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by AfloatinClaret
Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dull man's club.
Replies: 78
Views: 4120

Re: Dull man's club.

... all his socks would be the same style/colour. I bought six identical pairs thinking just that but it hasn't proved successful: As some pairs have been worn and washed more than others those have faded more than others, as a result I now have 12 socks in six slightly differing shades, the pairin...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Marseille airport car hire
Replies: 10
Views: 550

Re: Marseille airport car hire

Rowls wrote:
Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:17 pm
...I also wholeheartedly recommend getting away from Marseille ASAFP.
I once spent ten days in Marseille's Vieux Port waiting for some boat parts and absolutely loved it... Sort of Liverpool but with sunshine, a great city, just watch your pockets/back. ;)
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON

Burnley 2 Brighton 1

Foster 11th minute

National - Corach Rambler
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Double barrelled surnames.
Replies: 73
Views: 2981

Re: Double barrelled surnames.

...Maybe it's because the names are printed above the numbers on the back of the shirts. Maybe footballers want to credit both parents in that regard. They probably wouldn't use both names if they lived outside the public eye... Or perhaps it's the clubs rather than the players who are behind it? A...
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Shurandy Sambo
Replies: 100
Views: 7626

Re: Shurandy Sambo

Not a prima-donna like some, looks like he's not afraid to get his hands dirty or do the donkey work.
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ex players
Replies: 21
Views: 2330

Re: Ex players

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:39 pm
Ally Mcoist was a good striker but talks absolute bxxxxxxs on the commentary ditto Alan Smith the ex Gooner.
These things are always relative/comparative, so all the while Chris Sutton is working as a pundit, the rest, even Mrs Merton, will appear competent.
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:12 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Tresor
Replies: 114
Views: 10163

Re: Tresor

...I'm very often wrong (as I'm sure you have noticed, I pride myself in a 3/10 correct ratio :D ) And you ought to be proud of that. This board's full of 'in the know' experts who don't manage that sort of success rate... Well, apart from on those occasions when they ignore what they wrote last mo...
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - CHELSEA v BURNLEY

Burnley 2 v Wolverhampton Wanderers 0
Fofana 24th min,

Everton 1 v Burnley 2
Fofana 42nd min,
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: JJ Watt...
Replies: 308
Views: 19457

Re: JJ Watt...

Taking the touchline? let's be putting him on the pitch at full back or centre half. I reckon JJ could break up most attacks, though he may rack up the yellow and red cards
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Favourite butty.
Replies: 57
Views: 2447

Re: Favourite butty.

Crunchy peanut butter and strawberry or raspberry jam wrapped in a tortilla. Far from a favourite flavour-wise, but coupled with strong coffee and cigarettes, they provide a diet on which you can heavy-weather sail for days on end
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Is Summer On Its Way
Replies: 17
Views: 1575

Re: Is Summer On Its Way

bfcjg wrote:
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:34 am
Bloody immigrants 😁
No, they're born here so just coming back from their winter holidays
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - CHELSEA v BURNLEY

Chelsea 1 Burnley 2
Odobert 23rd minute

Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 3132

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

groove wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:15 pm
Shut up you idiot. Your idea of intelligence is to just throw a little insult at anyone that provokes thought.
Does your commencing that post with the words 'Shut up you idiot' not strike you as being a tad hypocritical? 🤔
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:55 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Joey’s in bother again
Replies: 394
Views: 27971

Re: Joey’s in bother again

Conversely, having watched the film clip of the goal that she conceded, JB's tweet does look to be 'fair comment'; that was a pee-poor bit of goalkeeping. I've seen posts on here which say far worse about James Trafford in relation to goals that weren't even his fault. So what are we suggesting, tha...
by AfloatinClaret
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Chesterfield back in the league
Replies: 46
Views: 2951

Re: Chesterfield back in the league

LincsWoldsClaret wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:55 pm
Definitely Spireites after the crooked spire
The locals (when we lived there, back when they played at Saltergate) invariably referred to the club as 'The Town' pronounced 'tarn'
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Relegation Run-In
Replies: 40
Views: 5736

Re: Relegation Run-In

The talk on X is that Forest get 4-6 points and Everton get 2 based on double jeopardy rules. So Everton's FFP breach penalty will be set lower because they've incurred one before; on that basis Everton can presumably now spend what they like as their next breach would incur a 0 points deduction an...
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Arijanet Muric
Replies: 388
Views: 16885

Re: Arijanet Muric

How could he possibly consider including Fofana in the team of the week; yes, he scored and was creative, but Fofana also missed two absolute sitter's. That said, it must've taken some serious ability on Fofana's part put the ball outside that goalpost from three feet away... I don't think I could'v...
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Folk singers.
Replies: 70
Views: 3154

Re: Folk singers.

A Canadian lady and good friend, Eileen Quinn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTkN0T8cLak
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:37 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH

Burnley 3 Brentford 1
Fofana 28th minute
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:46 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH

Wet Spam 2 Burnley 2
Brun Larssen 18th minute
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH

Burnley 2 Bournemouth 0
Amdouni 13 mins
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Football Black list.
Replies: 7
Views: 1015

Re: Football Black list.

Presumably the equivalent white-list is to follow, or would that be seen as being racist/divisive/discriminatory?
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Fan's Voice
Replies: 106
Views: 5289

Re: Fan's Voice

She’s entitled to voice her opinions and perceptions but not to speak for all. I don't think Ms. Bromley's any different from most podcasters and bloggers in that respect; suggesting or at least implying that 'your' views are those that are held by the 'majority' seems to come with the territory; I...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Paul Pogba
Replies: 39
Views: 5072

Re: Paul Pogba

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:
Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:13 pm
4yr worldwide footballing ban confirmed
I would expect Juve are ecstatic... He won't be playing much/any less than he is now, but this'll surely allow them to cancel his contract, so they'll no longer be obliged to keep paying him to do nowt
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Blacklisted
Replies: 37
Views: 3114

Re: Blacklisted

You're in good Kompany, I've just seen on BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68435064 that VK and Lyle Foster have been black-listed too; presumably an equivalent white-list is to follow, or would that be seen as being racist/divisive/discriminatory?
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best All English XI of Premier League era
Replies: 25
Views: 995

Re: Best All English XI of Premier League era

NorthIsCool wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:56 pm
Vokes is Welsh
Which makes him more foreign than Defour. :lol:
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2
Replies: 46
Views: 1956

Re: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2

Bosscat wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:01 pm
Granddaughter 4th back row from right just under the "S" of Sixes.
Squad photo with medals and trophy.
GB womens Lacrosse 6's squad.jpeg
Congratulations and good luck to her; lacrosse is a deadly sport, it makes rugby - Union or League - look positively gentle.
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Professor Brian Cox
Replies: 22
Views: 2745

Re: Professor Brian Cox

Rick_Muller wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:11 pm
I think he’s brilliant - especially on his podcast that I listen to, the infinite monkey cage...
🤔 As good as in the Jason Bourne films. 😉
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2
Replies: 46
Views: 1956

Re: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2

Bosscat wrote:
Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:07 am
Its Germany v GBR in the womens final and same in the Mens final which follows ... yes we are very proud 👍🙂

Never mind the rugby - that's yesterday's news - how did the lacrosse go?
by AfloatinClaret
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2
Replies: 46
Views: 1956

Re: 6 Nations Rugby ... Round 2

Who's the Leprechaun, or perhaps he's a visiting Hobbit meeting the teams ahead of the Ireland Wale's match?
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v ARSENAL

Palace 1 Burnley 3
Wharton 9th minute
Champonship
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Favourite films of all time
Replies: 123
Views: 4345

Re: Favourite films of all time

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Crocodile Dundee, the ultimate feel good movie. Another Aussie favourites - and another not suitable for the homophobes - is Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
No mention for the Magnificent Seven or The Great Escape either.
by AfloatinClaret
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Taffy
Replies: 110
Views: 16126

Re: Taffy

FCBurnley wrote:
Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:01 pm
I started to write a list of our special players that I have seen but I ran out of ink !!
Hardly surprising, you'd have used a lot of ink just writing all the letters in Remco Van Der Schaff
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Russia Invades
Replies: 10707
Views: 805597

Re: Russia Invades

...Hopefully more western aid will flood in... Don't hold your breath over that one; more/earlier aid from the USA might well have tipped the balance already, but the Republicans are only prepared to sanction sufficient aid to keep things 'ticking over'; obviously that'll cost a good few lives, but...
by AfloatinClaret
Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - LIVERPOOL v BURNLEY

Burnley 3 Arsenal 1
Saka 7th minute
Championship
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bayern season tickets
Replies: 11
Views: 1507

Re: Bayern season tickets

ecc wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:20 pm
And for 17 matches, not 19.
Most of which is counterbalanced by those prices presumably being shown in €uros rather than GB£, so 12-15% lower than pounds.
Those Hoffenheim tickets look cheap mind... Aren't they the ones with that really good Dutch striker?
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Superbowl parade shooting
Replies: 52
Views: 2525

Re: Superbowl parade shooting

...linking the so-called demise of this country... to groups of people protesting against issues you clearly support is just stupid... Whereas absolving those groups of people protesting for issues you clearly support of any resposbility is just... what exactly? As Colburn suggests: "If people coul...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Why's my milk not going off?
Replies: 36
Views: 2197

Re: Why's my milk not going off?

Why the hell are we talking about milk? Is this the calm before the storm that will erupt on this board around 1515 on Saturday... Exactly that! By 1515 Saturday Trafford will have made the first of two penalty saves, while Amdouni will have scored the first of his four goals of the afternoon as we...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:28 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Craving a dirty kebab
Replies: 49
Views: 2393

Re: Craving a dirty kebab

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:20 am
Amazes me how anyone eats that donner stuff it looks rancid...
But the correct way to eat a Donner kebab is in the early hours of the morning when it's dark and you're ******; at which point the kebab's visual appearance and indeed hygiene are, by a long way, of secondary importance.🤣
by AfloatinClaret
Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Craving a dirty kebab
Replies: 49
Views: 2393

Re: Craving a dirty kebab

...If you want a good kebab, that's healthy too - order from Ciao (Kenanks) - Their italian kebabs with grilled chicken are unreal If I want 'healthy' I'll eat a salad with some tofu - not that I ever have - but if I'm having a kebab, the last thing I'm interested in is whether it's 'healthy'; as w...
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Let’s talk about Benson!
Replies: 100
Views: 4991

Re: Let’s talk about Benson!

bumba wrote:
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:46 pm
If people are picking several players out about a poor performance it isn't making 'a scapegoat' is it...
But Trafford gets slated every week, even after those games when he was our MOM :D
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Let’s talk about Benson!
Replies: 100
Views: 4991

Re: Let’s talk about Benson!

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:53 am
2 replies to manage to get Trafford into the thread about Benson.

Never boring is it
To be fair, the usual suspects also gave Josh Brownhill an honourable mention in the post-Liverpool 'We need a scapegoat' thread.
by AfloatinClaret
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Car Park Apps
Replies: 21
Views: 1315

Re: Car Park Apps

AmbleClaret wrote:
Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:51 pm
Really? Try living in a rural area with crap mobile coverage, keeping a few coins in your glove box is far easier.
There's a car park near to us which now only allows app-payments - they've blanked off the coin slots - but whose location offers a weak EE signal and nothing via anyone else's
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Blue card
Replies: 37
Views: 2247

Re: Blue card

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:20 pm
What colour for 2 blue cards ?
Would a second offence not warrant a yellow card? If not then surely a green card would be the half-way house.
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The earth
Replies: 53
Views: 3258

Re: The earth

It's really quite easy to disprove the 'flat earth' theory: If the earth was 'flat' it would have to have an 'end' and if that were the case, the (arse) end of the world would unquestionably be Tow Law in Co. Durham. But you can drive into Tow Law and out the other sides of it, ergo, the earth is no...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How to Fight Off a Bully XL
Replies: 72
Views: 4375

Re: How to Fight Off a Bully XL

Hit it with a rolled up copy of the Daily Mail or, if browsing online, an iPad will perform the same function No, that's bulls you're thinking of rather than XL bullies and the newspaper of choice to use is the 'Diario de Navarra'. Actually, you shouldn't hit/poke the bulls with it either, the theo...
by AfloatinClaret
Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Do you need a Dentist?
Replies: 40
Views: 2747

Re: Do you need a Dentist?

bobinho wrote:
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:44 pm
...all the same. Doesn’t matter what colour the rosette...
Politicians are like zits... as long as you keep picking 'em, they'll just get worse.
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Liverpool's highest ever League Attendance
Replies: 32
Views: 4128

Re: Liverpool's highest ever League Attendance

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:30 pm
Good, our win will be even more remarkable.
How can something that everyone expects (in our house anyway) be thought 'remarkable? :?
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Do you need a Dentist?
Replies: 40
Views: 2747

Re: Do you need a Dentist?

...Ive had a few injuries over the years but severe tooth ache is the worst pain Ive had, its relentless and most pain killers don't touch it I can agree with that; but if it gets bad enough and you're two weeks away from land, never mind a dentist, by using a combination of rum, a multitool, more ...
by AfloatinClaret
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:05 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BRIGHTON
Replies: 2442
Views: 148574

Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - MANCHESTER CITY v BURNLEY

Nearly late last week, not that I got owt right, so getting in early this week
Liverpool 1 Burnley 2
Foster 8th minute
Championship