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  1. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    <laugh>
     
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  2. Beef

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    Never had that problem tbh, I just go with what I think is right. If I make a mistake I just use sales talk to say sorry. <laugh>
     
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  3. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    Just back in from a wet Roots Hall. Enjoyable first game working for them, and the good news is I've been told whenever I want to go to Roots Hall I don't have to pay, just drop the press officer a text and I can get into the press box instead.
     
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  4. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    good stuff.
     
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  5. ThatThereSaintsFan

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    On the train home after a jamie t gig yesterday, fella is amazing live! I'm so glad he's back.
     
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  6. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    What was the score?
     
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  7. - Doing The Lambert Walk

    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    Southend United 1-0 Hartlepool United - David Worrall 64'
     
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  8. Beef

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    Hartlepool are awful.
     
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  9. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Oh, you actually watched...I thought the press just made it up :)
     
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  10. tomw24

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    Scotland 13-17 New Zealand with 15 minutes to go. Very good effort from Scotland so far.
     
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  11. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    I went to see "The Imitation Game" earlier, what a fantastic film! Benedict Cumberbatch is absolutely brilliant as Alan Turing who was responsible for breaking the a Enigma codes during the Second World War. I urge you all to go and see it.
     
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  12. greensaint

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    I have a vague memory of Hartlepool being one of our close rivals in L1, how times have changed.
     
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  13. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Really keen to go and see that. Watched Fury a couple of days ago - another cracker of a film.
     
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  14. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Hope to see it soon. Turing did so much for his country and he was treated so badly.
     
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  15. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    I read an interview with Cumberbatch in the Big Issue recently and he is even now really angry about the way Turing was treated. It is estimated the war would have lasted at least two years longer and cost 14 million more lives if Turing's team hadn't succeeded, and for his trouble he was chemically castrated for being a homosexual which led to his suicide at the age of 41. Thank God we live in more enlightened times these days.
     
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  16. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    What is even more worrying is that my body is becoming immune to Viagra!
     
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  17. fran-MLs little camera

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    They reckon there was some doubt about the suicide verdict as he was working with cyanide at the time. Whatever happened, imagine what a genius like Turing could have achieved if he hadn't died so young.
     
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  18. fatletiss

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    Well.... that was a god day out. Just got in from a day's wine tasting in Birmingham. Excellent stuff. 10-30-4pm <bubbly>
     
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    They've heard of wine in BIRMINGHAM?????? <yikes>
     
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  20. - Doing The Lambert Walk

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    They do, but the club's official website has to pay close attention. :)
     
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