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General Discussion Area / Re: It's Jonny Wilkinson's Fault!

« on: 14 December 2022, 00:11:37 »

Yep just as well bend over👍

I note that rainbow/trans colour boots and laces were on display.

Just play football boys.

What a silly idea . . . Just playing football to win 
Memo to next England manager . . . (actually Wales also)

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: It's Jonny Wilkinson's Fault!

« on: 11 December 2022, 23:28:43 »

France put two good goals past England in open play. The first goal was a belter and surely a contender for goal of the tournament? 

England had no reply and had to rely on penalties. 

Yep. That's how I see it.

It might be to do with all that kneeling, can't kick so well 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Fitted penises🐓🐓💦

« on: 04 December 2022, 23:37:44 »

The original purpose of the NHS was that people should not suffer death or disease due to an inability to pay. Remember that people died and suffered because they were poor.
The expectation of the NHS has long since exceeded its original pupose. That's why it's unaffordable.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anniversary meal

« on: 02 December 2022, 23:52:05 »

SWMBO works at ASDA and at Easter when legs of lamb tend to be on offer she buys half a doz or so & they go in the freezer after I've cut them in 2.

Considering a prime cut of Wagyu beef this Crimble instead of the dry tasteless fowl known as turkey.

I'm told it's good.

Over rated given its cost.

My local butcher has a cold room lined with Himalayan salt blocks. It's stuffed with bits of dead cows dry ageing. Some times over 90 days.
My Crimble alternative would be a dry aged rib joint. A big one, at least two ribs. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: UPS installed

« on: 01 December 2022, 23:39:05 »

Given the increasing likelihood of power cuts, I have just installed two UPS units: One for the office computer (I work from home) and one for the downstairs router.

This means that, in the event of an outage, I should get about 10-20 minutes or so to save my work and shut down the PC safely and several hours for the router, so I will still have internet for the phone WiFi.

Job done! 

My Mrs has long since predicted the day when
All internet connections . . . stop
All power supply . . . stops (much more than 20 minutes)
All mobile phone connections . . . stop
And she looks forward to saying . . . " I told you so"
She could be right 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anniversary meal

« on: 28 November 2022, 23:56:05 »

It's our anniversary today and, as it's a school day (literally  ), I said I would cook something for when she got home. I asked her what she wanted and she said she really, really fancied a lamb roast dinner. Ok, no probs, and for pudding? Hot chocolate fudge cake with double cream. Easy.
Went to Asda this morning to get the bits, thought I'd start with the lamb. They had no half legs, just two full ones. Now, you can call me tight, and I know it's our anniversary and all, but I am not paying £28.50 for a leg of lamb. They can wedge it.
So she got lamb chops instead, £8 for 8.


Cue all the jibes about me being a big, romantic softie......not 

Last week overnight visitors. Best man from my wedding & his Mrs not seen for 14 years.

Half filet of welsh beef. Pan seared a few mins, 20 mins roasted, 20 mins rested. Pan roasted new tatties, green beans, home made garlic sauce. Way less than £28 for the lot and delicious, for four. The wine was more expensive.

Tight or what?

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General Discussion Area / Re: US hegemony

« on: 01 September 2022, 23:27:45 »

Trump is the least of your problems.

 

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General Discussion Area / Re: US hegemony

« on: 01 September 2022, 00:30:33 »

Me?
Trump was an unpredictable wild card, hard to know what he would do on anything. Biden came in and one of the first things he did was pull out of Afghanistan, stupidly quickly. Trump also intended to get out, but not in such a badly organised way. 
Green light for Putin and China. USA has a weak leftie president. I'm in no doubt that many of the Worlds problems right now are down to the last US presidential elections.
Don't get me wrong, I think that Trump is quite an unpleasant individual, but he's not stupid. Biden is.

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General Discussion Area / Re: US hegemony

« on: 30 August 2022, 23:19:10 »

Ok, firstly hands up, I did not watch the whole thing, first 5 mins or so
But I see some sense.
Not Just NATO expansion being seen as a threat by Russia, but also EU expansion Eastwards.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 30 August 2022, 22:57:47 »

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Strange that I hear about that here rather than on the "News" somewhere 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Excellent customer service.

« on: 30 August 2022, 05:25:32 »

I'm surprised
I'd have thought that you would have some serving wench to blow . . .
 . . . up your tyres for you ?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Free to Air TV channels over the Internet.

« on: 29 August 2022, 00:54:34 »

I'm struggling to have the faintest idea of what this is all about 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Within 5 years ordinary people will not have the right to fly.

« on: 25 August 2022, 00:51:20 »

I can't be arsed to watch all of that, and I have to say that I've not read all responses. But my tuppence worth . . .

Back in the day, flying anywhere for whatever reason was unusual. I didn't fly anywhere until I was about 28.

Flying at 37,000 ft or so in an aluminium tube burning tons of fuel on each journey, is not eco-friendly, regardless of what the airlines say.

These days people expect to fly anywhere, for a few quid, AND get 5* service, and many are the same people that want to save the planet. It ain't gonna happen, and people don't like it.

I need to declare an interest. I hate flying. It's not aerophobia. I just hate the whole process. To and from airports. Getting ripped off at every opportunity. Lying staff about the reason for delays etc. I'd rather drive. Less than 1,000 km from Calais, I drive, and make the extra time for overnight stops. And, I'm sure my Volvo is more eco-friendly. And, I can buy stuff and just shove it in the back of the car.

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General Discussion Area / Re: NEXT.....and women

« on: 27 July 2022, 00:10:58 »

Yep. 

You've now established that you are willing to buy a new sofa, so it's only a matter of time. 

She'll do as she's told, good old fashioned relationship here 

That's what you think. 

Before long you'll be settling down on your new sofa, wondering how TF did this happen!   

I said I was happy to buy the fickin thing, didn't I? Just not having the local pikey turning up in a flatbed with a rain sodden sofa on the back. I have standards to maintain, don't you know? 

In that case, you'd best get yourself down to DFS pronto then! 

Chop chop!! 

DFS ! 
I bought a load of stuff from them a few years ago. In the shop nice smiley sales people. When it came to delivery they were utter b*****ds. Rude and totally inflexible. There was a short delay on completion date of our house, they absolutely refused to delay delivery date. Delivered to property being sold, I was left to get it all to the new one. I'll never buy from them again.

At exactly the same time I bought stuff from Oak Furniture Land, who were absolutely brilliant 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ironic

« on: 01 July 2022, 23:35:15 »

Regardless of political party, it strikes me that many MPs live in a bubble in which they think they can do what they want with no consequences. And not just Tories, Labour is equally guilty.

I worked for a big American company some years ago. Our instructions were "Never do anything you would not want on the front page of a newspaper". Not a bad idea . . .