Ronnie

1 hour ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Let's put all instances of ongoing Tory cunting in this thread instead of ballsing up the other threads with it.

Mark Field!

You and the media just can't help sharing your biases, can you? Here you are fixated on one individual in the video but do you make a single mention of all the people jumping in to defuse the situation? Of course not. You just act as though they were all sitting there tacitly endorsing it, as though there no empathy whatsoever on show.

5 hours ago, Loki said:

Perhaps now you're released from that burden, you could try a different approach

That family holiday was two years ago now and I didn't get harpooned, so I can stick with being wider than I am tall without having to contemplate anything awful like exercise.

(Actually, my BionicGym should be arriving this week. Perfect for a lazy man.)

5 hours ago, Loki said:

Steiner shape?

That's what's missing! My old Steiner profile pic! Thanks for the prompting; I've tracked it down again

Just now, Ronnie said:

What about you? Any non-wrestling-related stories of when you just tapped out?

Getting in there first before anybody else writes "Yeah, about two paragraphs into your tedious, overly long post, Ron."

My dad joked with me at my brother's 30th about how the entire family was going on a holiday but that they hadn't extended the invitation to us because they knew we'd say no. We're really not the sort to sit around on sun loungers at poolside, so this was an entirely reasonable conclusion. Nonetheless, I thought I'd quite enjoy seeing the younger members of the family having fun on what would be for most of them their first trip abroad, so I signed up too, bringing the total to 19.

About three weeks out from the event, I began feeling rather apprehensive at the fact that I'd be topless around people and at risk of getting harpooned if any Japanese or Norwegians were in the area. So I did what made sense to me and got a gym membership. After all, everybody knows that the best way to make five stone disappear is to half-heartedly push something or wave your arms about for twenty minutes or so every now and again.

To no surprise, it didn't work and I arrived on one of the Canary islands a big gelatinous blob ... and it turned out that I was one of the thinner people there! Everybody else was a curious red colour too, as were half my family when I saw them for breakfast on the second morning. (That'll be why the Spanish call us shrimp, then.)

I've had my gym membership since then. That was exactly two years ago and I haven't been once. Every time I saw the monthly fee coming out of my account, I felt rancorous, particularly in those months when I've been within a few quid of hitting my overdraft. But I never did cancel it, imagining I'd feel disgusted with myself at having to acknowledge that I'm too lazy to go to the gym even once. And so for two years those payments have kept coming out.

Until this evening. I headed to the gym (driving naturally) and put a stop to it, cancelling my standing order when I got back home. I've accepted defeat. I'm too lazy to go to the gym even once in two years. I thought I'd feel terrible at having to accept the realisation but, nah, I don't care. I think more than anything else I'm feeling quite happy knowing that I'm not going to be throwing away a few hundred quid every year on something that I don't use.

What about you? Any non-wrestling-related stories of when you just tapped out?

35 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

a sensible chap like you, Ronnie.

I'm still in bed having achieved nothing this afternoon ☹️

The HP wasn't supposed to touch the fish. Most of it was intended to stay in the bottle.

3 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Ketchup and Gravy?

Alas, no, didn't think of that!

That's HP. More of it than intended, too. Most of it was still there afterwards. I suppose I should've mopped it with some bread to do a proper #eatclean job, shouldn't I? 

Am I doing this correctly?

That was great but I think I need a lie-down. I don't think I'm going to get much work done this afternoon.

I knew I shouldn't but I did it anyway. The better half is working away and won't be back until tomorrow, so all discipline's been thrown out the window. I should probably rethink tonight's trip to the pub too. I should but I won't. My brain is even telling me "It'll take you an hour to walk there and another to get home (plus more time for the zig-zag factor) so it's exercise."

It happens to me too Moo (Chrome on Android) but only on this site; it doesn't happen on any of my IPS sites or IPS's own one. Which version of the software are you using? The current one is 4.4.4.

2 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yeah, Chuka chucked them last week

Ahh ... I was out of the country. That would explain it! Got three weeks' worth of The New European piled up too with another due today. I seem to have run out of steam.

That's me out of the loop, then! I thought he'd defected to the LibDems yesterday. You mean he left a couple of weeks ago, went independent again, and then joined the Libs? What a palaver!

5 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Has another one gone?

It's still early! Plenty of time for more to follow Umunna once the news reaches them that he departed yesterday evening.

11 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

They now have the same amount of words in their name as they have MPs.  Well, at least for now.

This aged well!

They're having to change their name again! That's the third time in four months.

The non-partisan change.org took legal advice back when TIG adopted the name Change UK. As a result, please welcome to the party The Independent Group for Change!

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

"only if you'll actually play it." She challenged. 

I reckon I cleared the cost at £1 per hour within the first 60 hours of getting home with the game! Couldn't get me off it for years!

I think I'm probably guilty of not separating the Irish out from the British there.

That might be a fair point regarding the other nationalities. I'm afraid it's the first I'm aware of it but I'm quite happy to put my hands up and say that I'm not a frequenter of the places which would be attractive to that type of partygoer. (Any type of partygoer, actually.)

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People are people in the end, and I think it's unfair to claim we're terrible and everyone else is a bastion of decency and sensibility. That kind of stereotyping is almost as bad as saying we're the decent, hard-working stiff upper lip Brits who put up with the lazy scroungers who come here.

1) I didn't say "Brits are X". I spoke about "a proportion". 2) I didn't say "everyone else is Y". I said I wasn't aware of this characteristic of a proportion of Brits being a feature elsewhere. I'm happy to have been corrected but would've preferred you do so without the misrepresentation that I engaged in "that kind of stereotyping".

22 minutes ago, David said:

Arseholes are arseholes, no matter what language they're talking.

Yep. You won't find me arguing otherwise.

22 minutes ago, David said:

The rest of our politicians simply don't match up, and that's more a reflection on them than it is him being anything special.

I said the same thing the other night when somebody I'd never heard of was mentioned as a candidtate for the premiership. There's a definitely distinct lack of gravitas, weight, charisma, call it what you will. 

34 minutes ago, David said:

How the fuck he, as someone who's been hyper-critical of the EU at every turn, can end up amassing enough votes to even possibly get back into the European Parliament is astounding, and a damning indictment of the current political scene in the UK.

In my view, it's damning indictment of our population that we a huge proportion of voters who have for years been willing to send people into a parliament purely to disrupt and deride it. But then we have a proportion of people who think nothing of going to other people's countries, behaving like yobs and leaving their streets covered with vomit. I'm not aware of any of our neighbours that act like this, certainly nobody who comes here. These features seem to be something of English Exceptionalism. The sending of people like Farage to the EP appears to me to be a facet of that, as is the idea that everybody should contribute to the EU's budget but that we somehow deserve one third of our contribution back. I don't know why the EU wants to put up with us, really. We've been appalling neighbours since day one.

Go on, which of you was it?

Thank you for apologising, @Hannibal Scorch. I accept that you weren't aware of the temporary visibility of spoilers whilst the page loads. It's not normally a problem if you're loading a page from the top because the visibility happens off-screen. But if you click to view the last post or the last unread post and that contains the spoiler, then the tag is front and centre as soon as the page loads rather than elsewhere on the page.

This is what it looks like, using something which isn't a spoiler really:

It's not enough time to read a tonne of text but more than enough to register an image.

Nonetheless, given that this in an unrelated thread and that people do use spoiler tags to hide joke content/large images etc, you really should have indicated what it was you were spoiling. People would be at fault for going into a MITB and clicking a spoiler if they didn't want to know anything about that event; they can't realistically never reveal the content of a spoiler tag in other topics on the off-chance that it refers to something unrelated to the topic though.

19 minutes ago, Accident Prone said:

MITB Spoiler. Don't open if you haven't watched it yet.

I didn't need to open it. It was open for a split second whilst the page loaded. Great move by @Hannibal Scorch there. Aren't there rules about posting spoilers before people have had a chance to see the event, nevermind posting the content in an unrelated thread with no indication of what lies beneath?

4 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Pathetic.

Compounded by the fact that they changed their Twitter handle a couple of weeks and made a mess of that too. Rather than keep the old handle, they left it free for anyone else to use, so it was picked up by some other people. Meanwhile, some of their candidates' websites, promotional material etc of course uses the old handle: https://twitter.com/TheIndGroup

11 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Is that four stacked lines their logo?

Yep. It was originally this:

, which is awful too. But the Electoral Commission said no to it on the basis that they can't control what a hashtag is associated with and the name TIG wouldn't be clear to voters. And so their candidates won't have a logo on ballot papers. The two-patty hamburger is their rather insipid follow-up.

It happens to me on this site but not on any of my own. There was some other silliness with Chrome which was promptly despatched by an update a few versions ago. I suspect this site isn't running the latest version.

I've just arrived home from Gatwick having visited the Cinque Terre villages (south of Genoa) for the bank holiday. My better half and I don't have any kids and our mutual interest is travelling, so every break from work tends to get filled with a trip abroad. If you're willing to get up at 3am and get back in around midnight or even later, you can get three full days abroad over bank holidays. That's something we've been doing for a few years. This bank holiday was Italy, the next will be Kiev, and August's will be heading to some cities outside Madrid called Segovia and Ávila.

We hope to have visited every country in Europe within the next few years. There are around ten still left to do. We'll be ticking off a few over the next few months, with 9 days in Russia (St Petersburg and Moscow), a two-week break landing in Bulgaria and returning from Romania, and an October drive around Cyprus.

38 minutes ago, Magnum Milano said:

"If he was a real journalist..."

Frank Deford once said that Meltzer was the most accomplished reporter in sports journalism. That's some pretty good backing considering Deford had over half a century with Sports Illustrated. 

8 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said:

Did this not come about when set-up footage from a WrestleMania made the rounds with the caption “VINCE GOING BLIND!!!” and it was quickly debunked?

Yep. It was because this gif was shared:

It was conveniently cut from a lengthier piece of footage from a documentary.