Trojan
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Yes, Soccer is bigger practically everywhere. I just hate people who get nasty if you have the nerve to prefer another sport. And people like that cockney latic make me laugh they are so insecure. Its not enough that almost everywhere is dominated by soccer, you have to prefer it or they get nasty.
What really bugs me is the attention paid to soccer on non- sport TV. "Pointless" - a programme I watch at tea time with my wife invariably has at least one questiion connected with "footbow" and there are always a couple who say they like "footbow" Very rarely are there any questions on other sports. Obviously "footbow" questions invariably put women contestants at a disadvantage and result in their being eliminated. As my wife says there are never any questions about knitting!
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I don't think one FA cup victory, as remarkable as it might be, equals that.
I read Paul Wilson, not one of my favourite people (see previous posts re Millenium Weekend) in yesterday's Guardian, damning RL with faint praise. Now that Wigan have won the FA Cup we'll never hear the last of "soccer taking over from RL in Wigan." Speaking as someone who worked in Wigan for 15 years, soccer has always been bigger than RL, it's just that many Wiganers support Bolton, or Blackburn, or one of the Liverpool or Manchester clubs. If Wigan Athletic's crowds are higher than the RL club's crowds, could it be that a lot of them are away supporters from Liverpool etc. Stoke is not a million miles away either.
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First Thatcher dies. Then Fergie retires. Somewhere there's a Scouser with a lamp and one wish left!
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it's custom and culture as well
I can remember when horsemeat was eaten in this country. There was a horsemeat buthchers in Leeds when I was a kid, but it was going out of style.
The point is though that these burgers weren't supposed to have it in, same goes for the pork that was also found in them.
I remember the horse meat butcher in Leeds - near the market. I've seen horse meat butchers in France - there's usually a brass horse's head over the door. I ordered steak hache cheval in a restaurant in Brive thinking it was horse - but it was just a burger with an egg on top!
If you don't like Tesco's burgers try their meatballs, I hear they're the dogs b ollocks!
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Eva Cassiday's Somewhere over the Rainbow
Trust a Wiganer to like "Over the Rainbow" - after all it is where you go to weigh a pie!
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Melanie's version of "Ruby Tuesday" is far superior the Stones' version
Kirsty's version of "Days" is better than the Kink's version too.
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Uptown Top Rankin' - Althea & Donna
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Vorrei Cantare Come Biagio Antonacci by Simone Cristicchi
quirky but catchy.
precdeded by Uptown Top Rankin by Althea & Donna. Also fairly quirky! -
It wasn't snowing particularly hard, but hard enough to cause gridlock on the M62, I travelled from Jct 28 to Jct 22 and gave it up as a bad job - the road was shut eastbound anyway. So I turned around and retreated to Bradford. (which is what Sir William Fairfax did after the Battle of Adwalton Moor)
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Yes, sorry, I meant in my garden.
I wonder if the spread of red kites is scaring them away. The kites are now regularly hovering only about 20 metres above all the gardens around here - I know they don't usually go for live prey but the garden birds probably don't know that!
edit - thanks Trojan, that would explain it
I've sen red kites over Eccup Resevoir
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Where have all the birds gone? Seriously, all the varieties of #### and finches seem to have just disappeared.
All that is left are a couple of fat wood pigeons, a pair of blackbirds eating our manky old apples, one occasional robin and a fleeting visit from a solitary jay.
What's going on?
Edit T. I. T. S. is not a swear word!
It's the mild winter keeping them in the country according to this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/22/birds-gardens-rspb-winter
I know that on New Years Day, the bird table at my daughters near Stonehenge was swarming with chaffinches, bluetits, coaltits and starlings.
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I don't know how long it is since it snowed in Hull, but I was there on Thursday and there are still huge piles of dirty snow lying about.
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Come on Eileen, Dexy's Midlnight Runners.
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Been snowing in Morley this morning, but it feels warmer than of late. Forecast to get warmer as the week progresses, I hope it doesn't snow on New Years Eve, we're due to drive to Salisbury.
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http://newsthump.com:80/2010/12/20/spare-a...ay-uk-homeless/
Miriam Chimpney-Waters has been at Heathrow for over 11 hours, and despite being stupid enough to think that her flight would be flying out as scheduled, is angry that she is suffering an inconvenience.
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taking delivery of a load of pheasants next week.
Pheasant and partridge are lovely.
I used to work with a bloke who shot pheasant. I went for a weekend to Holland and brought back 400 duty free cigs and swapped him for a brace of pheasant. We cooked them wrapped in bacon, but they came out dry and tasteless, and full of lead shot. Never been tempted again.
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Never tried Rabbit. Saw Rabbit Stifaso at a Tapas Restaurant in Halifax the other week but it wasn't on the early bird menu so I didn't have it!!!!!
I'm cooking xmas dinner and am dying to cook Goose or Quail but I don't think anyone will appreciate it as it's not what we usually have on xmas day.
We nearly had goose last year, they had frozen geese in Lidl, at a good price, but we chickened out and had turkey (geddit) It's all the fat you get with goose that worries me, and will there be enough, or it there's too much what to do with the residue. I even bought a gravy separator to deal with the fat, but didn't need it.
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I worked in Cas for 10 years from 1981 to 1991 and never saw any significant snowfall there. I reckon the heat from Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough has something to do with that.
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It's coming either tomorrow, Thursday or Friday
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You're getting old. Have you stocked up on tins of soup and condensed milk?
Tinned soup! We can't afford luxuries like that.
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Got a snow shovel at a garden centre - B&Q don't stock them. I also got a bag of rock salt. It's being so cheerful that keeps me going
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In view of Paul Hudson's warning that we are in for another bad winter, I went to B&Q to buy a new snow shovel - I broke my last one last winter. They hadn't got any
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Days - Kirsty on U tube
Ten years this Christmas -
Just reading in one of Sadler's pieces today that Graham threw his runners-up medal away on Saturday. It was noticeable that he was the first down the tunnel as well. Bad loser.
You know what they say "show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser"
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in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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It was repeated tonight. Perhaps the Beeb read this forum?