I hope so I stopped listening to Blue Moon when he stopped supporting the club. I gave him a pass when he slagged Pep off over the Bernardo/Mendy affair but his content and views on the Klanfield debacle was a pod cast too far me. Seems inconceivable that he thought City fans tuning in would want to hear a neutrals view.Excellent, hopefully that's Mooney's media career over.
All good weddings should have a little scrap break out.I was at a wedding, not long after city had signed Grealish; i had been put on the same table as a sub-editor from the Athletic. Talk got onto football, and it transpires that this guy was a plastic utd fan from Leeds, never met the **** before, but when he found out me and my kids were city fans, he starts piping off about "i didn't know there were any city fans in manchester"and "city are just playing using a cheat code" etc etc. Put him back in his box verbally, but would have liked to put him in a box physically - but probably not the best thing to do at a family wedding! Point is that this snide **** is actually making editorial decisions / adjustments to Athletic articles, so yes, fuck the athletic.
Fair enough, fuck all wrong with accidentally spilling a glass of red all over someone though. Happens all the time at weddings, I'd imagine.I was at a wedding, not long after city had signed Grealish; i had been put on the same table as a sub-editor from the Athletic. Talk got onto football, and it transpires that this guy was a plastic utd fan from Leeds, never met the **** before, but when he found out me and my kids were city fans, he starts piping off about "i didn't know there were any city fans in manchester"and "city are just playing using a cheat code" etc etc. Put him back in his box verbally, but would have liked to put him in a box physically - but probably not the best thing to do at a family wedding! Point is that this snide **** is actually making editorial decisions / adjustments to Athletic articles, so yes, fuck the athletic.
He proceeded that statement with "I haven't forgotten......."Pep mentioning the Hateful 8 in his conference, "Pep, what do you think the reaction would be if you spent over 550m in one season?" Pep, " I know, 8 or 9 clubs send a letter to the Premier League to ban us"! He gets us 100%
Some expressions, habits, events etc are thought of as American, but they are actually British. We have moved on leaving such things behind, but the Americans being a bit slow, retain these old forms and re-export them to us.
—Halloween is Irish, not American.
—‘color’ and similar forms are English originally. Not sure when or why we started adding the u to everything.(French influence?)
—Not doubling the last consonant when declining a verb, e.g. ‘travelling‘ vs ‘traveling’ is American English, but came from here I think.
Similarly, the French habit of kissing both cheeks in greeting was copied from the English court where it died out and they’ve sent it back to us.
Sure there are plenty more examples but it’s too early in the morning for my brain
That should be the definition in the English Oxford Dictionary. Ergo, ****, a **** is Sam Lee, synonym, twat, fanny, flange, minky, cock taker, piss flappage , lip service, hairy gibbon, stench trench, kipper canyon, cum bucket, crotch waffle
Some expressions, habits, events etc are thought of as American, but they are actually British. We have moved on leaving such things behind, but the Americans being a bit slow, retain these old forms and re-export them to us.
—Halloween is Irish, not American.
—‘color’ and similar forms are English originally. Not sure when or why we started adding the u to everything.(French influence?)
—Not doubling the last consonant when declining a verb, e.g. ‘travelling‘ vs ‘traveling’ is American English, but came from here I think.
Similarly, the French habit of kissing both cheeks in greeting was copied from the English court where it died out and they’ve sent it back to us.
Sure there are plenty more examples but it’s too early in the morning for my brain.
That's right. The English are known for it. Apparently, the Etihad has too many silent sitters for example.Completely agree - and on your 'o' vs 'ou' example you are correct. Latin was 'o', Old French added the 'u' and then I think both variants were fine for use in American and British English. From memory, it was the Americans who then decided to stick with just the 'o' and that caused the current division. They removed quite a few compound vowels & ligatures (ae is quite a common difference as well) as well. Probably because some of them are unnecessary and English has far too many silent letters.