tonyh29

55 minutes ago, bickster said:

So the island is that little bit of land in the middle of the old dock  

looks more like a neighbourhood fued .. I'm fed up with those people from Barry coming over making love to my goat , I'll build a moat to stop them 

12 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

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I’ve quite enjoyed being able to cross the road as a pedestrian these last few months.

Nobody  rides a bike in your town then ? 

Weren’t they going to win the treble a few weeks ago

Bugger ….Really wanted it to be us that stopped Liverpool winning the league 

will never hear the end of it if Arsenal go and win it now 

2 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

BBC vox pops.

I’m obviously sensitive to this 20mph thing at the moment, and there was a vox pop section on the local news yesterday, the usual old biddies in Pontypandy being given equal billing to legislation experts and crash injury statistics.

but my stand out favourite was the woman who was very against 20mph. Her reason?

”if you are driving at 20 and someone behind is going faster than you, they could ram in to you”

 

Personally I don’t  think it’s  as good as my old argument that if you were doing 40 mph you’d be further up the road when the child runs out / cyclists ignores a give way and rides  straight through it , thus you wouldn’t hit them … but i think you’ve just encountered my soul mate

2 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

But they do a cracking sausage roll.

and Morrisons are the only supermarket that sell pork knuckles , the finest food on the planet , unless you are one of those weird ones that would rather munch on something made of pea protein and pretending to be a pig 

shame they've doubled the price of them over the last year or so , but hey ho , you can't really put a price on slow enjoyable death by crackling 

8 minutes ago, BOF said:

Surely that's where he keeps his cash now.

nah since Alex transitioned into exotic go go dancer Xela , she now keeps her money tucked in her G-String 

8 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

You'll find that for a lot of products, the above is the case across multiple supermarkets.

it's actually astonishing how much stuff across supermarkets is quite literally exactly the same product

sadly with the nature of a lot of my work , I can actually read the product code data on the back and tell which factory and production line number it came from 

you'd think people at parties would be amazed and spellbound by such a feat , but when I'm at parties and people ask me what I do for a living  ,for some unfathomable reason everyone picks that moment to be the perfect time to take up smoking and go outside in the pouring rain 

3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

It was always a similar thing with cars wasn’t it? Skoda always out performed Mercedes on the old JD Power surveys.

But it was often the case that a Merc with a squeak went straight back to the garage, whereas a Skoda driver would just turn the radio up, cos its a Skoda. 

tbh I'm not familiar with JD power surveys , but I thought the original Skoda were terrible  and the source of jokes ..how do you double the value of your Skoda , put petrol in it  etc

the Octavia then started to win a few awards and the quality was undoubtable better , but its surprising to learn  it was outperforming a marque brand  

5 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Or note sleeve? What in the name of cashless society are you doing???

tbh I use my phone for everything these days , Money via Apple pay , train tickets on trainline   , Ringo for car parks  , loyalty cards  , Uber for the journey home  you name it the phone will do it 

That said , when I go for a night out on the hoy , just as I'm leaving I go back and pickup my wallet , with cash and cards in  ..just in case  .. just can't quite break the habit 

It could be expectation , you go into Aldi and Lidl expecting it to be cheap crap and are pleasantly surprised when it isn't ... 

As someone involved in blind testing all I can tell you is that when we blind test their products v some other stores and brands , Aldi and Lidl  pretty much always come last  , on the whole it tends to be the major brand that comes first , there are some exceptions ,  Waitrose own brand OJ tends to out perform Tropicana for example .( though if you are a regular buyer of those products , In a lot of cases you'd would be able to identify it by the familiarity of its  appearance or taste ) .. 

One of my regular projects is visiting every supermarket chain and purchasing some product for internal testing  , as part of it I usually have a good mooch around the store   , Lidl do some excellent macaroons , Asda have the strawberry cheesecake flavour Milky bars , Aldi do a great crème brulee nougat and some fairly sizeable Big Daddy steaks   .... generally I'll eat any brands I'm not fussed  , but the Aldi fake peanut M&M's are not as good at the real thing  , their Seal bars are as good a penguins though 

8 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Got petrol earlier, walked in, young lad behind the counter, smiled and spoke to him in German

"nummer drei bitte" 

Instant response "that's €24.99* please" in perfect English "thank you have a good night" 

How do they know? What gives it away, it was too instant to only be the black country twang, he had to have anticipated it as I walked to the counter 

And how am I ever meant to learn German?! Even the kid at the petrol station talks English to me 

* don't judge me, it's €24.99 or €25.01

I’ve had the same in Hungary , though tbh I speak Hungarian with an accent like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins 

Teams that get thrashed sometimes do it for the fans and pride the next game , think I’d  have preferred a tight 1-0 defeat for them tonight to this drubbing 

6 hours ago, Anthony said:

On the other hand, Trump had dinner with Duda (Polish Prez) the other day; they get on quite well. Now notice Trump's lack of comment on the aid bill?

far as I know he didn't comment direct in favour or against the bill ? 

but last week he said something along the lines of  Ukrainian Survival is much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! 

7 hours ago, blandy said:

Russia is gaining ground all the time now

It was on the radio when i got in the car the other day and i'd missed the beginning and full full context , but is sounded like the expert was saying Russia is gaining around 100 meters of Ukrainian land a week  , its not the great push they wanted ... Assuming the new found money can get turned into weapons and ammunition very quickly a lot of those gains can probably be taken back quite quickly 

guess they didn't use Teams Viewer for this

NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.

Scientists have managed to fix a problem on the probe, which was launched 46 years ago, after five months of silence.

On 14 November last year, Voyager 1 stopped sending usable data back to Earth, even though scientists could tell it was still receiving their commands and working well otherwise.

 

3 minutes ago, Genie said:

I can play Fifa or COD and have my actions repeated on someone else’s TV on the other side of the world in a fraction of a second, but football streams still lag by 2 or 3 minutes. I am also surprised this delay still exists.

I was watching the Bournemouth game and my mates were laughing at West Ham on WhatsApp , so i fired up the Sky Sports app to see what their score was , only to see that Villa were 2-1 up , when on my feed it was 1-1 and Bournemouth were attacking 

Rookie error by me , but at least I was able to bundle in on the West Ham abuse on WhatsApp so a small win 

26 minutes ago, bickster said:

Happy Shakespeare's birth and death day to you (at least he was English and didn't slay a mythical beast)

The dragon myth was invented by a Frenchmen  , make of that what you will  

Happy St George’s day Villa Talk 

Comfortable really , Bournemouth came at us rather than park 11 men behind the ball and we can be  brutal at picking teams off that play that way 

solid performances all round , Konsa was immense though and a shout out to Rogers also

McGinn over run the ball a few times at the edge of our box and nearly caused  us problems but no real concerns other than that

We are so close now , hopefully we can keep the momentum coming for a few more weeks 

Ha , Onana gets two yellow cards in the game … guess what , he’s allowed to play in the final , FA have different rules to UEFA

spawny manc rocket polishers 

That will be Solanke going to the euros then 

17 minutes ago, dubbs said:

Just come back from seeing Brain of J at The Robin.  Really good Pearl Jam tribute act.  The lead singer took Eddie off really well, great voice and the lead guitarist Jack can seriously play!

Yeah I saw them last year excellent set  over 2 hours and think it was something like £12 a ticket … went with MrsH29 who was never a fan of PJ but is now on the strength of this gig 

they are back at the Water Rats in London later this year so I’ll be seeing them again then