Red Rum Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 hour ago, iamalagerdrinker said: Be careful if you're traveling up today.. 'Gonna get banged' means something else in my book... Quote Link to comment
Wolf Island Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 9 minutes ago, Red Rum said: 'Gonna get banged' means something else in my book... He might be meaning the same thing. Needs clarification from this Zulu Warrior. Wandering about Grand Central in the purple and lime and people very friendly so far. 1 Quote Link to comment
BanburyRed Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 hour ago, iamalagerdrinker said: Be careful if you're traveling up today.. Oh dear, oh dear..... I've got an Aquascutum scarf, does that make me a member of the Brum yoof, or whatever they're called? And that top with goggles, CP Company isn't it? What a load of tat! I bet there's no-one in it... Quote Link to comment
Davefevs Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 hour ago, iamalagerdrinker said: Be careful if you're traveling up today.. He ain't a real welder 1 2 Quote Link to comment
Marina's Rolls Royce Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 @Rudolf Hucker says: "You're gonna get banged " and his banging is indiscriminate, relentless and loves costumes 4 Quote Link to comment
Lack of Action Man Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 This is a very strange thread. 3 Quote Link to comment
Shtanley Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 When was the mem hit by a tornado? 1 Quote Link to comment
Slippin cider Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 2 hours ago, RightUpInCider said: Birmingham Yoof never run? More like CAN'T run looking at the size of him! Plus he wouldn't be able to see where he's going...unless his eyes really are that far apart Quote Link to comment
fairweather Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 I feel pretty confident about today's game. I think they are quite poor. 1-4 win goalfest Quote Link to comment
P'head Red Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Going for a 2-1 win, 1-1 HT. Quote Link to comment
Jerseybean Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Based on the prediction thread, most see a City victory and lots reckon Adams will score for them . Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, havanatopia said: Few people would stop to consider the UK having more tornadoes and twisters than the United States. But that is exactly the case. The United States suffers terrible twister violence but only in a relatively small area, proportional to their massive country, in Kansas and Oklahoma. Few other states have twisters certainly with any seasonal regularity. A glance at a map of Britain tells a whole different story and a study by the University of Manchester has revealed that this fabled land has more twisters than any other on earth. Such is the frequency of twisters or tornadoes it is estimated that there is a 5% chance of one occurring within 6 miles of any given location in the country. So what, you might reasonably ask, has this got to do with a football match between the two BCFC's? Well, quite a lot really. The corridor between Bristol and Birmingham is a hotspot of twisters. And while London to Reading is the Twister Corridor capital of the world with a 6% chance of one occurring each year only slightly more than Bristol to Birmingham and through to Manchester. A 2005 twister in Birmingham recorded speeds of 130mph injuring 19 people, causing £40million of damage and tearing up more than 1,000 trees. And, in just two minutes, a tornado in Kensal Green, North-West London, wrecked property worth £10million in December 2006. According to a Guardian newspaper article, just a week after Birmingham was battered by a tornado, residents in Bristol witnessed a giant twister sweeping across the skies over the southern suburbs. The twister formed on Monday shortly before 7pm as the skies clouded over after a sunny afternoon. The Meteorological Office had confirmed the twister, which was up to 1,000 ft (300 metres) long, came close to causing widespread property damage. "It was a classic funnel cloud, but quite a large one. They are usually measured in tens of feet, but this one was hundreds of feet, if not a thousand," said Damien Lee, a Met Office spokesman. "Had it made contact with the ground, it would have definitely caused localised damage to houses and trees." The twister swept across a 15-mile area, including the suburbs of Whitchurch, Hartcliffe and Keynsham, and eyewitnesses said it lasted for 15 minutes. The spectacle was captured on camera by Mark Gwinnell, 42, as the twister passed over his Whitchurch home. "There was a terrific sound and I looked out of the window and saw this twister coming," he said. "I knew I had to get a photograph of it. It was a huge tunnel of swirling air which got faster and faster." Paul Knightley, of the PA Weather Centre, said the twister was technically not a tornado because it failed to touch the ground. The centre logged up to four funnel clouds across the country yesterday and possibly one tornado. "Funnel clouds and tornadoes happen when you have an unstable atmosphere, where you have warm air rising from the ground and cold air above it," said Mr Knightley. In 2015 the Mail on Sunday wrote an article headlined with this:- England is tornado capital of the world! More twisters per square mile than other nation England has more tornadoes per area than any other country. The Tornado and Storm Research Association advises that two tornadoes in Britain are known to have reached T8; their antiquated nature necessitated great caution in assigning intensities, so it is possible that they may have been even stronger. The first, also Britain's earliest known tornado, occurred on October 23, 1091. The church at St. Mary Le Bow in central London was badly damaged, with four rafters - each 7.9 m long or 26 ft being driven into the ground (composed of heavy London Clay) with such force that only 1.2 m or 4 ft protruding above the surface. Other churches in the area were demolished, as were over 600 (mostly wooden) houses. On December 14, 1810, another T8 tornado tracked from Old Portsmouth to Southsea Common also causing immense damage, although no deaths, it is believed. Some houses were completely levelled and many others were so badly damaged that they had to be demolished; chimneys were blown down and the lead on a bank roof was "rolled up like a piece of canvas and blown from its situation". Manchester University goes on; Tornadoes are impossible to spot on satellite images and weather radar images aren’t always accurate either. They can show rotation where a tornado doesn’t occur and sometimes tornadoes occur where rotation is not shown on the radar. So the only way we know about them for sure is from eye-witness reports. Kelsey added: “It seems that most tornadoes in the UK are created along long, narrow storms that form along cold fronts, whereas most tornadoes in the United States are created by isolated storms, which are more similar to the beautiful super cells you see in the movie Twister. Even in the United States, tornadoes formed along cold fronts tend to be weaker than those formed from super cells. That could be one reason why tornadoes in the UK are much weaker. But the process for how tornadoes form along cold fronts is not yet very well understood. Understanding why is my current research project.” The valley and escarpment corridor from Bristol north with the Cotswolds away to the east, the Malvern's a little further north to the west and on to the Wyre Forest around Kidderminster are prime breeding grounds for twisters as history tells us and how many times I have driven that route and seen dark clouds quickly gathering away to the east and west reminds us that these storms gather quickly. It is a phenomenon that is widely publicized in Kansas or Oklahoma but less written from the shires of England. And as Birmingham City might not be ready for our own new Swedish Tornado spare a thought for those Twisters as you travel north and south on the M5 today; you will not receive a warning perhaps other than those gathering storm clouds and they are more common that the majority of us realise. UTC. Good day all and safe travels. Condensed Version Birmingham "Come on let's twist again like we did last summer" "Yea, let's twist again like we did last year" "Do you remember when things were really hummin' " "Yea, let's twist again, twistin' time is here" Brum 1 v City 1 Edited August 12, 2017 by BigTone 1 Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 ALTOGETHER NOW ..................... Heeee, and round and round and up and down we go again! Oh, baby, make me know you love me sooooo, And then: Twist again, Like we did last summer, Come on, let's twist again, Like we did last year! TWIST! YO! Who's that, flyin up there? Is it a bird? Noooooo Is it a plane? Noooooooo Is it the twister? YEAAAAAAAHH! Twist again, like we did last summer, Come on, Let's twist again, Like we did last year!!!! Do you remember when, things were really hummin', Come on, let's twist again, Twistin' time is here Heeee, and round and round and up and down we go again! Oh, baby, make me know, you love me sooooo! And then: Come on, twist again, like we did last summer, Let's twist again, like we did last year! Come on, let's twist again, Twistin' time is heeeere! Quote Link to comment
Nogbad the Bad Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 11 minutes ago, BigTone said: Condensed Version Birmingham "Come on let's twist again like we did last summer" "Yea, let's twist again like we did last year" "Do you remember when things were really hummin' " "Yea, let's twist again, twistin' time is here" Brum 1 v City 1 Watch your lumbar region Tone. Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said: Watch your lumbar region Tone. I'll try but you've got to get up to get down Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 3-0 or 4-0 away win today, probably all scored in the first 20 minutes mind so make sure you get there in the first half Quote Link to comment
downendcity Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 46 posts in to the mdt & we've a thesis on tornados, a compendium of Star Wars and Dr Who characters and a run down of Tone' s dance moves. Oh on OTIB! 1 Quote Link to comment
kevthered Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Good effort Tone ....Love it Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, downendcity said: 46 posts in to the mdt & we've a thesis on tornados, a compendium of Star Wars and Dr Who characters and a run down of Tone' s dance moves. Oh on OTIB! Yep, we're a bit slower than normal this week Edited August 12, 2017 by BigTone Quote Link to comment
Bobbie Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 For me this has become the biggest grudge match of the season. Let's smash em Quote Link to comment
CyderInACan Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 3 hours ago, havanatopia said: Trust Cider IN a can. Am I missing something!? Quote Link to comment
B-Rizzle Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 No surprise but Flint has not travelled with the team. Just driven past his car. (Disclaimer: Unless someone else was driving his car!) Quote Link to comment
RumRed Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 minute ago, bcfcRobbo said: No surprise but Flint has not travelled with the team. Just driven past his car. (Disclaimer: Unless someone else was driving his car!) Were 3 Pickfords' vans following it? 3 Quote Link to comment
RedLionLad Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 2 hours ago, brizzlelou said: Where did you get this from? Primark, I reckon. 2 Quote Link to comment
EmersonsRed Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Take a point all day every day. Tough place to go, very physical side. Worried if Maggers has to start left back. Welcome back @havanatopia 1 Quote Link to comment
Ashdangate Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 4 hours ago, RightUpInCider said: Birmingham Yoof never run? More like CAN'T run looking at the size of him! Hard as nails that lot didn't see one at Ashton last game of the season to busy largeing it down weston tools the lot of them forget green st more like seasome st!! Quote Link to comment
... Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 hour ago, B-Rizzle said: No surprise but Flint has not travelled with the team. Just driven past his car. (Disclaimer: Unless someone else was driving his car!) Range Rover Mk VI - explosion in the Halfords after-market aisle Edition? I know the one. tfj 1 Quote Link to comment
Garland-sweden Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Think we are in good shape and take 3 points, 2-1 City! Coyr!!! Quote Link to comment
robin_unreliant Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 1 hour ago, kevthered said: Good effort Tone ....Love it Hardly a condensed version though ha ha. Quote Link to comment
BigTone Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 11 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said: Hardly a condensed version though ha ha. I got caught up in the moment ............. sorry Quote Link to comment
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