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  1. Happy Exile

    [Travel] London Fireworks

    Mostly true, but the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony seems an honourable exception and like the work of a totally different country if watched back now!
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    [Travel] London Fireworks

    London is good, but having experienced some of the bigger Lewes displays where proximity is part of the fun and huge effort goes into the ebb and flow of the display it's hard to judge anything without a bit of bias that it's just not as visual or visceral as something from Cliffe or Southover...
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    [Albion] João Pedro's Penalties to end 2023

    I agree he must be doing something or just with averages we'd expect the keeper to guess right more frequently. There's that thing about how elite tennis serving is impossibly fast to react to - brains and bodies can't process and respond that fast. So players are reading and responding to...
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    [Football] Football murals

    Not better, but I was surprised to find a big Mo Salah mural in New York a couple of years ago. His hair is smaller images of him, it's quite cleverly done.
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    [Albion] Can I take a laptop into the London Stadium?

    You could ask Seagulls travel as a last resort. They might let you leave it on a coach in return for a donation perhaps.
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    [Albion] The Spurs fans - needy?

    From where I am in West Upper they were some of the louder fans. Even when most of them had left their dirge of "when the Spurs..." had a lot of volume to it. Weird Amex acoustics maybe?
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    [Albion] Am I being paranoid? De Zerbi

    Yep! There was one Lee Dixon (I think) commented on where Mitoma crossed for someone who then scored, and RDZ seemed annoyed with him. Supposition about a lobbed cross into the box being too high a risk of losing possession if the goal hadn't been scored and that angering him more than the goal...
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    [Albion] Premier League 26-28/12/23

    I think I'd quite like a Chelsea own goal by Jackson, then a Gallagher equaliser in the 8th minute of added time just to see the meltdowns from each set of fans.
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    [Albion] Premier League 26-28/12/23

    Nicholas Jackson. £32m. £260,000 a month. 8 year contract.
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    [Albion] Premier League 26-28/12/23

    The amount of money Chelsea spent to be this bad is incredible.
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    [Football] Chelsea V Palace - what result do you want?

    Similar response here. Want a draw so that's what I was happy about but feel like I should nominate myself for a season ticket points deduction and 5 game ban.
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    [TV] Channel 5 PM War Films

    Love the Dambusters film. I've posted elsewhere here before about how for a while I worked as a volunteer at Brooklands, before it opened properly as a museum, alongside Norman Boorer who was a key part of Barnes Wallis's team. We spent a lot of time together and he showed me all sorts of...
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    [Football] Are ball boys fair game?

    Amateurish from the ball boy really. Should have paid attention to the best.
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    [News] The Southdown & Eridge Hunt's traditional boxing day meet has been stymied

    Well. The truth is that there's still prosecutions every year for illegal hunting with dogs, and even more for other illegal activities carried out by hunts and their members. That's just the ones where the sabs get the evidence to support a prosecution too, so perhaps it's no surprise that...
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    [Football] Deranged Football Dads

    "Gabriel was woefully miscast, Mary was overawed by the situation, forgot her lines, and was an embarrassment. Meanwhile the year 2 choir don't seem to have taken rehearsal seriously at all and should be ashamed of themselves. And who the actual *@#% has ever seen a talking lamb?! Shambles. "
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    [Football] Deranged Football Dads

    That's for an under 8 team :eek: I'd love to see their review of the school nativity.
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    [Football] FC Barcelona statement on the Super League

    I'm hoping that City and Chelsea get their utterly humiliating FFP battering before they go and join the Super League so it just looks like an epic flounce that emphasises the total embarrassment both clubs should feel anyway
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    [Other Sport] BBC Sports Personality 2023

    Well...no. Those are quite binary statements. For a start, ability not gender (or other diversity) is still the determining factor of suitability. Some - mostly white men over 40 in my experience - seem terrified at this idea of meritocracy which would be funny if it didn't disadvantage so many...
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    [Other Sport] BBC Sports Personality 2023

    What would you like to know? Part of my work involves looking at organisational culture, hence being at this event. Paraphrasing a bit, diversity (of all kinds) is Good Thing when it comes to organisational performance, and there's a bit of evidence that when places have at least 30% of their...

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