Bob The Badger

For all his faults, Rooney doesn't strike me as a quitter.

And that is what he'll look like to other clubs if he walks.

I was actually only half way through the 2nd not the 3rd episode.

I do like it.

It's one of those kind of programmes that it's enjoyable without necessarily having me rushing to sit down to watch it.

It's amusing without being hilarious.

Poignant without being tear-jerking.

And interesting (especially as I spent well over a decade selling the kind of machinery he was buying and know the industry well) without being jaw-dropping.

And I'd not be heartbroken if I missed an episode like I would be with something outrageously funny (to me any) like This Time with Alan Partridge.

I think my resistance is the insane score it gets on iMDB.

It's literally 3rd in an all-time list of TV series behind only Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

Newer popular series always get higher marks to begin with and I imagine all his rabid fans rushed to give it 10 out of 10 (not sure I have given anything 10/10 on IMDb other than Gomorrah and Chernobyl off the top of my head) and that will even out.

So yeh, I'd recommend it for sure, but I'd do so by saying 'yeh, it's pretty good, worth checking out'

And holy ducking duckity duck, I couldn't believe the guy was still shy of his 60th birthday when they were filming this. I presumed he was in his late 60s.

3 hours ago, David said:

Then you have that Karen Maguire over on Twitter sticking his great big spoon into the mix as it gives him a hard on

I don't know if that's true, but I got one reading your post and they don't happen that often theses days.

Loooooove that it's Germany. 

Until we lose. 

The  I'll haaaaate that it was Germany. 

I was going to go into the Watchable Telly thread to comment on this.

I like Clarkson as a presenter, and because of him I thought this was quite good (although tbf I am only half way through the 3rd episode), but I'd not go any further.

However, I'd wager that pretty much everything about it is heavily scripted and thought through this side of the weather.

He's way too smart not to have done that.

Although he wasn't smart enough to realise saying sheeps over and over wasn't especially funny

I'm about half way through this book.

I strongly advise everybody on this board to avoid it like the plague, or Covid for that matter.

Otherwise, it will get very boring around here very quickly.

It is an excellent book, but not for the close-minded.

On 21/06/2021 at 13:47, Rample said:

Yeah, because that's the way to combat 'free' streaming.

Raise the price enough so that even if the numbers drop the income increases. Football continues to price out the average fan.

Exactly!

That would have been like the music industry doubling the cost of CD's to combat Napster.

Halve the price, get twice as many people signed up and make fans for life.

About 30, maybe 40 years ago Glamorgan CC had a membership problem, so they halved their season ticket prices and tripled their numbers.

1 minute ago, TigerTedd said:

Typical, I missed the first half, just had it on a phone in the background. So I missed all the best bits. 

Best bit would be more accurate.

Trust me, it wasn't like you missed the first half against Benfica.

Neither of our full backs impress me. 

Honestly not sure if either are impressed by me. 

What is this running at men thing by Saka? Looks like witchcraft to me. 

1 hour ago, BaaLocks said:

Maybe not the loudest thing I have ever heard 

Phew, thank god the OP wasn't asking for the loudest thing you've ever heard.

The missus once banged the car door very hard whilst in a strop.

It was the second loudest thing I heard that day.

Can't remember the first tbh.

It'll probably come to me though.

9 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

Something that’s more on topic and should lighten the mood.

There’s a Twitter account called GBNews fails and it’s brilliant. No agenda, no politics, just taking the piss out of all the duck ups that have happened in its early days. 

Here’s one such example:

 

Shaun's looking well. 

Or rather he would be if he was 84

On 04/06/2021 at 11:29, Wolfie said:

At petrol stations, when the cost of fuel on the vertical board is vastly different to what you actually pay at the pump.

I don't know if this is becoming a thing but I've not noticed it before & had 2 occasions in the last month:

TOTAL garage alongside the AI: £1.22 advertised. Pump price: £1.47 - saw it and drove away

BP Garage near my home last night: £1.31 advertised. Pump price £1.45 - needed some fuel, so just put £20 in and will fill up elsewhere at the weekend.

Isn't this Trades Descriptions or misleading advertising or something?

if you can prove the board is an offer to sell then you have. case for a legal suite.

I'd advise not wasting your time suing your local garage, instead take on BP and wrap them up in legal tape for years to come.

7 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

It's very difficult to compare. 

That I agree with, 100%.

Of course, we do have more games than before, but I think the standard at the bottom is higher than in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

There are more teams that were once dreadful that who are now scrappy and well organised potential banana skins.

Not that they are good and not that they shouldn't be beaten, but the likelihood of losing to a smaller nation has (probably) never been higher.

So yeah, it was a throwaway comment and just a casual observation really. An interesting stat rather than an important one imho.

10 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:

And El Tel in 1990 was on the verge of not even taking Gascoigne. 

Come on people, Bobby was still manager in 90, it was El Tel for 96.

Pfft.

Anyway, it's interesting to see how high the win % of Southgate is compared to more revered managers.

Hint: It's higher than them all.

Not that I have a strong opinion of his managerial abilities tbf.

I cannot believe I made this for @TexasRam but ya know, I have time on my hands.

1 hour ago, TexasRam said:

All those Managers had a decent pedigree. 

That has literally nothing to do with my point.

In fact, it went so far over your head that I thought your name was David Marshall for a moment. 

Both teams looked average tbh, although Scotland looked slightly less average.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried, but history tells us again and again that tournaments are rarely won by teams starting off fast and blazing through a competition.

It also tells us that England usually do better when they have a one or two iffy performances early on.

As for Southgate not knowing his best team.

Well...

Neither did Robson in 1986 until it was forced upon him by Bryan dislocating his should for the 71st time that month.

And El Tel in 1990 was on the verge of not even taking Gascoigne. 

And there was this guy called Alf Ramsey who would never have played some other dude called Geoff Hurst if not for an injury to one of the best goal scorers of all time in Jimmy Greaves.

You may think it's all over, but it isn't, not now anyway. 

1 hour ago, ariotofmyown said:

All my news comes from the Guardian. The news may be biased, and the opinion pieces clearly are, but I still trust it to reports the facts.

I would like to also read The Times, Telegraph and FT too, but they are all behind paywalls. I would also trust those papers to report facts.

I wonder how much impact paywalls have on restricting people seeing a cross section of media.

The Guardian is my first port of call, but I also read the BBC and CNN.

The BBC is the most unbiased and CNN the one I trust the least.

I doubt there are many people slamming the MSM who would be reading the types of outlets you refer to tbh.

Just a hunch, but I'd be surprised it if moved the gauge that much. 

17 hours ago, maxjam said:

I'd disagree with that tbh.

A lot of people are fed up with the BBC and Sky is subscription tv.  GB News could hoover up a lot of views simply being an alternative.

I'm not sure how many people 'a lot' is.

For most people that term usually means of a lot of people they know and it really is a tiny proportion.

In fact, it's often not even most people they know, just the most vocal people they know, or the ones who have a strong opinion.

Most people aren't vocal and don't have a strong opinion on the news.

I would imagine it will be relatively easy for them to grab disillusioned people now, but keeping them will be another matter.

Most people really don't want balanced reporting, if they did AP and Reuters would be the most popular websites.

People want reporting that agrees with the opinion they already hold.

Only, very few people are self-aware and/or honest enough to admit/know that.

On 13/06/2021 at 23:33, maxjam said:

Nope, I watched the opening monologue from Andrew Neil and tbh think they will attract the average guy in the street that feels they can't say what they want to say anymore because literally everything offends someone and the disillusioned 'red wall' labour voter that just wants someone to listen to them and not be subject to globalist/London centric wokery that is a million miles from their daily life.

It'll be either far(ish) right like Fox News or it will fail. There's no money to be made in the middle.

11 hours ago, Eddie said:

Currently watching "Between" - a cross between Stephen King's "Under The Dome" and William Golding's "Lord Of The Flies".

A village is quarantined because all the adults are dying.

Pretty crap really.

You should be a copywriter because until the last line I was buying what you were selling!

12 hours ago, maxjam said:

Bit of a weird thing to do imo, there must be 101 other ways they could pay tribute? 

For arguments sake, what if its during a period of end to end football?

 

Utterly ludicrous, send him some flowers and a box of milk tray.

And make everybody sign one of those huge get well soon cards so that (hopefully) he can look at it in 30 years and wonder who the guy in the bottom right hand corner is and why one person added kisses.

On 13/06/2021 at 22:55, Steve How Hard? said:

That wouldn't be fur. Are you sure they are being impurrtial?

I can say categorically we won't get creamed on this one me owed mate.

I do see problems with the new kit en maybe signings too.