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Thread | Ladybirds everywhere!
at 13:00 10 Jul 2025
This year seems to have been a bumper year for bugs and butterflies, but in particular the last few days I've noticed huge numbers of ladybirds. I assume their larvae having had a good year due to all the aphids has led to many more adults.
Assume I'm not the only one nerdy enough to spend time watching insects?! |
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Thread | What is going on with the weather then?
at 20:17 30 Jun 2025
Multiple days with the temperature over 30 degrees in June.
Barely any rain in 3 months - all the streams near me are bone dry.
This isn't normal at all!
My lawn has been mostly dead for weeks now, the veg patch only surviving as I'm watering it 2 or 3 times a week.
I can only assume farmers are having real concerns about the crops they are going to get this year too.
As far as I can see there has been minimal (if any) coverage of how weird the weather has been.
Anyone else bothered by this sort of thing? |
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Thread | Is anyone else bored of the extent to which Trump dominates the news cycle?
at 18:41 24 Jun 2025
It's like our entire news feed now has to be fed through the lens of Trump.
It's a bit tedious tbh.
I get covering major events in America with reference to him, but not EVERY story on Ukraine/Russia or Israel/whoever they are fighting today needs to be accompanied by whatever horse sh1t he's just posted on social media.
We all know by now that most of what he says is lies or exaggeration, so why does our media keep amplifying him? |
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Thread | I should no longer be shocked by what Trump says......
at 19:02 12 Jun 2025
But bloody hell. I know that a lot of this is just distraction from the real bad stuff, but I honestly can't fathom how half of American voters thought voting for him was a good idea.
Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world." — The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-06-12T16:59:34.275Z
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Thread | Music quiz - Led Zeppelin
at 15:01 5 Jun 2025
Without using Google, how many times did Led Zeppelin use the words babe or baby in their lyrics? |
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Thread | Academy player 'production'
at 09:54 28 May 2025
Just reflecting on that other (now slightly gossipy) thread on the academy, and wondering what the issue is that's resulted in seemingly so few players of a football league standard coming through in recent years.
We've obviously seen Woolfy, Dozzell and Downes have decent careers, but they are all 26 now so produced a while back. Humphreys and Baggot will have decent careers, as recent ish graduates, and we've lost a couple to bigger clubs (though not that recently unless I'm misremembering).
I think I'm right that the loan deals for our current youngsters are all a fair way down the pyramid too? There isn't anyone close to knocking on the door of the first team, or even being lined up for eg a league one loan move is there? I get that we've moved the goal posts for the first team standard with the double promotion, but you'd think there would still be a few players of league 1/2 standard at least?
So what has gone wrong?
Is it about years of under investment? Is our youth recruitment not up to scratch? Is category 1 really the be all and end all? Is at that gamechanger have deprioritised the academy too much?
I don't have any of the answers, but I'm definitely in the category of fans who love to see our own 'homegrown' talent play a part in the team, so I hope we can start producing quality players again.
Or are my expectations out of kilter with what we should expect? |
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Thread | We've been so damn easy to score against in the last few months
at 00:06 26 May 2025
West Ham weren't even trying to score most of the game, and still got 3. Leicester got 2 from 3 shots on target.
It's either our midfield being far too easy to pass through, Really basic mistakes, or keepers not making saves you really want a top level keeper to make.
Another game today, where we're given a decent account & created chances, but come out on the wrong side because we are so easy to score against.
Badly need to fix the midfield for next season, and personally I'm another who isn't convinced by any of our keepers. Palmer will be fine next season I guess (not if we come up again), but our lack of quality in goal has really cost us this season, with 3 players having a stint and none really grabbing the opportunity. [Post edited 26 May 0:17]
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Thread | This must be the worst premier league season in years
at 16:00 11 May 2025
There has been pretty much no jeopardy in any games for the last month or so. Especially not for neutral fans.
Relegation has been a done deal for months, likewise Liverpool had the title sown up ages ago. Take forest's season out and what has there been to get excited by? And it's likely forest will fall short of the top 5 anyway. |
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Thread | Yesterday was everything i won't miss about the Premier League
at 08:44 11 May 2025
Var utterly killing the event.
Ref determined to make the game about him
Barely any goalmouth action as two teams cancelled each other out
I think the ball was probably only in play for about 20 minutes in that second half
Us losing at home in an even game, again
Some of those things you can probably cope with if you're winning a few games, but when you're consistently not quite good enough (which is the harsh truth) it all starts to get a bit boring.
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Thread | Interest rates down
at 14:41 8 May 2025
Great work on the economy from labour.
I'm sure onceablue will be here to talk about it soon. Any moment now. |
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Thread | Big polling news today
at 13:02 25 Apr 2025
What's your favourite swear word then?
Which swear words do Britons find the most offensive?
C*nt: 82% say very or fairly offensive
Motherf*cker: 70%
Fatherf*cker: 62%
B*tch: 55%
F*ck: 53%
W*nker: 53%
B*stard: 45%
P*ssy: 44%
Pr*ck: 42%
Tw*t: 40%
A*sehole: 39%
D*ckhead: 39%
Son of b*tch: 36%
C*ck: 34%
Full list in the chart 👇 — YouGov (@yougov.co.uk) 2025-04-25T08:55:29.161Z
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Thread | Fair play to our support really
at 16:40 20 Apr 2025
Apart from a few gobsh1tes on here, mainly armchair warriors, we've all stayed right behind the team despite what has been a pretty gruelling season.
Games like today are pretty bleak to be honest, knowing that you're almost certain to lose before the game starts, then made worse by the red card making it even less of a contest.
Just need to get to the summer and regroup for the championship. |
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Thread | Rum old half that
at 15:03 13 Apr 2025
Our pass completion, especially from the back, has been outstandingly poor, and we've given up a number of good chances, and yet.....
2 excellent breakaway goals and the scoreline tells a very different story.
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