Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 16 Paid Members Share Posted May 16 3 hours ago, Merzbow said: Railings. I'm learning about railings. Hahahahaha, I absolutely love that rip-off of the intro sequence for The Tudors. Brilliant. That bit she's walking around in Bloomsbury is very near my university, SOAS. Good little place to walk around - has the leafy avenues of academia without being crowded out by tourists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted May 16 Members Share Posted May 16 How's this for a "dull" setting for work today, the Ordnance Survey HQ. Some absolutely tremendous maps and bits and bobs in there but my phone was in my bag at that point and I cba to go get it. Have a suitably dull pic of the Solent from the train for good measure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cobra_gordo Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 On 12/20/2023 at 10:28 AM, cobra_gordo said: I'm really in to visiting and going round football stadiums. Ticked a belter off my list yesterday. We were out taking band promo photos in the evening for when our new album comes out later this year. We're all Rotherham boys so we decided to take them in front of Milmoor, Rotherham United's old ground. It's fallen in to disrepair but is still used on Saturdays for, I think, youth games. The whole ground is fenced off and barbed wire everywhere so it's impossible to get in to, even though Youtubers apparently keep breaking in to climb up the floodlights. We're all in our forties and unfit, plus my wife, my two sons and our drummers three young kids were all with us so scaling the fences was out of the question. We settled on just taking some pictures in the alley round the side of the ground, infront of the rusty fencing and peeling paintwork. After about 20 minutes we'd decided we'd got all the pictures we needed and were heading back to the car when two security guards turned up and asked what we were doing. As embarrassing as it was for us to say "We're taking photos for our band" they were sound and once they realised we weren't trying to break in had a bit of a chat with us. I mentioned we'd have liked to get a photo in front of the sign but couldn't get to it because of the fencing and they happily unlocked the gates and let us in. Pushed my luck a bit further and they let us in to the ground and basically gave us free reign. I've been in Milmoor a lot. It was the easy, cheapish day out of choice when I was a kid to go and watch Rotherham play and later in my teens I used to do weekly football practice in the indoor bit built behind one of the stands. I've even been to birthday parties in that ground but to be stood in there, with the evening sunshine streaking in, with my mates and all our kids running about on the pitch, who had somehow found a ball, was fucking magical. Can't thank the two security lads enough. We took pictures in the dugout, in the stands, on the pitch, it was amazing. A bunch of the photos were ruined as we were all smirking about how ridiculous a situation it was which slightly ruins the angry metal band mystique. Woke up this morning still thinking about it, can't believe it happened. Here's one of my favourites. I'm the big lad in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted May 30 Members Share Posted May 30 I've found a new patron Saint. Just a middle aged Japanese man showing us Street Fighter on a tiny screen and then playing Hotel California as he has no mates. Seems a top lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarlettChad Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 The man eats Doritos and drinks booze on a Friday Night. Worse ways to spend them. He's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 I just excitedly exclaimed the words “Ooh there’s a Lego fan event coming up in Manchester” I’ve never made anything out of Lego in my adult life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted June 21 Members Share Posted June 21 I can't find the radio thread, but if you want to ever just remind yourself what nutters this country has*, listen to Dotun between 1 and 5 on Radio 5. The callers are, in the nicest possible way, absolute freaks. I love them. One woman has just said she wants the ten commandments displayed in all schools, the man before said Blair should be in prison and is voting Reform, and the woman before him had a fascinating tale about her mum in prison. *if you REALLY want a sense of it, listen to the World Football Phone In, which has the best collection of oddballs call in. No interest in football needed to be honest, they rarely discuss it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted June 21 Paid Members Share Posted June 21 (edited) Fisherman’s Blues on Talksport was great for that. I have zero interest in fishing but it was on in the early hours of the morning so you get all the cranks calling in. It’s laced with accidental innuendo too due to the terminology. A great laugh. Edited June 21 by TheBurningRed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted June 21 Paid Members Share Posted June 21 6 hours ago, SuperBacon said: One woman has just said she wants the ten commandments displayed in all schools She should move to Louisiana then Rashers, they've just passed that law. All overnight phone ins are mad. Most of the time the presenters are as mad as the callers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted June 21 Members Share Posted June 21 43 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: She should move to Louisiana then Rashers, they've just passed that law. Yep, Dotun mentioned that. The woman beforehand had said that she wore a bracelet with the ten commandments on it (how big is that bracelet?) which prompted the next woman to bang on about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted June 21 Paid Members Share Posted June 21 My favourite phone-in show of all time was James H. Reeve on TalkSport trying to explain to people that the millennium started in 2001. 3 hours of people just not having it. Not sure I've ever laughed that much since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted June 21 Paid Members Share Posted June 21 2 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: My favourite phone-in show of all time was James H. Reeve on TalkSport trying to explain to people that the millennium started in 2001. 3 hours of people just not having it. Not sure I've ever laughed that much since. People ringing in radio stations is probably a whole other thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted June 24 Members Share Posted June 24 Lads... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thefatduck Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 This is what peak performance looks like. Laser like focus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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