ketteringram

I always wonder how many of the fans outraged by Barker's comments - it's been bubbling on X since the game - are the same ones shouting you're f****** s***, get him off, etc etc all game to players who can hear every word? 
If you dish it out, then be prepared to take it.
And if you don't,  then neither Barker or Mendez-Laing were aiming anything at you, so why get het up about it? 

Ignore...
messed up, innit!  🙄

Team selection forum meltdown time is just minutes away

Just worked out that if you crop the league table just right, things don't look so bad.

Not had a poll for a while... 👀

You're not alone . In the picture, I thought it was for a toddler.

We'll all come to your place , and renew from there, because everyone else's seems to have gone up by 30 to 50%.
Put the kettle on. 😀

Couple of times a year, I go to visit a relative in Herefordshire, and as I drive through Eardisley , I pass this road.
 

Couple of times a year, I go to visit a relative in Herefordshire, and as I drive through Eardisley , I pass this road.
 

Couple of times a year, I go to visit a relative in Herefordshire, and as I drive through Eardisley , I pass this road.
 

Couple of times a year, I go to visit a relative in Herefordshire, and as I drive through Eardisley , I pass this road.
 

Couple of times a year, I go to visit a relative in Herefordshire, and as I drive through Eardisley , I pass this road.
 

Wouldn’t trust a badger if they got any bigger tbh

Wasp

We hadn’t been camping for well over 30 years before we decided to do a 6000 km trip down south a couple of years ago. Our setup would have cost $500-$600 max and we absolutely loved it. Over the next 9 months we upgraded to a Zempire air tent and then decided to buy a small van that is setup for total off grid camping. We now go off somewhere just about every month. I would definitely recommend trying it, you meet some great people on the road.
Our first cheap setup 

Zempire air tent
 
 
 

7 seater mpv (Had a Kia Sedona at the start, then a VW Sharan, currently a Ford Galaxy).  The comforts of a car, cargo space of a van (with 5 seats flattened of course... or completely removed, for the biggest payload of all, in the case of the Kia!).
Roof box (360L, from memory, so a pretty average size... not the biggest, but not the smallest.)
Bikes on the tow bar carrier.
Take as few valuables as possible... wallet, cards, cash, phones, i-pad, keys (and passports when applicable). 
Take what you need out with you for the day.  Everything else gets locked well out of sight in the car, behind lock, key, and alarm!  It's all you can do!
Store what decent camping gear you can in the car when you're out (Chairs/tables etc).
Pointless locking a tent... no matter how thick the canvas!  🤣
Yes, that can still leave decent (or semi-decent) gear accessible (even if out of sight) inside the tent... 2 x sleeping mats at c. £200 a pop at current prices, sleeping bags similarly priced.  Lanterns at £30-80 each... kettles/heaters etc are ten-a-penny in the grand scheme of things... but you just have to put some trust in your fellow campers/neighbours!  "We're all in the same boat" as it were, and it's a nice thought at least we "All keep an eye out for each other", however unrealistic that may be in reality!  

Many "Holiday park type camp sites" will have night time security patrols, but not the sort of smaller, more rural, independent sites we tend to use.
Add in anything from £1,800 to £3,800 for "the tent" (Ours is modular, and made to order, with various optional specs... with the base tent at that lower price, plus various awnings etc, adding up to that higher price, which we paid back in 2014, for the full set up.  *Other/lesser tents are available, of course!  Ha Ha!   

Touch wood, but not had a theft in the 11 years we've been camping... and we used to leave chairs, tables, and bottles of spirits outside, under a tarp for weather protection, but in full view/access, a few years back.
£5k worth of e-bikes (for the pair, not each!) are either placed back on the tow bar carrier overnight, or left parked just outside the tent... but always heavily secured with hefty chains and D Locks overnight... including bike alarms... plus keys and batteries removed and locked in the alarmed car) and remember they are just the other side of a sheet of canvas, not insulated brick walls, so any tampering would almost certainly be noisy enough to disturb our sleep!  (Fingers crossed!)  There's also a good chance such a disturbance would disturb neighbours, particularly fellow tenters, if not caravanners/Motorhomers, due to them having slightly more solid walls!
Sensible approach... trust... luck... we rely on a bit of everything, if truth be told!  👍
 
 
 

As someone who is clueless about camping, what happens on a trip like the one in October? After you've woken up, what happens next? Do you have to dismantle everything until you've gone somewhere else? Or is it all in the same place? Assuming you can't lock a tent, do you just leave it unattended all day? See, I've genuinely no idea how it works 😀
I've got to my 60s, and have never been inside a tent (other than a huge marquee type thing). I've never been in a caravan either. 
I should probably try it before knocking it. Well, I'm not knocking it as such. Just puzzled by it.
I can't imagine how much money I'd have to be getting paid to go camping, either on my own, or with anyone else, and especially my boss! 
 

@maxjam
You sound like my polar opposite 😀

@maxjam
You sound like my polar opposite 😀

It's certainly be a change of pace to The Sopranos and Top Boy 😀

@David
 
Great post, and makes a lot of sense. That's from somebody with a similar history, but also someone who has never understood tattoos. I'm 60s now, but I didn't understand them even when I was 20! I used to think, why would you want something on your arm, for example? It doesn't matter what it is. Date, name , art whatever. 
Surely it can't be there for you to sit and look at . That would be just weird. But it would be even more weird, for me anyway, if it was there because you wanted other people to look at your arm. Why would anyone want that? Then there's the stuff, that's not even visible to yourself, or anyone else for the vast majority of the time, on someone's back for example. 
So, have never understood what they're for. I don't like or dislike them, just don't understand the purpose, but yours is a great explanation, and the dog one is perfect. 

I was going to ask why you were going for block H, thinking it was right at the side. Then realised it's behind block C!  Either C or H would be fine. More leg room in the front row of H. Great view of  the effects etc from there too. Though bear in mind , it's the only place I've seen it from 😀