chrisp65

Ready? aye, ready!

On another, slightly more specialist, football forum I confidently predicted nothing could stop a particular team being promoted. Other people suggested I shouldn't be so sure so I pointed out that with 6 games to go, they were 16 points ahead of the team in 4th place. So sure was I of their absolute ease of promotion I suggested I'd show my arse in a shop window if my 'stone cold cert common sense prediction' did not happen. Well here we are, one game left to play and the team in third are on a 5 game straight losing streak and the team in 4th are on a 5 game straight winning streak. My only 'out' is that I actually named a shop which has recently closed, which nobody appears to have picked up on yet. So maybe this should be in the things that make you happy thread?

Yep, one a year for the last 4 or 5 years - you only get 1 freebie replacement per annum on my insurance so I like to make them last! I am doing a lot of motorway miles and the majority and that's where it always happens. Never had a complete smashed windscreen, but I've had some real crackers (literally). I'm also doing a lot of those miles on the M2 / M20 and I get the feeling the lines of lorries on that route are the primary cause.

me too it's where all the cool catz hang out

I see that Jim Wells has now resigned as Norn Iron Health Minister. Having apologised last week for accidentally saying stuff he didn't believe (children to adoptive gay parents were more likely to suffer abuse and neglect). He again over the weekend accidentally said more stuff he didn't believe in, this time whilst door to door canvassing he told a lesbian couple what he didn't think. Went back a couple of times to apologise, but to no avail. He's been under stress due to his wife's illness. That's why he keeps accidentally saying homophobic stuff he doesn't really believe in. Beeb

Depends how well you know him. If you've based that on first hand personal experience and the shared confidences of people around him, yes that's legit.. If you've based it on the bias of the media, that would be pretty dumb. To have broad support for someone's views on europe, their attitude to the private rental housing market and plans for trident, but then vote for someone else because he looks funny eating a sandwich....really?

he's now closer to 40 than 20

On average I get through about 1 new windscreen per year. I save up the little chips and get a new screen shortly before the MOT. Front of my car is beginning to look a bit like I've re entered orbit at too steep an angle. Wonderful 'obsidian' sparkly black metallic paintwork, but with an almost white base coat underneath it. Every now and again, a couple of times a year, when I want something mindless but therapeutic to do, I go out the garage and black up all the little white chips n dings.

I get the impression that Cameron has some sort of weekend 'shoot' at a country estate organised for the weekend of the 9th / 10th. If he has to spend time to try and phone around the DUP and UKIP looking for support to stay in office he's going to be properly cheesed off.

I'm warming to Robbie Savage. Anybody that can give that much stress to Alan Shearer can't be all bad. But it is clear Robbie still hasn't completely shaken off that headbutt from Dion.

Do you by any chance have ST and booking history sufficient for a Wembley ticket? Might be time to cash it in.

If they want it enough, if they have something about them, they'll find it. I'm not here to pander to lazy ladybirds, no time for them.

my slightly shabby around the edges garden - including the apple tree planted as a pip from a supermarket apple by one of the kids years ago stuck it in a plastic cup, it took, transplanted it to the garden and we get (incredibly bitter) apples! we've come inside and instantly the blackbirds are down and having a rummage for easy food

yeah, I've heard of the Zombies (I was just being a dick as per usual)

and that is something we must always remember, when the Mail claim to just be interested in free speech or basic values or putting britain first, what they wanted when it came down to it, was a fascist run UK open supporters of fascism in the 1930's (advising and promoting membership of the blackshirts organisation) and friends with Mussolini, Hitler and Moseley, the Mail owner Lord Rothermere only dropped direct printed support for that filth once jewish businesses threatened to withdraw their advertising money from the 'paper so a 'principled' fascist rag, right up until it potentially hit profits nice people

never heard of him

Rugeley, I've got mixed feelings for Kiss. They are awful and they are just a corporate merchandise selling machine. But on the other hand, they are their own bosses and they've never hidden the fact that they are a money machine. You've got to laugh at the extremes of the Kiss merchandising machine, from dolls, sweets, wallpaper through condoms to coffins. The music sucks, but unfortunately one of their songs has become a terrace shout at my local club! Due to the influence of my brother, he's persuaded people to use the lyrics of 'God gave rock n roll to you' to the much improved 'God gave Barry Town to you'. There's a fantastic irony to 30 souls spread out on a near empty terrace on a wet Tuesday night in Caerleon or Llanwern singing that. So it is quite funny. But at the same time - it's not one I ever sing, because it's Kiss.

Disco Sucks it was like the worst of the 1980's, except of course, it was 1979 these days, I guess people would have to bring their mp3 players and press delete other than the occasional family car journey I'm rarely forced to listen to music that's abhorrent, although I do have a problem with 'rock' especially when it's not really rock, but actually all that MOR shite like Boston or REO Speedwagon or 10cc or Van Halen .... ironically, I think that was the stuff that was liked by the organisers of Disco Demolition

SFA OK! Not an album as such. But 53 minutes of lush.

hahaha, tell us more give him a chance, he's still knitting the balaclava

I am confident we'll stay up, I believe we deserve to stay up, and yet I'm poopin' myself because there's so little time to correct a mad / unfair / random weekend. But we will stay up. But I am worried. Bloody hell.

out of curiosity, where was he when he said it That sounds quite a big echo filled venue you'd rattle around in, so he could have just been being nice to the venue, Karen Brady.

youth is wasted on the young with their lack of imagination and their uptight ideas of 'order' vid of 75th birthday for Lee Scratch Perry, on stage at his own show, cake shared with 'mistress' Perry and his son playing in the support band looks ok to me! - and this year, aged 79, he's still bumping out the live music, best gig of 2015 so far.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlngzFnAKs I'm going for a sit down now, got some heavy gardening to do this morning