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O/T Mumbai

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by tigercity, Apr 23, 2014.

  1. tigercity

    tigercity Well-Known Member

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    I'll be in India for the next couple of matches, long shot but do they show football games over there? more of a cricket nation (I'll be trying to get to an IPL game)
     
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  2. Stuart Blampey

    Stuart Blampey Well-Known Member

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    Mumbai or Bombay?
     
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  3. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    Bombay's a potato
     
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  4. bigfattiger

    bigfattiger Well-Known Member

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    And a mix
     
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  5. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    & a Bicycle Club
     
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  6. bigfattiger

    bigfattiger Well-Known Member

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    And a door they let bombs out of.
     
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  7. tigercity

    tigercity Well-Known Member

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    Bombay changed to Mumbai in 1986 so Bombay doesn't exist anymore..

    oh hang on..
     
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  8. Stuart Blampey

    Stuart Blampey Well-Known Member

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    "While the city is still referred to as Bombay by some of its residents and Indians from other regions, mention of the city by a name other than Mumbai has been controversial, resulting in emotional outbursts sometimes of a violently political nature."

    Sounds like some of the cloth cap brigade when Humberside gets mentioned <laugh>
     
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  9. bigfattiger

    bigfattiger Well-Known Member

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    It's clearly relating to any place name containing the letter combination 'umb'. NorthUMBerland or NorthUMBria for example?
     
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  10. pierredelafranchesca

    pierredelafranchesca Well-Known Member

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    Yeah mate, it's all over the place. I work out in Pune quite often, 3 hours east of Mumbai by road, and they're pretty mad on football out there. Wherever you're staying you'll likely have a Tata sky box, which will have sports packages on, you'll be able to watch any premier match basically, whilst most of the malls out there will now have a sports bar of some kind, but they'll most likely be playing the IPL matches if they've only got one screen for the next 5 weeks. The ****hede stadium is ****ing miles outside of the centre of Mumbai by the way, so make sure you're getting there with someone who nows their way around if you go to a game
     
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  11. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    You'd think that a nation with so many English speakers would have managed to avoid coming up with the name ****hede Stadium.
     
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  12. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    Taking umbrage?
     
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  13. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    It sounds like the pro name change scum bags.

    Does anyone know where to get some good old Mumbai Duck from? Lovely stuff...
     
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  14. ImperialTiger

    ImperialTiger Well-Known Member

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    You can have that with your Chicken Chennai.
     
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  15. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    Fish and chicken don't go together.
     
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  16. onlyme

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    smells like fish and tastes like chicken!!
    thats what old fellas used to say to me about ermmmm.......errrr.......well yunno!!!!:emoticon-0110-tongu
     
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  17. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    I have heard it called a few things in my time, but never a Bombay duck.<laugh>
     
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