Well, it's not exactly Ted Bates, but the Geordies seem to have scored a pretty good

[World's End Stella]

own goal with the sheet metal worker's son's statue.

a) it doesn't look much like him
b) it has his goal celebration wrong
c) it fails to convey the degree of his banal thickheadedness to which we are routinely exposed - as difficult as that might be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37339832

[Luis Anaconda]

own goal with the sheet metal worker's son's statue.

a) it doesn't look much like him
b) it has his goal celebration wrong
c) it fails to convey the degree of his banal thickheadedness to which we are routinely exposed - as difficult as that might be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37339832
The left elbow looks like it is about to planted in someone's face though so it isn't all bad

[World's End Stella]

The left elbow looks like it is about to planted in someone's face though so it isn't all bad

And his body seems to have the proportions more or less correct - so that's one up on old Ted then.

Not that I value your opinion on football or anything, but are we going to get tonked tonight? :-(

[Burney]

own goal with the sheet metal worker's son's statue.

a) it doesn't look much like him
b) it has his goal celebration wrong
c) it fails to convey the degree of his banal thickheadedness to which we are routinely exposed - as difficult as that might be

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37339832

Nah. It's just averagely bad, I'm afraid. Although I'd agree that the sculptor is amusingly bad at arms.

It's no...

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[PSRB]

The left elbow looks like it is about to planted in someone's face though so it isn't all bad

As J pointed on Twitter......."Gangnam style"

[World's End Stella]

Nah. It's just averagely bad, I'm afraid. Although I'd agree that the sculptor is amusingly bad at arms.

It's no...

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What in God's name is that meant to be, exactly?

[Luis Anaconda]

And his body seems to have the proportions more or less correct - so that's one up on old Ted then.

Not that I value your opinion on football or anything, but are we going to get tonked tonight? :-(

We will get gubbed indeed. Our only hope is that the Welsh Wizard will be fit.

[Burney]

What in God's name is that meant to be, exactly?

Sir Paul 'Macca' McCartney

[World's End Stella]

We will get gubbed indeed. Our only hope is that the Welsh Wizard will be fit.

Stop being silly now, his absence had me filled with joy and no small amount of optimism. Then I looked at their starting midfield and attack:

Lucas Cavani DiMaria
Motta Verratti Matuidi

Gulp

[Ash]

Sir Paul 'Macca' McCartney

But it's only the Hohner that gives it away.

[Ash]

own goal with the sheet metal worker's son's statue.


What have you got against sheet metal workers? Without them there'd be no kebabs, amongst other things, and if Alan Shearer's dad had been an accountant then he probably not have been a footballer. Which might be considered a good thing, of course, but is not really the point.

[Burney]

But it's only the Hohner that gives it away.

That would be the tiny bass guitar that is dwarfed by his huge Orangutan arms and hands, yes?

[Luis Anaconda]

That would be the tiny bass guitar that is dwarfed by his huge Orangutan arms and hands, yes?

Ah, maybe when he died in the sixties he was actually replaced in the band by a shave orangutan and the sculptor is simply trying to convey this. As good an explanation as any for the Frog Chorus

[Burney]

What have you got against sheet metal workers? Without them there'd be no kebabs, amongst other things, and if Alan Shearer's dad had been an accountant then he probably not have been a footballer. Which might be considered a good thing, of course, but is not really the point.

My first editorship was on Sheetmetal Industries (I kid you not). I used to have to visit factories where fabrication, welding and pressing were the order of the day, where hydraulic presses 'KERCHUNK'ed for hours on end and the smell of swarf, cutting fluid and hot metal were constant. I remember a Hotpoint factory in Llandudno Junction that made me eternally grateful not to have been born working class. :-(

[Ash]

Ah, maybe when he died in the sixties he was actually replaced in the band by a shave orangutan and the sculptor is simply trying to convey this. As good an explanation as any for the Frog Chorus

Ook!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c6/98/36/c6983686caade9228524d892bcd43b2f.jpg

[World's End Stella]

What have you got against sheet metal workers? Without them there'd be no kebabs, amongst other things, and if Alan Shearer's dad had been an accountant then he probably not have been a footballer. Which might be considered a good thing, of course, but is not really the point.

I have no issues with them whatsoever, fine chaps the lot of them. Unbelievably thick, of course, but fine chaps nonetheless, I'm sure.

Just wish one of their sons hadn't ended up in a position where he is on the telly, on a show I like to watch, providing the most banal opinions you could ever hear. Oh for the days of Des and Alan Hansen :-(

[Sir C]

I have no issues with them whatsoever, fine chaps the lot of them. Unbelievably thick, of course, but fine chaps nonetheless, I'm sure.

Just wish one of their sons hadn't ended up in a position where he is on the telly, on a show I like to watch, providing the most banal opinions you could ever hear. Oh for the days of Des and Alan Hansen :-(

Jesus Christ, those days came complete with Mark Lawrenson. Shearer is a Ustinovesque raconteur compared to Lawrenson.

[World's End Stella]

Jesus Christ, those days came complete with Mark Lawrenson. Shearer is a Ustinovesque raconteur compared to Lawrenson.

True, but for some reason I could deal with Lawrenson's and Hansen's banality.

Shearer's makes me want to drive spikes into my ears. Perhaps it's the Geordie accent that does it.

[Luis Anaconda]

Ook!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c6/98/36/c6983686caade9228524d892bcd43b2f.jpg

:bow: Still my favourite character