Wolfie

FGR do seem to want to innovate. Are they all still vegan?

Knees.

Although I have a sedentary desk job, I'm fairly active: Average 12k steps per day. Go to the gym 3 times a week and 10 mile bike rides in between, if the weather is fine.

I've always had one dodgy knee that lets me walk/cycle/crosstrain with no problem, but frequently and painfully gives way on me if I'm just shifting weight from one leg to the other (while cooking/washing up etc).

On a bike ride yesterday and my other knee started being painful when I was trying to put some power into that leg. It's not what I imagine an arthritis ache pain to be. More like my knee telling me "do that once more and I'm going to fall to bits". Painfully unstable is the best way I can describe it. I got home OK but had to make sure to use my other leg more for power.

Using it normally at home and it was fine again.

Ideas?

16 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

Just how flipping vast Russia really is (including Siberia and all that)

..and as such, I guess, just how much landmass on Earth is virtually uninhabited or uninhabitable.

Indeed. Canada is a vast country but 90% of its population lives within 150 miles of the USA border

23 minutes ago, Blondest Goat said:

The signings we've made have been decent but losing Didzy means there is barely any goals in the squad based on the way we finished last season.  Will feel much happier once this has been addressed.  

Dream Topping? Is that still a thing?

1 hour ago, Kokosnuss said:

...until you remember that 3 of them were over 2 games against Torquay, the team then rock bottom of the National League who ended up being relegated to the 6th tier.

He only scored in 3 of his 21 appearances, with his only league goals being a brace against Accrington (also relegated at the end of the season)

So one might even say that he's a flat track bully ?

10 hours ago, Highgate said:

 

And I agree that the West made mistakes in the years leading up to this war.  But nothing that forced Russia into an invasion in my opinion. For me, the vast majority of blame for the war lies with one man, and I think we all know who that man is. 

 

Richard Keogh.

30 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I'm also not really surprised the us navy heard the implosion on the "big secret listening for russian subs network" but didn't tell anyone despite knowing all along.

I doubt they did know all along. They'll have heard a noise but that nobody could be sure exactly what it was.

Would you call off a search for possiblly alive people on the strength of a noise that someone heard?. It's likely that it's only after the event that they've gone back and checked the sounds they picked up.

I used to work with BAE Systems, making the Astute class attack subs and they always used to say that from just off the UK coast, they could hear boats leaving New York harbour. Imagine how many noises these listening sites hear constantly.

Could have done without James Cameron going all "told you so" on 5Live this morning. Nob.

11 hours ago, ariotofmyown said:

BBC news now has a Titanic expert on! 3 brits have died which is really sad.

My nephew knew 3 people who died in a car crash in Oxfordshire the other day, plus driver is critical. Reports I read talked about how there have been loads of accidents at the same place as a blind corner with loads of trees.

I think the Oxford Mail covered it.

I did see that story on the BBC website but I think you had to go into the UK tab to get it.

Sadly, fatal road crashes are too frequent to really be considered newsworthy.

24 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

I was following a similar thought process and I was reminded of the Chilean miners - they were poor and there were a lot of them, but the media covered that story in the same way they are covering the Sub. 

Timing-wise though it's certainly awkward that it's happening at the same time migrants are dying in boats with very little media sympathy

 

I don't think it's necessarily that. I think it's just that the news agenda moves on from day to day. A story has to evolve, to stay in the spotlight.

The migrant tragedy off Greece was front and centre for a day or two but then after that (until there are results of any investigations) the people are still dead in the boat that's still at the bottom of the Med. As sad and awful as it is, it's no longer "news".

24 minutes ago, Alpha said:

Yeah but these are millionaires like us. Not some foreign riff raff. 

 

Strange comment.

If this is in reply to me, then my point is that this coverage is similar to the "foreign riff raff" trapped in the cave.

Were people complaining about the wall-to-wall coverage of that story?. I don't remember them doing so. If not, then it appears that the complaints this time are only because the people involved are rich - which is a weird wealth envy point to be making IMO.

At the end of the day it's a "boy down the well" story that'll stay in the news as long as there's something newsworthy to call "breaking news"

2 minutes ago, Dimmu said:

It really is disturbing and it shows who we, or the media, care about.

I think that's an over-simplification.

The titanic sub is huge news because it's a live story about a possible rescue of people who may still be alive. If we'd have been told on day one that the sub was lost and they'd died, then the story would have been & gone long ago.

As it is, it's no different to the one years ago about the children stuck in the Thai cave, which was also all over the news for the same reasons.

On 15/06/2023 at 01:06, Eddie said:

"Living" starring Bill Nighy.

One of those 'inspired by abc which was itself inspired by xyz" films. It almost has an air of Ealing Cinema about it, yet it was only released last year.

A bureaucrat learns that he is suffering from a terminal illness, and basically... well, no spoilers from me other than to say that I feel that the film has had quite an effect on me emotionally - or there's quite a bit of dust in here.

 

 

I was wondering about this one for a while and decided to watch it at the weekend on your recommendation.

Really enjoyed it. Maybe this is just me but it had a feel of "it's a wonderful life" about it. Not a bad thing IMO and the deliberately old fashioned feel of it obviously fed into that. I must admit the final couple of scenes almost had me blubbing.

Bill Nighy is a pleasure to watch, as ever, with his amazing repertoire of physical expressions often doing much of the acting heavy lifting.

8/10

7 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

We get to see in real time how this plays out because we know the club have watched and evaluated him - to in the end sounds like we deemed him not good enough so let’s see if that’s the case. 

Do we?. Was he ever even on the radar for us?.

8 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Jaws: The Revenge (on itv4 last night)

Very bad.

Too many survivors.

Shark died at the end.

1 star.

Hence Michael Caine’s famous quote…

“I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible.However, I have seen the house that it built and it’s terrific”

I often wonder if Ovis Aries is still around. His film thread is still going strong after 8 years. Some kind of record in itself, surely.

I wanted to watch that but had to turn it off after 10 minutes.

Too many memories of what it did to my father in law a few years ago. In hindsight, he was "lucky" because we were told he might have 2-3 years to live but then this horrible condition robbed him of his ability to walk, move, speak and then finally breathe within 3 months from diagnosis. The family couldn't make adaptations to the house fast enough for them to be of any use.

This must have done some real good in terms of awareness and fund raising for research, though.

6 hours ago, David said:

For anyone that is dead set against all adverts, we do offer a basic ad free package for £3pm which can be found in Subscriptions on the main menu, which if you are a regular user, I do not think 10p a day is completely unreasonable?

 

Well I for one am grateful that I wasn't bombarded with adverts the moment that I stopped my subscription a few months ago during a period of financial stress & anxiety.

Thanks for the reminder to start a new one

Finished season 3 of Guilt last night (iPlayer)

The final series and it's been my favourite I think. A great cast and a plot full of twists, back stabbing and double crosses.

On 24/05/2023 at 00:53, Bris Vegas said:

 

Sheffield, Peak District !!!!.

Not having that 🤬

BBC News was pathetic last night. Trailing the interview as one of the top stories and repeatedly saying that it would be "available to watch across all platforms from 6am".

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

Dragged along on Sunday by a friend who desperately wanted to see this. I haven't seen a Marvel film since Avengers Endgame and this just underlined for me how bored I am with it all.

All the backstory about how Rocket came to be was quite dark & poignant (a good thing) but I thought the story was quite weak and, like most Marvel films, it's a good 20-30 mins too long.

Film: 5/10

Venue: 10/10. We went to The Kinema in the Woods, while camping at Woodhall Spa for the weekend. Lovely historic cinema tucked away in the trees. Proper intermission and everything.

The best way of losing our record is a re-brand of the top division - which we all know didn't exist before the Premier League was formed.

So sad. 
What’s love got to do with it was an anthem of my childhood.