waters44

I missed this thread first time round during my year off the ‘keff. I had cancer of the ol balls back in 2013. You want to look out for a lump on your teste that feels a bit like a pea.

If you feel anything like that get to the doctor asap. My doctor couldn’t feel it first time round so I had to push for a scan as I knew something wasn’t right.

Had the scan on a Tuesday and was in the operating theatre on Thursday having the ball removed. Then one big flush of carboplatin chemotherapy which was absolutely brutal. I was ill for days, and just having a blanket on my skin was painful.

Five years of checks and then given the all clear in 2018. Had my 30th birthday, got engaged, all clear from cancer and England World Cup semi final all in the same week!

If anyone wants to talk about any of this or has any questions or anything please feel free to message me! 
 

EDIT the one upside is riding a bike is a bit easier now 🙂

😄 the bacon was a low point for sure

Its the Dusty Rhodes of fry ups compared to Frankie’s Ric Flair. Hard times baby

Butlins in a rush

Not too bad, high 6 / low 7. Plus - all you can eat, minus - no hash brown

“Strain the spuds” here in deepest Berkshire 

1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said:

Easily the worse thing about that video is the alignment of the TV at the end of the bed. Even if it’s a single persons bed who wants it off centre?

The TV on the radiator was more unsettling for me

Why slum it with the clown when you can eat with the King 

Well done to Everything Everywhere All At Once, what a great result for everyone involved last night! So pleased that Michelle Yeoh won best actress

I heard Nick Ferrari talking to a film critic about it earlier, poor Nick’s massive head was spinning “A woman working in a laundrette? In different time zones? Not for me”

31 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

I may have deleted you. But re-adding someone counts for the quest. 8496 7127 4955

Thanks - I’ve just added you

Jazzy has added me and so has squatswithducks (great name). But the bloody quest didn’t pop so perhaps I’ve got to add someone rather than the other way round. So I’m after codes now too!

11 hours ago, lanky316 said:

I'm guilty of "going soft" as I've aged

If there is anyone still playing who hasn’t already added me please can you send me a friend request? I need it for a quest

Edit - please send me your code

Thank you! 

9 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said:

The lady that plays Lynn Partridge is in it. 

Woah woah woah, Lynn's not his wife. She's his PA. Hard-worker, but there's no affection

Did you see Helwani’s takedown of Paddy Pimblett and Dana White? Helwani goes in hard and brings all the receipts in a fat envelope, don’t mess with him 

There were 20 wrestlers at Elimination Chamber and the average age was just under 37. It’s an interesting point to think about what effect this might all have long term - you forget that the numbers creep up (Lashley is 46!). There were only three wrestlers under 30 at the PPV

Is there any way of watching AAA in the UK?

I’ve definitely seen that and I’ve not watched any ECW TV, so it’s possibly on that Rise and Fall of ECW documentary they did (which was fantastic btw)

10 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said:

 

IGN reviews are the worst (Gameranx Before You Buy series is much better) but I watched that one and the tweet is a bit unfair to be honest. 
I’m looking forward to the game but keeping expectations pretty low!

Finally finished the show. Enjoyed it overall!

Rumble was ok and I loved Gunther. Shame there wasn’t really any surprises or anything a bit different (Elias quickly being eliminated, running to the back for a quick shave and coming back out as Ezekiel was right there!) but ah well! 

I echo the love for the main event! Everyone at their absolute peak. 

To cut a long story short my Step Mum is living with us at the moment and she was downstairs when watching the Womens Rumble and main event. It’s funny, she knows they can’t really be hurting each other badly but I think she does believe quite a bit of it. She was so pissed off that everyone ganged up on Nia Jax and was legit on the edge of her seat at the end (“she can’t see!!!!!”). It was quite cool to see someone like that over something we all know the ins and outs of. I imagine it’s a bit like how the old biddys saw the WOS stuff back in the 70s

During the stairs spot in the main event she almost screamed and I went full on JR with “this ain’t ballet Grandma!”. And during the beat down she said “Is this live? Someone should call the police!!”. So it added another sweet layer to watching a fairly decent show 

Wow thank you so much for all your kind words I can’t believe it! It really has cheered me up! He would be so chuffed that you remembered his farming exploits (especially crashing a tractor in to the lake 😄).

I had lots of phone calls like that. The last one was after he had been a bit poorly and not played it for a month or so. He wanted to play but couldn’t find the disc. My step Mum had been turning the house upside down looking for it but it had disappeared. He phoned me up asking if I had borrowed it as they couldn’t find it anywhere…. at that point I reminded him that he had downloaded it from the store rather then buy the disc.

Seeing all your lovely messages made me go through my texts with him again - there’s a couple below, I’m not sure if I posted them here or not. He really was a wonderful man who just enjoyed the simple things in life.

Thank you again for your words, it means the world to me. I’ve told my Step Mum that some of my “friends on the internet” enjoyed listening to stories about Dads farming and that got her reminiscing more too. So I had a really nice chat with her last night which was prompted by you guys too. 

“That’s me sorted”. Bless him ❤️

On 1/8/2023 at 10:03 AM, Lorne Malvo said:

@waters44?

I miss his dad's Farming Simulator updates.

Hi there! Just seen this notification - I haven’t logged in for a long time.

I’m really sorry to say the Farming Dad passed away last year after a short illness (he had just bought a PS4 Pro as well which he only switched on once!). He was only 62 and the family are all completely devastated. I’m going to play through all the FS games now in his memory

It really made me smile that you remembered him, he would have loved that too! If you want to see his stats (although I’m not sure it will be public tbh) his username was Foden-S21 

I hope you and your families are all well. Looks like I’ve got a lot of UKFF to catch up on, have I missed much?  

It was ok. But does anyone else feel its diminishing returns every time a Marvel film comes out now? 

I imagine that if you love the comics and know about all the different characters etc films like will be an absolute wet dream. But to us who have no idea about anything other than whats happening in the film, or has happened in previous films, I think the future is looking a bit grim.

I got completely swept up in the Infinity Saga and loved it, but now everything is getting out of hand. For 20 odd films we were introduced to a variety of characters all with their own battles but with Thanos looming over the whole thing. There was a direction and a culmination to look forward to. But now I don't see where its heading and more importantly I don't really care anymore. We've got multiple universes, variants, witchcraft, timey wimey stuff - its just getting a bit too mad and unenjoyable for me. 

Bruce Dickinson helps Mr Bean on the campaign trail and then Angus Deayton blows his brains out in front of Postman Pat. The 90s were great

Not a bad effort from my six year old