The Hung Like a Donkey General Election December 2019 Thread

[Seat68]

To give Spurs their due, no play on words intended. All of my Spurs loving friends are all raving Corbyn cult members. Of the 4 of them, all of them when I had an account on Facebook were cheerleaders for him.

[HanoiVillan]

9 minutes ago, bickster said:

You don't get more Tory than Spurs surely?

Good point. I was taken for a beer to the Spurs bar on Lan Kwai Fong by a bunch of rugger people at one point, that was one of the more Tory experiences I've had.

I think Spurs do lose a bit of Tory-ness though, due to the area their ground is located in. 

[bickster]

1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said:

Good point. I was taken for a beer to the Spurs bar on Lan Kwai Fong by a bunch of rugger people at one point, that was one of the more Tory experiences I've had.

I think Spurs do lose a bit of Tory-ness though, due to the area their ground is located in. 

Are there any football grounds not located in low rent areas? Can't think of one offhand apart from maybe Arsenal. They be very very Tory imo

[mjmooney]

14 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

To give Spurs their due, no play on words intended. All of my Spurs loving friends are all raving Corbyn cult members. Of the 4 of them, all of them when I had an account on Facebook were cheerleaders for him.

But... but... Jews hate Corbyn? 

[HanoiVillan]

8 minutes ago, bickster said:

Are there any football grounds not located in low rent areas? Can't think of one offhand apart from maybe Arsenal. They be very very Tory imo

Not many, admittedly. Still, there are degrees of deprivation, and Tottenham is really deprived. 

[LondonLax]

10 minutes ago, bickster said:

Are there any football grounds not located in low rent areas? Can't think of one offhand apart from maybe Arsenal. They be very very Tory imo

Holloway road is pretty dodgy. Fulham and Chelsea have grounds in nicer areas.

[Seat68]

6 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

But... but... Jews hate Corbyn? 

Aryans, the lot of them, unsure why they settled on Spurs.

[desensitized43]

39 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Holloway road is pretty dodgy. Fulham and Chelsea have grounds in nicer areas.

This. Never felt more genteel than an away day at Fulham.

[Seat68]

You can't get more Posh than Peterborough. 

[Risso]

1 hour ago, bickster said:

Are there any football grounds not located in low rent areas? Can't think of one offhand apart from maybe Arsenal. They be very very Tory imo

As well as the ones mentioned, the Forest ground is a couple of minutes walk from quite an upmarket bit of Nottingham. Bolton play in Horwich, most of which is relatively affluent.

[Morley_crosses_to_Withe]

2 hours ago, bickster said:

Are there any football grounds not located in low rent areas? Can't think of one offhand apart from maybe Arsenal. They be very very Tory imo

It depends what you define as low rent? Stamford Bridge (in Fulham) is just off the Fulham Road. The average rent for a one bedroom in Fulham is probably, at a guess, >£2000 pcm. There are, however, some local authority developments (council estates) within a walking(ish) distance to the ground, though. 

Craven Cottage is the same. It’s also in Fulham and just over the water from Putney & Barnes - both areas aren’t low rent, even for London standards. 

Edited December 2, 2019 by Morley_crosses_to_Withe

[Xela]

2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Good point. I was taken for a beer to the Spurs bar on Lan Kwai Fong by a bunch of rugger people at one point, that was one of the more Tory experiences I've had.

I think Spurs do lose a bit of Tory-ness though, due to the area their ground is located in. 

Similar for me, I remember being next to a group of hooray henrys at Happy Valley races. They were all wearing chinos, polo shirts and having a heated debate about what was best Rolex of all time.

I slid my hand into my pocket as I was wearing my £10 classic Casio watch (the watch of terrorists by all accounts)

[snowychap]

15 minutes ago, Xela said:

£10 classic Casio watch (the watch of terrorists by all accounts)

I imagine that tagline was only used in the Al Jazeera ads.

[Xela]

1 minute ago, snowychap said:

I imagine that tagline was only used in the Al Jazeera ads.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13194733   

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Now this unassuming, black, plastic, digital timepiece has found itself in the news for a different reason. Leaked US documents reportedly advised interrogators at Guantanamo Bay that possession of the F-91W could be a link to bombing by al-Qaeda.

 

[snowychap]

11 minutes ago, Xela said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13194733   

 

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Its [sic] this refusal to be cool that has made it cool, says Bayley.

"[London's] Hoxton hipsters enjoy the way a £7 plastic watch refutes all that snobbismo...

You Hoxton Hipster, you.

Edited December 2, 2019 by snowychap

[cyrusr]

36 minutes ago, Xela said:

Similar for me, I remember being next to a group of hooray henrys at Happy Valley races.

[chrisp65]

2 horse race here, so Austin Mitchell from Rochdale has chipped in.

[markavfc40]

4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

2 horse race here, so Austin Mitchell from Rochdale has chipped in.

I saw someone else on FB who had received one of these letters. Apparently delivered by Royal Mail but not in an envelope. 

[chrisp65]

1 minute ago, markavfc40 said:

I saw someone else on FB who had received one of these letters. Apparently delivered by Royal Mail but not in an envelope. 

Haven’t received mine yet, but I’ve just had the mother of all curries so hopefully it arrives first thing in the morning.

[bickster]

15 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

2 horse race here, so Austin Mitchell from Rochdale has chipped in.

It's not often I'll say this but he deserves to be locked in a room with 100 Momentum activists