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Clearly you've never visited South Yorkshire, Humberside or Southern Ireland!

To complicate things further, the medieval town of Scone (and its Palace) near Perth in Scotland is pronounced Scoon. So Scone rhymes with moon, and scone can rhyme with either moan or gone.

Nobody moans When I bake the scones. They're soon all gone - Yes, every last scone!

Losing at Coventry at the weekend together with the 5 clubs behind us all winning, and us having to wait another 7 days before trying to undo some of the damage done, hasn't exactly helped with that feeling. Even the distraction of wall-to-wall snooker on tv has disappeared this week.

Ali Carter is right. Morons. Doesn't Ronnie himself feel embarrassed by some of his idiotic supporters? Players like Selby, Ding and Carter shouldn't have to beat not only their opponent but also some of the partisan crowd when playing in the London area against the Rocket.

Ronnie's rent-a-mob supporters will be cheering even his easiest pots in the closing stages. Come on Ali!

What will the police advise us to do next - leave the car keys in the ignition so that the thieves don't even need to break into the house first?

Their training ground is at Ryton-on-Dunsmore. Basically, it's just a fenced-off field in the middle of nowhere - just what you'd expect from a tin-pot club. Next to it is the venue for occasional antique toy fairs organised by Barry Potter. Basically you've got a tin-pot club training next the place where you can buy tin-plate toys!

Wicked deflection.

Ronnie can be pretty annoying. When he's not threatening to retire, he's sympathising with players he's just beaten, or moaning about playing too many UK tournaments, or moaning about playing at Alexandra Palace. If he finds the venue 'disgusting' and can't wait to get out of the place, why is he still in the Masters?

Isn't it slightly boring to be playing another club from the Championship?

... even without Stephen Hawking!

If it's Lang Lang playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee on St. Pancras Station, what's there to complain about? https://www.classicfm.com/artists/lang-lang/st-pancras-piano-duet-wife/

I'd put on a spurt of speed, jogging past as if having a train to catch, then walk with extra wide strides, as if deliberately avoiding the cracks between slabs. Having said all that, if this were the only thing in life that worried me, then I'd be a very happy person, which I'm not!

I get why the Arse aren't playing in red. But white instead? Don't they realise that blood consists of both red and white blood cells?!

Imo, the commentators should stop giving their predictions of what the next shot will be, before virtually every one that's played. Have Hendry and co. never heard of the phrase 'spoiler alert'?

What did City get for him? Perhaps a Banbury cheese of a transfer fee!

I'm fairly sure that they'd be saying things like: Pull yourself together; Life moves on and you'll have to adjust to being on your own; You don't have to worry about me anymore. Of course, all that makes perfect sense, but it's not easy to do.

Not great, if truth be told. Last year, my life changed for ever following the passing of someone who'd been my rock throughout life. The festive period felt rather empty as a result, and now that's over, there's not much to look forward to.

Blue Monday, the third Monday in January, is officially the most depressing day of the year. Really? If that's the case, I'd say that today comes a very close second.

A neighbour of mine found horse manure and hoof-prints on his front lawn this morning. He checked his cctv footage, which showed 5 or 6 horses were in his garden in the early hours of this morning, New Year's Day. Does anyone living in the Station Lane area of Scraptoft know anything about this very strange event? The nearest field with horses in it is about a mile away.

Going further back in time, these were results from the old Division 2: 1912 - Fosse 1, Forest 1 1908 - Fosse 3, WBA 0 1896 - Fosse 1, Lincoln 3 So City have never won on that date, but Fosse did win one out of three matches, all of which were at home. Fosse/City have only ever played one match on that date in the old Division 1. That was the drawn game against Forest in 1964. The games in 1936 and 1992 were both in the second tier. Note also that Fosse/City have played Forest twice on Feb. 29th, both games at home and both were 1-1 draws.

2024 will be a leap year, so it'll be 0.274% or 366/365 times longer (and that much more stressful) than this year has been. City won't be playing on Feb 29th. In fact, they've only played on that date three times since WWI ended, in 1936, 1964 and 1992.

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/tims-viewpoint/tim-martin-responds-to-journalist-owen-jones-of-the-guardian

Last year, an elderly relative of mine had to go to A&E after a disastrous visit to the dentist. Due to having TMJ dysfunction (clicky jaw joint), she was unable to close her mouth after opening it wide. The dentist tried to force it closed, clearly knowing nothing about how to deal with such situations. With all that training they're supposed to go through, surely the dentist should have known better.