Whitey Grandad

Ryanair to the Canaries? Blimey, you’re brave. Are you sure that it’s the Canaries you land at and not somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa? Still, horses for courses as they say in some French restaurants.

Anyone who uses ‘proactive’ Don’t.

I would prefer six points from those two mainly because I'm going to both

In our experience of cruising in a four week cruise you would expect to lose a few passengers anyway. There used to be a rumour that if they came round offering free ice cream it was because they needed the freezer space because the morgue was full. Then on one cruise they came round offering free ice cream...

I agree, it will be a huge relief to them. We can only hope that they learn some humility by then.

Interesting, thanks. Difficult at this stage to put figures to the probabilities. France for instance has 4 dead and 12 recovered out of a total of 212 cases. Italy has had 2502 confirmed cases. The Netherlands have had 38 cases but as yet none have died and none have recovered. Colombia seems relatively safe so far with no cases but something else will probably get you first.

Those aren't real achievements. They are exhibition matches played purely for TV.

Yes, we should be wary of being wearying. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—"

That's a matter of style and not grammar. There is no correct or incorrect usage. In my childhood I was taught a different rule to the Oxford comma. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/what-is-the-oxford-comma-and-why-do-people-care-so-much-about-it/

But they do use molybdenum, tantalum and platinum. You could always blame Sir Humphry Davy and Webster's Dictionaty: https://diecasting.com/blog/2014/02/26/aluminum-vs-aluminium-the-etymology-of-the-um-and-ium-debate/

People at baggage reclaim carousels who stand right up against the belt thus preventing anyone else from seeing or getting at their own cases.

We should always remember that American English is a different language to English English.

Perhaps we'd better not score then. Problem solved

Especially if they’d already won it by then.

Being offside is not of itself an offence. They are Laws, not rules, and Sigurdson didn’t make a move to play the ball, quite the opposite. He was well out of the sight line of the goalkeeper who didn’t have a chance of saving the ball. He saw it clearly all the way. This line of argument has been around for years and there have been countless examples of players lying right in front of the goalkeeper and not being considered to have interfered with an opponent. As I said, United were very fortunate to get away with that one.

Professor is a job description and not a qualification anyway.

Actually, 100% incorrect. “Interfering with play” means “Playing or touching the ball passed or touched by a team-mate” Sigurdson didn’t touch the ball.

Solidarity, innit. #memasktoo

Hmmm... Exceptionally generous to United, I would have said. “Interfering with an opponent” means: preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball. For example, by clearly obstructing the goalkeeper’s line of vision or movement making a gesture or movement which, in the opinion of the referee, deceives or distracts an opponent • the opponent must be reasonably close to the play so that the blocking, deceiving or distracting makes a difference

Ta muchly.

Isn’t he the one who signed a black and white ball for a fan by writing on the black bits?

It’s a lot easier to lose (not win) points that it is to win them.

The early stages of the Europa do not generate a lot of money but it would be good for everybody’s morale in my opinion.

There are parts of the country where such terminology is common and posh people such as you and I/me would be uncommon.

Who was it?