The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, fox_favourite said:

Fish lips. Why do women think they look more attractive with mega lips. I have never, and I mean never seen an attractive women who has had her lips cosmetically made bigger. I just don't understand it, makes people look awful and unattractive. Natural look and natural beautiful smile is what does it for me, not mega enhanced lips that look like they're are ready to explode. 

 

Someone help me out. Why do some women do this?!

 

Add to that fake tan as well, not on the same scale but some look awful with that as well. Men and women 

I've never known a man who finds it attractive either. Baffling.

[bovril]

I don't really see the appeal of non league football apart from going hungover on Boxing day with friends when back home for the holidays. 

[String fellow]

Has anyone got one of those Titan Car Locks? I bought one 2 months ago, because I liked the idea of it using the seat-belt socket as its anchor point. However, the device proved to be very fiddly to fit - the steel cable is looped through the steering and then locked into the socket. Also, the shortness of the cable meant that the steering wheel position had to be lowered and the seat brought forward for it to reach. But the worst problem with it occurred recently when I tried to unlock the device, but it wouldn't cooperate. Fortunately I was at home and so had the tools at hand to basically destroy the lock in situ. It took ages to cut through the plastic housing to expose the lock, but the seat-belt socket was eventually freed. This felt like problem that was always likely to happen and it would have been much worse had I not been at home at the time. If anyone is thinking of buying one - don't!  

[grobyfox1990]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

I don't really see the appeal of non league football apart from going hungover on Boxing day with friends when back home for the holidays. 

I go to the Jersey bulls (step 4) about 3 times a season. Going on Saturday actually. It's very boring, all the players are in poor shape and the game is always slow. The social is however very fun, got a really good crowd going each time.

I suppose that's exactly the reason I still go to watch Leicester!! Really crappy boring football but nice to see family and friends. 

[Dreadnought]

The current talk in the TV shows thread is all about the Harry Potter tv show. I hate all things Harry Potter. Forced to watch the movies by the wife and kids. As shit as Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. 
shithouse. 

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

The current talk in the TV shows thread is all about the Harry Potter tv show. I hate all things Harry Potter. Forced to watch the movies by the wife and kids. As shit as Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. 
shithouse. 

I've said before, it's a mid-tier work of fiction with a superb marketing team. There are so many better standard works out there, for kids or otherwise - Discworld and Animorphs, to name but two.

 

It is a success of marketing, rather than any real writing talent.

[The Bear]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

I've said before, it's a mid-tier work of fiction with a superb marketing team. There are so many better standard works out there, for kids or otherwise - Discworld and Animorphs, to name but two.

 

It is a success of marketing, rather than any real writing talent.

It's a real shame they can't get the Discworld series going. There's so much varied material to adapt and the writing is smart and fantastic for all ages. 

 

The previous film adaptations have been ok. Especially Charles Dance as Vetinari. 

Edited 27 March by The Bear

[ozleicester]

Tiger woods should be in jail.

[CornwallFox]

On 25/03/2026 at 13:11, bovril said:

I don't really see the appeal of non league football apart from going hungover on Boxing day with friends when back home for the holidays. 

15+ years ago 50,000 people got together online and bought a football club, Ebbsfleet United, who had Liam Daish as manager in the conference. 

I was one of those 50,000. 

Went to a handful of games in that first year, where we actually won the FA Trophy, and it was really fun. Very different to premier League football. Standing in the away stand at Stafford Rangers football was much more real than at Leicester without all the fake nonsense like t-shirt cannons, light shows etc. Less faking injury and diving too. 

The ownership model hugely failed the club last as people didn't stick around. They have a normal ownership model now, but an interesting time for a while. 

 

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Tiger woods should be in jail.

Or at the very least doing some community service.

 

Get him teaching disadvantaged kids how to play golf - might even give him a sense of purpose that he appears to be lacking right now.

[Alf Bentley]

On 25/03/2026 at 13:11, bovril said:

I don't really see the appeal of non league football apart from going hungover on Boxing day with friends when back home for the holidays. 

 

I recently attended my first non-league match for years (Torquay v Chesham) and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.

 

The quality of the football was much higher than I expected - certainly a lot higher than when I regularly attended Folkestone matches in my youth.

But it also reminded me how much more I enjoy matches standing on a terrace - an instinctive, physical sense of greater involvement, compared to watching from a seat.

[Izzy]

12 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Tiger woods should be in jail.

I don't see how that really benefits anyone. He should definitely be banned from driving and should be in therapy/rehab rather than jail imo.

 

3 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Or at the very least doing some community service.

 

Get him teaching disadvantaged kids how to play golf - might even give him a sense of purpose that he appears to be lacking right now.

As far as the golf goes, he has plenty of purpose including his own foundation for teaching disadvantaged kids, part owner of the new TGL indoor league, designing new courses, coaching his son, new clothing line, full time on the PGA future comps comittee, numerous sponsorship and business ventures, possible next Ryder Cup Captain, and working tirelessly to get fit for the Masters.

 

The real issue is that he's an addict.

 

Not just addicted to golf but he's also admitted to being addicted to video games in the past. Back in 2010 he was addicted to shagging hookers in Las Vegas which he had to publically apologise for and now it seems he's addicted to painkillers to get over his numerous surgeries and injuries.

 

Hard to seperate the performer from the person here. No doubt one of the greatest golfers who ever lived and still moves the needle, but as a bloke, he's a bit of a *****. (I partly blame his father who was Tiger's idol but a serial adulterer and a total cvnt by all accounts)

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

 

As far as the golf goes, he has plenty of purpose including his own foundation for teaching disadvantaged kids, part owner of the new TGL indoor league, designing new courses, coaching his son, new clothing line, full time on the PGA future comps comittee, numerous sponsorship and business ventures, possible next Ryder Cup Captain, and working tirelessly to get fit for the Masters.

 

The real issue is that he's an addict.

 

Not just addicted to golf but he's also admitted to being addicted to video games in the past. Back in 2010 he was addicted to shagging hookers in Las Vegas which he had to publically apologise for and now it seems he's addicted to painkillers to get over his numerous surgeries and injuries.

 

Hard to seperate the performer from the person here. No doubt one of the greatest golfers who ever lived and still moves the needle, but as a bloke, he's a bit of a *****. (I partly blame his father who was Tiger's idol but a serial adulterer and a total cvnt by all accounts)

Appreciate the additional info. Like you say, addictive personality perhaps then? Hopefully he can at least mitigate the harm more in the future. 

[bovril]

On 28/03/2026 at 12:42, Alf Bentley said:

 

I recently attended my first non-league match for years (Torquay v Chesham) and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.

 

The quality of the football was much higher than I expected - certainly a lot higher than when I regularly attended Folkestone matches in my youth.

But it also reminded me how much more I enjoy matches standing on a terrace - an instinctive, physical sense of greater involvement, compared to watching from a seat.

I think my attitude probably comes from the fact my local team is the infamous Kings Lynn, so bad football at exorbitant prices, dodgy owners and a rough fanbase. 

[Torquay Gunner]

On 28/03/2026 at 12:42, Alf Bentley said:

 

I recently attended my first non-league match for years (Torquay v Chesham) and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected.

 

The quality of the football was much higher than I expected - certainly a lot higher than when I regularly attended Folkestone matches in my youth.

But it also reminded me how much more I enjoy matches standing on a terrace - an instinctive, physical sense of greater involvement, compared to watching from a seat.

Glad you got more enjoyment than I did watching Torquay ten years ago.  I used to take a looked after child out on a Saturday and unfortunately for me he supported Torquay!   I have to say they were horrendous and I was not that impressed with the general standard of the National League.  He at least saw them beat FC United of Manchester in the FA Trophy to reach the semi final.  It was strange to see terracing again I have to confess. 

[Alf Bentley]

2 hours ago, bovril said:

I think my attitude probably comes from the fact my local team is the infamous Kings Lynn, so bad football at exorbitant prices, dodgy owners and a rough fanbase. 

 

That's funny, as my only experience of Kings Lynn FC was a good one. Folkestone Town (my local team growing up) and Kings Lynn were briefly together in the old Southern Premier c. 1982-83, both having been promoted the previous season, as I recall.

 

I was studying/working/dolemongering in Norwich at the time, with parents still in Kent, so I attended both league matches, home and away. The two teams were very evenly matched, so they were two really good, hard-fought games: 2-1 to Folkestone in Kent, 3-2 to Kings Lynn in Norfolk. I've thought well of Kings Lynn since then, so am sorry to hear they've gone to shite in multiple ways! 

Mind you, football fortunes are cyclical, as all LCFC fans now know, if they didn't know before.... 

 

[bovril]

2 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

That's funny, as my only experience of Kings Lynn FC was a good one. Folkestone Town (my local team growing up) and Kings Lynn were briefly together in the old Southern Premier c. 1982-83, both having been promoted the previous season, as I recall.

 

I was studying/working/dolemongering in Norwich at the time, with parents still in Kent, so I attended both league matches, home and away. The two teams were very evenly matched, so they were two really good, hard-fought games: 2-1 to Folkestone in Kent, 3-2 to Kings Lynn in Norfolk. I've thought well of Kings Lynn since then, so am sorry to hear they've gone to shite in multiple ways! 

Mind you, football fortunes are cyclical, as all LCFC fans now know, if they didn't know before.... 

 

I think we are notorious for being a bit dodgy off the field and at least when I went (which was up until about 2015) there was still quite a lot of casual racism in the crowd which admittedly the club has tried to improve. It's also very expensive for the quality of football you get. Still, Lynn til I die! 

[Corky]

Non League will boom when AFC Leicester Fosse v King Power FC takes place in 2029. Pwopa nawty.

[davieG]

Why is the BBC paying out such massive salaries? Surely there are plenty of young ambitious media trained music lovers who could and would do it for way less than this.

 

I believe when a BBC presenter gets 'famous' they should be moved on as I'd rather my licence fee was used to give young newbies a chance rather than paying out large sums to the same old people on the BBC merry-go-round of jobs

 

Mills, who took over the breakfast show on Radio 2 from Zoe Ball in January 2025, has worked for the BBC for more than 25 years.

He earned £355,000 - £359,999 in the 12 months leading up until April 2025, according to the latest annual report, making him the corporation's 11th highest-paid star.

 

[CornwallFox]

21 minutes ago, davieG said:

Why is the BBC paying out such massive salaries? Surely there are plenty of young ambitious media trained music lovers who could and would do it for way less than this.

 

I believe when a BBC presenter gets 'famous' they should be moved on as I'd rather my licence fee was used to give young newbies a chance rather than paying out large sums to the same old people on the BBC merry-go-round of jobs

 

Mills, who took over the breakfast show on Radio 2 from Zoe Ball in January 2025, has worked for the BBC for more than 25 years.

He earned £355,000 - £359,999 in the 12 months leading up until April 2025, according to the latest annual report, making him the corporation's 11th highest-paid star.

 

Never understand why anybody cares what they pay. They need to be competitive in the world in which they operate. I do not buy for one second the idea that the licence fee somehow changes this. 

 

It's a similar argument to when people complain public servants shouldn't earn decent wages. We should want the best public servants possible running the country, which means better wages. 

[Torquay Gunner]

21 minutes ago, davieG said:

Why is the BBC paying out such massive salaries? Surely there are plenty of young ambitious media trained music lovers who could and would do it for way less than this.

 

I believe when a BBC presenter gets 'famous' they should be moved on as I'd rather my licence fee was used to give young newbies a chance rather than paying out large sums to the same old people on the BBC merry-go-round of jobs

 

Mills, who took over the breakfast show on Radio 2 from Zoe Ball in January 2025, has worked for the BBC for more than 25 years.

He earned £355,000 - £359,999 in the 12 months leading up until April 2025, according to the latest annual report, making him the corporation's 11th highest-paid star.

 

There are three people on this list I have never heard of and yes most of these salaries seem ridiculous to me.  Difficult to call one out, but Vernon Kay , didn’t even know he was still presenting.

[davieG]

38 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

Never understand why anybody cares what they pay. They need to be competitive in the world in which they operate. I do not buy for one second the idea that the licence fee somehow changes this. 

 

It's a similar argument to when people complain public servants shouldn't earn decent wages. We should want the best public servants possible running the country, which means better wages. 

I hardly think they compare to public servants who have to have credentials and many years of academic training. 

These are just entertainers most of which have lucked themselves into the role, that's not to say they're in anyway not deserving of their success. I just don't think the BBC should be spending high levels of  the licence fee on these when there are plenty of young media trained people that I'm sure could do the job and be entertaining.

[davieG]

41 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

There are three people on this list I have never heard of and yes most of these salaries seem ridiculous to me.  Difficult to call one out, but Vernon Kay , didn’t even know he was still presenting.

Had to look these two up.

 

Stephen Nolan is a N. Ireland radio presenter

 

Justin Webb is a journalist so doing a more specialist job

[Tommy G]

42 minutes ago, davieG said:

I hardly think they compare to public servants who have to have credentials and many years of academic training. 

These are just entertainers most of which have lucked themselves into the role, that's not to say they're in anyway not deserving of their success. I just don't think the BBC should be spending high levels of  the licence fee on these when there are plenty of young media trained people that I'm sure could do the job and be entertaining.

Its in the public interest because the licence fee will be paying the wages of all these celebrities- I agree with you here, just meaningless. 

 

No one will go, ''right that's it I'm not watching BBC anymore as Zoe Ball has been sacked'' No one actually cares. 

[grobyfox1990]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Its in the public interest because the licence fee will be paying the wages of all these celebrities- I agree with you here, just meaningless. 

 

No one will go, ''right that's it I'm not watching BBC anymore as Zoe Ball has been sacked'' No one actually cares. 

They defo will care, can you imagine the happy clapper onslaught if they hired second rate broadcasters. I PAY ALL MY LICENCE FEE MONEY AND THE BLOKE PRESENTING NEWSNIGHT CAN'T EVEN ACT. 

People clearly care about the bbc because they're always moaning about it.