Another pointless thread

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Been working this afternoon/evening and got slightly damp around the edges.

Just having a bowl of Paella and I'm going to wash it down with a large G'n'T.

It would be better if it was Spanish brandy, but somebody beat me to it!

New Olympic Sport announced:

Throwing a Strop

President of Argentina expected to take the Gold Medal

I want at least the bronze medal

RIP Brian Hibbard.

We saw him with the Flying Pickets in Utrecht many many moons ago.

England are through to the next round...

...oh well!

Even if they'd come home we'd still have had to suffer the rest of this football thing!!

On the bright side, the sun shone today.

Off to Aberdeen today for a mini-break and a Wedding (on Friday) so hopefully I'll be in a Football Free Zone for a few days It looked like Ukraine were robbed of a goal but there again s**t happens

You might find a lot of the Scots have found their Italian heritage

I thought the Scots rooted for France, once their brave lads were out of anything?

Going out to play with new camera and try to get it set up for my shooting style...

.....sorry, forgot about photog talk...

.........working this afternoon, lovely weather that's supposed to break on Friday.

The Scots will root for who ever is playing England at the time. So yesterday they were all long lost Ukrainians and next Thursday they will all be Italians.

Ukraine was robbed, but I don't think it would have affected England going through, especially with France losing.

His nibs is on hi way to England for three days. I half expect him to come back with a load of St Georges flags flying, just to annoy the neighbours .

You mean you didn't have Union Flags flying for the Jubilee

Not this year no. I did for the Golden jubilee, just to please Ma-in-law who was with us at the time. Just one flag on the flagpole.

In the Netherlands when your child has passed their exams it is the tradition to hang their school bag and the Dutch flag on your flagpole.
We used a Union flag for that.
I also hung it at half mast for Dutch remembrance day, and then for VE and VJ day in 1995 and 2005.

And yes nearly every Dutch home has either a full length flagpole in the garden or, like us, they have a flagpole holder on the house or flat and can attach a short pole to that. They like flying their flag here. Queen's birthday, any other Royals birthday, Queen's Day, Remembrance Day (only in the evening though), Liberation day, when the Dutch footballers are playing - you name it and the flag flies.

I generally find Scots generally state they are not interested in the England football team, yet town has been remarkably quiet when they have been playing!

I thought the interesting survey was before the last football world cup. When asked if they would like England to win, most Scots said they wouldn't mind as long as they didn't go on about it for the next 40 years!

Surely there should be a time cut off limit when after XX Years
a country should not be able to claim having ever Won the World Cup

We Won the World Cup a Hundred Years ago is going to sound silly!

I remember when England (very deservedly) won the Rugby World cup.

Despite being a totally different sport they still managed to mention 1966 about five times a minute!

Whatever the result in Europe, broadcasters will use it as an excuse to re-run 1966 highlights. I would have thought that all copies would have been worn out by now but sadly not.

Gareth, the reason the streets of Scotland were quiet was that everyone was glued to the telly willing Ukraine to win.