comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 46 seconds ago
comment by Robbing Cromwell - agent of the hierarchy. (U6374)
posted 5 minutes ago
There's a lot to be said for getting exceptionally drunk over a 12 hour period in a place where you can't be thrown out.
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Now that’s what I miss. 7.30am kick off, down the supporters club, stay for the 10am. Sure may as well watch the 12.30 match too. Oh look, there’s Aspas, best watch the afternoon Spanish match.....

Granted it’s old age and having a kid, rather than Covid keeping me away but still..day drinking mmmmmm
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I'm pretty sure there will be murders when the open the boozers here, especially during the Euros.

Some absolutely lovely pubs in Nottingham. I do enjoy getting utterly sh!t faced down by the river even now.

comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Fat Pranks (U22336)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Fat Pranks (U22336)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
I’ve gotten used to drinking at home now. 18 cans of beer for 12-15 quid.

That’s 4 poxy pints in a pub.

I’ve just spent thousands doing up my garden with a new fence, big plastic shed, new flower beds, decking, garden furniture, garden parasol with LED lights (it’s the nuts) and big barrel BBQ.

Fack going out, I think I’ll be entertaining from home this year
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Big barrel bbq!!!????

You better get used to smoking sausage!
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You know that babes, mans loves smoking meat
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Yeah I recall some story of yours involving camping overnight in a pickup truck with some fella
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I’m strictly a vaginaa man I’m afraid,

Don’t be afraid

comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fat Pranks (U22336)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Fat Pranks (U22336)
posted 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
I’ve gotten used to drinking at home now. 18 cans of beer for 12-15 quid.

That’s 4 poxy pints in a pub.

I’ve just spent thousands doing up my garden with a new fence, big plastic shed, new flower beds, decking, garden furniture, garden parasol with LED lights (it’s the nuts) and big barrel BBQ.

Fack going out, I think I’ll be entertaining from home this year
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Big barrel bbq!!!????

You better get used to smoking sausage!
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You know that babes, mans loves smoking meat
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Yeah I recall some story of yours involving camping overnight in a pickup truck with some fella
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Ahh I remember “the real thing” except it wasn’t a fella it was some french chick and it wasn’t some pick up it was a treehouse in bayton rouge Louisiana ffs

Just cause he said his name was Jean doesn’t make him a French woman

Not even sure thst makes any sense. Supping on a 10.5% Belgian quad while my baps rise

When’s your clocks go forward? This 4 he difference throws me off kilter

comment by Manfrombelmonty (U1705)
posted about 9 hours ago
Just cause he said his name was Jean doesn’t make him a French woman
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Shiiiiit I don’t even remember her name, mans was 15 at the time.

comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 18 hours, 58 minutes ago
Enjoy the summer. We have all earned it. Brace yourself for a lockdown in November/December though.
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Hopefully that won't be necessary. Hopefully just some light restrictions at most.

comment by Dr Sheldon Cooper (U1217)
posted 4 seconds ago
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 18 hours, 58 minutes ago
Enjoy the summer. We have all earned it. Brace yourself for a lockdown in November/December though.
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Hopefully that won't be necessary. Hopefully just some light restrictions at most.
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Unless the vaccine proves ineffective, that would be entirely pointless otherwise every winter will be spent in lockdown.

People will always die, just need to minimise the impact on hospitals which is the point of the vaccine isn't it?

Vaccines are aiming to break the tie between cases and hospitalisations and deaths, but the latter will always happen.

Cases in themselves aren't an issue. Maybe I'm wrong

Cases aren't the issue. For instance, I believe as of yesterday children at around primary school age were the age bracket with the highest number of Covid cases, I think something like 1600 for this particular day. However, (hopefully) the number of hospitalisations are very limited as that particular age group stand a much higher chance of being "ok" than what vulnerable or elderly people do.

There will always be cases and there will always be deaths unfortunately because this vaccine (like every other vaccine) is not 100% effective. However, even an 80% effective vaccine would still be massively helpful.

E.g. On average if 100 people receive an 80% effective vaccine, only 20 of those 100 people would the vaccine be "ineffective" on. The other 80 people will either develop an immunity or will stand a much higher chance of not becoming seriously ill. Of those 20 people, you then have to look at how many will suffer seriously (elderly/vulnerable) and how many will be "ok" (likely children/fit and healthy people). The numbers that are likely to be elderly or vulnerable are probably going to be single figures, if you were to estimate. Therefore, if these single figures were to be hospitalised, as sad as that is for those, from a public perspective that's greatly reduced from what the numbers are or have been for the past 6 months.

A ship has got stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking off loads of other ships. Might take days to shift it and oil prices have already gone up

comment by Dr Sheldon Cooper (U1217)
posted 3 minutes ago
A ship has got stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking off loads of other ships. Might take days to shift it and oil prices have already gone up
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So that's going to slow down ships coming into port in the UK as well then, brilliant. They are already going 8 knots an hour at around the Spain area whereas they usually go 20+ knots.

comment by Dr Sheldon Cooper (U1217)
posted 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
A ship has got stuck sideways in the Suez Canal, blocking off loads of other ships. Might take days to shift it and oil prices have already gone up
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City preparing a £200m bid for Haaland...

comment by Robbing Cromwell - agent of the hierarchy. (U6374)
posted 16 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by The Mane Man (U19731)
posted 9 seconds ago
I have made a lot of money with crypto in the last year so there are positives with this lockdown.
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Another regret of mine. My mate has made an awful lot of money exactly as he said he would and just as he told me to do. He's buying a canal boat which will be lush.
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You still have a chance to make money in the crypto space at this moment before the big correction occurs. I bought a coin at 0,30 dollar cent last year and it is now 13 dollar a coin.

It is a chance for us to escape the slave system which is only made to make the rich people and politicians richer.

which coins though is the tough part

Imagine earning loads of money through crypto and wasting it on a canal boat...

Trebled my money on Ethereum using a tracker fund rather than holding it direct. Perhaps a mistake as I'll inevitably incur brokerage when I sell it but hey ho.

Also bought it at a shiiiiit time so delighted it went up in value.

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My regret is from early 00's not investing in properties. Remember my dad telling me to invest in a 20k house which is worth 200k today but instead I was more interested in birds and my Honda Prelude.

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comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - PL Champione (U1108)
posted 45 seconds ago
My regret is from early 00's not investing in properties. Remember my dad telling me to invest in a 20k house which is worth 200k today but instead I was more interested in birds and my Honda Prelude.
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I was never in a position to do that when the time was right. The issue I had was not buying in a place where property values rose. A mate of mine bought a place in Brixton for 230k and sold 6 years later for 600k.
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Yeah big difference between London and Huddersfield to be fair. I just came out of uni and was on 12k a year my first job so a 20k mortgage was easily manageable while living at home.

comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - PL Champione (U1108)
posted 32 minutes ago
My regret is from early 00's not investing in properties. Remember my dad telling me to invest in a 20k house which is worth 200k today but instead I was more interested in birds and my Honda Prelude.
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My old man had the opportunity to buy a block of flats the navy were selling off in the 80s with some mates, 4 of them, 26k for 40 flats In a block.

Each flat is now worth 120k..

As for lockdown,. Only 34, no kids..

Works been crazy busy so I have been too tired to want to socialise much, but I'm my brother's support bubble so go to his twice a week, we play FM11 together, we are racing to see who can win the CL first as an Irish team on a network game..

I play board games and have beers weekly with my mates on Tabletop Simulator, it's got voice chat, we are actually doing something while chatting, and the beer is much nicer..

Im a really good cook, so on my days off I cook proper meals rather than your average weekday fare. Saved loads of money doing this.

My days off instead of visiting the cinema+ a meal out have been spent fixing fences, felling trees, chopping firewood, increasing the size of our veg garden, redoing the polytunnel (and making plans for a second) I've taken up cycling as a hobby again rather than just a commute (gonna use some lockdown savings for an e-bike)

Taken up yoga too, my three slipped discs gave come on really well as a result, even with the increased workload.. upped my fruit and veg intake massively and feel generally like a different person.

To replace the cinema we got a new TV: biiig one, 4k.. walk the dog once a week with mum, once a week with dad (to stick within the rules) so our dogs (who are brothers) see each other and I keep in touch. Deliver post to the sister I likes house once a week so see neices/nephews through the door and always take them a little gift..

Honestly I'm coming out of lockdown a happier, more productive, healthier individual and we've got 6k in the travel account so will have a couple of big holidays post vaccines (depending on target country vaccine rate/infection rate)

I wish I understood how to invest in crypto.. I really really do

comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - PL Champione (U1108)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
My regret is from early 00's not investing in properties. Remember my dad telling me to invest in a 20k house which is worth 200k today but instead I was more interested in birds and my Honda Prelude.
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It's not all as simple as what you'd believe it to be.

With all the safety regulations you have to account for, there is also the rights that tenants get these days. If you get an awkward one in your house, you end up paying for everything. It would be your obligation to sort out a broken boiler at 3:30AM for example if they ring you up. You end up paying for damages to the household if somebody leaves it in a state. You can't just throw them people out either.

I know somebody who has lost a lot of money through houses that they own. Although, it is rewarding though if you can get it right.