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4 hours ago, Xela said:

 

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Live on stage at the Hackney Empire a few years back I saw this done by Cerys Matthews and Terry Hall. They enjoyed themselves so much and it was a joy to watch and listen to. Terry then went off, flicking the v's. Cerys stayed on and sang Total Eclipse of the Heart, whilst grinning from ear to ear. Cracking night.

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

Yeah go on then, cheers mate

It's not. Happy to help.

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Is "Airplane" on there, without having to pay?

Want me to google it for you rob?

Another name check for John Prine: Zoe Muth - If I Can't Trust You With a Quarter

1 minute ago, chrisp65 said:

I was quite late to the John Prine party, but a personal recommendation from Mr Larry Love caused me to go have a look n listen. 

Same.

3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Only got notes, go to the staffed toll booths (still labelled manned in this day and age!), they'll take your money and not give you any change. £2 toll, £20 note, no change - COVID being the excuse for that

Liverpool innit? Nicking stuff, being corrupt - it's part of their culture.

17 minutes ago, bickster said:

Oh if we're on the subject of paying and transport

Representatives for Wellingborough who pay by contactless when going through the Mersey Tunnels

regular users have a fast tag - speedy as f***

Sensible people who aren't regular users have £2 ready in coins - still very speedy, like  2 seconds tops

Pay by contactless and it takes for sodding ever. You can pay, have the money taken out of your bank, get the notification on your phone and the booth still says processing and doesn't open the barrier for another 30 seconds not only that it doesn't really tell you that its detected the contactless method, so people end up with their arm out of the car for an absolute age, something they just have to try again

I think it's the only place in the country where paying by contactless is the absolutely worst option

Also Liverpool buses. You can pay contactless. But it's really slow, like 20 secs or so. Then it prints a receipt. Multiply by however many people are on the bus and no **** wonder they're always late.

1 hour ago, lapal_fan said:

It's the exact same problem as waiting behind people in shops, "that'll be £13 please".

"Ohh, just let me stop standing doing absolutely nothing so I can fumble around looking for a card/cash to pay with"

Like they don't expect to pay?  

It adds 30 seconds to every bastard transaction.  I'm like a frickin' leopard waiting to pounce my card off the top of that machine - its my prey. 

Needs Cilla Black there. Surprise Surprise! You actually have to pay for this. Wankpuffins.

14 hours ago, Xela said:

 

- Mouthbreathers standing at the ticket gates with their phone in their hands looking for their e-ticket. Get the **** out of the way you spunkstains. Bring it up before you get there. Feel like kicking them in the back. I never do as I'm a nice guy really

 

Infuriating. The London version is people at the tube gates trying to use their phones. Card? Dead quick. Phone? Well, when there's a queue, it's ALWAYS someone **** about with their phone and looking confused, or pointing the end of their phone at the reader and it being slow to work. The NFC chip is on the back, not the end you wankpuffins. Put it flat and it takes milliseconds. Use the end and it takes 3 our four seconds. Multiply by 100 people getting of the tube and it's **** annoying, made more annoying because it's completely avoidable. clearings in the woods.

Chromecast for £23 on the Google store, down from £35. My old one still works, but it's so slow. For £23 it's worth it. At the very least I can pass on the old one to my stepdad. 

I have a suspicion/fear, based on my extensive armchair knowledge, that although Crimea is Ukrainian land, militarily it is kind of a poisoned chalice, perhaps a bit like Snake Island, in that it's really difficult to hold, militarily. If/when Ukraine do take it, holding it safely will be tricky, as it's hard to defend.

Let's see. Would love to be wrong.

40 minutes ago, sidcow said:

What is this MOT of which you speak? 

My uncle Don had a garage and used to post me mine.

22 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

Wait till you go pick up that little Ford Fiesta and they haven't got one, so give you a free upgrade, feels like winning the lottery. 

Ooh, yeah. Sixt are good for upgrades, but they're often the most expensive by a good margin. I remember they came out cheapest once, and they upgraded me to a Jag. Didn't smell of small heath thankfully.

One of the joys of not owning a car, is that when you need one you hire one, and picking up the car is like new car day. That day is today.

4 hours ago, sidcow said:

 

Rwanda? 

Would be so happy if they did everything except broadcast it. Yeah Nige, all those horrible tasks you did? Nobody saw you. So, so sorry. 

So many threads to put this in, but I have to choose one, so here it is.

I feel like @bickster should now come in and tell us which ones were nice, and which ones were arseholes.

2 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Looking to move house, saw a property of interest. Good location but run down and dated and a fixer upper.

It's on for 285k I think.

Now I looked into the history as I presumed an old couple lived there judging by the lack of work on the kitchen, the awful old fashioned carpets and general disrepair.

No, this was bought in 2018 for 220k and looked more modern then.

"We bought a house for 220k, ripped a load of stuff out making it worse, put in horrific carpets and wallpaper, and let the outside areas fall into disrepair, garden a shambles, patio moss filled, veranda moss filled and garage and sheds doors falling apart. Now give me 65k."

It took us five years! Don't tell me how to do property!

On 08/11/2023 at 11:20, magnkarl said:

Make of it what you will, but Ukraine seems to have amassed a lot of anti-air assets along the Kherson side of the now much smaller Dniper, and seems to be pushing hard at Krynky, I'm wondering if they're preparing for a bigger crossing using all the delivered pontoon systems that we've yet to see in the war. A quick googling show that Germany in particular have delivered enough sets of different variants to create at least 5 different crossing points, and the other allies have delivered PTS-2 amphibious landing crafts capable of carrying armor up to a MBT-weight.

I wonder if Zalushniy's comments lately have been to give Russia a sense of ease before they're onto something.

Yeah, such a frustration that they can only properly shield themselves from air attack over a small area, but it shows what they're capable of when it happens. Wouldn't it be great if the collective West saw this and gave them loads more. 

23 hours ago, Genie said:

What will change to cause that to happen?

Would it be the introduction of the F16’s? Or is there some other tactical change on the cards?

Well, it could well be that they're doing all the right things already, and that it will eventually work and the Russians will be ground down to be an ineffective fighting force in Ukraine. 

F16’s make things much easier though. Their  introduction would protect ground forces enabling them to move more quickly maybe?

So I don't think the strategy would change, just the tactics. 

I need to dig up my armchair general sticker. 

EDIT: Found!

20 minutes ago, villa89 said:

 

I don't see a total Russian collapse though. They are a big enough country and self sufficient enough to at least hold territory and/or counter attack/engage in more terrorism as long as they want to. 

I don't think so either, at least as far as the country/regime is concerned. Russian armed forces occupying parts of Ukraine on the other hand...

24 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

It’s always been about the lines on the map.

When you buy a globe or an atlas, there won’t be a little asterix that says whilst this bit is Russia, it did cost them 2,000 tanks and 300 mini buses.

True, but only afterwards. Right now, in the thick of it, looking at lines on the map tells you almost nothing.

Why Gobby Cabbage still gets employment as a football pundit. I mean, I can't stand the bloke at the best of times, but he could make it a bit harder for me to hate him by being good at his job. He's shit. He adds nothing I couldn't add, and I'm **** useless. "Ooh, that was good skill, that." "He's a good player, he is." "Great anticipation, that." 

56 minutes ago, luckyeddie said:

On American programmes you here people say "a bunch of water". WTF. I know language evolves and changes. There are hundreds of words to use rather than bunch. Use one.

A gargle.