Mostyn6

1 hour ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

Well, it's coming up Christmas in a distressingly rapid amount of time. To go with the annual resupply of socks, pants and sugary sweets, has anyone got recommended scents to ask for or buy for someone else?

 

Any Mont Blanc or Azzaro. You cannot go wrong. 

1 hour ago, duncanjwitham said:

We’ve had a decade or so of near-catastrophic mis-management. The new owner has come in talking a good game, and then immediately set off making exactly the same mistakes as the last one. Frankly, I’m way past the point of giving anyone time to keep on making stupid mistakes. I just want someone at the club making decisions with just a tiny bit of common-sense and long-term planning.  I categorically do not want us to be the kind of club that Warne turned Rotherham into, so I have no interest in allowing him to go any further in changing us.

You’d have sacked Jim Smith in 94/95 before the promotion run! ?

When you open milk, and the little tab to peel the foil lid off has been decapitated by the twistoff cap. ??

17282/4962 = 3.5

I had the original strain back in Feb 2020. It was brutal, but I've swerved it since. I worked in an office where all 7 colleague went off positive last June, I was testing twice a day in that workplace and was negative every time. Then in November, I shared digs and two car journey (Minehead and back) with 2 blokes who both went down with it, I was fine. Same in the office in January, and again last week. 

I wonder if those that had the first variant are more resistant to it now.

might be worth you spamming this out to everyone's email account. I don't remember which of my dozens of email addresses I used! ?

56 minutes ago, David said:

Dark Fruits is still on his self imposed ban as he concentrates on work, so wouldn't be able to sort anything with members on the forum.

As far as I'm aware that won't be until the end of the year.

Craig, if you are reading, my email address is david @ the forum URL if you wish to supply contact details which I can privately send to both Sage and Rev, plus any other members that have yet to receive their book.

yeah, I'm talking about last October. I emailed Craig after saying I'd seen the message. It was 21st October 2021. Pretty sure the thread got deleted though after a couple of days, so maybe not everybody saw it.

I’m pretty sure he reached out, via Dark Fruits, to those who donated/ordered a book to get in touch if they still wanted a copy ??‍♂️ 
 

FWIW, I feel he’s tried to make things right and that’s a good thing. 

1 hour ago, Srg said:

Paul Connolly?

don't recall a player/defender ever turning his back on a ball as much. Lacked bravery in blocking the cross.

I received a copy of the book, and he wrote me a rather heartening note inside it. We clashed often over Nigel too.

time to invent noise-cancelling earplugs for dogs

fancy being a little bit less cryptic in whatever the hell you're going on about @Archied ? ?

1 hour ago, jameso said:

On a sidenote, Niall Quinn really went off the boil after scoring 10 in 6 didn't he?!

Don't have my crystal ball handy but I have a feeling Haaland may eclipse him on the second list...

EDIT: Or was it Micky Quinn? Actually that would make more sense!

On another side-note. If you want to treat yourself, go onto Youtube, and find the Talksport Clip where the Geordie fan talks about Mickey Quinn.

Here it is:- (listen with volume - prepare to laugh!)

@Unlucky Alf HERE!

People who see abandoned furniture and do not take photographs of said abandoned furniture for the amusement and entertainment of the forum. Worst kind of heathens them.

29 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

People throw away some good swag, Where I walk has become a dumping ground for the idle, Settees, Fridges, General household rubbish, Last week I brought home I perfectly good foldaway chair(the kind you use outside) a Sainsbury shopping bag(not the cheap plastic ones)and a mirror from a vanity unit.

No wonder she mooched off ? 

If you're passing abandoned furniture and not posting it on @uttoxram75 legendary thread, you need banning from this forum forever! ?

5 minutes ago, Archied said:

Ahhh there’s the downside of doing it ,,,,you could turn out to be Welsh ??‍♂️

more sheep to love.

On 15/09/2022 at 21:11, Mostyn6 said:

Well, I'll spill.

I already knew the man I called Dad wasn't my biological so knew I wouldn't have any DNA from that side. However my mother refused to open up about the biological father. Anyway, last Thursday, along with being the day after I got back from Crete, the day of my Gran's first birthday since she died in June, and the day HRH Elizabeth passed away.... I found out I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers I never knew about. More trauma was discovering that one of those sisters died a few years ago and I was actually surprised how much that hurt. I have been speaking to my two younger sisters and one younger brother over the last few days. My biological father is alive and well, although I haven't yet been able to bring myself to speak with him yet. It's a bit too heavy right now.

an update cos a few of you PMd me to check things were ok.

So my younger half-brother is a European champion at Bowls (the one with the little yellow/white ball, that they roll another bigger ball to get near to), and he was playing in the Home Internationals Indoor Bowling tournament over the weekend. Seeing this as an opportunity, I travelled to Rhyl on Saturday morning and met my younger brother (24), younger sister (20), her fiance and my biological father. My brother was reserve, so disappointingly never got to bowl, and it was his birthday weekend too.

My biological father was literally like my dad, but with an accent. The similarities were scarily uncanny. He had lots of stories, and new my gran and older Uncles quite well. It was a nice weekend, if only a bit heavy on my brain and a lot to process.

I'm glad I met them and will do my best to keep a relationship going with them all. I also have another sister I am really eager to meet as she's closer to my age and similar taste in music etc.

Bailey’s and Cherryade please Mike

1 hour ago, ketteringram said:

Do I need to sign up to Paramount to see this? Already have Netflix, Prime, and Apple.

might be free to you. It was to me. Cannot remember why tho!

Yellowstone - after recommendations on here (Paramount)

Kevin Costner can act... I forgot this. Only 2 episodes in and loving it

52 minutes ago, Gritstone Ram said:

I did a bit of family tracing once and ended up getting contacted by an American who couldn’t wait to tell her mother she had been in contact with someone who had a family name and lived in a town they had traced their ancestors back to. I bailed out after that I’m not into meeting strangers who think they’re related to me.

you owe me 18 years worth of pocket money daddy

5 minutes ago, David said:

I'm getting intrigued now, @Mostyn6, has this revealed your family you didn't know as they had already taken DNA tests and on the database somewhere?

Also, for everyone that has taken one, have you done it through more than one DNA site to make sure they line up and accurate?

Ask away mate. But keep it off FB for now, as I haven't told my family yet and want to do so in person.

Basically, there was a match who was like 4%, which means a link to a grandparent. This match is not showing as a match to any of my maternal matches.

This match turns out to be the grand-daughter of the sister of my biological father. Or more simply, my (unknown) cousin's daughter / my (unknown) Aunt's grand-daughter. The girl in question had taken the DNA test and built a quite impressive family tree.

Prior to uncovering the links to my Biological father, a cousin on my mum's side has gotten well into family tree stuff. Her husband, son, mother (my aunt), father, and loads of her father's family and husband's family had done the DNA stuff. She got onto my brother, and he did it. Then she chipped away at me. With some recent deaths in the family, there were many photos floating about of my Gran in her younger years, and discussions about relatives to my maternal Grandfather, who died before I was born.

I then watched an episode of Long Lost Family or whatever it's called, and then saw an advert for a programme on perhaps Netflix about the Doctor who fathered a load of IVF kids. So I thought I may as well do it.

I chose Ancestry as there was a deal on. But then my cousin said you can upload your DNA to Heritage and other Genome sites. I uploaded to Heritage and it bought similar matches up, but not as many. They also took a £114 payment AFTER I cancelled the Free Trial, and I had to kick off to get the money back.

Just for information, It reveals DNA links by percentage, so my Brother is my top match. But none of my other half-siblings have done it, and had the match I spoke to not done it. I would perhaps not have uncovered what I have over the last week. I have something like 14000 matches, but 13975 of those are <1% match! So very distant.

It does rely on the luck of DNA matches having also taken and submitted a test.

11 minutes ago, Bigfella said:

I’m a Viking 

Ragnar, is that you?

10 minutes ago, Rev said:

Managed by Garry Monk, aren't they?

that was my next gag to be honest.