Random Irritations

[Slime]

Penalty shoot outs.

 

[Mudball]

..and a liar and manipulator into the bargain - on the personal side of course - testing his eyesight...yeh right. Funny how some who seemed to love him now hate him. Don’t think his character has changed. Btw - I have no love whatsoever for him.

I cant wait for his tell-all book to come out soon.. Make hay and all that..

 

[Mudball]

Been 10 days and some medical kit for repair being sent to Germany has been stuck w/ UPS in Reading... Everyday a frustrating battle with them to find whats happening... finally got a mail from the company

"I am sorry to hear about the issues currently faced with the shipment, we are arranging for this to be forwarded to Germany. Unfortunately certain packages are being delayed due to Br***. "
The vendor is kind enough to offer a replacement to replace it with a new one if this gets further delayed.

It does not matter which way you vote, but this is pants for everyone. Our process & tech has not been fully adapted five months into the year. The patient has to wait for the treatment because the kit is not here. The company now has to offer a new kit worth a few grands out of its pocket. As it is custom built, it will be a few weeks before this resolves. UPS getting a kicking from all sides.

Somedays all this will pass..

 

[Crazyface]

Over nearly 150yrs plenty of Scottish clubs have won one of the two cups in the same season, but outside of the OF only (Ferguson’s) Aberdeen have done it, and even though they are the club of the 3rd largest Scottish city they have only done it twice. As the club of a provincial city of under 50,000 population, what St Johnstone have just done is unlikely to EVER be repeated.

But I guess rather than recognise and celebrate the achievement of the club it’s easier for south of the border to dismiss it or make a joke of it...QED.

Just hang on a minute. Wasn't this reported to the rafters in Scotland? If not, have a pop at the sports reporting up there. You, I think, are living in England, so why should we concern ourselves on Scottish football? It got reported sure enough, on most sports programmes I saw anyway, just now wall to wall coverage. If you want wall to wall reporting on Scottish football, watch Scottish sport reports. I follow Benfica, and if I want to see reporting on that I search the net for it. I don't sit watching English TV expecting them to report on them.

 

[Orikoru]

Our garden. Just mowed the lawn, nostrils now full of the scent of cat again. Five million ants all over the patio, thrown about half a bottle of ant powder down. Really need to finally bite the bullet, throw money at the problem and get the whole thing paved over (with a new patio, decking and artificial grass that is). Next door's poplar tree dropping fluff absolutely everywhere, you'd think it was snowing - not much we can do about that though. Sigh.

 

[RichA]

Our garden. Just mowed the lawn, nostrils now full of the scent of cat again. Five million ants all over the patio, thrown about half a bottle of ant powder down. Really need to finally bite the bullet, throw money at the problem and get the whole thing paved over (with a new patio, decking and artificial grass that is). Next door's poplar tree dropping fluff absolutely everywhere, you'd think it was snowing - not much we can do about that though. Sigh.

All my neighbours have cats. Their activities in our garden make me very unhappy.
The only harmless repellents I've had any success with are putting spiky rose, holly and mahonia cuttings around the spots they favour and making a spray from cayenne pepper and water and squirting it around the same areas. They don't like the spicy stuff.
Can't help you with outdoor ants and tree pollen.

 

[Imurg]

Anyone can have my cat
The only cat in the world that s in its own garden

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Anyone can have my cat
The only cat in the world that s in its own garden

Ours does too

And no we don’t want yours ?

 

[ColchesterFC]

Anyone can have my cat
The only cat in the world that s in its own garden

I can beat that. My two will come in from the garden to on the floor right next to their litter tray. And will then get into the litter tray to have a pee.

 

[Imurg]

Cats are Gits

 

[GuyInLyon]

Penalty shoot outs.

It worked for Villarreal.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Cats are Gits

Cats are brilliant. I had one that would try to bring fully grown male pheasants in through the cat flap while they were still alive. Used to make one hell of a racket.

Anyone that doesn't like cats was a mouse in a previous life.

 

[Foxholer]

Ten pages of football reporting in yesterday‘s Guardian and not a single sentence about the Scottish Cup Final (and I read of same coverage in the Sunday Times).

That it was won by St Johnstone - a very tightly run football club from a small provincial Scottish city - to make a 2020/21 cup double, the only club other than the OF and Ferguson’s Aberdeen of the early 1980s to EVER have done so - doesn’t seem to merit recognition and that is disappointing to say the least. For an achievement as, if not more, stupendous than Leicester Cities EPL win.

Indeed the generally held view is that what St Johnstone have achieved - the cup double (to go with 5th in the league and European football) - is possibly, perhaps probably, the greatest achievement by a Scottish club EVER and one unlikely to be repeated outside of the OF...well...not worth a mention it appears.?

And of course St Gerrard is Manager of the Year. Yeh right. We all (and the decent OF fans on here agree) know that MotY is Callum Davidson. Share? Not chance, can’t have the manager of a diddy club having same recognition as the manager of the mighty Rangers...?

I suspect that none of the above will be known by the vast majority of football followers outside Scotland. And that blindness simply perpetuates the commonly held view in England that the only Scotttish teams worth their salt are Celtic and Rangers..when in fact there are other teams that play more than half decent football.

Rant over...

I'd have liked to have seen at least a joint/shared award - reflecting Gerrard's unbeaten League season and Davidson's Cup Double - in his 1st year in charge!
But FWIW, Scottish football, OF excepted, IS forgettable outside Scotland - even for those of us who have 'been there, watched it' while (working) there! To me, it equates to mediocre English 1st Division level at best! But that shouldn't stop (proper) fans being just as dedicated as those following top teams anywhere.
As for many OF 'fans'...I don't believe it's 'Football' that's the reason they 'follow' their team!

 

[RichA]

Cats are brilliant. I had one that would try to bring fully grown male pheasants in through the cat flap while they were still alive. Used to make one hell of a racket.

The night of the storm in the mid-80s, I was staying at my sister's in Kent. It was rough - electricity went down early evening and we could hear the chimney rocking in the wind. I slept in the dining room, next to the kitchen where the cats hung out. During the night, the two cats dragged a live rabbit in through the flap and spent about 2 hours torturing it to death. No lights so couldn't do anything about it. They can scream. In the morning light, the kitchen looked like the set from a slasher movie.
Not keen on cats. Really miss my dog.

 

[sunshine]

It‘s the fact of a cup DOUBLE by a small provincial team in the face of competition by a good few wealthier - two hugely wealthier - opponents. Many teams have won one or the other over the decades...but not both.

That this has not been done by anyone other than the OF since Aberdeen did it 30yrs ago, and that it is quite possible that a non-OF team will NEVER do it again, is what IMO and that of most non-OF supporters in Scotland makes it newsworthy of a wider audience. It’s not that StJ did it - it’s that a team like StJ has done it.

Anyway...on behalf of supporters of the little clubs across the UK I reserve the right to remain irritated.??

5th best team in Scotland win two cups, beating a range of second rate teams en route. Hardly earth shattering.

Villareal achieved a lot more last night.

To compare it with Leicester winning the league is comical hyperbole

 

[Orikoru]

All my neighbours have cats. Their activities in our garden make me very unhappy.
The only harmless repellents I've had any success with are putting spiky rose, holly and mahonia cuttings around the spots they favour and making a spray from cayenne pepper and water and squirting it around the same areas. They don't like the spicy stuff.
Can't help you with outdoor ants and tree pollen.

Yep, I think all the cats from our neighbourhood specifically come to our garden for that purpose, they think it's their bloody toilet.

 

[RichA]

Yep, I think all the cats from our neighbourhood specifically come to our garden for that purpose, they think it's their bloody toilet.

A few years ago, it irritated me enough to keep a loaded Supersoaker by the back door. It worked too. Might have to dig it out of the garage.

 

[Orikoru]

A few years ago, it irritated me enough to keep a loaded Supersoaker by the back door. It worked too. Might have to dig it out of the garage.

That would be fun and all, but it only works if you see them, ha. Days I'm in the office the garden is defenceless.

 

[Tongo]

The "it's gonna be hotter than Ibiza / Rome / Tenerife" shtick that is always rolled on on the rare occasion that the weather is alright in the UK.

 

[Ser Shankalot]

Bank holiday weekend traffic.