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Just when I’ve successfully forgotten there is even a Home Page at this website, this thread gets resurrected, I am prompted by this thread to revisit the Home Page out of morbid fascination and I see something new that makes me cringe and feel embarrassed for whoever wrote it.
The ongoing assumption has to be that it keeps this forum going and free to use.
That is the only palatable conclusion I can come to.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Judging by what some members put on their pancakes
jump to conclusionBlackbeard to conquer the World
I loved Jac’s lemon emoji on that thread – it said to me: “What do you put in your pancakes (but, before you answer, just so you know, if it’s anything other than traditional lemon – you’re WRONG, so WRONG!)
I was actually quite intimidated by that lemon image.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“Just when I’ve successfully forgotten there is even a Home Page at this website, this thread gets resurrected, I am prompted by this thread to revisit the Home Page out of morbid fascination and I see something new that makes me cringe and feel embarrassed for whoever wrote it.”
Same here- although I don’t think ChatGPT has the capacity to get embarrassed (yet).
The poor bot having a particularly amusingly bad day at the office with that Bravemansgame article, although Harry Cobden may be pleased to learn that he is the horse’s owner.I’m sure you’re right, tbh, GAG, no human could possibly have written it – could they??!!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"‘I was actually quite intimidated by that lemon image’.
S🍋rry Ian it really wasn’t meant t🍋 be intimidating, but now we’re talking
lem🍋ns again..If you don’t like them on your Pancakes why not use them to descale your kettle …
Slice a whole lemon and put it in your kettle.
Fill with cold water covering the scaled up area.
Boil Twice .. and you have a lovely clean descaled kettle .. leave it overnight for heavily scaled kettles.Come on little 🍋 lemons our work is done here…
Jac xThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Here we go again! The newest article is entitled “When Are This Year’s Biggest Horse Racing Events Taking Place?” It mentions three meetings: Cheltenham, Aintree and Epsom.
In the piece about Cheltenham it says “The previous year’s Gold Cup Day proved to be an exciting event, with underdog Galopin Des Champs pulling off an unexpected victory at 33/1. This year, the focus will once more be on the French horse”.
Well, I suppose he was bred in France…
But it gets even better. About the Derby, we are informed “Although last year’s victor, Auguste Rodin, will not be defending the title”.
For goodness sake…
About the Derby, we are informed “Although last year’s victor, Auguste Rodin, will not be defending the title”.
Fair play, that’s a new Home Page low – which I didn’t think possible.
It’s beyond Alan Partridge at the races on The Day Today: https://youtu.be/g7rTk8Vihe0?feature=shared
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"In “5 Tips For First Time National Spectators”, did we really need to be advised to make sure we eat a hearty breakfast? I would never have thought of eating…
The advice to stock up on snacks is dubious as well. I am not sure about Aintree’s policy but there are some racecourses which will not even let you take a packet of crisps inside.
From the article “Biggest Horse Racing Events in the World”, about the Dubai World Cup:
“Just like The Epsom Derby, this race is a Group 1 flat race that is 2,000 meters long and is raced on dirt.”
That could have done with a full stop after “Group 1 flat race”. Then starting the new sentence with “it”.
As it stands, it sounds like the Derby has been reduced in distance to 10 furlongs and the hallowed Epsom turf has been torn up.
If Mr Davies was still allowed to post here, I am sure he would have had something to say about “Epsom Derby” as well!
A certain Mr Davies voluntarily exited this site
many years ago – the site back then paid cursory attention to this one man’s selfless act of heroic overstatement in cutting off his own knees and for his self declared misdemeanour of challengingly advertising tissue from his Blob exchange.The Truffle site rumbled on, somewhat shocked, somewhat amused, but still fully intacta. It was a lightening event but did not register on the Richter scale.
When the many years rested Davies returned sporting a new bright green anorak and Tee shirt, replacing his de rigueur dismal black of old, it sparked a change. He was refreshed reinvigorated and displayed a new irrepressible energy. Yes, he soon became rampant. Whether people like rampant or not is a personal choice, however soothsayers and historical reporters have oft reported it to be a state generally preferred to ‘dead in the water’.
There are certain events that affect a site’s wellbeing. One has to go back to 2006 for the last significant seismic event which was the sad death of Daylight.
It has to be said that racing as a product is tarnished and in the doldrums and this affects the heath and wellbeing of any racing forum. I don’t think Davies was unaware of this it’s just his love of the sport found ways of dealing with it.
When this newly remodelled sparky Davies, on a grey day, suddenly picked up his Waitrose hamper and left the Teddy bears in the picnic area – to picnic alone – all hell broke loose !
There was pandemonium. This was a seismic event. There are ways of sugarcoating with dressed up figures to sort of make the post Blob decline seem like normal ….Blah Blah Blah, One a penny two a penny, hot crossed figures – but the reality is, we are now living in a desert, and have suffered a serious loss of caffeine.
Yes when Blob left, the site took a huge gasp – possibly it’s last, and it has been surviving pretentiously on life support ever since that grey day – when the forum clock stuttered and stopped. Sorry Jim.
The site refuses to bend – it still has good commentators – they can blurb as good as ever – the problem is that what one can no longer ignore is that they are now commentating and reporting from a desert wasteland and they are mostly living in tents with small cacti for microphones. I have spotted a twig type bivouac adorned with camel dung. There is always one.
Blob finally got one of his wishes
THE BISCUIT TIN
THE ONLY SURVIVOR
NOTHING MUCH MOVES
A FEW FLIES LOOT
THE FEW SCRAPS REMAINING
NOTHING TO DISTRACT
DRAW THE CURTAINS
IT’S GONE MUTE.
I have spotted a twig type bivouac adorned with camel dung.
Bugger, I thought my camouflage was perfect!
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways
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