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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #15 on: Tue 05 Aug 2025 23:42 »
Quote from: Whistleblower link=topic=7119.msg93883#msg[93883 date=1754413849
Quote from: JCFC on Tue 05 Aug 2025 17:51
Worry not, Whistleblower. I would be greatly flattered - not to mention very surprised - should anyone actually believe that I possess such knowledge of popular culture.

PS Thanks for the "open goal" assist!

Is Dire Straits popular culture nowadays ? I am surprised to be thought a doyen in such matters. I attended a Quiz Night recently and warned the fellow members of my Team that I know little popular culture. What is an Influencer ? Who are the Kardashians ? My ignorance of such subjects is pretty much absolute. Needless to say we lost to a team of youngsters who understand such matters.

I sympathise. When I first began to hear mentions of the Kardashians, I did not know what they were. A chain of islands in Micronesia? A section of the Himalayas? A rebel organisation in Chechnya? It finally emerged that they were human beings, though quite what they are for remains a mystery.
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #16 on: Wed 06 Aug 2025 12:01 »
Quote from: JCFC on Tue 05 Aug 2025 23:42
Quote from: Whistleblower link=topic=7119.msg93883#msg[93883 date=1754413849
Quote from: JCFC on Tue 05 Aug 2025 17:51
Worry not, Whistleblower. I would be greatly flattered - not to mention very surprised - should anyone actually believe that I possess such knowledge of popular culture.

PS Thanks for the "open goal" assist!

Is Dire Straits popular culture nowadays ? I am surprised to be thought a doyen in such matters. I attended a Quiz Night recently and warned the fellow members of my Team that I know little popular culture. What is an Influencer ? Who are the Kardashians ? My ignorance of such subjects is pretty much absolute. Needless to say we lost to a team of youngsters who understand such matters.

I sympathise. When I first began to hear mentions of the Kardashians, I did not know what they were. A chain of islands in Micronesia? A section of the Himalayas? A rebel organisation in Chechnya? It finally emerged that they were human beings, though quite what they are for remains a mystery.

I have looked up the Kardashians but I am unable to advise you as what they are for ? Neither utilitarian nor ornamental it would appear. I'm sure they love their grandparents and are kind to kittens.

I was once dressed in full fig ( in the late and much lamented Tom Lehrer's words " the quaint and curious costumes we are called upon to wear " ) in the Strand and I heard a child say to her mother as we passed " Mummy, what's that man for ?"  Had I been quicker in thought I might have replied " for justice my dear "  but that is probably too grandiose a claim to make.
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #17 on: Wed 06 Aug 2025 12:15 »
On reflection, perhaps what the Kardashians are for is to be a familial embodiment of alliteration. The subsequent question, for which I have absolutely no reasonable answer at all, is what then is the purpose ?
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #18 on: Wed 06 Aug 2025 18:09 »
Quote from: Whistleblower on Wed 06 Aug 2025 12:15
On reflection, perhaps what the Kardashians are for is to be a familial embodiment of alliteration. The subsequent question, for which I have absolutely no reasonable answer at all, is what then is the purpose ?

I thought a Kardashian was in Star Trek 😎😂
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #19 on: Fri 08 Aug 2025 22:29 »
Quote from: HChip on Mon 04 Aug 2025 16:14
Nice to see Kitchen on our first game!! I am 100% confident that it won’t be the last, we will probably have him as much as Burnley did!

Great to see Josh Smith out there too!

Hopefully Burnley won't see him this season. I really do not get it with this referee at all, poor every time I've seen him either refereeing Burnley or seeing him on TV. He didn't disappoint again tonight.
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #20 on: Sun 10 Aug 2025 11:37 »
First time seeing Elliot Bell in person yesterday. I can see the makings of a decent referee. He seemed to be a calm and composed figure, dealing with any flash points fairly well and seemed willing to talk to control proceedings.

All three cautions were correct, potential argument that the Wilmot challenge was in the orange category. For that Wilmot incident, he did have a discussion over the comms with his assistant before deciding on yellow.

Overall, a positive showing and can see why he's risen to this level quite quickly.
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #21 on: Mon 11 Aug 2025 18:47 »
Quote from: Whistleblower on Tue 05 Aug 2025 16:27
Quote from: JCFC on Tue 05 Aug 2025 14:33
Quote from: Whistleblower on Tue 05 Aug 2025 14:12
Quote from: Claretman on Tue 05 Aug 2025 07:44
Two teams of refereeing brothers in the championship now, “the Smiths and the Bells”.

Macho man for Charltons return to the championship!

Brothers-in-arms I take it rather than a familial connection.


Are you suggesting that refereeing is in Dire Straits?

At Charlton on Saturday we shall see the muscular Stephen Martin. The Man's Too Strong in my opinion but he will be Southbound Again and take a Ride Across The River to the Tunnel Of Love at The Valley. Let's hope his performance isn't a case of Money For Nothing and for Charlton it's a Ticket To Heaven. What will be will be however so Why Worry.

Fixed it! bmb

How did the veritable muscle man perform at the Valley?
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Re: Fri 8th – Sun 10th AUG 2025
« Reply #22 on: Thu 14 Aug 2025 23:22 »
Sadly a last minute occurrence prevented me from going but friends who were there had no complaints about him.
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