Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

Brilliant

 

is that method of throwing against the rules?
it sends the ball absolutely flying
would have ended up in the top corner of the net if number 7 didn't get demolished

 

This is up there with the greatest EVER comebacks by Salford City. Losing 4-0 with 10 minutes left. Losing 4-1 with one minute left. Drew 4-4.

 

I’ve defo seen it before, some player used to do it in the 80s, but I don’t know if it was since outlawed. It made such a cultural splash that the seminal tv series The Manageress, starring the delectable Cherie Lunghi (still would), featured a player who did it for her side.

The **** you remember eh?

 

Should City ever go down the pan we can support these lads!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43553415

 

Winds me right up when people say “a little bit unique”.

 

I remember reading about that in a biography on David Niven. A taxi driver recalled David Niven asking him to turn around and return to the airport though they had travelled a fair way as he had forgotten to tip the porter.
The writer said he had a hard job finding anything negative about him to balance things up. He had to setyle for a family member telling himmthat Niven could be a bit unpleasant if he drank a lot of gin. But when someone mentioned it to him he stopped drinking it.

During the war he was asked to stay in the USA to carry on making propoganda films but returned and joined up as he said he wouldn't be able to look people in the eye after the war otherwise. (That fine actor Leslie Howard said the same and lost his life).

If you have never read them, The Moon's A Balloon and Bring On The Empty Horses are worth reading if you feel like being cheered up.

 

There was some journalist at the weekend on about sloppy writing standards. He was bollocked in his early career by his editor for describing something as somewhat unique. There is no such thing as somewhat unique. Something is either unique or it ****ing isn't he was told.

Literally decimated winds me up. An article in the HDM said the Allams had literally decimated City's support. If only they had - only losing one in 10 supporters would be a vast improvement on what has happened.

 

I think 9 times out of 10 when people say literally they don't mean literally at all.

 

Bit like me when people say '3am in the morning'.

 

Indeed. Just yesterday a woman at work said she went shopping at the weekend but literally couldn’t find anything to wear. She really didn’t grasp it when I replied “well that’s not true is it?”

Wasn’t there something about a dictionary redefining literally for precisely this reason?

 

As I said, dictionaries have recently redefined the meaning to take into account modern non-literal (arf) use.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/educati...-OED-includes-erroneous-use-of-literally.html

 

As it happens, pedant is also one of the most misused words.

 

Kinell.

That comment has literally blown me away.

 

Well, some like yourself will be happy as accuracy means you can't wriggle out of things by saying that what you wrote wasn't what you actually meant and people haven't understood you when you are proved wrong.

Have you, quite literally, thrown any kitchen sinks at anything recently?

 

Let us know when you get back from where you were blown to, won't you?