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Christmas cancelled due to bad weather
Following a spate of seasonably wintry conditions sweeping across the United Kingdom, this year’s festive celebrations have been put on hold for exactly 365 days. The British Holidays Associati…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Fan facts about… towels
Today’s entry may seem a little bit weird - after all, the only purpose for a towel is to dry stuff, right? Well for the most part you’d be right, but in so many ways you underestimate the…
- December 21st, 2009
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Football: Snow joke as Europe enters winter break
Image copyright Bundesliga.de Alright, so it was in Germany and snow isn’t exactly an uncommon occurrence across Europe, but it’s still fun to see a game where conditions are less than…
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An apology to whoever it was that won the X Factor thing (but not Simon Cowell)
Retro Yakking would like to formally apologise for a post made yesterday regarding this year’s X Factor winner. It is worth reiterating that this website is primarily (supposed to be) an inte…
- December 20th, 2009
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Breaking News: Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name is 2009 Christmas number one
LA rap-metal rockers Rage Against the Machine have scored an unlikely UK Christmas number one with a reissue of their 1992 hit Killing in the Name, beating off competition from some lame-o on some…
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Just because it’s Christmas
It’s Christmas time, and that can only mean one thing: blatant cash-ins and over-the-top commercialism! Oh what fun it is to ride to ASDA on Christmas Day, and so forth. Retro Yakking is no exce…
- December 19th, 2009
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Year in Review: English football in 2009 - yak style (part 2)
It’s fun to take the mick out of Manchester United just because they’re successful - an easy target, if you like. They’re the team you love to hate, if not for their constant batteri…
- December 18th, 2009
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Best of Retro Yakking 2009: Editor’s selection
Of the 400+ articles posted to Retro Yakking this year, I will readily admit many have been absolute pants. You have to understand, however, how difficult it is to think of a new and original article…
- December 17th, 2009
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Liverpool 2-1 Wigan: Thoughts
Will Jason Scotland ever score? This isn’t going to be a full-blown match report (let’s face it, how often do I actually post one of those?) because the hustle and bustle of midweek life c…
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Year in Review: English football in 2009 - yak style (part 1)
In retrospective, 2009 has been a revolutionary year in English football. Not only has the gap between the so-called top four and the chasing pack closed in the past twelve months — at least if…
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On this day… (16th December)
Believe it or not, all this interesting stuff happened on this day at some point in the dim and distant past. Each fact has been thoroughly checked using Wikipedia and a Hindley University student&…
- December 15th, 2009
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Teletext is dead… long live Teletext!
If you are reading this right now, then I’m sorry to say it’s all over - Teletext has bitten the dust. Don’t even attempt to check the lottery numbers or have a quick go at Bambooz…
- December 14th, 2009
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Fun facts about… Tiger Woods
He’s the most talked about sportsperson in the world right now, but sadly not for sporting reasons. Let that take no credit away from the man, who is perhaps the greatest player ever to pick u…
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hindleyite has posted a new entry on: The Illarterate blog
Harry Yack’s News Network
This weekend sees the unofficial launch of my new project, Harry Yack’s News Network. Said blog will contain the usual news stories and opinion pieces you see over at Retro Yakking only in an a…
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Sunday Special: Happy Birthday Retro Yakking and a new bookmark for your favourites
As of today, 13th December 2009, Retro Yakking has been online for precisely one year. Yep, we’ve the chop from the authorities for a full 365 days, making us marginally more successful than B…
- December 12th, 2009
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hindleyite has posted a new entry on: Jesus Was A Wiganer
Stoke 2-2 Wigan: Two wrongs make a right?
Emmerson Boyce risked life and limb for Latics' first goal. I’m not sure who’ll be most pleased with a point today, as all things considered it was a fairly even contest. Perhaps Wig…
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North African patrol extended as pirates steal watch
With piracy of the high seas off the coast of Somalia on the rapid increase, the British admiral in charge of an EU flotilla of anti-piracy vessels is considering an extension of their patrol area. No…
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Football: [Video] Maynor Figueroa’s halfway line goal for Wigan against Stoke
During an exciting encounter at Britannia Stadium this afternoon, local rivals Wigan and Stoke played out a draw… somehow. It was a cracking game for a neutral, but proved somewhat uncomforta…
- December 11th, 2009
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The Yak’s Commercial Breakdown: 2009 in television advertisements (Part 3)
Aleksandr says ‘hit the read more link, or else’. And so we stumble blindly on to the final(?) part of Retro Yakking’s Review of the best and worst television advertisements from…
- December 10th, 2009
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hindleyite has posted a new entry on: Retro Yakking - Complaints of a Northerner
Fun facts about… penny sweets/chews
The penny sweet was originally so named because it cost just that: one pence. In those days, however, a penny (3 shillings fourpence) was the equivalent of three weeks’ wages, meaning only wea…
- December 9th, 2009
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The Yak’s Commercial Breakdown: 2009 in television advertisements (Part 2)
Calgon’s pointy finger bloke reminds us to read the small print. In Retro Yakking’s last instalment of this multi-part television commercial review of the year, we addressed budget ad…
- December 8th, 2009
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hindleyite has posted a new entry on: Jesus Was A Wiganer
Wigan v Birmingham (5th December 2009) photos
I’ve managed to scrape enough cash together for a (slightly) better camera, woohoo! See more pics from this Prem contest and past matches at the Illarterate Flickr stream.
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DVD Review: Chamone Mo’fo Selecta, Channel 4
I only really started watching Bo’ Selecta in what would transpire to be its dying embers, namely at the back end of the final series and a couple of subsequent spin offs, neither of which I w…
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tepanyaky2005 to his friends list. - December 7th, 2009
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The Yak’s Commercial Breakdown: 2009 in television advertisements (Part 1)
If you hopped in a time machine and went back just five years to 2004, you’d probably be surprised at the amount of cheesy, gimmicky, expensive and flat-out cynical television advertisements f…
- December 6th, 2009
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hindleyite has posted a new entry on: Retro Yakking - Complaints of a Northerner
Twitter is ‘top English word’ of 2009
Global Language Monitor have revealed the most popular English word this year is ‘Twitter’. After literally minutes of research typing search terms into Google and the aforementioned micr…
- December 5th, 2009
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