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I played at Fernhurst a few times, always seemed to flood very easily!

watched them all - it's brilliant, very dark in places. What certainly helps is that they are all very good actors, rather than comedians, I mentioned on the Steptoe thread how having actors in comedy can be a risk but does allow the show more options in terms of telling a story (e.g. not just...

I think there are several mitigating factors in this. The main of it is that 11 a side Sunday football was the only option back in the day, now it’s up against the various weeknight 5/6 a side leagues. In terms of facilities they are pretty awful in Sunday football, I won’t be the only one who...

One of the reasons behind the success of the original was Galton and Simpson's change in tack to cast actors, rather than comedians, in the lead roles. Previously comedy had largely been performed by comedians. Both Brambell and Corbett were professional actors, Corbett in particular had been...

"If it's a ban, it sets a dangerous precedent for me: Worried about an opposition player in an upcoming fixture? Stalk his social media feeds going back years and years until you find something he once said that was rather stupid / offensive. Bring it to light and expect the FA to issue a ban...

I'm pretty sure Viz did a great spoof of the disappearing hedgerow as reason for the extinction of jazz mags... On a more serious point a friend, who has a teenage son, was discussing the awkwardness of how to explain the whole adult website things to his son who is at that age. One tactic...

it's affording Trump too much credibility but .... The arguments and articles I've read (easily found on google) suggest that Isis were being trained and armed by the US in Syria as they were useful in opposing the Govt forces there. The squabble the US and Russia had over air strikes was due...

Hi all, Stumbled across this article which looks at the the Rhodes' transfer and thought I'd share it - quite an eye opener...perhaps Football Manager will update its transfer engine to include all this!

what's truly interesting is that the media have run with this (i.e. the papers). Presumably a few editors or the like didn't get a bauble they'd been promised.

I'll be looking for the first scorer odds (usually go with Betfred who do the hattrick heaven offer). Gayle could be tempting at the right price.

You are correct about the Lee Rigby incident, though perhaps they had hoped/expected to be killed by the police and thus tick the boxes as they saw it. Behind all of this is intelligence, even the most ardent fanatic can give away vital clues or information.

If you are hoping to die for your faith and reap the rewards you are sure you'll get any denial of this won't be preferable. I don't know enough to speculate on how they would be housed, but it wouldn't be very nice - you'll certainly be denied what you wanted to achieve and left to sweat on...

Agreed, the big fear is rotting in a cell somewhere. Being killed serves as a martyr recruiting tool, knowing that if you do it you'll spend the rest of your life in solitary is a tougher deterrent (though you could debate to what extent any deterrent works in such cases). I was listening to...

I know one person who works there, email has gone round saying that they are evaluating the situation. It may come to nothing but when it's your livelihood the 1% chance of the office moving abroad provokes butterflies.

call my cynical but this has all the hallmarks of an agent earning his fee. Agent makes clubs aware of the release clause in his client's contract, Arsenal activate it. Agent then goes back to Leicester, "well, Jamie's on X a week and Arsenal have offered him Y. He'd love to stay so if you were...

If you have a 24/7 rolling news channel there's only so many times you can repeat the same known facts in an instance like this. The demand is for the outlet to come up with a new angle, prior to the 24/7 news they had time to wait and reflect, now they are terrified of being scooped so they'll...

The ridiculous nature of 24/7 rolling news means events like this have no filter applied to them, any rumour is presented as 'possible fact' and eagerly swooped upon. If this 'possible fact' is later discredited the same outlet will act puzzled as to how this 'possible fact' even entered the...

I note that there has been a lot of chat about tightening up gun laws. The issue is whether these really police those who would require a gun for varying levels of crime. Take the San Bernardino shooting, two handguns used were legally bought, California has some of the strictest gun laws in the...

Purely as an observation on the tactics from both sides, the Remain trio really fared poorly. They didn't debate as a collective unit, I appreciate they came from three separate parties but at points it seemed the debate was merely a platform for them to sell their own agenda. Eagles referenced...

It can almost be argued that Nigel would benefit from Brexin, if we were to leave where would his party sit or find traction? I sense a few on the Brexit side are secretly hoping that the result is that we stay in purely so they can rail at the sidelines. Whatever the result the following...