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Hobiejoe

Evening all. Apropos nothing in particular, I ambled over to take a look at Sparrow's blog and was immediately struck by how very, very bland the classroom in which CallMe was pictured is. It is almost completely featureless, everything - walls, ceiling, furniture - in various shades of grey. Nothin...

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/07/leeds-united-served-winding-up-petition?CMP=twt_gu http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/87jluic29f8m1fim2tuvot1ql/title/statement" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Leeds Utd have been issued with a winding up order ,this is t...

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Ooops, sorry about (yet another) pointless post, this time rendered pointless by my inability to work the "read new posts" facility at random moments. Missed half a page of comments this time, hence my late arrival at the party. Still got a Gordon feeling, though. Albeit with a slightly Da...

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I give up on Scotland. It quite simply took leave of its senses by voting anything like 45% for YES. Fantasy macro and superiority to the rest of the UK. Didn't want to hear any awkward truths. The vast majority of Scots on both sides are, like the rest of us, just trying to get by and voted in the...

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I have to say LadyC, I'm completely disarmed by your posts. If me and the clan are ever down your way, expect a PM asking for your details, as I'd be delighted to meet you (not that there's an FTNer on earth with whom I'd not share a pint, bien sur). Oh it would be a real delight to meet you and yo...

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That sounds fun. I'm going first. MINNIE WILLESDEN & the RAVS Vera Whitechapel & the Tiger Cubs (never learnt to drive a car!) May Nantwich and the 504's, or, if I go for the bike, it's May Nantwich and C10's (BSA, you understand...). Crikey I'm an old fooker. Mary Ellen Plymouth and the Tr...

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A slightly odd request, but I'd guess some of our Hampshire brethren may be able to help. There's a chap in UKIP who's promising the earth to a musician I know, and I mean The Earth, to perform, yes, another one, a UKIP song. It is patently bollocks, but she thinks this is the big breakthrough, a l...

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A slightly odd request, but I'd guess some of our Hampshire brethren may be able to help. There's a chap in UKIP who's promising the earth to a musician I know, and I mean The Earth, to perform, yes, another one, a UKIP song. It is patently bollocks, but she thinks this is the big breakthrough, a li...

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diGriz wrote:Ukip Calypso on Amazon. The reviews are worth a read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ukip-Calypso/dp/B00OG4HPDQ

Some very funny stuff there - liked the one that suggested that the next song will be Farage gangsta rapping the Rivers Of Blood speech.

Hobiejoe

Regarding The Great Calypso Calamity, desperate times demand desperate measures.

We need to start a campaign to get Belgium's greatest pop star back to number one. Plastic Bertrand, our great nation needs you.

Hobiejoe

Apologies if already covered, but there's a major story on The Graun site about obesity. If you read the story there's actually some degree of sense to it. Can't link because iphone, but I don't think you'll have any problems spotting the headline - it'll be the hugely insulting to NHS staff one. Sh...

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Evening all. News from behind the bar is that a regular (albeit six-monthly) punter who has always had interesting things to say about interesting stuff in a broad spread of educational stuff turns out to be an ex-deputy head who was an early Ofsted inspector. I happened to mention Gove in a chat ab...

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pk1 wrote:Bugger, I've started a new thread but maybe car discussions should stay on this one ?

Don't mind me, I was just unwinding after work, and am very much off home now because it's way too late o'clock!

Night all.

Hobiejoe

The QT summary is brilliant. That description of David Cameron should be engraved on his tombstone (and maybe one day it will be). As for cars, if you want a toy I am afraid you have the insurance costs. I used to love driving cars with 240 bhp like a granny. I always believed in driving at the spe...

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I've always had a burning urge to get a scientifically accurate definition of how many bottles of beer consitute 'lashings'. And is this a constant factor, i.e., do lashings always come to the same figure whether they're being swigged by the Famous Five or by the Swallows and Amazons (greatly super...

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.....and now for something completely different and off topic :) Craggy face of 'Cliff' appears in rocks on Devon coast The features of a man, resembling a character from Lord of the Rings or Walter White from Breaking Bad, have appeared near Hope Cove in the county http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...

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AngryAsWell wrote:@Hobiejoe
Is this your pub ? (Only kiddin)

http://t.co/GHmNM96G6S" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Got it in one! Yes, we're the Foxgone Arms, in the little village of Banhunting On The Marsh - congratulations, you've won a horse brass and your own pewter mug!

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Oi! Demarcation dispute here! If anyone's going to be dispensing drinks around here, it'll be LetSkip or myself. We're professionals, don'tcha know. As to whether Labour should campaign hard, well I think it has to be seen to be fighting, although "seen" and "actually" can be two...

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They add up to 100% (strange) Also sadly we missed the national one http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/10/ashcroft-national-poll-con-32-lab-30-lib-dem-7-ukip-17-green-7/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Edited to add total figure on first line Yes, but how is it possible to h...

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Is Ashcroft publishing a national poll today, or just a Heywood & Middleton one? http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/10/labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton&utm_source=Lord+Ashcroft+Polls&utm_camp...

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Is Ashcroft publishing a national poll today, or just a Heywood & Middleton one? http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/10/labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=labour-set-clear-win-heywood-middleton&utm_source=Lord+Ashcroft+Polls&utm_camp...

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Pretty rough night down here in Devon as well - autumn happened to our plum tree overnight, stripped bare. Sprog No.1 is off on her yr6 residential adventure week this morning - hope the weather bucks up for them. In other news, The Sparrow hints that he is not amused by Beta - can't link, I'm on my...

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Might be good if the landlord and staff did not refer to passing trade/holidaymakers as "grockles". It's an insulting word and shows an "us" (local) and them (cashcow who knows no better) mentality. I've run a pub and I eat and drink in them. I'd leave one that referred to me as...

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Our local dead as a dormouse as well, no point going in, never anyone there I don't know about your neighbourhood, but we need a lot of visitors to help our trade, and when we're quiet we see sooo many people walk on. If we've got a few in, it reassures the grockles that we might be alright, despit...

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Where did everyone go? I'm still here, lurking while at work, although as the pub is nearly deserted on a Saturday night, I'm wondering where did the customers go. Recovery my arse. Our local dead as a dormouse as well, no point going in, never anyone there I don't know about your neighbourhood, bu...

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AngryAsWell wrote:Where did everyone go?

I'm still here, lurking while at work, although as the pub is nearly deserted on a Saturday night, I'm wondering where did the customers go. Recovery my arse.

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Just struck me as rather stupid comment to make by an audience member whilst sitting in a political debate ! Tigers & Orioles ? Not a clue who either of them are but I do know they ain't what I call footy :lol: My cousin took us to see the Yankees play the Tigers in '88. Still got the rain chec...

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Audience at political debate show talking about lack of political engagement.......:roll: Look if I don't watch question time because it is wankery (and I am a political junkie) then I would suggest very few people do. The number of floating voters who watch it likely to be zero. Turn it off, Tiger...

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Re the Hancock retweet, I'm sure I saw somewhere that when "accidentally" retweeting it he added an approving comment. If that's the case, then it must have been an extraordinarily convoluted "accidently" retweet. Anyone got access to the original exchange? Would make his apolog...

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Re the Hancock retweet, I'm sure I saw somewhere that when "accidentally" retweeting it he added an approving comment. If that's the case, then it must have been an extraordinarily convoluted "accidently" retweet. Anyone got access to the original exchange? Would make his apology...

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Most of us are avoiding Sparrow's beta blog, it hasn't gone unnoticed, his final comment today That’s all from me for today. Thanks for the comments (those of you who are left!) :( 468 comments for the day tells its own story - at times there was nobody posting for 10 minutes or so - it's never bee...

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Michael Savage ‏@michaelsavage 23m I thought Michael Gove was meant to be the minister for the TV? Today, shortly after the political shows, he was spotted in Birmingham Boots :lol: I don't know why I think that's funny - but I do - I really do. If the spirit of Spike Milligan is looking down/up at...

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Peter Hale ‏@petervhale · 4m BBC News - Two Tories go Independent in Teignbridge - http://bbc.in/1sGk9Mz" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - Two Devon Tories go Independent They're buggers for that down here. I'm next door, in South Hams, and in the Great 90's Tory Meltdown w...

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ohsocynical wrote:Marine Accident Investigation Report 24/2014

http://www.maib.gov.uk/publications/inv ... 4/ovit.cfm

Indeed. It's bad enough that shipowners crew their vessels with inexperienced and/or poorly qualified people, but for HM Coastguard to do so is disgraceful.

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We've got a DAB radio at home - never worked despite being assured it would. Then my missus got a new car with a DAB radio in it, and it works perfectly until we literally reach our garage, and then it drops the signal. Bugger. And it's a Skoda if you're wondering. The eighties jokes are a long tim...

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We've got a DAB radio at home - never worked despite being assured it would. Then my missus got a new car with a DAB radio in it, and it works perfectly until we literally reach our garage, and then it drops the signal. Bugger. And it's a Skoda if you're wondering. The eighties jokes are a long time...

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RobertSnozers wrote:Did I make that post about 'boots on the ground' and it was considered offensive, or did I not get round to pressing 'submit'?

Was it in Cyrillic?

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Let's give them all the powers of the Scottish Parliament, except law. The problem is finding regions that work. You need about 5-10 million people for economies of scale and they are probably an amalgamation of counties. Problems start around issues like: Where do you put lincs, are Notts, Derbs N...

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Name of a battered old Hobie 16 catamaran I bought with my savings with a mate when I was 16 myself. Guess it was a kind of rebellion - kids I knew grew up going to the yacht club, and sailing smart laser dinghies and the like. I buggered about in whatever I could, mainly dinghies my mates and I cou...

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Good grief, Robinson desperate to play down GB's contribution. Very amusing to see both Yes and No women looking very unimpressed at Little Nicky's efforts.

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Yup, I heard something similar on R5 news yesterday afternoon - it'll be Milliband & Darling's fault if No loses, because they failed to get the Labour vote out. Apparently.

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:
Spacedone wrote:All three independence polls tonight have the result of 52% for No and 48% for Yes.
Shit at figures, but if you average all three out does it make it No 52% and Yes 48%?

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Is that it then? God. I really hate it when this happens. Who gets to clean out the pans in the cafe? Me. I've got to clear all the FTN tables and get rid of the crisp packets and discarded tourist information brochures. FFS, just pop them in the recycling bin. It's over there. I've tilled up and I...

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Is that it then? God. I really hate it when this happens. Who gets to clean out the pans in the cafe? Me. I've got to clear all the FTN tables and get rid of the crisp packets and discarded tourist information brochures. FFS, just pop them in the recycling bin. It's over there. I've tilled up and I...

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Evening all. Quick voxpop from behind the bar - felt able to discuss politics a lot tonight, mainly prompted by Indyref conversations, and chatting with visitors I've used the phrase "come the revolution" in a light-hearted way at least four times with regard to our glorious government, an...

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Just got in from work, and I'd like to add my congratulations to Tubby for an uncannily good satire - and it's so good because, as others have said, it's got a frighteningly realistic plausibility about it. Meanwhile, the Graun is moving steadily into the realms of unwitting self-satire with their l...

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HindleA wrote:58.4/41.6. for No 73% turnout.

I admire your exactitude. So on the basis that you must know something we don't, I'm going to go with 58.4/41.6 on a 73.1% turnout.....

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Just to let everyone know, I have installed a mobile theme for the site. You can switch to/from it via a link at the bottom of each page: mobile.png It should remember your choice from session to session. Straw poll. Does anybody want a mobile theme? I hate it, and to be honest the site doesn't see...

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