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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Smug in Boots, Jun 13, 2022.

  1. gelders pie

    gelders pie Well-Known Member

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    Or, £25 has gone to the shop, £2 to charity, and £1 x 3 returned = £30
     
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  2. Snaggey

    Snaggey Well-Known Member

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    I like that.
    But, but, but.....
    Each person has still paid £9, and £2 has gone to charity, so still adds up to £29.
     
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  3. Row 3

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    That's what I keep coming back to. I've heard several explanations which the explainer always says answers the question, but when put in the way you have just there it just doesn't stack up.
     
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  4. LD19SAFC

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    No surprise, it’s getting worse all over the place and won’t get any better. Grim
     
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  5. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    https://x.com/Leonard_Leazes/status/1911816462190195117

    'Palace Ultras are ready for Wednesday's game with #NUFC. Over 5000 of us will be making the trip with multiple drummers & tambourines. In protest to the Saudi owners, starting tomorrow we will be swapping street signs out around their city. Contact Stevie P if you need more signs.'

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    Saudi bot (the original message from "Holmesdale end" account is a mag), AI pic. Why?
     
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  7. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Yes it's poor isn't it ...

    ... everyone knows the allocation isn't 5,000.

    The internet is crumbling before our eyes mate.
     
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  8. John Wick

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    mate I've seen people of all ages all over sunderland in mag shirts, it's bonkers. Say what you about Hendon, but Sunderland were formed and played our first games there, and there's the odd mag shirt knocking around there aswell, I mean, you can't get more Sunderland than down there historically.
     
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  9. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    Very interesting . . . .

    Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

    Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it … hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”

    Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

    There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.

    The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a “thresh hold.”

    In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, and thus the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”

    Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”

    Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

    Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the “upper crust.”

    Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were then laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.

    They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”
    Worse than that, though, were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot . . . . they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.

    The next time that you are washing your hands & complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s.

    England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised that they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell, thus, someone could be 'saved by the bell' or was considered a 'dead ringer.'

    That’s the truth. Now . . . . whoever said that History was boring ?

    Or is it :angel:
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/life-in-the-1500s/
     
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  10. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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  11. Smug in Boots

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    He won't be saying that when the lion wakes up famished <laugh>
     
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    Happy Birthday to the ZX Spectrum. 43 years old today!
     
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    Horrible image imo.
     
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  14. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Is that the date when kids officially started to become obese <laugh>
     
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  16. Evil Jimmy Krankie

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    Date of the first virus infection that led to it :emoticon-0143-smirk
     
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    My first computer which fuelled my future career choice. Almost 30 years working in the IT industry now :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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    Spent the last 3 days painting the dining room/kitchen.

    Take home message? Masking tape, can go **** itself

    Having a well deserved beer now.
     
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  20. Evil Jimmy Krankie

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