The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 01/02/2025 at 17:27, Daggers said:

Don't leave yourself unattended near him, that's all I'm saying.

FTFY

[Trav Le Bleu]

15 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

It's so funny how Americans refer to Europe as one entity and not many countries with vastly different architecture, cuisine, languages, climate, culture etc. Seville and Stoke-on-Trent have very different vibes. 

My mate Diego from Hanley doesn't think so

[Sampson]

15 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

It's so funny how Americans refer to Europe as one entity and not many countries with vastly different architecture, cuisine, languages, climate, culture etc. Seville and Stoke-on-Trent have very different vibes. 

Brits and other Europeans do exactly the same thing with Africa, The Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia etc. tbf. 
 

It’s only because we’re in Europe that we see the cultural differences more strongly in every day life. 

[Tommy Fresh]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Brits and other Europeans do exactly the same thing with Africa, The Middle East, Latin America, South East Asia etc. tbf. 
 

It’s only because we’re in Europe that we see the cultural differences more strongly in every day life. 

Yeah I had a lecturer at uni who had been doing some work in Kenya around the time ebola was at it's peak, he said the amount of people who kept asking him when he came back "what about ebola aren't you worried etc" and he was like the outbreak is the otherside of the continent.

Edited 3 February by Tommy Fresh

[boots60]

20 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

It's so funny how Americans refer to Europe as one entity and not many countries with vastly different architecture, cuisine, languages, climate, culture etc. Seville and Stoke-on-Trent have very different vibes. 

You can get Cruzcampo in both Stoke-on Tent & Seville & after several of those it doesn't matter where you are 

[grobyfox1990]

21 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

It's so funny how Americans refer to Europe as one entity and not many countries with vastly different architecture, cuisine, languages, climate, culture etc. Seville and Stoke-on-Trent have very different vibes. 

I used to work in DC and you'd very very often hear people say 'I'm going on holiday to Europe.' Wtf does that mean bro. In my anecdotal evidence they tended to equate 'Europe' with the plastic tourist destinations like a random village or two in Italy, onto Athens and finally an old person cruise to a few Greek Islands. 

Paris and London were always separately defined. 

[Daggers]

It's criminal that it's today and no one has posted either of these two pictures

 

[Paninistickers]

4 hours ago, grobyfox1990 said:

I used to work in DC and you'd very very often hear people say 'I'm going on holiday to Europe.' Wtf does that mean bro. In my anecdotal evidence they tended to equate 'Europe' with the plastic tourist destinations like a random village or two in Italy, onto Athens and finally an old person cruise to a few Greek Islands. 

Paris and London were always separately defined. 

Yup, the  yanks who consider themselves cultured and do 'real' Europe tend to tick off Pisa, Venice, Prague and Amsterdam/Edinburgh

 

etc voila! Europe done! 

 

(Tbf, no difference to us doing a Bangkok, Singapore and a beach week in Sri Lanka....that's it, Asia done!) 

[Nalis]

I got chatting to transfer deadline day regular Kaveh Solhekol at a work related event once. Wasn't sure what he'd be like in person from seeing him as a football gossip dude but he was a refreshingly down to earth guy.

[grobyfox1990]

43 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Yup, the  yanks who consider themselves cultured and do 'real' Europe tend to tick off Pisa, Venice, Prague and Amsterdam/Edinburgh

 

etc voila! Europe done! 

 

(Tbf, no difference to us doing a Bangkok, Singapore and a beach week in Sri Lanka....that's it, Asia done!) 

Oh yeh totally agree and I got a lot of stick whilst I was out there, even though I’m not that kind of Brit. ‘You people go to an all inclusive in Alicante’ and think you’ve been to Spain’ 

‘Brits on the garden route thinking they’ve been to Africa’ etc.

Found it v amusing that the brits abroad tag was known in the USA 

[Daggers]

Sums everything up

 

 

[Daggers]

Man United really need to start getting over Munich.

[RonnieTodger]

Alan Brazil will end up on GB News.

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, RonnieTodger said:

Alan Brazil will end up needing a liver transplant

 

[Daggers]

For those who missed Alan Brazil's insanity...

 

 

[UniFox21]

Gino D'acampo accused of inappropriate behaviour, in what is once again very unsurprising 

[Parafox]

On 06/02/2025 at 09:23, Daggers said:

Man United really need to start getting over Munich.

 

I think they have but is it wrong to have some memorial tribute once a year?

 

I imagine the Hillsborough tragedy will also be wrung out for the rest of time. Which I find less comfortable because of the continuing finger pointing even after the enquiry.

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

I think they have but is it wrong to have some memorial tribute once a year?

 

I imagine the Hillsborough tragedy will also be wrung out for the rest of time. Which I find less comfortable because of the continuing finger pointing even after the enquiry.

No one is genuinely upset about people talking/chanting/referring to a plane crash that happened almost one hundred years ago.

 

They can have their little tributes, they don't get to marshal what others say about it.

[Parafox]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

No one is genuinely upset about people talking/chanting/referring to a plane crash that happened almost one hundred years ago.

 

They can have their little tributes, they don't get to marshal what others say about it.

 

But they try to. And that is my point regarding Hillsborough. Even those that didn't lose a loved one remain victimised, and will continue to do so and will pass it on as some kind of legacy and so it will perpetuate.

 

It's not like it's 1918 or 1945.

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 February by Parafox

[HighPeakFox]

On 06/02/2025 at 21:35, Daggers said:

For those who missed Alan Brazil's insanity...

 

 

 

Soon to be enforced in the USA.

[jgtuk]

[UniFox21]

People spitting when walking around or stood around outside. Just a bit grim isn't it?

[Foxdiamond]

On 07/02/2025 at 22:03, Daggers said:

No one is genuinely upset about people talking/chanting/referring to a plane crash that happened almost one hundred years ago.

 

They can have their little tributes, they don't get to marshal what others say about it.

1958 is not yet almost 100 years ago. Don't know why anyone would want to chant about it. 

[jgtuk]

2 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

1958 is not yet almost 100 years ago. Don't know why anyone would want to chant about it. 

Isn’t that an Oasis album 

[Bilsthorpe Blue]

Went food shopping to Asda yesterday, they had a valentine's meal deal on which was starter, main, side, dessert and bottle of bubbly for £11.97, seemed very good deal, all the starters and side were best before 13 Feb, wtf!!