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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 04:03:58 PM

John Bennett
@JohnBennettBBC
Tracksuit Dyche has a 100% record.

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 04:00:56 PM

That's no way to talk about Richard Whiteley

#3

Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 03:59:16 PM

 Fucking hell Liverpool. Well they've really bottled that. Arsenal are the only hope now.

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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by FunkMonk - Today at 03:59:14 PM

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 03:58:08 PM

This thread's made me realise how much of an Atlantic gap there is on sitcoms - at least until the 90s maybe.

A lot of those mentioned here I've never heard of, some I think I've only heard of because of gags in Family Guy or the Simpsons (like Three's Company, I think) and some I'm aware of. But I think Mork and Mindy, Married with Children and Roseanne are the only ones I've ever actually seen/made it to UK TV.

Linear TV childhood - different world

Yes. Most old American comedies I know about from their being referenced in films about comedians lives, the simpsons, etc...
Hell. Quite a lot of classic films I know of In a similar way.

I guess it's another part of the shrinking of the world and take off in globalisation over recent decades.
Massive increases in choice and freedom but at the same time it is sad to see such a decline in the days when someone could be hyper succesful and famous in Yorkshire but basically unknown elsewhere.

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Off the Record / Re: Football (Soccer) Thread

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 03:50:43 PM

I saw lots of Arsenal fans saying they wanted Everton to do them a favour. Which suggests they don't know Everton because the last time we won a derby at Goodison, Arteta scored

But (NOT JINXING IT)...

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 03:15:25 PM

This thread's made me realise how much of an Atlantic gap there is on sitcoms - at least until the 90s maybe.

A lot of those mentioned here I've never heard of, some I think I've only heard of because of gags in Family Guy or the Simpsons (like Three's Company, I think) and some I'm aware of. But I think Mork and Mindy, Married with Children and Roseanne are the only ones I've ever actually seen/made it to UK TV.

Linear TV childhood - different world

#8

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 03:10:48 PM

Once again looking at Germany with envy for their Green Party

jonn elledge
@JonnElledge
I'm trying to wean myself off my recent addiction to being mean to Greens on Twitter, but one of them has just put out a campaign video listing 35 reasons to vote Green and one of them is "zero murders" and come on

Not really sure "zero murders" is a policy (also has "zero road deaths" which again is very much not a policy). It's not like murders happen because Sadiq Khan isn't opposed to them.

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Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:46:46 PM

RIP Terry Carter, age 95.

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Off the Record / Re: NHL Hockey thread

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:47:18 PM

The Rangers were just hanging out and then whenever the Caps would score they would wake up and kick some ass for a bit, take a lead, and then just hang out again. On the plus side the Caps were not blown out but on the negative side they actually lost a one goal game. Oh dear, the one thing they were really good at...