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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 11, 2019 22:25:03 GMT
No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's. Im pretty sure it was up for the festival - seem to remember going over it in the pit van before I could drive and looking into the festival site?! They changed the road layout for the Garden Festival as you used to be able to take a right turn coming out of Etruria Vale Road whereas now you are forced to turn left onto the dual carriageway. It's possible that they built it at the same time as Festival Park around 1989, but I'm still sure it's later than that. It certainly was not built at the same time as the dual carriageway being built as the flyover was put in to deal with the through traffic at the round-a-bout.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 11, 2019 14:53:20 GMT
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 10, 2019 19:52:28 GMT
My mum and her first husband used to hang out with him, she only had good things to say about him.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 10, 2019 13:29:43 GMT
Any good reason or shall we get our pitch forks out first? 3 puts is already building a guillotine, no need for pitch forks. How old is the bridge about 30 years if it was built around the garden festival time? It would need regular checks and maintenance, but all things would deteriorate and have faults, it does take a lot of traffic. No, it's a fair bit younger than the Garden Festival, I reckon it was mid '90's.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 9, 2019 10:53:11 GMT
Ah worked art wha' 'e wor doin eur few weeks agoa, bur ah did not want ta gi' 'im enny oxygen as t' whole thin becem tedious afta 'is fust post. seein 'a' ther's eur whole thread devoted ta dis thin, uz thinkin wor 'a' if ah sha 'a' 'is ruse 'ed bin rumbled, 'em 'e meight gi'o'a botherin wee.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 9, 2019 10:02:26 GMT
Excellent, we can communicate with him now! Ah 'ood li' ta remin' eebygum 'a' 'e is eur grade eur tithead
It's girt 'a' we can naw call properly abaht t' prick.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 9, 2019 9:51:40 GMT
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 1, 2019 22:12:25 GMT
China can afford to back down and play the long game.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 1, 2019 20:17:24 GMT
Can't help feeling that it's a put up job. I know someone that lives there and has attended two of the demos (the 1 and then 2 million people peaceful demos). He said that if the people that tried to enter the building were rent-a-mob Chinese mainlanders, then it would be very difficult to prove. I resisted asking him if that was because they all look the same as that would be quite wrong of me.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jun 22, 2019 10:48:02 GMT
Brilliant short film.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jun 14, 2019 19:56:15 GMT
Anything created today is based in the world of today. That's how science fiction has always worked. Saying something will be treated differently in the future is a comment on the present.
I've not read the article as the page wants me to disable my adblocker and the page has 23 adverts it wants unblocking...
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jun 13, 2019 14:33:54 GMT
Coming back to the top of the sport after these injuries and his age would be truly astonishing. I just can't see it happening no matter how mentally tough he is.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jun 8, 2019 17:55:15 GMT
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jun 8, 2019 11:12:09 GMT
This theft sounds very professional and I have no doubt that the thieves knew exactly what they were doing and who to.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 24, 2019 10:39:20 GMT
Just caught up with it and really enjoyed the programme. I knew very little of their earlier history and would have loved to have seen them in the early 70's.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 22, 2019 10:56:58 GMT
It's interesting about the bravery thing, if it were not for his accident we would never have known what he was truly made of. The same applies to most people, fortunately relatively few people in in the developed world ever have to go through such an experience and as such we rarely get to see what people are truly made of.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 21, 2019 9:42:12 GMT
RIP If you’ve not seen it watch this, it does Hollywood the story a bit but a great racing movie and well made. A rare example of a sports story done well. Yes there are plenty of liberties taken but I found the guy that played Lauda brought the human side of the man to life. I loved to see him with talking and joking with Lewis Hamilton, it was clear that there was huge mutual respect between them.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 21, 2019 8:38:05 GMT
Some panties are just made for pulling down I was going to say something about that photo, but frankly Shakespeare would have been hard pressed to better yours.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 17, 2019 19:58:11 GMT
If I had to put money on someone, it would be Sajid Javid, largely because he's not pissed me off about anything yet, and that's good going for a Home Secretary. His ethnicity will help him too as many Tories will be able to say how inclusive they are etc, plus he's openly not religious.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 13, 2019 10:00:02 GMT
Westport Lake is not the seaside.
EDIT:
For the sake of you young ones, Westport Lake used to have a sandy beach.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 13, 2019 9:59:37 GMT
Santa Clause does not use a wheelbarrow when there's no snow.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 13, 2019 9:58:58 GMT
I never had a fishy on a little dishy, when the boat came in.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 11, 2019 11:48:30 GMT
My woodwork teacher once shouted at me for making a mistake and said, "wood does not grow on trees".
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 11, 2019 11:40:27 GMT
Strictly speaking, it was not the BBC at fault here, it was Hat Trick Productions that screwed up, the BBC rules were already in place and Hat Trick dropped the ball. I would have had some sympathy for Hat Trick if they had not encountered these rules before, but they've been doing it for long enough through many election campaigns to know better. I know hence “outside productions” We're splitting hairs here, but Hat Trick had not made that mistake after nearly 30 years, I'll let the BBC off for not asking Hat Trick something that they have always got right in the past.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 11, 2019 9:58:05 GMT
Political correctness has gone to the extreme and has gone way past allowing the everyday bloke to make his (or her :)mind up about issues. So we had Danny Baker's sacking for an alleged racist tweet showing a chimpanzee in a royal context. When I saw it I just thought it was funny and I can assure you that my first thought was certainly not that it was a racist slur against young Megan. So as a result I am deprived of an opportunity of listening to a Saturday mornings witty banter on the radio. Now we have "Have I Got News for You" being pulled last night. One of the few "comedy" shows that I find to be funny, and one that I will almost always watch on i player or whatever. Last night they were due to feature a guest who might be thought to be politically controversial and against BBC rules ahead of the next European Election. I cant even tell you who it was that caused the show to be cancelled, a) because I wasn't listening intently to the news broadcast, and b) I have no idea who they are even if you told me. Surely a cancellation like this for purely political correctness only gives the controversial individual and/or party unexpected publicity? Two different things. HIGNFY was cancelled because leaders of a party cannot go on tv programmes funny or not and potentially have more air time than their rivals. My issue with this would be the bbc should know stuff like this before they book them or be in consultation with outside productions . Also despite the humour I’d rather our politicians be doing work not moonlighting on comedy tv panel shows. Strictly speaking, it was not the BBC at fault here, it was Hat Trick Productions that screwed up, the BBC rules were already in place and Hat Trick dropped the ball. I would have had some sympathy for Hat Trick if they had not encountered these rules before, but they've been doing it for long enough through many election campaigns to know better.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 10, 2019 19:31:33 GMT
I'm liking the "Meeting people through dance/Twerking" section.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 10, 2019 19:24:38 GMT
Like many people, I grew watching Freddie as a kid and I thought he was the funniest guy out there, it's a shame he could not evolve his act and all he seemed to have left was shock value and that run out too.
I saw this clip earlier and it took me back to his best days, I'm glad that I can still laugh at what he used to do.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 9, 2019 15:36:46 GMT
No, people do not have to be racist to make the connection. Ok- I just thought comparing a chimp to a black person was pretty racist myself but hey. Like I said I never saw the connection You've lost me. You said, "So aren't the people who make a connection between the chimp and a black person the racists?" Why do you have to be a racist to see racism? You own logic says that because you can see the racism, you must be racist! For the record, I've not called the tweet racist or called Danny Baker a racist. I've called him stupid.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 9, 2019 15:22:51 GMT
My first reaction was, So what! It's a royal baby and I don't care. It's not as if this has got anything to do with black people. My second reaction was, The kid has black heritage, what a fucking dense thing to do as a joke. So aren't the people who make a connection between the chimp and a black person the racists? Just a thought I doubt he meant it that way- was just a pic of two posh people with a chimp that looked like a kid I thought. Oh well. No, people do not have to be racist to make the connection.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 9, 2019 13:16:37 GMT
The world has gone mad it’s getting to the stage where freedom of speech is in real danger People today will be offended by almost anything it’s getting to the stage if somebody’s mugged they’d complain the mugger took it easier on them because of there gender or age ( I demand to be mugged as hard as the next person ) I suggest some or the easily offended watch some of the best comedies of the late seventies and eighties and early nineties None of which would be commissioned today and the world would have been a lot poorer for it I think that's missing the point. I doubt that it was racist, and frankly I've not heard many sane people calling him a racist. The issue here is that public statements like the one he made help to perpetuate the abuse people that people of African decent are trying to escape. It's the reason nobody in their right minds would think that the "Nig Nog" jokes from the popular 70's comedy, Love Thy Neighbour are acceptable or funny anymore.
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