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12 hours ago, Chindie said:

Absolutely torrential rain in North Birmingham all day with the odd but of thunder and lightning, but just now we've had a lightning strike very local that was followed by a huge rolling crack of thunder that, I exaggerate not, made the house move so much the blinds shifted in my work room.

Nearby, fierce thunder can shake your soul. Back in 2017 I had a crack so loud that it set off a car’s burglary alarm outside my house. I’ll never forget it.

7 hours ago, sidcow said:

So Pope Jean Paul I who was only Pope for 33 days is on his way to Sainthood as he performed a bona-fide miracle in curing an Argentinian girl. 

Who are they kidding. This is the modern world now, does anyone really believe he performed a miracle cure? 

If you tried to get it past the advertising standards authority they'd laugh you out of the building.  Drink Guinness, it's good for you. 

Can't believe they're still trying to create new saints and attributing miracles in this day and age. 

Yeah, I do. Not looking to get in an argument, just saying that at least some people believe it. It’s also fine that you don’t

Golden Gopher Football: 1-0

5 minutes ago, leemond2008 said:

My struggles with alcohol are pretty well documented on here, I have a few months where I am well behaved and then everything goes to shit, in my own head it does any way, I'm generally pretty good when it comes to the drink these days.

I've been out with my mate tonight, first time I've seen him in about 12 months, he **** off about 3 hours ago, I'm still sitting here trying to justify why I should have another can, I don't think that anyone knows how much I struggle with the drink, Friday night on my own, I'll have a few cans and I'm fine, I order a meal and put a film on that I've seen 20 times before.

pub...I'm ****, I cant stop, I want to, and everything I do is based on the hangover, I'm pissed but I know I can have another 2 or 3 cans and I wont be too bad.

I'm off the wagon tonight and its horrible, I know that its a one off, but these one offs happen once every few months...

I dunno man, yeah, I know I'm gunna have another can...I'm gunna probably have another 2 or 3 on top of the 12 pints I've had and lets throw the 4 or 5 double rums that I've had .

people ask why I am reluctant to go out, that is the reason because when I start I cant stop.

anyways, I don't try and fight it...I am so much better than I used to be, yeah, I've fell off the wagon in a big way tonight, I'm gunna get  back on the hoss tomorrow and I'm gunna ride the word removed for as long as possible

Yep, been there. When I’m sober it’s pretty easy to stay sober.

Once I get on the ride though, it’s hard to stop. I’ve been able to control that urge for the most part, but I definitely know the “why not one more?” question in the back of my mind.

6 hours ago, stewiek2 said:

Looking at the work Dragon Rogue have done with PSG and LOSC, we can expect a more minimal stripped back abstract badge, I guess more in line with Aresnal, Spurs and even Bristol City's stripped back modernised take on the traditional badge.

That’s my take away as well. It’ll be very minimalistic

53 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

It's gonna be fairly quick. It needs to be, because it takes ages to implement all this stuff.

I got that vibe when they opened the latest survey for only just over a week.

Do you think it’s something we see next season on the shirts?

8 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

I don't hold much truck with these modern "clean" badges - Juventus's is a lovely piece of design, but I'd be horrified if we went that way.

We're not a Tesla or a Playstation 5 and we're not Balenciaga - we're Oxford and Cambridge, we're the Bank of England.

The words that were missing from the survey for me were integrity, fairness and importance - that's what I want our badge to say about us, I want it to scream that we are 'old money', that we're the establishment, we're the bricks and mortar of football. I want fans of other teams to be saying "What are Villa doing about this?" because we're seen as the team that do things the right way - a leader and example.

I don't want us to be modern, exciting or, for f***s sake, "fun", I want us to be the smart guy in the fitted suit with the slicked back grey hair that stinks of money and speaks quietly because he doesn't need to shout.

Give me a badge that looks like it was designed when we were formed - not one that sways in whatever direction some bloke at a design house happens to be leaning on any given day.

I want permanence, class, quality - not some simplified compromise of clean design that "works well on all platforms".

I have a feeling I'm not going to like the badge.

 

 

 

 

You’re going to hate the badge.

12 hours ago, HKP90 said:

I went for Bristol. Nice mix. 

I went for Bristol. It's a nice mix. 

Same

On 25/10/2021 at 08:26, Stevo985 said:

 

They count Leicester as their biggest rivals I think.

We're right up there as well obviously.

I don't think anyone else particularly register as a rivalry

Which Leicester? There’s two in that list

1 hour ago, Marka Ragnos said:

I think I keep taking this thread way too seriously. It’s not advocating for a new manager, after all. It’s just … specuprognosticaturbating. And what’s the harm in that, as long as you don’t injure yourself?

I injured myself trying to pronounce that word

On 11/08/2022 at 15:58, May-Z said:

Anyone posted the Everton third yet?

The badge

I saw this today and dug into it. Honestly, that is the single worst “design” of anything I’ve ever seen. I would be furious if I was an Everton supporter. 
 

How anyone could ever try to brand a Premier League club with nothing but a two dimensional geometric shape is beyond idiotic. Looks like something out of geometry class.

1 hour ago, maqroll said:

Well then..

 

Great, Trump has the nuclear codes in his underwear drawer

14 hours ago, Zatman said:

absolute shithouse still  

 

Just embarrassing. Should get a suspension for it.

4 minutes ago, Django_Zooms said:

Most people think Villa's new kit looks cheap, but Palace's is a shocker. The crayon scribble stripes look like a B&M Bargains SALE banner.

I love it. Great twist on a traditional striped kit

Yep, Arsenal look impressive

On 02/08/2022 at 19:42, Peter Griffin said:

Anyway, I am off to bed, good night everyone. Can't wait for Saturday, hopefully our manager and team will do us proud and put Villa on top of the Premier League (if only on alphabetical order) for Saturday evening and with a bit of luck an early appearance with lots of praise on MOTD

Goodnight, Peter

26 minutes ago, Villaphan04 said:

whilst I agree with you, I don't really see them as outsiders. I think they are one of, if not the favorite to go outside the 3 newly promoted squads

Threw a bet on them to go down

Another picture

This is my view of Lake Superior from the golf course that I work at. Whenever I get stressed at work, I try to take a step back and think “I have a fantastic office view”

On 01/08/2022 at 06:30, OutByEaster? said:

The thing with being 'middle of the road' and 'not frightening the horses' is that it's not how the election will be won.

This country is full of angry, frustrated voters, they see themselves getting poorer, they see record profits, they see strikes, they see the NHS deteriorating and they see all sort of services going down the tubes.

The next election will be won by the party that best grasps that anger and frustration and is able to turn it to their own ends.

It's how the last election was won and how Brexit was won - the creation of "others" whose fault this is and who we'll get rid of if you just vote for us.

Capturing the public anger and frustration will win the next election.

Sounds like what’s happening in America.

3 hours ago, leighavfc said:

A lot of the stuff you have wrote in here I can relate too. How you describe yourself 20 years ago was exactly me and how it all started too. Where we differ in situations is I have kept myself away from the people I did drugs with regularly over the years and have got a "new" set of friends so to speak who don't do drugs. but I still am... Even on my own a lot of the time and then trying to hide it. It's that bad.

Fortunately and or unfortunately for me 99.9% of the problem for me is drink. If I don't drink I don't do gear.. I don't even think about it. Fortunately I have never been a home drinker so thats a good start, very rare I will ever buy tins in to drink at home. Most weeks after kids football training I will usually have a quick pint after training with other parents and go home, again this is fine as I have the kids to get home and to bed etc. Even at the Villa a couple of pints in the north stand before a game is fine with me, I go straight home afterwards. 

My real problem is meeting up with friends or going for anymore than a drink or two... That's when it happens.. doesn't matter who I am with I just can't stop myself in that moment. No matter how bad or wrong I know It is, no matter where i am going, it's just happens most times..even at times one drink convinces me to get my phone out and make the call.. I am terrible.

Ultimately the only way this will stop is me not drinking and I have to accept that tee total is the only way forward. It will be tough, it will be awkward but it's the only way. My "new" group of friends don't do drugs or associate with the likes either which makes it worse as I'm probably going to have to withdraw myself from doing things with them to keep on top of the situation as they all like a drink. It makes me sad at the thought of becoming a recluse again so soon after gaining these new people in my life who may I add are really good people.

I just hate my life really to be honest, I can't ever do anything right and never can just be happy.. i am sure there are people in far worse situations than me but the fact that I have thrown so much away at just 34 is devastating.

On top of that my relationship of 12 years is very quickly going down the pan and will be over for good within the next week the way things are. Non stop arguing, shouting, screaming and constant new stresses/issues for the last 2 days has just topped it all off. I've had to pack the kids off to the grandparents for a couple of days to keep them away as home is like a warzone.

Bar the times of not arguing I've just literally sat here in silence either reading stuff on here to keep my mind ticking over or to post in this thread. Barely slept a wink for 3 days, with long days at work in between. Fortunately work believe it or not is a happy place and somewhere my mind is most of the time at rest due to having something else to focus on. 5pm comes and its back to depressed mode on the way home. I've even had seconds of suicidal thoughts because of not seeing a way out of this mess or any light at the end.

Please don't have sympathy for me anyone, it's all of my own doing and I'm trying to deal with that mentally as much as it's the toughest thing I'm probably ever going to go through... Il probably lose everything going through this and have to start again... So if your out there and feeling like you haven't got a control of your addictions.. please read this and stop before you end up like me.

Hope everyone is ok, and thanks again for reading. Just being able to type this message stops me from bottling it all up and making things worse

 

 

They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step, glad you’re big enough to do that. 
 

I had to rethink my relationship with alcohol last year, as I was in a similar spot. My marriage and day-to-day life was suffering massively. I was drinking almost a liter of whiskey each evening. Was bad for my physical and mental health. I went months totally sober. Now I can drink beer comfortably without the same side effects, but will never touch hard alcohol again - almost ruined my life.

You may think it awkward to quit drinking, but I expect you’ll be surprised at how understanding and supportive people will be of that decision.

Keep fighting the good fight. There’s always things worth living for. If nothing else, the new Villa season is only 5 days away!

6 hours ago, imavillan said:

I get and understand everything you have said in this post, but while the LIV is there do you think they'll be that bothered about not playing in any majors?

I don't think it will bother them myself, they are just motivated by money.

By joining LIV they have all demonstrated that all they are bothered about is money and given that most of them are already multi millionaires it's just sheer greed.

 

I think you’re correct. Which is why, outside a couple of players (Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau), LIV Golf is getting players who are far past their prime or players who have no shot of ever winning a major.

The players who care about their legacy and have an opportunity to still add to it will stick with the traditional tours. Rory, Rahm, Spieth, Justin Thomas, etc.

3 hours ago, leighavfc said:

Hi all,

Apologies for not replying for the last couple of weeks.. kind of just shut myself off from the outside world for the week of my original post and then had a bit of a s**t week this week.

First things first I haven't touched any gear in the last couple of weeks and have totally avoided any situations where drink would be involved to aid that.. been tough but has worked so far.

I decided in the end to tell my partner about what had been going on over the previous week's and that her suspicions were correct... Was a very risky situation with her telling me in April that there would be no more of this happening and the next time that would be it. Obviously it went down like a lead balloon initially but not long after she understood it was a slip up and I was likely to go through these on the road. Things settled down and started getting back to normal which was good, had a few days where my positivity and determination to get through it came back. 

Today I've hit rock bottom again... Out of nowhere my partner was in a real funny mood and after asking a couple of times what was up she said we will talk when the kids go out... I left it at that and when the kids went we had a chat... She basically said that she has had enough of everything and thinks that we should break up.... We chatted through our problems but at this stage she is just in that stage where nothing is going to change and there is nothing we can do to make it better.

Gutted tbh... my whole world has caved in at this stage. Despite this I can't really complain too much as she must be fed up of my problems.. I certainly am so she must be way past them. As much as I'm tempted to go out and get f****d up I'm definitely not going to. It's not what I needed at this stage in my recovery but it's nobody's fault but mine and I have to deal with that..

Sorry for going off topic in the last couple of paragraphs but I felt it was relevent to my addiction and journey out of it. No doubt you will hear more from me over the coming weeks and months. Again thank you for listening and responding to me so far, I read many of your messages over and over during the past couple of weeks whilst dealing with cravings and temptations. Love this place and many of its posters

 

So sorry to hear that. It’s a very tough battle, one I went (and still am going) through. You have to want to do it for yourself, which is sounds like you are. Making all the right decisions, even if they’re not easy. Keep that chin up.

On 21/07/2022 at 11:40, Xela said:

Thats crazy money! 

The problem is with the golfers who have defected, they are allowed to play in the majors. Its win-win for them. 

Well, a little more complicated than that. Their problem is now going to be gathering Official Golf World Ranking (OWGR) points. The PGA & Euro Tours give them out, both of which they are now banned from. LIV has applied for OWGR status to be able to hand out points, but they don’t meet all of the criteria (72 hole tournaments, cuts after 2 rounds, etc). Even if they do get status, they have to wait a year to hand out points.

Without OWGR points, the world ranking of your average LIV player is going to plummet quickly. The problem is that majors hand out invites based on world rankings. Off the top of my head I believe the Masters invites the top 50, both Opens Invite the top 60, and the US PGA invites the top 100.

So while they’re making a ton of money, their counterparts on the PGA & Euro Tours are earning OWGR points while they’re not. Which means their world ranking is going to sink like a rock and they won’t get invites to majors.

Players (like Mickelson who won the PGA last year) with exemptions are fine. Most majors come with a 5-ish year exemption. But the players who don’t have majors in the recent past (which is the vast majority of them) are going to be dropped from the majors pretty quickly.