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    Football

    Strange
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    Football

    The well known football referee Jack Taylor used to tell players they could call him all the names under the sun, but if they called him a cheat they'd be in the dressing room before they knew what had hit them. I think that's fair enough.
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    Theresa May calls General Election on 8th June.

    Doctors swear a hypocratic oath and their license would be revoked if they intentionally killed someone. Lethal injection is one of the most sanitised but unpleasant forms of execution, victims sometimes taking more than an hour to die.
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    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    Indeed, it would make cities like York and Nottingham coastal resorts! Before the building of weirs tidal movements could be detected even further upstream. Sea fish tolerant of high salinity water like mullet and particularly flatfish can be found many miles inland, and sturgeon are on record...
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    Theresa May calls General Election on 8th June.

    The point is people don't die at the hands of the state, unless there's a judicially sanctioned lynch mob, but at the hands of a professional killer paid out of public money to do their dirty work. Add the physical and emotional apparatus surrounding judicial killing and it becomes a grim...
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    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    When is an estuary not an estuary? Is Whitstable a seaside town or a river town? What about Minehead? I'd have guessed the Bristol Channel was Milton Keynes' nearest bit of sea, but that may say more about my geographic instincts.
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    Theresa May calls General Election on 8th June.

    I agree but there's also a group who carry weapons in the pursuit of robbery, and are casual about using them if necessary. All are impervious to capital punishment to some extent, though the latter are the most likely to think twice.
  8. M

    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    No, those were halcyon days before the horrors of B&Q, Ikea, Sports Direct and being answerable to anyone but my muse. Happy days when Long Acre meant Flip, Cornellisons, and Stanfords.
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    Theresa May calls General Election on 8th June.

    Capital punishment is an interesting question. I'm instinctively against it because it isn't state killing in the true sense, it's the judiciary paying a bloke who doesn't mind killing people he's never met for money, which is wrong on a number of levels. However if the murder rate were to...
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    Theresa May calls General Election on 8th June.

    I enjoy fishing. The main reason freshwater fish survived in this small and over-industrialised island is down to the intervention of anglers, especially the ACA. If left to market pressure most would have turned belly up or been eaten to extinction, as they were in France. To upbraid anglers...
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    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    I used to pop into Stamford's map shop in Long Acre during my lunch hour. Looking at large scale maps of the Sahara was always fun, a vast sheet of yellow paper with a line and a few dots, bordered by grid references.
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    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    This sounds like a variation on the common claim that if you stand on (insert nearest local high point), the next similarly high place is in the Urals. I have no idea if it's true.
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    EU Referendum: The result and aftermath...

    What were the options? A referendum had been offered, legitimately by the prime minister. The question was in or out the EU. A majority of voters crossed the out box. Cameron's alternatives were to approach the EU again, ask for concessions which the commission were almost certainly not going to...
  14. M

    Football

    Oxford City..?
  15. M

    Football

    Crewe Alex, Halifax, Wrexham.
  16. M

    Football

    Exeter, Oxford, and, er...
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    Football

    I agree. My passion for football took a severe dent with all-seater stadiums, and the formation of the Premier League and Sky TV, whose aim was to make a small group of clubs incredibly wealthy at the expense of the many. This lead to football clubs becoming global commodities, trading in...
  18. M

    Football

    Yes. Always surprises me that an innocent consonant hasn't been more widely spread among football teams.
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    UKIP: Do they have a future?

    I disagree, which is why I suggested wearing an SS uniform in Stamford Hill (among many other situations) would be completely inappropriate. It's why political correctness will never replace good manners as the arbiter of good sense on such matters. The more people push the limits, the more...

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