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  1. Mark Fotheringham & Kenny Miller have just been sacked at Huddersfield...should they be casting their eye north for their next gig, my personal view is that I wouldn't trust them to manage my local school team. Fotheringham's press conferences often bordered on bizarre. Send them to Leeds would be my suggestion.
  2. I've always been much more club than country, but will usually at least cast an eye on how England are doing. But even though we are there, I can't remember ever being less interested. I even had to look up who was in our group the other day. And even then just felt an overwhelming 'meh' in my head. I'm way more hacked off that I can't get to see Town play for the next 6 weeks & in truth am far more interested in a couple of trips I've planned to watch the not very mighty Golcar United play. The media will always be the media, but they aren't representative of anyone I know. A WMC near me have booked a kids Xmas party on the same day as the final. They said they will put it on the telly in case anyone wants to watch it...& most people I know are saying the same thing, 'well maybe if England are in it, but we all know that won't happen'. I wish I felt strongly enough to have the energy to actively boycott watching it, but in truth 'can't be arsed' has overtaken 'it shouldn't be being played there' as my go to response.
  3. Just to be a bit pedantic, you said: Did you actually mean 'no later than' or the strict meaning of the phrase 'that will be the earliest possible date? In which case, we won't hear a thing for a minimum of 9 years, but it could be decades after that?
  4. I can see this page has been dormant for a while so thought I'd ask the question. Me & Mrs H were supposed to have our traditional week of doing sod all in the sunshine at the back of September but due to having had a big op, Mrs H can't fly for a while so we've cancelled it & booked a week in the Fens (close to Ely). We opted for it because neither of us can really walk much now, I use a mobility scooter & it's flat, accessible, etc. Now I've passed through there for all the traditional reasons many times (Colchester away, Norwich away, etc.) but never really stopped to have a look around. We're looking at boat trips & one or two things but has anyone ever explored around there & got any tips for off the beaten track places or things that are worth a visit? Or even the odd pub...the odder the better in fact. Cheers.
  5. We used to watch the Apollo missions at school, at least the early ones. I started in September 1969 so have no recollection of XI, definitely remember XII & very vivid memories of XIII. I had a toy Saturn V as a kid as I was utterly obsessed with it. I took it into school, & remember the teacher trying to explain using the toy what they thought had happened. More than one teacher also said that by the time we were adults we'd probably been going on holiday to the Moon. Lying barstewards. Still waiting.
  6. Hey listen, my brain pretty much runs out of steam when I imagine the elastic band breaking & the poor little ant getting flung into the nettles. However, no, the object is travelling lower than the speed of light & ditto the expansion. So, much as if you have 2 cars driving away from each other at 50mph; both are still doing 50mph but they are separating from each other at more than 50mph. I'm getting out of my depth from this point on though, so will await someone who knows what the chuff they are talking about to clarify things using science rather than twanging ants.
  7. I'm not claiming expertise but I think the analogy used is that of an ant crawling along a stretching elastic band. The ant itself is walking at a particular speed, but the stretching of the elastic band also adds distance at the same time. In much the same way, the expansion of the universe adds distance on top of the actual distance travelled by the object. I think! Better qualified people than me can probably make that loads more complicated 😁
  8. My in-laws were both born & brought/dragged up in Ireland & landed over here in the mid-50s. When the Windrush thing kicked off, my F-i-L convinced himself (he'd be mid-80s by then) that the Police were going to turn up & send him back to Ireland. He point blank refused to get a UK passport but got it in his head that he'd get an Irish one. I did a lot of the forms for the two of them & found out along the way that children of people born anywhere in Ireland (incl. NI) are automatically Irish citizens, & if you send off your parents' passport, you can claim one for yourself. Grandchildren can apply for citizenship & likewise get a passport by sending off proof. He never went anywhere with it until he died, but I reckon, with all the kids & grandkids jumping on it after Brexit, it ended up a very well-travelled passport.
  9. We don't do bog standard kit photos anymore...this years looks more like some sort of fashion shoot for Vogue. Anyway, the home kit is pretty much the same as this season's: The away kit seems to be causing a bit of a stir though with some sort of 'ref look' going on. We had an all black away kit once years back which looked great, but I can't make my mind up on this one at all.
  10. That's good to hear. I think he's shown signs now & again here of having a lot of potential.
  11. Not able to watch the game but how is Scott High getting on?
  12. 😁 I think you're probably right (the Blunts are notorious play-off bottlers so I'd expect it to be Forest) but then I wouldn't generally back Town to win anything. Very pleased for Rhodes; that goal was him all over. Just that habit of being in the right place at the right time. He's not getting any younger & has had some very anonymous games for us but I'd be made up if he did get another call-up at some point.
  13. Indeed...a very sore head this morning. I don't drink that much these days but there's a brilliant loophole in the drink-drive laws in that they don't apply to mobility scooters so I went for it big time yesterday, before & after. I can't totally account for how I got home in all honesty, but being under strict instructions from Mrs H not to overdo it, I'm banking on her swallowing the story that I just had a swift half on the way home 🍺
  14. Bollox πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„ We're on our way...to the premier league we're on our way. PS 2 hours to KO & absolutely pissed as a fart already. PPS Forest are cocky wankers. PP whatever S Thanks to Leeds Scum for keeping our seat warm. And if we lose I'm deleting my account πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„πŸ˜„
  15. For the last 30 years I've lived in a village called Linthwaite, 4 or 5 miles SW of Huddersfield. It's probably becoming more of a suburb these days as house-building has consumed loads of old farm land & a lot of the new houses are going to people who want to move into somewhere more rural from places like Manchester, Leeds & Merseyside as well as Huddersfield itself. My house is to the bottom left, although hidden by trees. It's underneath the old mill (Titanic Mill) & close to the chapel you can see. Declining health though means I need to be somewhere flatter with better access to public transport, shops, pubs and the local football stadium (not necessarily in that order) so any day now I will be moving to a spot about a mile from the town centre.
  16. My first ever game was a cup-tie, Huddersfield - West Ham in 1972. As it turned out, that was to be the last game we ever won as a top-filght team until 2017. A classic game though in our history...50 bloody years ago in a few weeks time πŸ˜• I was given a programme where the print had rubbed off a bit on the back. I hadn't paid it much attention until we had a goal disallowed (I think in truth it just rolled into the net after play had stopped) but I wasn't totally sure what had happened & didn't want to show myself up by asking in front of my older cousins that I was with. Anyway, back to the programme. The worn print, instead of saying Huddersfield T looked like it said Huddersfield 1. I somehow managed to convince myself that the programme 'knew' what score it was & the goal must have been allowed. By the time the game finished at 4-2, I realised it didn't, but apart from Frankie Worthington's far post header for the 4th, that's my abiding memory of that day. I did convince myself that football would always be like that. Town wiping out teams stuffed full of the likes of Bobby Moore & Geoff Hurst. By the time I was able to go regularly, we were more likely to be losing at home to Halifax Town.
  17. Based entirely on the recommendation on a football forum of someone with no vested interest whatsoever, I read it a while ago & thought it was a really good read.
  18. Happy New Year from me. I'm staying in this year as I'm still recuperating from some health issues & don't want to risk making things worse. However, I don't have any qualms about inflicting some damage on my liver. This is my tipple for the night.
  19. Dog owners should start from the presumption that their dogs are not welcome near anyone else, rather than it working the other way around where you have to ask the owner to get them away from you. Which, of course, inevitably starts the "It's OK, he's only playing/being friendly/saying hello" routine. I've had a bit of a phobia of dogs all my life, an allergy to them & also due to long-term steroid use, skin which tears badly at the slightest scratch. None of which I feel over-inclined to start explaining to a stranger in a pub who thinks everyone should be as besotted with pooch as they are. It's much the same when I'm out & about...dogs come bounding towards you with the owner half a mile off; it terrifies me & should it jump on me, especially if I only have a t-shirt on, will probably land me with a trip to A&E. I don't expect people to think of all those possibilities, but just keep the dratted things under control. Anyway, rant over...Season's greetings to everyone 🍺πŸ₯ƒ
  20. I thought I'd share a little story with you. Myself & Mrs H were on a rare Saturday evening in town last night & we found ourselves in the Plumbers Arms, which was showing the Scotland-Israel game . Anyway, when we left to walk down the road, it was 2-1 to Israel. Half way down High Street, two African lads walk past us, at which point one smiles at me & shouts "Come On Scotland". So I smiled & asked if they'd equalised. He said they had & that "I need them to get one more goal now and I will be a rich man. I'm praying out loud to God." I don't know if we are talking get a square meal rich or buy Newcastle United, but you clearly have to thank a couple of Africans & God for that late goal.
  21. Best of luck with it...one thing to be aware of with the Spanish course is that it is heavily weighted towards Americans learning Latin American Spanish rather than Europeans learning Castillian. So you get loads of 'the shop is downtown' & using your cellphone kind of thing. Some of it has been 'Anglicised' but you do get tripped up every now & again, especially if you use any sort of dialect in your answer. You won't get much joy on the forums either as they are overwhelmingly Americans who just don't understand why allowances ought to be made. I'm off to Spain next week so I can't wait to see if I can get further than pointing at the beer I want & waving my arms to show I want a big one 😊
  22. I think immersion is definitely key to really developing fluency. My daughter was lucky in a sense, as she was in an environment where she could get at extra things easily, plus she had the time to do it. I think she read a lot of things like folk stories & poetry. Most of the kids on her course were Scottish & I think her best friends there were a girl from Skye & one from Orkney, both already reasonably fluent, so they were able to talk with each other in Gaelic if they wanted to & she could build up her fluency, particularly around speaking & listening which I think can be weaknesses of Duo. Obviously that's not a luxury you have if you're trying to work, look after kids or whatever else is going on in your life. One other tip (you might already know this I guess) with Duo is to try & avoid getting sucked into the league system. I started to find I was going over easy things that I'd mastered already just to get the XP to get promoted/avoid getting relegated rather than concentrating on a learning goal. Re. the Spanish, I had planned to go to some local speaking groups post-lockdown but they don't really seem to be starting up again, other than ones that cost a fortune. There might be something similar though in your area. I don't know if you find this, but I've got to a point where I can understand maybe 60-70% of anything I read online, can get a gist when someone is speaking very slowly & clearly, but if I try to watch the news, say, where they are rattling on at 100mph, they might just as well be speaking Klingon. Keep at it though...it might be a long-term project but I'm told by people way ahead of me that a day comes when you suddenly start to realise you can understand what people are saying.
  23. I'm not an expert personally so might be talking crap, but re. my other post, I know that my daughter had various job offers (although in the end she came back here)...I think she could have done translation work at the Parliament, but also she had got to know a few people in the SNP who were keen to take her on for various projects, so you're probably right there is work around & about.
  24. Bragging dad alert! My daughter studied for a degree in Scotland that required her to become reasonably fluent in Gaelic. She used Duolingo & said it wasn't bad (albeit a lot of references to IrnBru by all accounts!), but that she only really got fluent by doing other back up studies as well. She appeared on a quiz show anyway on BBC Alba & worked in a couple of places where she needed to speak it, so I presume it must have been useful. As an aside, one of her jobs was collecting oral histories (in Gaelic) from elderly people on one of the islands. One of the reasons the community group employed her was that they were finding that the interviewees were clamming up when interviewed by people they knew whereas they would happily chatter away to her. I'm using it to learn Spanish...I've made a few false starts but this time am determined to make some progress. Same applies to me really, that it will get you so far I think, but you need other resources as well to convert competent into fluent.
  25. Bacuna has the potential to be a spectacularly talented player. Fast, tricky, lots of goals & assists. He also has the potential to turn into the Invisible Man during games. Get the best out if him & you'll have a very good player on your hands, fail to that & you've got a wage thief.
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