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Well, Submariners of course.

It's quiet on here tonight, has everyone got Monday blues or something.

I think we should have a Karaoke evening or something similar. Anyone know any tunes?
 
My Mrs had me doing Christmas present shopping twice last week. I bloody hate Christmas at the best of times but to have to do shopping for it as well just about did for me. Not just being a humbug either. When I was a kid you had a present. Few bits of chocolate and fruit and thought it was marvelous. Nowadays you need a forklift truck to get kids parcels into their bedroom. That's the ones that will fit through the door. The rest have to stay downstairs. People buy stuff like there won't be a boxing day and spend the rest of the year paying off for the last one. Actually, apart from all of that it's ok.
 
Buy it all on line Sensible its easier. Don't go to shops!! Gat its true not long to xmas, i look forward to it and 3 weeks off! Well the snow and ice will be here before that, yippeee, colder the better.
 
I never buy anything on line. Glad I don't as I picked up a virus a while back. Fortunately for me my neighbour is an IT man and he sorted it for me and put in a security thing which was for free. He told me it was trying to search my computer for bank details. All I did was log into a football site to watch a match on a channel from abroad. Lucky for me I have never done on line shopping so it had nothing to find. Never bothered with foreign sites since.

I hope you are wrong with the cold stuff joe. The severe frost cracked my boundary wall last year and bolloxed up some concreting I'd had done. I don't mind it cold but not like that. You could hardly walk anywhere for weeks.
 
Oh dear Sensible, you never had no anti virus, i use a mac and don't have those problems! Yes old jack frost gets every were, i like the cold and its great for business !!!
 
Evening all! I quite like it cold, but too cold. When the white stuff comes I usually end up in the car park at work shovelling it. A couple of years ago we were shovelling away when we were hit by snowballs thrown by a group of about 10 kids and teenagers. We had a great time trading missiles all morning and it stopped only for lunch. When we went out later, we were quite disapointed when the kids were nowhere to be seen! We got a bit of a bollicking from the MD of the branch the next day, a) because we didn't finish what we were surpose to be doing and
b) because we didn't ring him so he could come out and join in!
 
sensible, I sympathise, I hate Christmas too, loved it when I was in my teens, 20s but loathe it with a passion these days. I do most of my shopping online and others accept money (gratefully!) as gifts so really it's only the food I have to shop for but that's bad enough, then there's the prepping, cleaning and cooking but the real season I hate Christmas so much is that it's all hyped up so early these days that by the time it's arrived I'm sick to death of it. They start playing Christmas songs on the radio in November - I usually switch off!

Bah humbug!
 
Whoo hoo sod christmas, drinks all around the fat lady is all dressed, songs picked out and waiting now for the taxi ..... finally the end of this nightmare is in sight .... drinks all round me thinks <party>
 
There was something magical about Christmas years ago when people didn't mortgage the cat,dog and parrot to pay for it. Nobody I knew got more than the household could afford. People got together and the kids played games. I'm not religious but even the carol concerts were good. Town decorated and looked like a grotto. Now it's adverts and adverts and adverts. Only cost this or that. You can have turkey all year round and mince pies at any time. My wife and I have seriously considered one of those Christmas is banned holidays just to get away from it all but we would have to go for 3 months now.
 
I can still remember waking up early on Christmas morning and seeing a pillow-slip on the bed post..........and knowing that at the bottom of the pillow-slip would always be an orange and an apple.......which would be a little treat just after WWII.........still couldn't get bananas then.
 
On a more serious note I see that the FA have overturned the red card given to McCrory on Saturday. I must admit it looked like a foul from the FL show but the red did seem a bit on the harsh side to say the least. I don't know if it is just me but I find the standard of refereeing in this league is a bit woeful at times. I know it's a hard job and I definately know they get little or no help from the linos but even so I am less than impressed. Justice done in the end I suppose although they would not have thought so if it had happened in injury time at halftime rather than at the end.
 
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