No I don't feel it is my fault @steveTu, but I do still get very bad tempered. After some games, OH knows it is best to ignore me for a few hours. When I was younger, I could not go out after some games. Some years I didn't have much of a social life
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@steveTu and @punkdoc ... it’s all right for you two ... things could be a lot worse ... some of us have followed Ipswich since the Alf Ramsey days ... 😭
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Alf Ramsey? Wasn't he a Spurs player? Learnt all he knew about management from the Lillywhite's greats - Arthur Rowe's push and run - decades ahead of its time. Now we have hoof and hope and have gone back to the stoneage.
@WonkyWomble’s 1st year primary teacher Mrs N could cure a child of hiccoughs just by staring at him or her 👩🏻
My Dad used to hold his hand out and ask me to hiccup. Occasionally I'd manage one more but never two I assume it's essentially like mindfulness being imposed on you.
I use the drinking water one, now my Dad's no longer here to help me
I don't understand the impact football has on people who don't play it. It makes lots of people slightly nuts, not just you Pdoc. I find it baffling
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
my grump is folk who order deliveries and have no CLEARLY VISIBLE house number or name visible from the roadside. They're usually the same folk who grumble when you're late. I had to drive up a road last night shining a torch at every house looking for house names. The house I was delivering to had "patio doors" put on the original porch and the house sign was on the , now inside wall. Yeah, thanks for that.
...but why is supporting a football team any different to supporting a side in any other competitive event? Oxford-Cambridge boat race has the light and darks, I used to cheer on Stevie Ovett (huzzah) over Seb Coe (boooo)... some people follow darts (why?) some rugby (even more why?), horseracing (what?), cricket (yawn), bowls (now that I understand), judo....
And it's a community things as well if you watch live. You are part of a social event - and you can enjoy that social aspect as much as the event itself. As a parallel, my wife belonged to an art club that met every week to paint - but she loved meeting the people each week as much (if not more) than the art itself. How many here do the same with some event?
I think you're confusing violent thugs with people who just enjoy
(?) watching a sport or event and who get emotionally involved and
invested in the outcome.
The violent thugs didn't like football, they liked the violence. Those people have and will always be in society in some shape or form.
Hosta, I live in a funny out of the way place and I have added my What3Words address to my delivery notes. I have tried to make suggestions on various supermarket delivery websites to no effect. With the What3Words app anybody can find anybody anywhere on earth.
I suggested we adopt it at Waitrose, but was met with blank faces.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had a primary school teacher like that too. She used to park her broomstick in the corner of the room.
When I was younger, I could not go out after some games. Some years I didn't have much of a social life
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I use the drinking water one, now my Dad's no longer here to help me
I don't understand the impact football has on people who don't play it. It makes lots of people slightly nuts, not just you Pdoc. I find it baffling
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I had to drive up a road last night shining a torch at every house looking for house names. The house I was delivering to had "patio doors" put on the original porch and the house sign was on the , now inside wall.
Yeah, thanks for that.