United Thread - 2021/22

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mat said:
St Fish fingers replacing Noel Edmonds for the BBC Christmas day show where he gives out presents to deserving the people.

The first hour will be the delivery of a vat of red wine to a pensioner from Govan with a tribute to his contribution to society.

Silly Sally will then appear really flustered to interview a poverty stricken family who need financial help. They will then be given rag shorts with Gashy on the back along with the offer of a matchday ticket to the swamp. Which will make their hearts jump with glee.
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What time is it on the box ?
What you really made that all up ? :-)
 
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Protein Junkie said:
“Smith grew up a die-hard United fan, but Orzabal converted much later. He supported his local club Portsmouth as a young boy before he moved to Bath as a teenager and met his bandmate, drifting away from the sport until the late 1990s.”

Lawro has not one but two Raggies in the form of Tears for Fears on his predictor bench. See above YCNMIU.
Curt Smith was born in Bath.
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The late 90’s when the rag cunts started winning ….. convenient
 
Ah Tears for Fears there's a blast from the past, I can remember when they were called Graduate and playing the Penguin club at Bath City FC .
 
Blue Mist said:
The rags haven't played for a few weeks and Sir Fish Fingers hasnt fed anyone so they have not been in the news as much as they would like.
Cue the new (old) story, they are meeting with 5 developer's and will choose one from them to get plans to redevelop the swamp.
BUT now they are going to build a new stadium alongside the swamp for the women's team. Wow I am so excited.
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Surprised Saint Marcus hasn’t recorded an Xmas song with his extra time off.

Feed the children, Let them know it’s dinner time etc.
 
Are they still a football club?

When is the last time they kicked a ball?

Maybe the scum should stick to false advertising and leave the football to city;)

The master builder will have some team next time out. Weeks now of pressing about looking for Pr37 Hair gel and couple tins of beans for rashy;)

Football club! Nah
 
johnevans said:
Not wishing (a) to divert the thread from the usual invective against the Red Filth and (b) to be a pedantic s*d (yes, I know Mat et al, I am one!) but if I might suggest to anyone contemplating a banner (!!) that they take into account:

‘Irrumabo’ probably isn’t the correct Latin to use here. It means ‘I will face-f**k you’ (and quite aggressively/violently, whether or not the recipient wants it). Learning Latin at school, we came upon a book of naughty Roman poetry which gave us all sorts of insights into swear words and Roman attitudes to sex. It included such gems as ‘Carmen 16‘ by Catullus, dedicated to his friends Furius and Aurelius, which starts with ‘Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo’ (ie ‘I will sodomize and face-f**k you’) and it’s regarded as one of the most obscene lines of poetry from any age.

Probably better to use ‘futuo’ (meaning ‘to connect with a woman’) as in (I think) ‘Quis in futuo Mancunium Unitum est?’. Given that the majority of the crowd over at The Swamp are graduates from The Halls of Academe, Oxbridge/Rhodes/Erasmus scholars all, they’d soon spot any potential errors in vocabulary, case or tense used and turn the joke back on us, a satisfaction we clearly wouldn’t want to afford them, would we?!

Btw, as one Blue has mentioned regarding learning Latin ‘not being a waste of time’, I’d reply ‘Indeed!’ - I think it was Robert Heinlein who said ‘Each generation thinks it invented sex. They’re wrong.’ and that’s true from reading the various naughty poems/writing collections from different generations.. one of Catullus’s fellow Romans, Martial (no, not that one at The Swamp!) has, amongst his canon, the memorable fragment ‘Mmm! What am I doing? slurs Lyris, feigning shock./ I’ll tell you you’re doing what you always do/ Even when you’re sober,/ Sucking c**k!’. A case of ’Plus ca change, c’est le meme chose’ as we used to say growing up in Hulme..

Again, apologies for being a pedant. Happy Christmas Blues, wherever you are..
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Sorry to be even more pedantic, but you have used the incorrect gender in your French idiomatic saying of "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Not important in the scheme of things, but we don't want Officer Crabtree coming along and mispronouncing it, do we?
 
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