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Reply | Christian Nourry….
at 15:26 29 Apr 2025
To call Nourry "a disaster" seems extraordinarily over the top to me. And that's followed up with some pretty extreme personal stuff too:
"You hear him speak and he makes your skin crawl. Wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him."
Now I've never met Nourry, but I've followed this club's mad course over many, many seasons and in that context, I certainly wouldn't call this season a disaster. Given all we've been through, and all the restrictions on spending that still apply, I think we've actually done OK. I also think there have been some excellent signings (Nardi, Morrison, Varane for example) some great loans (Saito, Edwards) and some rather canny off-loading, especially Armstrong and Dykes. The academy also looks on better shape than it has for many years, with further successful off-loading.
The issue with the performance geezer is the main blot on Nourry's copybook for me, along with the lack of communication, but as for the rest, and particularly regarding all the stuff that's been posted re. Marti and the supposed falling out with Nourry, I don't know what to make of it, but I do know that much of it is nothing more than rumour, speculation and good old shit-stirring. |
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Reply | The Allotment Thread 🍃
at 20:24 25 Apr 2025
I think raspberries and gooseberries would be okay in the middle of that plot. Really hope you try beekeeping. Plenty of good advice from others in this thread. Good luck and enjoy. Even just turning up, putting the kettle on (little gas burner in your shed) and having a cup of tea would be nice :) |
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Reply | The Allotment Thread 🍃
at 17:16 25 Apr 2025
Ooh you lucky devil! Allotments are like gold dust these days and that looks like a fantastic plot. I'm assuming you're planning to grow your own veg and maybe some fruit as well? A bit late in the year for potatoes but still good for cabbages. I'm sure you wouldn't, but plesse don't use roundup or any other kind of weed killer! Have you considered keeping bees? |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 10:23 24 Apr 2025
Like any other fickle fan, I'd be very sad if Marti left - for many reasons - but if we found a suitable replacement who turned out to be an improvement, all this would be forgotten. But that's a very large IF. The potential for this to go tits up is huge.
We love to say "only at QPR" - where of course many other clubs are run like circuses - but nevertheless, what a facking shit show. Rumours flying, good will draining away, little to no communication from the club....ugh. Why oh why do we have to keep going through this self-immolating cycle? |
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Reply | Arse over head
at 08:37 17 Apr 2025
I thought this was going to be a Champions League thread.
Eze mistake to make. |
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Reply | Goal Of The Season Vote
at 17:09 16 Apr 2025
They have, 13 posts before yours!
My goal of the season, but I also really liked his strike v Leeds. And Paul Smyth's goal v Bristol City is fabulous as well. |
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Reply | The Masters
at 08:53 14 Apr 2025
For me that was one of the greatest sporting moments I have ever witnessed. Watched it from about 5pm our time right through to the finish. Epic in every sense of the word. It had something beyond the normal sporting narrative.
My brother texted me: if at first you don't succeed... (said in a Norn Iron accent) and I replied: Troy and Troy again. Seemed suitable for such a legendary moment.
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Reply | Is Nourry that bad?
at 23:57 11 Apr 2025
Re. the OP: Archachatina knorri is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. This species is endemic to Liberia.
I think that's conclusive. |
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Reply | Random irritations..
at 18:29 11 Apr 2025
We regularly get rush hour jams in my street, so we are blessed with these lovely people who kindly share their delightful music with the entire facking neighbourhood. |
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Reply | Madsen
at 14:40 10 Apr 2025
I tend to agree. For some reason (ask Rowett), Oxford were one of the few teams that didn't play a high press. In fact they didn't press us at all first half and Madsen revelled in the space and time he was given. Unfortunately, that is a very rare occurrence.
In the second half Oxford were far more aggressive and Madsen's influence duly faded. His set pieces are really good, and he's clearly a decent player, but not for the Championship. |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 09:04 10 Apr 2025
Shades of Alan McDonald about him. |
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Reply | Good luck son of pugwash
at 09:44 22 Mar 2025
Awful news. I never met Gareth, but I really liked him, if that makes sense. A wonderful character. Really sad. RIP Cap'n. |
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Reply | The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil
at 16:39 13 Mar 2025
This is simply not true. The climate can change very quickly, both globally and relatively locally. Perfect examples of this are what's known as the Medieval Warm Period, where temperatures rocketed in a very short space of time, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, where temperatures were actually warmer than they are now, even globally, by about 1°C. (Incidentally, this allowed the VIkings to colonise formerly freezing Greenland and vineyards to flourish in Northern England). The MWP existed from about 900AD to 1300AD and was followed by rapid cooling, leading to what's known as the little ice age, where temperatures plummeted.
This rapid temperature change is also true at the beginning and end of ice ages, and in interglacial periods. For example, in what's known as the Younger Dryas, temperatures dropped by 4–10°C in just a few years. We are currently in - as far as scientists can agree - an interglacial period, and for a long time people have been expecting the climate to cool. But the truth is, we simply don't know.
The climate has, and always will be, in a state of constant flux and there are numerous factors that affect it, many of which are still not properly understood. Despite all sorts of claims to the contrary, climate science is far from settled, and scientists still don't know why these rapid warming and cooling periods happened*. But one thing's for certain, they were not related to human activity.
When scientists are unable to accurately forecast weather over periods of just a few weeks (or even days), I think we should be very wary of any predictions based on limited data.
*Malenkovich cycles are one such theory; they're an interesting idea, but they do not explain all sorts of climate fluctuations. |
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Reply | Alright you bird lovers?
at 10:13 8 Mar 2025
Feck, I got me owls and me crows mixed up! Or did I??
Did the Norse/Germanic-derived collective noun come first?
A parliament of crows "is an ancient English expression which derives from Germanic folklore. It is due to the belief that crows, which were believed to be as intelligent as humans, would reunite to judge their own who had offended the community. If they were judged guilty, the parliament would tear them to pieces.
Pleasure to be sharing pedantry with you Mr M! |
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Reply | Alright you bird lovers?
at 09:41 8 Mar 2025
Oi, I like crows. Try telling their parliament they're unsociable! |
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