Agree overhead cameras for pens should be outlawed !!

It wouldn't happen in Santiago. My peeps are more concerned in getting the last metro home than getting fully wankered. Evenings tend to get cut short just as they start to get interesting.

Plus, we have the typical Chilean ordering food for the table to fill everyone up before the first pint has gone down.

Listened to the second half of the Euro game today in the car, and they were using the ESPN video feed commentary.

A very odd experience as there were long pauses with no commentary just crowd noise. I guess it works on TV, but very annoying on the radio.

Added to the annoyance was having Taylor Twellman ramble on, especially about the “vertical game” at least 3 times (and previous games). Not sure what it is… I assume long balls down the middle.

My wife uses our car fully time since the lease on hers finished and went back. Its a bloody mess and has also become extra storage space for her coats

Peter.

A while back you went through a period of making a cock out of yourself at increasingly regular intervals. I seem to remember that you posted something along the lines of 'Oooh, the Mods have had a word with me' and you pulled back a tad.

I tore you a new arsehole when you tried a similar thing the other day... seriously fella, the 'edgy', confrontational banterboy PeterH v2.0 is a backward step. Just go back to how you used to be... :)

What a dreadful mess this is.

I made the stuff up about the mods having a word,,,even Les took part in the joke.

Then you ask me to stop being the 'edgy' confrontational banter boy by using words like 'I tore you a new arsehole'. That was on a thread that I did post up as a bit of fun, but then the clever clogs decided to ruin it.

I have said that I post a lot, and a lot of shite when I am not busy, and I am apart from the missus.

Tell me, how I should react when I logon and find people have been having fun at my expense.

TBF. I am the idiot. It took me 20 years to realise the BBS had a fair number of idiots on it. I guess it took Brexit and the Pandemic to bring them to the surface.

I was a compliant sap on here in the past, I'm not going back to that. Especially because you are telling me to.

Not sure why you keep poking me with a stick. You could just put me on ignore. I recommend that to everyone. The mods aren't going to ban me, so that is the only option open to those that tire of me.

Are you married to an Ex Palace copper?

Oh dear, Peter, not you as well? I had not thought you would be so simple as to take post count literally.

Given that the average length of your posts is probably four or five times my own, maybe more, you might well concede that post count in this context is an irrelevant dynamic.

If the original hadn't become annoying enough, Atomic Kitten have only gone and released their own putrid version of It's Coming Home.

PARKLIFE!

PARKLIFE!

PARKLIFE!

PARKLIFE!

PARKLIFE!

PARKLIFE!



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I trust Slimbloke is going to see your post Pete, and start following you around and sniffing your arse.

He seems quick to get on my case as a sarcastic twat. But doesn't follow you, wcb, or Mr Maztastic around.

One could be forgiven for thinking he is actually a member of the same little bullying clique.

I call it the 'pile on' brigade.

That is why I will keep on keeping on.

Is that one of the typical guests that turn up to your amateur singing sessions?

You mean “metric”, rather than “dynamic”, I think.

Came home from.work today and she was out cleaning the car. Hope she isnt on the BBS

Quite possibly, El Delgadotipo H.

Maybe she will appear on here like that strange situation some time back when someone came on here berating their partner for wasting time on here again.

That was really leftfield. It will never beat Paul Daniels or even that Medhi (sp) character.

Don’t mention it, I live to assist others (you’d be wanting to put the adjective after the noun, there).

But you must read all those post that you are succinctly replying to. There is a dynometric of time to think about there. On a long, fast moving thread, that is a lot of work (or distraction from work TBF). However, I admit that I am mostly playing catch up.

Dammit. Marks for effort I trust.

I was impressed.

My Scottish friends pretending they're not watching the game when I know they are.

Blimey. It's Spotify.

Sam Shutupyourface gibbering ITV commentator.

Media telling me how euphoric the whole country is this morning…
I was euphoric when Tekkers won it at the Amex… England? mildly pleased today.

IIRC you had a thtread where you were rebelling against your school, because you hated teaching it. Might besomeone else though, it was a long time ago.

I think I remember that thread. It wasn't me.

I think you are confusing me with the 'selling powdered baby milk to the Chinese fantasist'.

I am quite hurt by that- :sob:

Painful, isn't he ? Massively verbose and constantly stating the bleeding' obvious. I can't remember who, but some venerable old commentator used to say that television commentators should let the pictures do the talking and only add in commentary as absolutely necessary. Sam Matterface would do well to learn that lesson.

Still, his one undeniable quality is that he isn't Clive Tyldseley ...

He was ably backed up by Lee Dixon and his fascinating insights...such as "I fully expect there to be substitutions later in the game".

Last night was only the 2nd game I watched on ITV and the constant inane ramblings from Matterface were just ridiculous.

I think that old commentator was Richie Benaud

I quite enjoyed Lee Dixon though. I thought he was quite funny at times and he doesn't seem to get so wrapped in the stupid exagerations that most pundits slip into.

I am sure it's sacrilege for many on here because he was such a hero as a player at the time but I really can't bear to listen to Wrighty. He rarely has anything interesting to say and it's even less likely to be insightful. Just emotional drivel for the most part. That maybe a little harsh but not that inaccurate. I can't help but like the guy but as a pundit he is pretty useless.

Keane and Neville were both good value last night and it was nice to hear Roy Keane talk with such respect for Southgate as a man and as a Manager. Roy rarely talks in such gushing terms about any player/Manager. I also thought he nailed it with Shaw (as did Neville) in that Mourinho gets stick for giving Shaw a hard time but Shaw wasn't delivering/was never fully fit and TBF nothing else had worked with him and that players do need the harsh word sometimes to get a response.

I don't mind Lee Dixon, but I agree that he got a little over-excited last night, and caught up in the Mattarface burbling approach.

I remember the crushing disappointment in the early days of MOTD2 of discovering that Lee Dixon was actually quite affable and erudite - not at all what I expected after his playing days. See also: Gary Neville.

Regretfully, I have to agree with this.

Didn't stop him stamping on a prone Southgate in the FA Cup Semi. Strange that never gets mentioned/shown when Keane is eulogising about him.

It was mentioned/shown last night during Keane's eulogy.

Yes, but apart from that

Catching myself thinking yesterday that I quite liked seeing slabhead at the back for England.

People in crowd.shots looking all.sad.and concerned about their team...until they see themselves on the big screen and start gurning and waving and jumping around. Dicks.

They actually showed a picture of it in last night's programme and discussed it. Roy said that Gareth as a defender should have stayed on his feet :) :)

they have been absolute shite all tournament

Said exactly the same to my son at the time. The crowd shots really annoy me for some reason.

Mark Pougatch.....

ITV shoudl never ever be given coverage of any meaningful sporting event....wrestling and darts is their level

People who have openly said in the pst they hated football now jumping on the bandwagon.

Ah, must have missed that ! Thanks for the correction.

ITV as a whole dont football well, even their VT's are shite. Have to also agree about Wrightly he just isn't very good.

Yep that’s got me angry

That's proper horrible

sorry this is just as annoying

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Ha, I actually love that! It's become a real pavlog's dog thing, people seem to find it almost impossible to stay serious when they see themselves up there. There's a great David Squires cartoon which translates this to Captain Scott and his mates in their tent at the south pole, contemplating their final moments on earth.

My gut instinct is Wrighty is a nice guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, which translates as inarticulate as a pundit.

I think that's very obvious - and we know it from his time as a Palace player - but whilst it is quite enjoyable to watch him getting over-excited it isn't what you want from a studio pundit.

I posted elsewhere, I was listening to the Italy/Spain game while driving and they were using the ESPN TV feed.

It was painful listening as there were so many commentatorless periods with just the crowd noise - I kept yelling at the radio, "WTF is going on?". The commentator (Jon Champion) appeared to be taking the advice in bold above!

I'd say 70% are not "real" football fans... armchair fans of a big 5 team at best.

As they say, not sure how many would go to Scunthorpe on a Tuesday in January...

I would.

I think Dixon is a decent studio pundit, but not a good colour commentator

That said Matterface is just about the worst football commentator there is (of those getting big games) so it can’t be easy sat next to that idiot

It’s like watching the TDF or Le Mans on Eurosport and having to put up with the inane drivel of Carlton Kirby for hours

Remind me what year it is again?

What makes the whole Matterface verbal diarrhea even worse is that ITV decided to drop Clive Tyldsley as their senior commentator with the man child Matterface. Tyldsley was not happy.

Yes, that's a fair appraisal.

I have to say that, for all his many faults, Matterface isn't as bad as Tyldsley

He’s far, far worse

IMO, of course

Lee Dixon and Graeme Le Saux share co-commentator duties for NBC over here.

I've always quite liked both of them, neither taking it too serious unlike some others I've heard.

Sometimes they will have both of them on together doing a game, and they have some pretty good (harmless) banter.

They also sound very much alike which confuses the heck out of me!

It's just from the neck down, she's 3ft tall and 8ft wide

I always liked Dixon when he was briefly on MOTD, obviously more articulate than Shearer &
Wright, but he soon left.
It’s hard to think of a worse football commentator than Sam
Matterface. Actually, when he’s on TalkSport he’s OK, he hasn’t learnt to tone it down for TV, in fact he now seems to think it’s all about him.

If you stuck your fingers up, or did a wanker sign, would you get arrested for it in 2021?

It's pretty terrible how Boris has jumped on the bandwagon hoping some of the goodwill rubs off on him.

One video they showed, he wasn't sure what scoring a goal looks like.

Forgive my ignorance through tyranny of distance . But who is it ?

Pritti innit, not the worst looking woman in the world, by quite a way.

Pritti as in Patel.

The antidote to this is obviously the various shots of despairing Brighton fans hiding their faces behind clackers at a certain game in 2013, as their "Premier-League-ready" team is firmly put in its place. Again. Can't be arsed to look for the pictures, but you know the ones I mean.

Sounds perfect

Royal Mail delivery man.

Had a tracked (not signed for) delivery expected yesterday. No one was at home (which I knew would be the case) but didn't even bother to ring the Ring doorbell where I would have asked them if they would be so kind as to leave at a particular place. What's the f--king point of having a ring doorbell if bastards don't press it! Must have taken more effort to fill out a card and take back to the sorting office than just done the obvious thing. Grrrr

They’ve been known to pre-prepare a load of “sorry you were out” cards and whizz round poking those through letterboxes without even trying to deliver packages.

As a postie in a former life, and I can confirm that writing out cards in advance is a known practice, but usually only on days with inclement weather etc, because it's harder to write them out on your walk. Your theory is they're doing it to save time, but writing out 20 unnecessary cards would negate that, and you're really wanting to get rid of the packages rather than carry them around.

Also, not getting the signature removes any possibility of the postman favourite 'hand the pen and the signature card with both hands to the attractive woman holding up her towel' trick.

Home in time for Benny Hill

We need to keep a careful weather eye on ants, I am becoming convinced that these absolute ***** will be the earth's dominant species in 20 years time.

They are gradually ruining my lawn, there is nothing that will deter them. Kill off a nest and within days another army will have marched in to build a new one next door to it. I have even resorted to googling 'can you keep an anteater as a pet', the answer is yes in parts of the US which do not experienc weather extremes but here in the UK the winter cold would be too much for them. It said that they need to eat up to 10,000 ants per day which is challenging when kept as a pet, well they would have no problem whatsoever in my garden, in fact they would probably end up obese having gorged morning noon and night on the little bastards.

This should cheer you up, Bipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony#Supercolonies

Yeah thanks for that, I will keep tabs on how my supercolony is evolving and report back in due course.

The picture of the ant's nest plastercast on that page is actually quite interesting, around 8 feet in depth so no wonder buggering about on the surface to try to destroy them has little impact. They just retreat to their subterranean lairs and then burst out all over the lawn again as soon as my back is turned. Complete wankers.

How about doing this and making a bit of money?

Have you ever watched the movie "The Hellstrom Chronicle"?

Watch that and you will see you are about right - less the anteater!

Just saw the the new Marvel film. Political correctness gone mad. Can you believe the Black Widow was played by a white actress?

The local Chinese takeaway I've been using for decades has gone halal.

Croydon useless council missed food waste collection 2 weeks in a row.

And a non Russian.

Phase IV is the film you want to watch to put your mind at rest. ::supergrin:

On the subject of posties the practice of dropping rubber bands on the pavement. Certain areas are now a no go area when walking the dog. Plus the money waste. Put them in your pocket use them again or face a fine for litterimg.

Don't kids.pester them for the band's anymore?

Why not just save your time and just brush the anthills off when it's dry? Surely if you're maintaining (and occasionally rolling) your lawn well it won't suffer and the ants are actually aerating it.

My garden is over run by red ants. Possibly because the estate was built on farmland. I'll always end up covered in bites after gardening as you don't even notice the little buggers on you, but I still don't get the obsession with trying to kill everything (slugs and snails aside as they destroy some plants given the chance).

My kids used to collect them and put them on their scooter handlebars which the children at my son's school still do.

How things change, back "in the day", some bands use to pester kids.

I bet they did.

How hard it is to buy a single pint of milk in the supermarket nowadays. Always have to buy 2 or 4 and end up chucking most of it.

There is a small Ex-Pat community out here where I live, and for my sins I'm on their Facebook group, but never met any of them bar one who I knew from work.

Anyway, they decide to have a get together on Wednesday (which I have no intention of going to). It is being called for 6:30 in a local "pub". A few of the people are saying they cannot get there to 7 or 7:30.

Me trying to be helpful post on there that the places closes at 8:00pm and maybe they should call the proprietor and check.

For my trouble I got a curt reply from the group leader/administrator that she is well aware of the closing time and that is plenty of time!

Bunch of self righteous wankers... let them enjoy their hour of talking about nothing but how wonderful Britain is and how much they are homesick.

Freeze it. Or even turn it into a milk ice-lolly.

You'd have thought that tonight for the football which is probably midmorning there would be a good excuse for a meet-up. Not midweek when the barman wants to piss off home.

To be fair there is also a thread on there about a bar (not an English type pub) that is showing the game and has proved popular with the ex-pats for the previous games.

This "event" Wednesday would appear to be for for a social type get together, probably dominated by women although some men say they are going.

Southgate and his Subs….

Jorginho

Rashford

Sako

Sancho