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There’s some articles in today‘s press about restaurant deposits. In short you lose the deposit if you don’t cancel, or cancel too late. The articles are solely from the restaurant’s perspective and seek to justify their reasons. What do you as a punter feel about this? Any restaurant owners...

Starting off with a BRLO Pale Ale and a big bag of Salt and Vinegar crisps

What’s the life expectancy for this profession? I’m having my breakfast and watching some guys out of the window erect scaffolding up the front of a 5 story building. It’s going up quickly but they don’t seem to have any safety gear (or fear for that matter). Lots of carrying of planks and...

Big John, Tom Skinner…..what’s all this Bosh stuff about? What does it mean?

Okay, our group is Brighton and ……. I’ll go for Turkey, France and somewhere really north and cold like Tromso in Norway.

So, last week he was stated he was up there with Pep and Klopp. Then he said he was merely “diversifying off the players onto myself” and anyone who criticized him “sounded a bit thick” This week his “diversifying” back onto the players by saying this weekend they “cannot afford to lose”...

The Frau and myself always differ on this, but I’m a 20%er, she’s a 10….we compromise on 15% How much do you tip? Personally I always tip, unless the service is really bad, but I appreciate others might not. So let’s assume everything was good enough to deserve your highest award….what’s it...

Footballing ability aside, I find Ewan Ferguson’s level of maturity and confident but relaxed demeanor quite staggering especially for an 18 year old and especially in his position. I have come across other similar youngsters (in completely different walks of life) who match the outlook and...

It’s a public holiday here in the Hauptstadt. Have a good one.

Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/31/gene-editing-company-hopes-to-bring-dodo-back-to-life The marvels of science. This company want to bring back the dodo and Everton have just brought back dinosaur football. Who or what would...

Trossard’s move got me thinking about how many games a player needs to qualify for a medal. It’s 5 apparently, and these can be as a sub. In theory just 5 minutes could get you a gong. And if these minutes were at the start of the season the player could be shipped out in January and not even...

I’ll start with print-at-home away tickets. Why in 2022 do we have a crazy situation where home club sends printed physical tickets to away club to send out a second time…..even sometimes after the recipient’s name has been hand written onto it. Anything else?

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/06/england-fans-goal-celebrations-pint-zone Interesting article on the pint chucking culture. For full disclosure I’m not a fan, it all looks a bit trying too hard, look at us going ker-ray-zee. The comment about the fans going mental over the...

It’s that time of year again, ie half way through November, and Rough Trade are first out of the traps with their top 100 albums of the year. https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/collection/albums-of-the-year-2022 How many have you got?

Well, not last night at least. "KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63499057

During yesterday’s game, the point was made that in the past year and a bit we’ve lost three of our best players in White, Cucarella and Bissouma along with our director of football, manager and all the first team coaching staff ….with no noticeable down turn in overall performance. Quite...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/19759098/wetherspoons-slashing-prices-september/amp/ A generous offer which will surely tempt some. But it got me thinking, if 7.5 won’t tempt you then how much would Tim have to slash the prices to get you to step inside one of his pubs? If not 7.5, what would...

This is quite a damning report. "Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service" "Eight in 10 NHS practices are not taking on children." https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62253893 Does this tally with people's experience?

I am seeing them again tomorrow night so thought I'd post an alternative to the Beatles thread. Very very strong field but Sympathy for the Devil for me; in fact this is my favourite ever song. Such a good groove and genius lyrics. https://youtu.be/fXnQp8EJEvE Jagger still has it. Whilst I...

Just cracked open a Mikkeller Nelson Sauvin Brut Mango Passion, a Belgian wild ale brewed with mango and passion fruit and aged in Chardonnay barrels. 9.5%.