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29 minutes ago, Old Frightful said:
Worked perfectly for your team yesterday, we knew what Salford were going to do so I assume the Hull FC coaching staff and therefore the team did as well. Chuck the ball out wide one way then sweep it back the other and they created an optical illusion.
One team had an extra 4 or 5 players on the pitch.
Shhh!
We've got previous.
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16 hours ago, Old Frightful said:
And I've agreed to go...
Oh, how I would love you to win that!
How great would the journey home be?
Hoping.
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2 hours ago, GUBRATS said:
Not as bad as last season , it was 9-0
This year it's 8-2
Always look on the bright side of life!
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3 hours ago, DI Keith Fowler said:
Adding poisoning to the list.
If you know a guy called Vlad, you might be able to add nuclear strike to your list.
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On 23/02/2023 at 15:54, Oxford said:
If Saints suffer from their travels the rest of SL should club together and buy them a flight to Vladivostock and back midweek every week.
"and back"? Are you sure?
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No room for Dave Dee, Beaky, Mick and Titch?
I shall hang my head in shame.
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It's snowing here. Well, actually a mix of snow, hail and rain.
Nothing unusual in that, you might think, but I live in Crete. It is freezing cold outside. Good job we've got central heating!
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To add, I've just googled "patterns of tyre tread wear". Some images, explanations and advice on there.
Good luck.
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42 minutes ago, MattSantos said:
Steering wheel a bit shakey so took the car into QuickFit.
They can do an alignment, probably out of synch due to all the sodding pot holes, but they also say i need new front tyres. A bit of a difficult question to answer, but do i need the new tyres? They're about 18 month old (as is the car) and they seem alright to me*.
I'd rather pay £50 than £400 so thought i'd try and do some research.
If i do get the new tyres, can i keep the old ones and sell them? How does that work as they're surely worth somet?
*I am absolutely useless at all things car.
I don't have much knowledge of the mechanics of cars, but I did get a wheel alignment done here in Greece about 12 years ago.
From what the guy who did the alignment said, you should try to look at the pattern of wear on the treads. If your wheels are out of alignment, you might see a line of wear in the tread. Properly aligned wheels should spread the wear evenly across the width of the tread and not leave a wear line along the length of the tread. If your tyres show this wear pattern, you should get them replaced. If they don't, the garage should be able to correct the alignment on the existing tyres.
If you are in doubt, think about this. Your tyres provide the only contact between your car (containing you and your loved ones) and the road. It's a small price to pay for your safety. Ask any of the many bike riders on here and they will tell you not to take a chance on your tyres.
HTH.
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11 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:
I think you'll find the ceiling's on top Tony.
As I can't look, I'll take your word for it.
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2 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:
there must be some high shelves?
There are. Fortunately, we have a set of step-ladders. I'm still at full stretch to reach the top-most shelves which are used as a kind of long-term storage.
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Ha, ha!
Our wardrobes are fitted and floor-to-ceiling, so there's nowt on top.
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12 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:
I can enjoy myself sober Johnny (I don't drink at all Monday to Friday ) but on a night out I would be miserable without a few ales
If I were nasty, I'd score in that open goal you've left.
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1 hour ago, Tommygilf said:
Monster Mansion, on Love Lane next to a Brewery
Or Home Sweet Home?
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8 minutes ago, Red Willow said:
I think these were from London/southern softies judging by the accent. Just seemed to be an outbreak that day.
Outbreak? It must be a new virus. They'll make a vaccine to protect us northerners soon.
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1 hour ago, JohnM said:
Understood, Tony. Given a decent teacher, I bet you could learn to play the guitar to at least a basic level. Would that be a good thing though?
As someone who had to struggle taking extra maths lectures just to cope with the complexities of physical electronics, I know the pain.
I'm thinking more about a syllabus for mathsphobes that covers fewer topics over a longer period of time, and with direct and obvious practical application.
You know the sort of thing. If it takes four people two weeks to dig a hole, how old is the supplier of the shovels.
The shovel supplier is 42.
The thing about a syllabus is that it must be relevant to the students' experiences, offer a tangible benefit to the students and be interesting. If you can do that, you can give the students some motivation. To my mind, we've lost the motivation factor.
When I was at school, the prospect of a better-paid and more secure job was the motivation. That's gone. Teachers now have to be more inventive to provide their students with the incentive to study, ie motivation. Ah, I miss the good old days.*
*I don't really!
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6 hours ago, JohnM said:
Hence the need not to study maths but to learn the basics. Five years should cover that. I think you'll find it all adds up.
Is that your "5 years", or bearman's?
As a teacher of many subjects, including Secondary School Maths, I do not mind people who claim to be unable to do Maths. It is skill, like any other skill. I can't play the guitar, for example. What really annoys me, though, is teachers who claim to be unable to do Maths. Anyone who cannot do Maths should not be allowed anywhere near a classroom, even a nursery classroom. It is a basic skill and, if you cannot help your pupils with Maths, you have no right to even train to be a teacher. The same goes for literacy skills. Rant over.
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3 hours ago, Wolford6 said:
Garetn Bale has retired from playing club and international football.
Didn't he retire from club football about a year after going to Real Madrid?
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It must be about ten years since I went to them, but I quite liked Rustique, as did my wife and her family, and at Ate o'clock when our quiet family meal was disturbed by a noisy family with kids, the waitresses waited until we had finished our main courses and then moved us to a different, but quiet, room and gave us our desserts for free. Brilliant service. Both served good food in an interesting restaurant. I'd recommend both.
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2 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:
I don't intend to get everyone's Christmas down but my uncle died yesterday.
Yesterday was also my late grandmother's birthday.
Today is my grandfather's. He's in bits at the moment and I'm going to be spending the entire weekend sat on his sofa with him.
Merry Christmas!
It will be difficult, but I'm sure you'll find a way through it. If your grandad is up to it, try remembering your gran and the good times you had together, perhaps some of the daft things you all did.
Good luck and try to have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
And that goes to all of you, too.
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1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:
wheres the queue?
It's behind you!
(panto season?)
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3 hours ago, Farmduck said:
Yeah but look who the pilot was:
Is that the closest he's been to active service?
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1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:
I really don't know how the bit about not crossing the line has anything to do with your point.
Also, whether or not Rattin's sending off was deserved or not, it says nothing about what he was actually like. I suspect Tony probably wasn't referring to that one point.
I wasn't referring to that one incident. To be fair, Rattin's reputation preceeded him to that tournament. However, he did his best to live up to it. In modern terms, he'd have been sent off earlier for two yellow cards. Gj's point about the British press is valid, though. By the time of the game, he had been so demonised by the press that his dismissal was inevitable. He did deserve it, though.
The third Goal against Germany was dubious, at best. Why Roger Hunt didn't follow up, I'll never understand.
Still, enough reminiscing for now.
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17 minutes ago, Damien said:
Argentina are one of those teams that I find really hard to like at international level. I adored Maradona and think Messi is a wonderful player but as a team they really do employ every trick in the book to win. At times they can be utterly cynical, dirty and ruthless then the next rolling about, diving, play acting and all the rest. I know this is Football and all teams are at it but Argentina always seem to take it to another level.
I bet not many of you bairns can remember Rattin. Epitomised what you said.
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Sat 11th Mar: SL: Hull FC v Salford Red Devils KO 15:00 (OurLeague)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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Thanks, mate. I'm champion, hope you are, too!