Dad to 2 daughters brought up proper to support a real team The Mighty Potters. Been a supporter myself for nearly 50 years so they had no choice.

Joined November 2011
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Clive Bickley retweeted
Someone posted this on Facebook...so true! Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table At which he's fed. Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts Anyway! Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he Tries to think. Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways To tax his ass. Tax all he has Then let him know That you won't be done Till he has no dough. When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till He's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in Which he's laid. When he's gone, Do not relax, It's time to apply The inheritance tax. Accounts Receivable Tax Airline surcharge tax Airline Fuel Tax Airport Maintenance Tax Building Permit Tax Cigarette Tax Cooking Tax Corporate Income Tax Goods and Services Tax (GST) Death Tax Driving Permit Tax Environmental Tax (Fee) Excise Taxes Income Tax Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Petrol Tax (too much per litre) Gross Receipts Tax Health Tax Heating Tax Inheritance Tax Interest Tax Lighting Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Mortgage Tax Pension Tax Personal Income Tax Property Tax Poverty Tax Real Estate Tax Retail Sales Tax Service Charge Tax Telephone Tax Value Added Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Water Tax Tax (VAT) on Tax. And Now they want a blooming Carbon Tax! STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world... We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle class,a huge manufacturing base, and Mum stayed home to raise the kids. What in the happened? Could it be the lying parasitic politicians wasting our money? Oh, and don't forget the relatively new bank charges.... And we all know what we think of Bankers. I hope this goes around the UK at least 1,000,000,000 times!!! YOU can help it get there!
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Ridiculous! 6.25m=20.50525 feet! Wow!
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Clive Bickley retweeted
There should be a worldwide ban on trophy hunting. Please retweet if you agree.
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Clive Bickley retweeted
A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White
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Clive Bickley retweeted
Thank you Tories! Great political advert!

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1/2 From the Sentinel last night. Pretty damning to say the least. Stoke have now lost three in a row, conceding in the 86th and 91st minutes against Blackburn, the 89th and 94th minutes against Queens Park Rangers and now the 97th minute against Plymouth.
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2/2 Neil admitted this game management problem needed an urgent solution. Game management needs a solution? We're 19 games into the season. FFS.
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1/2 What really pisses me off is that since we were relegated from the Prem, we've been nowhere near pushing for promotion, let alone a play-off spot. Every other team since 2018 has been in the mix at some time. Typical Stoke.
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2/2 Racking up the stats that you just know we are so good at doing with ease. Another ruined weekend. How many of those have we had in the past 5 seasons? Angry doesn't come close to how I'm feeling atm. 🤬
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I love this comment I've just read. Unfortunately, it's so very true. Is your team in turmoil? Low in the league? In desperate need of a win and 3 points ?? Then do we have a remedy for you....... a game against SCFC!! 🤬🤬🤬
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Sad day when this disappears so don't miss out on this last ever issue. They will be missed.
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@DUCKmagstoke I hope the game today is as good as this read so far. The only depressing side is that it's the penultimate issue. 😢😢😢
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@DUCKmagstoke Well the team did us proud I'm glad to say. A little more clinical with our chances and that could have been 5/6-1? 👏👍👏 Unfortunately, that couldn't be said about the officials. Absolutely shocking, inconsistent and certainly a bad advert for them in general.
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Clive Bickley retweeted
This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists
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Clive Bickley retweeted
TIME AND FATE OUT NOW‼️ Stream it, share it, tell ya mates you know the score🙌. Enjoy and let us know what ya think💭 Stream here⬇️ ffm.to/theunderclass_timefat…
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Oh, is that the Mr Ramsay the player who everyone thinks the sun shines out of his derriere?
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About time. Now go for the jugular.
Clive Bickley retweeted
BBC Standing Room Only 1994 A look back at some frightening predictions they made about football ten years later in 2004 How right they were!
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