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by Greenmile
Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
Replies: 446
Views: 7304

Re: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD

I don't know the rules it was a genuine question. I've seen teams including us having to play with 10 men before whilst having an injured player and having to wait to bring subs on. Yet we've just had to wait an extra three or four minutes for them to get their subs ready before restarting play. Co...
by Greenmile
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:20 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dyche or Kompany?
Replies: 61
Views: 3426

Re: Dyche or Kompany?

Read the article. He more or less admits he got it got it wrong that JT is not ready now, but will be fine in a couple of seasons. (eh?) And why do you have to try and fire darts at other Clarets with different ideas than you? Poor that mate You realise that VK is (currently) a Claret with differen...
by Greenmile
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Kompany quote
Replies: 161
Views: 7192

Re: Kompany quote

I remember a job I had 5 years ago, had a terrible last 9 months but honestly feel like I learnt more in that 9 months than I have in 19 years working. I honestly wouldn't change it looking back now as its made me better at what I do even though I felt well out of my depth Think I get where he's co...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Assisted dying
Replies: 77
Views: 2686

Re: Assisted dying

I agree with Jakub.

....I’m going for a lie-down.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

Don't think either of them has written anything very good since The Office and Extras, personally. Hello Ladies is quite good, and The Outlaws was funny when it tried to be funny, although the “dramatic” bits left me cold. Derek and After Life (sorry Fretters) were just mawkish sentimental claptrap...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

It really was a pretty awful film, which just backs up my point that Stephen Merchant was the real genius behind the Office.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

daveisaclaret wrote:
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:01 pm
There's a joke in the (bad) David Brent film, "ask me how I'm spelling coming"
Oh ok. Thanks. I have seen the film but not multiple times, like The Office, so I feel better about missing the reference now.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

superdimitri wrote:
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:21 pm
He's insinuating that Stephen Merchant is the genius, not his more famous co-writer; Ricky Gervais.
Nope - that’s what I was insinuating.

Edit - thanks for trying, though.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

TheFamilyCat wrote:
Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:58 pm
I'd have said "ask him how he’s spelling Merchant" but "you've spelled Merchant wrong" is alright, I suppose.
I don’t get it.

(I presume it’s a reference to The Office, which just makes me more annoyed that I don’t get it)
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Replies: 19
Views: 1704

Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50

Jamesy wrote:
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:41 am
Gervais is the comedy genius but the part of Keith was played superbly by Ewen. RIP big lad.
You’ve spelled “Merchant” wrong.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1919

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

Westleigh wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:01 pm
Wasn’t a dig at anyone ,can’t see anything in my post to start an argument,if you read it properly you see I said there was enough arguing over Trafford and Kompany ,I could have said Muric ,and Kompany ,my post still stays the same ,your looking for stuff that isn’t there.
It was a joke.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1919

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

Westleigh wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:54 pm
Thought this was called Up The Clarets ,there’s enough falling out about Trafford and Kompany without starting a political debate,can we not just save it until they’res an election then have a specific post?
You’re just upset you can’t find an angle to have a dig at Trafford on this thread ;)
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1919

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

To be replaced by? That’s right, a different shambolic opportunistic crapfest. Sadly though, I don’t actually think it’s a done deal…. Should be, but it isn’t - not yet anyway. The £28Bn green pledge u turn (greenmile and evensteadiereddie will call it something else of course) and the ugliness tha...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1919

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

How have the EU grown through Covid? Did their countries not come to a standstill? Not interested in the Brexit debate, more interested in a success story. I stand to be corrected by the more economically literate, but I think you’ve misunderstood. The EU(‘s) GDP didn’t grow “through” covid; they’v...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
Replies: 48
Views: 1919

Re: GDP Since start of Covid.

May have been different had it been managed and handled by people who wanted it…. Trouble is, the mard arses were given the responsibility of getting it right. Then it became their chance to screw it up just so they could play a game of “see, told you” and WOW didn’t they take it? It was far more i...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
Replies: 52
Views: 2450

Re: Superbowl parade shooting

In response to those who have basically labelled me a far right wing Tory for some bizarre reason, here is my retort - Firstly can I just remind you of the original comment that I responded to, here it is below just in case you forgot - gangs run cities with impunity, various "groups" bring towns, ...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
Replies: 52
Views: 2450

Re: Superbowl parade shooting

Ampth7 wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:21 pm
But yet for some reason you have completely changed the words used in the post I was replying to in order to suit your own rhetoric? I wonder why that is?
Because the original words were hyperbolic nonsense. I just translated them into standard English.
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
Replies: 52
Views: 2450

Re: Superbowl parade shooting

. ...Right now, I do personally think that the extreme left woke PC brigade are seriously damaging our society in ways that aren’t always as obvious as when an extreme right ideology takes hold. Some of these concerns were identified in the post that I responded to. The “concerns” outlined in the p...
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: Burnley sign French defender Estève
Replies: 43
Views: 3977

Re: ARTICLE: Burnley sign French defender Estève

fidelcastro wrote:
Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:06 pm
Getting that to fit to the tune of kinky afro might prove difficult, but thanks!
He’s gonna Esteve on you again
by Greenmile
Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:38 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Thread for tonight?
Replies: 503
Views: 14437

Re: Thread for tonight?

Shaggy wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:43 pm
Iv covered myself with a tenner on each of 3,4 and 5 nil city...
:lol:
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Just a Chelsea thought.
Replies: 24
Views: 1774

Re: Just a Chelsea thought.

Funkydrummer wrote:
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:43 pm
This is the reason why they play over 2 legs to ensure, more or less,
that there are no upsets and that the big clubs progress nicely.

Nepotism at work.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means (insert Princess Bride gif here).
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Quite agree. Yank is derived from the native pronunciation of English, Yanglish… Yank and has been used by American’s to describe themselves since at least the later eighteenth century I can see those from the Southern states being more offended than those in the north, especially those who prefer ...
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Rowls wrote:
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:47 pm
Fine, but maybe stop coming to me asking me to define words for you then?...
I didn’t. You asked for a synonym of “woke” so I gave you one.
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Here's a definition of woke from the last time I posted it here. https://i.imgur.com/vnWDxQS.png Politically correct is something I'm normally happy to go along with. It means not using words and phrases that are offensive. The only trouble I have is when people deliberately choose to be offended w...
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Newcastleclaret93 wrote:
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:33 pm
You obviously missed that discussion on this board. Where posters were accusing someone of being racist because he called the Americans yanks
I didn’t miss it. Those posters were wrong, that’s all.
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Here's a definition of woke from the last time I posted it here. https://i.imgur.com/vnWDxQS.png Politically correct is something I'm normally happy to go along with. It means not using words and phrases that are offensive. The only trouble I have is when people deliberately choose to be offended w...
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Wokeness has gone so far that apparently the word Yank is now deemed racist No it hasn’t, and no it isn’t (by anyone who has a vague understanding of what words mean, anyway) Out of interest, can anyone see any difference between your statement above and the following statement? “Political correctn...
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Rowls wrote:
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:17 pm
Politically correct =/= woke

They are very different things.
Explain the difference, then.
by Greenmile
Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 349
Views: 25252

Re: Joey’s in bother again

... I was posing the question as to whether there is any useful synonym for the word 'woke'. Well, they used to call it “politically correct”, but folk cottoned on that that just means “not bigoted”, so they had to rebrand, by (mis)appropriating a word used for decades by African-Americans to mean ...
by Greenmile
Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Hotels in the UK (A Thread for advice and help to others)
Replies: 15
Views: 872

Re: Hotels in the UK (A Thread for advice and help to others)

I hear Strangeways is good. Free haircuts, dental care, X-Box etc.
by Greenmile
Thu Dec 28, 2023 12:02 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

Rowls wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:59 pm
I think you've missed the tone of the post...
The “tone” of the post could probably be best described as “Daily Express journalist suffering from late-stage dementia who has been unwittingly spiked with LSD by the Home Secretary”
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

I’ll try not to rehash any of Rowls’ fighting the good fight on this, but the pint of wine has these definite advantages (as long as the producers produce new moulds to put these on the shelves): 1. Reduces drunkenness, where a 750ml bottle makes most of us drunk but a pint does not. 2. Aligns with...
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:10 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

. The public perception of Brexit has changed because the leave campaigners have stopped but the remainers are still at it like se demented imperialist Japanese soldier running around a Pacific island. If the public knew how things like trade with Brazil has shot up, if the government properly expl...
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

Anyway, back on topic, the whole “pints of wine” thing is quite obviously a smokescreen to cover for our esteemed govt dropping the proposed return to imperial measurement more generally (another of those longed-for Brexit “benefits”), because it runs out that nobody actually gave a toss, apart from...
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

The benefits have started already - just aren't being "felt" in terms of hitting the headlines (yet). It's stuff like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=brazil+uk+trade+growth&oq=brazil+uk+trade+growth&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIKCAMQIRgWGB0YHtIBCTEyMDg5ajBqNKgCALACAA...
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

Rowls wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:10 pm

Brexit economic benefits will be felt in 10, 20, 30 years time…
:lol: :lol: :lol:

They should have put that on the side of the bus.
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Replies: 100
Views: 5953

Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy

…We'll also be able to sell new world wine in these bottles. The EU legislation applies/applied to ALL wine sold in the UK. Do Americans buy wine by the pint? If they do they'll have an advantage because they'll be ready to jump into the new market before the EU producers can as they'll have produc...
by Greenmile
Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Urban Legends
Replies: 81
Views: 13393

Re: Urban Legends

Goobs wrote:
Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:46 pm
Your so vain was written about Mick Jagger. (Have I got it right that this is not true and infact he sang backing vocals on the track?)
I think that song’s about me, actually.
by Greenmile
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Barton
Replies: 195
Views: 32392

Re: Barton

HahaYeah wrote:
Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:46 am
I'm not familiar with twitter, I leave it to you twitts. :lol:
You’d like it on there - nowadays more than ever.
by Greenmile
Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: MMXX1
Replies: 31
Views: 3780

Re: MMXX1

Good point - yes, they would. Mind you, a sundial surely wouldn't have numbers marked in a circle - only a semi-circle. And none of them would be upside down, whether the sundial is vertical or horizontal! Surely that depends what angle you are looking at the sundial from? (depending on your defini...
by Greenmile
Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: MMXX1
Replies: 31
Views: 3780

Re: MMXX1

I find Roman numeral’s fascinating…what I don’t get, is why the number four on a standard clock display, is shown as IIII and no IV. Mind blown!? Yes, I even feel that warranted the interrobang. There’s a few decent theories here :- https://newgateworld.com/blogs/style/should-it-be-iiii-or-iv-on-a-...
by Greenmile
Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: MMXX1
Replies: 31
Views: 3780

Re: MMXX1

Where else do we see Roman numerals? Normally on clock faces and building edifices - things that people like to look fancy and expensive. When you consider how much “better” the Arabic numbering system is, it’s quite surprising how much Roman numerals have endured. In addition to clock faces and ol...
by Greenmile
Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: MMXX1
Replies: 31
Views: 3780

Re: MMXX1

Excellent question! There's no earthly reason for adopting Roman numerals is there? The decimal "Arabic" number system is far more logical. The major disadvantage of Roman numerals is that there isn't a symbol for each integer and it doesn't have a consistent place value system set up. When we writ...
by Greenmile
Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: ARTICLE: New deal for Zaroury
Replies: 61
Views: 7238

Re: ARTICLE: New deal for Zaroury

Conroy92 wrote:
Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:53 pm
Bump
Fair play (presuming AZ is fit to play).

I’d still give him a run of games, but recognise VK knows more about our squad than I do.
by Greenmile
Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clapping the player's off today
Replies: 102
Views: 9588

Re: Clapping the player's off today

I know right? What's with all these football supporters supporting their football team?
by Greenmile
Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: England v Italy
Replies: 114
Views: 7717

Re: England v Italy

I'm no Southgate hater, but he was happy to wade into the Black lives matter and taking the knee dramas, yet now he wants to carry on picking Henderson he thinks we should "keep politics out of football". I know he isn't stupid enough to not understand why Henderson has been booed. I think this pos...
by Greenmile
Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: England v Italy
Replies: 114
Views: 7717

Re: England v Italy

Is it really fair to compare Southgate to arguably the greatest manager in the history of the game? (that’s a rhetorical question, obvs)
by Greenmile
Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:50 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: England v Italy
Replies: 114
Views: 7717

Re: England v Italy

These results could be done with our 2nd or 3rd string playing teams like San Marino or Malta, how often do we lose a qualifier there as pointless as friendlies. Me or you could manage us through qualification If you’re a better football manager than Steve McLaren and Graham Taylor, then I suspect ...
by Greenmile
Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:09 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cristiano Ronaldo
Replies: 53
Views: 5431

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo

Come on now. I know football didn’t start when the premier league started or whatever, but it’s a different game. The fact none of these supposedly better (but still absolutely generational) players like R9 ronaldo got anywhere near his numbers says a lot. What’s the earliest you’re allowed to have...
by Greenmile
Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Cristiano Ronaldo
Replies: 53
Views: 5431

Re: Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo was really good in the prem two season ago. He’s two years older than messi, who is now prancing around in America having been Shite at PSG for 2 years. Barring Messi having an incredible World Cup run which probably gives him the status as the greatest ever, Ronaldo has finished his career...