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Post by billyocean on May 28, 2021 16:51:06 GMT
Which is the podcast some say is hilarious. I’m losing track. Thanks guys. If they’re as immature as I am it could be the end of relegation part II where the new season match day excitement is previewed
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Post by billyocean on Mar 9, 2021 5:38:21 GMT
This thread should be renamed “rust, bird sh|t, weeds and tents”
Sadly pointing out how rag bag will still are only ends one way
On the plus side, there looked to be brick construction work going on at the training ground when I ran past recently. Timber roof frames and all. They still have a cheap sticker covering up the old “colony” name on all the signs though. Budget doesn’t stretch to getting new ones
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Post by billyocean on Feb 13, 2021 22:10:24 GMT
Or more simply, the management consultants propose spending money and there is no money to spend so they’re ignored, no longer asked or let go
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Post by billyocean on Feb 13, 2021 9:52:04 GMT
Read his book. It might change your opinion of him. I listened on Audible. All the people saying they’ll stop watching etc know that won’t actually happen. If we start winning again the past is quickly forgotten
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Post by billyocean on Feb 7, 2021 8:22:13 GMT
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Post by billyocean on Feb 1, 2021 19:16:46 GMT
Can’t believe we’ve put in all this effort to lose almost every game in the run up to the transfer window closing in order to convince the owners that we need some new signings and it’s backfired. Won’t try that tactic again
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Post by billyocean on Jan 30, 2021 8:46:39 GMT
After watching the Peterborough game on iFollow and also finishing my stocking filler “A Season to Remember” last night, I have fresh optimism ready to be dashed. The pitch at the mem looks amazing. All set for 3-0 home win Kilgour, Nicholson and Hanlan scoring
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Post by billyocean on Nov 21, 2020 18:31:35 GMT
At least the commentators couldn’t use “scoreless” at the end
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Post by billyocean on Nov 15, 2020 14:35:29 GMT
"Garner’s game management is understood to have been a particular concern"
^^ this
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Post by billyocean on Nov 14, 2020 18:12:20 GMT
To be fair, he didn't mention the ref until directly asked. I was surprised by the number of "unacceptable", "I apologise" and "not good enough" comments at the start of the interview. It was noticeably different to most of his other interviews
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Post by billyocean on Nov 9, 2020 19:26:56 GMT
Darlington 17th in National League North. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by billyocean on Nov 3, 2020 6:52:56 GMT
I'd bring in Alfie at RCB, Ehmer CCB and Harries LCB. The RCB-CCB-LCB terminology is now conventional, but still I find it peculiar, however. Perhaps this will help
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Post by billyocean on Oct 28, 2020 9:07:24 GMT
Garnerball not Tinkerman.
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Post by billyocean on Oct 27, 2020 21:38:59 GMT
I love Tutonda. He just needs to practice his defending and remember what position he’s playing in
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Post by billyocean on Oct 20, 2020 14:09:15 GMT
Anyone know why it's a 6pm kick off? Surely that means a lot of people won't be home in time for ko and therefore less likely they will buy a match pass. Strange decision given the dire financial straits that all EFL Clubs find themselves in. Also annoying if you're abroad or pretending to be and have already bought all games a month in advance. Question is, if you get back at halftime and we're winning 0-2 do you buy the second half at full price and would you still pay full price halftime 0-0 or losing 2-0?
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Post by billyocean on Oct 18, 2020 8:09:10 GMT
BG has got skinny little legs No surprise a duck liked this comment. Always good to read the contrasting views on the game when I don't get to see it so thanks all for the contributions. UTG!
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Post by billyocean on Oct 4, 2020 20:56:17 GMT
Sage advice for a duck to hold onto its hat, particularly in flight, although I’d question the benefit in wearing one in the first place
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Post by billyocean on Oct 3, 2020 15:13:37 GMT
iFollow sound is a bit crackly today. Picture has been good so far but I had to switch quality to auto as it was buffering on 720
Regards,
BerlinGas
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Post by billyocean on Sept 29, 2020 18:56:49 GMT
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Post by billyocean on Sept 17, 2020 5:33:06 GMT
The bottom line is that the social media revolution has made forums a dying format. When I first started using them in the early 2000s that was what everyone did if they wanted to chat online with other Gasheads. But now it all looks a bit pedestrian I suppose compared to the pace of constant Gas related babble on Twitter and Facebook. So we're basically using the internet-era equivalent of a fax machine at this point. It is also indicative of the kind of s*** in-betweeny technology that 'my generation' fell for.
Pity my generation - we're not millenials with their internet native ways, but we also lack the previous generation's self-satisfaction in their own authenticity. We are the people who thought we would get top jobs in the technology sector because we were the only person in the family who knew how to code Video+ on the recorder (yes that was a thing and you can tell someone my age because they are the only people who can still remember it), make long play work and could set-up the answer machine (on a landline). Plus our parents thought we were geniuses because we knew how Windows 3.1 worked and could connect it to a Modem. Then social media/apple/smartphones happened and it turned out that all the technology that we thought we'd nailed was, in reality, total crap.
We can't even look back wistfully at some authentic stylish era of record players etc. because everyone can see that the technology and media we used was s*** and simply a gateway to stuff that was much better. We are generation Video+, generation Filo-Fax, generation Tamagotchi, generation Discman, generation dial-up, generation MS-DOS. We're seen as naff by millenials but as indolent as millenials by older generations. No one gives us sympathy. We don't even have a name - 'Generation oh they were sort of here too for a little bit'. Oh and our cultural contribution was utterly neglible. No one will remember us or mourn our passing. There will be no 'I remember...' type shows about us. The best we manage is when every now and then someone goes through a garage and notices a massive Viglen computer monitor that they have never been arsed to take to the dump because it would be too much of a faff to lug it to the car and they think 'oh yes I remember using that - it used to blink out all the time. So glad they're better now.' That's about as good as it's ever going to get for us.
So, yes, internet forums- probably the ultimate metaphor for my generation.
I'd like to add MiniDisc early adopters and the realisation you could write protect a VHS video that you have recorded by removing its tab, and latterly remove this protection by inserting some folded paper and holding it in place with sellotape
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