General Random Conversation..

[Toonpack 11813]

Bit too close to home that tbh. But since Dan died and I’ve obviously become more sensitive to it, it’s utterly tragic how many young men end their own lives for no apparent “good” reason, it’s a fucking epidemic.

[Alex 37287]

  On 27/02/2024 at 08:08, PaddockLad said:

Aye some great quotes from Kinnock. Southern England were never having him though, they were being told what to think by Kelvin McKenzie at the time. My 75 year old MIL hates the Welsh with a vengeance 😏

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Kinnock’s “I warn you not to…” speech is a work of art. 

[Alex 37287]

  On 27/02/2024 at 16:04, wykikitoon said:

The UK was one of the most balanced countries in Europe before that cancerous witch slag came to power

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Everyone one is lead to believe the 70s were shit bit the late 1970s was the time when this country had the smallest ever gap between the richest and the poorest. She sorted that out and we’re still feeling the fallout. 

[Monkeys Fist 45838]

  On 27/02/2024 at 17:17, Alex said:

Kinnock’s “I warn you not to…” speech is a work of art. 

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Aye, and he was absolutely bang on too. 

[PaddockLad 19332]

  On 27/02/2024 at 17:17, Alex said:

Kinnock’s “I warn you not to…” speech is a work of art. 

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A great man 👍

[Kid Dynamite 7822]

  On 27/02/2024 at 12:35, Kid Dynamite said:

There's a wider cultural shift since the shut down of industry in this country. Millions of young lads in the 60s/70s/80s knew there was a job waiting for them in a mine/shipyard/steel factory. That's not the case anymore. And since those places shut, so did the working men's clubs, bingo halls, pubs and the communities that went with them.
 

Some of this stuff isn't rocket science. A job 40hrs a week, money in your pocket and a place to de-stress after work is enough to keep a lot of people "mentally well". We are seeing 3rd generation fall out from the damage Thatcher did to this country in the 80s. 

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Pure coincidence, but I watched Ken Loach's "The Old Oak" this morning. Literally set against the backdrop of all of the above. 

[Alex 37287]

Just got the metro home. A couple of smoggies in with a lass. Pure scum, off their tits, drinking, talking about the drugs they’re coming up on. Shouting aggressively. Because they obviously can’t not. People scared to even look at them. The one I got a look at had a massive fresh bump and cut on his forehead. Just what people want going home from work. But what really boiled my piss was two coppers (lads in their twenties) got on the same carriage with me at the same time and basically stood at the far end and pretended they’d not noticed the bother. It took all my willpower not to walk down and ask if they fancied doing their fucking jobs as I was getting off. But they’d have liked nothing more than to make me the issue. So I went down as I was getting off and let the police know they needed to have a look down the carriage. Aye, I know - grass -  no wonder people have zero fucking respect for the coppers 

[Renton 24199]

  On 01/03/2024 at 17:27, Alex said:

Just got the metro home. A couple of smoggies in with a lass. Pure scum, off their tits, drinking, talking about the drugs they’re coming up on. Shouting aggressively. Because they obviously can’t not. People scared to even look at them. The one I got a look at had a massive fresh bump and cut on his forehead. Just what people want going home from work. But what really boiled my piss was two coppers (lads in their twenties) got on the same carriage with me at the same time and basically stood at the far end and pretended they’d not noticed the bother. It took all my willpower not to walk down and ask if they fancied doing their fucking jobs as I was getting off. But they’d have liked nothing more than to make me the issue. So I went down as I was getting off and let the police know they needed to have a look down the carriage. Aye, I know - grass -  no wonder people have zero fucking respect for the coppers 

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That's the posh way too. I'm out with work tonight so will be navigating this at an even worse time. Even coming in in the morning the Shields way can create anxiety nowadays. Some absolute detritus get on, just randomly hassling people, or dropping off spiced out and unconcious. At 8am.  The only time I feel safe on the metro is after a match which is ironic given the rep of football fans (mainly middle age, middle class, like me).

[Alex 37287]

I was literally going two stops and getting off (and they weren’t) so I was safe. And I can understand people not wanting to draw attention to themselves mentioning it. But the noise they were making, it was unavoidable. People on with kids and that as well. One of the coppers actually said ‘who?’ Potentially endangering me for pointing it out and was about to step off the metro before I said to them it was people further down the same carriage not on the platform. Useless fucking cunts. I’m of the opinion they’ll have done fuck all even after that and hoped the trouble makers got off soon so it wasn’t their problem. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14807]

I like the gaggle of Indian lads in hi-viz vests that get on at North Shields, stare at their phones while full chaos erupts around them and get off at Meadowell

[Alex 37287]

  On 01/03/2024 at 18:49, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I like the gaggle of Indian lads in hi-viz vests that get on at North Shields, stare at their phones while full chaos erupts around them and get off at Meadowell

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Aye, the metro security are fucking useless like. I might’ve mentioned it on here before but there were about 6 of them at four lane ends one time just stood next to this lass smoking a tab. She said something like ‘I’ll just finished this off’. Which, like her smoking, they just completely ignored. This other lad, nearby, just turned to them and said “Here, what do yous actually do?”  

[PaddockLad 19332]

Does anyone else have a major race named after the village they were brought up in? 😀

 

 

Edited March 2, 2024 by PaddockLad

[PaddockLad 19332]

Live on itv 👍

[Monkeys Fist 45838]

  On 02/03/2024 at 14:21, PaddockLad said:

Does anyone else have a major race named after the village they were brought up in? 😀

 

 

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You must have some fun memories of your childhood in Handicap. 

[Alex 37287]

  On 02/03/2024 at 14:21, PaddockLad said:

Does anyone else have a major race named after the village they were brought up in? 😀

 

 

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People from Derby  

[Gemmill 51221]

Team GB has got some top new indoor world champion pole vaulting clacker.

[RobinRobin 12671]

  On 03/03/2024 at 08:37, Gemmill said:

Team GB has got some top new indoor world champion pole vaulting clacker.

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And you wonder why there's so few females posting. 

[sammynb 3937]

  On 02/03/2024 at 14:21, PaddockLad said:

Does anyone else have a major race named after the village they were brought up in? 😀

 

 

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Did six horses actually finish?

Steeplechases and hurdles are ridiculous carnage for racing horses.

[Gemmill 51221]

  On 03/03/2024 at 08:54, RobinRobin said:

And you wonder why there's so few females posting. 

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Jess Ennis has just said her throat is hurting cos there was so much action in last night's session. Good lass.

[PaddockLad 19332]

  On 03/03/2024 at 09:13, sammynb said:

 

Did six horses actually finish?

Steeplechases and hurdles are ridiculous carnage for racing horses.

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It was a huge field for a hurdles race at a non elite course, 17. This was very likely due to the  sponsors boosting the prize fund so it paid more than the equivalent (2 mile) hurdles race at National Hunt’s premier racing festival at Cheltenham later this month. As far as I could make out all horses finished. 
 

Morebattle Hurdle named after this rural backwater  

 

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/yetholm/morebattle/index.html#google_vignette

 

 

 

 

 

[PaddockLad 19332]

  On 02/03/2024 at 15:43, Alex said:

People from Derby  

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Not a village. A Burgh of the “Danelaw”878-927 CE so hasn’t been for a fuckin long time  

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[Gemmill 51221]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/athletics/68459655

 

Fair play like, she fully commits to the Mickey Mouse impression in the post race interview. She earned every penny of that bet. 

[wykikitoon 23335]

My mate goes out with Lisanne de Witte. He's a sports photographer and knows Bol quite well, he said she's a great laugh.

I tried to get tickets for the indoor champs but couldn't get the ones I wanted.  Love it.

[Alex 37287]

  On 05/03/2024 at 20:58, wykikitoon said:

My mate goes out with Lisanne de Witte. He's a sports photographer and knows Bol quite well, he said she's a great laugh.

I tried to get tickets for the indoor champs but couldn't get the ones I wanted.  Love it.

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Is she any relation to Howie? 

[Howmanheyman 37158]

I've been offered a decent enough paid job at a good, growing company, still shifts but only 8's and maybe the odd half a shift on a Saturday morning every three weeks. It's been three months since I was made redundant and things were looking bleak job wise after I'd exhausted some good early leads because some of the few jobs available belonged in a Dicken's novel just going on the T&Cs. I honestly feel like crying with the relief of it. Easy to get to and no bad traffic time starts. Thank christ for that. 

 

Aaaaand breathe....