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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 23:26:25 GMT 1
Last week i went into a cafe in a town called Fleurus, the chubby-faced Turkish owner had about 20 selfies on the wall....of him and the entire Real Madrid team. It was ridiculous, a silly grinning face and 20 bored looking superstars!
And yet seemingly worthy of mention, therefore not to be dismissed out of hand.
Suchlike that inspires discussion could be considered a work of art.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 1, 2015 23:37:13 GMT 1
Last week i went into a cafe in a town called Fleurus, the chubby-faced Turkish owner had about 20 selfies on the wall....of him and the entire Real Madrid team. It was ridiculous, a silly grinning face and 20 bored looking superstars!
And yet seemingly worthy of mention, therefore not to be dismissed out of hand.
Suchlike that inspires discussion could be considered a work of art.
Think faded Polaroids with a Johnny Vegas lookalike inanely grinning out from the corner of a mucky kebab house on a boring Belgian side-street. Art...fart.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 0:38:45 GMT 1
Sounds cool.
I've no idea who Johnny Vegas is though. Some highbrow artisan that only arbiters of taste such as yourself would be familiar with perhaps?!
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Apr 2, 2015 1:39:25 GMT 1
The player wage levels are almost entirely due to Sky. If they pulled out the plug tomorrow there would be a lot of short term problems to see out current contracts - then wage levels would revert to whatever the market of the day warranted - or any club was daft enough to pay? It may be sustainable for quite a long time as Sky don't have all that great a share of the viewing audience - so they have a lot of upside. PS: Did you get their autographs I would not stoop to ask for an autograph....ever. There might have been a time i would have tried, there might even be a reason of economy (you can sell them of course) but there will never be a point of reason for a scribbled name to resonate or have meaning. When you get old(er) and look back on your life you might regret it. My first/last autograph was Helen Shapiro and she used to resonate.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Apr 2, 2015 9:53:11 GMT 1
For Johnny Vegas substitute any overweight slob. As for autographs "goodshot", i am older...53. Autographs are puerile, i got a few in my callow youth. Of course they can have material wealth..but so would Elvis Presleys toenail cuttings to the delusional.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 10:04:12 GMT 1
I would not stoop to ask for an autograph....ever. There might have been a time i would have tried, there might even be a reason of economy (you can sell them of course) but there will never be a point of reason for a scribbled name to resonate or have meaning. When you get old(er) and look back on your life you might regret it. My first/last autograph was Helen Shapiro and she used to resonate. You were lucky, an orphaned friend of mine was at a concert as a treat from a children's home in the early 60s. Requesting her autograph she told him to f**k off! In her defence, she was still fairly young herself.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Apr 2, 2015 10:40:40 GMT 1
When you get old(er) and look back on your life you might regret it. My first/last autograph was Helen Shapiro and she used to resonate. You were lucky, an orphaned friend of mine was at a concert as a treat from a children's home in the early 60s. Requesting her autograph she told him to f**k off! In her defence, she was still fairly young herself. She must have been looking kindly on me as I'd just bought her record and she signed the cover - Woopah, oh, yeah, yeah.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 11:37:32 GMT 1
Good God. Never. A woman asked me to take a photo of her yesterday in Piazza San Carlo. Having not taken a photo in 20 years i had the camera the wrong was around! Did you wind it on properly?
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Post by Mecha Corte on Apr 3, 2015 12:40:42 GMT 1
I agree with the previous comments. Unfortunately are we part of the problem? How many of us subscribe to sky sports? Cancelled my subscription 2 weeks ago and I will be finished with Sky on the 14th April. I am very lucky its not that I can't afford it but Sky have no interest in loyal customers like me who have been with them 24 years. In all that time I have not once received a call from them giving me anything back. The latest football deal was the last straw. When I called to cancel they went into a tailspin although they said that almost 100% of recent cancellations were due to subscribers being under the correct impression that they would eventually have to foot the bill. I believe prices are going up already this week.Interestingly, I have had 5 phone calls in the last 2 weeks from Sky saying they would like to reward my previous loyalty if I would reconsider! F**k 'em. Bob, I gave up Sky Sports in Feb after over 20 years, still have sky+ but also changed broadband, still got SSN which I do watch but really not missed the live games, like you I was bombard with offers of discounts etc while I served my notice. Football has become a snake eating its own tail, I will take my love for HTFC to the grave with me but last season I stated to cut back on away tríps because of the ticket price and when somebody who goes to Motherwell for a friendly or Boston Utd for a first round Autoglass tie midweek says enough is enough then football is on the brink. In a few years time Rahim Sterling turning down £100,000 a week, for 5 years ( which the average fan on £25,000 a year would have to work for 1050 years to earn ) will not be an option open to him.
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