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Ingo
9 Feb 2026
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    Guru
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    13 Feb 2026, 11:11 p.m. 13 Feb 2026, 11:11 p.m.
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    @Ingo has written:

    Guru for me, I think JR is past help.

    Well of course, we have accepted leaders and I wouldn’t want to undermine that…..

    …but should the ball come out of the back of the scrum, I’d be foolish not to pick it up.

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    Guru
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    13 Feb 2026, 11:19 p.m. 13 Feb 2026, 11:19 p.m.
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    @Dave_Rave has written:
    @tricky has written:
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    I'd take a draw away to Fibonacci on Thursday.

    Depends what happens first in the series?

    Finally someone taps it home.
    You lot finish jokes like Forest finish chances.
    Maybe my set ups go over everyone's heads.
    And you can definitely finish that one yourselves.

    1. They didn’t go over anyone’s head
    2. Some people have other shit going on and can’t respond immediately

    Stop trying to claim that one of your lesser gags is some kind of impenetrable avant garde comedy. By your standards, it was, at best, an average pun. Not your usual biting satire or belly laugh material.

    Fenerbahce/Fibonacci. Finish yourself off and fetch your own tissues

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    tricky
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    13 Feb 2026, 11:20 p.m. 13 Feb 2026, 11:20 p.m.
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    @Guru has written:

    …but should the ball come out of the back of the scrum, I’d be foolish not to pick it up.

    If you do, in my experience, what happens next is that it's like getting run over by a train. You might attribute my rugged good looks to this experience.

    Anyway, my money is on chic to be on choo choo duty.

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    Russ
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    13 Feb 2026, 11:56 p.m. 13 Feb 2026, 11:56 p.m.
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    @Guru has written:

    Finish yourself off and fetch your own tissues

    I am definitely using this expression at work next week.

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    Dave_Rave
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:07 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:07 a.m.
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    @Guru has written:
    @Dave_Rave has written:
    @tricky has written:
    @Dave_Rave has written:

    I'd take a draw away to Fibonacci on Thursday.

    Depends what happens first in the series?

    Finally someone taps it home.
    You lot finish jokes like Forest finish chances.
    Maybe my set ups go over everyone's heads.
    And you can definitely finish that one yourselves.

    1. They didn’t go over anyone’s head
    2. Some people have other shit going on and can’t respond immediately

    Stop trying to claim that one of your lesser gags is some kind of impenetrable avant garde comedy. By your standards, it was, at best, an average pun. Not your usual biting satire or belly laugh material.

    Fenerbahce/Fibonacci. Finish yourself off and fetch your own tissues

    It's quite remarkable how arsey you get when you decide I haven't been funny enough.
    You're not the only one though.

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    Guru
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:18 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:18 a.m.
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    @Dave_Rave has written:
    @Guru has written:
    @Dave_Rave has written:
    @tricky has written:
    @Dave_Rave has written:

    I'd take a draw away to Fibonacci on Thursday.

    Depends what happens first in the series?

    Finally someone taps it home.
    You lot finish jokes like Forest finish chances.
    Maybe my set ups go over everyone's heads.
    And you can definitely finish that one yourselves.

    1. They didn’t go over anyone’s head
    2. Some people have other shit going on and can’t respond immediately

    Stop trying to claim that one of your lesser gags is some kind of impenetrable avant garde comedy. By your standards, it was, at best, an average pun. Not your usual biting satire or belly laugh material.

    Fenerbahce/Fibonacci. Finish yourself off and fetch your own tissues

    It's quite remarkable how arsey you get when you decide I haven't been funny enough.
    You're not the only one though.

    I *may have had a few drinks and a very nice dinner in Edinburgh prior to the Calcutta Cup today. So was probably being even more arsey than usual.

    However, what kicked me off wasn’t that you weren’t “funny enough.” It was your insistence that this particular joke had gone over talkbackers’ heads and that somehow your comedy genius wasn’t being suitably recognised.

    I can imagine you in your underpants in a Bolsover kitchen, ar outspread“Are you not fucking entertained!!??”

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    RC
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:26 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:26 a.m.
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    I think that joking that people didn’t get it may have been a joke itself.

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    RC
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:26 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:26 a.m.
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    But then, I didn’t get it…

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    Dave_Rave
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:27 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:27 a.m.
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    Insistence is a bit of an exaggeration. The over the heads was - I thought - an obvious and slightly self-deprecating reference to Eliot Anderson's crossing ability (given how often I mention it as a fully paid up member of your pessimists club). I'm guessing you took it as arrogance, when I was suggesting it was a bit shit.
    I've no idea if you're enjoying imagining me in my underpants. I'm actually on the exercise bike wearing gentlemens sports leggings. AND padded shorts. I'm sorry that you don't enjoy my efforts at humour sometimes. I try them for other people's enjoyment as opposed to self-gratification. Especially when the reason we're all here is being even more of a basket case than usual.

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    tricky
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:32 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:32 a.m.
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    Play nice kids, we are all just taking the piss here, between the long bouts of misery.

    It's a recognised talkback form to leave a tease out there, we need to step up to the level and deliver the punchline faster than a forest forward finish. Tissues, or otherwise. Tissues is very middle class, guru, you'd have lost ingo - should have said your favourite sock.

    In other news, I wonder how we do in the FACup today. Who are we playing?

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    Dave_Rave
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:35 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:35 a.m.
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    If socks are identical how would you choose a favourite one out of a pair?
    Actually, don't answer that.

    @tricky has written:

    In other news, I wonder how we do in the FACup today. Who are we playing?

    I think we beat Ipswich 1-0 at home last night. Surprised there wasn't a thread...

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    tricky
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:40 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:40 a.m.
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    I'm currently on Macclesfield, who play on monday. Who would have thought I would have got through fourth round weekend on Macclesfield?

    The whole of football is a complete shower of shit these days.

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    Dave_Rave
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:44 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:44 a.m.
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    Will you be buying one of these? You 'win' either way.
    www.instagram.com/p/DUlVknrDN4P/

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    tricky
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    14 Feb 2026, 11:59 a.m. 14 Feb 2026, 11:59 a.m.
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    I'm all in on Macc. 'Supporting' Brentford going forward, just doesn't bear thinking about.

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    Ingo
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    14 Feb 2026, 1:15 p.m. 14 Feb 2026, 1:15 p.m.
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    @tricky has written:

    Tissues, or otherwise. Tissues is very middle class, guru, you'd have lost ingo - should have said your favourite sock.

    Can't you just grub it into the carpet?

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    Mangetout
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    14 Feb 2026, 6:55 p.m. 14 Feb 2026, 6:55 p.m.
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    I thought "Fibonacci" was excellent wordplay that didn't need a follow up.

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    Loafer
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    14 Feb 2026, 6:57 p.m. 14 Feb 2026, 6:57 p.m.
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    It was ok, although Tricky fucked it by calling it a series. It is called a Fibonacci Sequence.

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    Dave_Rave
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    14 Feb 2026, 7:20 p.m. 14 Feb 2026, 7:20 p.m.
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    The problem with Fibonacci jokes is that they've got to be as funny as the previous two put together.

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