PaddockLad

One of the current Mrs PL’s favourites...shes often said I’d like them, and I almost certainly would, if it wasn’t for my bitter dislike of that fuckin cunt Henry Tudor & everything he stood for. I do enjoy this exceedingly petty and to most normal people frankly irrelevant grudge but to me he set forth events that we are still paying fior to this day. His modern reputation is a fuckin joke. A cold blooded murderer, nothing more . I don’t care about the complexities of medieval royal succession or the posh fiction of Hilary Mantel etc about the servile wankers who did his bidding. He was a cunt who has a strangely benign modern day reputation.

Heard Robert Harris promoting his latest tome “V2” on Dan Snow’s history hit pod so gave it a go, pretty good, based on the last 4 days of the Germans last ditch attempt to turn the course of the war. I read Fatherland & Enigma back in 90s so I thought I’d give his other stuff a go starting with Archangel, which I really liked probably because I didn’t know a great deal about the subject matter ie the hangover Russia still feels from 70 years of totalitarianism and explores whether it’s really over. Started the first of his Roman novels this week Pompeii, interesting so far, who knew the head of the Bay of Naples water board was called “The Aquarius”? .... Since lockdown started I’ve caught up with Irvine Welsh’s last 3 Trainspotting novels, all 12 of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon series (Netflix’s Last Kingdom is based on these, the 13th & last novel in the series is out this month 😢) Cornwell’s Arthurian Trilogy “Warlord” series, Giles Kristian two Arthurian novels, Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior, McMafia by Misha Glennie & How to be right by Janes O’Brein. And others too numerous and poor to recommend...

Hiya Luke!

Is he pulling this shit to get out of the debates?

Trump & Melania both test positive for Corona virus ....

“I’m fuckin useless but please don’t criticise me, know your place, you’ve never played the game”

Who have we got in the next round? ....

Carroll floors both Newport centre backs in one leap

That’s a good start cheers

missed this at the time I think fuckin hell man

Windows 10 (originally an earlier operating system ) on my venerable Samsung 17 incher has failed to accept the latest Skygo upgrade leaving me mostly watching football on my iPad, which I’m sure you’ll all agree is frankly unacceptable So an upgrade is required...I’d still like the large screen which I understand is limiting. I’m toying with this, which for me is future proofing to a degree that I find hard to justify but it’s a fuckin beauty and to my uneducated eye not a ridiculous price for what you get... https://business.currys.co.uk/catalogue/computing/laptops/windows-laptop/hp-envy-17-cg0511sa-17-3-intel-core-i7-laptop-1-tb-hdd-256-gb-ssd-silver/N575298W I’m sure I don’t need an i7 chip, an i5 would be ok if the most I’m doing with it is streaming . Thing is, I’m lost outside of these terms for what a decent processor is, am wondering what an i5 equivalent Celeron or other may be? There are some cheaper models but with these unfamiliar terms that I’m a bit unsure about...can any tech genuii help?

@sammynb I’ve heard the ACR stuff and agree it’s ace This has just popped up, again, likely 20 years since last heard but it’s so fuckin good....

Biden gives pigshit a bad name, but he's not this...

They started when there was still 1k-2k per week still getting infected. Spain, France & Germany were in the low hundreds .

I said as much to my other half who's best friend is in charge of admissions at Bournemouth Uni....towns and cities all over the country have handed over huge swathes of their central business districts to multi million pound student accomodation investments and the kids banged up in them this month will sharp learn about the effects of that as they will literally have to fight the investors mate's in government to get out for Christmas....

According to this, English refs aren't interpreting the new law correctly..... https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/handball-law-new-rule-premier-league-2020-21-ifab-b625917.html

On the face of it, that’s correct....eg pass back to goalkeeper rule & offside rule have both changed in the last 30 years but you have to look at the context why the changes were made. These two rules were changed in an attempt to make the game a better spectacle. Pass back undoubtedly did, the offside changes caused a lot of confusion. The handball in the penalty area rule has changed twice in a year because of VAR. I’m not a fan either of the context or how it plays out on the pitch.

The rules have been changed to fit in with VAR, which is a tiny bit bizarre as VAR was supposedly a cure all for all refereeing mistakes...but now we’re changing the 150 year old rules of the game to keep twats watching tv & commenting on the internet happy....it’s fuckin nonsense...

it’s funnier than telling a stranger his home towns a shithole..

Think I know ugly mackem’s alter ego....it’s been there for years, hiding in plain sight....

Bit harsh there, he’s from a good family, which, let’s face it, is the important thing....

Howe is likely to turn us down as he's unlikely to take a job north of Watford