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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Keirby
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6257
Re: The Keirby
Bit authoritarian there turbs...and selective...if everyone owning a beaten up sh1thole was ordered to pull it down , Burnley would resemble 1945 Stalingrad. I do have some sympathy with his view. Although I’m not sure how cashed strapped councils can compulsory purchase. I think the low price of p...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Turd Island
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3999
Re: Turd Island
But that was the whole magic wand Maggie waved; what sold Britain the lie Privatisation would bring investment and save the tax payer (in the 1980’s). There were going to be rules in place that replacement and updating came from the profits before shareholder payouts, guess what… Like most of the p...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Royals.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3621
Re: The Royals.
https://www.royal.uk/media-centre/future-engagements You can look here to see what they’re up to. Not much for anyone other than Anne to be honest. A lot of receptions and dinners mainly, even for her. If they didn’t exist and someone came up with the idea to pick a family, give them land, houses, a...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 007
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2692
Re: 007
I suppose Toby Jones is too busy on other projects.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonights Football
- Replies: 255
- Views: 10279
Re: Tonights Football
Personally hope we keep doubling down on the strategy and signings the gems we have been doing. Looks like that’s the case with Esteve coming in. Great stuff. The problem being that this long term view is very different to connect with when compared to the immediate cut and thrust of a survival bat...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cost of Living
- Replies: 198
- Views: 12280
Re: Cost of Living
The fact that he can pack in his £120,000 job for an £80,000 job plus a part time second one, and be better off, tells you all you need to know. What will this second job be? It can’t be much if he’s putting all his effort into his constituency can it? It will be a glorified lobbying position, where...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bacup Borough FC
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2588
Re: Bacup Borough FC
Rawtenstall FC (Burnley’s first opponents at Turf Moor) played on Burnley Road opposite St James the less church. No trace of it now as houses built on it. Interesting follow up to that then, is that Charles Sutcliffe, who did the Football League fixtures, lived in a house built on that side of the...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Football games growing up
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2054
Re: Football games growing up
What you Lancashire folk call cuppies was Wembley in the Midlands. Any other regional variations for this game? Wembley in Rossendale too, as I recall. Also the ability to just wander up and join in a game with relative strangers. I remember doing this well into my teens. Often on a full sized gras...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dear PGMOL
- Replies: 210
- Views: 13992
Re: Dear PGMOL
Well the laws of the game define ‘deliberate’ in a different way than we would use that word in every day life. Players hardly ever handle a ball deliberately, but are often penalised for deliberate hand ball. I think in this instance it was definitely deliberate. There is an extra and quicker arm ...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6140
Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
Haha, well it looks like you’ve got me there. Although I’ll stick with the other point, only a tiny minority really cared.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6140
Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
I thought you could sell it in a pint bottle as long as the metric equivalent was also shown?
I suspect most people weren’t that bothered, particularly our younger generation.
In fact I don’t think they were that bothered about the whole thing until an allowed to be vocal minority made it an issue.
I suspect most people weren’t that bothered, particularly our younger generation.
In fact I don’t think they were that bothered about the whole thing until an allowed to be vocal minority made it an issue.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Welcome to the Jungle
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4691
Re: Welcome to the Jungle
It was like they hadn’t actually considered the token might fall into the same slot. I’m sure they panicked when it happened and then made the rules up to fit.deanothedino wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:57 pmThe game was awful. One of each prize so the later contestants had to have multiple goes to then win nothing.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
- Replies: 100
- Views: 6140
Re: Sam Allardyce is going to be happy
This is a thread full of sophisticated lolz. But does anybody seriously think that the EU rules prohibiting certain bottle sizes were especially worthwhile? Who seriously thinks that selling wine in a pint sized bottle should be a prosecutable offence? I think you’re flogging a dead horse with this...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Urban Legends
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13557
Re: Urban Legends
I remember being told about a bloke who had been cleaning a motorbike engine in his back yard with petrol. His wife had got fed up of the bucket of petrol in the yard and had thrown it down the outside toilet. When he came home from work he went to the toilet, sat down and threw his fag end between ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
And if that is all true, there will be a vast bloodletting of the ministers and civil servants who conspired to deliberately reduce the amount of PPE available. Why do you think that very senior civil servants were doing this? I can only imagine civil servants were directed to. If so, that will be ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
And I forgot to mention. Obviously, also connected to the Tory party.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
I suppose they could have done all the tests, gathered the evidence, followed the normal processes, then decided... Its not like we were in a rush or anything You are missing the point. There were established companies that already supplied the NHS ready and able to supply PPE. And in some cases at...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
I suspect the meaning behind "no-one was to blame" is not trying to say that no mistakes were made, but is trying to say that the primary reason why covid struck down so many people around the world was not because of politicians. Obviously doing things differently might have helped - Sweden being ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
He didn’t award it though, that’s my point Yes he put people forward for it, but he didn’t sign anything off Let’s not forget, it was desperate times, we needed PPE. The French had kept our order for themselves The stuff from Turkey wasn’t up to scratch Both of those were orders via official channe...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
Hancock put four ‘business’ ‘ forward on the VIP lane I think.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Covid Enquiry
- Replies: 128
- Views: 19655
Re: Covid Enquiry
I think a lot of people thought the inquiry would be a waste of time and money. And if they didn’t before it started, they must certainly think it now given the amount of lies and deceit that have been on show from the main decision makers in place at the time of Covid. If people were prepared to te...
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bad fish smell
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3767
Re: Bad fish smell
Odd one this. But I have to say, yes.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9961
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
😀I’m going down there in three weeks. Is a 6 ft 4 inch man going to struggle. Oh is Leighton James a tour guide there? I’m sure you’ll be fine but don’t wear your platform shoes. I think Brian Flynn might be more suited down there! They turned all the lights off at one point, it was unbelievably bl...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The handball
- Replies: 74
- Views: 7325
Re: The handball
These decisions feel like they affect us disproportionately because teams at the bottom will have a much lower points tally. And getting relegated is surely a much bigger consequence of lost points? I suppose if you’re going for Europe, a point or two can make all the difference at the top too. But ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Another 18 people massacred in America
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4027
Re: Another 18 people massacred in America
No. As I said, I don't want that debate right now. I don't think the USA school system has changed significantly in the past 20-30 years. I'm confident that good schooling might help reduce the instances but I wouldn't put bad schooling down as a cause of mass shootings. Mini whoosh there, as it wa...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Another 18 people massacred in America
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4027
Re: Another 18 people massacred in America
I think Rowls will get round to it in the end, but what he’s getting at, is the fact that they haven’t embraced enough Michaela type schools.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9961
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
I once went down the Big Pit in South Wales.
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:56 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Let’s make Turf Moor a fortress again…
- Replies: 133
- Views: 14098
Re: Let’s make Turf Moor a fortress again…
Has any other club done this before? If so, I’d be interested to see what the results of the consultation were. It’s always seemed to me that great atmospheres tend to go along with an element of naughtiness. Daft young lads who’ve had a drink perhaps. Pyrotechnics etc. Certainly the case when you s...
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6288
Re: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
I think these Mancs might be to blame for this ‘Rawty’ thing too……Rocky!CoolClaret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 4:38 pmThere's a ton!
People getting priced out of MCR moving to commuter Towns
No wonder the Traffic in Rawty is horrific
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
- Replies: 70
- Views: 6288
Re: Burnley and Blackburn Accents
The scouse accent in particular. It's so exaggerated now, compared to 30 years ago. Watch any old footage of Liverpudlians being interviewed and it's so much softer than how they speak today. Perhaps a deliberate show of identity. (Not an attack on scousers btw). Funny how you slowly tune in to the...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Drummers required...DRUMMERS
- Replies: 378
- Views: 36878
Re: Drummers required...DRUMMERS
Not keen on the drum idea. When I’ve heard them at away grounds I’ve always thought they were tiresome and a bit fake. What about the megaphone users you see abroad. The ones who never watch the game because they’re facing their own supporters not the pitch. Get one of them at the front of the Crick...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Darren England, Howard Webb, and the lunatics running the asylum
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3189
Re: Darren England, Howard Webb, and the lunatics running the asylum
1 Darren England was never removed from the PL list, he just wasn't selected for the last game week. 2. I doubt very much that Webb is stupid. 3. England didn't get a ban of any kind, he just wasn't selected, and PGMOL are of the opinion that the goal you refer to was correctly ruled out by referee...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Willie Morgan MBE
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4078
Re: Willie Morgan MBE
Pretty sure my dad has told me he once bamboozled a fullback and ran up the wing taking the defender with him leaving the ball behind. I’ll check next time I see my dad.
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: One rule for the rich....
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4768
Re: One rule for the rich....
As an add on to this. I surprised at the sentences given to the burglars that stole from his daughter. I think about seven years each. It was a massive amount they took, but in terms of her overall wealth perhaps not that great. I get the feeling that if some old lady in Burnley was robbed of her th...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Socks
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2940
Re: Socks
I remember reading years ago about the psychological and therefore physiological advantage of feeling that you look good whilst participating in sport. I suppose the poseurs amongst us get an even greater advantage from thinking they look great whilst playing. I used to do a lot of running and it wa...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: HST2
- Replies: 184
- Views: 12908
Re: HST2
Does anyone actually believe the money promised for other projects will actually materialise? It might materialise as tax cuts before the next election. As I said earlier, how many of the promised hospitals have we got? They can say what they want because a combination of the electorate’s short mem...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: HST2
- Replies: 184
- Views: 12908
Re: HST2
Let’s see whether these new northern projects actually happen. And how many are genuinely new? These people have promised us forty new hospitals in the past, few of which have actually been built. It’s easy these days to kick the can down the road and then later say financial circumstances have chan...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cup draw
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18022
Re: Cup draw
Well we know Sean doesn’t take the cups seriously, so a good chance to get through.
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hand ball
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5124
Re: Hand ball
Surely people don’t want every hand ball decision to be called incorrectly just because one of ours was? I’m not a statistics expert, but would it make any difference? They would all just be the opposite of what they should be, given when they shouldn’t be, not given when the should. At least it wo...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: How does the PL fix the VAR problem?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3505
Re: How does the PL fix the VAR problem?
Are you sure the PL thinks there is a problem? I don’t think they do. They won’t bat an eyelid at last night’s decision. They will look at the use of VAR objectively (ironic, given the type of mistakes we are talking about) from a statistical point of view. How many wrong decisions have been overtu...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today's Games 16/09
- Replies: 170
- Views: 8107
Re: Today's Games 16/09
Big three being us, Preston and Blackpool I presume.
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter
- Replies: 150
- Views: 9640
Re: Clarets sign Muslim Athlete Charter
I wonder if this is all getting a bit over thought. Is the initiative not about accepting that players might need an area to pray and time to do it? Also perhaps taking in to consideration players’ needs around Ramadan with regard to food and drink when they may be fasting and so on?
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Matt Le Tissier
- Replies: 222
- Views: 12252
Re: Matt Le Tissier
So Bill Gates is telling the world’s politicians what to do, so he can make more money? Why are they listening to him? It was suspected that Liz Truss and Kwazi Kwarteng were listening to financiers before unleashing that budget. Is it too big a step to think that other politicians may be listening...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What Josh says
- Replies: 75
- Views: 7985
Re: What Josh says
I’ve got no idea why we continued to chip those balls out to Al-Dakhil. It was obvious Spurs knew that if they got tight to Cullen and closed Trafford down then our only way out was to Al-Dakhil. They stood 10-15 yards off him to tempt the pass. When it was on the ground or throw out it was fine, b...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Villa 3rd Goal Offside
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4769
Re: Villa 3rd Goal Offside
I do wonder sometimes whether referees have become so accustomed to players protesting for decisions, that when the gesticulation doesn’t happen they just happily play on. It seems we are a team that doesn’t get in the referee’s face. I’m sure Dyche would have told players not to, and Kompany also s...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: My concerns…
- Replies: 144
- Views: 8999
Re: My concerns…
I made many of the same points as CoolClaret at the game yesterday. A of the optimism towards this year was built on the way the team performed last year. But it’s like we have an almost completely different team this year. Some of that is out of the club’s control, last year’s loan players etc. but...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Most annoying celebrations
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2190
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Saudi League
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3525
Re: Saudi League
It seems the Just Stop Oil supporters are are actually football fans after all. Without the oil money, when the world turns to sustainable energy sources, will the Saudis be able to afford all this sports extravagance?
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Signing reveal videos……..??..
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1335
Re: Signing reveal videos……..??..
Memes are free marketing for the copyright holder. Nobody is objecting to that. The Delcroix reveal felt like we'd entered our avant-garde arthouse era where there's probably some deep meaning to it but nobody understands what it is, because I personally hadn't a scooby what was going on in that on...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 70's TV
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3446
Re: 70's TV
Half an idea there was an animated Three Musketeers. I wonder it that’s the one?BabylonClaret wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:51 pmFlashing Blade was a live action French programme set during the Franco Spanish war