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I got obsessed with the birds in my garden during lockdown. Came across a feeder my old neighbour left behind and, before I knew it, I bought about 20 different types of feeders and varying foods for each one. Iāve calmed down a bit and now have 13 feeders and 6 food types.
I get so many different birds, I love watching them - blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, robins, gold finch, green finch, dunnocks, sparrows, starlings, nuthatch, jays, parakeets, great spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, jackdaws, magpies, crows, wood pigeons and gulls. I did once have a pheasant land in the garden and often see red kites flying overhead.
Just yesterday I heard screeching and managed to catch sight of some sort of predatory bird (either kite or hawk) catching a smaller bird in the garden and flying off.
I also get foxes, muntjac deer and badgers. Itās like The Animals of Farthing Wood in my garden!
I set up an Instagram account a while back to share some of my photos -Ā https://instagram.com/wild.en5
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I canāt count properly. A source of great embarrassment in certain circumstances. Canāt do my times tables except for 2, 5 and 10, canāt do equations, percentages, long division/multiplication, and struggle with listening to numbers and writing them down, e.g. if someone is telling me their phone number. I also canāt remember important numbers that I should know such as my mortgage rate. I go and do something in the kitchen when the numbers round comes on Puzzling because I canāt do those sums where you have to divide the pepperoni.
However, give me an Excel spreadsheet and I will write the most complicated formulas, functions and logic with pivot tables and conditional formatting to make stuff happen automatically so that I donāt have to do it manually. And one of my favourite rounds in Puzzling is where they have the time in the mirror or letters at the clock points. No idea is this is an ADHD/autism thing.
I canāt kneel or run. Iām right-handed, write with my right but do lots of stuff with my left hand, wear my watch on the right and do a lot of things backwards. I canāt play guitar - my brother tried teaching me but I couldnāt co-ordinate my left hand to hold the chords. I canāt play piano because I canāt make my hands do two different things at the same time.
I canāt burp either. I do these squeaky hiccup things. I used to love burping but bariatric surgery robbed me of that pleasure over 10 years ago. Also canāt swallow tablets.
I canāt drink water. It just makes me gag. Even when Iām brushing my teeth I canāt swallow any water. It feels thick and gloopy and I donāt like the taste. If I have squash then it has to be at least 3:1 squash to water. If I have ice which melts and dilutes my drink then I canāt drink it any more.
I can, however, rewire a plug, change a fuse, check the oil/water/washer fluid in my car, measure and drill holes (without making a mess), paint a wall (brush and roller), and I reckon I could do a decent job at some other stuff like wallpapering, plastering or mixing cement having watched my dad so many times. Iām also not bad at cutting hair. I enjoy watching people at work and really absorb techniques and how to go about things.
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On 7/2/2023 at 3:32 PM, Egg Shen said:
How was the show Monkee? I told myself id never goto Hyde Park to see another show, but I would make an exception for a Golden Circle ticket.
It was fantastic. I was actually really impressed by Axlās voice and his energy through the whole show. Slash really does have the charisma of a Brussels sprout though.
I actually swapped the spare Gold Circle for a VIP Terrace ticket - great view and better facilities. The guy who swapped with me had friends in the GC but, by the time he went to buy his ticket, theyād sold out and only VIP was left. So we were both totally made up with the exchange.
I donāt think Iāll ever get a GA ticket for a show in Hyde Park. I had a free ticket (Gold Circle) for Pink the other week but watched Gwen Stefani from GA with a friend. The sound isnāt as good and the delay on the screens was bloody awful.
Now that Ticketmaster and the like do payment plans on a lot of tickets, Iād rather spread the cost of a more expensive ticket than have to do GA again.
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Bit short notice but I have one spare gold circle ticket for Guns Nā Roses in Hyde Park tomorrow, selling for Ā£100 if anyoneās interested.
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10 hours ago, Shy Dad said:
14 hours in a car yesterday for a 3 hour journey.
Got onto disabled camping at 2am, people still arriving at 4/5am. Fucking horrific.
Luckily nothing was dampening my mood so that worked perfect to keep my spirits up.
Hope today improved for you! I had no issues getting in today. Iām at a hotel 20mins away and it literally took that time to get to the South Car Park and drive straight into the Access area. I read about the long queue for Access wristbands too but it was less than 10mins. Guess I got lucky.
Highlights of today for me were The Bronx, Alter Bridge, Skindred and Metallica.
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My bad, never mind.
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Just for clarity - I was actually trying to get into my own messages as a few times I thought Iād managed to finally log in. But every time I tried to get into MY inbox it was showing me someone elseās. I didnāt read any of the conversations I saw and have no interest in doing so.
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Nah, thatās not me to call someone out like that, especially not publicly. If thatās the person they are then thatās up to them. I hope this little glitch makes people take more of a look at themselves though.
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I donāt say anything behind someoneās back that I wouldnāt say to their face so if anyone saw my messages then Iām fine with that. But it was definitely interesting to see whoās being two-faced - slagging someone off behind closed doors but having happy little chats with them in private.
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I was 42 different users over about 7 hours. I got a bit addicted to refreshing and seeing who else I was.
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12 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:
The other tag is āNo reality tv bollocksā. Sorry about your shit phone.Ā
Iām not sorry about my iPhone 14. Sorry about your shit attitude.
11 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:You can probably use this one if it helps Ā -Ā
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Thanks very much! This is more like the response I expected and itās appreciated.
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11 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:
No, check the thread tags.Ā
I only see one tag for threads on my phone so if there are more than one then theyāre not there. I only see āFuck Off Duaneā so if thereās another one I donāt see it. Regardless, your handbag is showing.
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14 hours ago, Merzbow said:
Interview With The Vampire is surprisingly great for a modern "reboot", doesn't shy away from being horny as fuck either. The basic premise is a more mature Louis is retelling his story to the same reporter decades later and works really well.
I watched the original last night and I donāt think itās aged well. Iām interested in seeing the reboot though and what it does differently.
On a different, but still TV-related, noteā¦ Am I allowed to mention Iām a Celeb round these parts? I have a huge crush on Chris Moyles and Iām stupidly excited that heās going into the jungle. Heās mates with Boy George too so Iām hoping for some good entertainment there.
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Premier Inn in Archway is a good shout. Even if you miss the tube thereās the N20 night bus thatās only about 15mins. Also central for anything else you might want to do while youāre there.
Thereās a Travelodge in Finsbury Park as well which again is close to the tube and on the N29 bus route.
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I hadnāt even heard anything about this. So my perspective - regardless of whose opinion that is, itās nothing new. Keanu Reeves has been slated his entire career and there are no end of other actors heās been paired against to show how bad he is. But, at the end of the day, even though that might be true, itās obviously not affected his career (or how heās viewed as a person) in the slightest.
In conclusion, mālord, who gives a fuck about what anyone - particularly Matthew Perry (whooooo?) - has to say about the household name, superstar, [occasional] box office smash, genuinely all-round lovely human (totally not biased here), Keanu Reeves?
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PS Iām adding this as itās one of my claims to fame - another reason why Keanu Reeves is just so damn amazing is because he once threw me the horns when he saw I was wearing his bandās T-shirt š
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3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:
Itās translated from a French writer as Google told me earlier!
Itās from Dangerous Liaisons (the original French text). Edit - Sorry, itāsĀ attributedĀ to the book but may be from another source according to my further research.
Knowledge resulting from my Keanu Reeves obsession š
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Info -Ā https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-cold.html
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I think @Keith Houchenis referring to TERF opinions. In which case, those opinions are definitely not welcome.
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@Nick Jamesthere was absolutely nothing wrong with what you said. I saw that Eddie was trending earlier today and [stupidly] clicked the link. The amount of pure bile was sickening. And it was from all angles - men, women, left wing, right wing, old, young. The language was horrendous and I didnāt even read that much.
It reminded me of what I read last week after watching Jordan Grey on Friday Night Live.
Social media makes me sick sometimes.
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14 minutes ago, JNLister said:
So there's three different things here:
Aaaaah, thank you! That all makes sense.
So who then comes up with the manifesto (terminology? e.g. the things Liz Truss said she would do if chosen as leader) for each candidate?Ā
I guess what Iām getting at is that it seems that things that have happened recently (e.g. the mini budget thing that went down like a cup of cold sick and resulted in more U-turns) have no relevance to what was in place before. If there were things in place when Boris was in charge that didnāt quite work but just needed tweaking, then why have they now been completely scrapped or changed to be totally unrecognisable from before. Or how can one leader say theyāve allocated money to support the poorest people affected by the cost of living crisis only for another to come in and say theyāre not going to do that any more and instead theyāre going to invest in big fuck off ālook at meā nuclear warheads or something equally as ridiculous.
I could sort of understand it if it was a different party that came into power each time but if itās the same party then WHO is allowing the fuckery thatās going on?
Am I just being really naive here? Is this basic stuff that someone of my age should already know? If so, just tell me to go and Google it or something.
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1 minute ago, JNLister said:
Entirely the party. It was a contest to choose the new party leader.
There is no election or contest for the role of Prime Minister. That just goes to whoever is "best placed to command a majority in the Commons" when the outgoing PM resigns as PM. In practice, that means the leader of the party (or group of parties) with the most MPs.I know about how a PM is appointed and that itās the leader of the party with the majority who becomes PM. I understand the basicsā¦ but I suppose that knowledge is based on the regular turnover that Iāve seen up until recently.
The shenanigans of the past year or so is something Iāve not seen before so thatās why Iām now realising that thereās ābackground stuffā that Iāve never paid attention to and so Iāve never considered.
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I went to Ferrari Land last week and, much like their F1 strategy, it was quite shit.