Ah Liverpool fan - that explains it.
Ah Liverpool fan - that explains it.
Football's not for you clearly.
That's why I wrote "greek speaking". Indeed under the Ottoman Empire there was a mix of different cultures and religions but that was after the fall of the Roman Empire in the East. Unfortunately after the 1st World War it all changed. It's complicated but you can read about it in history books.
St George was in all probability a greek speaking Roman who was born in the Roman province of Cappadocia which is in modern day Turkey. The people we know of as Turkish today arrived in the area after the fall of the Roman empire. Farage is still a nasty little racist though.
Not just a canoe but a banjo too - it doesn't get much better than that. youtu.be/-rPME6PcmiQ?...
Here it is in all its glory. It's actually been there for a good few years so it must be doing something right.
Aren't you collaborating with Richard Tice?
Perhaps he should have copied in Starmer.
In Gatley (south Manchester) there's an Alaska Fried Chicken!
I take comfort in the fact that there has been a concerted attempt by the right wing media (and unfortunately I include the BBC in this) to instigate some sort of violent, racist, nationwide protest this summer. They have failed.
Oh look someone from the land of Big Macs, KFC and squeezy cheese having a dig at another country's cuisine.
There's plenty of evidence of City managing their players better after a major international tournament and finishing stronger than their rivals. No reason why they can't do it again especially with Arsenal's record of dropping off at the end of the season.
As for squad depth this bench will do me Ederson, Ake, Doku, Rodri, Bernardo, Nunes, O'Reilly, Khusanov, Foden
Fair enough. History is on my side though.
50/50 ball
They had plenty of rest. Came home from the CWC half way through and then just one pre-season friendly.
If Rodri stays fit there's only one winner.
Just to add in this country we tend to avoid towns and cities when planning a bike ride. However in the Netherlands the countryside is a bit flat and samey but they have some lovely urban areas that are a delight to ride through.
Use a Dutch app as the cycle path network is well signposted with a letter/number code at each junction. Also remember if there is a cycle path you are legally obliged to use it.
Do you genuinely believe that anything Trump says today will translate into concrete action? The man can't be trusted.
Do you actually know what a "myth" is?
Your job as a Labour MP is not to follow Reform but set an example and promote a positive view of immigration and what it brings to this country. If you can't do that you're in the wrong party.
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I think we forget what a tough apprenticeship those northern clubs were. You had to be good to survive as a comedian. The problem came with TV stardom which created a comic character and the material became increasingly repetitive and predictable.
That's right they've done other things too. Terrible, terrible things that are too terrible for the government to tell us exactly what these terrible things are.
I bet he'd hate if this side-by-side went viral.
The selection of Rico is annoying all the usual tossers.
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Bluesky does the same with social media - I like the people I follow and if something turns up I don't like it gets blocked.
Or perhaps social media is going the way of music and TV where to can get what you want without having to engage on a wider scale. My musical tastes tend towards bluegrass and traditional country and there are plenty of places I can find that so I've lost touch with contemporary music.
An A* in Further Mathematics might help with following the myriad permutations of the Fairport Convention line up.
Wild card choice - Tijjani Reijnders. I'm backing him to get a shed load of goals from midfield for City.
I'm sure his heart is in the right place but his writing style could be better.
Spoiler alert - paragraphs 234 to 273 are where you'll find all the references to "no evidence" and "insufficient evidence".
City also made the claim, accepted by CAS, that some of the financial “arrangements” discussed in the email had never come to fruition. I'm not sure they're the smoking gun everyone thinks they are.
From the CAS decision "...the adjudicatory committee “wrongly assumed that the criminally obtained documents are genuine”, when they said it was obvious that at least some of the documents have been “edited to achieve a particular presentation”.
So why would they get a slap on the wrist if not guilty?
As always non City fans automatically think they are guilty.
How do we find out who is making these decisions? There appears to be no accountability.
It's strange that it's ok for some and not others. We use it through the fire stick and tablet and 90% of the time it's fine. I think the annoying thing is when it crashes you have to go back to the beginning of the programme. When iPlayer crashes it restarts where you lost it.
With regard to the BBC they certainly should take account of seat numbers. The constituents in Green seats have every right to be informed of what their representatives are doing as those in Reform seats. The Lib Dems even more so.
It's the ITVX app rather than the ads that puts me off. An awful buggy thing that crashes for no apparent reason.
I agree about the layout. There are certain conditions that have to be met for the roads to be adopted by the local authority but since the Thatcher reforms of the 1980s developers have the upper hand about what they want to build. The planners can't just reject something they don't like.
Just out of interest if housing is needed in rural areas where should it be built? There aren't vast areas of brown field sites waiting to be developed.
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I'm glad someone else remembers this. I'm pretty sure Peter Walker (Senior Political Correspondent for the Guardian) was one of them. There are a couple of right wing loons at my workplace and I have nothing to do with them - it's not difficult.
They have a massive majority and all they've done is tinker around the edges and pander Reform. They've done nothing about transport, water, local government funding or any of the other major issues that need to be addressed urgently.
It could be worse, it could be British Airways.
They used to play darts on a "Manchester (log end) board" in there. I'm not sure if it's still a thing.
I'm not sure a 24 year old should be going to a youth club.
I'm a bit out of the loop now I live 200 miles away but is the Gents still outside under the viaduct?
Because BBC News and Current Affairs is a far right sinkhole. I'm not sure what else they have to do to convince people - start wearing black shirts?
In a dream last night I saw a poster for a Rick Wakeman concert and the support bands were "Slimy Kline" and "Trumpet Finger". Does anyone know if these are real bands that were somehow lodged in my sub conscious?
Has anyone finished the crossword yet?
That's what we're planning to do in September - I'm hoping things will still be open as the tourist session comes to an end.
I'm old enough to remember when people who flew BA looked down on those who used easyJet - "sleasyjet" was the derogatory term. How times have changed.
The food has to be ordered through an onboard app but it couldn't cope with the number of people trying to access it (they know how many people the plane can carry!). When we finally connected there wasn't much left so we had a ploughman's with stale rolls and plastic cheese. Never again.
We flew back from Rhodes a couple of years ago with BA. The plane was freezing cold and when my wife complained they said they couldn't do anything about it. After further complaints they grudgingly brought her a blanket from 1st class.
Meare - one of many claimants to be England's longest village.
This was the stadium I frequented as a youth - I'm not sure it would have been the ideal location for a teenage tryst.
What a load of - and I say this with all due respect- bollocks.
I, Claudius is better than any of these.
Especially when "Imagine" still exists.
Both good pop songs - can't see the problem tbh.
Replacement hipsters perhaps.
I suspect his job will be to disseminate racist, anti migrant sentiment in a desperate attempt to woo Reform voters.
Why does he work for a newspaper that promotes racist, anti migrant propaganda?
Quiche Lorraine Viva
Mavis Staples
Is that the great Leanne Thorose I can spot on mandolin in the background.
Just wait until you hear about these things called cars....
You really need to explain why it's not possible to do both.
Can you explain why he's wrong?
I wonder if Judith would be quite so keen on inciting violence and unrest if it was to take place on her doorstep?
Exactly this - it was a fairly common word used as a synonym for football in the media. I assume just for a bit of variety but I'm pretty sure no one in the factory/school etc said they were going to play "soccer on Saturday". "Football" was the regular usage.
They were local installers and I did think it was a bit high from what I'd read. Perhaps it's because we're in rural Somerset with not much competition. I'll try Octopus as we use them as our electricity supplier.
I looked into it for our 2 bedroom, well insulated 1970s terraced house. I got two quotes both in the region of £15000 - so around £7500 with the government subsidy. Far too expensive at the moment.
Down here in Somerset they're closing the road through Langport for a month and I can tell you some people are absolutely fuming. It's the talk of the tea rooms.
Councils "aren't refusing to adopt new build estates". They are refusing to adopt new build estates without a Section 38 agreement.
The journalist seems to have no knowledge or understanding of the Section 38 agreement that developers and local authorities enter into with regard to adoption. Unfortunately without this it just turns into a pub rant about useless councils and corrupt builders.
Once the stakes are high enough competitive people will do whatever they think it takes to win.
I binned Spotify because it's such a bad experience on all levels. I looked into it and French streamer Qobuz came out top for artist payment and sound quality. About the same subscription cost as Spotify.
Well done trying to unpack this nonsense. Although "mad as a box of frogs" would have covered it.
We'll I'm certainly glad that there's a law in place to protect me from old people carrying placards.
That seems to be based on Reform winning votes from the Lib Dems in the South West. Which is bizarre as Lib Dem success has usually come from winning over moderate Conservatives.
The problem as with many things to do with there BBC (eg Question Time guests) is that there seems to be no accountability. Complain and all you get is a bland statement admitting nothing.
You were on UC - is there any YouTube footage we can view? Fingers crossed there was a question on Californian popular music 1965 - 1970.
9 hours - perfect for a night train. Go to bed in London, wake up in Berlin.
At times like these "relentless flippancy" is an absolute relief.
So are we the 6th (or 7th) largest economy or a banana republic?
He certainly struggles with interpreting statistics.
I don't know what you are Assistant Professor of but I hope it's not statistics.
Wait until you decide you want to learn Scruggs style bluegrass banjo! As someone who was fairly competent on guitar that was/is a real learning curve. Great fun though.
Was the Fosdyke Saga the one that had the "Tripe Wars" in it. I loved that and the Perishers too of course.
And of course Mamdani isn't actually a "socialist" - he's just not a complete right wing nutjob.
That doesn't change the legal situation.
Impartial isn't the same as uncritical.
They usually end these talks with an "any questions" session. Now let me think...
I don't know why they cut this from the episode, they should have left it in. youtu.be/2c6qENWh2jQ?...