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Gricehead

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  1. Group Stage matchday 3 only needs three days, not six, as you will have 8 games in the day across 4 kickoff times, due to both games in the group being concurrent. Whether you'd need an extra rest day to accommodate teams playing in day 12 playing again on day 15 is debatable.
  2. Full on warfare in Montpellier between Morocco and French fans last night.
  3. There's nothing as funny or predictable as football fan overreaction.
  4. Surely we can leverage a Swiss model group stage into this somehow, for maximum lols. Edit: dammit.
  5. He's probably going to do what I did for Elf on the Shelf - print out some fake 20s and shred them. It took the kids about 5 seconds to work out. To be fair, even if he shreds real money, the internet will spend hours trying to prove it was fake.
  6. Some good lines (Ding dong merrily on Sky, oh it's not on Sky is it?). 7/10 for effort
  7. By that logic, don't catch a train in the UK.
  8. People saying they never queue have obviously never needed the toilet before GNR or London Marathon
  9. Except if we have a president. Like the Americans. JFK's funeral was a national day of mourning, and the first one to be declared a federal holiday.
  10. I think this depends on your contracted position for leave. If your contract says "x days annual leave + bank holidays" then they're wrong. If your contract says "x days annual leave including bank holidays" then they're right.
  11. I don't think they'd even be allowed to make that statement to be honest. The actual members of the Royal Family are pretty much pawns in the Institution's game.
  12. Thing is, most competent semi-intelligent people don't want to stand and be abused by drunks in town on a Saturday night, or on a Saturday afternnon on football duties, or have bricks chucked at them for just turning up to a 999 call.
  13. This thread's gone a bit Covid lockdown thread recently. "How dare this enforced mourning impinge on something I want to do!" On the other hand, can't even book a shopping delivery slot for Monday. Shambles.
  14. And this is why the coffin is travelling to London by air. Just imagine the scenes trackside if it went by Royal Train. It was bad enough last time Flying Scotsman was out.
  15. And yet there are still 67 (and rising) cancellations for tomorrow. Mostly down to landowners withdrawing permission, but a few where the run directors have taken their own decision.
  16. I did not expect to spend all morning educating my Indian colleagues about all things related to the British Monarchy. I'm going to get my own back at some point.
  17. Guardian saying it "should" be Sunday 18th September. But in the same article they're talking about concerns London will "be full" due to mourners flocking there, and that doesn't tie in well with Sunday rail services (outside the immediate London area)
  18. They don't change post boxes, even in a planned phased manner. That's why you'll still find boxes with Royal Cyphers right back to Queen Victoria Any new ones will have a new CIIIR Royal Cypher (except in Scotland where new post boxes haven't had royal cyphers since around 1953 because some Scottish people reacted badly to QEII being called QEII). Covid and the running community taught me more about post boxes than I ever wanted to know
  19. TMS was in this thread earlier about how they had a production meeting this afternoon about it,
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