JoshVilla Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 The amount of people that I see driving around with tinted number plates or no front number plate is utterly ridiculous. If I was a copper I'd have a **** field day round here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted October 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, JoshVilla said: The amount of people that I see driving around with tinted number plates or no front number plate is utterly ridiculous. If I was a copper I'd have a **** field day round here. If you could be arsed with the paperwork. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Xela said: Generally the same for me. This is the first significant down time in the 5 or 6 years I have had the service. Power cut in wylde green -'no power to one of the POP-A node cabinets in the street. About 1000 homes affected. My mate saw the engineers working on it as he passed them by and stopped to ask. Affected B24 area too. Should be OK now Edited October 29, 2023 by mottaloo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted October 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2023 Charlie Aitken dying not being worthy of a mention for any of the national sports news sections, whereas it was the top sports story when Fergie's wife died. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshVilla Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 24 minutes ago, sidcow said: If you could be arsed with the paperwork. I think that's the issue. It's too much hassle and public services are too under resourced for things like this to be policed. The bellends who drive around looking like they've crashed into Halfords, with the exhausts on their financed Focus popping and farting, with tinted number plates and stupid colour headlamps are essentially waving it in the copper's faces because they know they'll get away it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 50 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Charlie Aitken dying not being worthy of a mention for any of the national sports news sections, whereas it was the top sports story when Fergie's wife died. Not going to lie, I had no idea who he was. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 1 minute ago, bobzy said: Not going to lie, I had no idea who he was. I suspect most Villa fans haven't, never mind the general football fan, so I can understand a collective shrug of the shoulders from sports media. Even if he's one of our best, it was never going to get the kind of reaction as Charlton, for example, who's still getting coverage a week later, but the contrast with someone's death being a top sports story because they were married to someone in sport wound me up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted October 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2023 Surprises me, as I knew who Charlie Aitken was when I was about 10 years old. I'm don't think i'm much older than @bobzy or @Davkaus I used to get Villa history books and videos as a kid so I was well schooled in the history of our great club. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted October 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2023 Yeah as above, I know Charlie’s name simply by reading a bit of statistical information about the club as a kid. Find out who scored the most goals in total, most in a season, highest attendance, who has played the most, etc etc. You hear stats regarding other clubs and players regularly. So if I was to hear, I don’t know, a stat about a keeper making the most number of appearances for a particular club, my immediate reaction would be “Hmmm, I wonder which keeper has played for Villa the most…” In all honesty, I can’t imagine not having that thought. It’s just feels like the obvious reaction to have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 29, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 29, 2023 4 hours ago, sidcow said: My Virgin is super reliable. Have hardly any downtime. You can get an annulment on those grounds 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 I know who Charlie Aitken is as my sister's ex husband writes books on very very old players, pulled a shirt on for 10 minutes in the 30s, he will do a book on you. I stress the ex-husband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 10 hours ago, Xela said: Surprises me, as I knew who Charlie Aitken was when I was about 10 years old. I'm don't think i'm much older than @bobzy or @Davkaus I used to get Villa history books and videos as a kid so I was well schooled in the history of our great club. 9 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said: Yeah as above, I know Charlie’s name simply by reading a bit of statistical information about the club as a kid. Find out who scored the most goals in total, most in a season, highest attendance, who has played the most, etc etc. You hear stats regarding other clubs and players regularly. So if I was to hear, I don’t know, a stat about a keeper making the most number of appearances for a particular club, my immediate reaction would be “Hmmm, I wonder which keeper has played for Villa the most…” In all honesty, I can’t imagine not having that thought. It’s just feels like the obvious reaction to have. Completely understand - I’ve just never done that. I don’t know our top scorer ever (Gabby in the PL… I think I’ve heard the name of the all time top scorer but can’t remember), don’t know the record appearances by position etc. let alone stuff like record attendance or highest season points total. Aitken’s career ended about 10 years before I was born, and I started supporting Villa around the age of 7 I think - so you’re talking a good 17 years and no-one spoke about him then at all. The players I remember from back then were Yorke, Bosnich, Ehiogu et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Everybody born after 1979 is just a glory hunter. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 my mom is coming with my brothers kids to stay over, my brothers kids are fussy eaters tonight my wife is making spaghetti and meatballs, my mom just messaged saying dont make my nephew any cos "he wont like it" and my mom will cook him tinned meatballs in tomato sauce instead...she's literally brought over something different for each of them for each day, so 3 different meals will be cooked in my house "because they wont like it" she doesn't even know what we plan on cooking yet! **** that shit, my mom and my brother cause it, no way would I put up with that from my kids 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Got a speeding ticket today through the post. Shockingly on the M6 motorway around Junction 11. Travel on there about 3 times a week if I'm not WFH. Always thought, it'll be coming soon, an I'm certainly not a speeder, most of the time use my Cruise control adjusting as speed limits change, so bleeps if I go over. My issue? From Wolvohampton, goes from National speed limit to 60mph to 50mph, 40mph if lots of traffic, back up to 60mph, a bit of National speed limit, back to 50mph past spaghetti, through the miles of bumps in the road, back to 60mph then back to 50mph and I think then national speed limit. I mean are they just looking for fines to pay for the Walsall junction they have just built, making it no better if not worst with traffic I might add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 12 hours ago, bobzy said: Completely understand - I’ve just never done that. I don’t know our top scorer ever (Gabby in the PL… I think I’ve heard the name of the all time top scorer but can’t remember), don’t know the record appearances by position etc. let alone stuff like record attendance or highest season points total. Aitken’s career ended about 10 years before I was born, and I started supporting Villa around the age of 7 I think - so you’re talking a good 17 years and no-one spoke about him then at all. The players I remember from back then were Yorke, Bosnich, Ehiogu et al. Both my Dad and Grandad are/were mad Villa fans. My Dad had trials for them in the 60s When I was 8 or 9, these were part of my Xmas present haul! I watched/read these all the time. I can probably still name 50 pre-war Villa players! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 30, 2023 56 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: Got a speeding ticket today through the post. Shockingly on the M6 motorway around Junction 11. Travel on there about 3 times a week if I'm not WFH. Always thought, it'll be coming soon, an I'm certainly not a speeder, most of the time use my Cruise control adjusting as speed limits change, so bleeps if I go over. My issue? From Wolvohampton, goes from National speed limit to 60mph to 50mph, 40mph if lots of traffic, back up to 60mph, a bit of National speed limit, back to 50mph past spaghetti, through the miles of bumps in the road, back to 60mph then back to 50mph and I think then national speed limit. I mean are they just looking for fines to pay for the Walsall junction they have just built, making it no better if not worst with traffic I might add. Should have paid the M6 Toll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted October 30, 2023 21 hours ago, bickster said: You can get an annulment on those grounds Genius! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 4 minutes ago, bickster said: Should have paid the M6 Toll Only been on it once, just before it opened, was free then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 25 minutes ago, Xela said: Both my Dad and Grandad are/were mad Villa fans. My Dad had trials for them in the 60s When I was 8 or 9, these were part of my Xmas present haul! I watched/read these all the time. I can probably still name 50 pre-war Villa players! Wrong video there chap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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