For those of you not excommunicated

General Discussion
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The News quiz living up to its excellent standard this week.

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Oh, I’m torn, I’m not keen on Andy Zaltzman as the chair but I do like Alasdair Beckett-King.

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I feel the opposite about those two :man_shrugging: hey-ho

I learned recently that AB-K used to live round the corner from me in Durham.

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I have never really got over the loss of Alan Coren and didn’t listen for a long time until recently, not as good but it improves with age I suppose.

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I wasn’t to start with, but a few series on I like how he has made the role his own rather than copying the approach of any of the last incumbents.

The quality of any given episode is mainly set by the panellists; there have been a few who have been filed in my ‘quite annoying’ category.

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I used to live at the top of Claypath

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Andrew Maxwell made an observation regarding the new English practice of flying flags as a form of anti immigration intimidation. He said that after the Good Friday Agreement the assumption was that NI, where sectarian flags on street lamps were (and to some extent still are) the norm NI would normalise with the rest of the UK. Instead the opposite has happened :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Over my last few weeks In Dublin, I’ve witnessed Irish flags proliferate on street lights in the poorer areas as local racists (thankfully a tiny marginal minority) emulate the Brits (who up until now were the the target for their hatred :face_with_hand_over_mouth:). Maxwell also mentioned this and explained that he saw one Irish flag upside down (an easy mistake but that way up it is actually the flag of Côte d’Ivoire) outside a house (inferred counci) and he couldn’t resist ringing the doorbell to talk to the ejit who had hung the flag upside down. The door was answered by a man from Côte d’Ivoire.

The audience enjoyed the joke, but I don’t think they really realised how edgy it was :thinking:

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I found it weird to see kerbstones painted red, white and blue.

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My avitar is flying the flags too.

Each nation will fight from the start til the end, through blood, sweat and toil, giving their all in endeavor &conflict.

They will fight from the halfway line as in the 22, they will fight from the 10 yrd line & even from the try line, and even if a try is scored, they will never give up, until victory… Or the final whistle :grinning: :rugby_football: . Then the fans & players will have a few jars twixt themselves :clinking_beer_mugs:

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