The Pub - Discuss Anything

[Vesper 30,119]

30 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

Excellent lesbian joke for you Vesper 

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/13/edinburgh-festival-2019-the-10-best-jokes

ours is

T20 on weekdays

ODI on weekend

Test Match on bank holiday

 

and like a pub with a bookie in the back

 

liquor in the front

poker in the rear (with strapon)

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

ours is

T20 on weekdays

ODI on weekend

Test Match on bank holiday

 

and like a pub with a bookie in the back

 

liquor in the front

poker in the rear (with strapon)

For once in my life I'm speechless 

[Laylabelle 9,534]

10 hours ago, Vesper said:

Scientific study concludes that watching football is actually good for your health

https://www.givemesport.com/1496923-scientific-study-concludes-that-watching-football-is-actually-good-for-your-health

Really?!?! Then again my nan can't she has to listen to it on a radio and that's horrible. I wana be doing that and not swearing at 95

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

11 hours ago, Laylabelle said:

Really?!?! Then again my nan can't she has to listen to it on a radio and that's horrible. I wana be doing that and not swearing at 95

My mates mum is 97 and demands to watch live football almost every day 

[Vesper 30,119]

ball skills

 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/08/19/just-a-brilliant-thread-of-mens-ridiculous-nicknames-and-how-they-got-them-after-derry-girls-nicola-coughlan-said-this

[Vesper 30,119]

On 19/08/2019 at 8:24 PM, Iggy Doonican said:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/08/19/just-a-brilliant-thread-of-mens-ridiculous-nicknames-and-how-they-got-them-after-derry-girls-nicola-coughlan-said-this

lol

 

[Vesper 30,119]

'I Read My Cheating Fiance's Texts Instead Of My Vows At Our Wedding'

Casey couldn't wait to marry Alex - until an anonymous text hours before her wedding changed everything.

 

https://www.whimn.com.au/love/relationships/i-read-my-cheating-fiances-texts-instead-of-my-vows-at-our-wedding/news-story/9c6da1a06568bee39248b79702fe7563

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

22 minutes ago, Vesper said:

lol

 

The nickname the pope that is mentioned in the link is very similar to my brother. His name is also John Paul so me and my other brother used to call him George we only stopped when he got married so it wouldn't confuse his kids . Not a nickname as such but there was a character in the tv show Budgie called Laughing Spam Fritter that's class ha ha.

[Vesper 30,119]

Liam Gallagher x adidas Padiham SPZL

https://eukicks.com/2019/08/28/liam-gallagher-x-adidas-padiham-spzl/

The sneaker is launching this week (30th of August) and END has the sneaker listed on their Launches platform. Also, find them at other adidas Spezial dealers like Hanon. The release will also be available on adidas.com on the release date.

 

 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Liam Gallagher x adidas Padiham SPZL

https://eukicks.com/2019/08/28/liam-gallagher-x-adidas-padiham-spzl/

The sneaker is launching this week (30th of August) and END has the sneaker listed on their Launches platform. Also, find them at other adidas Spezial dealers like Hanon. The release will also be available on adidas.com on the release date.

 

 

I bought a pair of Padiham at Christmas I've only worn them a few times wore them down the pub last week and they cut my toe so I'm a bit pissed off. I also spilt fish on my Hamburgs once I wasn't happy. These will have gone in a couple of hours if you look on Ebay Vesper there already on sale all the staff get first dibs and make a killing it's a proper rip off.

 

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Just had a look at the Adidas Padiham NG sold out everywhere already up to £300 on ebay. These are coming out soon I'm very tempted.

https://www.consortium.co.uk/adidas-originals-stadt-real-purple-shock-yellow-gold-metallic-ee5727.html

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This Is Your Last Chance to Try One of the Highest-Rated Beers Ever

https://gearpatrol.com/2019/08/29/founders-cbs-bourbon-barrel-beer-final-release/

The bourbon barrel-aged Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) from Founders Brewing is one of the top-ranked beers in the world — it has a 100 rating on both RateBeer and Beer Advocate. Announced in a press release, the Michigan brewery says this fall will be the last time it’s released.

“This will be the last year I plan on making CBS, so get it while you can,” Brewmaster Jeremy Kosmicki said in a press release.

CBS was first released in bottles in 2011, and for years it was an extremely rare beer to find. The imperial stout is brewed with a blend of coffee and imported chocolates, then aged in bourbon barrels that previously housed pure Michigan maple syrup. In December of 2018, CBS was added as a regular to Founders’s Barrel-Aged Series and released in 750mL bottles. The final release, available only in 12oz bottles, is slated for November 1.

 

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Angelo Trofa Looked to the 90s For Klarna’s VAR Football Kit

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/klarna-angelo-trofa-var/

CCTV. Big Brother. Russian constructivist beings. They all made it onto football kit designer Angelo Trofa’s mood board for a kit honoring football’s most controversial new addition: the video assistant referee.

For the casual footy fans not dialed in on the sport’s drama, VAR is an official sitting in a room reviewing decisions made by the head referee with the help of video footage of the game from all angles. It’s no wonder a dystopian slant seeped into Trofa’s brainwaves before he scrapped them for something a bit less paranoid.

Looking at the jersey now as it enters into production, it’s hard to imagine what it would’ve looked like had he gone down that route because the end result is everything but dystopian. Slathered in the pink hue of Klarna — the Swedish “buy now, pay later” digital payment provider — Trofa’s latest kit is a worthy addition to the expansive design portfolio he’s amassed since producing the five-volume ‘Football Strip Concept’ publication that launched his career in football fashion. And, for the British-Italian graphic designer whose somewhat confusingly been called the “present-day Godfather” of conceptual kit design despite his youthful age, the brief posed by Klarna was a welcome challenge after years of perfecting his skill for storytelling through sportswear. It is, after all, no easy feat to translate both Klarna’s position as the VAR of online shopping and the act of pausing and rewinding football footage in a booth into a beautiful kit worth wearing on and off the pitch.

Drawing on camera lenses and the VHS tape buttons we mashed through our childhood, his vision for the VAR x Klarna jersey is a throwback to the glory days of the loud, geometric print-heavy kits that dominated football stadiums throughout the 1990s. As the Klarna x VAR kit drops, we caught up with Trofa to talk about his “godfather” status, creating his first kits on Microsoft Paint, and how he turned South American crests and VHS tapes into a must-have kit design.

You’ve been called “the godfather of conceptual kit design” before. What do you think of that?

Angelo Trofa: It’s become a bit of a running joke amongst my friends. I can’t remember who it was that wrote that [but it’s] not something that I go around calling myself. Some people would get offended by it, but I find it quite funny.

It’s a nice compliment. Maybe it just means that, despite being so young, you’ve tapped into something that really resonates with people who like football kits.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I’ve been publishing concept kits through Blogger and Twitter and Instagram [for 10 years]. There’s just quite a lot of people doing it now, but this niche football kit community has really blown up in the last few years.

How did you create your first kit design?

The very first… I started doing it on Microsoft Paint as a kid.

Yeah? Wow.

Yeah, there used to be those clip art sports players, so I started drawing in the kit, but it all started as a kid. I was obsessed with comic books and superheroes and I always used to redesign their kits and their costumes. I got into sports quite late; I was more into the superhero stuff until I started looking at [athletes] as the real-life equivalent of superheroes.

I can’t remember the very first design, but I like coming at it from a different angle. There was a Scottish team called Hearts and I thought, how funny would it be if you literally give them a football kit that’s covered in love hearts? It’d be quite funny to see a burly Scottish guy covered in hearts.

 

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Northern lights here in Sweden