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Weird how you're brain works (that pessimism in you) 

I've gone from thinking a draw isn't the end of the world today to thinking we need to win to shut that Brentford door.

4 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Oh FFS not another carrot top. 

This place is riddled with em! 

Not for a while though, as I developed alopecia 3 1/2 years after that. So now just a baldy.

Some would say life has thrown me a bad hand

17 minutes ago, tinker said:

The free kick was took 2 yards back from the foul, he gave us nothing.

Which reminds me that Spurs took a free kick for offside in our half!

I think this season before the World Cup I was touch and go whether we should cash in as while I rated him highly we could possibly benefit from a sale.

I think since the World Cup he's been in pretty hot form and I'm not sure we could replace him with the same or better standard. It would be one amazing purchase If we did. I'm not sure I can name a keeper that wouldn't have a similar premium to Martinez that comes close to him. Martinez himself proves its possible to do but it's hard.

I've got my own opinions on the penalty however I do think it would be given 90% of the time. I would love to see the offside call though. It looked offside but not seen it yet

Away from that. Not enought credit is given to our defensive line. It is so easy to get wrong but they do it so well. It's the attackers that get criticised for getting caught out time and time again but it's all down to the defensive organisation. We do need to get it spot on again against Liverpool or we will get caught out.

On the same subject, I get that the linesmen are instructed to hold off putting the flag up until the end of the phase of play to be sure but some of them were so blatant though. Not putting the flag up will result in someone getting injured or even getting sent off for play that should never happen.

Just now, Bizzzle said:

My god that second half was torture but **** it we won! McManaman is an irritating word removed and did my head in all game which didn’t help either!!

Pretty much summed it up right there 

I think we suffered because Fulham were so shit/negative first half. Probably should have taken it to them more rather than trying to draw them out. Other than that it was a bit of a tired performance but ultimately, job done.

11 hours ago, Xela said:

That's it, yeah. It was parked outside XO Lounge last weekend. 

 

You see Lambos and  Ferraris most days now, but back when we were young they were an event. Testarossa, Countach, F40, 959 and F1 were the poster cars of my youth. I've only ever seen a handful of them on the road. I think one F1 and 959 and no more than three F40s

It's crazy the cars you see nowadays. Small 3 bed new builds with cars worth nearly as much as the house on the driveway. I guess leasing nowadays is a big part of it but not always.

I feel like you used to see the odd Porsche on your average road and a BMW or Mercedes on the drive looked like you were well off. 

On 16/04/2023 at 19:24, Xela said:

Saw a Ferrari Testarossa, parked up by the shops in Streetly yesterday. Lovely!

Modern Ferrari's, i wouldn't even give a second glimpse at, but the Testarossa is a poster car. 

Think the Testarossa was the only literal poster car I had, and a toy model of it when I was about a kid in the 80s. There used to be someone in Kings Norton who had one. I used to get my Dad to go a certain way to see if it was there.

1 hour ago, Seat68 said:

I assumed over time house prices would creep downwards, the street I am in now has also seen a 40-50k rise that has not returned to what it was 2 years ago. I have a 4 bed, 4 bathroom and like you are saying, 3 bed 1 bathroom houses in our street that need work doing to them are currently for sale and selling for well above what we paid. If I was younger and looking at this as an investment I would be very pleased.

There has defintely been a slowing down of sales by me. I'm a a postie on a collection of 3 pretty much completed new build estates. For a little while now it has been the smaller ones that have been up for sale longer but there's some bigger ones too taking longer to sell. There's also been a flurry of houses put up for sale so there is a lot of competition. I think houses are still going for the asking price but not going crazy like they were, and if the seller/estate agent goes a bit greedy and ask too much they are not selling before lowering the asking price.

2 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Same for me, I benefited from the stamp duty holiday. 

Since I left my street 2 years ago, the ceiling price has lifted massively. it averaged 139k for a 2-3 bed terraced house, one recently sold a few doors away from our old house for 200k. Its a terraced house. Crazy.

We bought at the same time, it was a first time buy so would have been excluded from stamp duty anyway but so glad we got in then. We paid £205k and ones in the same road now are going for £250k. Next door moved in before Christmas, they paid the same as us but have to literally do every room and heating system.

I'd certainly be worried if I was a Leeds fan. The 2 big home defeats is bad enough but a bigger red flag is actually the white flag in that they got no yellows last night and the fight doesn't seem to be there.

Those in charge proper cocked up over the winter Marsch needed to go earlier or stuck with him. On top of that when they pulled the trigger they had no plan.

19 hours ago, Xela said:

Went out for a few post work Friday scoops. Usually we stick to the same places so made the effort to go to some venues we don't give enough attention to; 

The Colmore, not surprisingly on Colmore Row. 

Nice venue and love the decor - chesterfield seats, wood panelled nooks and crannies, and bookshelves. Very banking hall style, which is appropriate as I *think* it used to be a Lloyds bank? Maybe @sidcow will know for sure. 

It is owned by Thornbridge Brewery and they have a large cask and keg menu. Was rammed though, which is both good (nice to see business booming) and bad (queues / lack of seats)

 

The Good Intent, in Great Western Arcade

Operated by Craddocks Brewery and run as a Not For Profit pub, which all profits going to local charities. The interior fits in with the style of the Great Western Arcade.

 

Two cracking venues with a large choice of cask ales and craft/keg beer. Well worth visiting.

I've not been to the The Good Intent but I do like a pint of Troll from Craddocks.

Taking my step daughter on Sunday. It's meant to be her weekend at her Dad's so theres a win there in my battle to get her interested in football.

What's the pub situation near Bescott? Trying to work out food options as she is Coeliac so food might be limited in the ground. I guess McDonalds will be the back up.

30 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I used to drink Carling - a lot. Just a wilful disinterest in trying anything else at all. 

I’m still a lager drinker, but it’s typically a premium lager, pilsner or a local produce. 

Anyway, while sitting in The Alb in Shrewsbury one quiet afternoon (nice enough bar, modern setting, not quite hipster), a bloke walks, straight to the bar and looks what’s on offer and asks if they have any Carling. Barman says no but offers a handful of alternatives, including some mainstream Carling-equivalent choices. There is a more than sufficient selection to choose from.

This bloke, who by the way isn’t some kid who might be lacking in experience to move away from Carling - he’s a middle aged guy, mulls it over for about 5-10 seconds, fingers tapping on the bar, then says “Nah I’ll leave it.” turns and walks out the pub without another word.

Me and the barman exchange a wry incredulous look at the display of power Carling has over this near patron.

I'm sure I've moaned about it on VT before but there's something about Carling drinkers that do that. I've worked in different pubs and bars in different bits of the country, some with a great selection of beers and lagers (no Carling). In they come straight to the bar, "a pint of carling please" 

Guiness drinkers aren't far off but I'll give them a bit of leeway as there's often no alternative. Although they still wouldn't have a second glance if there was a Stout or Porter on.

Was so confident in us not conceding second half, I cashed out a bet on 70mins 

Not had that confidence/stupidity in a while.

5 hours ago, Genie said:

I vaguely remember when Channel 5 was launched 1) the signal was really weak and 2) they had late night soft pr0n movies. 

I could barely get signal and was before we had Sky so couldn't watch it through that so had to try and tune it the best I could to watch our UEFA cup games with a very snowy picture.

51 minutes ago, limpid said:

Just to the left, the Venture In (sic) is a really good restaurant.

Yeah The Venture in is really good. I worked as a chef for a couple of years at The Crown and Sandys, which is just up the road too.

4 hours ago, El Zen said:

Damn, that is one good looking sneaker. Want!

They were on the adidas site, they were excluded from any voucher codes which there's nearly always some available upto 35% off, so thought I'd hold off. Stingyness didn't pay off though and all gone, for now at least.

19 minutes ago, El Zen said:

My newest are a pair of Adidas Forum low classics, all white with mint green stripes. 

I was looking at a pair of Claret and Blue Forum exhibit lows but was being stingy didn't want to pay the full price, they're sold out now.

Took a bit of a gamble and ordered a pair of these.

Not normally something I'd go for and a bit if a risk as they're the type of shoe that can just not look right when you put them on but thought for £39 it was worth the gamble.

26 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

Share next time yeah?

well in, enjoy!

happy with my £100 profit, all in a flurry on day 3.

It wasn't any solid info, just doing what you had done and looking on social media and tipsters that were doing well and looking at what others say about those horses. One particular one and followers had an amazing day. It was just the 3rd and last he didn't have the winner. There were lots of big multiples that came in. No doubt I would have picked a few duds if I went for multiples today and can't complain but I still have the what ifs.

I used to know a little about the horses, Saturday afternoons at uni were all about the races and football accumulators. Nowadays I know sod all and try and work something out through others, usually badly.

Was having a fairly uneventful cheltenham. Some winners and places but not combining them well in multiples.

Day 1 about £15 up

Day 2 about £5 down

Day 3 about £25 down

Day 4 I'm over a £1.5k up. I wasnt going to bet but heard good things about Faivoir. So stuck £20 on it

Then had 30 on Galopin, 5ew on Premier magic and a 20 double with Galopin and Impervious.

I also forgot early this morning when I wasn't going to bet I put my last 19p on the Faivoir/Premier magic double. Which I got over £400 back from 

What a day 

Growing up I knew very little of my Dad's side of the family. He died of cancer before I was 1. My Grandad was still a big part of my life but much further than that I didn't know much.

I have though got a family bible passed down to me which goes back to my relative that was alive from 1649-1723 so I do actually know the paternal line to there. Which I think is 8th Great grand parents.

I don't have a common surname but unfortunately I will probably be the end of my particular line, as I have a daughter so if she has a child it possibly won't have my surname depending on circumstances. 

I did do a little research on ancestry which was useful. I mentioned on here a while back heir hunters got in touch with me about possible inheritance. I worked out my link to her using the site. That turned to nothing though as a closer relative came forward and a will.

3 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Ugh, the free kick on the opening day of the season?  Yuk.

Yeah that's the one