JoetheRam

No such thing as bad publicity... 

...If publicity is what you seek.

2 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

£60 to £65 k seems a pretty good wage for sitting on your bum all day .. you don't even have to steer the train or anything. 

Don't have to steer a plane either but there's no calling pilots overpaid when in some cases they're responsible for less lives.

Anyway my money saving tip is:

Tinned sardines. Man they're so good and cost like 30p a can. Stick em on toast, rice, pasta...

Excellent poor man's lunch.

Not a chant but the crescendo of

"Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh... You're s*** aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh"

Whenever the oppo's goalkeeper runs up to take a goal kick seems to be a thing of seasons past.

Probably cos they all play the ball short now and wouldn't have the same effect as it did accompanying a big booming clearance downfield.

Completely stupid retro fun.

Don't know how anyone can wear a woolly hat.

Surely the itchiest garment known to man.

Stuck

Morgan Robinson and Dylan Moran are the couple "in a rut". 6 x 15 minute episodes.

Good enough.

From November 1st - March 31st (off at all other times regardless).

7am - 9pm 19c 

9pm - 7am 10c

41 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

With the exception of your last point, you could have made exactly the same points under the last administration. 

So? Should things never improve just because the other lot never improved them (fwiw I don't remember food banks in 2009 and don't remember it ever being so hard to get a GP appointment but maybe I'm wrong?).

It's like the argument of "well, energy prices and inflation are high in other countries too" as if that's a justification for them being high here. The Government, governs (hah) the UK and aren't responsible for inflation or energy prices in other countries.

It's all just excuses.

Aye things are great.

There's loads more food banks you can visit, you get to see a doctor in just three weeks, the police will definitely investigate that burglary that happened last year, must just be busy dealing with environmentalists before they get back to me. I don't know about your area but the roads are smooth as silk round here and it's great that we get to swim in seas and rivers that are only 5% raw sewage as well.

A tale of two cities indeed.

Makes no sense for Russia to blow up their own pipeline that they already turned off, when it is key leverage against EU nations to me. 

Added to the Biden quote...

Don't think you need to be a David Icke acolyte to think this one looks a bit dodgy.

US main suspects in my eyes but we'll probably never know.

Nah, it's a load of authoritarian balls, favoured by the Germans and Eastern European countries because they haven't managed to work out how to produce the spontaneous singing of UK crowds without being orchestrated by a "leader" with a megaphone.

Random gobby blokes at the back of the stand giving it both barrels is far more democratic.  It's about the only thing that is in this country now to be fair.

Batsmen should stop unfairly gaining an advantage by leaving their crease early to steal a run and then they can't be Mankaded. It's not hard to stay in the crease. In fact it's about the easiest part of batting. Even I can do it.

That said, I wouldn't Mankad someone as it's sneaky and cowardly (and I never mastered how to look two places at once) and don't like to see it done, but it's the penalty you risk for leaving your crease early and every player knows it and is completely legitimate. 

Don't hate the player, hate the game as they say.

Under the Trent End

Where nobody goes

I found a Forest fan

Without any clothes

A knife in his stomach

An axe in his head

On closer inspection

The b****** was dead.

Who says society was kinder back in the day?

1 hour ago, Stive Pesley said:

Also - is anyone able to explain to me why it is that when people demanded pay increases to meet the rising cost of living, the counter argument from the government was that it would fuel inflation to do so

Now these tax cuts are putting more money in our pockets - isn't that just as inflationary?

Give a millionaire £54k and it will head straight into an offshore bank account.

Give someone on minimum wage £280 and it will barely cover the cost of their rising fuel, food, petrol  bills

How does any of this grow the economy?

I have a very bad feeling about this

Thing is it's not even proportionately widening the wealth gap.

£1m is 40 times as much as £25k.

We can argue all day as to whether any single person is worth 40 times as much as another.

But even in a world where you want to maintain that same relative wealth gap at 40 times, if you're giving a £55k benefit to those on a million, those on £25k should get £1,375, instead it's £280 (if that twitter post is correct).

At least whoever gets your house when you can't pay your mortgage any longer won't have to pay stamp duty on it now.

People who think that "99's" were so named because they were 99p and who complain that they should now be called £1.75's or whatever.

Gonna be banter when Warne rejects our approach.

1 hour ago, cstand said:

4.1 billion people watched the funeral yesterday probably the biggest ever TV audience.

 

Over half the world's population, you sure?

Wasn't even watched by half of the people in this country.

I imagine it was a lot (given it was on every channel), but let's not get carried away.

My opinion...

Time to fix was 6/7/8 months ago (which I did at 1.89% for 5 years with Nationwide). Still time (to fix) but you're not getting as good a deal as you would have.

Banks in US offering 2.5% interest on instant access accounts to the public already, unheard of since 2008. Base rate likely to be 4-5% by next year for at least a couple of years and probably more like five to ten years. The historic interest lows have ended and will not be seen again for a while.

We will follow suit and raise our interest rates because we always do, just a little bit later. Wouldn't surprise me if they jump 1% by New Year.

Macaroon.

Everyone seems to say macaron now and I don't know why.

I reckon it probably started when the current French president took power and I hope it goes back when he's deposed.

5 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

Aarhus looks fun. 

https://www.visitaarhus.com/aarhus/see-and-do/christmas-aarhus

In the middle of our street?

To have free speech first requires free thought. Is it even possible to have such a thing when as human beings we are so influenced by the people, culture, language, science, politics and religion that surrounds us?

Or do we all just parrot whatever we osmose from our individual existances to sound funny, intelligent or to just fit in with other members of the tribe?

Having your travel plans disrupted because noise from your aeroplane has been deemed offensive.

Ultra-republican myself but she's had quite the innings. Certainly a big moment in British history when she does go.

Let her die with dignity rather than the round the clock Nicholas Witchelling we're going to be subjected to.

1 hour ago, ilkleyram said:

Or alternatively, polite fellow motorists who understand that sometimes it is very hard to exit or enter junctions onto/from busy main roads and who therefore signal that they are offering help, and a degree of protection, from other motorists too impatient to allow others to enter the highway.

It may be against the HC to 'flash' your lights to others in a positive manner but, equally, if you don't do that other drivers are often uncertain if you are offering a gap or not.  Try not signalling when cars are filtering ahead of you into a single lane for example and watch how the uncertainty leads to hesitation and therefore danger.

I would agree that grinding to a sudden, unexpected halt in a flow of traffic to let someone out can be dangerous but shouldn't we all be helping each other out? Using a quick, positive headlight flash to signal intention/permission is no bad thing.

Would you do it on your driving test? No. 

Not sure why people feel the need to "help" other drivers out of junctions - we're capable of getting out of junctions by making our own decision on when there is a suitable gap.

It's people thinking they know better than the rules of the road.

Rather than random signals that mean different things to different people at different times, maybe we could help each other out by  following the rules that we were supposed to learn.

Plus it's an absolute classic crash for cash technique.