Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Remember you mentioning him along with the Cherry fan. Very sad. Have to look out for his widow now, hopefully family rally around.

 

She is off to Brighton tonight to be with family. Really sad.

 

Sad news. Best wishes to his wife for the loss of her husband, and to you and your wife for the loss of a friend.

 

So sad, glad she is with family. Give her our love when you see her please.

And this

 

Just seen a lovely story from a flight attendant on Virgin Atlantic. A young man met an 88-yr-old retired nurse at the airport before a transatlantic flight....and he insisted on swapping his first class seat with hers in economy. She had a great time and everyone made a fuss of her. Good for him.

 

You could argue that any business selling things that aren't a necessity for life is exploiting people with no self control!

Somewhere along the line people have to accept responsibility for their own faults and problems in life and stop making excuses about if it wasn't available they wouldn't have a problem. They would still have a problem, if gambling was made illegal tomorrow it would go underground and the same people would be having the same problems or probably more because the chances to gamble would be rigged.

Denise Coates also has some very interesting ideas on how to restructure our welfare system to make it sustainable for the future, many of which make great sense and involve creating communities. It is certainly something she is passionate about and works hard for. There is a foundation in her name and Bet 365 do give a very large amount to charity so it's not all a one way street.

It should also be remembered that alongside her 'obscene' (not imo) wages she will be paying an obscene amount of tax some of which will go toward helping the poorest in society.

 

I assume my ping of 45ms download of 1.07mbps and upload of “error” is **** then?

 

Try rebooting your router!

 

My internet is always **** tbh. Apparently living in a city centre means internet is ****. I should probably just change my provider to somebody else

 

Find someone offering FTTP (fibre to the premises), even if it means paying a bit more. What that means in practice is that you’re getting a dedicated fibre line from the ISP direct to your home, rather than sharing a phone line with a whole street.

 

Couldn't disagree with you anymore, I feel the exact opposite. And how the hell can you say that £265,000,000 a year bonus is justifiable (just imagine how much that one company makes in a year to be able to pay that bonus out)! You should perhaps do a little research on people with gambling addictions, while you stare down on them from up high on your perch. Quite often it stems from mental health issues. Do you also hope obese people eat themselves to death before troubling the NHS? Lots of people struggle through life & don't need to ask for help, but some definitely do need our support. The adverts are dangerous and unnecessary, and if it stops just one suicide this Christmas, then I'm all for banning the lot. You touched a nerve with that post.

 

I do regularly..........all round the garden. Doesn’t seem to work though!!!

 

Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble..

In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock.

Upon leaving, the brunette tells her sister, 'When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I'll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.'

The brunette arrives at the man's ranch, inspects the bull, and decides she wants to buy it.

The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less.

After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news..

She walks into the telegraph office, and says, 'I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I've bought a bull for our ranch.

I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.'

The telegraph operator explains that he'll be glad to help her, then adds, it will cost 99 cents a word.

Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette realizes that she'll only be able to send her sister one word.

After a few minutes of thinking, she nods and says, 'I want you to send her the word 'comfortable.'

The operator shakes his head. 'How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her just the word 'comfortable?'

The brunette explains, 'My sister's blonde. The word is big.

She'll read it very slowly... 'com-for-da-bul.'

 

Mary, all dreamy eyed and smiles, snuggles up to Seamus and asks him, “if you were stranded on a desert island who would you most like to be with?”

“My Uncle Mick” replies Seamus.

“Why, what’s so special about him?” asks Mary, feeling very hurt.

“Because he’s got a feckin boat” says Seamus

 

Watched the new Star Wars. Will day no more.

 

What did you think of it? Not hearing good things thus far.

 

Oh, just figured what you wrote. Got it.

 

I've just been to see it ... I really enjoyed it, personally.b

 

Did you like TLJ?

 

Im one of the weird ones who did yes