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I've renewed and as long as finances allow it, I always will.  I have a great seat, it's been my seat since the Holte was made all seater, and I really don't want to lose it!!

1 hour ago, Demitri_C said:

As this general chat, I found my a present my mum got for my 15th birthday (fifthteen years ago) its a model of Villa Park. Hve been looking online to see how much these go for anyone else got one as i have looked everywhere online and cant see any?

 

Are these things rare?

I've got one too so I don't think they're that rare!

On ‎22‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 10:02, Demitri_C said:

But it depends on the profile really, there is a lot of profiles where there is nothing for you to feed on. if a man has low self confidence he will approach it differently to someone who has confidence and understands how to attract women. I am not saying just a "hey" is good not at all. But most people I know who have said something along the lines of "hiya how you doing today" get blanked. Some people find it difficult with the initial first message hence why they send a response like that. Sometimes even when you mention an interest in their profile you still get blanked!! 

Women look at it differently to men, if men get a message from a woman first its like wow she is different she has courage to message me first. But for a woman (probably because they receive a large amount of messages) its like filtering to see which guy sounds different or can handle me. 

Again, it works both ways though.  Don't you think if a woman messaged a man she could just as easily be blanked by him, regardless of the message she sends?

It is very much the case that if you're getting 50 messages from 50 different men a day, of course you're going to filter through them.  For me, it's not really about them sounding different, it's just about giving me something to respond to. I fully understand the low confidence thing because I have it myself.  That means though that if I plucked up the courage in the first place to message a guy, I'd at least attempt to engage him in conversation with something a bit more for him to go on than 'hello'.

4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

I always thought the old 'footprints in the sand' story was a nice one.

Person looks back on their life as a walk along a beach. Points out to God that at every point there was a problem or a challenge the two sets of footprints turns in to one. 'Why did you leave me every time life got tough?' says the person. 'I didn't', says God. 'That's where I carried you'.

I like that one. Nice image.

(I am neither supporting, denying or condoning anything here, before the atheifascists get all riled up)

 

When I was younger, I actually bought that on a card and thought it was really uplifting.  Now I just think it's a pile of old toss

1 minute ago, tonyh29 said:

no he's just testing you

I failed

Just now, mjmooney said:

The opposite is almost as odd. My sister in law was a churchgoer until her aged father died of a heartattack. Which apparently demonstrated that there couldn't be a god. Dunno why she thought God would make an exception for her family.

I was thinking this myself after reading the above comments.  Surely after losing someone or suffering some major tragedy, you'd be more likely to think there couldn't possibly be a God than suddenly thinking there must be a God to help me through this?

If West Brom score the first goal then it's all over. 

A draw would be a decent result, a win would certainly be better but I think unlikely.  I thought we'd lose the last couple of games too though so what do I know.

I often feel quite envious of people who have a faith.  Anything that helps you through really tough times has got to be a good thing.

I have my own typing business if anyone needs a CV doing

On ‎19‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 17:50, Demitri_C said:

The thing is a lot of men on these sites have either low confidence, no game etc so they probably use that latter approach as they are polite and trying to come across like a an ahole like certain ones do! The man probably instead of thinking he is making no effort feels he has balls for messaging the woman. It goes to show how differently men and women think!

I really don't think that's the case with sites like POF.  You only need to scroll through the profile photos to see that and that goes for the men and the women. 

However, if someone is low on confidence and trying to be polite, that's all very well but you can't possibly think someone is going to reply if you merely say 'Hello'?  You don't need to act like a tit, just ask a question or comment on one of the interests the person you're contacting has.  Men surely are aware that these women are going to get more than one message off many different guys so they're immediately going to be filtered out if their message doesn't actually contain anything.  And if they think the woman is going to respond purely based on their photo and a word, they can't be that low on confidence...

On ‎19‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 16:43, Wainy316 said:

 

Villa Park as a first date?

You asking?

I'm terrified of the people I love dying but not about dying myself.  Well, I'm scared of dying depending on how it happens but I'm not scared of death itself.  What's to be scared of?  You won't experience it because you'll be gone.  It's a nice thought rather than a scary one.  As I said, it's far worse to lose someone than to cease existing yourself.

I mainly use Twitter for work but my personal is @Helen_Villa44 if you want to add!

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

So as a female what would make you reply? a cheeky line, a introduction of himself or a simple line like hey how you doing?

Definitely not the latter, I'd hate that!  I had many, many messages that simply said 'Hello, how are you' and I ignored them all.  I mean, come on, make a slight effort!

I'm not your normal run of the mill female I don't think so maybe my answer isn't the norm but a cheeky line would probably make me cringe so I'd go for the introduction (if it was of interest) or just something perhaps based on my own profile to show they had actually read it rather than were just contacting every single new female in the area that registers (which does seem to happen!).  So, maybe if I'd mentioned music or football they could comment on that, ask who I supported and who they supported, or what bands they were in to.  The two guys I spoke to most from PoF, the first had started with a conversation about music and that the bands I'd listed sounded like his record collection which appealed to me, and the second was talking about Birmingham and pubs etc in the city centre, asking if they were still any good.  It's pretty basic stuff but I'd much rather that as a conversation starter than 'You look well fit'.

I tried POF very, very briefly but was really put off in the first week by the ridiculous messages I received.  Do guys really think a first message saying, 'Hey, do you fancy a shag?' is a good thing? I'm not a particularly great catch but still had a few hundred messages in the first week alone.  Attractive, younger females must get thousands. I just found the whole site a bit tragic to be honest. 

I love the idea of speed dating though so maybe that's something to try in the future.

On ‎17‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 15:54, Demitri_C said:

I had my first shit test from that indian girl yesterday. She said what time we meeting, i say after villa game. She said come meet me now and im like no way as we discussed footie 1st then date after. She then was like in a joking way so football is more important than me? I was like hell yeah!!  

The she laughed and then asked what time game finished and end of me missing villa game talk.  Be warned men, women do this kind of shit early on to see what they can get away with!

It's not just women!!  I went out with a guy who called me one night to ask if I wanted to go out on the Saturday and I said no because I was going to the Villa and he said pretty much the above - along the lines of so you're saying football is more important than me then? I think the following silence spoke volumes and needless to say the relationship didn't last after that.

Honoured to have an Alan Rickman tattoo. Fabulous actor, beautiful man. Feeling gutted. 

Can't see anything but a loss here but I have a teeny bit more hope than I did prior to Tuesday. A draw at the very best but that's me speaking with my heart rather than my head really.

I'd have to go for Ayew as MOM but as said above, particularly in the first half, I thought Bacuna was one of the best players on the park. 

Also pleasing to see the manager getting so involved tonight. Don't think he sat down once.

Decided at 5pm to go after all and I'm glad I did now! Atmosphere in the second half particularly was upbeat and it even verged on exciting at times! I still think we're down but lets hope this gives us a boost and some much needed confidence. Also nice to see the players showing a bit of emotion at the end.

Got to get past Wycombe first!

I remember when Cilla died last year, Morrissey said he was so shocked because she was the kind of person who he thought would never die. David Bowie is certainly in that category. Everyone should just remember his genius and respect what he did for music, for fashion, not to mention all he did for charity.

Love, respect and admiration x

Cheese and wine. Never fails to cheer me up. 

It is a good sentiment yes, but when you've gone to every game over the past few years and spent a lot of money and effort on the club, it's tiring. It wouldn't be so bad if we had one player to get excited about, someone who could win a game on their own out of nothing, someone to make you jump off your seat. For the first time ever I think, I can't name a single player I'd be overly bothered about losing this season.