I watched quite a lot of the games, was impressed.. It will get there as you say, will take a few years but its getting out now. I watch the women league when its on here.. there are some skilful players and they don't roll around the floor.. but i suppose that may come if their wages increase like the men's
If you are looking for something to kill off an ideal then look no further than hard cash. Trouble is they need some to get their game underway. It's when there becomes too much that the problems start. It's ironic when the men roll around on the floor they are described as a big girl yet the girls don't actually do it. There are some skillful players and they do get stuck in. The level of keepering isn't that hot though which makes scoring a great looking goal easier. Still, will improve further as time goes on.
I see that Big Brother came to an end tonight and according to the forums our very own Pie Face came 4th. The usual suspects are slating him as being useless and stuff but it all sounds like sour grapes to me. He comes out of the House with £24k in hard cash in his pocket and they haven't won anything themselves. So lets just slag him off then. Jealousy? You tell me. Best of luck to the kid I say but he will have to live with the stalkers who "never watch the programme". Bless their cotton socks, I wonder just how useful they are.
I successfully managed to avoid the programme for the umpteenth successive year......it must be the equivalent of watching paint dry....but with a lot of abuse and tantrums thrown in. Having also won £7,000 on Deal or no Deal,he could be looking around for another game show.......I hope he doesn't get on... Pointless.....it's one that I enjoy watching.
I wouldn't watch it if you paid me Plym and only know the above from forums reporting on it. It's how sad some people are with their comments. They say they wouldn't watch it and then watch it avidly. Not only that but they report on it daily just to slag off the supposed sad cases they wouldn't watch. I don't suppose the bloke gives a monkeys what the sad acts think. And why should he. He's pocketed a wedge of money for very little and they have only watched a programme they slag off as pointless. I doubt he will go on a show that needs thinking about but best of luck to him is what I say. Finger up to the sad acts who only watch whilst he makes a decent profit. I wonder who's laughing loudest.
Large red wine for me- Got back yesterday evening from a 10 hour drive from the lakes having witnessed my eldest son's graduation as a Master of Science (MSci Hons) and his fiancee as a BSc. Bit emotional as he has left home and is living 'up north' but statto (no 2) will still be with us for the next season until he too departs for Uni.
Have another one on me Lyndhurst. My son was the first in the whole family to get a degree of any description and opted out of the ceremony which pee'd me off a bit. I thought I'd never get the chance to go to one and be the proud dad. But, my daughter having shown no sign of wanting to further her education suddenly took off and got her degree so went to that one. She will get her Masters next year having gone on a stage now so will have another one to go to. It's a bit like a cattle market the way they all troop up for the presentation but it's kind of a chufftie when it's one of your's. In a lot of ways my daughter has done a lot better than her brother because she has held down a job, albeit not full time, and run a family whilst doing the business. I take my hat off to her for the dedication and effort. Clearly takes after her dad so I told the wife last time. Her reply was "if I ever meet him again I'll shake his hand this time".
My two although they had the "A" levels never wanted to go.......so it was down to me to do Open University.......received my degree at the Barbican from the OU Chancellor Baron David Puttnam (the film director)......bit back to front in my family.
Yes it was all a bit weird and i don't mind admitting very emotional. She graduated on the Tuesday and no 1 son on the Thursday. We dropped both off in Manchester on Friday at the future in -laws when it sunk in that he had actually properly left home. All very odd, given that I left home at 16 to join the RN, but really pleased for him and I just hope he follows his/their dreams. Both in their early 20s , getting married next year, and both with good degrees from a top 10 Uni . Hopefully they will really just go for it- she is a lovely girl so couldn't be happier - but by god, i'll miss him.
Take it from one who knows lyndhurst......they never really leave home and never ever stop costing you something no matter what they make of themselves. I kind of get confused these days with these degrees and stuff. I wonder sometimes why some bother to even do it given what it costs. A lot of people I know, including my son, do nothing with their degree once they've got it. He should have gone on to Teacher training and be in the classroom working by now with his degree. Not a chance of that as he has no interest in teaching. Journalism was another option but what does he do, gets a job with the Council. OK, as long as they are happy enough then I suppose it's nothing to do with me but loads seem never to do anything that their degree would allow. I didn't have half the opportunity he was given and neither did the vast majority in my time. I never see the point in doing something that won't pay off in the end but I guess that's just me.
I go along with you sensible regarding not having the opportunity in our time......my school time was 1944/54....I was then 15yrs old and that was the school leaving age....unless you had passed your 11+ and gone on to grammer school.......we never even took the 11+ at my school. The UK was recovering from a world war still when I left school and ration books where just being phased out. Schooling for me had been in the local village school.....and that would have been near to the RAF Station that my father was serving on......my parents where not really into education and never explored the options for a kid who was on the move continually, my father moved every year or so in those post war years of putting the RAF back on to a peacetime footing. Being the stations SWO he was involved at the cutting edge of re-organizing RAF Stations.....I probably went to 9 or 10 schools in that time......some of those village schools where quite small....60/80 pupils generally....two classrooms.....under eleven in one and over eleven in the other.....pretty basic stuff really......thats why some service kids went to boarding school for continuity. When I left school in 1954 I had no idea what I was going to do......career education was further down the road still......I had been quite good at Metalwork and Carpentry.....so it was suggested that I tried to get an apprenticeship.....the junior job centre had an abundance of jobs in those years in the 1950's....plenty of choice.....so I ended up in a well known engineering company in SE London......and eventually after finishing my apprenticeship two years national service in the RAF. So in my early sixties I thought I would have a go at the Open University just to see if I was up to it.......eventually receiving a Batchelor of Arts Degree....mostly based on history subjects, just before retiring from work......It gave me satisfaction that maybe if at a young age my education had gone down another route I would have had a totally different career and life......you never know I might of supported a proper football team.
Congratulations to you and your son Lyndhurst.. A proud father... I have that all to come in 4 years as he has done his first year now.. at my expense. But as sensible says never stop costing.. but worth it for them.. He is home now eating everything in sight.. one bonus is he does not drink Alcohol.. a saving!
Was Mrs S's birthday today so a bit late in signing on. Thought I'd treat her and took her out for a bag of chips and half a stout.
Please tell me that that wasn't just from the off-licence and the corner chippy as you walked her around the block.
You could have let her loose in Primark with a fiver....could of got quite a few items with that and some change.
I'm not a cheap skate I'll have you know. The stout was from a pub and I gave her enough money to get the chips for both of us on her way home whilst I went on to put the kettle on. I like to wait on her now and again and spoil her. Never buy anything from Primark either. You get much better stuff in charity shops and some of it is nearly new.
