SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2021/22

Yeah but that's not the way it works. This isn't a physics equation where you can take all the numbers and calculate the result.

If we go by all the "shoulds" actually playing out any matches is a pointless exercise.

 

True but that's just what I am saying.

Real got turned over by somebody who can play football and wanted to play football.

I don't believe Sherif have better players but on the night they were the better team.

 

Chiesa, such a player.

 

I thought you would be more excited about Rafa scoring against Barcelona.

 

Chiesa will be v v good, you can see he doesn't shrink when it matters, I couldn't believe it when Juve effectively bought him on the never never.

 

A bit too much to take in but i've watched various videos about accents. Kind of amazing how many there are within the English language alone. What would yours's be described as?

 

Definitely London, but not really the stereotypical cockney-esque accent. I drop T's for some words I've noticed but not consistently for all. My dad has an accent much closer to cockney (although not quite there) than I do.

 

Doesn't London alone have a million accents? Obviously i'm exaggerating but is there one city in the world that has more "native" accents?

 

It's interesting how similar early London accents are to other regions and countries, and how the industrial revolution basically brought about the more modern accent.

 

It's interesting, I haven't really noticed a huge difference in accents within London itself (obviously not including immigrants within that before anyone starts). It's more of a sliding scale between RP and proper East End cockney. Maybe because I've lived here all my life I've just become accustomed to them all and haven't really noticed.

 

What sort of accent do you think a man who frequented Whitechapel circa 1888 had? Common to the area or a bit more "posh"?

 

Yeah i guess it's in part something you have to be actively listening for. Canada for example is geographically huge but we don't have that range.

What most people think of as a Canadian accents "aboot" and so on come from the east coast. There are other slight differences but outside of slang terms it's the only time i 'm likely to notice.

 

Hahahaha well wasn't the rumour that he was part of the aristocracy or possibly a doctor/surgeon because he displayed a knowledge of anatomy in the murders? He would have sounded posh if that was the case.

The Spitalfields area where the murders happened were meant to be legitimately terrifying around that time, very poor people in an extremely dangerous place, rampant with crime. If he was from there (which I doubt), then he would have had a common accent.

 

The murders all occurred within Whitechapel/Spitalfields. The "knowledge of anatomy" is hotly debated but that it was a surgeon or related to royals or whatever is just bunk.

 

I think it was one of the streets, Dassett Street or something like that which was particularly notorious by all accounts.

Yeah I wasn't sure how much weight the aristocracy rumours had to be honest, but I thought it was generally accepted that he had displayed a general understanding of anatomy, that would have been difficult for your average "commoner" at the time to obtain due to high illiteracy rates etc? At least that was what I remembered.

 

Actually thinking about it, he could well have been a butcher or something.

 

Dorset st.

Yeah but all the locations of the victims were in the worst area. The aristocracy part is pure bullshit to sell books. The "general understanding of anatomy" is hard to call for various reasons. Opinions from different doctors doing post mortem exams for one. It's also possible some of the victims weren't murdered by the same individual. Whomever it was they had skill with a knife and that's probably about as far as one can go to being neutral.

 

Yeah, thinking about it there are actually a few professions he could have been involved with where he could have acquired the knife skill. Hadn't heard the multiple murderer theory either before, weren't they all very similar though? With the same MO? I suppose there could have been copycat murders but that seems unlikely.

 

Crime was rampant at the time and area, but murder itself was rare. All of the victims were prostitutes or least did it "part time". It was almost a necessity just to eat or earn enough to rent a place for the night.

The fashion in the way women were murdered is what caught attention. There are various theories but for me it seems unlikely there were multiple people mutilating bodies to that degree.

 

Surprising how much the early accents sound like the outer Hebrides or Shetland I might mistake those for an elderly crofter Uist or something. Lots of Scottish phonetics like 'hoose', 'oot' etc but with a scandanavian sound. Like you alluded to, I guess those places were just less effected by change during the ~18, 19th century

 

Cunt supports Rangers and Chelsea...

Saying that, I use his technique when I cook steak now and I have to admit they are badass.

 

If i come to London you should treat me to each of his restaurants for dinner.

 

Yas. Without warning, Kyogo & McGregor are back! The bicycle is back on the road

 

I went to one in Vegas, wasn't bad but not as good as you'd expect.

 

Sickener man....should be winning, Turnbull does the funky chicken & it all goes to shit. We're shite but we're tantalisingly close to beating teams at this level...two central midfielders & some squad depth from it to be preciee.

 

25 years since i first got season ticket this is the most fucking ridiculous scoreline ive ever seen. Wouldnt be surprised if our 'xg' is twice theirs...i should get out of here b4 a meteor hits the east stand

 

Genuinely mean no offence to Celtic, who I have a lot of affection for, but I do really want Leverkusen to win something, anything. Honestly what that fan base has been through for the past 20-odd years is fucking brutal.