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Leon_C

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
My favourite is the Traquair Arms, Innerleithen Scotland.
A fine specimen of a hotel breakfast.

Leon_C

HahaYeah wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:57 am
Snoop with a Burnley shirt was something to do with him using recording equipment from a firm near here IIRC.

That's right - his studio uses equipment from AMS Neve. (They're an incredible firm - I'd Google them if you're interested in some of Burnley's finest exports.)

Leon_C

I was discussing this last night with someone - I travel to away games and just wander round the place and mingle with home fans. It's how it should be too. Yes, for anything other than the Rovers match, we only see basic separation of the away fans. That in itself is because of the coaches queued ...

Leon_C

Just over 20 years ago, we were naming coaching staff as subs in first team games, to fill the bench...

Leon_C

bumba wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 6:17 am
None of them are proper chippys, they all serve kebabs and takeaway food. The fish and chips are awful.

I enjoy Ightenhill Fish Bar - despite having been hugely sceptical (of a kebab shop/chippy hybrid) when it opened. Never had any complaints at all.

Leon_C

Thanks Leon. I understood it to be £20m over 10 years, about £2m per year. Is that incorrect? £1m a year over 20 years would barely touch the sides. Out of interest, what do you mean by: “only a small part of that bigger puzzle”. Is there something more significant at play? My mistake - yes 10 year...

Leon_C

The funding is definitely going ahead, it was only reconfirmed earlier this year: https://www.lep.co.uk/news/politics/these-are-the-five-lancashire-towns-set-to-get-ps20m-from-the-government-and-how-they-can-spend-it-5017735 Although the cynic in me would feel it may now be at risk given the probab...

Leon_C

I said...

Leon_C

I used to go to Holts years ago, when I worked in Nelson. Is it still there, does Lee still run it? Fantastic chippy, never disappointed. I was historically a fan of Birds in Rosegrove, but I've not been in years, because (as mentioned above) it's cash only. I don't have an issue with that, but on t...

Leon_C

You’d think that he would make some sort of statement, I.e. “Thanks for the memories”, or something of that ilk. I don't think that's necessary within a few hours of the contract expiring. I'm certain that an outgoing club captain would, when the time is right, and when an exit is confirmed, issue ...

Leon_C

I get that when I use my VPN.

Poor, from the actual ticketing platform (it's not actually BFC who provide the tech, of course).
Thousands of people will use VPNs - and this warning is just vague. It should, by default, point out that they don't support VPNs - if that is, indeed the case.

Leon_C

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 02, 2025 9:56 pm
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Haha - great stuff - well hopefully that takes off

Leon_C

Well, I'm not sure exactly how we'll pronounce it in Burnley, but this is the song I hear when I read his name...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng

Leon_C

Very glib way of looking at it. On the other hand, it means far fewer trips to the supermarket, the portion sizes reduce a lot of waste (i.e. they only send the amount you need to make the number of portions you select), and it's a good timesaver for those who don't have much of it. You could say h...

Leon_C

Good builder and a kitchen designer! Agreed. If you're not fundamentally altering the fabric of the building, you wouldn't typically need an architect. A decent builder would take care of the steelwork (and help you to get through building control) and the kitchen designer would handle finishes. Th...

Leon_C

Rowls wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:30 pm
Dean Marrrrrney!

It would be funny if we got them in the cup...

Leon_C

Re the England ladies' kit above... I don't understand how the 'Authentic' (as opposed to the more common, lesser-quality replica) shirt can be available in kids sizes?

Leon_C

This is a superb story. Good on the lads for getting involved.
The logo is well executed - it's a decent graphic.

I can understand that PNE might have wanted Google or Coca Cola to sponsor them, but having a positive story local brand on your shirt isn't to be sniffed at.

Leon_C

I've not been to Banny's in Colne for some time. The Burnley drive-through is decent, in my opinion.
They have an increasingly eclectic menu, more like a takeaway that does fish and chips also. The tikka fish is excellent, and worth a look - unless you're a tradionalist.

Leon_C

I actually think Rileybobs is spot on with a lot of what he’s said. Colour does influence human emotion and behaviour, that’s well-documented in psychology, branding, even kit/uniform design. But trying to discuss that here is always going to be a bit of a stretch. Football forums naturally lean tow...

Leon_C

Weren't we - fleetingly - top of the Premier League at half-time when we were beating Chelsea in August 2017?

Leon_C

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 19, 2025 6:40 pm
Do Balmers still do repairs?

Balmers were superb for me last summer, with a small petrol mower repair (broken starter.)
They work on certain brands, and not others. Most of their work is larger commercial/groundskeeping but they're definitely worth a call.

Leon_C

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Colne rd, near the town centre Welcome to Burnley… I frequently run and cycle on the canal along this length, so I'm familiar with this. On the whole, the towpath and surroundings are in excellent shape. This (I think it's 1 Colne Road?) is very much an exception and I ...

Leon_C

Not been on here for days - and saw this... I thought "Really?" And went to look...

Leon_C

Things like this blow my mind, does having your name on a stadium really bring you well in excess of £6m-£10m a year on top of what you would have made? Something like that wouldn't influence me to buy a product if a competitor of the same standing was even slightly cheaper. If a brand's long-term ...

Leon_C

mikeS wrote: ↑
Fri May 16, 2025 8:51 pm
Best name by a mile is Boltons.
Brilliant whoever named it that

It is a thing of legend

Leon_C

Ours was out, last night and this morning.
At work now, so don't know current sitrep.

Leon_C

I have watched 8 PL teams play at Leicester this season. The seats are behind the linesmen, about 40 yards from one of the goals, and almost at ground level. You get a great view of the back three or four of the team defending .Its a challenge for the linesman to keep up with these pros, but just a...

Leon_C

My lad has played at Walton Hall Park a couple of times, where the Everton women currently play.
They have a very small stadium (not dissimilar to Padiham FC), but a beautiful pitch. (The district team didn't get to play on it sadly.)
Goodison is a massive step up, great for the women.

Leon_C

I had a very pleasant ride down to Gawthorpe Hall yesterday that was very busy with families taking in the sunshine. Our training ground seemed to be very busy with young teams around 3.30pm. Was there another tournament on? I'm not sure what was happening down there yesterday, but the annual tourn...

Leon_C

It is frightening to think of someone reading a menu in two languages they can read and needing to ask the computer what sounds tasty. It is abdicating the human experience to an algorithm and for seemingly inexplicable reason. I think there's a difference between "example use case for the technolo...

Leon_C

CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Fri May 09, 2025 10:40 am
No offence, but your recommendations there seem really, really sad.

I'm going to refrain from answering every point - but when somebody at points at a topic that many people find interesting, and declare that they're "really, really sad" then this says more about them. You do you.

Leon_C

I feel i need to learn it to keep up with Techno - But what is the best to learn, I've used Chat Gbt but every week a new one comes out stating to be the best? Give me one thats going to be around and relevant for a few years and I'll find a youtube course ChatGPT isn't going anywhere. It's as good...

Leon_C

CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Thu May 08, 2025 10:40 pm
I can categorically state that an AI cannot produce MSc standard (let alone PhD standard) research docs in 5-30 minutes.

Yeah - I somewhat misspoke.
OpenAI claim that their TOP end agents can operate at PhD level.. that isn’t the capability of the £20 per month flavour just yet.

Leon_C

Good post, Elwa. I'm old fashioned. I just regard it as cheating. Most major LLMs have a 'deep research' facility. These will, with the click of a button, and perhaps 2-3 clarifying questions, produce PhD standard research documents, in 5-30 minutes. They have access to a wealth of public informati...

Leon_C

Hells teeth, they look like the cast of The Hills have Eyes.. Don't I know it... right now, gpt-4o is pretty weak with faces. We've had some hilarious examples on this testbed. To be clear - I'm not advocating that the current output standard is nearly good enough for consistent commercial work. Th...

Leon_C

Far from an expert so good to get your insight Leon. I think a year or two ago, it seemed like it was taking over the world and our lives were imminently going to be changed forever. Since then, it seems to have calmed down a bit and we're starting to find it's uses and where it's still pretty hope...

Leon_C

I don't want to knock your work but what are the human benefits to this over photography and actual art? Great question, Dave. This example is an early output from a prototype tool I've built, which assembles an image from (a) a 'real' source image, and a relatively sophisticated treatment prompt. ...

Leon_C

https://i.postimg.cc/Wp9ZW0bq/download-1.png And as a point of curiosity, one project I'm working on is an image asset generator... here's an example of where it is, at the moment... Remember that "Today's AI is the worst it will ever be..." - but this takes an existing photo, applies a pre-existin...

Leon_C

Fascinating to see the spectrum of opinion here. I've literally just come out of an internal presentation to half of our business (a version of a seminar we do to external prospects/clients.) We explore many of the topics referenced above... I'll offer some jumbled thoughts below: AI: we ask our gue...

Leon_C

I find this board to be a reasonable cross-section of the general public - so, on a good day, worthy of a quick bit of off-topic research. So - I put it to you good citizens of UTC... AI is a big area of development in my business (we’re a digital marketing & web agency getting increasingly involved...

Leon_C

Spike wrote: ↑
Mon May 05, 2025 9:13 am
If the Russians didn’t already know they do now !

Haha, yeah, I reckon they know a bit more about it than my trivia

Leon_C

Acting Claret wrote: ↑
Tue May 06, 2025 12:29 pm
Taskers in Accrington are having a”Closing down sale” selling off lots of stock. 50% off a lot of things apparently.

I believe it's a clearance sale pre-refurb, rather than 'closing down'.

Leon_C

Thanks for this. I feel more comfortable with a company like that if something goes wrong than with one of the bigger national chains I think Loom Loft is owned by the family behind Oswaldtwistle Mills. A very credible operation, with decent quality furniture. The bistro at Clitheroe is excellent a...

Leon_C

Few people know that the MOD transmitter site at Inskip is one of the command and control centres for the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent.

Leon_C

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sun May 04, 2025 5:22 pm
I've heard quite a few say Leicester have the best training facilities in the country. They should try using them

But imagine what a mess that would make of the grass.

Leon_C

I'm not a big golfer, but I enjoy an annual golf weekend with a great bunch of mates.

In recent years, we've had trips to:

Carden Park
The Mere
Tytherington
Mottram Hall
Herons Reach

All great.

Last October, we also had a few days in Portugal (Obidos, near Lisbon.). That was outstanding.

Leon_C

Entertaining, funny and apt.

Great move from the club to even consider making that happen, even if it’s doesn’t satisfy the small margin of fans that will criticise every effort they make.

Leon_C

Entertaining, funny and apt.

Great move from the club to even consider making that happen, even if it’s doesn’t satisfy the small margin of fans that will criticise every effort they make.

Leon_C

There is a global summit taking place in Geneva now to evaluate the energy resources required to power an AI with the cognitive and logic capabilities required to perform this count.

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