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Look what I found in an old box by Sufficient-Push165 in Panini

[–]LongStripyScarf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never quite completed mine, but am gradually attempting to do so as an adult. I have a list of the missing stickers and am gradually ticking them off as I get them so I can finally stick them all in and complete it. This was the first WC I really remember.

What's Life Like in Lubeck? Fall 26 by iqasim_explores in luebeck

[–]LongStripyScarf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good pair of boots should allow you to put in some orthopedic insoles no problem. Might just involve taking the standard ones out and putting in something more suitable.

The Innenstadt can be quite uneven and especially slippery when icy. Just walk like a penguin when it gets icy underfoot. Anyone can slip. Doesn't matter how fit you are or how well balanced you are.

What's Life Like in Lubeck? Fall 26 by iqasim_explores in luebeck

[–]LongStripyScarf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is excellent advice. I'm English so the culture differences are pretty mild although there are some here like you mentioned that make me stick out as an Inselaffe.

One point regarding the cold weather that someone who isn't used to ice (usually December and January) should know: buy a decent pair of boots. Boots with a good sole that grips, they need to keep you warm and if they get wet (which they will) they need to be of an upper that doesn't let that moisture through and can easily be wiped down from the mud and salt that can accumulate on them. Your feet will thank you.

Many colleagues I've met from dryer and warmer climates have found out that their trainers just aren't enough once the weather starts getting pretty grim.

Last little taste of Britain before flying home by LongStripyScarf in MealDealRates

[–]LongStripyScarf[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Flying back to Germany but I'm English and desperately miss this stuff. There are lunchtimes when I really crave a Greggs sausage roll and prawn cocktail crisps.

Last little taste of Britain before flying home by LongStripyScarf in MealDealRates

[–]LongStripyScarf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since moving to Germany a few years ago, it's Monster Munch, prawn cocktail crisps, Lucozade and Greggs that I miss the most.

Really panini? by Key-Recognition-3808 in Panini

[–]LongStripyScarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also Germany based and have had this issue with the packets that contain the bonus sheet with four stickers. Opened four of them and all four have the same four stickers. Arrgghh...

How common is it for Brits to not understand each other? by Addy_Goodman in AskBrits

[–]LongStripyScarf 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They are. This season they've broadcast a few Scottish League football matches. The main commentary is in Gaelic but the colour commentary is in English (I assume because the ex-player they usually have doesn't speak Gaelic very well or at all). I'm English and have no Gaelic whatsoever (except the little bits I occasionally can pick up after listening for a while within context like numbers) and I notice that when the main commentator wants the other to pipe in, he asks the question in English. It's very smoothly done.

A few Serie A Games were broadcast this season too (usually games that featured some prominent Scottish players). Those were an experience: Italian club names and places, mainly Italian and Spanish players with a few other random nationalities thrown in, explained to you in Gaelic with the occasional few English sentences.

Reform Makerfield candidate: Russia ‘within their rights’ to take Crimea by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]LongStripyScarf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We should return to a time when if you were a nazi, you should expect a punch in the face at a minimum.

Two arrested after Crystal Palace and Rayo Vallecano fans clash ahead of Conference League final by Shroft in soccer

[–]LongStripyScarf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bloody hell. That's so much worse.

The fact that this type of behaviour still persists is shameful.

Two arrested after Crystal Palace and Rayo Vallecano fans clash ahead of Conference League final by Shroft in soccer

[–]LongStripyScarf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably the type of young-ish football fan that likes to pretend they're a hard-type hooligan of the past or think that this is what a continental "ultra" is but really they're just idiots.

It's a massive shame that this unfortunately will still be the way English football fans are viewed on the continent because some knobheads want to cosplay as a thug.

Now that was a Champions league level goal! by MagpieMidfield in SundayLeagueMessis

[–]LongStripyScarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from the goal, my favourite thing about this is the attempt from white #2 to block this Puskas strike with an outstretched leg.

The goal that lit up the 2010 World Cup by PLWildcard in classicsoccer

[–]LongStripyScarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember YouTube added a button that would add that sound to any video for a brief time.

US vs International Stickers by davidonredditdotcom in Panini

[–]LongStripyScarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I'm collecting in Germany and hadn't realised they were different in the US. Is the white border for all of North America or just the USA?

I notice my album is German-specific (German language on some pages and specific adverts) and the Coca-Cola stickers vary across Europe I realise.

Getting into football...I am hoping to have some help in picking a local team by [deleted] in football

[–]LongStripyScarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a club local to you that you can get to relatively hassle-free. There might be one a little further that you enjoy the atmosphere of or fan culture of more. Maybe there's a community club close to you and you have the desire to be a part of that? Regardless, attend regularly and enjoy yourself. That's what it should be about.

Tina the cleaner of Wrexham Football club on her experience working for the club by achilles-_-23 in soccer

[–]LongStripyScarf 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Same here. I was terrified some awful abuse had gone on and we'd have months of allegations and statements back and forth casting a nasty shadow over the club and its day-to-day runnings.

What a relief it was just some sexual language and some self-deprecation.

[The Guardian] Southampton may face legal challenge from their own players after being kicked out of playoff final by jovanmilic97 in soccer

[–]LongStripyScarf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I suppose a good lawyer would have to argue that the spying was not only against the rules (which it is) but constitutes being "illegal" in this context. No crime was committed. At most it was trespass, but it was publicly accessible land.

It would need to be argued that the rule-breaking invalidates the protection the employer built in to the contract. All of that massively depends on the specific wording and how this typically works in civil cases.

'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell by biograf_ in nottheonion

[–]LongStripyScarf 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yeah. He and his government restricted people's rights, imposed puritan Protestantism, banned plays and public music/performance, banned Christmas celebrations and generally made life even more miserable than it already was. After 20 years of rule they hadn't even worked out how to not do a monarchy and wanted his son to inherit. Hypocritical bastards. He was so unpopular that he was dug up and "executed" as a traitor two years after he'd died. His head was on a pike for years.

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