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Most pubs around the ground are now closed. The beacon tavern is around 10 min walk away. Huge pub with pool table. They are more than happy for Town fans to drink there before the match.

I was half tempted to go tomorrow but the train from Victoria is partially served by a bus so for that reason I am out.

Yep bus from Meopham (never even heard of it). The alternative is go from St Panc but that's a bus from Strood. Good old rail replacements!

I'm going. I haven't seen us score yet this season and don't see that changing tomorrow.

Victoria is easier for me to get to. I did notice the St Pancras one as well. I have never heard of either Meopham or Strood!

Only heard of Strood as it was buses from there a few years ago too. Meopham sounds like its made up but I'm sure Red Frog or Reg can give us a history lesson on the place. :-)

(PS. That's not a request chaps!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meopham

Its got a very long main street and Michael Gambon lives there, that's about it - although it has  vastly smaller population that Burslem!  :D

On last season's match day thread v Gills, there was a history lesson on the Cinque Ports. It seems like a long time ago when the world and TEF were  happier places, Shaw Rosso was match day thread guru, we could put out a team with a full bench and nick a rare point at Priestfield.

http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=54978.0

Meopham appears to claim it is a strassendorf 7 miles long....outstriping Brinkworth at 6 miles, however Brinkworth is reputedly the longest strassendorf in the country. I smell bullshit.

Why resort to foreign Reg? There's a perfectly good English word for "Straßendorf" (with a capital S): a ribbon development.

What have I done?!

Well it is near Gillingham......

I was taught that the correct geographical term for such a thing was strassendorf....always look on the sonnenseite des lebens.

Were you brought up in the Channel Islands then?

My apologies. Turns out you were right Reg. The term is used in human geography. Though my term wins a googlefight hands down.

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I went to Gillingham once.  It wasn't very nice.

We went for pre-match beers in Rochester, near the castle, which was lovely.  This is the only time that I can remember that the group I was with chose to drink in a different town to the football match.

We lost 3-0.

No. I was also taught that a sharp ridge formed by 2 glacial cwms was called an arrêté, however your mob have now ruled for the extinction of the circumflex....in the words of Tears For Fears, it's a mad world.

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Strassendorf sounds like a long road with the German army marching down it. A bit like the Champs-Élysées.

I have been to Gillingham more than once.
The town centre is on par with Gorse Hill.
Pint in the Clarendon or the Brittania  ;D

Oh fucking hell you two  :doh:

Why are there so many trees in Holland? . . . . . so the Germans can march in the shade.

Fuck me, when was the last time the TEF had a thread with a Straßendorf, a cwm, an arrêté and an Élysées? And you lot want to leave 1000 years of Europe? For what? Guns and bacon?

Someone expressed the problem of losing the circumflex very nicely with the expression:

"Je vais me faire un petit jeûne / jeune."

Do you get the (not so) subtle difference?

My knowledge of French just about stretches to ordering an ice cream, and yet even I can see you've misquoted Camus.

I'm pretty sure of myself. Please enlighten me.

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football." That should do it.

I'm pretty sure he said he learned it in the team or league he played in, in Algeria, rather than football itself. Paraphrased would have been better a term than misquoted.

I'm trying to join in with the mass pedantry that seems to have broken out :)

Ce que je sais de plus sûr de la morale et des obligations des hommes, c'est au sport que je le dois, c'est au R.U.A. que je l'ai appris.

I googled yours. It happened. So did mine. He might have said something twice in similar terms. Like the TEF.

Camus did bollocks.

The only citation I can find is used for both quotes, a piece he wrote for his university sports magazine.

I'd suggest yours is a tidied up version made easily understandable for everyone. Unless you have a source?

Is the Southern Belle still open?

Fleur Dr lis was ok

Has the Livingstone closed down?

It has. Big shame. Fleur De Lis was okay though.

Did I speak to you in the fleur.were you in the tv lounge?

Were you sat to my left? I was by the door watching a TV above a fruit machine!

Was sat at the bar next to a couple of lads in town shirts

Grooming ?

They weren't interested

Not me