The things that I really, really like thread...

[Jabbawolf]

Nena on Top of the Pops

 

[WarwickWolf]

Aaahhh, Rui

https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/n5dxp1

 

[Tredman]

Whisky and soda. Probably all kinds of wrong, but goes down very well.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

The last few days of this place.

Fuck your usual boring end of season lull, grown adults completely losing their shit over something as commonplace as a managerial change. Plenty of supposition, hyperbolic pessimism and outright conspiracy theory.

Please Jeff, don't get a new man in for a couple of weeks, this will keep me going until the Euros start.

 

[The Bear]

The last few days of this place.

Fuck your usual boring end of season lull, grown adults completely losing their shit over something as commonplace as a managerial change. Plenty of supposition, hyperbolic pessimism and outright conspiracy theory.

Please Jeff, don't get a new man in for a couple of weeks, this will keep me going until the Euros start.

Agreed. Grinding over the tiniest details, semantics about why Nuno left, and speculation about board room procedures. When we have pretty much zero idea what has gone on behind closed doors. As if we can ever do anything to affect any of it either, other than groan or boo at matches a bit.

I mean that's what discussion forums are for, but at some point you have to just wait and see. Nothing lasts forever, and until we see matches played under a new manager no-one has any idea how things will go.

 

[sycophantia]

Its the hyperbole thats making me smile......a lot of it from posters who are very quick to 'call out' hyperbolic statements from others

 

[Kenny]

Its the hyperbole thats making me smile.....

Listening to a Podcast last week and the one guy on it thought that was pronounced hyper-bowl.

So I now really like that word and will be using it all the time

 

[sycophantia]

Listening to a Podcast last week and the one guy on it thought that was pronounced hyper-bowl.

So I now really like that word and will be using it all the time

I heard someone pronounce it like that ages ago and started doing for a 'joke'....now I sometimes forget to pronounce it proper like.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

For a while I tried parodying Richard Keys' incredibly mental and borderline illiterate Twitter/blog output in a couple WhatsApp chats for a laugh.

Then realised I was doing it in work emails, so had to stop.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Listening to a Podcast last week and the one guy on it thought that was pronounced hyper-bowl.

So I now really like that word and will be using it all the time

I'll be honest, i was about 25 before i found out that it wasn't pronounced that way.

In many ways that pronunciation makes more sense given its meaning.

 

[BillyDee]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413176446588162050

Well this is rather lovely.

 

[Tredman]

John Cooper Clarke on Today.

 

[sycophantia]

John Cooper Clarke on Today.

Been on already or to come?

 

[Tredman]

Been on already or to come?

Already, was on just before thought for a day.

 

[sycophantia]

Already, was on just before thought for a day.

Bugger missed that...was having a shit........probably too much info there

 

[EpsomWolf]

Bit of a divisive one this but….. electric scooters.

Have recently started using the Voi hire jobs that are all over the place and think they are bloody ace. Kind of torn that I should just get on the bike that I would ordinarily use, but they are just so convenient, great fun and you don’t arrive at your destination hot and sweaty.

From experience I’d say they make you lazier in the sense you use your bike less, but they also make you use your car/an Uber much less too. As a means of relatively environmentally friendly urban transportation they’re brilliant.

The Voi’s here have a temporary licence to operate but there’s little doubt that will be extended. The hire scooters are at least legal, maintained and the riders traceable and accountable. The explosion in popularity and how best to deal with nutters riding on pavements and through red lights on illegal privately-owned scooters is a huge problem and one that’s not going to go away.

That genie is well and truly out of the bottle and it’s going to be interesting to see how the authorities try and manage or if they try and squeeze it back in.

Not going to be easy either way.

 

[lemonjelly]

similar here in bham, and they're constantly in use. Can definitely see them being rolled out further.

 

[Tredman]

Randomly they have them in Stafford too - seem busy enough. Not sure I'd be that comfortable on busier roads myself, but no accidents so far I think.

They had them everywhere in Miami, hugely popular, can see it being simialr here soon enough.

 

[Sniffer]

Actor Stephen Graham hands out free school footballs

Acting couple Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters paid a surprise visit to a Leicestershire primary.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not sure if this should go in the annoy thread as surely schools should be able to afford kits for sports teams? I don't recall a problem with it when my middle son was a pupil there however....

I know that they live within 1/2 a mile of the school but the fact that both he and his wife get involved in many local charitable projects should be applauded.

 

[Tredman]

Its charity creep - PPE, school equipment etc. It all ignores the chronic underfunding everywhere.