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Spurs look like relegation candidates today.

I was at the first replay of Dublin Meath in 91.  Mick Lyons was sent off.  I can't remember if he was allowed back on in ET, but Meath were definitely allowed bring on a 15th man.  Something similar happened with Dublin Wexford back in the noughties, if I remember correctly, but Dublin benefited this time.

Stupid rule.

[Germany making the WC final 2006]

Some of the highlights of that "golden age" include:


- Germany making the WC final 2006 without a single genuine talent outfield, and utterly nondescript players like Linke, Ramelow, Jeremies, Bose and Schneider all in the first XI.


As the saying goes you're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Have another look at that final Wobbler.

You're all attacker mad.

Give me Maldini and McGrath any day.

A   NYT opinion columnist wrote that Biden shouldn't debate Trump unless certain conditions were satisfied.

How does that translate to Biden being afraid to debate Trump?

The dead, coming over here, taking our welfare  payments...

[eople are getting very fed up with the pandering and no one willing to call out wrongdoing]

Get out in front of what, exactly?

A mob attacking the police who are trying to protect their neighborhood from a armed felon who are responding to a call

Not one local politician has offered any support to BPD in recent weeks

People are getting very fed up with the pandering and no one willing to call out wrongdoing

Almost like something a Black Lives Matter spokesperson would say.

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

We're talking about English, not Irish.

A noun like "singer" does not refer to an airport or a legislature.

OK, I thought your issue was using 'the' to refer to an entity of which there is only one.  I'm not sure now what you're objecting to now.  Is it the use of 'The' to refer to some sort of entity referred to by a proper noun?
If that's the issue, do you have the same problem with talk of The Dail? 

In any event,  the 'the' in 'The US Congress'  attaches to 'US', not to 'Congress'.  No-one calls it The Congress, and it would sound strange in most contexts to call it US Congress (without the 'the' prefix).

Sorry, but I've heard it referred to as "the Congress." It's a thing. That's what I'm objecting to.

As for airports, when was the last time you heard someone say "I'm flying out of the Dublin airport?"

I'm surprised to hear that.  I've lived here close on 30 years and I've never heard anyone say, or seen anyone write, 'the Congress'.  Maybe it's a west coast thing?


On historic/historical, there is a clear use for 'historical' where 'historic' doesn't apply.  As in "A historical introduction to psychology", where 'historic' would tend to reveal a fair amount of ego on the part of the author, as opposed to a guide to the history of the discipline.   

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

We're talking about English, not Irish.

A noun like "singer" does not refer to an airport or a legislature.

OK, I thought your issue was using 'the' to refer to an entity of which there is only one.  I'm not sure now what you're objecting to now.  Is it the use of 'The' to refer to some sort of entity referred to by a proper noun?
If that's the issue, do you have the same problem with talk of The Dail? 

In any event,  the 'the' in 'The US Congress'  attaches to 'US', not to 'Congress'.  No-one calls it The Congress, and it would sound strange in most contexts to call it US Congress (without the 'the' prefix). 

Only one is the singer though.

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

Abuse of the definite article.

"The San Jose Airport."

"The San Jose City Council."

"The US Congress."

Those are all fine, unless there are more than one of each.

Lots of people don't want to pay for armed invasions of other countries. But we don't get to choose where our taxes go.

Surprising how long someone can live here and not know cops unions are a solid Republican voting block.

This article on Churchill showed up on my newsfeed today.  Timely, given the direction of this thread. A good read.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/winston-churchill-british-empire-colonialism?fbclid=IwAR1Tr1kPIxqqp21KT47dXXDoDpVDb1kT2JgHnQtfcDURkV9LhKTWxviSMKg