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- Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
I think this messageboard would be a much poorer place without Rowls, but then I also think the same about Ringo and Jakub, so make of that what you will.
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
We’ve reached the “fabricating quotes” part of the argument now, I see.
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:37 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
There's a definition within my post. The one you've actually quoted! Here it is: Thanks, but I think I’ll go with the dictionary over some bloke on a football messageboard.... “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)” I...
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
Are people still unsure what the term means? Or are people still asking this as a rhetorical device? I thought that had died a death a few years ago now? Anyway, here's where I first saw the term and learned what it meant: https://twitter.com/WokeMuslima The account starts in November 2015 and self...
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
Musk fanboys are some of the weirdest folk around, but at least now he’s made them dead easy to spot on Twitter.
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
Wasn't seconds it was a fairly significant period and it might have also helped that tit didn't fall apart hell that was the mains issue the fact that the rocket didn't fall apart as and when it was required to ergo the separation which caused it to tumble into a death spin at which point terminati...
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spacex Launch
- Replies: 110
- Views: 3790
Re: Spacex Launch
Perfectly? Really?claretburns wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:37 pmWent absolutely perfectly for what they were trying to achieve with this first launch.
Within acceptable bounds of performance, maybe, but I feel like “perfectly” might have involved the rocket not falling to pieces seconds after take-off.
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Claiming a Successful Bet
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2721
Re: Claiming a Successful Bet
Gambling debts with licenced bookies have been legally enforceable for nearly 20 years now. It's a shame bets made with gobshites on the internet like cutsy/4midable or whatever he's calling himself these days aren't. Oh ok. Looks like my “knowledge” is out of date then. Wasn’t it you that KBRFC we...
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Claiming a Successful Bet
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2721
Re: Claiming a Successful Bet
Technically / legally, they don’t have to pay out at all. They wouldn’t last long in the bookie business if they were seen not to pay out on winning bets, though.
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:11 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is someone getting ahead of themselves?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3609
Re: Is someone getting ahead of themselves?
I’m more concerned about the state of those apostrophes.
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
It’s a shame that Greenmile has to resort to insults just because he can’t force an admission of error from another poster. I imagine that my political views are much more aligned with him than with Rowls. In fact I vehemently disagree with Rowls on many of the political views that he’s expressed o...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
Keep it coming. Guys like you do as much for Conservatism as Jeremy Corbyn did. I can afford to be polite. Yeah. I’m sure loads of people are saying to themselves “I was going to vote Labour after seeing how the Tories have wrecked the country, but then I saw Greenmile call Rowls a Tory pr1ck, and ...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
(...or “carte blanc” as Rowls would probably say. Despite living in France he never really bothered to learn the language properly. Pesky immigrant not putting in the effort to integrate.)
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2467
Re: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
What about the one Ogrisivic(sp) saved in the last game? Just Googled it, and it looks like it was Hedman in goal for Coventry, so looks like we might both be wrong (unless your spelling is really bad :) ) Couldn’t find a video, but the description I found (on ClaretsMad, as it happens), suggests H...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2467
Re: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
I don’t remember that one, but happy to be proved wrong.dougcollins wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:17 pmWhat about the one Ogrisivic(sp) saved in the last game?
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
Except I specifically drew a distinction between a native English speaker and a foreign speaker not pronouncing /th/ properly! Your example above actually proves my point - the only reason they make a /ze/ sound is because they're attempting the (for them, difficult) /th/ sound. They could easily p...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2467
Re: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
Relative to the rest of his performance in that game / his Burnley career, it was ballon d’or stuff.
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2467
Re: Burnley’s Biggest Flops XI
He was absolutely garbage - he’s even admitted to not remembering his time at Burnley. We were objectively worse with him in the side but his reputation made the manager pick him. Ian Wright actually scored and contributed for us - Gazza’s debut against Sheff United away was one of the worst perfor...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
Yes, if I were an academic of a speech therapist, then 'lazy' wouldn't have been the best word. But I've never been interesting in being a therapist and made a very conscious decision to stick fingers up towards academia. "Lazy" is a fine word because it describes the reason people make these behav...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
Thank you. I know
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
Good reply Greenmile but I have to assert that 'laziness' is a perfectly good word here. There are abbreviations in all languages and they're used to get around trickier sounds to achieve or longer words to say. What you're really objecting to is a pejorative inference that actually isn't there in ...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: one-two-free
- Replies: 63
- Views: 3812
Re: one-two-free
It’s lovely how often you name check me yTib. :) The “th” sound varies from word to word. The sound at the end of maTHs is different to the sound at the beginning of THe. However, they’re formed with very similar mouth shapes. We used to have two additional letters to our alphabet in Old English fo...
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: what's the counter-chant to "We got 106"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2971
Re: what's the counter-chant to "We got 106"
Is your assumption that Burnley fans give two sh1ts based on something other than a football forum, then? Have you been handing out questionnaires at the Turf?Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:22 amIf football forums were anything to go off then the whole country will be laughing at Blackburn for giving us only 2k tickets,
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: what's the counter-chant to "We got 106"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2971
Re: what's the counter-chant to "We got 106"
I realise I’m replying to a persona here but...Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:40 pmYou can get 3-1 on Paddy Power that its only Burnley who give two sh*ts about this silly record and will sing about it tomorrow. Feels like free money to me so I've lumped on big time
https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtop ... 1&t=189469
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Our Team if the Boo Boys picked it...
- Replies: 150
- Views: 5133
Re: Our Team if the Boo Boys picked it...
Great news.AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:30 pmBut I was right, because we sorted out the defence and the rest is history, so what's your point clown
I’m looking forward to us finishing “almost top 6” this season just as soon as VK drops Maatsen and starts playing Charlie Taylor at left back.
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
Back to form I see Greenmile. It's a small illustration of the type of dishonesty that the likes of JKR have to put up with all the time. She writes about empathy for trans people (as I did) and then oddballs (touche Swizzler) like Greenmile and Swizzlestick come along and declare that what she rea...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
Some of Labour/the left being hellbent on this **** and refusing to do simple stuff like explaining what a woman is, is what will cause the tories to win another election and further continue to royally f*** the country. Can we just fixate on the things that actually make a difference. As far as I ...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
Ah ok that’s actually helpful, as I suspect this is where aggi was getting the wrong end of the stick.I have a great deal of empathy for anyone is either pre-op or post-op. When the GRA (I think I called it the GRR the other day grrr) was introduced this was exactly who it was aimed at. But I think...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
No idea why you call it and "admission" but empathy is good let's agree for a change. Can we agree that empathy towards trans people is good? After all, that’s what I wrote but you seem to have “inadvertently” misrepresented it again. If we can agree, then maybe you could start demonstrating some. ...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
...I have seen a similar survey and it just goes to show how much nicer women are than men! No surprise that women generally are more sympathetic to trans people. It's nearly always men who cause the problems around the world. This apppears to be an admission that sympathy (although I think you mea...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
I do have a personal interest in the women and children in my life but it is more important to bear in mind that we are talking about more than half of the population. Lots of interesting polls on the following link, but the one that stood out to me was :- Women are more likely than men to support ...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
The argument centres on hypocrisy. If you condemn Braverman's comments about 'invasion' for being cheap, juvenile and provocative then you must surely do the same for Lineker when he invokes Godwin's law. I tend to hold government ministers to higher standards of accountability for the language the...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 529
- Views: 17664
Re: Gary Lineker
I do love a “Rowls sh1ts himself in public” thread.
I wonder how long until he gets it locked / deleted.
I wonder how long until he gets it locked / deleted.
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Italy v England Euro 2024 qualifier
- Replies: 162
- Views: 5564
Re: Italy v England Euro 2024 qualifier
Plenty of folk on here will never forgive England’s second most successful manager of all time for supporting his own players freedom of expression when they chose to take the knee to demonstrate that they believe black people’s lives should have as much value as white people’s.
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Partygate Inquiry
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1971
Re: Partygate Inquiry
Jakub (who else?)
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The gap in quality
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3554
Re: The gap in quality
There is a massive gap between the top 10 in the Prem and the Championship, however does anyone seriously think we can't compete with most or all of those in the lower half of the table. Yes we'll need to make some shrews signings naturally, but given Vincent Kompany's record thus far I'm confident...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
Re: Gary Lineker
As I've said before, if you want to believe that, then fine. But just as a mental exercise, ask yourself what happens if you take me on complete face value? Besides anything else, we'd have a level of parity between us because even though I disagree with you, I take your opinions on face value. I’v...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
Re: Gary Lineker
I don't follow your logic at all… Yes - that’s quite obvious from the rest of your post. I’ll try to dumb it down for you a bit. You are a massive hypocrite, because you regularly criticise those on the left for doing exactly what you would defend those on the right for doing. Therefore, when you p...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
Re: Gary Lineker
I could be wrong, but I’ve a feeling I have condemned Nazi salutes, as it happens.
Your wider point still stands though.
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
Re: Gary Lineker
To be fair I don’t remember you specifically endorsing cancel culture. But then again, I don’t remember you specifically condemning it either, until now that is. Why is that I wonder? What is different about this example, and all the other widely reported examples? Maybe it’s the hypocrisy of those...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Lineker
- Replies: 262
- Views: 6884
Re: Gary Lineker
I hope people have 'liked" it because it was a funny remark. But the joke appears to have been lost on greenmile, for example, who appears to have taken it all very earnestly. Do you want to explain it to him? Rileybobs implying it too, to a much lesser extent. Rileybobs is more likely to be having...