We did them at school Ippa dippa dation my operation how many people at the station. The person at station gives a random number. This is counted using than usual dipping procrss. then You say something I can't remember and the last bit is ' and out you must go'. The one on go loses and then you start again. It's a long selection process. Ip skip sky blue who's it not you is quicker but not random so not as fair.
Well I love the football and I am totally thrilled this evening. Boo to all you sour pusses who are moaning. And being truthful I get a little miffed by the carping at something which gives joy to so many.
On the other topic, we used to do spuds in. Do folk remember that?
That's everything I hate about football. A game won by the 'get in the box and fall over' tactics. This is supposed to be the top level of the sport played by people that get paid millions to train to do better than that.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Well I love the football and I am totally thrilled this evening. Boo to all you sour pusses who are moaning. And being truthful I get a little miffed by the carping at something which gives joy to so many.
Wrong thread. This is the thread where one can curmudge in peace. You need to copy and paste into RTBC. I can’t find any joy in a bunch of men running up and down a length of grass for a couple of hours while chasing a leather balloon. 😫
I'm with you. 60000 can cram into a stadium , but 60 can't go to a wedding or a runeral. Wasn't the whole England cricket team put into isolation this week due to 4 positive tests? Why is sport still happening? I've just had to turn off Radio 2 as VF is gushing on about bloody football and I'm sure ZB will be doing the same later. And still , at every opportunity they bring up 1966. yawn yawn yawn
Agree with you about grown men running up and down a field in front of a lot of people. However when it becomes a matter of national sides it has an element of tribalism as much as any situation where you can express pride in one's country.
Add in the extra complexity of English flag having been overtaken by a racist/fascist tendency decades ago and still hasn't been recovered except at football competitions. Also England has been consumed by Britain or United Kingdom. No national anthem except for UK one, name is synonymous with UK to many around the world and any expression of national pride outside of UK or sporting competitions is kind of not accep behaviour. You would get called "little Englander " if you advocated English independence but Welsh or Scottish independence is OK. Then devolution for England. So Institutional is the idea that England cannot be proud in the same way other uk nations are that even making laws that only affect England has to be made by the whole of the UK. Even the pathetic EVEL is/ was scrapped. Then trial votes for regional devolution of sorts gets voted down in the Then Labour ne England. Its that deep down the idea that England isn't OK.
Sorry but everyone whinging about the football is really whinging about one of the few times the average English person really feels safe being proud of England and expressing it. That's a sad truth. For the sake of a few weeks of this pride coming out you'd think the anti football grumps could keep it to themselves for awhile.
I personally dislike the game because I think there's no sense of honour in the way players try to get free kicks or penalties and numerous other little cheats. I do like the sense of a nation coming together even if it's around football. Watching the game is my sacrifice to be part of that sense of being part of England and that's OK.
PS I live with someone who hates any idea of nation. So it's always a difficult subject at home.
Am with you there Northern Jo,hubby hates football,yet watches screaming at the TV,marches in when I am watching something,turns over. Southgate seems an Ok bloke,but so many of them supposedly healthy individuals shown drink driving, cheating on the wives, earnings more money an hour than I got in life time, regardless of whether they win or loose!
Just the. bit where you personally dislike football. I forgot to mention the fights, vandalism, rubbish after the matches. Here,village green in the next road,where football is played, narrow, bending road,NO car park,so people park where they fancy,right up to the mini roundabout, dangerous, annoying,lot of people round here on mobility scooters,who have to go on the road. From what I can gather,most of 'our," football players are useless at playing,so in a blue moon,we are meant to be proud. Am proud of the people who made the vaccine. Don't think many on here are proud as a nation, everyone always dislikes the PM of the day.
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Ippa dippa dation my operation how many people at the station.
The person at station gives a random number. This is counted using than usual dipping procrss. then You say something I can't remember and the last bit is ' and out you must go'. The one on go loses and then you start again. It's a long selection process.
Ip skip sky blue who's it not you is quicker but not random so not as fair.
On the other topic, we used to do spuds in. Do folk remember that?
60000 can cram into a stadium , but 60 can't go to a wedding or a runeral.
Wasn't the whole England cricket team put into isolation this week due to 4 positive tests?
Why is sport still happening?
I've just had to turn off Radio 2 as VF is gushing on about bloody football and I'm sure ZB will be doing the same later.
And still , at every opportunity they bring up 1966. yawn yawn yawn
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Add in the extra complexity of English flag having been overtaken by a racist/fascist tendency decades ago and still hasn't been recovered except at football competitions. Also England has been consumed by Britain or United Kingdom. No national anthem except for UK one, name is synonymous with UK to many around the world and any expression of national pride outside of UK or sporting competitions is kind of not accep behaviour. You would get called "little Englander " if you advocated English independence but Welsh or Scottish independence is OK. Then devolution for England. So Institutional is the idea that England cannot be proud in the same way other uk nations are that even making laws that only affect England has to be made by the whole of the UK. Even the pathetic EVEL is/ was scrapped. Then trial votes for regional devolution of sorts gets voted down in the Then Labour ne England. Its that deep down the idea that England isn't OK.
Sorry but everyone whinging about the football is really whinging about one of the few times the average English person really feels safe being proud of England and expressing it. That's a sad truth. For the sake of a few weeks of this pride coming out you'd think the anti football grumps could keep it to themselves for awhile.
I personally dislike the game because I think there's no sense of honour in the way players try to get free kicks or penalties and numerous other little cheats. I do like the sense of a nation coming together even if it's around football. Watching the game is my sacrifice to be part of that sense of being part of England and that's OK.
PS I live with someone who hates any idea of nation. So it's always a difficult subject at home.
Like some solicitors " no win , no fee "