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Random Irritations

Neighbour telling me the trampoline is an eye sore and I should put it somewhere else in my garden... which is true but you keep that to yourself when your house looks like a favela and is a complete eyesore, although his garden is nicely maintained ???
 
Neighbour telling me the trampoline is an eye sore and I should put it somewhere else in my garden... which is true but you keep that to yourself when your house looks like a favela and is a complete eyesore, although his garden is nicely maintained ???
A few years go the kid next door thought she was going to be a world champion on the trampoline. Hours of practice every night.
Annoyingly catching our eye when we were trying to watch and listen to our TV.
BTW she was no lightweight when landing with a slap from a great height lol.
But we never complained, kids need fun and exercise :censored:
 
Out of boredom I purchased the latest Football Manager, and then within 10 minutes remembered why I hate all the new Football Managers. Way too complicated. Might try and refund it.
I’m not a fan of the new Footy Manager’s either. I started a new game of Champ Manager 97/98 on Sunday, via a free download ran through an MSDOS emulator. Still one of the best versions of the game. Currently into January, with Middlesbrough and leading Division 1. Paul Merson is a revelation in it. To be fair he was pretty special in real life that season. I can’t believe that is 23 seasons ago.
 
I’m not a fan of the new Footy Manager’s either. I started a new game of Champ Manager 97/98 on Sunday, via a free download ran through an MSDOS emulator. Still one of the best versions of the game. Currently into January, with Middlesbrough and leading Division 1. Paul Merson is a revelation in it. To be fair he was pretty special in real life that season. I can’t believe that is 23 seasons ago.
I've been playing CM01/02 for the last year since I found the old disk at my parents' house. But unfortunately a few days back it basically crashed with a 'system memory' error which doesn't let me save or load new games, in fact it lost my current save that I had nearly 4 seasons on. Which is partly why I bought the new one, as I say I'm slightly regretting the fact that I did, but I'll probably play it still. It just takes some getting used to when you've been playing the near-20-year-old version. :LOL:

Actually where did you get that 97/98 download from?? Sorely tempted myself - I think that was the first one I ever had when I was a lad. Remember some legendary names on there, like Jose Chilavert in goal and Michael Twiss in attack!
 
Joe Wicks. Literally can't stand the bloke and his shouty my way is best.

Today posting videos about how pre Covid19 he took years to struggle to get to 800k YouTube subscribers but since Covid-19 he has rocketed to 2.2million thus improving his bank balance.

But of course he is doing it out of kindness, funny then the next post is him readvertising his 90 day plans to his 2.2million subscribers for a special offer of £50each...
 
We pay for my sons mobile phone on the same account as my wife's. Due to massive untracked (and hence unexpected) cost of download data in the past she asked Vodafone to put a monthly cap of £24 on the cost each for them both. This was done. As soon as either of them exceeded their £24/month cap they'd get sent warning messages. Their bill this month was over £100 - and no messages received by her or our son. She called Vodafone and they agreed their system had not sent the text messages. And she got the bill reduced to £48.

This is excellent but all well and good. If a DD had been set up to automatically pay the monthly charge we'd now be in that mess of trying to get money back from them. And we shouldn't have got to the £100+ bill position.

The incompetency of Vodafone over the years has been staggering - she keeps intending to move and I don't honestly know why she hasn't. That said - we must find out why the heck they've used so much data. Now that really irritates me. That a mobile/smart phone bill can be over £100 a month...when we have unlimited broadband at home.
 
Saving the nation a recipe at a time...all out of the goodness of his heart of course.
I've got time for him and his seemingly fairly slap-dash cooking ways...what he does with any money he makes at this time, well - if he keeps many of us amused and informed then so be it. And of course we don;t know what causes he might support and put such income to.

But I can get the irritation with some on the screen at the moment...
 
Joe Wicks, Jamie Oliver etc etc. I have no problem with some managing to make hay whilst covid 19 wreaks havoc BUT their pious "we're doing it for you guys" just grates.
100% in agreement with you. I can't stand Joe Wicks at best of times. But to claim what he's doing in the interest of the nation is garbage especially seeing how he is using it for coverage of making money.

My other pet hate with him is his latest venture of Wean in 15.. Supposedly he now knows better than paediatric doctors and health care workers on how every parent should Wean their children even though he has no expertise or qualifications in the area but is writing a book about it and has its own social media feeds already.
 
100% in agreement with you. I can't stand Joe Wicks at best of times. But to claim what he's doing in the interest of the nation is garbage especially seeing how he is using it for coverage of making money.

My other pet hate with him is his latest venture of Wean in 15.. Supposedly he now knows better than paediatric doctors and health care workers on how every parent should Wean their children even though he has no expertise or qualifications in the area but is writing a book about it and has its own social media feeds already.

I've never really listened to him as he immediately gets on my nerves and just doesn't look like a guy I want to take health and fitness advice from! Perhaps that's part of his mainstream appeal...
 
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