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Bring back Bryan wade!!

I wanna caravan for me ma
Jun 28, 2010
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Hassocks
Cometh the hour, cometh the Evan.

No finer time for him to rediscover his goal touch.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Crikey, not the ones I know to be honest - they hate the Yanks more than the Yanks hate themselves after an election. And that’s a LOT. Might be a regional thing…

Nobody - and I mean nobody - does passagg like the Canucks though. They’re absolute masters.
passagg?
 






Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Passive aggressive
Ah, OK. My ex-wife is Canadian :lolol:

In Vancouver when I lived there in the early 80s, the right wingers seriously mooted petitioning to join the US. The people they hated most were the Easterners, especially the Québécoise.

Most of the TV channels were American. Many of the richer female students were assiduously practiced in Valley Girl speak. ???
 




Curryisgreat

Active member
Dec 9, 2010
282
Possibly showing a lack of class there, Harry?

For whatever reason he’s not posting any more, having previously taken time off. But he will be seeing posts like yours.

Most of what he posted seemed to be considered to me, even if I didn’t always agree. Much like your posts.

Surely we dont want the board to be made up of lurkers like me, which will happen if people feel they aren’t able to contribute?
 


Seagull58

In the Algarve
Jan 31, 2012
8,505
Vilamoura, Portugal
Xenophobia. As we all know, in the states "football" means that game where they rarely kick the ball and if they want to talk about our game they call it "soccer". Of course this is harmless enough, however the whole world is saturated in American culture so this new usage started to feel like an assault on our language and culture. How dare they try to steal "football" and force us to only use the soppy "soccer" label? Soccer in the USA seems to be viewed as a childs game, less manly than "football" and is used in derogatory terms such as "soccer mums".

Of course it is just a word and used to be common in England but meanings of words change over time and now "soccer" is an Americanism and a belittling of the beautiful game.
Soccer moms
 


Pogue Mahone

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Apr 30, 2011
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Crikey, not the ones I know to be honest - they hate the Yanks more than the Yanks hate themselves after an election. And that’s a LOT. Might be a regional thing…

Nobody - and I mean nobody - does passagg like the Canucks though. They’re absolute masters.

Possibly showing a lack of class there, Harry?

For whatever reason he’s not posting any more, having previously taken time off. But he will be seeing posts like yours.

Most of what he posted seemed to be considered to me, even if I didn’t always agree. Much like your posts.

Surely we dont want the board to be made up of lurkers like me, which will happen if people feel they aren’t able to contribute?
Agree with all of your post, except for the word ‘possibly’.

@Stat Brother is a lovely bloke, and I don’t know why @Harry Wilson's tackle feels the need to belittle him here.

Live your own life and let others live theirs.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
Possibly showing a lack of class there, Harry?

For whatever reason he’s not posting any more, having previously taken time off. But he will be seeing posts like yours.

Most of what he posted seemed to be considered to me, even if I didn’t always agree. Much like your posts.

Surely we dont want the board to be made up of lurkers like me, which will happen if people feel they aren’t able to contribute?
I would imagine his absence is a personal issue rather than the effect of the my putting him on ignore, and he seems impervious to the relentless 'statbore' jibes that others make. I welcomed him back last time he re-engaged. But lacking any apparent empathy doesn't bode well if one wishes to engage on a football chat site. Prickly rebuffing of any attempt to be comradely isn't very polite.

Nevertheless you're right. If he has slipped into a bad place I hope he can come through it. I will delete my mocking posts/comments.
 


FatSuperman

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Feb 25, 2016
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Mate, you’ve just described every single unplanned meeting between two or more beings that has occurred in the history of the universe.

“I’m sorry Pa, it’s just so far fetched that you met ma in the very same diner that my friends and I went to last night. The chances of that are astronomical, you expect me to believe of ALL the places Ma could have been at 7:15pm all those years ago was THAT diner, and that she was leaving just as you walked in?? And THEN, 26 years later my college buddies and I stop there on the way to a World Series game? PREPOSTEROUS!”
 


jcdenton08

Offended Liver Sausage
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Oct 17, 2008
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Mate, you’ve just described every single unplanned meeting between two or more beings that has occurred in the history of the universe.

“I’m sorry Pa, it’s just so far fetched that you met ma in the very same diner that my friends and I went to last night. The chances of that are astronomical, you expect me to believe of ALL the places Ma could have been at 7:15pm all those years ago was THAT diner, and that she was leaving just as you walked in?? And THEN, 26 years later my college buddies and I stop there on the way to a World Series game? PREPOSTEROUS!”
And still no apology.

Dreadful behaviour.
 




nickjhs

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They're not though. The US and Australia have their own "football" code, so they use "soccer". What are they supposed to do? Suddenly use "football" as shorthand for association football and throw their own local understanding of the word "football" in the bin?

And it's not as if soccer isn't used on our own door step. Nobody calls the game "football" in Ireland either, because they also have their own code, yet nobody seems to get irritated by the Irish referring to the game as soccer.
I am fully aware of this, I just like pointing out how insignificant their 18 team league is and the fact that it's not actually football, neither is it a ball :D
 


Stato

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Dec 21, 2011
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On the subject of why the English don't like the Americans calling football soccer I always think that people arguing that 'soccer' is an acceptable alternative term miss the point. They shouldn't have to seek an alternative term because that utterly tedious cross between rugby league, shoveha'ppeny and catch that they play bloody obviously isn't football.

And while we're at it, the other one's called 'rounders' and is for children not sophisticated enough for stoolball, let alone cricket and they may have come up with basketball themselves, but it subsequently took them a decade to work out that it might be a good idea to take the bottom off the basket . Leave sport (no s) to the experts.
 
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Harry Wilson's tackle

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WhingForPresident

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Why is it good to Ansu on the pitch? Did he really try in an Albion shirt? Seemed more interested in getting subbed off than subbed on.
He did to begin with at least. Looked to give up around the same time RDZ and a fair portion of the team did, I doubt being in the middle of that situation after coming back fro. yet another injury helped him.

I'd just like to see him realise at least some of his potential, regardless of his spell with us tbh, just as it'd be a shame to see so much talent go to waste.
 


Cotton Socks

Skint Supporter
Feb 20, 2017
2,158
The story requires a cascade of coincidences. It's unlikely to have occurred.
The UK is not a big place, Brighton is a small place.

Off the top of my head I know that Casper Ankergren (our old goalie) used to smoke whilst he was playing for us, as I used to see him having a cheeky cigarette around the corner as our kids went to the same school. No one cared then, not many people knew who he was, as we weren't in the PL.

Glenn Murray used to walk his dog in the same park I walked mine in, due to my complete lack of coordination when throwing a tennis ball, I wasn't going to throw it in his direction to 'make conversation' because I probably would've accidentally hit him in the face. When the Amex first opened & they were training at Falmer I'd often see players running in Stanmer Woods (not the popular part).

Bruno occasionally popped into a pub I drink in. My FIL has had a couple of chats with Billy Gilmour in a social setting before he left last year. Spoke to him as a 'person' not a footballer, all equal, no one cared what he did for a living.
Things maybe changing slightly as we're now a PL club & the players are more recognisable 'out of context' but there are loads of people on here that have seen Potter jogging along the prom. I know @Han Solo struggles with the fact that Sussex is actually a small place & word gets round if players are seen in nightclubs, or one of our players watch a Burgess Hill match. They don't get mobbed at the moment, as we're far to 'cosmopolitan' down here to make a big deal of it. They used to even go shopping in Tesco themselves! 3 years ago Jnr's friend got a selfie with a young player in JD Sports, I will be forever baffled as to why the player was in JD Sports but I saw the pic & it was definitely him.

I think most of us seeing a player in Tesco, would nudge them out of the way if they were going to attempt to take the last ripe avocado or packet of muesli. I'd get their autograph at the Amex, but when they're out & about I wouldn't ask. I would have a hissy fit if they did try & take the last ripe avocado at Tesco, tell them to f**k off to M&S & have a rant on here about it though. ;)
 








nickjhs

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Apr 9, 2017
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You're allowed to share it, you're not bound by patient confidentiality.
I get that technically the paramedic broke confidentiality, but have we really gotten to the point that we are so strung up that it's not ok to say "it's all good we thought it was something but he's fine". Sure if they had said, 'look we don't know yet but it's looking serious, he might be paralysed' that would be out of order.
 


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