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Whitey Grandad

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  1. A vow or promise can't be kept within hours so it can't be broken within the same timescale. All sorts of people are reading all sorts of things into the vote but it was a very basic binary vote yes/no and nothing further can be deduced from it.
  2. You must be Irene's dad Sorry, can't help personally but I'll try and ask round when I can.
  3. Thanks, very interesting. It's nice to have a balanced view from outside.
  4. Fair enough, but I don't trust a word he utters so I'm not even sure what to make of his apology.
  5. A Primary Teacher explains to her class that she is a Liverpool fan. She Asks her students to raise their hands if they too, are Liverpool fans. Everyone in the class raises their hand except one little girl. The teacher Looks at the girl with surprise and says, 'Mary, why didn't you raise your Hand?' 'Because I'm not a Liverpool fan,' she replied. The teacher, still shocked, asked, 'Well, if you are not an Liverpool fan, then who are you a fan of?' 'I am a Man Utd fan, and proud of it,' Mary replied. The teacher could not believe her ears. 'Mary, why, pray tell, are you a Man Utd fan?' 'Because my mum is a Man Utd fan, and my dad is a Man Utd fan, so I'm a Man Utd fan too!' 'Well,' said the teacher in an obviously annoyed tone, 'that is no reason for you to be a Man Utd fan. You don't have to be just like your parents all Of the time. What if your mum was a prostitute and your dad was a drug Addict, what would you be then?' 'Then,' Mary smiled, 'I'd be a Liverpool fan.'
  6. Normally if he's a walking wounded then he would be accompanied by the physio in his journey round the pitch. The linesman (I still can't call them assistant refs) is perfectly capable of distinguishing between him and the players on the field. They have to do it all the time anyway, deciding who is interfering with play and who is inactive. In this case he would be easy to ignore.
  7. You can't appeal a yellow card.
  8. Anywhere's a long trek if Birmingham is stuck in the middle.
  9. They're not allowed to warm up in their full kit but there's no argument that he should have walked around the pitch, the physio could have accompanied him. The problem was that the fourth official - who handles all substitutions - was on the other side and had already let Ryan enter the field of play. I just think that Targett's mind was elsewhere and before anybody could say anything he had seen his number and ran on automatically. He definitely delayed the restart of the game. He certainly didn't have the referee's permission to enter the field of play.
  10. And the smell.
  11. At 46 minutes I'll have to leave a watch until later. Everything is based on confidence, once you lose that then the value of money is quickly undermined. To me, money represents man-hours of work (or woman-hours, yes I know, man in this cas means mankind and not any particular man . You can get money by doing work and it can buy you somebody else's work.
  12. Anything over 60mph is fast, that's 88 ft/s.
  13. Is that for real, are you sure it's not kph? According to Guinness the fatstest was David Hirst in 1996 at 114mph but only for just under 15 yds. The ball starts losing speed quite quickly. How about this one:
  14. Is that to cross the line or hit the net?
  15. Charlie used to live in Hursley in one of those large houses behind the wall at the southern end. At that time I used to play fo IBM second team and Charlie used to walk his dog over on a Sunday morning and stand on the touchline watching us play. Well, I think he was actually watching me in particular.
  16. Quite right. It's not the large articles of trade that would suffer but all the smaller deals. I dread a vote for leaving, it would kill a hell of a lot of small companies and more importantly the jobs that go with them.
  17. It's so long ago I have trouble remembering. Some people like dirty , and she wasn't my wife at the time, just a 60s dolly bird but she had gorgeous long hair.
  18. He wasn't booked for being slow, he was booked because Bertrand had already come on when he decided to walk back across the pitch from the opposite touch line. The ref had no choice.
  19. Week commencing 27th October
  20. That's one hell of a convolution for a 4 mile journey and one that only a local or regular user would know. I walked to Kings Cross, then Piccadilly to Leicester Square and Northern to Waterloo where I comfortably caught the 23:05. I managed to get one of the last seats and then sat waiting for 15 minutes because a door wouldn't shut I have an aversion to the Northern Line ever since my wife used to use it regularly in the 60s. Noisy, smelly, dirty, she used to wash her hair every day in the evening and bowlfulls of black crap used to fall out.
  21. It was on the way so I just started walking until I got hungry. All London's full of tourists these days anyway, a bit different from when I used to cycle in from Enfield in the 60s. In hindsight I should have got to the ground first and then eaten. The Tube was unbearably hot, doesn't it keep getting hotter every year? For medical reasons I have to restrict my beer intake these days.
  22. They didn't forget that he was cup tied.
  23. Did ok at Millwall.
  24. Technically we're closer to the team in 3rd than the one in 4th at the moment.
  25. No. Besides, I've already spent the money.
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