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Blazing Saddles This has either aged incredibly poorly, or I have. Watched it recently and the wife made me turn it off after 30 mins - a decision I agreed with. Very not good. You use your tongue purdier than a 20 dollar whore. Forced to watch Westerns as a kid by my Dad, who was a fanatic. It was...

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Another one to mention is Robert Gerwath’s The Vanquished - Why The First World War Failed To End - 1917-23. It’s about the ghastly fallout from the collapse of the four empires, from the Baltic to Anatolia. Not just the Vanquished…the Greeks get a pasting too, and there’s more about Bulgaria than I...

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So this might not be terribly relevant, let alone interesting…. I’m finally reading “The Guns of August” - cannot put it down. ....POS Kaiser Wilhelm.... Until now, I could never really understand why that f*cking war actually happened Just finished this book on your recommend. I need a season two ...

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Olympiakos v Fenerbahçe. Naughty, naughty!

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Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife Marina, 82 and still living in Texas.

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Declan Rice been mentioned yet?

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anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:11 pm Would the west intervene to defend Guyana?

If Exxon asks nicely…

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Leinsterman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:08 am Nolan Sisters

The Dooleys

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And Nathan Carter.

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Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:51 pm
Ramming Speed wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:49 pm Rashly walked out on QPR to manage Barcelona. Must have regretted it every day for the rest of his life.
Didn’t know he led Barca to their first la liga in about 10 years… what a legend. RIP El Tel.

Inevitable once he replaced Maradona with Steve Archibald.

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Rashly walked out on QPR to manage Barcelona. Must have regretted it every day for the rest of his life.

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triplebogey wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:11 pm https://x.com/The_Wee_Doggie/status/172 ... 43234?s=20

She's an absolutely, truly, vile woman. Their cynicism has absolutely no depths.

It hasn’t been the far right telling people for a century that the State is illegitimate and that the Gardaí are their paramilitary enforcers.

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Ireland - tow a load of caravans onto one half while fly-tipping and doing donuts on the other, threatening to fight ye all.

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Most of my worst have been in Western France and give you an idea of how hard up many people are in rural France. €14 for four courses, you know the potatoes are pre-peeled from a bag, the veg from a jar, the meat thin and curly and the mousse not fully thawed. Not many places offering three courses...

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Definitely over-rated, but often brilliant. Someone explained it to me that it was due to French workers being given lunchtime vouchers as part of their pay. If, for example, you get €8 of vouchers you are happy to pay €5 a day for a €13 and won’t be too bothered about the quality. You won’t pay €12...

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Queen were popular but not 'big' in the same way Elvis or the Beatles were big. Abba were certainly 'bigger'. But how good a band was I'd suggest can be held to a different metric, when something like Bohemian Rhapsody still regularly wins greatest rock song ever voting contents, and everybody on t...

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Usual 4 weeks in the house in Kerry, looking out at the Atlantic. 20 days to go…

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Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel, a fictionalised account of his long service on the Western Front in WWi, talks a lot about how short the Germans were of everything as the war progressed, due to the naval blockade and the impact on agriculture of men and horses being forced into service. By 1918, they...

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Meanwhile, in Keighley…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-65954361

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Stupendously talented. Totally captivating presence on screen and marvellous diction. An all-time great.

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:42 pm Does anyone actually care about Cricket in Ireland? I'm yet to find anyone Irish with any interest in Cricket. It's probably as rare as League in Ireland.

Most popular game in Ireland (in 1870). Beloved of Joyce and Samuel Beckett (only Nobel prize winner in Wisden).

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Pope 3 away from the fastest test double-hundred at Lords. His 150 matched Don Bradman’s in 1930 as the second fastest ever. Duckett’s this morning was the quickest. Root the 11th player to score 11,000 test runs. His average has crept over 50 for now. In Ireland’s last two innings in the field, the...

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England 325/1 at lunch. Blowtorch on, turning ugly.

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OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:14 pm Poach some Saffers like Black Caps

Campher and Hume born in Jo’burg, Moor in Harare.

Cold gloomy morning here which should help Ireland early on, but otherwise 705 has to be the target!

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OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:17 pm T20? ODI? Test

4 day test, for some reason.

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63/0 after 9 overs. Prison-style. GAA can breathe easier.

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In many accounts of the war, one of the most remarkable things that is often not mentioned is how young they were. Gibson was only 25 . If you read histories where ex WW2 German military give their opinions on the forces they faced, one of the consistent criticisms of the British was that they were...

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The last American Civil War widow died in 2020 - Helen Viola Jackson, who married James Bolin of the 14th Missouri Cavalry in 1936. She was 17, he was 93.

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One of the reasons for the popularity of “Association” football after a slow start is that they changed the rules to stop “hacking”, the right to kick the opposition in the shins, regardless of whether they had the ball. Some of the founder clubs walked out to form a Rugby Football Union in protest ...

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Corbyn got 12.9m votes in 2017, Blair got 13.5m in 1997. The Tories got 4m more votes in 2017 than they did in 1997.

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Probably Jackman. A test in Guyana was abandoned because the local government wouldn’t allow him to play as they regarded him as South African

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A tad unfair to ignore the sterling work done by Allison Williams on Girls to popularize the practice here in North America or Andy Dick’s use of Rusty Trombone on The Aristocrats. The rimjob is one thing and not the big problem. Although it is a bit weird and fettishy, I won’t deny having delivere...

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Maggie Smith - Lady Bracknell
Julie Walters - Cheeky dinner lady

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I can say if you combine the Dr Pepper advert that runs 'Dr Pepper, what's the worst that could happen?' with the name and image of Dr Kelly some people, let's call them HR, will get upset with you and say it's inappropriate in a workplace What about if it was Dr Shipman ? Good shout as I always th...

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The impact she had on culture is immense, she challenged a dour and staid country and got it right. What is her legacy? Genuine question. How did she change fashion in the UK? Made tweed fashionable again, for a while at least. As it should be. Promoted high quality fabric-makers. My wife had a spe...

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Careless smoking .... I'd call that thing a rust bucket but it would be an insult to rust buckets everywhere. Functioning aircraft carrier is a stretch....though it might be a aircraft hauler with enough tugs to pitch in. This. It's been under repair for years. I have to admit not knowing that Russ...

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First English test victory without either Anderson or Broad since 2007.

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Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:23 am
Ramming Speed wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:02 am Brook to the rescue (again). What a find he is.

Third century in his fourth test. Makes a change from England struggling to score more than 150 against any team with a spinner.
Middle name of Cherrington, which is hard-core Yorkshire

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Brook to the rescue (again). What a find he is.

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