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Reply | Thumbs up for Hawthorn
at 17:29 7 Jul 2025
Agree - Greene King is the sort of brewery no-one welcomes taking over your pub. They can make half-decent beer but finding it is only to be achieved in parts of East Anglia ... and that rarely. A pint of IPA in "The Champion of the Thames" in Cambridge (behind Sydney Sussex} is generally excellent but it's a little far after a last pint at 2.20 on a Saturday to reach HQ in time for kick-off. Otherwise I tend to avoid Greene King. I think "The Richmond" which I used for years, has been taken over by them and despite the landlady's support for the Rs, the beer is a non-starter. |
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Reply | RIP Gordon Jago
at 14:35 6 Jul 2025
A great and humble manager who instigated Rangers' development from average to exceptional (and no I'm not denigrating Alec Stock). The football we played under him, his signings and the whole philosophy of fluid, structured football is a legacy which endures. We have had, and are having, slumps as at present but he created an expectation of attractive football in our fans. This has been a burden for some subsequent bosses but it lives in the hearts of the "Rs". Rest in Peace Gordon. |
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Reply | London / Cockney slang
at 11:59 20 Jun 2025
In Brighton Rock, Ida is consistently a "buer". This is down to the misogynistic attutude of Pinkie and his cronies. Rose, innocent and implicated is only a "buer" until she becomes Pinkie's property. In the original film, Ida's status as "loose" is confirmed by her singing and dancing as a showgirl thus assuredly a prostitute. |
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Reply | Travel advice
at 16:34 25 Mar 2025
I hope you enjoy Cracow. It is a stunning place. About ten years since I last was there but be prepared for moral and physical exhaustion at Auschwitz. The guides there are brilliant but some of the experience is chilling. Plenty of good bars and places to eat and the Poles have really expanded their repertoire of beer- not just home produced but imported from Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium and Germany - although I think you can get some pretty ropey English beer in "The John Bull" if you're not careful. There are so many places to visit - The Market Square and The Church of St Mary, The Cloth Hall , The Collegium (old part of university)- umpteen other churches - of St Anne and of St John, The Barbican, Kasimierz (I think) and the Jewish Quarter. The Dominican Church. Best advice - as suggested, hit Google and browse what you think you'd like. There's always "The Hard Rock" by St Mary's at about 1/3 of what we pay in London. Good luck - when I was there I couldn't find a QPR pub but times may have moved on! |
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Reply | Schools
at 20:36 5 Mar 2025
St Vincents off Marylebone High Street, then family moved and we relocated to Wandsworth. Being from a family of hardline kneebenders, I moved to Holy Cross in Ashington Road. Secondary was Cardinal Vaughan in Addison Road. Then off to universities and the great wide world outside of the Bush. I occasionally say hello to another exile from Cardinal Vaughan... one Kevin Gallen ...as he lives near where I do in St Albans. |
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Reply | Mousehole AFC
at 17:05 28 Oct 2024
Love visiting Mousehole. My missus derives from Penzance and we get down there a couple of times every year. The walk from Penzance through Newlyn to Mousehole is stunning but not really tiring. On that stroll you pass the closed lifeboat station and the tribute to the crew of the Mousehole lifeboat lost with all its crew. I always just fill up just looking at it still after years making this little trip. The football team are evident in local activities along with the Male Voice Choir and the Penzance and Newlyn rugby club - the Mennaye Ground is another great venue. Penzance is a brilliant town _ a working place unlike the holiday and exclusive atmosphere of St Ives or Padstow but it is scenic, with decent pubs and places to eat. I can recommend the Cornish coaster between Penzance and St Ives - open top in the Summer months but a fabulous way to see the coastal villages. Will be back down in late November...cunningly having plotted it to miss any of our home games. |
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Reply | Bird Advice
at 11:11 3 Sep 2024
A jay (basically the same bird) was injured in our garden. HIs/her injuries sound very similar to your magpie. Neither my wife nor I had much of a clue but we rang local pet shop who accepted the bird. A sanctuary would be best but the pet shop staff said that there is an organization who care for injured wild birds and they would collect our jay |
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Reply | Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 14:10 2 Sep 2024
Or we could decamp to the Mennaye Field with lots of space to develop a huge ground and share with the Pirates as they overtake Exeter. Penzance needs a big club (even us!). |
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Reply | Third kit...
at 16:28 24 Jul 2024
sorry but our Guinness kit as worn against Chelsea when we were sponsored by the black stuff was, in fact chocolate brown with ,I think, cream facings and hoops. |
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Reply | BIden v Trump - and we thought our options were poor !!
at 16:20 24 Jul 2024
Are you accusing Harris of being an incompetent mendacious opportunist? If so, then surely she would be a better running mate for Strumpet than Vance who is merely, singularly, an incompetent mendacious psychopath? Just saying! |
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Reply | The really best bit about the UK Election
at 15:28 5 Jul 2024
Utter and complete tory conspiracy b...s. Take your thrashing like a man. JRM and Boris would be ashamed of such a display of whining. Think up some other nonsense and apply for Rishi's job. He has just resigned and the party needs to reestablish its Monster Raving Loony credentials. You sound like you are just the man! |
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Reply | Best ever QPR friendlies
at 21:01 1 Jul 2024
I remember the Arbroath gam. They had a giant bruiser playing up front who looked like he'd had a skinful before the game...maybe he had. |
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Reply | Clever Shop Names
at 20:57 1 Jul 2024
There used to be a laundry in Highgate called Wishee Washee Splishy Splashy Cleanee Knickee Velly Quickee
I must confess to have seen this years' ago, sat around for ages trying to remember... and then stealing it from Simon Price on the Interweb |
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Reply | Musical Top Ten
at 20:40 18 May 2024
The Band
Arctic Monkeys
Rolling Stones
Tedeschi Trucks
The Four Tops
Steely Dan
The Who
The Kinks
Van Morrison
Bob Dylan |
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Reply | Who is your Non-League side?
at 17:02 5 Mar 2024
100% St Albans City - just down the road, decent level of football as well as being surrounded by a great range of boozers. Best EVER chant - home to York -(Because the cultured and religious City fans cherish their cathedral) "You've only got a minster". There's class for you! |
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Reply | Baggies Or Not Baggies... QPR Vs WBA Match Thread
at 15:21 3 Mar 2024
No former WBA player scored for us in 1967... therefore Sam does not need to score, although it would be nice! I'd go for a pint in the Lazarus' former pub in Fulham palace Road to guarantee victory but I'm pretty sure it's gone - or at least changed character so it's The Uxbridge as usual. |
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Reply | Sky ( the entertainment at Preston)
at 19:47 4 Dec 2023
I think the issue of Dykes "sending off" which was more than a little hysterical. No complaints about a female commentator, but just as with referees, linos, managers, directors, owners , players and supporters, they must be competent and objective to validate their view,. The commentary team on Friday was neither of these. The grudging faint praise for QPR once they had seen off Preston's early enthusiasm (no more because they did nothing with their initial possession and territory), for the second quarter of the match and then clearly dominant in the second half , was phrased in a deafening non-comment and reluctant concession of defensive determination. Bias in a national broadcaster, when it achieves the heights of pro-Preston desperation as of Friday, needs to be curtailed. I am sure the team from Friday - summarisers and commentators- have better days ahead of them - just preferably not dealing with a QPR match. |
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Reply | What Manager Would Wan't To Come Here?
at 18:02 8 Oct 2023
...and,from his commentaries, he is not scared of calling a spade a spade regarding performances. I am only worried that like Ainsworth - a club icon, Sinton will be faced with such a mountain to climb that his legacy as a club legend will be poisoned. I think Warburton would come back, his experience having chastened his views; I'd love Warnock back but it's a long way down to the farm in Cornwall and he'd need a razor-sharp number two. |
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Reply | The Hundred (*Non QPR)
at 21:15 8 Aug 2023
Comletely agree. The scheme is designed to kill off county cricket and place the media - conducive presentations squarely as the property of franchises - similar to U.S. Gridiron sides. These franchises are allocated to the major cricket grounds and tickets are nearly given away. I am a member at Kent (not a good year for us this!) and love both The St Lawrence and Beckenham grounds (and the Neville - but looks like that's a thing of the past) as well as visiting "away" venues. Taunton, Bristol, Hove, Richmond and a host of other grounds are great places to watch the full range of competitions but rarely get the TV coverage they deserve. The "Hundred" needs scrapping and the 4 -day, T20 and 50 over games given media support.
In a world where football and rugbu union may be limited to the "Super-grounds" and major financial interests are only too keen to impose their own image on the sports, it won't be long until London Excellence play Northern Superstars at The Wembley Superdrome (On Sunday Evening of course) in the Soccer Superleague and "Saraquins Irish" take on Celtic Ruckers at the "Twickenbowl" for the Rugger World Series. It's not difficult to see that you don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows (Sorry Bob!).
I attended the Ageas for the semi-final of the One-Day cup and was depressed to see not a single Hampshire shirt in the entire stadium because the young Hants fans all had "Southern Brave" shirts etc. Kent don't have that problem and yes, in a way of course I am jealous but the "Hundred" is a concocted Eton Mess which has much more to do with showbiz than sport. Bin it! As I look up from the laptop I am relieved to see the rain at Lords - even God weeps to see this nonsense! |
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