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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 21, 2015 9:15:23 GMT
Thanks to countyfan for sending me this despite coming back to a mountain of work last week!
Here we go:
Elderly People
I know that old age will eventually come to us all so might be a controversial one but it's the people around the 80 mark that constantly have to go out to the shops or just find the need to go out and about during rush hour every morning! Traffic is bad enough without them dawdling along without a care in the world because they haven't got to be anywhere for any particular time! Just go out an hour or so later when we are all in work and the roads are quieter for you! Then you finding them walking at a snails pace around the supermarkets causing queues in all the aisles and when they do eventually get to the tills they insist on paying the £36.64 with coins only once they've found their "readers" at the bottom of their tartan trolly!
England Friendlies (Football)
Pointless, Dull, Boring, Uneventful, Un-entertaining waste of time. I can't remember the last time I watched an England friendly but I'm guessing it's at least 7 or 8 years ago! Making 11 subs at half time because they're beating the Maldives 16-0 and then the media saying "with this performance it'll send a message to the rest of the world that we can beat everyone"!! No it doesn't, it means if they entered the Stockport Sunday League cup they have a better chance of winning but still wouldn't be the favourites! Yes I agree with world cup and Euro warm up games but friendlies in the middle of our football season where players as scared of getting injured so they miss their league games the following week are just a none event, even the crowds have dwindled now but the FA need to pay for Wembley so will keep arranging them.
Eurovision Song Contest
Some people actually have a "Eurovision fancy dress party" while it's on and get dressed up as previous entrants from down the years! Which is good news for all bearded men across the Country after the winner of the 2014 contest!! All they have to do is put a wig and a dress on and away they go!! Seriously though, why do Countries enter this contest? Maybe when it started all those years ago it was a fair contest but in the current era certain Countries only vote for their neighbours or Countries that they are scared of being attacked by, but one thing is for sure is that even if England entered a super group consisting of all the remaining members of The Who, The Beatles, Queen, The kinks, Pink Floyd and topped them up with Oasis (who they got top re-form for a one off gig), Roxy Music, Duran Duran, The Smiths and Happy Mondays we would still finish rock bottom on "nil pointy" as per usual as everyone hates us for one reason or another. It's just a waste of time, energy and money in my opinion and is so far past it's best needs to be put down and forgotten about.
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 21, 2015 9:17:50 GMT
I'll start us off.
I don't particularly like the national squad, and agree some of these friendlies are a bit pointless. I don't exactly like Eurovision, but over the past few years I have started a drunken Eurovision commentary on Facebook which is proving quite popular and funny when everyone joins in.
So, although we'll all (hopefully) grow old one day - some Heaveners sooner than others! - I'm voting old people and their road-hogging, Post Office blocking, stupidity.
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Post by bigfudge on Sept 21, 2015 11:54:49 GMT
We'll hopefully all get old one day.
I support England/GB in any sport regardless of meaning of the event.
Eurovision it is for me. Nothing to do with talent. Entirely political. Pointless!
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Post by countybenno on Sept 21, 2015 12:00:59 GMT
I'm torn between Eurovision and Elderly people, now I have nothing against elderly people at all but why when they have all week to go shopping do they have to go on a Saturday and block all of the super market up, but then Eurovision is as Fudgie says political & pointless so think I'll have to go with Eurovision.
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Post by gazz on Sept 21, 2015 14:10:19 GMT
England friendlies.
Important players pull out, with their managers saying they're injured, and we give caps to players who just about manage to stay in their club first team.
We learn nothing from cobbling a side together with anyone that can be arsed turning up. They're of no benefit to us these days, but that's only because of the money involved in being a Premier League footballer.
It's just not appealing enough to pull on that shirt anymore, not when you look at the average player's bank balance and the substantial amount of money they can add to it by being fit to play for the clubs the following weekend.
This is the opinion of someone who is just not interested in the England team these days, however. I only watched the Uruguay game in last year's World Cop, and even that was switched off before it ended.
In fact, the England team as a whole can go in the vault for me, it's just not the same anymore.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Sept 21, 2015 15:49:12 GMT
A difficult 3 to choose from.
Eurovision has never been the same since Ronnie Carroll and then Pearl and Teddy Carr were the British entries. Pointless scores for a pointless episode.
England friendlies also pointless - think I could score or keep a clean sheet against some of the choosen opponents. Why are we then playing Spain in the new year. Who is going to learn anything from that when B squads will be put out.
Elderly people also get on my nerves, mainly because I am one of them and I finish up apologising for their behaviour. Mind you it is fun upsetting youngsters (just because you can, and it's easy to do).
My vote goes for Elderly People - because we never win anything else.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Sept 21, 2015 18:15:34 GMT
i cannot understand sitting through an entire ninety minutes of a live england friendly. highlights only for me, and even then not that interested. i've only been to one england friendly (and one competitive match), and there were 20,000 at the old wembley for that game. i was quite pleased to have seen fonseca and francescoli up front for uruguay, but the game was dull as ditchwater and the atmosphere suggested it was being played on the moon.
elderly people block the roads up in quite bizarre tiny vehicles, mainly made by daihatsu. roundabouts weren't invented in their day, so they have to consult their almanac every time they reach one. my parents are close to that club by owning a micra, but they're quite active and absolutely lovely so i'll let them off. the rest of the old f**kers should walk to their coffee mornings though. i hate how time slows down when they're at a counter, till or roundabout. not just their time, but if you're unfortunate enough to be behind them, yours too. they know full well when they're about to purchase something - it doesn't take them by surprise. yet when they get to the post office counter, or get on the bus, they have to delve into the depths of their bag to get their purse (first having to operate the clasp on the bag with their stupid arthritic hands) and then delve into each one of fourteen compartments in their purse (first having to operate the clasp with those same liver spotted hands), before finding the f**king half fare they have to pay. not only are they the single biggest cause of your bus being late, but they have to pay less and have the moral high ground for getting a seat when you have to stand in the aisle, just because they fought in the war*
*they didn't fight in the war. they were just brought up on spam and powdered eggs as children in the aftermath...
but i'm still choosing eurovision. not because it's political, but because it's sh*t. even the people who like it only claim to like it ironically. i don't care in the slightest that we never win, but other than the stalwarts of krautrock, mainland europe has only produced plastic bertrand, spagna and opus. the UK should just send a dvd medley of beatles/kinks/stones/bowie etc numbers, with the visuals in the form of a pulsing 'f**k you europe - we resign'. alternatively, perhaps we just need to find our own bird with a beard...
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Sept 21, 2015 18:16:57 GMT
good choices by the way CH. been impressed with people's choices so far. have been starting to think about possible h's and i'm struggling so well done all those who have gone so far.
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Post by ceefer on Sept 21, 2015 18:22:54 GMT
In my opinion elderly people have enough on their plate as over time they lose their faculties one by one, so its understandable if they arent always at their best.
The only positive about England friendlies is at least they give some of the up and coming players a chance to star on the world stage..... or close to it. Of course there seems little point in playing a team who we are going to beat 8-0, the frendlies need to be geared to as high a level of oppenent as possible.
So that leaves the Eurovision nightmare. Just think what could be achieved if all the money spent on this total waste of time and effort and second rate 'entertainment' was put to charitable concerns or local community projects. So it's got to be Eurovision.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Sept 21, 2015 20:28:41 GMT
England friendlies. Important players pull out, with their managers saying they're injured, and we give caps to players who just about manage to stay in their club first team. We learn nothing from cobbling a side together with anyone that can be arsed turning up. They're of no benefit to us these days, but that's only because of the money involved in being a Premier League footballer. It's just not appealing enough to pull on that shirt anymore, not when you look at the average player's bank balance and the substantial amount of money they can add to it by being fit to play for the clubs the following weekend. This sums it up pretty nicely for me... although, having, as I do, a dedication to the Welsh on the national stage, I was always going to be a tad biased!  Hands off the Eurovision, anyway! Generally great pantomime - and how else would the world have got to enjoy ABBA? And, with an elderly Mother Macc to think of, I simply can't cast my vote in the direction of OAPs. Besides, she still beats us, and takes our money, whenever we play cards... |
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 21, 2015 20:48:54 GMT
Your mother beats you? I'll pass you the Childline number at the next home match.
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Post by countyfan on Sept 22, 2015 10:14:44 GMT
Am I allowed to vote on my own week? Also, I noticed there has only been 7 votes made yet 8 Heavener's have mentioned their choice above? Did someone forget to vote?
I'm quite happy that there's not run away winner at the moment and the votes are quite well spread.
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 22, 2015 11:37:06 GMT
Just had a look back at the original thread for you mate, and it looks like we never discussed this. I don't think anyone has voted in their own week so far, though, on the basis they should be making a case for all three and it is then for others to decide.
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Post by countyfan on Sept 22, 2015 13:12:08 GMT
Okie dokie sir, i'll leave the voting for others then.
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Post by bigfudge on Sept 22, 2015 14:19:01 GMT
I havent voted yet. Ive not been on the pc yet and probably wont get chance with going away tomorrow so Sandy can you add one extra vote to Eurovision please?
Cheers
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