I visited my daughter's family last week, and proudly taped to the fridge door was my grandson George's end of term Certificate, where his teacher, one Miss Banks, had triumphantly written .... "George has done amazingly well in recieving this B grade certificate" Spelling is clearly not one of her priorities. I went to the school, put her over my knee and spanked her bottom. Oh wait - that part was a dream
Sir Cliff Richard: BBC pays £2m in final settlement after privacy case I havnt read the article, pretty much self explanatory, but isn't it great that £2m is going out of their coffers that is mainly funded by the people who watch them...?! Saying that, with the amount of rubbish they do put out i'm surprised that they even have any people watching...!!!
I'm one of these rare breeds who still likes to go in a shop to buy stuff. Particularly clothes and shoes where I'd like to see whether (a) item fits and (b) that it doesn't look totally ****. So when I go into a shop and pick a shoe off the shelf and go up to the sales assistant and ask for a particular size the answer I don't really want is "we don't have that size in store but I can order it on line for you". "I want to ****ing try it on and sad ****ers like me are the reason you have a ****in job love" was the answer I should have given but didn't.
Oh you've struck a nerve with me there Chan. Being a chap of the larger variety (6ft 4in, probably about 16 stone at the moment) I am fed up of looking at row upon row of trousers with a waist between 28" and 32" and all "slim fit". Where are all the bloody 38" comfy fit trousers then?
I am never without my calling card ........ Handschuhe ------- 8 and 1/2. Mutzen -------- 57 (medium). Schuh ------- 42 Sakkos (Janker/Jacken/Mantel) -------- 52 Levis ------- 36/30 (no change)
A kindred spirit Oddy. Slim fit ffs. I raged at some poor sales assistant few years back when he suggested I might need an 18.5 inch collar so I could squeeze into this 'slim fit' shirt. At the time I hadn't appreciated what slim fit was. I told him I was in my 40s and my neck was unlikely to have suddenly grown. Compared to most of the people walking past his store I was hardly a fat bastard either! In hindsight I think slim fit was a kind of clothing apartheid so that only the beautiful people could wear the best clobber.
Slim Fit polo shirts (Lacoste and Boss) ........ just let me get my f****n' mits on the eejit who invented such madness!
Not just me then! I want expert analysis from someone who has played the game at a proper level. Not some bint who couldnt get a goal kick to the halfway line.
It's very PC though isn't it? The real cheeses at ITV love all that..if you watch the sport presented on BBC now after the evening news it's probably 80% female presenters...still it looks good and ticks all those boxes
Good old Moira Stewart started that trend in the 90s.She has a lovely calming way of bringing sh!te news stories in a nice relaxing manner.Top lass! Kay Burley was a right minx over at Sky, I'd say she wore no knickers to work, bet old Bob Friend was doing his best to drop the hand the dirty old divil
My wife and I were on the set when Moira Stewart read the BBC news once. Just seconds before she sat down to read the news, my wife was sat in the very chair from which Moira read the news, whilst Moira was still sat at a desk with other colleagues busily typing away. A very cool lady
Not being original but VAR. I thought it was supposed to be looking for “clear and obvious” refereeing errors. So how do they spend three minutes looking for “obvious” errors? It cannot be that “obvious”. On Saturday night in the Watford v Chelsea match, the VAR official spent three minutes looking at a penalty decision. If the error is “clear and obvious” it should not take that time. The VAR official looked at that 15 times from at least 3 angles. Leave it alone you moron! Set a time limit – it they cannot decide in 90 seconds, it is not “obvious”. The ones that they do not even look at are even worse. How many offsides have been decided by millimetres? Are the linesmen supposed to have laser-like eyesite? For the last 150 years we have accepted the linesman’s decision, so why change now to undermine the on-field officials unless it is a yard? Can any linesman really see someone’s heel/toe less than an inch offside? They are supposed to only be looking at things that are real howlers...
I agree. VAR could be good for football but those using it are really alienating themselves from the fans. I never thought I would hear myself saying VAR is ruining football. It isn't VAR ruining football; it's the twits using it. I think the ref's decision should be accepted unless there is a call for VAR from the captain/manager of the (potentially) suffering team. And, as in other sports, the captain/manager should have no more than 3 calls. Nobody off the pitch should be interrupting the game and holding it up for minutes; leave it to the captains/managers
Should go to the old rule and must be daylight between players, make more goals. It is the consistancy thats the problem as well. One gives a pen for a hand ball and the next game the same offence does not get given.
