That Palace are using the term “roster” to describe the playing squad. This appears on the online and social media feeds.
Would the youth who has spent their formative years watching American sports who updates the online news please notice that we are in England and we have a squad of players.

The roster does look good, but who is our franchise player once Wilf gets too old? Need to draft a rookie to replace him soon.

This post is rather Hpalaceish (not Hpalaceist).

Thank you.

Apologies if I offended you. My point was it's a term that I've been aware of for at least 15 years, so it's not new, or part of some recent 'tendency'

So still pretty new then if only 15 years. How does one find out the birthdate of a word?

That's how long I personally have been aware of the word. Wikipedia has it's first recorded usage in 1980.

Interesting. TBH it makes sense but confess to not hearing it’s use before. Is it a new word only new when it makes the dictionary? Sorry I’ve dragged of to a tangent.

Enough of that. Lol

I keep thinking today is Friday and looking for match day thread…..ffs

Thanks for clarifying. Cheers.

I think that this is a concession that need to be made as we are trying to reach much further afield to reach and generate new fans. In particular, in the states, where apparently we are in the top 10 supported teams. Link somewhere.

If we generate more fan interaction internationally, and hence, improving income at the end of the day, then this will be a small cross to bear.

Now, changing the badge... :D

I do hope we are all taking 'learnings' from this.

Clackers at football......Thankfully our club has ditched them today so we can all clap with our hands .

How fecking annoying.

Not at Leicester anymore it is'nt......rejoice.

£1.7m spent on clackers…..

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/s...ue-7423579.amp

They deserve to go down now…..poor clapper manufacturer’s think about their family, who is going to feed them now?

leicester1

...Palace 4 : 23rd Feb 2019

Yup

His excessive and incorrect use of ellipses annoys me.

I like leicester 1.

There I said it.

If he annoys shorty, then he's alright with me.

There will still be some in the stadium as there's always plenty of adult Leicester fans clutching their clackers after matches on the way home. :eek:

Poxy flu that means we're going to have to miss the game tonight to stand a chance of me being ok for my younger daughter's 18th birthday beach party tomorrow - it's been hanging around for over a week now (and it's not COVID, I've done 3 tests and they were all clear)

....... i often do this too.....not sure where the habit comes from. :supergrin:

from an environmental POV, 30k disposable cardboard clackers per home game since 2015, thats nearly 4.5 million, not great.

Yeah, I was thinking that. It's ******* shocking, especially when hands are free & reusable.

If you have to have them, why not give them out one or twice a season or something, and if someone who likes clackers loses theirs, tough shit?

Or maybe there should be a £50 charge if you want to lend your clackers to a friend or family member for a game.... :p

Has anyone come up with electricity-producing clackers yet? Could power a mobile, surely? Might be difficult to clack and call at the same time though.

Of course, Fulham returning to the Premier League this season means that, even with Leicester abandoning the abominations, there will be no 'net EPL clacker effect' compared with last season....

You two are very similar.

Match day thread. For those who cannot attend its bipolar.

Smug Arsenal fans.

Stewards.........though not at Palace....3 seasons on the trot i left the away end at Palace half time for a pint in the Clifton and got back into the ground at varying times at different parts of Selhurst,the last occasion i was throwm out the Clifton.....since then stewards at various grounds have about crippled me throwing me out.......West country you'd love pint with me .

Thanks......I'll take that as a compliment.....shorty.

FFS! "Jess Meeth considers herself "whole life" as she supports life "from womb to tomb"

You both like meeting strangers in darkened carparks for a bit of rough and tumble.

You would only know that if you have been Collymoreing. Not an easy task having to take one of those mini step ladders along every evening.

People who cast false aspersions.......knock it off Shorty and say something interesting....:D

That’s what Miss Lucy said.

The surprise you receive when you open up the food caddy and realise a fly got in there and laid its eggs on the food.

One day we will find out that wcb is very much like that long-legged bloke extarcting himself from a mini to teach Nelson Muntz a lesson in The Simpsons.

For some reason I always thought he hung out in the Whitehorse.

He hasn't been on in a while, I don't think. Good poster.

Yesterday we had in excess of 20 calls on our landline from a robo caller purporting to me from Amazon asking to press 1 get more information about a pending shipment or 2 to cancel (words to that affect). Every call showed on our caller ID as from a different number.

I started a thread on our local Nextdoor BBS and so far 45 people have responded saying they had the same issue yesterday... so far not one of us has come up with a solution other than disconnecting our phones! Most, like myself, have reported we are on the National Do Not Call list, which apparently is a wasted effort.

God there has to be some retribution for these arseholes!

Have you considered white/blacklist devices?

https://mashtips.com/landline-call-blockers/

In the UK, BT offers a free(?) service called Call Protect.
Maybe your provider has something similar.

Things that annoy you
 

^ Thanks, I’ll check out that device. I’m sure they have them here.

I have Call Protect from AT&T on my mobile, and that works pretty well.

I've tried that. They just call on a different, made-up number, usually from foreign call centre that purports to have a UK number. They are effectively impossible to block. They never call you by name (unless Hello, There qualifies)

I do have a few strategies.

1. Sorry, wrong number.
2. A straight "I don't have an Amazon account you scamming c~unit, just f-ck off". Their grasp of English away from their preset spiel is usually sufficient.
3. String them along for a few minutes asking questions before resorting to 2. above.
4. "Just a moment please". Put the phone down and walk away. Come back in about 30 minutes and they are gone.

TBF, particularly for my elderly parents, I was thinking more of the "whitelist" approach, as they dont get a huge volume of calls really. It would be easy enough to add all their known numbers/contacts, then anyone calling - and not in that list - would go to voicemail and have to leave their details, to be added as a safe number afterwards.

My elderly mother is very adept with an an Acme Thunderer - she does give them a five second warning to get off the line first though!!

You mean the small food waste bin many people have in their kitchen?

If so, just empty it more often?

:D :p

Is my favourite one.

No problem as no one (apart from spammers) ever rings on our home phone.

People who say at the end of the call Have a good one!!

:lux:

I agree, very formal when "have a goodun" will do :supergrin:

:eek:

National Highways website.

What is the point of putting up lists of overnight roadworks and road closures if they're all wrong?

Journey to Stansted overnight frustrated at every turn. Two junctions on the M25 closed, including the M11 exit - not listed.

Slip road closure from M25 to M4 was listed so ok, on the way back I'll go via the M40 and A404. Get to the A404 - slip road closed - not listed. 30 mile detour.

Why does nothing in this ******* country work anymore? :rolleyes:

It is apparently all the fault of baby boomers…

In today's times and with so many discriminations being outed, isn't it wonderful that folk have found a new way to discriminate and then blame that group for everything based on...... (wait for it) ........ their date of birth. Straight out of a Monty Python sketch and yet there are people who are seriously blaming them for all their woes. Not sure if it's just me, but I find it genuinely worrying. Global pendemics look like a breeze in comparison.

Entertainment during the journey was, however, laid on by the people that operate the matrix signs with little gems like "20 40 70 40" above the 4 lanes, "slow down - accident" on the M25 in Hertfordshire when it's 3.30am and I'm literally the only person on the road and my personal favourite "Fog Fog Fog Fog".

I expect it helps the night shift to pass the time. :wallbash:

From afar, I would add in the train works. Maybe 15 years back, there seemed to be a tacit agreement that a lot of the rail system would be closed on weekends for essential mantenance work. And on the BBS, and in my Palace wassup group, I hear the dreaded words 'bus replacement service'.

Yes, we get the idea of an aged/ageing infrastructure. But it is scheduled for things like Cup Semi Final weekend.

What I don't get is that on here people not only seem to accept the inconvenience, but also actively argue in favour of it.

To make matters worse people are paying, or at least getting quoted, extraordinary amounts of money to travel on an increasingly worsening service - running into hundred of pounds. I can quote several recent examples. I have a student travelling to the UK for some IoD training. She wanted to visit Edinburgh from London. The return fare best deal was over 300 quid. Little Al recently looked to visit his family from Aberdeen and the return train was 600 quid, instead he booked a weeks holiday in the med - flight and accommodation for less money. And a Palace fan just looked into travelling from Harrogate to Oxford, albeit with 4 changes, and was quoted 147 quid for a single ticket.

Maz jokingly said on the other thread about me (us/everyone) thinking things were always better in the past. Yep, we can all look at 3 day weeks, power cuts and the Winter of Discontent, and swap knowing glances with each other. But, COME ON, 12 notes for a pack of fags, 28 quid for a couple of poncy G&Ts, utility bills where just the proposed increase is equalñ to your spending money budget for the month, transport costs that absoulety negate the benefit of a 30 quid cap for away fans tickets, a 5 quid charge just to drop off and pick someone up from the airport, ane even a 50 quid surcharge if you want to make your season ticket transferrable to friends and family.

WTF has gone wrong here.

£12? It’s usually more like £14 or £15 and and at Heathrow it is twenty for a packet of cigarettes from the WH Smiths before security.

Under €6 in Rome.

just download waze on your phone, much easier than moaning on here

I think you've missed the point. Where do you think "waze" gets its info from?

A lot of it comes from other wazers but I get your point with the overnight info that can be pretty annoying along with the overnight closures

Newspapers that show a time-lapse photo of star trails to accompany an article about a meteor shower.

Nice, this is what this thread should be about :p

Exactly, we don't tolerate illusions of stardom on here :p

What an important question.

Back in the 70s there were fears that if unemployment hit 3 million there would be serious civil disturbances. Well - it did and there no riots.

30 months ago Messrs Whiity and Vallance explained that they delayed lockdown because they judged that the country would only have taken 3 weeks - and so they couldn't launch it too early. Well - we took a lot more than 3 weeks and I think that a majority would have accepted even more - if that was the order.

The country seems to have become very - supine. Is that overstating it? We seem to just do as we're told and accept everything because we believe there is no other option.

I think it was Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail (I know - I'm sorry) who wrote a jokey article about how he'd be able to boss everyone about and tell them what to do, and all that he needed to get this power was to wear a hi-vis jacket.

We are seeing an erosion of civil liberties, an encroaching Big Brother state, the transfer of more wealth to the richest, the wrecking of the economy, the evolution of a political class who are liars, millions of people who in this advanced hi-tech society earn just about enough to pay their bills - and yet the thing that agitates the public more than anything else was Johnson having a slice of Birthday cake.

WTF has gone wrong here ?

People who insist a cauliflower steak is nicer than a real one.

Text feedback surveys.

All I did was notify a new address and get a torrent of feedback surveys asking 'how did we do ?' and if I'd recommend XXXXXX based on my interaction today

NOOOO FRO

Expats.

Things were better before they left so I can only conclude they're the problem.

People leaving their shitty little yappy dogs barking outside endlessly on a nice summer evening.

Twat

With you on that one.
Trying to relax after work with yapping dogs all night.

Agreed

Just ordered the wife an ice towel on Amazon and subscribed to bloody Prime AGAIN.

Don't start me on this one. Absolute arse holes. I nearly took legal action against an old neighbour . I a.m and they start yapping followed by me bellowing shut up. I mean don't these ***** hear this ******* annoying yapping, most are'nt proper dogs anyway. More like hairy rats.:veryangry

Dammit, I had to look up what an ice towel was and now I've bought a couple. I hope the bloody things work!

I feel sorry for the dogs. They're presumably meant to be part of the family.

That’s how I boobed and subscribed to Prime, trying to get it delivered today. Unfortunately the towel doesn’t arrive until Tuesday when it’s cooled off. :(:(

Try a wet tea towel for now.

The Reading/Leeds festival organisers thinking The 1975 would be a good replacement for Rage Against the Machine...

LOL.

The 1975 Reading Festival lineup would have done nicely

Oh yes.


Dr. Feelgood
Hawkwind
Judas Priest
Kokomo
UFO
Wally



Alan Stivell
Babe Ruth
Heavy Metal Kids
Kursaal Flyers
Snafu
Supertramp
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Thin Lizzy
Yes
Zzebra



Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias
Caravan
Climax Blues Band
Jack the Lad
Joan Armatrading
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Robin Trower
Soft Machine
String Driven Thing
Wishbone Ash

When BT business send you a letter and at the bottom without any irony whatsoever it says;

Our Contact Details

noreply@BT.com

I was there!

Heavy Metal Kids :lux::love:

Marvellous "fayre".

I just spent 1.5 hours on a chat with a Microsoft "Expert" about an Outlook question (that's all it was - a question).

Finally told him to do one... it wasn't that important. I think I knew more about the problem/fix than he did.

Amazingly enough I think he was a Caucasian and in the US!

I had to look this up and I'm still none the wiser:

I know... spelling corrected.

"99 with a Flake, please"
😠

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