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- Fri May 21, 2021 8:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Transport
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1186
Re: V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Transport
If you want to project power, both hard and soft, then you need organic air cover. What I will never understand is the way we then don't quite get it right. For example the new white elephants as you call them have hard points for 4 Vulcan Phalanx CIWS and 4 Hard points for 30mm automatic cannons. O...
- Thu May 20, 2021 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Transport
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1186
Re: V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Transport
These would have been ideal to put the Crows Nest long range AEW radar on rather than sticking it on a Merlin. The Ospreys fly further, faster and higher.
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Alastair Campbell
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4204
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 10:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sean Dyche on the ESL
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3715
Re: Sean Dyche on the ESL
Talking loud but saying nothing. Made me think it was the sort of thing a politician would draft.Swizzlestick wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 10:07 amIt’s a very Dyche response. Carefully measured. I tend to side with Corky that he doesn’t actually state that he stridently opposes it.
- Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sean Dyche on the ESL
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3715
Re: Sean Dyche on the ESL
He doesn't actually say that he is against it, does he?
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The real twelve
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2967
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:29 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ice cream anyone?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3231
Re: Ice cream anyone?
I think you will find there are 12 in the photo not including My Whippy.
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The epoch of our Queen
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2295
Re: The epoch of our Queen
The end of deference.
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 7:21 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Yes Shay was a Brierfield lad. His bother still lives in the area and Shay and his partner Jackie visit fairly regularly.longsidetrumpet wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:39 pmWill you take a fiver for it? You must have some more interesting stuff up in your loft
Was Shay a Brierfield lad, ginger, a mate of Waddy’s? If so, what a sound guy
- Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Richard Freeman, ex Team Sky cycling team Doctor
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1834
Re: Richard Freeman, ex Team Sky cycling team Doctor
I've seen a number of these professional cyclists and they have the thinnest legs on the planet. It would not surprise me in the least if this revelation and drug taking in cycling in particular was far more widespread than is currently being let on.
- Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Love Factory was played as a new release in London and then got picked up later by the Northern/Modern crowd.
- Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Piers Morgan
- Replies: 295
- Views: 20821
Re: Piers Morgan
All I can say is thank god (not that I believe in one) that I am a republican.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Trust me Corky, that lot is once seen never forgotten and they only did a few months before they all returned home. I had a root round a few record stalls last time I was in lockdown just before lockdown. Got Mel Torme on London for a tenner and passed on an early Motown lp at £30, but it was reaso...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Did you meet up with the Burnley lads who went to work at the Reform Club from 72 onwards? These included Hopper, Laney, Pete and Jim McDonough, Ants Howarth, Keith Johnson and a few others. I used to see Hopper on his weekends at home and give him a list of my wants and you would not believe what ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
That would be David my half cousin. He lives in Yorkshire now. I live in Fleet Hampshire. Don't get up to the NW that much since my mum died. But my son and I do try to see as many Burnley games as we can including travelling to the Turf. As you see although he was born in Guildford, I brought him u...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Are you the same person who went to St Theodores in the 60's/early 70's? Always seemed to have your leg in plaster? "Potleg" Yep that was me. I started rock climbing when I was about 12/13 and ended up putting too much stress on my left leg which messed it up for a few years. Had my leg in plaster ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Yes it was released in Brazil on the B side of Sylvia. Not particularly rare you can probably pick one up for £30/40.rufus lumley wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:50 amI've got Angel Baby by Stevie Wonder on his Down to Earth album but have heard it was released in Brazil as a 45 anybody got one in their collection ?.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Yep, always popular are rare soul records. Chuck Cockerham Have I Got A Right just sold for over £5,000. Now that is a record worth having on Mala.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5652
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Where's Corky. Hope he is OK. Hi Cobble, I'm fine thanks. Just seen this and a fine effort by Mala591. Obviously I haven't got Frank Wilson or stuff like Judy Street or Dean Parrish as they are not to my taste. I'm happy with blue-eyed soul like George Carrow but some is just pop. The Epitome Of So...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets Fan Survey
- Replies: 235
- Views: 15769
Re: Clarets Fan Survey
I was surprised not to be asked my religious denomination or whether it would be a good idea to incorporate a Mormon church in the gap between the CFS and Longside.
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Murder in a small town C5
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2682
Re: Murder in a small town C5
It would appear that the Scottish legal system leaves a lot to be desired. As has been said above it seems the Police decided he was guilty and everyone else sort of went along with it. Disturbingly, including the jury.
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: We were miles off
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2360
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jurgen Klopp - At It Again
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4889
Re: Jurgen Klopp - At It Again
He was disrespectful to the reporter. No need for that.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pace interview
- Replies: 316
- Views: 29025
Re: Pace interview
It would suggest that perhaps we should have asked Dell Loy Hansen to buy the club!!!
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:55 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Realistic ambitions under ALK
- Replies: 102
- Views: 10240
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Congratulations to Sir Lewis Hamilton
- Replies: 133
- Views: 7733
Re: Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton
I'm surprised that some people actually seem to be taking this infantile, contrived bit of nonsense seriously.
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Congratulations to Sir Lewis Hamilton
- Replies: 133
- Views: 7733
Re: Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton
But Hamilton, as far as I can see, has no discernible personality.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anyone remember the Chelsea skinheads...
- Replies: 69
- Views: 10172
Re: Anyone remember the Chelsea skinheads...
And they probably were not wearing Doc Martens but Solovairs from Jays in Lavender Hill.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anyone remember the Chelsea skinheads...
- Replies: 69
- Views: 10172
Re: Anyone remember the Chelsea skinheads...
I'd be surprised if Chelsea skins were wearing Ben Shermans. More likely to be Lion Of Troy, Union Shirts from the Ivy Shop in Richmond.
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 7:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: babs rip
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2519
Re: babs rip
And if you met her in real life, a charming, approachable and genuinely friendly person. A sad loss.
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The killer of 7 year old Emily Jones found not guilty of murder
- Replies: 82
- Views: 6544
Re: The killer of 7 year old Emily Jones found not guilty of murder
Thanks, it’s anything but easy, I don’t blame the homeless for wanting to get off the streets you always see a spike in winter with the cold weather, prison offers a lifeline towards some people, people can say what their want about prison I can’t think of anywhere else where you are guaranteed war...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The killer of 7 year old Emily Jones found not guilty of murder
- Replies: 82
- Views: 6544
Re: The killer of 7 year old Emily Jones found not guilty of murder
In a sense it doesn't make a lot of difference whether she is kept behind bars until she dies because she is a murderer, or she is kept behind bars until she dies because she is dangerously insane - all that matters is that she is kept behind bars. What worries me is that at some point she might be...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tyson Fury...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3482
Re: Tyson Fury...
Love him or loathe him, he surely qualifies more than most as he certainly seems to have a lively personality.
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Welcome Home
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3648
Re: Home at last for the Dons!
Had a great Youngs Pub outside on the corner though. And a Nightclub underneath the main stand called Nelsons I think. Went to a few soul dos there. Bet they haven't got those in their new build.
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Well done Lewis Hamilton
- Replies: 143
- Views: 11499
Re: Well done Lewis Hamilton
Evidently it's because Hamilton had the nerve to be black. I'm sure the real Gandhi would have been so proud of the flip-flop wearing racist.huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:29 pmOn what do you base your opinion?
Enlighten us just to pass the afternoon.
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:23 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dying woman burgled in Brierfield
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3951
Re: Dying woman burgled in Brierfield
I probably do need a handbook of dos and don'ts for here, because the rules are so inconsistent (depending who you are). I mean we all know that what has happened is disgusting, but I thought me saying that they should have their heads jumped on, would be a bit strong for some on here. I don't do '...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anthony Higginbotham
- Replies: 422
- Views: 28956
Re: Anthony Higginbotham
Why would an ordinary working class person want to be an MP? You’d have a better life being a tradesman running your own business!! Peter Pike, Kitty Usher, Julie Cooper, Gordon Birtwistle - have they got power, riches and influence? I imagine to provide a service to the community within which they...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anthony Higginbotham
- Replies: 422
- Views: 28956
Re: Anthony Higginbotham
Cheers Corky I studied political history at University and continued to be interested ever since. I get what you are saying but my view is that the reason why many people choose to be MPs has changed little throughout the centuries. The official salary they get paid is merely a smokescreen for the ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anthony Higginbotham
- Replies: 422
- Views: 28956
Re: Anthony Higginbotham
This is for Pimlico and TV15. The answer is a messy evolution from when MPs were not paid back in the good old days before emancipation. You see the idea was if you pay people to become MPs then ordinary working class folk can do the job and it is not exclusive to those of independent wealth. It all...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anthony Higginbotham
- Replies: 422
- Views: 28956
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 14643
Re: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
I’ll hazard a guess based on what the scientists are saying, there’s likely to be something by the spring. That amused me as it made me think of my cousins husband who believe it or not is a nuclear physicist and a Burnley fan. I've known him for 40 years and whenever we meet up for family do's I a...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 14643
Re: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
But it’s more deadly than flu. Once we have a vaccine we should be able to manage it but until then we need to take other measures. This might surprise you but I was actually aware of how deadly C19 is and that is why I said we do need to take measures. You might have missed that bit of my post. Pe...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 14643
Re: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
According to economists we’re nowhere near the tipping point on public finances yet. Figures out this morning show that government borrowing for the first six months of the financial year is actually below what was forecast by the OBR, although the year end figure is expected to be higher than fore...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 14643
Re: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
People on here are talking about a cure or a fix but until we have a successful vaccine there wont be one. So the question then becomes how do we manage it which brings into play a serious moral dilemma that can polarise views. We talk about the steps that need to be taken to protect the NHS which a...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 14643
Re: Is the fix now worse than the problem?
Forget Sage and their counterparts in other Countries. I'll just get ClaretTony to send Boris a link to this thread. With all the expert scientists, virolgists and economists on here he wont need to consult anyone else. That would suggest he has actually been consulting people already. Surely not?
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Brom versus MIGHTY CLARETS
- Replies: 379
- Views: 24909
Re: Boing Boings versus MIGHTY CLARETS
Excellent news. I've always had a dislike of the Baggies ever since Frank Skinner was quite arrogant and dismissive of us when we first got promoted. So it is great to have Madge back.
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Paris.
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7730
Re: Paris.
That is so far from the truth. The official religion, though they would contest it, is actually the CCP and their leader on earth is General Secretary Xi Jinping. He has God like status until he gets replaced; a bit like the Pope.
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Interview with Neil Hart
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7284
Re: Interview with Neil Hart
It was OK. What you'd expect from a CEO even if he is not a real one. Mind you a cheap jacket. Contrast stitching on the button hole a very poor show.
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Bud Fight, sorry Presidential Debate
- Replies: 863
- Views: 50212
Re: The Bud Fight, sorry Presidential Debate
I'd be interested to know from those belittling Nancy Pelosi what it is they find objectionable about her. I've had a look through her history and she seems pretty sound to me.
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Recession, Regret and Regression
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7648
Re: ARTICLE: Recession, Regret and Regression
One of the reasons why I now, never bother, to watch a SD interview prior to a match is in large due to him trotting out the usual tripe. And frankly it has become mind-numbingly boring. Articles such as this one are in the main meant to engender debate and get others thinking about how their fellow...