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Reply | Part Time Jobs
at 13:39 16 Sep 2025
Yeah you found the right one, Oak. F#*k me that's some increase - though I did the course 17 years ago. |
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Reply | Part Time Jobs
at 12:20 16 Sep 2025
I spent 10 enjoyable years as a London Blue Badge Guide. Getting the qualification takes some commitment in time and money (18 months, around 4 grand) but once you have the badge you're set. You are freelance, you choose your hours and type of guiding and there is lots of demand. The Blue Badge covers all of London and outside including Windsor, Hampton Court, Stonehenge, Bath, Oxford, Canterbury etc. If you're not up for the full monty you can get a green badge for a specific area like Westminster or the City. Google the Institute of Tourist Guiding. |
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Reply | Worst flight / service / food etc on a plane?
at 20:20 15 Sep 2025
The approach to the old airport really was scary. I swear If the plane windows opened you could have reached out and snatched items off the clotheslines on the high-rises! |
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Reply | Books
at 12:18 27 Aug 2025
Three observations:
(1) It is brilliant that a forum of QPR supporters has such a rich, varied and enthusiastic thread about books.
(2) Unlike many readers, I never re-read books. There is so much that is new out there. Plus trying to re-live books you loved years ago is always a disappointment.
(3) Recommendation: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck. Ambitious, exhilarating tale of three generations travelling and settling across America at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Thrilling narrative, compelling characters and big themes handled with confidence and compassion. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 12:54 22 Aug 2025
On the strength of much hype and a couple of enthusiastic reviews, I watched Ep1 of The Hostage, which dropped on Netflix this week. Disappointed. Wildly implausible setup, erratic plot shifts, Suranne Jones doing her strong-but-anguished-woman acting. Seen enough.  [Post edited 22 Aug 14:56]
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Reply | Best film you’ve seen this decade. Since 2015.
at 16:34 12 Aug 2025
For me it has to be The Zone of Interest. A cold-eyed look at how utterly ordinary people with everyday preoccupations can create and live in a world of evil. Unforgettable. |
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Reply | New Tokenization Partner
at 16:41 29 Jul 2025
It means a bitcoin company is going to do some joint branding with QPR.
They'll use lots of wizzbang power phrases ("explore pioneering ways to bring QPR tokenization onto the blockchain") to persuade gullible mugs to buy a pretend currency whose value has been pumped and who won't discover they've been had until they try to cash in their "investment".
All dressed up in blue and white hoops. [Post edited 29 Jul 16:47]
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Reply | England women’s team
at 11:27 23 Jul 2025
Italy at their cynical worst. They have learned from the men. Score one goal, pack the defence then turn up the shithousery. They got what was coming to them when England equalised in added time.
The Lionesses showed awesome levels of fitness though. Hemp and Russo never stopped. And our Chloe brings a spark of confidence whenever she comes on.
Looking forward to Sunday! |
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Reply | Eze
at 13:12 15 Jul 2025
"Kane can get him in the England team".
Can he? |
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Reply | England women’s team
at 14:44 10 Jul 2025
The energy levels they showed to maintain that high press were really exceptional. The Dutch players were strolling about wondering if they would ever get any possession. They looked like a team of 10 Madsens. |
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Reply | Bonjour
at 13:10 25 Jun 2025
If that interview had been delivered by a journeyman manager in Estuary English it would have sounded more like the waffle it is: blah blah ambition, blah intensity...blah passion... blah respect. Pat answers to unimaginative questions.
In a French accent it sounds more meaningful. Like when he said "you 'ave to be 'urmburl". |
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Reply | Blood Donors
at 13:43 10 Jun 2025
As a student in Dublin in the 70s the blood bank visited college once a year. It was a straight pint-for-pint swap, blood for Guinness. There was always a queue. |
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Reply | ‘Going Anywhere Nice This Year?’
at 09:29 10 Jun 2025
Easily done. The satnav in our hire car sent us the wrong way down one way streets more than once. Crazy. |
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Reply | ‘Going Anywhere Nice This Year?’
at 17:31 9 Jun 2025
Just got back from there. Sicily has a turbulent history going back to the 8th century BC so many interesting archaeological sites. Another thing that is interesting is the driving. Going from Cefalu to our hotel involved driving up a two-way helter skelter in the dark. |
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Reply | Famous people you have met on a plane
at 15:21 12 May 2025
I once got upgraded when flying to New York from Heathrow T4. Walked in to the lounge behind Yoko Ono. She was only there because the Concorde Lounge was being refurbished at the time. So I got bumped up a grade but still only rubbed shoulders with the famous because they were slumming it! |
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Reply | Cheese.....
at 18:00 8 May 2025
I could happily live out the rest of my life on bread, cheese and wine. Doesn't matter if the cheese is hard or soft, creamy or crumbly, mild or sharp, odourless or rank. I do draw the line at Casu Marzu though. |
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Reply | Cifuentes placed on garden leave as reign that promised so much unravels
at 09:44 30 Apr 2025
Let us mourn the demise of Ned Stark, Hand of the King.
All hail Joffrey Baratheon, first of his name, Lord of the Andals and of the First Men, and Ser Loras, who commands the Kingsguard from across the Narrow Sea. We wish them good fortune in their quest for a new Hand.
The night is dark and full of terrors. [Post edited 30 Apr 14:04]
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