given everything for Burnley and has been a massive part of the success this past few seasons. Would be a very good move for Forest.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 8:24 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Leicester fans
- Replies: 108
- Views: 13858
Re: Leicester fans
Bit of a strange one this. The author starts off slating Dyche for daring to call Leicester 'market leaders' then ends up like he wants to have Dyche's babies. That is why it is titled "My Internal Conflict Over Sean Dyche", ie. he has mixed feelings about Dyche. Anyway, I found the article fair an...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Corbyn pledges free bus travel for under 25s
- Replies: 144
- Views: 5704
Re: Corbyn pledges free bus travel for under 25s
Putting politics to one side, subsidised public transport is a brilliant idea from a green perspective. The less cars on the road the better. When I look at all the cars clogging up the roads in Britain and that so many of them just have one person in the car, it really makes me wonder what you can...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:42 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Madrid vs Juve
- Replies: 118
- Views: 5507
Re: Madrid vs Juve
Maybe the idea is to drive people like me away from the sport and usher in a new generation of supporters who prefer the theatre, are happy to sit quietly, pay the going rate and watch a bunch of over-paid actors play out a pre-determined pantomime. It's turning into the new Saturday afternoon wres...
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Madrid vs Juve
- Replies: 118
- Views: 5507
Re: Madrid vs Juve
‘Softest penalty in the world’ is a slight exaggeration unless tonight was the first ever game you have seen in your life. Not the first game I have ever seen in my life but, true, I very rarely watch Champion's League because a) the format is rigged and they are not even all champions of their dom...