Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

2nd season with Saints on FM and managed to sign Griezmann. Did have offers accepted for Bernard and Draxler but they turned me down.

 

I hate the high street. It's cold and wet, full of rude people and people offering you a Big Issue. Going out to the shops is a pain in the arse, and having things delivered to your door is far less of one, providing they don't wake you up.

 

Walking by the the bloke selling the Big Issue and buying a copy is one of the better things about shopping in the High St. The single downside of buying online is finding out it was Parcelforce / Royal Mail who delivered the package and therefore you have to go and collect it from the depot. Other than that it beats the High St every time, hence all the shop chains going into administration.

 

By pure coincidence there's a housing crisis and we need to build loads more. So that should happen.

 

Soon enough the high street will exist purely for the buying and selling of coffee.

 

TSS, my Dad worked at STC, was hoping as a kid to end up there myself, My dad was a Jointer nickname of Canary.

Sad that Southampton was once the world leaders in Fibreoptic tech.

 

Yes, a place of leisure. It's a natural progression of modern society for the traditional High St to close down. Personal transport is being priced out of regular use in the UK and the British do not use public transport in the main, unlike the peoples of mainland Europe.

To save the High St needs a cultural right turn in my opinion. That is to make public transport cheap, reliable and clean, which means getting rid of buses and bring in trams or urban trains like the have in Sheffield, or more obviously Amsterdam, Paris, etc... However, I think it too much of a infrastructure revamp for cheap and cheerful GB, so it's the end of the High St, for me.

 

I became a fibre-optic jointer too. Years ago, but I have a vague memeory of a guy called Canary. I think I still hold the record for a set of 24 fibre-optic joints in terms of losses. I was largely involved in a cable from GB to Denmark, which was unrepeated [not amplified], so losses had to be practically zero.

I'm quite proud of that.

Yes, sad that Southampton surrendered that lead, but STC was one of the last Union strong workplaces, and we were paid an absolutely enormous amount of money. I remember one guy who used to do a lot of overtime shouting out that he'd passed the Prime Minister's salary after 6 months of the financial year. Then again, undersea fibre-optic cables were the cutting edge in those days, and of course, still are in terms of fibre-optic broadband these days, though there's no salt water involved. Or very little..!

 

A few have it ready.

 

TSS, My Dad was part of C shift, he went away to help lay the Azcan (think thats correct way to spell it) linking Russia to Australia in 83 or 84, he came back with touchscreen database/calculator watches for me and my brother, the teachers at my school thought it was some sort of trick back then.

PS. I went to the STC Zero Tolerance day in 87/88ish, the 2 things that I remembered mostly from that day was the Organically grown memory (I had to get security clearance to go behind the green screens) and the virtual reality helmets, pretty inspiring stuff to a young me.

 

Blimey, Crusti. Your dad was in the vanguard back then. I didn't arrive at STC until 1988, but I was on C shift too, so that's probably why I vaguely remember the nickname. Lots of tales from those times. Really enjoyed that part of of my working life. The banter was fantastic and the work was ever changing. It was said we'd have a job for life. Shame I was only there for a few years. Pretty much half-bought my house on the excess cash though and funded myself through Uni on the back of it. Can't argue with that.

 

WhoScored's European team of the season so far:-

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I'm Bristol City, and as per, the board are absolutely dicking on me. Took over as they had been relegated to league 2 with a first team squad of 10 players. The wage budget is £45,000 a week and I've got £140,000 Transfer budget.

 

I think Eintracht Braunschweig are my new second team. Not only do they have an awesome name they are the massive underdogs in the Bundesliga.

 

Just saw Gravity in cinema - honestly, drop everything and go and see it. Just fantastic, but make sure you go for 3D. Really one of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had.

 

I've heard many good things, it's creeping up my procrastination list.

 

Yeah, that's on my to do list.

 

I didn't realise any experience in a cinema could be positive.

 

Drug fuelled sex orgy?

 

I think the cinema is pretty redundant in that scenario.