When I visited Ellis Island the septics there were more distraught if they couldnt find great great great Uncle Paddy or Luigi or Stanislas than they were at the horrible stories of people that were kept there

Not sure what you'd think about the bloke from The Streets. He was 45th-generation Roman, according to his first album!

Ahh in a nutshell you have illustrated my total fear of driving on the right.

I had one hell of a first time trip from Alicante to Torrevieja, where I thought I'd lost sight of my cousins hire car. I just followed the car I thought it was. So my heart was in my mouth until I pulled up alongside to confirm, which took at least 30 mins on account of heavy traffic... Anyway after that first trepidatious encounter with righthand driving, I figured I'd walk from the urbanisation at Playa Flamenca to the roundabout before the shops, just to study and get a handle on how it all worked. I've been fearful of driving on the right ever since, I never could work it out. I did finally summons up the guts to drive from Playa Flamenca to Terra Mitica, especially as we had our youngsters with us.

Still I think I need some more guidance in an easier righthand environment.

So in a nutshell.... Driving on the right annoys the hell out of me. Got a real phobia now.

Continually smacking my head on the shitty sun visor when getting back in to the car.:veryangry

Suffers from having a weak main protagonist/hero, but there's enough in it to make it eminently watchable, plus of course a tour de force from Daniel Day Lewis.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to hope that the villain beats the shit out of the hero, but that's what happened.

WOW - he gets air.

That I find it impossible to use superglue without sticking my fingers together.

As someone that has used superglue a lot, the mistake most people make is using too much. The more you use the less it works, just a tiny amount.

Sky showing replays when the game is still in progress

After reading a couple of threads, and my recent experience, the value that marrige still holds annoys me, love is not a piece of paper.

Football pundits saying "quality in the final third" !!

Sky showing 30 second close ups of BFS while the game is playing.

This, plus what you want to stick doesn't.

Like Al says, the tendency is to put too much on, which I'm guilty of.

There's also different grades of CA glue which usually relate to the viscosity (and the speed in which they cure).
Thicker viscosity CA is easier to handle and less messy but slower to cure.

Thanks I will try this as half the time the stuff doesn’t stick what I want it just sticks me. At my most stupid, I actually once tried to suck the glue off my finger and ended up with it glued to my lip :) Hate the stuff

I find half a tube gets me off my tits.

Not being able to remember if I've put deodorant on or not. And I'm not talking about hours later, being hit by a panic in the middle of a work shift.

No, I'm talking about literally straight after I've actually put some on, before I've even put my shirt on. A quick finger test later, and I'm onto the next chapter of my daily torture, entitled "where the **** are my car keys"

Fat guys with long beards and hair riding motorbikes with the music blaring

Not as bad a cyclist carrying a speaker blaring music when they’re riding.
Really no need

On a related note 72 hour deodorant adverts who the **** are these adverts aimed at

People who rarely bathe.

Handy if you're free camping in Aus for example... 3 days before you have to pay for a caravan park and access to the ablutions. Only need a shovel, toilet roll and a 72 hour spray in between paid campsites.

Going round in circles with an online help chat.

Frustration personified!

A resigned, unanimated BFS at that. I think he has even given up on chewing gum.

Twats that do something to the exhausts of their motorcycles so they make a dreadful racket.

People, (here), that stop for late night pizza, beer, ciggies, a chat with mates, and feel that the whole street wants to hear how powerful their car speakers are at 2am. I give it 2 minutes and just phone the police. The twonks might just be 3 minutes, but they are often 20 to 30 minutes.

I can be overly brave or stupidly valient when confronting idiots here. But even I draw the line in confronting young men on the street here that feel listening to loud regaetton at full volume on a weeknight is acceptable behaviour. Far too many wannabee gangsters and actual gangsters a bout.

The rights and wrongs of me taking an ethical stance and 'having a word', and a prison sentence for them, is not going to get me out of the morgue or get my wife her husband back.

I've never seen the guy smile so much as he did during the game.

Looks sick too (for real this time!)

Must be a Latin thing as that happens here too, one upside of the lockdown and curfews is there's no groups of kids walking home at 4am shouting at each other.

Some posters who still think we might go down, just stop it, now

Bad spelling and grammar in thread titles that go on for years.

Football commentators, and train announcers, who pronounce Selhurst by emphasising the H.

There's an H in it :eek:

proper sarf londoners don't pronounce the h

Cricket highlight shows wasting time on replays determining whether the ball crossed/hit the boundary or not. Just tell us whether it's a boundary or not. No need to show us 3 replays from different angles.

Or 35 year old pissed up males that think it is great fun to smash bottles in the streets at 3am.

We also have 40+ pisshead (mates) - alcoholics really - that have a walking row with each other for half an hour segments. Lots of hollered concha su madres - to the point that one guy staggers away from it on his stumble to his house, and the main protaganist keeps following at a slower pace shouting insults ever more loudly, up to a block away.

That is air rifle territory tbh.

There is a police station two blocks away, with a copper stationed outside. It amazes me thay never seem to her this shite.

You'd be sick as well, if you couldn't get a sit in Nandos due to lockdown.

Or indeed showing us cricket at all.

Do they do one for Christmas to Christmas? Would save me having to bathe....

Used to like you......

Sell-urst, Fort-Neef etc

People saying I should go to my doctor. I am not depressed, I am sad, I am grieving, pills won't help.
Depression is real and I can't even relate to how that must be.

Time is the answer for me I think.

Nothing wrong with cricket or most sports.

Their 'exclusive' afficianados tend to knock football much more than football fans knock other sports. That is snobbery really. Most on here will enjoy, or even have a passion, for a number of other sports - cricket, rugby, boxing, ultimate fighter, golf, cycling, F1, tennis etc.. It's not often the reverse is true - at least for very staunch cricket, rugby or tennis fans.

Also, self loathing. I am not a bad person, whatevever Maidstoned says.

Indeed Alan.

Puchuncavi has gone a bit downhill Peter.

Is this all going down at your beach location, or in the city.

Disclaimer: I appreciate a beach town can also be a city town, but I think you know what I mean.

People that eat stuff in supermarkets and then dump it so they don't have to pay for it. Fruit, chicken wings, crisps, coffee drinks, I've seen it all

Exactly that.


If you weren't down that would be a greater cause for concern.

Au contraire, I've never seen this.

When every single PL result, apart form Palace, is not the ones you were hoping for :(

It's worse when our result is **** as well, though.

I'm sick of sides better on paper failing to turn up against the weeds though.

How would you know?

And I am still in Santiago atm.









ATM means at the moment. I am not offering CT Palace a sexual service or looking to withdraw money for it.

My house is a little inland from the beach. 7kms from a lovely, and popular summer place (lovely in the off season months), and 5km from a fishing village that is also touristy. Plus there are plenty of other places along the coast that are accessible.

My own village is quiet but has all you need, a bank, 3 butchers, 5 greengrocers, a supermarket. I have good distance between me and my neighbours, and they are just about all grand.

Our lower neighbour has decided not to like us, but she is that type - wants to be Queen of the block. We have an old couple in their mid 70's in front who we share things with, plant cuttings, fruit, apple pie etc. A little way away from us are some people dealing in drugs with dangerous dogs - the dogs have ripped apart a couple of the roaming strays, and I reckon a few cats. They don't affect us though

The worst noise is the dog cacophony at night, and people shooting rabbits.
We get the clip clop of passing 'huasos' on horses. I fancy a bit of that.

Gringo Huaso.

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They're also ( especially the broads) fond of a bit of Cherokee Indian in the blood stream. For a few years it seemed like the fad was for any super model or half bit actress to inform the world that they are of Cherokee extraction. Don't know too much about the differences between the tribles, but there must have been something exotic about the Chero's because you didn't get too many females proudly proclaiming their Apache, Sioux or Mohawk heritage.

I blame Don Fardon for that. (you have to be a certain age ):cool:

And Presidential candidates... Little Hiawatha!

There was one silly mare that caused contraversy claiming she was Spanish.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/28/e...rnd/index.html

She has a right to claim her heritage, but she started making up stories and started putting on a fake accent.

Changing her name from Hilary to Hilaria seems apt in the circumstances.

Is that not Alec Baldwin's wife?

Yep.

She was born in Boston and was in high school in The US.

She has inferred her Spanishness Island. I think
he said in an interview that she moved to the US when she was 19.

Not sure if he believed her lies or was lying when asked to
corroborate her story. He is not the sort of bloke a person would
want to get into a row with over an issue like this. Quite intimidating.

She can identify as Spanish from her parents, why she needed to embellish I dont know. Perhaps being Spanish and being seen to be Spanish is a fashion.


She seems to be a slippery loon. At best she had a few holidays there. There is nothing in her ancestry or the names and upbringings of her parents.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaria_Baldwin

And Crystal Gayle.

To be fair, my father in law has always called me Marcos.

Is that because he can't call you Dragan in case the rozzers hear?

He wouldn't be able to pronounce it. You should hear him try to say "Southampton".

Street food, why's it so bloody expensive? 12 quid for a small burger with some chips or a small thing of curry and rice, its not like they have overheads for bricks and mortar. I love eating street food but can't shake the feeling that I'm getting ripped off.

Overnight closures on motorways. Coming back from Bristol on Friday meant two diversions off the motorways (Js 12-10 and J7-6). I do wonder what work was being carried out (if any) that could not have been done by reducing the carriageway to one lane.

Smart motorway works on the M4? I was subjected to a delightful tour of Slough because of that last year.

Overhead gantries, bridge work, anytime a crane is needed etc etc. We didd a lot of crash barriers during closures, the tarmacas are out. Closures are taken very seriously and cotst a lot of money to implement, there is a lot done by a great many people from the first second of the closure, round the clock until the last.

Just go to the kebab shop and sit outside.

Or take a packed lunch and save yourself 11 notes.

You can sit on a park bench and share aka Angus Deayton and Mr Bean.

Lol

Packed lunch......now that was a debate where you became ever so popular :)

You don't need to be popular to be bang on the money.

Ambulance etiquette or the muddled thinking of all around them when they're roaring up the main roads up here in Norfolk set me right off.
The amount of times some dick will stop dead leaving vehicles coming the opposite way in a precarious position as the ambulance passes seems to be a favourite stupid more around here.

Shame you are neither, init. ;)

How's the tupperware twat?

Not much use for packed lunches in lockdown, are you still preparing them to keep your eye in?

:hi:

The Mods for not being able to stop the unacceptable level of abuse on here.

They are a bunch of ***** who should be forced fed their own shit and vomit.


Stolen from Palace Comrades. I think.

The mods were stolen from Palace Comrades?

:eek:

No, I have limits to the level I would stoop to with my insults. That is a step way too far, even for you bunch of *****.


Sort out the insults and the general childish playground mentality being adopted by myself and other middle aged men on here. Do your ******* job.

This.

Long gone are the days when Trolley / Willo would complain about being banned from certain of the fora; I wonder if even he would prefer it like this.

Bless your little heart. :hi:

****.off then.

So, just to be clear, Stubbles and his chums are complaining about the mods on the bbs that they don't care about, on the bbs they set up to show how much they didn't care about this bbs?

You expect sense from a site on which Biggin is a mod?!

No I made that bit up, for a bit of much needed levity.

I have no idea what that site says as I do not go on there.

You and the other mods sort yourselves out and do your effing job and stop effing ***** like me from posting childish and abusive posts.

Has Maidstoned made it into the Prefects Room ? He campaigned long and hard, but I hadn't realised he had made it. Congratulations, if so.

His natural modesty means he will never admit to it.

moustaches

I'm 2nd generation. Username is Polak because that's what people called me at work. :supergrin:

I had to pass on the Trolley log in to WCB and Peterh though.

Are you now a mod then?

I might be.

St paddys day what a load of plastic nonsense

I used to have quite a lot of fun putting on one of those big tall Guinness hats and getting hammered.

Seen a lot of hate for such activities, why is this?

I went to Savannah once for the parade.
What an endless (and I do mean e n d l e s s) procession of boredom. Obviously the boozing was top quality, but to be honest I don't need St.P's day to do that.

What's your problem? Another anti-Irish comment from you isn't really a surprise.

It's not for you. Celebrate yours on April 23rd and see how many Irish give a toss.

It wasn't anti-Irish any more than claiming that saying "Fathers' Day is a load of plastic nonsense" is anti fatherhood.

As I said he has a history of it.

Plus who made you his spokesman? Seems an 'old guard lets all stick up for one another' has creeper onto here with you as one of the leaders.

Off now to enjoy my day in sunny West Cork and leave you to it. Sláite

I have to say that Ireland is the most ambivalent place I've been to in terms of celebrating St Patrick's day. I guess it's like St George's day in England. And yet, travel to Monroe NC on April 23rd and you will invariably be treated by the sight of me on horseback in full mediaeval knight regalia, menacingly waving an electric carving knife at next door's pet iguana

Haha - that's half-believable.

Go to Savannah next year - you'll be a very very welcome change from the thousands (no exaggeration) of overweight firemen from NYC who for some reason think they should be parading the streets of a small town in Georgia and not putting out fires in NYC. Honestly if there is ever a big fire in NYC on St.P's day, they are ****ed. Truly ****ed.