Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

[ohhh_yeah 3047]

 

@Park Life 

 

[RobinRobin 12325]

6 hours ago, Toonpack said:

 

It attracts a lot of good ones too (or it did).

[Dr Gloom 23385]

[thebrokendoll 10155]

is every fucker scared to post today??

[Dougle 3659]

[RobinRobin 12325]

53 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

is every fucker scared to post today??

Bearing in mind what most of you have admitted to here it's not surprising. 

[Howmanheyman 36128]

54 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

is every fucker scared to post today??

 

Huh.... OK THEN.

 

 

[RobinRobin 12325]

1 minute ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Huh.... OK THEN.

 

 

[Howmanheyman 36128]

[Kid Dynamite 7539]

Villa got a good chance of getting to the CL 1/4s drawing Brugge.

 

[Howmanheyman 36128]

46 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Villa got a good chance of getting to the CL 1/4s drawing Brugge.

 

 

I saw a bit of Brugge v Atalanta and they cut through the Italians at will and Atalanta aren't doing too badly at all ATM in their league. Just looked and brugge defeated villa 1-0 in the league stage. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Howmanheyman

[Alex 36524]

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were 

Edited 11 hours ago by Alex

[Alex 36524]

1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Villa got a good chance of getting to the CL 1/4s drawing Brugge.

 

They should beware of the alcoves 

[Howmanheyman 36128]

16 minutes ago, Alex said:

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were 

 

 

The potential for linguistic faux pas in that country is obviously great. Luckily I pronounced 'juliper' correctly last time I was there.

 

 

Anyway, on this busy TT afternoon shall I do some more police memes or something?

[PaddockLad 18780]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were 

Am not entirely sure if there’s a hard and fast rule on this…. my grandfather was injured on the Somme near a town that was called Dickebusch at the time which sounds distinctly Flemish to me, but its four miles south west (ie closer to France) of the very French sounding Ypres 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

 

[Alex 36524]

44 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

Am not entirely sure if there’s a hard and fast rule on this…. my grandfather was injured on the Somme near a town that was called Dickebusch at the time which sounds distinctly Flemish to me, but its four miles south west (ie closer to France) of the very French sounding Ypres 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

 

Actually I think with that it’s the same, ie the British use the French name ‘Ypres’ whereas the locals would use the Flemish ‘Ieper’. I think its military nickname with the British armed forces was pronounced ‘wipers’ ie a bit of a joke based on the French spelling. I hadn’t thought about it until you’ve mentioned it there but there was probably a decision made in WWI to always use the French name for places to avoid confusion. Which wouldn’t have necessarily applied to somewhere like Zeebrugge, which I think would have been a tiny fishing port back then rather than than the much larger port it became. I have watched a lot of documentaries and read and studied about WWI in case you were wondering  

Actually Belgium played quite a big role in WWII as well and at certain points battles were fought in what remained of the trenches from the previous conflict. 

[wykikitoon 22494]

2 hours ago, Alex said:

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were 

It's Broo-gaha when said over there.

I am listening to Not So Quiet On The Western Front podcast and there's a great epidosde on the mis pronunciation of place names etc in the Some Region.

 

I think there's a law in the Flanders part of Belgium to have both the Flemish and French name of the major roads.

Edited 8 hours ago by wykikitoon

[Monkeys Fist 44846]

Are we really just going to ignore that PL’s grandad was shot in the DickBusch? 
 

 

Come on lads, it’s right there, on a plate. 

[ewerk 32821]

3 hours ago, Alex said:

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were 

Fucking woke.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4217]

22 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Are we really just going to ignore that PL’s grandad was shot in the DickBusch? 
 

 

Come on lads, it’s right there, on a plate. 

Well if he had it out on a plate it was bound to end badly.

[PaddockLad 18780]

22 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Are we really just going to ignore that PL’s grandad was shot in the DickBusch? 
 

 

Come on lads, it’s right there, on a plate. 

Sharpnel in the Dickebusch 😑

[wykikitoon 22494]

It was on that podcast that I learnt that shrapnel was named after Henry Shrapnel. 

[Dougle 3659]

 

Looks like the singer in Blur

[RobinRobin 12325]

9 hours ago, Alex said:

Isn’t ‘Brugge’ one of those names we always pronounce wrong in this country btw? I.e we say it like ‘brooj’ as in ‘Bruges’ for some odd reason. Ie using the French name when we should pronounce it the same way as in Zeebrugge because it’s in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and that spelling corresponds to its Flemish name. Anyway, as you were