I very much doubt that any of the people mentioned in the OP fall into a lower income demographic. Few professional footballers do
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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Double barrelled surnames.
- Replies: 73
- Views: 3119
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Passport problems
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3837
Re: Passport problems
Anytime I travel, I ensure my passport meets the requirements of where I’m going For the USA I make sure my esta is in date, speaking of which mine needs to be renewed this year before I go over again It’s not rocket science to make sure your travel documents are all in order before leaving the uk ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Turd Island
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3571
Re: Turd Island
We’re testing more, so naturally we find more It’s not just the uk with this issue, a quick google will show that it’s happening in various European countries Yes things need to be done to reduce it, but our sewage network is very old and needs a lot of work doing to it The three certainties of lif...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3236
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley vs Brentford - MATCH THREAD
- Replies: 446
- Views: 12679
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...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dyche or Kompany?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3701
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...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany quote
- Replies: 161
- Views: 7568
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...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assisted dying
- Replies: 77
- Views: 2871
Re: Assisted dying
I agree with Jakub.
....I’m going for a lie-down.
....I’m going for a lie-down.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
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...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
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.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Oh ok. Thanks. I have seen the film but not multiple times, like The Office, so I feel better about missing the reference now.daveisaclaret wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:01 pmThere's a joke in the (bad) David Brent film, "ask me how I'm spelling coming"
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
Nope - that’s what I was insinuating.superdimitri wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:21 pmHe's insinuating that Stephen Merchant is the genius, not his more famous co-writer; Ricky Gervais.
Edit - thanks for trying, though.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
Re: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
I don’t get it.TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:58 pmI'd have said "ask him how he’s spelling Merchant" but "you've spelled Merchant wrong" is alright, I suppose.
(I presume it’s a reference to The Office, which just makes me more annoyed that I don’t get it)
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ewen MacIntosh (Big Keith) dead at 50
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1735
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2014
Re: GDP Since start of Covid.
It was a joke.Westleigh wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:01 pmWasn’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.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2014
Re: GDP Since start of Covid.
You’re just upset you can’t find an angle to have a dig at Trafford on this thread
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2014
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2014
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: GDP Since start of Covid.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2014
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2580
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, ...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2580
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2580
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...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Burnley sign French defender Estève
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4039
Re: ARTICLE: Burnley sign French defender Estève
He’s gonna Esteve on you againfidelcastro wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:06 pmGetting that to fit to the tune of kinky afro might prove difficult, but thanks!
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thread for tonight?
- Replies: 503
- Views: 15478
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Just a Chelsea thought.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1834
Re: Just a Chelsea thought.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means (insert Princess Bride gif here).Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:43 pmThis 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.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
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 ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
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...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
Re: Joey’s in bother again
I didn’t miss it. Those posters were wrong, that’s all.Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:33 pmYou obviously missed that discussion on this board. Where posters were accusing someone of being racist because he called the Americans yanks
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
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...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
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...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey’s in bother again
- Replies: 394
- Views: 28552
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 ...
- 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: 891
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.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
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...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
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...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
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...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
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...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6120
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Urban Legends
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13521
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Barton
- Replies: 195
- Views: 32689
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MMXX1
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3829
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...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MMXX1
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3829
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-...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MMXX1
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3829
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...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MMXX1
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3829
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...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: New deal for Zaroury
- Replies: 61
- Views: 7334
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clapping the player's off today
- Replies: 102
- Views: 9748
Re: Clapping the player's off today
I know right? What's with all these football supporters supporting their football team?
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v Italy
- Replies: 114
- Views: 7839
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...