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Post by MrTiddles on Jul 8, 2021 17:17:22 GMT
That was never a penalty.
[EDIT] Oops...
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Post by whatalark on Jul 8, 2021 17:21:26 GMT
The wind up merchant's here in Wales are looking for Italy shirts. They'll no doubt have great fun with the tourists.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Jul 8, 2021 17:43:42 GMT
Has all the football BS finished? Is it safe to read this stuff now? Read it at your peril. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jul 8, 2021 17:54:45 GMT
Although it doesn't bother me, I get why the whole "it's coming home" thing winds people up. That said: a) the original song was about a football tournament 'coming home' to the country where football originated, rather than a song about a trophy coming home. The song is clearly about the hope of being a fan outweighing the disappointment of past experience, rather than an arrogant assumption thst England are going to win. b) whichever country wins the trophy then takes it "home". It's the home of the winner, not the home of the trophy. Yeah no issue with the song in 96 which was about the staging of the tournament, but a lot of the pundits now use it in a different sense, eg that journalist who was interviewing Schmeichel the other day, even Gazza Lineker in some of his more extravagant links. |
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 18:00:40 GMT
Although it doesn't bother me, I get why the whole "it's coming home" thing winds people up. That said: a) the original song was about a football tournament 'coming home' to the country where football originated, rather than a song about a trophy coming home. The song is clearly about the hope of being a fan outweighing the disappointment of past experience, rather than an arrogant assumption thst England are going to win. b) whichever country wins the trophy then takes it "home". It's the home of the winner, not the home of the trophy. Yeah no issue with the song in 96 which was about the staging of the tournament, but a lot of the pundits now use it in a different sense, eg that journalist who was interviewing Schmeichel the other day, even Gazza Lineker in some of his more extravagant links. Do you not want it to come home? |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jul 8, 2021 18:06:47 GMT
Ach, I don't want to give off bad vibes about it. I'm in Ingerlund just now as it happens. A great country full of fine people.
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 18:07:32 GMT
Once it’s come home, will it stay home?
Will it get its feet under the table, like Terry Duckworth?
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 18:09:11 GMT
Will it complain about the cleanliness of the fridge and how high the central heating is?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jul 8, 2021 18:18:30 GMT
Once it’s come home, will it stay home? Will it get its feet under the table, like Terry Duckworth? I had a laptop computer in a bag stolen from next to my table in a pub in 1999. Terry Duckworth was sitting at the next table. Coincidence? Perhaps, but to this day, he has not been eliminated from the police's enquiry. |
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Post by crankcaller on Jul 8, 2021 18:51:31 GMT
Has all the football BS finished? Is it safe to read this stuff now? We've moved onto library chat. RUN |
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 18:55:00 GMT
Did anyone see the big holographic cat?
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Post by Tuffers on Jul 8, 2021 18:58:07 GMT
Ach, I don't want to give off bad vibes about it. I'm in Ingerlund just now as it happens. A great country full of fine people. Hi! Oh. |
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Post by Faceless on Jul 8, 2021 19:01:16 GMT
Who's Terry Duckworth?
And what's a library?
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 19:02:56 GMT
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Post by Tuffers on Jul 8, 2021 19:07:20 GMT
Library/book wanker chat.
I have a book at home about Seb Coe. It's from my school library that I never took back. It's got the school stamp in it. Obviously I couldn't take it back now after all these years (30 of them, sigh).
However, last September my eldest started at the same school. So I have been thinking about asking her to sneak it back, but don't want to get into her in trouble. Also I'm pretty sure there weren't late fines, but maybe they introduced them after I left. I could post it back anonymously, but that would get someone on a special list I imagine.
This is my contribution to book/library chat. Other than Stephen King (of which I own pretty much all of them) I don't tend to read too much these days. Which I guess is evident.
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Post by Tuffers on Jul 8, 2021 19:09:59 GMT
Who's Terry Duckworth? And what's a library? He invented the rule in cricket where a one day game is cut short due to weather. Him together with his best mate Lewis, him out of Inspector Morse. |
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 19:11:23 GMT
Library/book wanker chat. I have a book at home about Seb Coe. It's from my school library that I never took back. It's got the school stamp in it. Obviously I couldn't take it back now after all these years (30 of them, sigh). However, last September my eldest started at the same school. So I have been thinking about asking her to sneak it back, but don't want to get into her in trouble. Also I'm pretty sure there weren't late fines, but maybe they introduced them after I left. I could post it back anonymously, but that would get someone on a special list I imagine. This is my contribution to book/library chat. Other than Stephen King (of which I own pretty much all of them) I don't tend to read too much these days. Which I guess is evident. Parents’ Evening. Take it in and prop it up against the wall - beside the door - outside the library. |
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Post by Tuffers on Jul 8, 2021 19:23:46 GMT
Genius, and yet now you've said it it seems so obvious.
This is why Lazybones plays in the big leagues.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jul 8, 2021 19:25:48 GMT
I think the 'trouser drop' method could be deployed Tuffers. |
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 19:36:50 GMT
I’m now thinking - go in (at the parents’ evening) - sit down to talk to the teacher; twinkle your eyes and open your arms as if you’re welcoming them to your restaurant. Then boldly hand over the book, with a comment about how it ‘might be a bit overdue’.
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Post by Tuffers on Jul 8, 2021 19:39:57 GMT
I think the 'trouser drop' method could be deployed Tuffers. Starring a Young Tuffers as Steve McQueen. I like it. Get Esteban Spielbergo on line uno. |
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Post by Chumbles on Jul 8, 2021 20:11:40 GMT
I think that this interviewer has found a new 'boxer... perhaps a friend for Oz? |
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Post by lazybones on Jul 8, 2021 20:14:43 GMT
I’ve felt really out of sorts today.
Maybe the world is out of kilter. What happens in a world where England win a football semi-final?
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Post by Chumbles on Jul 8, 2021 20:28:01 GMT
Library/book wanker chat. I have a book at home about Seb Coe. It's from my school library that I never took back. It's got the school stamp in it. Obviously I couldn't take it back now after all these years (30 of them, sigh). However, last September my eldest started at the same school. So I have been thinking about asking her to sneak it back, but don't want to get into her in trouble. Also I'm pretty sure there weren't late fines, but maybe they introduced them after I left. I could post it back anonymously, but that would get someone on a special list I imagine. This is my contribution to book/library chat. Other than Stephen King (of which I own pretty much all of them) I don't tend to read too much these days. Which I guess is evident. I was the School Librarian - in an odd twist of fate, the teacher who had charge of it left and no other teacher wanted the task, so the headmaster asked me, at 14, to take over 'temporarily' ... I was shit hot on getting books back and the SF and Fantasy stuff was brilliant. At 16 when I transferred to a different school my mother realized that I had over a 100 'borrowed' books. She joined an evening class and would sneak into a dark classroom on the way to her class, drop the books and hurple away on her gammy leg. She did this for over 6 months, bless her. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jul 8, 2021 20:39:26 GMT
What disappoints me most is that Seb Coe is a grade one upper class berk.
Why would you steal a book about him?
If you are in to thieving from libraries, and I note our librarians appear to be professionals at this, at least steal a decent book.
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