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  1. Japan Population: 126m Tsunami deaths: 15,897 UK Population: 66m Tsunami deaths: 0 GSTQ
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  2. Hah! According to the Venerable Bede, on ye 27th December, year of our Lord 1012, Lord Leythe de White did imbide sucheth quantities of rough ale that he was overcome with a fit of soilage and endeth being awoken the next daybreak in a dung midden in Athyrton alongside a slutternly wench.
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  3. The premier league showing only 1 thing matters to them the money, hope it implodes, people are seeing right through what it’s all about, it ain’t football it’s just cash. Its beginning to turn my stomach.
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  4. It could be like Blackadder this - Leigh White's ancestors through the ages 🙂 Leythe de White was actually the bastard son of the great-great-great grandson (once removed) of the Mercian King Egwhyt, renowned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as being the only person ever to survive being hung, drawn and quartered - twice. As the Chronicles put it: "then they that removed his innards from his still living corpse were thereupon so repulsed by the contents thereof that upon the greatest of haste did they put them back. It is said that the contents doth bear the name "lobbie" and that the unholy foulage is clearly the work of the devil himself and all his imps". 500 years after Lord Leythe de White died intestate, above a hovel of ill repute in Hastings (he never dared leave there after changing sides numerous times during the Battle), his far distant relative Baron Michael de Myner was serving as warden of the chambermaids in Henry VIII''s court. He got the job after forging a family tree that was rather suspect in its veracity, having roots about as solid as Birnam Wood. After being caught knocking off the latest bride to be, Anne of Cleve's, he successfully saved his skin by convincing the court she was actually "Anne from Cleveleys" whereupon he received a pardon and a pension, most of which he spent on a course of blood-letting from a quack apothecary in Solihull, hoping to cure "ye pox". Though it didn't work and he died shortly thereafter, it was not before siring an heir during a brief stagecoach stop on the Great East road, in a layby, somewhere near Melton Mowbray. And the rest is history...
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  5. I like to think I’ve calmed down a lot 🙄 but I do have my moments but few and far between thankfully it’s far too stressful Sounds like we are quite similar 😁
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  6. It’s exactly what she is doing mate master of deflection she is.
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  7. Why not just say it along the lines of how I wrote it, then, the cock.
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  8. Spot on. On a smaller scale you get that that at non league grounds, those that havent decided they need to go all modern. Chorley is a great ground. There are a few in the EFL like Cambridge, Carlisle, Macclesfield that retain a charm and long may they continue in their current form. Losing Griffin Park is a sad day.
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  9. No ones gonna adhere to it as one household and probably no one's gonna enforce it Use your common sense. Just restrict social interaction with other households unless you really have to and even then keep it outside. Don't be a social butterfly visiting every man and his dog in your family for fathers day and you'll be reet.
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  10. Personally always preferred David Coleman and BBC 1 ... seven hours solid ..
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  11. These at £20 are £12 at Home Bargains... https://www.westons-cider.co.uk/product/mortimers-orchard-cider-6-x-4x330ml/
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  12. It's great to finally be able to put faces to the names of the SAGE Committee.
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  13. Correct that’s what arse lickers/wannabe PMs are for
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  14. The UK will be a better place if bojo is spreading his seed far and wide. Protecting our future then with another generation of bojo’s to take us forward 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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  15. you're allowed to wank outside as often as you like, as long as you only spunk over a 2 metre distance, with a family member, but not in Scotland
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  16. To give Boris and co. some slack here, it’s worth noting that we are months and months away from a vaccine. The Core strategy has always been to protect the NHS from falling over. We still have to cautiously accept that a good many of us need to catch CV since a year long lockdown is utterly unthinkable. Small spikes every couple of months are probably our best hope. They can’t say that, though, which is a shame, as most people would understand the thinking on that.
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  17. Fuck the other dominions - we'll nip in and corner the market in leeks, haggis and Tam 'o Shanters and erm...chucking stones at the RUC whilst they're busy being wetwipes.
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  18. Think the Cumbrian tourism board are a bit concerned... https://twitter.com/cumbriatourism?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
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  19. Exactly Funny how people are epidemiologists, but can't understand "be alert"
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  20. Exactly what I was implying. I meant people have lost the ability to deal with a situation themselves. Just use your loaf. That is what Boris is asking. Use the guidelines and information provided and deal with the situation. Twitter and everywhere else is awash with idiots asking what ifs when it can’t be any clearer. It’s always been clear, folk just made it difficult. If you can go to work, go to work, if you can’t, it’s really unfortunate but make the best of what’s on offer and the safety of your family is paramount. If your current workplace won’t let you work, go and get another job that will for the meantime, instead of sitting on your arse moaning what your not getting. If you want to visit your family just, just bloody visit your family, just stay 2m away. Asses the situation yourself instead of waiting for some guy on the telly what you can and can’t do.
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  21. Top post, I know where you’re coming from, sad to hear your mate passed away. RIP to what sounded a top Wanderer.
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  22. No idea, but I know that it's not the right time now. I've had it, I really don't care about myself going to work as I have been doing. But kids carry it and what is the point of sending him to school and taking the risk of him bringing it home when we can home school him. Deal with september when that one comes. Love my wife to bits, if she gets it, she will die.
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  23. will there be any correlation in reported COVID cases & league position?
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  24. We’re a nation of absolute wetwipes all drilled with a worse case scenario mindset from childhood. Folk need to get a grip and deal with the hand your played. Deal with the situation instead asking waiting in line to get your arse wiped.
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  25. If you can and avoiding public transport If you can SD And only if you cannot WFH As a “next step” for business, it’s possibly as slight as it could be that’s nowhere near bowing to the pressure of industrialists
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  26. That's the only scenario where the playoffs will consist of games actually being played
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  27. I'd hope Nicky gets a good reception here. Did a great job for us IMO
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  28. I'm not missing football, it's been years since I was a football fan, I'm a BWFC fan. I don't watch sky, I don't watch MOTD, I rarely have, unless we're involved. I am missing the match. I am missing BWFC. The craic is great, the journey, meeting up with mates, travelling the length & breadth of the country, full day sessions, taking over towns, so on & so on & so on ... But the match ... the match, the live match is something else. The emotions, the songs, the banter, the passion, the anger, the fear, the adulation, the euphoria, the pride ... Even when losing ... & nothing, but nothing, beats the euphoric thrill when the ball hits the back of the net ... the primal raw release of all those emotions in a split second is an experience that only your fellow fans will ever really know. It's a legal high, an adrelaline rush like no other, only increased by the importance of that game in that scenario. A last minute winner against a local rival or hated team, the beating of a higher profile team against all odds, an unlikely victory against adversity. That's what I miss, no matter how your week has gone, at work, at home or whatever ... You can switch off for a few hours, or for a day ... & let go for a bit, be yourself & enjoy yourself amongst your own, amongst your family, amongst your friends. Nothing beats it.
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  29. Times like this I browse through the photos of my Dad. He was with the RAF in Gibraltar that were dropping depth charges from Hudson Bombers on to the U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay. Attached photos are after they had their undercarriage shot away by a German fighter and they had to bellyflop the plane in the North African desert. The camels are the rescue party. 10 years gone this year. A true Wanderer who followed them since his first game in the late 1920s
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  30. Right I usually hate it when people do this but I'm going to do it anyway. A quote from a bloke I like watching on YouTube. ' If we commemorate one thing, then that should presumably be the biggest human event that affects us today. The biggest event in human history was World War Two. It was the biggest war, the deadliest war, the most widespread war and the event that changed the world the most. At the start of the war, Russia was a sleeping bear, Britain was the most powerful nation on the planet, and Germany was a brutal dictatorship. At the end of the war, The USSR was a superpower that rivalled its arch enemy the USA, and the USA was tremendously wealthy. In the 1930s, the USA was in economic crisis. In the 1950s, the Russian and British precious metal reserves were in Fort Knox, and American teenagers had cars. The British economy was wrecked, and India was well along the road to independence. The political situation of the world had changed. Germany was a peace-loving democracy. Worldwide, there has been peace since WW2. Yes, there have been many localised wars, but nothing like the wars of old. When the people fought, they fought (in the main) for peace. That was the stated aim of the Allies. The British population consented to conscription. It was understood that this was a peace worth fighting for. Sixty million people died, and many more were wounded, bereaved, made homeless, but it was understood that there was some purpose behind the struggle. The war achieved a lasting peace. NATO was formed. For the first time, trials were held for 'crimes against humanity'. A war like this was not to happen again. So far, it hasn't. I grew up never fearing that the French were about to invade. Wars were things that happened far away. What has kept the peace for the last 75 years in Europe? Not nuclear weapons, not treaties, they may have helped, but in the main it was World War Two. At the start of the war, the RAF had Gloster Gladiator biplanes. At the end, it had Glostor Meteor jet fighters. The leap in technology was stupendous - greater than in any other period of the same length. If you want to understand the world as it is today, you have to know about World War Two. It explains the borders of nations, the technology, the political relationships. If you want people to understand the world, they have to remember what created it, and so it is important to remember World War Two. It is a little bit of a pity that VE Day is the day to do it, since VJ Day was still to come. One day to cover the whole war better would be ideal, but a day had to be picked, and it is VE Day, which is understandable. For the British, it was closer to home. Today, we have a one-day holiday to mark VE Day. And why should the British in particular remember this day? Because Britain risked it all, and damn near lost it all. In 1940, France fell in a couple of weeks, and the French surrendered and swapped sides. The French navy refused to carry on the fight and join the British, and went to war with Britain. The Germans held massive victory parades because the war was over and they had won. Russia was allied to Germany - one brutal dictatorship hand-in-hand with another. Britain was surrounded. To the east, France was ruled from Vichy with an Axis government, and the Netherlands and Belgium were conquered. To the north, Norway and Denmark were conquered too, with Quisling ruling Norway on the Axis side, and German battleships pouncing from the fjords, and airbases in range of Blighty. To the south was Spain, ruled by Franco and his Axis dictatorship. To the west was the wide cold Atlantic across which the Americans refused to join the war, completely convinced that if the British fought on, they would last but a few days. A US Gallop poll showed that the American public was evenly split over which side in the war was in the right. It was over. The world had lost, and even Britain had for a while thrown in the towel. But then the nation changed direction, and made a decision that the whole world, including much of Britain at the time, thought was completely bonkers. Britain would honour her treaty with Poland and fight on, alone if need be, and at that time, she was completely alone. So be it. Fuck Hitler, and fuck everybody else who was doing nothing. For the next two years, Britain limped from one defeat to the next, but kept going. Commonwealth nations answered the call and joined in. The British Indian army eventually became the biggest volunteer army of all time. Troops gathered, to fight against fascists and Nazis, from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond. The tiny fortresses of Gibraltar (expected to last two days) and Malta held out for the entire war, despite horrendous suffering. All this effort was worth it, right? Tell me it wasn't for nothing. Tell me that the young women parachuted into France at night to organise the French resistance, many of whom were caught and shot but never betrayed their contacts - tell me that they weren't just silly girls having an adventure. Tell me that the stupendous loss of life in Stalingrad had some purpose to it. If not, then think about what this means - that you presumably don't think it important whether we are ruled by Nazis or not, or that perhaps you prefer non-Nazi regimes on the whole, but are unwilling to show the tiniest bit of gratitude for the astounding generation that fought World War Two and against the odds and all expectations managed to win it for us. We are rich because of World War Two, we are safe because of World War Two, we are free and British because of World War Two. I get to be a YouTuber because of World War Two (I doubt the Nazi Party would have approved of user-generated content). Why am I writing this? Not because it is VE Day, but because I last week heard actual British adults saying that commemorating VE Day was a stupid waste of time, since everyone who fought in the war is now dead. Well, some of them are not dead, actually, but even if they were, that is no excuse.'
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