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  1. oakey

    'I judge children by their names'

    What Otis said, seconded
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    This was my era . what was yours ?

    Boxing Day 1970. A Christmas present and the only time my dad took me even though he had watched City avidly in the Clarrie Bourton and old 5 days. I sat in the last seat on the West End side of the Sky blue stand and nearly froze to death. It was a 1-1 draw with 2 penalties, ours by Neil...
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    Next season's kit

    Their washing machine only does a hot wash?
  4. oakey

    This was my era . what was yours ?

    Look around you at the Ricoh. Most of our fans are over 40 For good reason since you have to be that old to remember any good times.
  5. oakey

    The EU referendum

    You may be unaware of the public sector pay freeze for 3-5 years followed by 1% until at least 2020. Many in the private sector are even worse off with hours cut, unpaid overtime expected etc. We are better off than many countries but less so than such a rich country, which rode the recession...
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    This was my era . what was yours ?

    The sub is Graham Oakey. My user name gives a clue what I thought of him
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    This was my era . what was yours ?

    God, we must have played that game without centre halves!
  8. oakey

    The EU referendum

    What does the UK gain if he wins his game? The euro-sceptic boil will not be lanced. Maybe the best we can hope for is that the nasty party is split and fails to recover? Also at least the media will stop obsessing over Labour and SNP, who have become an irrelevance for the next 4 years at...
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    The EU referendum

    The UK economy remains in painfully slow growth. Of course you can say other countries are worse. Many economists believe the tories have made a pig's ear of managing the recovery. I am not ill-informed. I read the Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, Observer, Huffington Post amongst others...
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    Favourite Sports

    Anything with a ball / good, except all the US games. :whistle: Anything without a ball / bad, especially any sort of race. I used to watch these but had a lightbulb moment one day when I realised races are great if you are in them and not if you're not. :claping hands:
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    Ant and Dec

    Ant is the one the stares at the camera. Dec is the one that seems a pleasant and harmless nonentity.
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    The EU referendum

    Cameron vanity project. Four months wasted on a sideshow so that he doesn't have to do anything useful at home and abroad. If he wins he will be hailed as a statesman rather than the timewaster he is. Meanwhile the economy bumps along the bottom, the public services dwindle away and major world...
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    Next season's kit

    You just have a problem with pale colours! That shirt would look great with sky blue shorts (and thick white stripe down sides) and socks. Or with white shorts (and thick sky blue stripe down sides) and sky blue socks.
  14. oakey

    Keeping up Appearances is the most sold BBC programme

    Patricia Routledge is a very gifted actress, but in the time it was written that part was one of the best comic part written for women, and possibly still is. So the real shame is that such talent was constrained by a formulaic sitcom. Her best work, that I have seen, was a cameo role as Kitty...
  15. oakey

    Gone!

    I always meant to get round to watching something on BBC3. Too late now then. That puts sky1 to the top of the must-try-to-find-a-reason-to-watch list.
  16. oakey

    Sandy Hook School 'Massacre'

    The US government is behind all these massacres. They are all hoaxes so that they can deprive the freedom loving good ol' boys of their God given right to bear arms. ... allegedly. Sandy Hook shows that the free availability of guns allows anyone with psychotic illness to wreak havoc.
  17. oakey

    Tom Hanks

    The money pit is pretty crappy.
  18. oakey

    Next season's kit

    Loved it. It would have been even better with sky blue shorts with a thick black stripe down the side, like Chelsea had (a white stripe) then. But it wasn't as good as the all sky blue of the pinstripes that came next.
  19. oakey

    This team screams automatic promotion to me

    Weak weak weak. Bitey bitey
  20. oakey

    Next season's kit

    Sky blue shorts and socks with any of these would be fine. No white, navy or black shorts or we do not look like the sky blues to any objective viewer.
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