Heartland

paint it black wrote: ↑13 Apr 2021, 20:53 I remember the good old days when if you rocked up in leeds in a Man United shirt you got your head kicked in, and even if you didn't and just rocked up in Leeds, probability was youd get your head kicked in leaving the station. Fun times. The Banshee, phono, planet x... All dives in hindsight, but they were our dives.

Swinnow wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 17:20

paint it black wrote: ↑13 Apr 2021, 20:53 I remember the good old days when if you rocked up in leeds in a Man United shirt you got your head kicked in, and even if you didn't and just rocked up in Leeds, probability was youd get your head kicked in leaving the station. Fun times. The Banshee, phono, planet x... All dives in hindsight, but they were our dives.

In the 80's, and even today, it would take a special kind of idiot to turn up at Leeds City stn with a Man United shirt openly on display. Similarly I would never get off at Piccadilly showing my Red faith to all and sundry, too many lessons learned en route to Maine Rd or the Pit. In the old more tribal days we found that Merseysiders were 'tolerated' by the Leeds locals. We always assumed they worked on the 'your enemies enemy is your friend' principle. Having said that nobody was ever brave enough to test the theory at the Scarborough Taps, Whip or Mucky Duck on a Saturday pre-match.

abridged wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 18:04 As a Chelsea fan it's really very confusing quite liking watching Leeds at the moment. It's probably against the natural order of things.

Swinnow wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 17:20

paint it black wrote: ↑13 Apr 2021, 20:53 I remember the good old days when if you rocked up in leeds in a Man United shirt you got your head kicked in, and even if you didn't and just rocked up in Leeds, probability was youd get your head kicked in leaving the station. Fun times. The Banshee, phono, planet x... All dives in hindsight, but they were our dives.

In the 80's, and even today, it would take a special kind of idiot to turn up at Leeds City stn with a Man United shirt openly on display. Similarly I would never get off at Piccadilly showing my Red faith to all and sundry, too many lessons learned en route to Maine Rd or the Pit. In the old more tribal days we found that Merseysiders were 'tolerated' by the Leeds locals. We always assumed they worked on the 'your enemies enemy is your friend' principle. Having said that nobody was ever brave enough to test the theory at the Scarborough Taps, Whip or Mucky Duck on a Saturday pre-match.

Quiff Boy wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 22:07 Scarborough taps. I used to grab a swift pint in there before catching the train home.

Oh god, the Duncan. It’s always been an awful place. what is the other one around the corner called, at that end of vicar lane? My brain says something general elliot? That was also pretty grim. Is it still there or has it been levelled/gentrified?

paint it black wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 08:06

Quiff Boy wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 22:07 Scarborough taps. I used to grab a swift pint in there before catching the train home.

Oh god, the Duncan. It’s always been an awful place. what is the other one around the corner called, at that end of vicar lane? My brain says something general elliot? That was also pretty grim. Is it still there or has it been levelled/gentrified?

Yes the general elliot. And of course many Manxies over the years have felt a pang of nostalgia upon seeing the three legs only to be, ahem, disappointed.

markfiend wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 09:16 I still remember the guide for new students when I arrived in Leeds in 1990 warning us off all the "proper Leeds" Leeds pubs. "Don't go in there with your long mac and your CND badge." It really was a different time.

abridged wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 11:19

markfiend wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 09:16 I still remember the guide for new students when I arrived in Leeds in 1990 warning us off all the "proper Leeds" Leeds pubs. "Don't go in there with your long mac and your CND badge." It really was a different time.

Huddersfield was the same except there weren't that many student pubs! I was talking a couple of years ago to Simon Armitage, the UK poet laureate, not about poetic stuff but drinking in the Zetland in the mid-1980s!

Silver_Owl wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 11:22 I watched his documentary about the Pendle Witch trials recently. Very interesting.

abridged wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 11:19

markfiend wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 09:16 I still remember the guide for new students when I arrived in Leeds in 1990 warning us off all the "proper Leeds" Leeds pubs. "Don't go in there with your long mac and your CND badge." It really was a different time.

Huddersfield was the same except there weren't that many student pubs! I was talking a couple of years ago to Simon Armitage, the UK poet laureate, not about poetic stuff but drinking in the Zetland in the mid-1980s!

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote: ↑12 Apr 2021, 23:20

LyanvisAberrant wrote: ↑12 Apr 2021, 17:48 You guys just come off as very judgemental. Not trying to be confrontational, but just like... be aware of how you treat others, and why it is that you feel these people are lesser than you for enjoying the same thing but in a different way.
Elitism isn't dead.

Whilst I would agree with both you and @elamanamou that we should all be nice to each other, as let’s face it, we Sisters fans are few and far between (as someone once said) these days and need to stick together, I think that most fans (excepting maybe saints and martyrs) will have found the endlessly repetitive video link posts on the largest TSOM FB fan group tiresome at times, despite the excellent work of Ade and the other Admins to keep everything on an even keel. Most of the posts in this thread express that annoyance, rather than expressing any feelings of superiority. I think that most of the TSOM fans remaining here on HL these days are of the hardcore variety but I would describe them as specialists, competitive completists or even just plain obsessives rather than elitist (all of which terms, including the latter ironically, could be labelled as judgemental). But again, I would agree with the basic point that TSOM have always needed the new casual fan just as much as the obsessive completist. The great thing about the internet is that there can be (and indeed are in many cases) groups set up to cater for minority interest groups within the whole TSOM fan diaspora (eg bootleg collectors, fans of a certain era, those with an interest in design, those who live in a certain country etc etc). I just wish that the main twenty thousand strong FB group didn’t have quite so many links (invariably without comment) posted each day to the same old videos that many fans have seen thousands of times, and instead had more threads about important issues like tea towels for example!

LyanvisAberrant wrote: ↑12 Apr 2021, 17:48 You guys just come off as very judgemental. Not trying to be confrontational, but just like... be aware of how you treat others, and why it is that you feel these people are lesser than you for enjoying the same thing but in a different way.
Elitism isn't dead.

elamanamou wrote: ↑30 Apr 2021, 14:26 One favour fb has it's very easy to post pics etc. Downside to HL to post pics is very complex!

Can you make it any easier Mods?

Thanks. Vanessa

Pista wrote: ↑30 Apr 2021, 15:04

elamanamou wrote: ↑30 Apr 2021, 14:26 One favour fb has it's very easy to post pics etc. Downside to HL to post pics is very complex!

Can you make it any easier Mods?

Thanks. Vanessa

Thing is, FB has its own servers to host those images. Farms of them. Posting an image that's already hosted on a sever is a doddle on HL, but it just needs to be hosted first

ribbons69 wrote: ↑03 May 2021, 10:12 How does Discord work? I can upload a pic straight to Discord from my phone. Are they all different dedicated servers?

Pista wrote: ↑03 May 2021, 10:58

ribbons69 wrote: ↑03 May 2021, 10:12 How does Discord work? I can upload a pic straight to Discord from my phone. Are they all different dedicated servers?

Not sure but the bottom line is to display an image it needs to be hosted somewhere.
I guess discord either has their own servers or they have an agreement with a hosting service that enables them to display images