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- Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Loss of Business
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1155
Re: Loss of Business
Get it in't Tod Rag and if other people in neighbouring businesses are affected get them together and drag a reporter up from Halifax (sign of the times!) Tell em the council is as much use as a chocolate fireguard, etc, etc. Although, if it is on a public Highway, West Yorkshire CC might be the app...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Flintoff is a Flat Earther
- Replies: 87
- Views: 7033
Re: Flintoff is a Flat Earther
Pah! Load of nonsense. Everyone knows its a disc balanced on the backs of four elephants who in turn are standing on the back of a giant turtle! Anything else is just fiction....
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Angels Nitespot
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6715
Re: Angels Nitespot
Angels was great. There used to be a place called out in't sticks over Todmorden way that was mental. Used to go on all night. Might that have been the Dog and Partridge up on the moor above Cornholme. Nobody ever called it the D&P, it was known locally as the Sourhall because that was where it was...
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:34 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Angels Nitespot
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6715
Re: Angels Nitespot
Yep, Paul Simon it was. But not the little american singer version.
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Forest Green apologise after Crewe fans get drenched
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3617
Re: Forest Green apologise after Crewe fans get drenched
I went there ONCE. They are in a place called Nailsworth on the edge of the Cotswolds. We had fish and chips from the local chippy and I can honestly say they were the worst I have ever experienced. You could have greased the slipway for a liner with em. No wonder the bugger is a vegan!
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:37 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pulis sacked
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8970
Re: Pulis sacked
Nah, it's Ken Hom before he lost his hair!
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:37 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pulis sacked
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8970
Re: Pulis sacked
Nah, it's Ken Hom before he lost his hair!
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:46 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baby Belling, Burco
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4317
Re: Baby Belling, Burco
I have it in my mind that some parts of Burco were bought by an Irish firm and became part of Glen Dimplex -- the leccy fires bit maybe?
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: CF Woodford Equity Income Fund
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9928
Re: CF Woodford Equity Income Fund
I was in Woodford Funds but got shut and reinvested in Lindsell Train and Fundsmith. I haven't regretted it so far. LT are interesting because they have a core of quality companies they keep adding to but very rarely introduce a new stock into the fund. If you are going to pay fund manager premiums ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Retail Nightmares.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 9802
Re: Retail Nightmares.
And what is it about junior school age girls that makes them do stupid dances up and down the aisles whenever they go to the supermarket, getting under the feet and generally ******* people off. I blame those stupid flipping "talent" and "dance" competitions you see on telly every weekend. Not that ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Purge List
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7446
Re: Purge List
Christa Ackroyd? You must live in Yorkshire? I used to work at the same place as her many years ago -- you wouldn't have smacked he in the gob then. You might have told her to shurrup though.....
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Purge List
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7446
Re: Purge List
Graham Norton Jools Holland Jonathan Ross Chris Packham Nigel Evans Anyone on Strictly Adam Henson Tony Blair Any Welsh Politician Nicola Sturgeon Alec Salmond Anybody wiv a savvan accent who can't pronounce "three" Anyone who says" I'm like" every other word Anyone who starts sentences with "So..."...
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Favourite Movies With Favourite Soundtracks
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3879
Re: Favourite Movies With Favourite Soundtracks
The Graduate
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Retail Nightmares.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 9802
Re: Retail Nightmares.
Talking about this earlier this afternoon, James Warburton spends millions on his fixtures and fittings in James Places, of which this is the latest, but then let's everything down with poorly trained staff, bizarre business model? You are right. It's not just Bowland Brewery. I went to the Waddy A...
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Retail Nightmares.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 9802
Re: Retail Nightmares.
As mentioned earlier, nowt more annoying than when you're stuck behind a gaggle of women in a busy pub trying to get served, and they're all getting their drinks individually, counting out the exact change, taking ages to choose a drink, then ordering 'half a lager', then when served, they all stan...
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:44 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Retail Nightmares.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 9802
Re: Retail Nightmares.
I was at the biggest bar in Britain last night, with only three serving all night (Bowland Brewery Clitheroe) They were run off their feet, poor buggers, on minimum wage as well. So variable, sometimes they have more staff than customers but you still struggle to get served! They either walk straig...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Investors advised to avoid the UK
- Replies: 72
- Views: 5688
Re: Investors advised to avoid the UK
And his vacs are crap. The plastic bits break and they fall over of their own accord because they are badly balances. For some reason women seem to love am and most blokes I speak to (those who know what a vac is) think they are over-priced poo.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: If Silva gets the Everton Job...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7615
Re: If Silva gets the Everton Job...
Watford crapped on him after he had made a good fist of dealing witha challenging situation. Why on earth would the man want to go back there? It would be an entirely backward step from a career point of view.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: A day spent at Ile Aux Cerfs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1263
Re: A day spent at Ile Aux Cerfs
All this while I was freezing my knackers off tidyiung up the dead vegetation in the garden and watching my breath in the air as I strolled from Roughlee to Barley. Pendle looked fantastic in the sun, mind.
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tesco Boycott
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5937
Re: Tesco Boycott
I am boycotting shithole Tesco and have done since some of their bosses (currently on trial) allegedly cooked the books causing me to lose a third of some money I was saving for my retirement and was foolish enough to put into the company's shares.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Red Robbo
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3439
Re: Red Robbo
And how many more have regretted it! I had two, I got in the second one after a rainstorm and found four inches of water in the footwell. No wonder they called it the bloody Marina!
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dyche-Watch
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2613
Re: Duchess-Watch
He'd be better going tonight -- it's half price supping up night! Maybe he has summat else on
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: big money players we have sold in last 5 years
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1791
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rally GB
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3263
Re: Rally GB
Don't foget Michelle Mouton. Wuff, wuff
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 11:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Garth Crooks
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5975
Re: Garth Crooks
Probably just me, but he reminds me of those chubby hedgehogs with the big bellies that you can buy as garden ornaments in garden centres and the like. Maybe he should go to sleep for four months of the year and keep his mush and gobshite opinion off the telly! Pricklist certainly!
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Job interview - Any advice appreciated
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3858
Re: Job interview - Any advice appreciated
Assuming you are a geezer, remember to zip yout fly up before yo u go in!
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Shakespeare sacked at Leicester
- Replies: 296
- Views: 25100
Re: Shakespeare sacked at Leicester
To be, or not to be? That is the question.
- Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Shakespeare sacked at Leicester
- Replies: 296
- Views: 25100
Re: Shakespeare sacked at Leicester
To be, or not to be? That is the question.
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sea angler swallows whole Dover sole
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2553
Re: Sea angler swallows whole Dover sole
Would love to stick with this but have to get my skates on as I am off out.
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sea angler swallows whole Dover sole
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2553
Re: Sea angler swallows whole Dover sole
Don't believe it! It's all codology....
- Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Daily Mail Premier table ??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2544
Re: Daily Mail Premier table ??
BBC are nearly as bad. They had Arsenal beating us 2-0 this morning in their review of the papers. It was, of course, Brighton who were beaten 2-0. What is it with teams beginning with "B" they can't sort out! Pillocks.
- Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: MOTD2 Thread
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6373
Re: MOTD2 Thread
It was my underkex that won the game for us!
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Police reception for Lincoln fans
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3988
Re: Police reception for Lincoln fans
Ah, that must be where we went wrong with Hanover, it really needed the second Rosegrove Scouts to sort em out!
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: BBC Radio One...Born 50 years ago..
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3548
Re: BBC Radio One...Born 50 years ago..
Two roofers working next door treated me to a day of Radio One at full blast a couple of weeks ago. It was about half an hour in before I realised it was Radio One and not some offbeat rap and wierdo music station. Absolute bloody crap. And why to builders and such like need the radio blaring all th...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sunday lunch near Clitheroe
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5434
Re: Sunday lunch near Clitheroe
For a good value, no frills traditional Sunday lunch with loads of meat and veg you could try the Hark to Bounty at Slaidburn. £15 for two and a choice of two roasts, then a lovely village to stroll round and walk it off afterwards. There is also another menu for those who don't fancy the roast lunc...
- Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Poppy Badges 2017
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3328
Poppy Badges 2017
This year's metal poppies. The Royal British Legion is this year producing poppy badges with Premier League football club emblems attached. Not sure what to think really, but if it makes them extra money, why not? https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/premier-league-football-poppy-pin-badges-from-officia...
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Walters doubtful for Huddersfield game
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3391
Re: ARTICLE: Walters doubtful for Huddersfield game
No mention of Wells amongst the casualties. He's not fit yet is he?
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Corrie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4775
Re: Corrie
Corrie is an absolute joke at the moment. There is just zero continuity between episodes. One minute Pat Feelan is mentally totturing that Andy lad down a cellar, then the whole story line is abandoned for summat like three weeks. Then another Corrie wedding goes haywire at the "alter" -- big shock,...
- Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hollies.Are they Burnley fans?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8307
Re: Hollies.Are they Burnley fans?
I know for sure that Bernie Calvert was because him and his dad used to sit on the same row as me in the cricket field stand during the 1980's, along with the landlord and landlady of The Brunshaw who were also on the same row and always arrive ten minutes after kick off after they had cleared up fr...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Romelu lukaku song
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4117
Re: Romelu lukaku song
Good grief. If I had a two foot dick they could sing what the hell they wanted! I'd still be extremely happy.....
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ryanair
- Replies: 235
- Views: 18458
Re: Ryanair
This is O'Leary's Gerald Ratner moment. The chickens are coming home to roost and longer term I think there will be more fragmentation of the budget airline sector as new challengers emerge. I think it is inevitable there will be some casualties. Hopefully the cock sure tosser will be one of them.
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4244
Re: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
Disgusting! Sod em, there's too much choice for them to act like utter ***** and expect people to keep going in there. A bit like an award winning Ribble Valley pub I kicked into touch over a year ago for similar bizarre behaviour and dual standards.
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Manchester Airport
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2761
Re: Manchester Airport
Get em to go up to departures on the level above arrivals. There's no fee to go up there and you can usually wait around for five minutes before the cops or security move you on -- but stay with your car or you will be in the poo. Best wait on one of the approach roads as the other poster has recomm...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4244
Re: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
Just ploughed through the Tripadvisor reviews. So many people can't be wrong. The only thing I don't understand is how the guy at the Dispensary has survived without apparently being glassed, clobbered or otherwise thoroughly worked over in such a way that he would have fled never to return. Must be...
- Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4244
Re: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
Sorry to hear about the problems with the Dispensary. I have been in three times and the ale has always been spot on. The guy behind the bar was a bit quiet as I seem to remember -- but certainly not abusive or rude. But I'll stand by the opinion of a Claret and swerve it in future (not like it is t...
- Thu Sep 14, 2017 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4244
Re: Real Ale - Liverpool Away
Dispensary, Fly in the Loaf, Philharmonic,Thomas Rigby's loads of them around the Dock and the streets around the Town centre and Dale Street.
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bilbao help please
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2385
Re: Bilbao help please
For us uneducated in Portuguese and Spanish can you thrown some light on these hilarious faux par please? Youv'e aroused my curiosity....
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bay horse roughlee
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5254
Re: Bay horse roughlee
I was talking to one of the investors a couple of weeks back. the original plan had been to reopen in September (as in around now) but things have slipped back a bit. They are hoping for a pre-Christmas opening now. I will certainly support it provided the ale is good and the price is more competitv...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Anyone else popped their central heating on?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 8696
Re: Anyone else popped their central heating on?
Got to confess I had it on for a couple of days in AUGUST. It's been a crap summer!
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:15 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bilbao help please
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2385
Re: Bilbao help please
Lovely place. I was there when they were building the new stadium which is up near the transport excahnge, so really easy to get through. There were guys working at 40-50 feet up on the stand roof without hard hats or harnesses, absolutely no regard for H&S rules. It reminded me of the famous shot o...