BaaLocks
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18 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
I've asked Muckerette to inflate my ballions on Friday night.
You might want to explain to her that's not why it's called a blow job
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3 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
Who invited Mel Morris into this chat?
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On 22/04/2024 at 14:48, TimRam said:
For me it's not the engines but the batteries. After a few years of use the life left is still an unknown and unclear how long would be left before expensive replacements are needed. It's that unknown which puts me off.
I've got a Chevrolet Volt - gives me about 35 miles of electric charge and then a petrol engine. Run it locally, largely, and ten years on two points to note:
- Currently tracking at about 96mpg, we use it for long trips but happily use only electric on most runs
- Ten years / 80k miles on I see very little fall off in the range or charging time. It might drop off to nothing one day soon but seen less to nothing worth writing home about to date
Definitely thinking about the BYD Atto for our next car, they get a bit beaten up for having a limited distributor network but if you live near one that becomes a moot point. I'm not too deflected by YouTube clickbait warriors, or about the reports that Tesla Cybertrucks are being withdrawn because the accelerator is sticking on many.
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19 hours ago, Jubbs said:
Watching Life on Mars at the minute, really enjoying it. Ashes to Ashes will be next.
Last episode, even the last five minutes, are excellent. Some series completely screw up the finale and leave you feeling you've been a bit cheated, Ashes To Ashes is one that didn't.
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29 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:
Cheers, was thinking of going to see it. Such a tragic waste of a brilliant talent.
Don't put yourself down my friend, it's just a couple of hours in the cinema - the world won't miss you.....
- Anag Ram and Steve How Hard?
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On 16/04/2024 at 15:43, Wolfie said:
When Mrs Wolfie had been living with me for a few months, we decided to have a couple of friends round and I did a big swiss cheese fondue. We had a lot of cheese late into the evening.
That night, I was woken at about 2am by her fully dressed and in the middle of packing her bags. She was semi-awake and convinced that she had to move out there & then. She couldn't give me any reason, just that she hed to do it. It took me about half an hour to talk her down and convince her to get back into bed.
That was 13 years ago and it remains the only time anything like this happened - and the only time we've ever had a fondue.
Try two Rohypnol in the drink next time
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6 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:
Am I the only person that thought Haney would win? 😂
I thought Haney was going to be one for the ages. He still might, one defeat isn't a career ender, but Garcia did something special imho.
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1 hour ago, maydrakin said:
This is another example of why my love for the game becomes a little more tarnished.
I’m proud of the fact that I have become an old-fashioned bitter football fan and I have no idea of what is happening in the first division, nor do I have any idea on who is still in Europe.
Your just getting old mate - Harry Maguire had played for England before I'd ever heard of him. Back in 1990 I was losing sleep over whether or not Andy Sinton was the twenty third pick in the squad. Happens to most of us I am afraid.
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15 hours ago, StaffsRam said:
Agree.
I get the fixture congestion line that's always trotted out with this kind of thing, but there are far better solutions than this. Why not increase the Premier League squad lists from 25 to say, 30, and make them actually play some of the vast amounts of talent that the Premier League clubs hoover up from the lower leagues?
As a point of reference, re fixtures - Man City played 61 games in total last year. Winning the treble. In 71-72 we won the league, and neither the FA Cup, or League Cup, and had no European impediments, and we played 60 games.
To the point on fixture congestion - didn't seem to impact the pre-season trip to the States did it? Not sure Borehamwood or Colchester got an invite.
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6 hours ago, cstand said:
Watching a lower league club win or draw against a team from a higher league is all part of the romance of the FA Cup.
Ah, the romance of the cup. So poignant until a ball is kicked and then - 99% of the time - it just becomes a game between two teams, one of which is clearly better than the other.
Anyone remember Milwall getting to the final? Portsmouth? Fulham? Nope - because we think that Wimbledon, Wigan and Sunderland are how it always is even though out of >50 finals in my lifetime only 2-3 have been anywhere near like this. Same logic goes for all the games in prior rounds - for every Hereford, Sutton or Maidstone there is an endless supply of 3-0 and 4-1 boreathons.
And the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist, Disneyland is just there to separate you from your money, Easter Bunny is just marketing and Valentines Day only benefits florists.
Thank you!
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Daytime telly ones that offer you chance to get cremated or write your will. But the absolute worst are the charity ones, "just £1000 a month could give Charlie the hamster the new wheel he needs for his cage". I don't challenge the cause, it's the sugary tug at my (all too absent) heart strings that I find just so hackneyed and repetitive. Someone, somewhere must be able to do a charity ad that isn't backed by violins?
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Watched the second half on Bolton TV - I have a friend who subscribes 😀 - tbh it was a bit like the Alamo at times, amazing how much pressure Bolton had but, besides the much shared chest in - didn't really create much in the way of chances. The commentator was getting a little bit tetchy with it all, diddums!
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1 hour ago, derbycol said:
I am also looking for a single adult ticket to the match against Carlisle. If anyone does have a spare ticket I would be extremely grateful. More than happy to pay for it. I just want to be part of the promotion party lol
We are a generous bunch us Ramkind, such generosity almost bought a tear to my eye.
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12 hours ago, Ellafella said:
We really need those flanges
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I guess the stats don't lie but he has been the single biggest disappointment for me since Warne has been here. I really hoped he would be the steel in our midfield and the creator of much in front of him. I've seen him be neither and while we can't deny he's scored a couple of handy goals besides that I've often gone whole games wondering (genuinely) if he's in the team.
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5 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:
I loved Ted Lasso. Not sure why folk keep singling it out to be slated. I think it was a comfy pair of slippers for folk when they needed it (lockdown / Covid / the aftermath) and it's harmless enough even if you don't take the the characters. An 8.8 IMDB score tells its own tale, even if it's not for everybody.
Agree with that, it had good closure and a 'rise - fall - rise again' story was always going to take three seasons. They did well to stop it when they did and most of the comments about it dropping in quality only really came about as soon as we knew it was ending.
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Well the last time we played Carlisle on the last day of the season we won the division (indeed League) title and they were relegated. Looks like they are keeping up their half of the bargain, might be a push for us to repeat.
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10 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:
We're almost at the same place and a bit disappointed at this stage.
Largely because the music isn't the kind of stuff I was listening to I was hugely into the Two Tone thing, but that was coming to an end by 1981.
Not at all given up because there's promise, but the whole Over the Rainbow segment was flat-out weird.
I think they've not done themselves any favours by setting the whole series up as being about Two Tone. It isn't really, it's about living in the early 1980s in Birmingham. Very little of the content actually relates to the band, unless this is some strange and weird set up. Once I stopped seeing it as a bit of a ska version of The Commitments it became a more interesting watch. Definitely not disappointed yet.
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2 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:
Anybody dived into This Town yet?
Two episodes in and it's starting to warm up gently. The lead characters accent is truly awful and it's easy to just let the whole thing become a nostalgia ride but there's a lot of plot in there to work through and I do hope it keeps developing.
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On 24/03/2024 at 17:40, Ilsonram12 said:
Sandy Ryan, one of our own last night destroyed Terri Harper that Harper gave up, brilliant showing and a ram on her shorts too 👊
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On 15/03/2024 at 07:45, admira said:
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Place of birth: West Cornforth
Signed for Derby: 1994
First club: Aston Villa
Last club: Burnley
Position: MF
Full caps: 10
Fun fact: Made almost 700 appearances during his career
Sad to hear that Cowans is in the advanced stages of dementia. Lovely post here from, of all people, Stan Collymore on the influence he had as a player and coach. I remember when he came to us I just had this feeling of 'he's a bit good for us' and his skill and awareness toally raised the team. Loved watching how he thought his way around a football pitch.
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45 minutes ago, Crewton said:
Noted. I only mentioned France because whenever trouble occurs in a remote part of the former British Empire, you'll read and hear commentators talk about "Britain's colonial responsibilities", which is fine, but which can equally be applied to other former colonial powers like France. They also support the governments in Africa in particular with French troops, but often remove that support when sentiment or politics at home demands it - this is partly why the Wagner Group, and now it's Kremlin backed replacement, have had a free-hand to cause mayhem in a number of volatile regions of Africa in recent years. (link included for context https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68322230 )
Your final point is of course correct, but has the government of Haiti asked for help from Britain like the ones you list have? Honest question because I don't know if the UK has been approached.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63181481
Problem today is that they don't even have a PM to make the request. Half a million firearms estimated to have been smuggled in though.
Retirement thread
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You should, if you didn't pay tax at source.
What is infuriating though, is that you get taxed on what you earn, taxed on what you save and taxed on what you spend.
And, for all of this, I genuinely struggle to see anything of equivalent value that I get for it (I pay for most services I receive, from bins to roads and opt out of many others - e.g. dental. I don't mind much of it going to others less able but I can't even see that these days). It is a complete and utter scam - any party that wants to sweep to a landslide victory at the next election just have to promise transparency on government spending and where your taxation goes and they'd have the HoC to themselves.