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Post by muffrat on Nov 28, 2022 16:21:02 GMT
Evening all
Wordle 527 4/6
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Chicken provencal for tea (with all the veg blended into the sauce so the kids don't kick off) with roasted new potatoes and some green veg
Fucked off that I haven't had the footy on in the background today after watching a ridiculous number of no score/low score draws. Fantasy football looking OK so far though
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 28, 2022 16:23:00 GMT
I don't know much about football. But there seems to be plenty on TV. No real football. There were 6 games on Saturday and yesterday, if you include FA cup games. I dd think about driving for two hours, sitting in the car for an hour then watching a game at home with the window open, Then drivng two hours home while sulking, but I thought the neighbours might not like the shouting. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 28, 2022 16:25:57 GMT
I went to a non league ground for an early round cup match on Saturday. Freezing cold 'stadium', a terrible match and the pies had been sold out before half time. That's proper football.
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 28, 2022 16:34:42 GMT
I went to a non league ground for an early round cup match on Saturday. Freezing cold 'stadium', a terrible match and the pies had been sold out before half time. That's proper football. Hill of Beath Hawthorn? Never heard of it before. There are some great names in non league football, especially in Scotland. |
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Post by muffrat on Nov 28, 2022 16:47:52 GMT
My mate Wheely Mo is a rabid Altrincham FC fan, I go with him every couple of months to watch a national league match. Wheelchair users get looked after there, they take pie orders in the wheelchair enclosure at the start of the match (but we've usually had a prairie dog from the Canadian charcoal pit pre-game) . The best pie I've ever had at a game was at Stockport County, they used to do Wright's 'pea supper' pies, a minced beef and onion pie with a layer of mushy peas under the crust. I could murder one of them now
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Post by muffrat on Nov 28, 2022 17:04:25 GMT
I was about to moralise about how 'There's no such thing as a cold football match, only a poor choice of gloves/hat/long johns' but then I remembered I've never been to a match in Scotland. I nearly froze my dick off on a half hour round trip to the bottle shop in Dundee once
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 28, 2022 17:20:28 GMT
There seems to be a tradition of naming football clubs after plants - Thistle, Hawthorn, Rose, Primrose etc.. I was at Formartine, which is a place rather than a plant (to the best of my knowledge). The highlights are online! What a time to be alive. youtu.be/fk09KKweHb8 |
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Post by Faceless on Nov 28, 2022 18:21:46 GMT
I have just got home, after spending the day getting thoroughly team-built. The highlight was right at the start, when each member of the team had to give an interesting fact about themselves
The first guy had represented Ghana at the under-17's World Cup
The next guy was chairman of a charity that raised money to pay for private security to fight boko haram*
The next person had recently won an award for charity work
"so, what's your interesting fact faceless?"
"well, I recently watched all the Rocky films back to back"
Clearly they were all well impressed. Their silence spoke volumes
*The terrorist group, not the 60's/70's prog rock band
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Post by lazybones on Nov 28, 2022 19:01:17 GMT
I was walking near London’s ‘Covent Garden’ the other day when I saw a restaurant claiming to be a mashed potato specialist. When I looked more closely at the menu I could see it was supposed to be a Scottish restaurant. To Scottish members of The ChatterboxDoes the language in this cartoon ring true? There’s something about it that doesn’t seem quite right to me…  |
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Post by lazybones on Nov 28, 2022 19:06:47 GMT
It’s a weird cartoon. I can’t help but think the chef is suggesting he might have a penis under his cloche. But it would have to have been dismembered for this to be the case. Horrific.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 28, 2022 19:07:27 GMT
Nevertheless, I will probably eat there one day.
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Post by muffrat on Nov 28, 2022 19:37:32 GMT
Having a brave crack at GOW ragnarok, I'm miles in now and new bits of the map keep opening up. Very enjoyable but my eyes keep sliding off the screen - had 0600 lessons to teach yesterday, today, and same tomorrow and Wednesday, I'm cream crackered
I think I'll retreat to bed and have another go at ep4 of SAS: rogue Peaky Soldiers, I've tried a few times but I keep falling asleep. I know that's how the nazis get you but I'm determined to do it for England
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Post by Tuffers on Nov 28, 2022 19:43:11 GMT
Faceless!
I'm struggling to think of what I would say to that if I was in your team wanker building session.
Either that I once completed Demon's Souls, or just lie and say I'm related to someone famous, maybe Keanu Reeves, and hope there are no follow up questions.
Those sort of things are the wurst. Invented by pricks in made up 'training' or HR roles to hide the fact they don't actually add anything. The same wastes of space who are keen for full time return to the office, because with no staff in its easy to see they do fuck all. See also middle managers (of which I was one once, shudder). Twats.
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Post by Tuffers on Nov 28, 2022 19:44:00 GMT
It’s a weird cartoon. I can’t help but think the chef is suggesting he might have a penis under his cloche. But it would have to have been dismembered for this to be the case. Horrific. I'm imagining a nice rare beef wellington. Boodiful. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Nov 28, 2022 19:52:19 GMT
I have just got home, after spending the day getting thoroughly team-built. The highlight was right at the start, when each member of the team had to give an interesting fact about themselves I usually tell them about the time I showed Tony Blair my third nipple.*
*This is a lie. I shook his hand but kept the extra nip hidden under an Oxford cotton shirt.
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Post by stxdpr on Nov 28, 2022 19:52:19 GMT
Psychology team building? Definitely go for the Stanford prison experiment.
Or maybe the third wave experiment from the American high school, I think Suela has been taking notes.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 28, 2022 19:55:40 GMT
I’ve only had this question in a team building exercise once. I said I saved a man’s life. I caught an elderly man when he was about to fall over and he told me I saved his life. I believe him.
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 28, 2022 20:10:56 GMT
I was about to moralise about how 'There's no such thing as a cold football match, only a poor choice of gloves/hat/long johns' but then I remembered I've never been to a match in Scotland. I nearly froze my dick off on a half hour round trip to the bottle shop in Dundee once The coldest I have ever been was at Fulham in December 1999. There was doubt that the game would go ahead as it was below zero. Fulham got the pitch just about unfrozen. I wandered out of Putney Bridge tube at 2pm. Straight in to the Eight Bells as there was a fresh wind blowing. We were on the old Putney Terrace which was uncovered. There was a wind blowing from Barnes straight over the river. There was a small huddle of Blues fans, like emperor penguins on the terrace. It got tighter and tighter during the game. Every few minutes the group would close in and from being safely in the centre you'd be on the edge and have to work back in. This was in the days we took 500 rather than 5,000 to Fulham By 3.30 the pitch was frozen. Fortunately the ref ignored this and the wind chill factor. So we played out a fantastic 0-0 draw to the sporadic chant of we are fucking freezing. It was the wind, more than the absolute temperature that made it so awful. Also two poor teams playing out a chanceless 0-0. Stockport in a snowstorm was tropical in comparison. Tho we won there. The following year we played Fulham away between Christmas and New Year. I travelled back to London early for it only for it to be frozen off. I had a disappointing lunch in Beaconsfield instead. But it was warm. |
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Post by whatalark on Nov 28, 2022 20:11:42 GMT
I made someone a cup of tea once and they said pretty much the same thing.
This fits with both Bones and Sheep. One size fits all
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 28, 2022 21:00:48 GMT
I've never actively saved someone's life, but I've refrained from killing loads of them, which is the same difference imho.
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Post by Destry on Nov 28, 2022 21:02:55 GMT
I have finally heard from Chumbles.
I can confirm he is alive. If you can call that living. Still, he is in the safe hands of the NHS
#PrayForChumbles.
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Post by MrTiddles on Nov 28, 2022 21:19:15 GMT
I have finally heard from Chumbles. I can confirm he is alive. If you can call that living. Still, he is in the safe hands of the NHS #PrayForChumbles. My sister took her final nursing exams last week.
#PrayForEveryone.
[EDIT] In Somerset.
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Post by Destry on Nov 28, 2022 21:31:26 GMT
He emailed me, in response to my Are you Okay? email of two weeks ago;
C: Nope, but Crank has updated I guess. Terrible 30h semi conscious, gradually dying. Got infections septic shock and slow slow route to recovery
Took 8 days to get into this account and still alive!
I sent him our best wishes
C: Thank you, that means a lot.
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Post by Destry on Nov 28, 2022 21:40:19 GMT
He didn't mention the kind card we* sent him.
The fucking cunt.
*you each owe me 2p, btw
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 28, 2022 22:00:30 GMT
He didn't mention the kind card we* sent him. The fucking cunt. *you each owe me 2p, btw Just post your bank details, address, mother's maiden name, first pet's name, and safeword and I'll transfer it ASAP. |
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