Popular Post chrisp65 Posted November 9, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2016 I was at a cup semi final yesterday evening. I had to park blocks away, which was a great sign. I had to queue to get through the turnstile! We ended up with a crowd of nearly 600, sold out all the programmes and all the goalden goal tickets, a rollicking good physical game, under floodlights, in the rain, watching the local club take on a team from the league above. We made a stupid amount of noise for 90 minutes and we won. We've got a cup final coming! There was a whole group of young kids in there. We gave them air horns! Their first experience of local football was a win, a tray of chips, floodlights and rain, loads of noise and a free air horn. Gotcha! 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I live in an area not dissimilar to Witton in terms of architecture, houses built at the turn of the 20th century, narrow roads with no off street parking (some houses have a front door which opens directly onto the footpath) and lots of traffic. It's really busy at times and driving round here can be a pain as there is often only enough room for cars to go in one direction at a time even though traffic flows in both directions. It happens a lot too because the streets are a quarter of a mile from the town centre so people too cheap to pay for parking dump their cars here before heading off into town. There are parking restrictions but enforcement is feeble so they are largely ignored. So when someone double parks on the footpath or parks on yellow lines or too close to a junction then it can have a huge impact on everybody so imagine my amusement when for two days in a row someone who has parked like a dick has had their wing mirror, and front wing caved in by passing traffic which tried to squeeze through the gap that they were mostly blocking. Schadenfreude, but totally justified. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I live in a very similar street and when the same thing happens I allow myself a small smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 17 hours ago, mjmooney said: Nothing. here ya go, mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 Nope. Not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maqroll Posted November 10, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted November 10, 2016 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Nope. Not working. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 That one, yeah, I lol'd. Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 So a Turkish student just sidled up to me. He's a keener this one, and he was wearing that expression that says 'I've got an annoying question to ask'. He clears his throat. 'Have you seen the movie name 'Sheep Books'?' Naturally I was all 'Movie name is 'Sheep Books'. 'What?' 'Like, 'not expensive'. 'Oh, you mean 'cheap'.' 'Yes, sheep books'. 'Nobody's ever made a movie called 'Cheap Books', don't be ridiculous. Or is that Turkish?' 'No, American. Look' He pulls out his smartphone. It's got a movie poster on it, for Pulp Fiction. After pissing myself for about five minutes, it occurred to me that on This Second Day Of Our Lord Trump a good game of 'Google Translate Film Club' might be nice. My favourite early entries are 'Eliminating William' and 'Resistant To Mortality'. Feel free to have at it, if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 Stoned Midday Correct Gravel Asterisk Conflicts Dental Work of Notices Vomiting Infant Left With Flatulence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 5 hours ago, mjmooney said: Stoned Midday Correct Gravel Asterisk Conflicts Dental Work of Notices Vomiting Infant Left With Flatulence 1) High Noon 2) True Grit 3) Star Wars 4) ? 5) ? 6) Gone With The Wind I've been mithering about 4 and 5 all afternoon! But don't tell me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Is 4 Bridge of Spies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 21 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: Is 4 Bridge of Spies? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 (5) is a classic screwball comedy from 1938. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I'd just got to Bridge of Spies, but I had to enlist help for that one. 5 is Bringing Up Baby. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Absconded among the zephyr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I had a big moan to London Midland last Friday about my train being cancelled again and one of the things i made sure to mention was that we never hear from Service Management. All we get is a 1st line guy attempting to dispel the wrath of angry passengers and they don't have the answers the passenger wants. I have no idea if my words made an impact, but since yesterday, the London Midland Twitter has been tweeting apologies, not only from the 1st line guy monitoring the Twitter feed, but also messages from Service Management (there's been a couple from Service Managers and one from the SDM) That cheers me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Christian Serratos. Would most definitely bang (for a feeble amount of time). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Hot Whiskey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 10, 2016 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Absconded among the zephyr Gone With the Wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Well we've just had a lovely Chinese takeaway. Don't know what half of it was, but there were mini spring rolls, mini samosa, a chicken and ginger noodley dish, a chicken and spring onions fried rice thing, a sort of sticky beef dish. Loads of really nice stuff. This means that somewhere out there tonight someone has paid a **** ton of cash and gone home to chicken balls, curry sauce, chips n rice. Enjoy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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