This one could drag in the professionally offended on here.
It would be quite good - but the Manc accent ruins it.
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- Wed Aug 09, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Paddy Power advert
- Replies: 137
- Views: 7350
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Culvert update Thursday 3rd August
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4676
Re: Culvert update Thursday 3rd August
Our public sector is an utter shambles. Councils, NHS, Blue Light, education, civil engineering. All bloated, inefficient, expensive, underperforming shite. HS2...I think we're up to about 2040 now in terms of when whatever is left of it gets finished. China offered to build all of it in 5 years. ht...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers living in fantasy land
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4229
Re: Rovers living in fantasy land
I'm going to stick my neck out here, with absolutely nothing to back it up and say that Ashley Barnes would not tarnish his legacy here by signing for them just for a few extra grand a week. No chance.
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 7:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Free Nathan Tella!
- Replies: 350
- Views: 24721
Re: Free Nathan Tella!
This board’s starting to resemble a Reddit thread full of awkward hysterical near suicidal sci fi type fans who still live with their mum . The Tella thing is a bit of a giggle , totally harmless ,and if anyone is precious enough to think anyone outside of Burnley /Soton gives an flying feck they r...
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gas.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2502
Re: Gas.
So this thread is fine, but threads about Josh Brownhill's ears get pulled (the thread not his ears). Of course you're all associating Centrica with British Gas. What you actually mean is Centrica Retail (UK) which "only" made a profit of £72 million in 2022 (expected to go up this year). The majori...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Away kit leaked
- Replies: 279
- Views: 12707
Re: Away kit leaked
I like it.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mbappe
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5069
Re: Mbappe
They can only buy players though. And those players can disappear into (very wealthy) obscurity for the duration of their contracts. We won't be seeing them play in any of the competitions that matter against any level of decent opposition. In fact we won't be seeing them play full stop because nobo...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Venkys
- Replies: 210
- Views: 28560
Re: Venkys
I do.jedi_master wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:54 amI certainly don't wish absolute financial ruin for them, but I think it would be really good for their fans to understand their place in the world by suffering a couple of decades in League One/Two. That's all I ask really, just to make them more humble.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Next seasons kit
- Replies: 657
- Views: 59701
Re: Next seasons kit
I don't like collars on football shirts so I'll pin my hopes on the away shirts.
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 6:42 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Andros Townsend
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4669
Re: Andros Townsend
They've also signed Danny Drinkwater, Peter Crouch, Jon Walters and Dale Stephens. I don't think it's unreasonable to be skeptical about signing a player over 30 who hasn't played for a year because of injury.
Let's see if we sign him and how he plays if we do.
Let's see if we sign him and how he plays if we do.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Locking wheel nut key
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1358
Re: Locking wheel nut key
If you let them know, the fitter should have (or bring if you go for the mobile option) a kit to get them off by brute force (at a cost).
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 5:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Loyalty Points change
- Replies: 362
- Views: 18651
Re: Loyalty Points change
If this squashes more people into tighter bands, does that mean the potential for more ballots when we get small away allocations?
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi Arabia league
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1547
Re: Saudi Arabia league
I bet you a pint that no team from Saudi Arabia win a European cup competition in the next 30 years.Burnley Ace wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:51 pmThere will come a time when SA apply to join UEFA and play in European competitions and have domestic teams in Euro leagues. They will offer UEFA 100 billion or however much they want.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi Arabia league
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1547
Re: Saudi Arabia league
Question . Some one said at work that players at all premiership clubs have to pay for their shirts if they give them away at the end of the game or othewrwise Any truth in this do you think ???????? Sorry Erling, only £199,950 in your pay packet this week, we've knocked off £50 for the shirt you c...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi Arabia league
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1547
Re: Saudi Arabia league
I'll stand by and wait for the Saudi league and the Premier League to merge in that case.kentonclaret wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:06 pmThat’s what a lot of people thought about LIV Golf until a year or so later they swallowed up the PGA.
Nobody watched LIV golf. Nobody will watch the Saudi league.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi Arabia league
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1547
Re: Saudi Arabia league
It's a dream come true for the players. Top money with zero pressure.
Nobody will watch it though.
Nobody will watch it though.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi Arabia league
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1547
Re: Saudi Arabia league
No history, no tradition and importantly no supporters giving the players s*** if they don't give 100% for the shirt. Glorified exhibition leage that nobody will care about.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thames water
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2414
Re: Thames water
This sums it up nicely. And the 40% price rise is seemingly accurate- by 2030.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9144 ... 355afcca0c
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9144 ... 355afcca0c
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 10:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thames water
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2414
Re: Thames water
Sproggy. I’ve never heard of external and internal dividends. Would you be kind enough to enlighten me as to what the difference is please? Internal dividends are payments between holding companies in the group, whereas external dividends are the type you're more familiar with. Thames claim that th...
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thames water
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2414
Re: Thames water
TW is apparently £14 billion in debt and hasn’t paid out a dividend** for six years. **External dividend. They still managed to pay £70,000,000 "internal dividends" in the last 2 years. In a wonderful gesture, the CEO turned down the £500,000 performance related bonus this year (she took it last ye...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
I've been watching via iPlayer....there's no commentary on there.Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:48 pmLauren Laverne, Jo Whiley, Jack Sanders et al have been awful. Gushing over every performance.
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
TWOD have somehow passed me by so this is the first time I've heard them. Excellent so far.
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
Editors are live now on Woodsies stage. Excellent so far.
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
I reckon set your expectations quite low for this one, that way you'll be less disappointed.Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:06 pmI await to be massively disappointed with Guns n Roses
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
The wife's just asked if they've been playing cruise ships for the last couple of years.
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2023
- Replies: 563
- Views: 25462
Re: Glastonbury 2023
This sounds like an Arctic Monkeys cover band that play posh weddings.
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sub goes Missing
- Replies: 189
- Views: 13293
Re: Sub goes Missing
I've been to the landing beaches of Normandy, and many of the military cemeteries there as I felt it's something I had to do out of respect. Does that make me a "tourist oggling a mass grave site"? We know nothing about the people lost on that sub, some may have some sort of connection to the decea...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sub goes Missing
- Replies: 189
- Views: 13293
Re: Sub goes Missing
Well at a million quid a pop it was unlikley to be a group of friends from Stoops was it?evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:17 amAn interesting view.
Those rich people getting their comeuppance, eh?
And its more a point about tourists oggling mass grave sites for fun. But whatever.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sub goes Missing
- Replies: 189
- Views: 13293
Re: Sub goes Missing
Debris found. Landing frame and rear cover. The only good news from that is that it would have been quick.
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mortgages
- Replies: 345
- Views: 13824
Re: Mortgages
I agree that if there is going to be anything, it needs to come from the banks. They sold the mortgage. It's a minefield for government to step in with mortgage top-ups.
Supermarket profits are falling - not sure they can shoulder too much of the blame (profits are still high however).
Supermarket profits are falling - not sure they can shoulder too much of the blame (profits are still high however).
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mortgages
- Replies: 345
- Views: 13824
Re: Mortgages
Noticed that Ed Davey is highlighting his idea of a mortgage protection fund of up to £300 per month. It’s an interesting policy and whilst they won’t get in power it maybe that the Labour Party come up with something similar as a solution (or even in a coalition this is one of the ideas they adopt...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sub goes Missing
- Replies: 189
- Views: 13293
Re: Sub goes Missing
2 miles down, 96 hours oxygen on board.
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Springsteen at Villa park
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3064
Re: Springsteen at Villa park
So, apart from the gridlocked traffic on the way down, the poor sound quality, the disappointing set list, the extortionate drinks prices, the inefficient bar staff and the long queues to get back on the motorway at the end, it was pretty good?
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Man City - today’s dilemma (Proposed Charity Shield Boycott)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3281
Re: Man City - today’s dilemma (Proposed Charity Shield Boycott)
Not sure what the issue is. Get the train back to Manchester, you'll be in bed before midnight.
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malta v England
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2367
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malta v England
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2367
Re: Malta v England
A 4 goal masterclass and 66% possession.
Surely Gareth is first in line for the City job when Pep leaves?
Surely Gareth is first in line for the City job when Pep leaves?
- Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malta v England
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2367
Re: Malta v England
I find England games look a lot like Sean Dyche cup games.
I'm at the pub instead.
I'm at the pub instead.
- Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: City v Inter. The Purist Treble.
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6480
Re: City v Inter. The Purist Treble.
Whaterboutery.roperclaret wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:56 pmNot particularly. Other clubs have also spent ridiculous amounts of money without the same success
City have had a strategy and have executed it brilliantly.
They are also accused of breaking the financial rules on an industrial scale.
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Treble
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3513
Re: The Treble
Looking at what City have done and pointing at Utd is whataboutery at its finest. City have had a plan which they have executed brilliantly and which looks to be finally delivering the Champions League this season. I think the phrase '"operating under their own financial rules" is an excellent way o...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Treble
- Replies: 67
- Views: 3513
Re: The Treble
I thought United were quite lucky in their treble winning season. Taken to the last day by Arsenal in the league Scored last minute goals against Liverpool in FA Cup Taken to a replay by Chelsea Should have been beaten by Arsenal in the semi final, but Bergkamp missed a penalty Only beat Brøndby in...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Full Mouth Dental Implants
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4708
Re: Full Mouth Dental Implants
I'm not convinced these sequels work very well but the original film was excellent so I'll give it a go.
Is it also set in Vietnam?
Is it also set in Vietnam?
- Thu May 25, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cardiff Riots
- Replies: 123
- Views: 7496
- Thu May 25, 2023 8:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pace wins against Longside standers
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4219
Re: Pace wins against Longside standers
Hang on. We're saying that the solution to people standing up is to take their seats away?
I'm not sure Alan's thought that one through.
I'm not sure Alan's thought that one through.
- Mon May 22, 2023 9:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Man City bench
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3505
Re: Man City bench
They still manage to get through about a quarter of a billion quid a season on new signings. They've already been fined by UEFA for failing to co-operate with an investigation into their finances and they are now facing an investigation by the Premier League which is accusing them of cheating on an ...
- Sun May 21, 2023 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Man City bench
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3505
- Sun May 21, 2023 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Man City bench
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3505
Re: Man City bench
I’ve said it before and I genuinely believe that the Premier League is at a tipping point right now with the top of the table slowly becoming uncompetitive. I do not know what the answer is, but it cannot be heathy for the game when clubs are backed by oil rich nations who are happy and able to spe...
- Thu May 18, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Football 18/05
- Replies: 163
- Views: 5273
Re: Today's Football 18/05
Peterborough punished for persistent time wasting. Sheff Wed equalize in the 8th minute of the 6 added!
Well played ref.
Well played ref.
- Wed May 17, 2023 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonight's Footy
- Replies: 87
- Views: 4067
Re: Tonight's Footy
Boro get to watch another team celebrate. Ouch.
- Wed May 17, 2023 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonight's Footy
- Replies: 87
- Views: 4067