VILLAMARV

Solid 3rd for me behind TNG and Voyager, but it's massively underrated really despite the flaws. Garak, Gul Dukat, Quark and Martok are particularly great characters.

Massive chance for him.

If he's got the ball retention Dendonker lacks Emery might fancy a project. Unless it goes horribly wrong it can only increase his profile/sell on potential. Archer netted us £20m odd with a handful of appearances. If him and/or Bogarde can make the step up it would save us a lot of pennies.

Worf and the Defiant rocking up makes it loads more hardcore than the first few series. And there's so much of the universe in there - Cardassians, Ferengis, Bajorans, Dominion, Jem Hadar etc But it's one of the series MrsVM has no interest in or connection to. The doctors all over the place as a character, O'brien keeps getting the family written in and out, Klingons at war and then back in the fold, Jake is a weak character. Odo and the changelings just drags on and on. I kinda get why people don't love it.

It's the national sport this side of the magic line  that's for sure. Public school boys like Eddie Butler and Alun Wyn Jones still exist of course they do. Llandovery, Monmouth and Christ College Brecon churn out some players, but it's mostly just a bunch of farmers kids and people from all the shitholes in the valleys comprehensive schools n that still playing rugby for Wales.

Been re-watching DS9. It's just absolutely all over the place really isn't it. Up to series 6.

bring me the horizon. Bit screamo-ey for me maybe but the teenage nephew actually is into a band. What's the VT lowdown?

40 minutes ago, sne said:

Character actress

She must have starred in that high budget 90's character film Pirates then.

10 hours ago, bickster said:

Just come back from the latest Jonathon Pie tour

Absolutely superb

When I went to see him in the Glee club in Cardiff a few years ago I got put directly under a speaker which was so loud I had ringing in my ears for 2 days afterwards. I considered leaving but as Id not bought earplugs I sat and watched him with my fingers in my ears. I know he saw me. I often wonder what he made of it.

9 hours ago, villaajax said:

Feeling kind of extra rubbish lately. I live with a sense of bleakness that I just get along with but January is always a rubbish month. Having my birthday in the middle of the year, the end/start of a calendar year always feels to me like a mid year review where I just remind myself I'm failing at life, in my opinion. As I said in the General Chat about lockdown, I enjoyed it because it felt like life was on hold.

I've been doing a lot of genealogy recently and have managed to get my mum in touch with cousins she hadn't spoken to in years and some she didn't even know existed, as well as her best friend from her teens and I'm glad that I've been able to do that because I feel bad about being a dead twig on the family tree. Her side of the family has been traced back over 500 years and it just comes to a dead end with me. I'm 34 this year and I've never actually been in a relationship. If it's not outright rejection then I just get messed around, more than once I've had girls agree to go out with me and then they find someone better and that's the end of that, most recently, a girl who seemed to liked me even more than I liked her just flipped and blanked me one day and that was the end of that, total silence and ignorance. I am very introverted, I have no confidence or self worth whatsoever so to even get to the point of asking a girl out or telling her how I feel about her, that is a hell of an effort and each time it fails, I just feel a little more dead inside and what's heightening this at the moment is that I've kind of taken a liking to a girl at work but I know it's a bad idea to even make an effort because ultimately I will end up feeling even more miserable.

Growing up I always thought I'd have my own family by now and be happy but here I am, alone and nothing to show for my life, my best efforts to make anything about it better always fail. I really do feel that all I'm here for is to keep my mum going and when she's gone, I don't need to be here. Never thought I'd see the day when the best thing going in my life was Aston Villa, haha.

Existance can be bleak at times for sure. For things/issues/problems you can identify, perhaps there's also a little hope. Identifying what the thing nagging away at you is ultimately the first step in doing something about it - and we do have some agency in affecting our futures. We're not powerless against unfulfilled ambitions.

I hope my joke in another thread didnt land too harshly the other day btw and I don't want to sound all sanctimonious or preachy etc. But to me the scars of trauma and the realities of society/existance are often things we need to find a way to carry with us in some way, because we are powerless to change them - the futility of war for example, childhood trauma and so on. But you're worthy of love. You could absolutely find companionship. The bad bit is you have to keep putting yourself out there and as someone who struggles with self worth and with motivation at times I empathise with the things that ultimately lead to inaction. I find myself frozen at times over the most seemingly mundane of things, but the crippling anxeity is very real when it hits.

I don't know you or your circumstances, I have known friends to have crazily high expectations of perfect relationships and I don't know what the perfect companion is in your head, but lots of people are looking for companionship. If it's important to you, you'll find it, I reckon.

I always um and ahh about posting these in a doubting myself kind of way. All I'm really trying to convey is hang in there mate. Things can be less shit.

I'm not sure on the rugby playing glory hunter, I think she can do better.

Am I right in thinking he'd primarily be in competition with Ramsey for that left sided position but can play the Bailey/Diaby role also?

Friday night game, didn't realise.Be nice to just keep beating Chelsea for a while tbh.

Welcome.

See you in a bit now.

51 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

One for @sne

David Emge (Flyboy in Romeros Dawn of the Dead) gone at 77.

anyone checking for re-animation?

Bit windy.

Leak in the flat. Thankfuly away from stuff.

34's no age, really, as someone fast approaching their 50's I'd say you have at least a couple of olympics left in you.

Watching the PM laugh in the face of a voter is just another example to me of how they/we've stopped trying to maintain the illusion as Zappa might say. What a nice man that Rishi is.

When did bias present with a sliding scale, surely it's binary? It's either biased or it's not.

Had a night out for the 15 year old nephew's birthday this week and we all went out to Cardiff's very own board game cafe/bar Chance and Counters.

Great stuff, nice and friendly staff and a good way to while away a few hours with a beer and a burger which were alright.

5star will always trigger the memory of the Going Live phone in featuring 5star

No blue 0/10 wnb