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- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19450
Re: Covid Enquiry
According to OECD data Sweden's excess mortality over the period of COVID was +3.5%. UK's was +11.7%. Norway's was +1.2%. Denmark's was 4.3%. Finland's was 5.3%. Iceland's was 3.3%. Based on these data, Sweden's excess mortality was 3rd in Europe. NewZealand - with one of the world's toughest lockdo...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19450
Re: Covid Enquiry
It's certainly not common knowledge that locking down earlier would have saved lives, or indeed whether lockdown saved lives at all. That's what the enquiry is meant to find out, but I suspect that like you, they have made their mind up already. How many would have died if we had done it like Swede...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10694
- Views: 791105
Re: Russia Invades
You should visit Russia and you would understand why many are so surly. Dreadful place. They are conditioned. Great advert for Communism / Socialism. Not. Where've you been for the past 3-plus decades? Russia threw off the yoke of communism in December 1991 when the old USSR was disbanded and Boris...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malaysia
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1904
Re: Malaysia
Try the Temple Tree Resort in Langkawi - south of the airport. Temple Tree comprises a collection of buildings from other parts of Malaysia and reconstructed on the island https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/living/2023/06/16/malaysian-heritage-houses-in-langkawi-carefully-preserved-to-retain-archi...
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Country Bingo
- Replies: 93
- Views: 3908
Re: Country Bingo
Of the remaining list, I've been to:
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laos
Rwanda
Sudan
Uganda
Zambia
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laos
Rwanda
Sudan
Uganda
Zambia
- Sun May 28, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
I don’t know about this club. But Brightons feeder club love it, they are getting talent and quality they have never seen before and it’s made them very competitive in their respective league. I think Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium benefits from Bloom (owner of BHA)'s money & expertise. He has a l...
- Sun May 28, 2023 7:32 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
Has anyone asked the supporters of KV Kortrijk how they feel about being a feeder club? Imagine the outrage if Burnley was bought to be a feeder club for one of the big clubs in Europe ..... and at the end of every season faced the prospect of losing the likes of Benson, Zaroury, Beyer etc to the co...
- Sun May 28, 2023 7:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
Ahhh. You see, pre-Brexit clubs did it through choice. But now it seems it is a necessity. Not sure how that switch constitutes winning.gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 10:06 pmClubs were doing it before brexit you bellend. You lost. Get over it
- Sat May 27, 2023 9:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
yawnGodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 9:17 amAh you're one of those, my bad for not spotting it earlier.
- Sat May 27, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
Pretty sure clubs have been sending non-european players to clubs in mainland Europe on loan for years so they can meet visa requirements, or until they do, well before Brexit too. I didn't think we were talking about just "non-european players"....... So Burnley is thinking of buying a small town ...
- Sat May 27, 2023 2:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: KV Kortrijk
- Replies: 338
- Views: 33614
Re: KV Kortrijk
Another example of "taking back control" .... In order to access just a fraction of what was freely available pre-Brexit (the deep pool of football talent playing in continental Europe), we'll borrow millions of £ to buy and then run a football club in Belgium that until recently few of us had ever ...
- Fri May 12, 2023 4:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16467
Re: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
oh, I forgot to mention that I also spent time as a graduate student at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in the mid-1980s. I was there during the civil war that eventually led to Museveni becoming president ....
- Fri May 12, 2023 3:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16467
Re: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
Born in a maternity unit in Colne, lived and educated in Burnley (Coal Clough infant and junior then BGS), Leeds (Leeds Uni) and Northern Ireland (New University of Ulster and then the University of Ulster). Been a migrant worker in Singapore for the past 12 years, and before that Ireland (12 years)...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Nigel Lawson RIP
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5349
Re: Nigel Lawson RIP
.... but the reason many have fallen out with the 'new' left is the nastiness we see displayed here. Nothing compared with the nastiness on display, every day, by the current and previous Tory governments. I guess one major difference is that the tories have over the last 13 years been able to ensu...
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Sean Dyche is the new Everton manager
- Replies: 314
- Views: 16734
Re: ARTICLE: Sean Dyche is the new Everton manager
Surely it is not unusual for someone to be regarded as first choice - or the favoured candidate - going into an interview, and for the ranking of candidates to change following interview. What would the point of interviews be otherwise?
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:45 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1180
Re: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
PS Same person last year (June 2021) started an appeal to raise money for fund bone marrow treatment for a student from Makerere University (the main public university in Uganda) https://www.gofundme.com/f/ywgf8?qid=cf31f72373f6c60264dacae27e92dcd0 . Since launching the appeal - which is still going...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1180
Re: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
Just to follow-up my earlier message - two possible areas of concern here. First does Busingye Football Academy exist and do what we are told it does? Second does the Gofund.me account transfer money raised to the Busingye Football Academy? There are some great things in Uganda that deserve our supp...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1180
Re: Burnley Busingye Football Academy Uganda
steady-on fellas - is this organisation for real? The District of Rukungiri in western Uganda already has one soccer academy ~ Team Kibuuka select soccer academy, set up by a prominent business man (reported on here https://newslexpoint.com/benevolent-businessman-kibuuka-launches-sports-academy-in-r...
- Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth in Burnley.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1846
Re: Queen Elizabeth in Burnley.
I remember that visit in 1968 well and was thinking about it earlier today. We didn't have any Union flags to wave, so my uncle gave me a New Zealand flag instead (close, but no cigar). I think my uncle had a New Zealand flag because that is where he was taken to hospital, to recover, having been re...
- Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Six year contracts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1917
Re: Six year contracts
Jeez - only six years? That's a tad precarious. My current contract runs till I am 67 years old.
- Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worried About the Price Cap?
- Replies: 370
- Views: 14936
Re: Worried About the Price Cap?
It's great that everyone is now coming round to the realisation that if you effectively take money out of the economy (whether it be to pay for the spiralling cost of energy, or because of politically-driven "austerity measures" or whatever) the economy quickly slows down, with all the consequences ...
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 4:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cost of Living
- Replies: 198
- Views: 12030
Re: Cost of Living
I have thousands of clients all over the world and trust me, they are having it just as hard, if not harder in many of those countries... They have also looked on in envy at the handouts the government has given us in the UK over the last 2 plus years and are always mentioning to me that they have ...
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FAO them lot from Singapore
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3634
Re: FAO them lot from Singapore
Hi Tarkys Ears I live in Singapore. We're currently in a semi-lockdown because of a rise in COVID infections. We are able to move around freely so long as masks are worn in public places. However, no more than two people can sit at a table in a restaurant/bar - and you have to show that you are full...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fracking
- Replies: 189
- Views: 17898
Re: Fracking
200 years of rising poverty levels? :?: It's a complicated issue and you raise valid concerns. But the safety procedure does have to work from both sides. It's necessary IMO that the government needs to be in on the process, partly to express specifically what the concerns are and what needs to be ...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fracking
- Replies: 189
- Views: 17898
Re: Fracking
The earth tremors are only part of the concern regarding the process of hydraulic fracking. Of much greater concern - because of its potential long-term effects - is the risk of pollution of groundwater by the mass of chemicals used in the process ~ chemicals that include human carcinogens such as b...
- Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malawi v Cote D'Ivoire stream
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8514
Re: Malawi v Cote D'Ivoire stream
.... and of course Myanmar ....
- Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:15 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Malawi v Cote D'Ivoire stream
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8514
Re: Malawi v Cote D'Ivoire stream
Africa's second smallest nation state - São Tomé and Príncipe (Saint Thomas and Prince (Afonso)) islands ...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: St Johnstone v Galatasaray
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2263
Re: St Johnstone v Galatasaray
Isn't everyone a Burnley fan, just that some go through their entire lives without realising it?PadihamThickNeck wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:18 pmWhy ? Wheres the link ? His wiki page says he's from Perth in Scotland.
- Fri May 21, 2021 5:11 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley launch British clubs partnership
- Replies: 81
- Views: 7784
Re: Burnley launch British clubs partnership
In Britain and most of the world it’s still known as ‘British Isles’ and in Ireland it’s known as ‘Britain and Ireland’. There really is no issue in the wording used. Given that the Government of Ireland does not recognise the term "British Isles" and that many people in Ireland (north and south) s...
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Caraboo cup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1412
Re: Caraboo cup
Now the ESL idea is over for another year or two I am expecting the big six to push for an expanded champions league meaning the League cup will end (or at least will end for clubs in Europe) to give room to stuff more European games in. Think the league cups days are certainly now numbered. Surely...
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Different League: The Derry City Story......
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2416
Re: Different League: The Derry City Story......
I played soccer at the Brandywell ~ an Irish Cup game v Oxford United Stars (the team that Danny Lafferty played for as a youth) - in 1984. That was the year before Derry City was allowed to re-enter senior football (but in the Republic of Ireland rather than Northern Ireland) and during the peak of...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dyche to Palace at the end of the season
- Replies: 230
- Views: 23337
Re: Dyche to Palace at the end of the season
Central America, both physically, legally and any other way consists of 7 countries, of which Mexico is not one of them Exactly, including economically and politically, what with Mexico being one of three countries forming the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ~ the other two being Canada...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dyche to Palace at the end of the season
- Replies: 230
- Views: 23337
Re: Dyche to Palace at the end of the season
And yet PL teams fall over themselves to market themselves to the Asian market where matches are shown live in the morning. PL football is pushing to be global. Central America - including Mexico is an easier sell than Asia due to the footballing tradition. We are irrelevant as fans, we are just me...
- Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5546
Re: Burnley FC fan and Northern Soul fan?
Burnley Cricket Club on a Tuesday night, followed by Accrington Royal British Legion on a Friday. Those were the days of claiming to be 12-years-old on the train (to travel half-price from Burnley Central to Accrington) and, 30 mins later, 18-years-old on the door at RBL in Accrington in order to ga...
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fun at your funeral...
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4010
Re: Fun at your funeral...
My dad requested (and got) Smoke gets in your eyes .....
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:52 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Frank Soo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2669
Re: Frank Soo
I would like to disagree with you about recycled polyester. Most of the big sports brands are active in this. But much more could be done. Well, I heard that Real Madrid's third strip was partly made from recycled ocean plastic .... Problem with polyester football tops is that the polyester is mixe...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Frank Soo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2669
Re: Frank Soo
Wow - thanks everyone. Very helpful. I contribute a lecture on the "Worlds of Football" module - on football's two-way relationship with the environment. I started my lecture by informing the students, many of whom are wearing replica Liverpool, Man City or Man Utd tops, that I am from Burnley and, ...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Frank Soo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2669
Frank Soo
I'm a member of Geography faculty in the National University of Singapore. We recently launched a module "Worlds of Football" that received a lot of media coverage here at the beginning of this academic year (August 2020), and has proven popular with students across the campus (about 200 students ar...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 5:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Last night of the Proms
- Replies: 468
- Views: 23253
Re: Last night of the Proms
I bet slaves throughout the world in the 1800's would have loved the British Empire to expand in their direction. Slave owners, less so. It's interesting to speculate what would have happened in the USA if they had lost the War of Independence and still been part of the Empire when slavery was abol...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Last night of the Proms
- Replies: 468
- Views: 23253
Re: Last night of the Proms
Well, "Land of Hope and Glory" does celebrate expansion of Empire ("Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set ..... God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet"), and that expansion is not viewed by everyone as evidence of either hope or glory .....
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 902916
Re: Covid-19
They still live in cities. The population density in populated areas is similar to ours. If nine-tenths of the country has 3 people per line of latitude while the rest has similar population density to us, you would expect the spread to be the similar under similar conditions. Perhaps better to com...
- Sun May 31, 2020 4:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 902916
Re: Covid-19
Interesting perspective: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/29/862602058/opinion-the-ghosts-of-colonialism-are-haunting-the-worlds-response-to-the-pandem "The U.K. and other onetime colonial powers did not turn to their former colonies or to the East for advice – although they should ...
- Fri May 29, 2020 4:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 6766
Re: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
Back in February 2019 I decided to only eat two meals a day - lunch and dinner, rather than three, and to cut-out snacks. That's the equivalent of fasting (i.e. no food at all) for two days per week compared with previous practice (three meals a day). The first month was tough - subsequent months ha...
- Thu May 28, 2020 3:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dominic Cummings
- Replies: 874
- Views: 58289
Re: Dominic Cummings
A shambles, I see it as a great democracy delivering every stat they can and going beyond most to give us the truth. Do you really believe those numbers coming from the dictatorships. Be proud to be British and thank God you dont live in China or Russia where you would have a reason to moan. Do you...
- Wed May 27, 2020 7:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 6766
Re: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
Afraid I have to disagree there Rowls. The sense of thirst is triggered by a rise in the concentration of sodium in the blood beyond its normal bounds. If you restrict taking on fluids to only when you feel thirsty then you run the risk of those increased levels of salts causing damage. The sense of...
- Wed May 27, 2020 3:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
- Replies: 111
- Views: 6766
Re: Advice on getting rid of belly fat?
"If you're not thirsty, don't drink. Ever." Don't agree with that at all. Being thirsty is your brain telling you that you're dehydrated, which is a dangerous state to be in (much more immediately dangerous that being hungry) - especially as dehydration can cause lasting damage to internal organs, s...
- Tue May 26, 2020 8:19 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rate Your Sausage
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3761
Re: Rate Your Sausage
Linda McCartney's vegan sausages, made with genetically modified soya and "created in Linda's kitchen" with the mist rolling in from the sea.
Meat is murder, don't forget .....
Meat is murder, don't forget .....
- Mon May 18, 2020 6:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 902916
Re: Covid-19
I'm a bit curious about the various news today re: the possible vaccine and the preparation to make 30m units of it or whatever. I hadn't really seen anything up until now that suggested this vaccine was anything other than one of a large number of trials. Have I missed something and it's expected ...
- Sun May 17, 2020 2:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid-19
- Replies: 13866
- Views: 902916
Re: Covid-19
"Would any other government have done better ? "
Jeez. Just about every government around the world has done better! What planet are you on?
Jeez. Just about every government around the world has done better! What planet are you on?
- Mon May 11, 2020 12:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Current Season Void Or Continue
- Replies: 662
- Views: 37216
Re: Current Season Void Or Continue
Don't you think it odd though that, in a multi-billion quid industry, no one in a position of responsibility appears to have had the gumption to say "hey, hang on, what if for whatever reason - terrorism, war, pandemic - we cannot finish a season. We need an agreement - in advance - as to what to do...