Driving about this afternoon and listening to the game on Fox satellite channel. They just use the same feed as the TV, which was leading to long periods of silence and very little description of what was happening, even the penalty shoot out was getting pretty confusing.

I assume the TV pictures were showing the joys of winning and the agony of defeat, but wasn't working for radio... left me asking, WTF is happening!

Having all the suspicions confirmed about divisive club cliques during England’s ‘golden generation’ era.

Selfish wankers.

Nice of Beckham to visit the camp though.

Just waited for an hour for the bill and a round of drinks.
And you want to charge me 20% service.
No chance

TBF Saved yourself the 20% there.

Just asking, has something new cropped up? I heard about Neville being a total little, (I'm from Bury) but I want to talk like a hard inner city Mancunian and all the other wankers keeping their distance from other players during England camps but that was common knowledge at the time.

My wife putting multiple washes on, with no plan for how it is to be dried.

He did take the Qatari money though and you would think he would at least attend the camp. Imagine if we win, the golden generation would be super jealous

I'm sure he does, however, this information, sometimes, doesn't get passed on fully. Also, a lot of teachers aren't given the training needed to deal with children like this.

You also have to factor in the amount.of.parents who use "undiagnosed" ADHD as an excuse for their little.darlings being undisciplined *****.

Yeah a few players have said during this World Cup how players used to just sit with their clubs. Beckham was also described as aloof by one newcomer. Can’t remember who.

You don't get an additional needs plan, or an EHCP, because the parents are using it as an excuse. You are talking about something completely different. All his teachers have been given his ANP, so again, in this case that's not the situation. I can't speak to whether or not they've actually read it, but in this particular case I would suggest not. The alternative is that she has read it, but has decided to ignore or discount it. Which of course would be much worse. So I'm happy to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Believe me, we are old hands at this now having done it for over 10 years, and we know all the ways this can go wrong.

I second that.

And I second that one, too.

Do it yourself then ... I've jump on it because I do it better ... probably all in her plan! ;)

Spin dryer .... a few horses and a dehumidifier sorts it!

Luckily we have the power of the sun for a good part of the year here. My wife tends to have a washing Monday once a month, and I get roped in to help. We have a massive Samsung machine, an old washer to remove the water, a spin dryer, and The Sun. We also use the bath tub. The whole lot takes about 6 hours.

The key question at this point is - is this more interesting than the H and M thread?

Sure it wasn’t “apoof”? There was all that dress wearing stuff, and I recall Joey Barton got called up.

Good one.

The referee in the England V France game

The addition of ‘super’ to anything as a self pleasing affectation. ‘Very’ doesnt do anymore. You feel the person feels them-self ‘cute’ as they say it.

Ditto - I try not to whine about the ref but this one got right up my nose today. Seemed clueless at times. He didn’t miss the penalty for us, Harry did, but tbh he didn’t even give it in the first place despite having a perfect view! I thought Saka was fouled in the moment that led to their goal but the ref didn’t. But it wasn’t just the one instance it was throughout.

Only one thing for it …… the referee’s a ****er, the referee’s a ****er …….and repeat ad nauseum.

Endless slow motion replays of the crowds at the WC, that and the up the noses shots.

Nothing to do with the ref, Martin (who may well be what you describe him as). We failed to score from open play, or from one penalty, whereas they scored twice. That’s what annoys me.

i agree it wasn't because of the ref we lost - that's what I was suggesting BUT it was a pretty poor match for him.

Englands predictable loss

Englands predictable penalties

Englands predictability.

England.

Why are they so bloody difficult to extract from the packaging??


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sp...d-pc0x00ffffff

That's the extra life*?

Not sure if this is annoying, or just downright scary...

Junior European Song Contest

(...and I'm a remoaner)

Give the package to a baby, they will get it open for you...

Because they are 'baby secure'?

You should have gone to Specsavers.

"Baby secure"

We all find our level eventually

Along similar lines I bought a new circular saw blade in the week. The packaging was that really tough/brittle molded plastic that is very tough to cut with scissors and becomes a weapon of mass destruction when cut guaranteed to to give you a few cuts on your hands.

Actually makes the nice new sharp saw blade seem quite safe to handle after navigating the packaging.

Replacing the Twizy batteries ?

:)

Power tools at your age HH.

I can see why you wanted to make sure your health cover was fully topped up.

I am rather tempting fate, yes I would agree!

I have acquired power tools somewhat later in life. Imagine that scenario BBS peeps.

No accidents yet - 4 years.

Some might say you're no stranger to a screwdriver or two.

No need to hammer home the point.

Being stuck in Bromley for an extra 2 days.

I can think of worse places...

I'm sure you can, so can I, but right now my boss, wife and students don't think so.

Are the “toasties” up to scratch?

Exactly

When the battery on the Smoke alarm needs changing - so it starts 'beeping' at 4 in the morning.....

Modern feral kids interpretation of snowballing. Compact an icy spherical weapon and try to blind or maim the recipient with it. Its not the fluffy fun Disney like to portray.

Nope, you've lost me on that one.

TBH it was always like that.

Isn't there a toastie aficionado in Bromley?

Like down in the streets, or down in sewer , or even on the end of a skewer!

Picking up quite a lot of empty Coca Cola cans?

An excellent album.:p

Shops changing position of items. Ok I know its so you look at things you dont normally buy to tempt you. However as I get older struggle with shopping anyway. Whether it is some mild form of agoraphobia get panicky and shakey in some shops just want to get in and out. Even to the stage I am standing pretending to look at shelf doing breathing to control it. Old age added to list.

The increasing use and adoption of the term “the holidays” in commercials and media when referring to the Christmas period. It’s the use of an Americanism that must cease forthwith and be banished from our shores.

We lived in NYC for 6 years and the use of the term Xmas in the stores/marketing almost disappeared completely one year we noticed and this seemed to take it out on the street too at first but there seemed to be a low key backlash and the following year it was mentioned again in the displays etc. Never got used to it though and it used to grate on us. The absence of pork pies and sausage rolls being one of life’s mysteries in a city that is full of eat as you walk food. Obviously I understand why some wouldn’t be eating them but come on….. :)

Happy Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to you... Do Hallmark make a card for that? :rolleyes:

Ah, now I understand.

Hard boiled and witty.

‘Holidays are coming….holidays are coming…..holidays are coming.’

Arghhh, that bloody commercial.

Happy Saturnalia, anyone?

Festivus for the rest of us?

Stupid srcatch card adverts

The Gucci perfume advert with Billy Rae Cyrus’s kid as a cartoon irritates the hell out of me. No idea why.

Io Saturnalia. Who’s king for the day?

We don't need to have the 'holidays season' expression here in Chile. Christmas and New Year are celebrated here, but not really with any extra days holiday. This year the whole shebang falls on consecutive weekends. Nice office employers might give the Friday afternoons off, but that's about it.

Our 'holidays season(s)' - as in linked to bank holidays - are 18 Sept, Easter, and maybe around Halloween (we get 31st Oct and 1st Nov).

February pretty much closes down for summer but that is like August in Italy. That is summer holibubs.

Went to book a hotel via a 'cashback' site offering 6% back. Unfortunately they quoted 12% more than just going straight to the travel site itself.
i then through a comparison site to get travel insurance and and found it £50 cheaper to go straight to the suggested cheapest site! These companies must be making some money!

Having all your bank cards and driving license stolen at the gym and knowing its one of 3 staff members you've been friendly with for last few years

Yappy little dog shits and their owners. (you know the sort pomeranian, chihuahua, dachshund) where you visit and enter a recreational park to walk your dog, and elderly folk are chatting to each other oblivious to anything going on around them, and their "companions" go racing off after every other dog and start barking in their face.
If you dare give it to the owners verbally, and you're scum of the earth and even when they try to retrieve their bellowed "Arlo" or "Dexter" they convey no ability to recall their beloved cockwomble of a mutt. :hi:

They must be running out of songs to do slow renditons of in these ******* Xmas adverts by now, surely?

Because it’s f~cking shit.

I still can't get my head around that commercialism dictates that Christmas songs are played incessantly from the end of November, yet they are turned off like a tap pre-Boxing Day, when there are 12 days of Christmas!

I don't have the TikTok app, in fact I don't even really know what it is other than basically home made videos.

But there are often links on my Facebook homepage, and some are reported occurrences on planes. They look to me so false and performed by bad actors. In fact there is a place out here where I live that has aircraft cabins in a warehouse that the movie studios rent to film in-cabin scenes. I'm pretty sure this is where these TikTok videos are made.

In fact from the little I have seen of TikTok videos, I would question the authenticity most of them.

Why does that annoy you?

You just quickly learn to not watch any of them.

Having to skirt around the great Messi love in for mininum 5 days is going to have lots of annoyances.

That's no news, internet or TV, no sports programmes.

Will have to keemp myself very busy in the house and garden.

Oh and great for him, but we can't just leave it there, can we? It has to be dribbling god worship, by grown men who DO football for a living.

Because they are putting them out there as real situations. And other people get sucked into believing them to be real.

There is enough crap happening out there in real life on planes without people making up stories and pushing them for real... probably actually contributes to the crap we see happening.

And yes, I could not watch them, and I don't anymore, but I did until I realized they were bogus, but I still see links to them.

The World fvcking Cup

Amen

It ain’t coming home

Coincidentally it looks like I'm not the only one... although for different reasons:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/tech/...ill/index.html

Bloody hell Hedge I never took you as one of those Moon Landing conspiracy theorists. I mean every one with half a brain knows that, when Armstrong (not Chris with a doobie dangling from his mouth) took that big step for man-kind he was really walking into a warehouse at the back of your gaff. ;)

I'm beginning to think the whole England winning the 1966 World Cup was fake now... All filmed on a big sound stage at Pinewood Studios for the BBC I reckon.

Has anyone ever than an English person ever talked about us winning it?

I knew a couple of Germans who always swore the ball never crossed the line.

Yes just like NASA rigged the moon landings with the help of Stanley Kubrick, Its the same thing. They roped in the Carry On films director to handle the production, being the top talent in the country at the time. All the officials were either threatened by Sidney James, or sucked off by Barbara Windsor.

Not just an Americanism but the post modern approach of eroding any element of British/western culture for fear of offending anyone. If someone wished me happy diwali, I would feel honoured, not insulted.

Im not religious, and its a custom in the UK, the only time where we stop and spend time with our family. The French take the whole of August off, we are short changed to work into ground. The whole country needs Christmas, as the only cycle we have.

People doing their entire Christmas food shop and then using the self service tills meant for baskets only. Blocking access to other tills, too much food for the for the bagging area, so they remove whats been scanned and bag it, machine throws a wobbly as it hasn’t been paid for, supervisor has to come over and fix it, then repeat 5 more times. Meanwhile the queue for the self service tills now stretches half way across the supermarket

Used to think this. Sainsbury in Lock Bottom now only has two conventional check outs so no real choice.

Some supermarkets seem to have much better bagging areas.

Ice

I got to speak to an old Armenian gentleman near his luxury apartment in Soho Square. Told me he spent his whole life being referred to as "the Russian linesman." Also confided that he was a big opponent of VAR.

Just a couple ? :rolleyes:

Well, they used to work with me, but I do know more, but none are into football.

They'd be right

Re winning the world cup in 66.
We had home advantage.
An Englishmen was Head of FIFA at that time.
We benefitted from a few very "favourable" decisions from match officials during the tournament. Some other countries to this day (eg Argentina) will still tell you that it was a fix to ensure England won in 66 in same way as we question the officiating at some of the other world cups.

Havelange became Head of FIFA in 1974 and is on record as saying the 66 finals were fixed so that England and Germany made the final.

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Never heard that before; amazing.

Kinda ****s up the thee lions song, too.

In other news, the Americans faked the Moon landings and G5 phone technology created Covid-19.

His allegations were that they were fixed to deny Brazil. He was Brazilian. That Brazil were denied by the appointment of English referees in 2 games German in the other.
He goes on to also question the choice if German and English referees in the two quater finals. English in the German game and German in the English game.

The ageing Brazilian side of 1966 were not helped by the treatment dished out in the Group games to Pele.

Something very rarely mentioned is that the semi-final between England and Portugal was meant to be at Goodison Park, where the Portuguese had built up a bit of love in with the locals.
The English chairman of FIFA changed the venue to Wembley, stating commercial reasons.

Rous was a racist old dinosaur.

Havelange was a corrupt c~nt. And probably racist too.

I remember they switched an England game. I assume the semi finals were switched.
The London choice of stadiums was strange White City hosted at least one game. Considering the other Stadiums Highbury or Stamford Bridge which were used for F A Cup semi finals.