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

[Saxondale]

On 09/11/2021 at 18:10, Free Falling Foxes said:

Every time I've sneezed for the last umpteen years - and I mean everytime, I've followed it with mock 'bunged-up', nasel sounding, 'Oh mum, I couldn't possibly go to work like this'.  

That dates from a 70s Vicks sinus nasel spray advert.

Superb! That’s exactly the sort of thing I’m on about!

[Saxondale]

When I was younger and I imagined what I’d do after a major lottery win, I imagined building a vast, opulent house with acres of space and every conceivable amenity.

 

Nowadays, I’ve realised that just means lots of cleaning.

[Alf Bentley]

On 09/11/2021 at 18:10, Free Falling Foxes said:

Every time I've sneezed for the last umpteen years - and I mean everytime, I've followed it with mock 'bunged-up', nasel sounding, 'Oh mum, I couldn't possibly go to work like this'.  

That dates from a 70s Vicks sinus nasel spray advert.

 

Course you can, Malcolm!

[jgtuk]

11 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Course you can, Malcolm!

First class to Dottingham please.

[Buce]

25 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Course you can, Malcolm!

 

I always heard this (and forevermore referred to him thus) as Corsican Malcolm.

[SpacedX]

Within the last year, "I mean" has become so commonplace in social media and online posts as a redundant declaration opening a sentence or a statement, I've noticed  it's now also entering everyday speech. 

[Carl the Llama]

11 minutes ago, Line-X said:

Within the last year, "I mean" has become so commonplace in social media and online posts as a redundant declaration opening a sentence or a statement, I've noticed  it's now also entering everyday speech. 

I love using it, one of my favourite interjections, I mean, it always fits so well and can really add to the rhythm of a sentence.

[SpacedX]

16 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

I love using it, one of my favourite interjections, I mean, it always fits so well and can really add to the rhythm of a sentence.

I mean, does it really? 

[Jattdogg]

23 minutes ago, Line-X said:

Within the last year, "I mean" has become so commonplace in social media and online posts as a redundant declaration opening a sentence or a statement, I've noticed  it's now also entering everyday speech. 

Oyyeeeeeee! Pedantry thread please!

 

Lol

 

[SpacedX]

8 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Oyyeeeeeee! Pedantry thread please!

 

Lol

 

Stop being pedantic. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

2 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Course you can, Malcolm!

That's the one.

[SpacedX]

2 hours ago, jgtuk said:

First class to Dottingham please.

"Tunes" 

[jgtuk]

15 minutes ago, Line-X said:

"Tunes" 

That's the one, I've been racking my brain trying to remember...

[AyewJoking]

Surely a game like fifa should be able to provide a near mirror image of realistic gameplay, even on a console.

The cut scenes can be pretty good from a distance but the gameplay is so unrealistic and the players just don't move anything like they do in real life.

 

Perhaps fifa just wants to push the kind of game where a 12 year old can spend loads of money on FUT trying to get a Mbappe that can robotically skill move its way through a wooden defence?

[Nalis]

15 hours ago, Royston. said:

Surely a game like fifa should be able to provide a near mirror image of realistic gameplay, even on a console.

The cut scenes can be pretty good from a distance but the gameplay is so unrealistic and the players just don't move anything like they do in real life.

 

Perhaps fifa just wants to push the kind of game where a 12 year old can spend loads of money on FUT trying to get a Mbappe that can robotically skill move its way through a wooden defence?

I always find the movement to be clunky in FIFA and something that hasnt really improved. I would have thought we'd get something liked Pro Evo close control in the mid 2000s but adapted and improved to 2021 technology by now.

Edited 13 November 2021 by Nalis

[leicsmac]

13 hours ago, Royston. said:

Surely a game like fifa should be able to provide a near mirror image of realistic gameplay, even on a console.

The cut scenes can be pretty good from a distance but the gameplay is so unrealistic and the players just don't move anything like they do in real life.

 

Perhaps fifa just wants to push the kind of game where a 12 year old can spend loads of money on FUT trying to get a Mbappe that can robotically skill move its way through a wooden defence?

There's no "perhaps" about it.

 

EA, like most other video game companies, are all about the online multiplayer cashcows first and the actual player experience (besides the teenage whales paying to win) a very distant second.

[Langston]

In any thread typically titled "Our Best XI / Your Favourite Player" et al - the first poster to jokingly shout Junior Lewis as if it hasn't been done a billion times before should be banned from the forum. 

[Saxondale]

On 12/11/2021 at 12:52, Line-X said:

Within the last year, "I mean" has become so commonplace in social media and online posts as a redundant declaration opening a sentence or a statement, I've noticed  it's now also entering everyday speech. 

Before this, it was the equally annoying beginning of sentences with ‘so’ for no reason.

[Buce]

On 12/11/2021 at 12:52, Line-X said:

Within the last year, "I mean" has become so commonplace in social media and online posts as a redundant declaration opening a sentence or a statement, I've noticed  it's now also entering everyday speech. 

 

3 hours ago, Saxondale said:

Before this, it was the equally annoying beginning of sentences with ‘so’ for no reason.

 

Both pale into insignicance when set against the arbitary insertion of innit into a sentence.

Edited 15 November 2021 by Buce

[FerrisBueller]

Got properly pissed on Saturday for the first time in a few years, had given up drinking about two years ago. Horrible. Still in absolute bits two days later, I have not missed the all consuming dread that comes the day after, not helped by videos from my girlfriend of me believing I was now fluent in Danish when pissed (I’m not). How do people do this regularly? Genuinely don’t think I will drink again.

[BenTheFox]

1 minute ago, FerrisBueller said:

Got properly pissed on Saturday for the first time in a few years, had given up drinking about two years ago. Horrible. Still in absolute bits two days later, I have not missed the all consuming dread that comes the day after, not helped by videos from my girlfriend of me believing I was now fluent in Danish when pissed (I’m not). How do people do this regularly? Genuinely don’t think I will drink again.

Aww mate, the hang-xiety can be absolutely unbearable. Even when 'm reassured that I didn't do something really stupid I still can't shake that feeling of dread. The day is a complete write-off. 

[filbertway]

Can't remember the last time I got properly black out drunk. Nothing beats the fear of checking messenger/whatsapp to see what trouble you've caused for yourself

 

[BenTheFox]

To be honest, someone could take my phone off me and I would still feel like crawling inside a hole never to be seen again when hungover. The messages I may or may not have sent just compile the misery. 

Edited 15 November 2021 by BenTheFox

[FerrisBueller]

28 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Aww mate, the hang-xiety can be absolutely unbearable. Even when 'm reassured that I didn't do something really stupid I still can't shake that feeling of dread. The day is a complete write-off. 

Properly can’t hack it! I’m about the most anxious bloke in the world regardless, last few days I just haven’t moved or spoke, just drank tea and ate Pringles 

[Finnegan]

Are the club messing around with the stadium lights to work on the pitch again? The sky in the city is insane atm. Intense light pollution. Looks like dawn.