WhatAboutTheFinish

Phew, a letter to dump the husband, a letter to the father, a letter to plead to protect husband and now a letter that got Piers fired.

Basildon Bond sponsorship incoming. 

3 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

If I was not particularly bothered about getting a Thing, but then the person in charge of the Thing said to me 'just as well, because I'd never give the Thing to someone like you anyway', then that would bother me.

So you are bothered.

3 minutes ago, Enda said:

Yes, she made it clear that surrendering your passport and driver licence is absolutely expected. And you need to ask permission to meet your friend for lunch, and that might not be approved.

All of which makes sense, but is quite different from the idea of this Hollywood prima donna swanning in and losing the run of herself.

Fortunately we can all empathise now with what it's like to be a royal princess...a bit like being in lockdown.

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

She specifically said she wasn't bothered about titles. What bothered her was why it was different for her child, and why things were being changed to MAKE IT different for her child.

So she said she wasn't bothered but then went on to explain about that it did bother her?

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

As for the security, again that was more of a "why is it different for him" situation.

Different for him from who? Who is the other royal who has "stepped back" from royal duties, decided to move abroad and still receive security?

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

Did she say she hated publicity? I don't remember that. She's an actress, funny line of work if you don't like publicity.

From Harry "there's an unwritten contract between the press and the royal family that if you wine and dine them you get more favourable coverage". Obviously entirely different from "how about we give you a show you can charge CBS 7mil for and we get 2 hours of self promotion" right?

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

It's funny how people deliberately misquote stuff to suit their own opinion/agenda.

We can agree on that! However I think you are taking this whole spectacle a little more seriously than me. Personally, I particularly enjoyed the moment that Harry almost goes full Kevin the teenager when it was explained to him his status had been downgraded...

"I NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN!"

I want my son to have as normal childhood as possible. Of course in order for that to happen I need him to be called prince and have a 24hr global security detail paid for by the taxpayer.

I also hate publicity and the media so I'm going to move the epicentre of global celebrity, get Elton John on my new podcast and give an interview to the most famous woman in America.

The biggest thing in this interview was the insight into their sense of humour. I for one can't wait for Harry's Netflix stand up special. 

I mean "Archie's Chick Inn". CHICK INN! Geddit?

Bairstow's contribution this series: 0, 0, 28, 0. Nice set up for him to score his customary 1 century this summer and then proclaim how he has proved all his critics wrong.

On 27/02/2021 at 21:12, bickster said:

I've changed my mind on the second try - good decision. The ball didn't go forward, the ball goes backwards, it goes straight from his hand backwards and thats how it hits his trailing leg

Laws of Rugby 11.2

 

After watching it back yesterday I've softened my opinion on the first try too. The England defence has seemingly had time to successfully set up a man for man on their left hand side, which suggests others didn't perhaps share the same urgency to get into position. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a good decision but it certainly wasn't as bad as Martin Johnson would have you believe.

6 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

Having picked 4 seamers on this pitch I wouldn't be surprised if we picked 3 spinners on a greentop this summer. 

Well what better way to allow Bess to play his way back in to form than to pick him on a lifeless pitch where he can return figures of 0-100...that’s got to be the plan right?! 

3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

You can say that Elliot Page's biological sex is female. 

Can you though? I ask this from a genuine place of ignorance on the subject. If I can't even reference the fact that he used to be called Ellen (dead naming?) can I just say their biological sex is female without fear of social reprisal?

Similarly, if defining or categorising by sex is fine, why don't we do that? XX chromosome sport, XY sport, XX prisons, XY prisons etc. It takes gender out of the equation.

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

You're talking about sex. He is talking about gender.

Things really are much simpler when you make that distinction.

I don't find it much simpler, not if you are not allowed to define or categorise things by sex. 

Just now, Seat68 said:

Thats worth a go as I can’t see how it can be tightened. Thanks for your guarantee. Will use a big hammer to prise it off. 

Have you removed the seat from the fixings?

18 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I just don't get why you don't want to move on with the rest of the world. I get you grew up with it, but Italians had lire, some other europeans grew up forced to learn russian. Time changes.

Same goes for driving on the wrong side of the road.

From shipping, to sports, construction, nobody uses imperial.

It's funny how you mentioned clothes mind. It's the one thing I can think of that still does, and nobody actually knows what 32 on the jeans refer to in real units.

What size TV do you have?

34 minutes ago, tom_avfc said:

The pitch is a bit of a joke - I know people will say its what you can expect in India but they've taken it to a bit of an extreme with this one.

I'm sure Indians would say that the pitch couldn't have been that bad if they managed to score 600+ runs on it...and that's pretty hard to argue with! 

4 minutes ago, hong0311 said:

I can recall Deano trying out different formations and moving players in/out of the starting 11 last season. What made him change drastically this year?

He found a formation and team that can win games? 

I’ve never read a Harry Potter book or seen one of the movies. What’s more, I have no desire to! 

5 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

Jack Grealish. 2 or more shots on target  - 10/1

Very tempting.

With whom?

8 hours ago, S-Platt said:

Birch marking Matthaus out the game and Kent Nielsens thunderbolt! Glorious 

The game I also quote as my favourite ever at VP. So in loving memory...

To this day my go to seduction track

25 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

I don't think anyone is arguing that.

The OP was that we only could do what we did with vaccines, as we left the EU. Which is nonsense, and that's what people were correcting. 

I think nonsense is a little harsh on the OP. Yes we COULD have done it, whether we WOULD or even SHOULD have done it had we remained in the EU is a matter of debate.

So we've established the UK could have gone solo even if still in the EU (even though not one of the other members did). Is anyone actually arguing that the UK would have been better off adopting the same strategy as those other member states, or that the EU has handled vaccine approval, procurement and distribution better than the UK?

15 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Yes, Paris is quite tightly packed, but the densest city in Europe might be Barcelona. It certainly has the densest square kilometre, and here it is:

Looking at the dot seems like this is more L’Hospitalet than Barcelona itself. Having attended a few house parties there when I was living in BCN...I’m happy to confirm...what a sh*thole! Every bit as bad as you imagine the most densely populated part of the world to be! 

Shamelessly stolen;

55 minutes ago, Chindie said:

I've a sense of seething anger seeing these kids 'meals'. £5 of food, charged as £30 to the government via their mates company, because we can't have poor people given money because they might spend it on fags.

But it's ok if a company chucks together **** all and pockets the difference.

It's **** theft. Fraud.

Utter words removed.

Is there actually any evidence of how much the government is paying the company?