Are you going to Tick and Bash on 21 May?

Are you going to Tick and Bash on 21 May?

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By SteveOH
19th May 2015 17:45

Yes probably

Yes maybe, possibly or probably. Not sure which.

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By Michael Beaver
19th May 2015 19:05

I'll be there.

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Locutus of Borg
By Locutus
19th May 2015 19:22

Possibly
I will see if I get the time.

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Man of Kent
By Kent accountant
19th May 2015 22:56

Hopefully

Having to juggle a few things at the moment but hope to be there.

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Teignmouth
By Paul Scholes
20th May 2015 00:01

Wild horses

I've missed the last two so have some catching up to do.

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Stepurhan
By stepurhan
20th May 2015 09:04

What time?

I will actually be up in London anyway tomorrow, so it is a possibility. What time are things expected to kick off? Is there a website with details on?

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Red Leader
By Red Leader
20th May 2015 11:05

interweb

stepurhan wrote:

I will actually be up in London anyway tomorrow, so it is a possibility. What time are things expected to kick off? Is there a website with details on?

http://www.tickandbash.com/

Come on, Step, you could have found that!

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By stepurhan
20th May 2015 11:08

Laziness

Red Leader wrote:
http://www.tickandbash.com/

Come on, Step, you could have found that!

You're right. I accept admonishment for my laziness. Thanks for posting the link anyway.
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By JCresswellTax
20th May 2015 09:58

Me

I'll be there.

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By andy.partridge
20th May 2015 11:58

Surely . . .

JCresswellTax wrote:

I'll be there.


 . . . a wind-up.
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FT
By FirstTab
21st May 2015 15:26

Yes

I will be there about 6ish. Will try it out. 

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By petersaxton
21st May 2015 16:07

Read out the first draft of your blog

FirstTab wrote:

I will be there about 6ish. Will try it out. 

That will get the event started with a bang.

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By petersaxton
21st May 2015 16:09

I hope Tara is there

after meeting me at the last event Orla and Caitlin resigned!

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Man of Kent
By Kent accountant
21st May 2015 22:55

Good
To see everyone there tonight.

Peter I hope you didn't scare too many CB staff.
FT - are you home yet? Hopefully no wrong turns.
Looking forward to the next one.

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FT
By FirstTab
21st May 2015 23:46

return journey

It was good to meet you and others KA. 

Thanks, return journey was easier due to less traffic and I did not get lost.

I will try and attend other Clear Books Tick and Bash events. 

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By petersaxton
22nd May 2015 07:00

It was a good turnout

I don't know many who usually go who didn't attend last night.

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Stepurhan
By stepurhan
22nd May 2015 07:58

Good times

I made it back fine too if anyone is interested. :-)

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Teignmouth
By Paul Scholes
22nd May 2015 09:40

Good to see you all

and especially to meet FT at long last.  

KA, let me know when you start the archaeological digs, I and the dog can help!

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By Red Leader
22nd May 2015 11:09

Thank you to Clear Books for organising it. Good to meet up again with Locutus, Kent Accountant, Chatman, Stepurhan, Paul Scholes, Peter Saxton, First Tab and the others whose names have been lost in an alcoholic blur.

Highlight of the evening was seeing Andy Partridge and JCresswellTax starting a conga line on Blackfriars Bridge.

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By andy.partridge
22nd May 2015 11:31

Really?

Red Leader wrote:

 

Highlight of the evening was seeing Andy Partridge and JCresswellTax starting a conga line on Blackfriars Bridge.


Then I was more hammered last night than I imagined.
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By JCresswellTax
22nd May 2015 11:17

Sorry I couldn't attend

Got home and my dog had diarrhea so had to stay and look after him :(

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RLI
By lionofludesch
22nd May 2015 11:23

Summer Bash

I'll be at the Summer Bash at Blackpool tomorrow, if that helps......

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By Sheepy306
22nd May 2015 11:38

Next time

Disappointingly I wasn't able to make it down, man-flu here and we all know how bad that can be!

Sounds like it was a good evening and a good turn-out of first-time attendees.

Well done CB for organising/funding.

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FT
By FirstTab
22nd May 2015 17:53

Thanks Paul. It was good to meet you. You do not look like an accountant.  I was surprised. 

It was good to catch up Peter Saxton, Jason and others who I managed to speak to.  

I would have loved to meet those who could not make it. 

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Teignmouth
By Paul Scholes
23rd May 2015 12:52

I'm made up
Thanks FT that's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me !

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By Jason Dormer
23rd May 2015 13:18

Good to see you all again, shame I had to shoot off early.

Great to meet the Legend that is FirstTab.

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By Arabita
23rd May 2015 17:35

Out of interest,  do any

Out of interest,  do any women attend? 

Would love to come but don't want to be the only woman there!

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By petersaxton
23rd May 2015 20:25

Yes

Tara from Clear Books was there.

June Wong was there.

I've invited a few women along in the past. I will invite at least one to the next event.

What's wrong with being the only woman?

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By Arabita
23rd May 2015 21:16

Wouldn't want to be the only one not knowing the rugby scores from the weekend!

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By petersaxton
23rd May 2015 22:27

Rugby

I don't know anything about rugby so there would be the two of us at least.

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By lionofludesch
25th May 2015 09:29

Shocked

No interest in the World's Greatest Game ?

I'm shocked.

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By petersaxton
25th May 2015 10:32

Football

It's football for me.

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By lionofludesch
25th May 2015 18:45

Soccer ?

petersaxton wrote:

It's football for me.

Soccer ?  There are lots of football games.  "Football" means different things in different places.

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By petersaxton
25th May 2015 20:24

association

We are in UK where it is usually called football.

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By lionofludesch
25th May 2015 20:19

Hijacked

Ah - soccer has hijacked the term "football" and rugby union has hijacked "rugby".

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By petersaxton
25th May 2015 20:26

Hijacked?

Football was called football long before "soccer" was thought of

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By lionofludesch
26th May 2015 11:54

Different

"Football" was very different then.  It included a lot more handling..

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By andy.partridge
26th May 2015 12:05

Peter is right

Since the first written set of rules for association football 'running with the ball in hand' has not been allowed. Of course we are only going back as far as the 1860s on this. There was more handling in the game played by the ancient Greeks and perhaps by the modern Greeks too.

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By lionofludesch
26th May 2015 13:19

Different times

andy.partridge wrote:

Of course we are only going back as far as the 1860s on this.

That's so.  Prior to that - and indeed, for some time afterwards - captains agreed the rules at the coin toss.   There were literally dozens of rule sets around and most games were played not between clubs but between players of the same club.

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By andy.partridge
26th May 2015 14:26

I don't disagree.

I think you were proposing that what Peter referred to as 'football' might be a different game to the one he meant. I would say that for the last 150 years, since the rules of association football were written down, that has not been the case. I have never heard of 'soccer' so can not comment on that. Is it like boxing?

Edit - of course this is all only confirming Arabita's worst fears.

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By lionofludesch
26th May 2015 16:29

Innocence

Bless your innocence, Andy - never heard of soccer ?  What happened to your social history education ?

I'm merely pointing out that there was more than one association back in the 1860s.  The three most prominent were in London, Sheffield and Glasgow, though there were many clubs not affiliated to any Association. The laws were far from universal.

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By andy.partridge
26th May 2015 16:39

Actually

You said 'football means different things in different places'. Did you mean 'football used to mean . . .' because only the few with a heightened sense of history would think that 'football' meant 'rugby'  (and only the few with no sense of history at all would refer to football as 'soccer')

With profuse apologies to Arabita.

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By lionofludesch
26th May 2015 20:09

Today

andy.partridge wrote:

You said 'football means different things in different places'. Did you mean 'football used to mean . . .'

No. Football still doesn't mean soccer in Melbourne, Killarney or New York.

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By Arabita
26th May 2015 20:01

Hmmm... yes..... My worst fear!

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By petersaxton
27th May 2015 11:03

Tick and Bash is not AccountingWeb

Arabita wrote:

Hmmm... yes..... My worst fear!

I think you are confusing Tick and Bash with AccountingWeb.

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By andy.partridge
26th May 2015 21:49

Soccer?
No, sorry, you've lost me again.

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By Euan MacLennan
27th May 2015 10:34

Rugby Football

The game of rugby originated on the Close at Rugby School in 1823 when William Webb Ellis "with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it", as it says on the plaque in the wall on the north side of the playing field.  The rules of the game were first set out in writing by the school prefects in 1845.

If you are a schoolboy at Rugby with a match in the afternoon against another school, it makes no sense to say "I am going to play Rugby", so the game of rugby is referred to as football at Rugby School.

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The triggle is a distant cousin of the squonk (pictured)
By Triggle
27th May 2015 10:50

This is one example of why public schools should be abolished.

Just what cosy relationship did William Webb Ellis have with the headmaster of Rugby School when he picked the ball up and ran with it and was lauded with creating an entirely new game?

If I'd have picked the ball up and ran with it during a game of soccer at the school I went to I'd have got the whack from Mr. Jenkins.

 

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By lionofludesch
27th May 2015 12:52

Don't worry

Triggle wrote:

This is one example of why public schools should be abolished.

Just what cosy relationship did William Webb Ellis have with the headmaster of Rugby School when he picked the ball up and ran with it and was lauded with creating an entirely new game?

If I'd have picked the ball up and ran with it during a game of soccer at the school I went to I'd have got the whack from Mr. Jenkins.

Don't worry - even the RFU don't believe this piece of nonsense, which didn't appear until the 1870s, some fifty years after the event.

Even if it were true, Webb Ellis's "innovation" was not that he handled the ball but that he ran with it.  Having made a "fair catch", what he should have done was to retire as far as he wished before taking a free kick, the opposition being prohibited from advancing beyond the point at which the ball was caught.

But then again - the rules were made by the boys and were revised on a game to game basis.

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Stepurhan
By stepurhan
27th May 2015 13:00

Calvinball

lionofludesch wrote:
But then again - the rules were made by the boys and were revised on a game to game basis.
Sounds like a much better candidate for the "World's Greatest Game" appellation to me.

Calvinball!

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