Wolfie

17 minutes ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Also there are some herbal supplements you can take for lifting mood. St Johns Wort is excellent so i'm told but not if you are on any other medication though. It interacts with some anti depressants and other similar types of medications but if you aren't taking owt then should be fine.

Wow I was literally now going to ask if anyone had experience of the effectiveness of St John's Wort.

I am certainly not claiming to be depressed but over the last few weeks I have been experiencing occasional days of low mood. Sometimes I don't realise it until the next day when I wake up fine and other times I know I'm being a miserable bar steward but can't seem to do anything about it. Then I get angry with myself for not being able to snap out of it. I haven't experienced it before - it's like it feels like I'm under a blanket or something & I'm trying and failing to lift it off me.

Mrs Wolfie has suggested taking SJW but I have no experience of it. I was once on anti-anxiety medication 10 years or so ago but don't really like popping pills. I weaned myself off that medication as soon as I felt I was able to and am wary of taking anything I might become dependent on.

I'd be grateful for any feedback on SJW or other herbal stuff.

7 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

you're more likely to buy an inbred "breed" than an inbred mongrel rescue dog and similarly, more likely to find genetic brain issues in a 'breed'.

Not from where I'm likely to get mine from. I know the breeders and what their procedures are.

6 minutes ago, Anon said:

You won't find a pedigrees in a shelter, so it is unlikely the dogs there will be inbred. I understand about shedding for people with allergies, but otherwise I'd like to highlight a brilliant invention that has just been released.

It's pretty high tech so it might cost a bit.

OK, so now you've got a brush covered in fur and you've just released a load of allergens into the air whilst using it.

1 hour ago, Ewe Ram said:

Designer dogs. Cockerpoo, Labradoodle type things. I'm the kind of person that can't understand people travelling the width of the country to spend £800 on a pooch when there's so many in rescue centres. Dogs aren't ornaments and I'm sure they were once called mongrels. 

The point of the Poodle crosses, though is that they don't shed their fur as much (and when they do, it's hypoallergenic) and have a great temperament.

If I was buying a dog (which I hope to at some point), I would probably opt for one of these as opposed to choosing one from a shelter who's probably inbred and mis-treated and could flip at any point and rip my daughter's throat out.

Men's voices on satnavs. It just seems so much more natural to be constantly told what to do by a woman.

58 minutes ago, WhiteHorseRam said:

I see what you're saying there @Phoenix , but I think it would be better if you go for the low hanging fruit ... how about if you run these ideas up the flag pole and see who salutes?

Maybe we should take your ideas 'offline' and discuss them after the meeting? maybe I could diarise a meet-up.

And remember, there is no 'I' in T.E.A.M. (together everyone achieves more), so lets keep it real.

Oh, hold on, my Outlook calendar has just reminded me its time for my morning plop .....

We appear to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Definite synergy there.

Pacific Rim.

I avoided this up to now, despite being a big fan of Guillermo Del Toro's films. Seeing as it's about massive robots punching massive monsters, It just looked like it was going to be another dire Michael Bay effort. Finally got round to catching it last week, while the Mrs was out.

I liked it. 7/10

Yes, it's stupid, loud & everything turned up to 11 but at least it was fun at the same time. Michael Bay stuff is not.

4 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Autobiographies by complete nobodies. Joey Barton has one out. Quite why anyone would be the slightest bit interested in his self absorbed life story is beyond me.

IMO anyone well respected and humble enough to not tell their life story for money will remain so.

I will one day write my own life story but just for the benefit of my family. I have no urge for anyone else to know and quite frankly i'd be perturbed if they'd want to know. I would do the same if I was in the public eye.

Added to that autobiographies that are written on behalf of someone such as a ghost writer. These stories automatically lose their credibility as the editor / writer can advise the 'star' about what is good to put it, what is not, what can be embellished and so on and so forth. Anyone who wants an autobiography of themselves should write it themselves with no outside interference and everything that the person truly wants to reveal will be revealed.

Lastly, autobiographies of 'stars' that have just been born. Ok so not quite that but people who have been in the limelight for 5 minutes and haven't yet reached puberty and they get one whipped out for Christmas. Dear God. Worse than these are those who fund this self obsessed hobby of the rich and not so famous by buying such cretinous books.

and on that bombshell.....................................

I do agree (and I have never read an autobiography) but surely the problem is the stupid people who buy the trashy ones you refer to. No buyers = no market. They'd soon stop if some people just got a life. 

5 hours ago, StivePesley said:

Talking of hotels - that weird strip of useless material that they always insist on putting over the end of the bed, and you just have to take it off and chuck it on the floor.

 

I mean - it doesn't annoy me as such - I just don't understand it

Isn't that because people sit & drop bags on the end of the bed - and presumably then complain about dirty bedding?!.

On a related note: What is it with women and putting bloody cushions on the bed? Drives me insane at home. 

29 minutes ago, Ewe Ram said:

When you are listening to someone talk on the radio and you can hear that sloppy click clack of saliva as they talk 

I've noticed that listening to 5Live since I've had a car with DAB instead of crappy AM. You can pretty much hear their nose hair rustling now.

9 minutes ago, Anon said:

I find that, in the same way that toast always lands butter side down, I will always open a pack of tablets at the end where all the paperwork is.

Every ******* time!!

51 minutes ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

 "Oh it was like Mary went into the shop and like bought some haribo and like got her purse out and like defecated on the floor...."

Happens to me all the time. You should have seen the looks I got in Waitrose. One woman dropped her Daily Mail in shock.

When people say "revert back"

It's just revert. Adding the back means that you've reverted twice.

Me Before You

Film about a grumpy quadroplegic guy, befriended by a kooky new young carer and who both may or may not fall for each other.

I like romcoms. I do. 4 weddings, Love actually and the first Bridget Jones film are some of my favourite guilty pleasures. This one, though, is the chickiest chick flick you are ever going to see.

It's just crammed full of every English upper middle class and plucky working class steretype and cliche you could ever imagine, presumably for US audiences. Yes, even more so than 4 weddings. Everyone is impossibly good looking. He comes from a very rich family living next to a castle (as we English all do) and she comes from the cliche'd happy working class family - her sister being Jenna Coleman (Dr Who companion) who for some reason seems much posher than the rest of them. It's just a bit vomit inducing with bugger all chemistry between any of the characters. It looks like none of them met each other before the first day of filming.

What miniscule bit of realism there is in the film was, for me, ruined by having an able bodied and very physically fit actor playing the role. Would someone who hadn't moved their body below their neck for 2 years really have a 6-pack?. There must be good disabled actors (or real people) who could put in a decent stereotypical grumpy disabled person (Oh, I'm disabled therefore must be miserable) performance. Or maybe they did try and no self-respecting disabled actor wanted to be within a mile of this trash.

I can't believe I heard good reviews of this a few months ago when it hit the cinema & I hope the book was better than this vomit inducing tosh.

2/10, and that's only because I like Charles Dance - just not in this film.

1 hour ago, Wolfie20 said:

Sorry if this gripe has already been made. Driving along a dual carriageway and a truck in front pulled out to overtake another lorry then took between 2 and 3 miles to complete the manoeuvre. At that rate he was probably travelling at 1mph faster - idiots like that need ducking in the nearest pond (for a minimum of 10 minutes)

I regularly have this argument with my brother (a lorry driver). of course with me being a BMW driver, he was naturally full of sympathy for my plight.

I get it that lorries are limited to 56mph and so can't vary their speed much upwards but surely all it would take is for the lorry being overtaken to ease off 2mph or so, just for the time it takes to to let them past.

21 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

odd that isn't it?

This annoyed me, in similar vein; I organised a lads weekend, one of those Butlins 80s weekenders. Everyone paid their deposit, and I booked, then one lad pulled out saying he couldn't go cos it was his lad's birthday, and his lad still gives him grief for missing a birthday a couple of years ago to be with the boys in Blackpool. Fair-dos. I managed to get another lad to go in his place, went through the farce of changing the booking etc and giving him his deposit back. Then, 6 months later, this weekend, another lad pulled out due to a clash in arrangements, except he's already paid in full and is fully aware he's lost his full money. Guess what? Mr "I can't go, it's my lad's birthday" has piped up and volunteered to take the place of the lad who has paid in full.

Are you saying he didn't reimburse the other guy for the trip?. If so, that's appalling & I wouldn't have let him on the trip.

2 minutes ago, Paul71 said:

people who stand really close to me at the urinals when im trying to take a pee

 

Sorry, sometimes I just need a closer look

12 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

Tip off:

Hang around Skylark Close in a few days & my brother will be chucking one out.

32 minutes ago, Anon said:

Yorkshire (again). The regional news have been banging on all week about where Yorkshire finished in the Olympic medal table. Sorry guys, I didn't realise you'd seceded from the UK and were funding all your own athletes independently. You'd think they could just be happy about the UK's greatest ever Olympic performance, but no, it has to be all about Yorkshire as usual. 1487 called, you lost, get over yourselves.

I'm interested to know from people who live in other parts of the country if their regional news shows have compiled their areas medals separately.

Having seen local news from most regions, there's definitely something annoying and embarrasing about how Yorkshire presents itself.

What is it with the Yorkshire superiority complex?. Constantly banging on about "God's own county". It can't just have come from Geoff Boycott.

3 minutes ago, sage said:

#Putting hashtags in front of vaguely connected words. Just write a ******* sentence describing what you mean. 

#Grumpyoldmen

17 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

People who care a great deal about things that just aren't important. 

Are you referring to my whinge?

Mates who borrow money but don't pay it back.

A work colleague and good mate (?) owes me over £300 for the Amsterdam weekend that 6 of us had a few weeks back.

He's always going to pay me back but never actually does. I feel bad reminding him when I do, because he doesn't have my disposable income - I can afford to write it off but I surely shouldn't have to.

8 minutes ago, eddie said:

That's because it's so fat, it won't fit in this one.

It's glandular!

The Independent.

It used to be such a good paper (and I do still buy the i on the odd occasion I get a paper) but the Independent is just appalling now it's online only. I've read two stories this afternoon where there are basic factual errors.

Also just read a story about inflation "spiking" with warnings of more increases to follow. Hang on, the target is 2%, so why isn't an increase to 0.6% good news, especially after all the QE designed to do just that? - though how 0.5% to 0.6% counts as a "spike" anyway is anyone's guess.

It's sad really, what's happened to it.

"medal" and "podium" as verbs.

....like this one...