ramsbottom

I currently own a battered old MKIV Golf V5.  Counting the days that I can get rid of it cus it's lumpen, slow (surprising, considering it's 230bhp), thirsty as hell and is covered in dents, prangs & scratches.

Considering either an A3, 1 Series, or Leon Cupra as a replacement.  Anybody enlighten me on any of those??

On 05/05/2019 at 09:17, David said:

Why I like Mourinho and Klopp, one press conference can put a week of Eastenders episodes to shame for entertainment value

Watching my dog take a poo is more entertaining than a week of Eastenders episodes...

As for Colin, he's still a ??

4 minutes ago, Smyth_18 said:

He would have settled in a new country with new team mates immediately?

Sudden adjustment to the premier league?

1 player can keep a poor team up?

You also vaguely say 'If Sala was alive'. If he was somehow alive after the crash, i'm sure he would have had some injuries and psychological issues from being involved in the plane crash. He probably wouldn't have played this season at all.

 

tbh? you're not being honest at all are you?

He means he signed him on Football manager and he scored for fun...

3 hours ago, TigerTedd said:

To be fair, getting rid of the home button and introducing ‘the notch’ in the X is quite a big design change. I have thought this though, from a design point of view eventually all phones will just be one big touch screen, so there won’t be much you can do to make them stand out from a design point of view. 

Also, it’s funny how things cycle round and so quickly. Remember less than 20 years ago that Nokia were the absolutely undisputed champions of the world. Didn’t seem like they’d ever go away. But now where are they? So you may be right. Eventually Apple’s light may start to fade. Gone are the days of Woolworths or whatever being a power house for 100 years, especially in the tech industries.

Over my dead body before I switch to Android though. 

The only thing bothering me about Apple at the moment, and what will make me think twice about upgrading is the absence of a home button.  Huawei, OnePlus and a couple of other manufacturers have managed to embed a fingerprint scanner into the screen so I can't see why Apple can't as well.  I don't want to have a phone where I have to pick it up and look like I'm taking a selfie every time I want to unlock it...

Saw a trailer for Cleaning Up with Sheridan Smith the other day, looks pretty good.  Starts next Wednesday.

I'll also be watching True Detective season 3 on Sky Atlantic, and the new adaptation of War of The Worlds on the BBC1 when they start in the next few weeks.

1 hour ago, loweman2 said:

How did Puma get things so right???

33 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

That was a weird one. 6/10 for me, for some interesting ideas & OK effects but I felt it sort of petered out towards the end, like they ran out of confidence/ideas & didn't really know what to do with it.

That's why it only got a 7.  I thought it was well staged, and suspenseful, but scenes in the lighthouse were a little too ambiguous.  The last little twist, despite being fairly obvious, redeemed it slightly

Good Time - 6/10

Annihilation - 7/10

Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle - 7/10

You were Never Really There - 4/10

Ready Player One - 9/10

The Villainess - 8/10

Justice League - 2/10 (and that's poorly for Gal Gadot)

Avengers : Infinity War - 9.5/10

The Post - 8/10

The Greatest Showman - 7/10

The Shape of Water - 7/10

26 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

I don't disagree but on the one occasion I did that - move my car, freeing up the pump for someone waiting, when I knew I'd be a few minutes in the shop - I got bollocked by the person behind the counter for "driving off" without paying even though I parked up about 10 metres away and still on the forecourt.

Presumably nobody could use the pump until my transaction has been completed anyway? I don't know.

Just think it's a stupid idea having that kinda of thing in a petrol station.  Sure, sweets, crisps, fair fresheners, and anti-freeze are all acceptable stuff to have on your shelves.  But tempting people with a Two Dine for £9.99 offer and hiding the bags of Percey Piglets where they're hard to find isn't conducive to keeping queues moving...

16 hours ago, Coconut said:

Customers at the Micklover petrol station/M&S who've stood in the queue, been served, but when it comes to leaving the store turn straight back around and try to walk back through the people still queuing.

How hard can it possible be to queue up on one side of the shop, get served and then walk down the other side to exit!?

"Sorry, sorry, excuse me, sorry"  Save your breath and use your brain!

 

 

Not as bad as the old dears who have all the time in the day to waste, so spend 20 minutes grabbing a full shop before paying for their petrol, moving their Merc (it is Mickleover...) which is far too big/powerful for them to drive, the f00k out of the way!!!

3 minutes ago, G-Ram said:

Reckon it will be about 10:30ish

??

What times the fight scheduled to start??

5 hours ago, WharfedaleRam said:

People who build 6 a side pitches on top of hills!

People who arrange 6 a side matches at 9pm in February!

People who moan about playing sport in freezing temperatures!?

Luckily, they saw sense and called it off!!!

The fact I've got to play 6-a-side tonight, outside, on top of a hill in Oakwood, at 9pm, when it's -6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 hours ago, David said:

Don't see how that's still possible. Can't just be my feed that is full of tag a mate that....and shared posts of food, animal abuse, competitions or memories that only that person really gives a **** about 5 years later.

Not to mention all the smiley, happy photos that people load up to make it look like they have such a perfect life.  "Look at us, we're on holiday, we're such a loving family", yeah try thinking that when you find out you're both cheating on each other!!!  #fakebook

On 2/8/2018 at 07:22, richinspain said:

In the end I changed the battery on my wife’s iPhone 5s (for a compatible one, not original). Seems to have done the trick. Yesterday she got home with 2% battery and it was still working. Now I need to find a way for her to leave the house with the battery fully charged instead of 15%. I think that will be harder to resolve 

Our Mrs' must be related.  She drives me round the bend moaning it's always dying on her, but she never puts the *****ng down long enough to fully charge it!!!  Walks from one room to another, puts it on charge for 2 minutes, then takes it back into the other room and carries on gorming at Facebook!!!

17 hours ago, Joe. said:

Ah cheers I'll have a look of hers is like that too

Go on eBay and get a replacement battery and tool kit for £10, then go and Youtube and watch how to fit it yourself.  Takes 15 mins.  I did it for my 6S just after Xmas, as it was getting painful, having to recharge it twice a day, one the new battery was in, it was as good as new.  Would've been happy to stick with it for a while longer but Carphone Warehouse gave me a great deal on an 8.

On 1/15/2018 at 17:26, richinspain said:

I’m thinking of buying an Apple TV and have seen in the local supermarket a 3rd generation that is half the price of the 4th generation. Can anyone tell me if paying the extra would give me much benefit? What I really want to use it for is watching the games on a full size tv, and also for the apps because my main tv isn’t a smart tv. What can the 4th generation do that the 3rd can’t?

When you say watching games, you mean the footy??

Wheelman - 7/10

Star Wars The Last Jedi - 9/10

It Come At Night - 7/10

Bridge of Spies - 7/10

Logan Lucky - 7/10

Elstree 1976 - 5/10

Kingsman: The Golden Circle - 6/10

Wind River - 8/10

Dunkirk - 9/10

The Vault - 5/10

The Foreigner - 7/10

Snow.  Or least our country's reaction to the stuff.  A couple of inches of the white stuff and the most hardened of people turn into a bunch of whiney, useless, common sense devoid ********.  On Sunday morning I steadily cruised down a clear (if damp) B road at 50, only to be greeted with a line of traffic, slowing me down to 25...  At the head of this stupidly cautious queue?  A Range Rover Sport.  With it's 4 wheel drive, automatic traction control & variable slip diff!!!  All that money and not a clue how to drive it properly!!!

Being chosen to represent Derby in the national Man vs Fat competition at St George's Park...

Mondays...

Despite not being blown away by the pre-release pics/videos, I had a play with the X in the EE shop on Saturday, and to be honest, I'm now pretty smitten.  Still won't use faceID though...

That fact I've lost 15lbs in 7 weeks...

On 10/22/2017 at 10:23, Paul71 said:

When your other half decides to do a 'spring clean' (in october) of the kitchen. It all looks great you think but then over the coming weeks you find that the cleaning excercise has largly been transferring items out of the cupboards into the rubbish bin as you go into them expecting to find items you know are in there but now have suddently vanished.

Trying to explain to her that things like spices dont suddenly become poison 35 minutes after they reach their best before date,

Or that utensil that has vanished that she tells you you never used anyway, for me to tell her how do you work that out, while it might not be everyday or every week its certainly every other week...

 

My Mrs doesn't go that far, she simply moves s**t from one cupboard to another.  And why can't stand it any longer and turf out a load of crap that she won't, I get it in the neck...