Just a thread where we can discuss unimportant or frivolous topics, and keep the darkness of the world at bay. Nothing is too inconsequential for this thread, but no heavy topics. We have enough threads for those.
Anyone know why a cat always falls on its feet, and has anyone tested this theory? Preferably from a very safe height for the moggy!
Oblivion Remastered has officially taken over my life.
That is all.
UP THE VILLA!
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 25, 2025, 03:33 PMAnyone know why a cat always falls on its feet, and has anyone tested this theory? Preferably from a very safe height for the moggy!
Cats have what's known as a 'righting reflex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_righting_reflex#:~:text=The%20cat%20righting%20reflex%20is,to%20land%20on%20its%20feet.)' that allows them to orient themselves, even in midair, to achieve this. But cats do not always land on their feet - it's not a perfect system, and its less reliable for them as they get older.
Quote from: SGR on Apr 25, 2025, 05:14 PMCats have what's known as a 'righting reflex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_righting_reflex#:~:text=The%20cat%20righting%20reflex%20is,to%20land%20on%20its%20feet.)' that allows them to orient themselves, even in midair, to achieve this. But cats do not always land on their feet - it's not a perfect system, and its less reliable for them as they get older.
Thanks SGR. I can tell you, speaking from my bed in ICU, this is not true of tigers!
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I can stand up. Making progress on my recovery. :)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 25, 2025, 04:55 PMUP THE VILLA!
I am going to go back into football 8)
Quote from: DeepMinder on Apr 25, 2025, 06:20 PMI am going to go back into football 8)
If you are, don't pick one of the Sky 6. I watch a lot of American streams for football and they do live shows from fan parks and every fucker there supports one of those teams. Also don't pick one of Real/Barca/Bayern. Also don't pick one of the Old Firm.
I tried to say to
@Qwerty Sanchez to 'sign' for Villa a year or so ago because I could see this rise coming. He refused and now he's paying the price.
Me, Trolls and
@Marie Monday are Villa fans (Marie is an adopted Villa fan). You will support a top club without being hit with the glory hunter accusations.
I'm offering a three year contract with the option to extend, do you accept it? Yes or no.
Quote from: DeepMinder on Apr 25, 2025, 06:20 PMI am going to go back into football 8)
Come on Mindy, we're Americans. It's
soccer. ;)
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 25, 2025, 07:58 PMIf you are, don't pick one of the Sky 6. I watch a lot of American streams for football and they do live shows from fan parks and every fucker there supports one of those teams. Also don't pick one of Real/Barca/Bayern. Also don't pick one of the Old Firm.
I tried to say to @Qwerty Sanchez to 'sign' for Villa a year or so ago because I could see this rise coming. He refused and now he's paying the price.
Me, Trolls and @Marie Monday are Villa fans (Marie is an adopted Villa fan). You will support a top club without being hit with the glory hunter accusations.
I'm offering a three year contract with the option to extend, do you accept it? Yes or no.
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@SGR I know but if Americans start calling it football, we can confuse a lot of people :laughing:
"Did you see the football game yesterday? Crystal Palace tomorrow finna lose bad fam!"
Quote from: DeepMinder on Apr 25, 2025, 08:19 PM(https://gifdb.com/images/high/contract-signing-nipsey-hussle-rapper-6t21vbwd85z0wf3m.gif)
@SGR I know but if Americans start calling it football, we can confuse a lot of people :laughing:
"Did you see the football game yesterday? Crystal Palace tomorrow finna lose bad fam!"
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Did you just quote that so I couldn't delete it? :laughing:
@Trollheart we have another Villa fan.
Congrats
@DeepMinder 🟣🔵
Did you show him the clause in his contract that says as a Villa fan he has to read my footy threads? I got
two readers now!
Sorry to interrupt the sports banter, but if anyone feels inclined, they can spend a relaxing minute as I did this morning with this cute video, pondering on the mystery of babies' minds, life and the answer to everything:-
Back on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises:
Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace
Spurs or the more affectionate,
Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?
Quote from: SGR on Apr 25, 2025, 08:36 PM(https://i.imgur.com/QdVNug0.gif)
gonna go wild on this one but your gif choice, dude throwing a computer into the dumpster...I didnt see that when I replied, it must not have loaded.
oddly, this morning I did that though, I threw two computer monitors away in a dumpster just like that.....
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Quote from: Lisnaholic on Apr 28, 2025, 03:29 PMBack on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises: Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace Spurs or the more affectionate, Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?
You seem like your local team would be Arsenal. I know you're a Londoner.
Have you ever been to a match? Have you ever been taken up the Arse?
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 28, 2025, 04:11 PMYou seem like your local team would be Arsenal. I know you're a Londoner.
Have you ever been to a match? Have you ever been taken up the Arse?
:laughing:
As a schoolboy, my friends told me to say "Chelsea" when I was asked "What team do you support?" and I remember seeing graffiti saying "Chelsea Shed" in various places in London, which seemed to endorse the popularity of their choice. The football ground I became most familiar with was Fulham's, which I have walked past on many occasions, while I used to meet up for a beer with a friend and his dad,
after they had been to a Wimbledon game.
Nothing ever called my attention to Arsenal though, and the only football match I ever attended was a Brentford home game ( "
Come on, you Bees!"). The guys I was working with at the time insisted that I should go to at least one football match in my life, for which I am now grateful, though I didn't enjoy it much at the time.
Thanks for the Qs, JJ. And how about you? How often do you go to a match ? Are you fiercely loyal to just one team, or are you an unfaithful supporter, spreading your affection around?
Yes mate just Villa. This is a Villa area, everyone in my family is Villa. My aunt used to work at Villa Park and I've been in the chairman's office. It was really nice and old fashioned from what I remember. You will see the flags on cars and houses and the railings and things painted claret and blue here. Even if I didn't like football I would still consider myself Villa just because it's home.
I don't go anymore because it's expensive but I've been to loads of games.
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Also saw a funny exchange at the hospital. At the crossing, a guy shouted out his window to an old lady "you're a slapper!" and she turned round and goes "I'm a slapper? Well I wouldn't suck your cock!" 😂😂😂
Then as she's walking off she says to the woman with her "he's just a twat" and then apologised for swearing in front of a child.
^ :laughing: Never knew the origins of the term "slapper". Were they the ones who were slapping the men around, or getting slapped themselves?
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Apr 28, 2025, 03:29 PMBack on the topic of soccer, as an outside observer, one of the things I like is the way team names get abbreviated into nicknames that everyone recognises: Man You for Manchester United, while for Tottenham Hotspurs you can choose between the commonplace Spurs or the more affectionate, Totts.
Well, that exhausts my own list of team names: anyone else with nicknames they like ?
Some which I remember by casually flitting through the sports pages over the years:
Norwich are "
The Canaries", due to their bright yellow shirts I guess.
"
The Den" is the Wimbledon ground, right? Certainly sounds like it. As in "
Vinnie Jones gave 'em a right good kicking down at the Den last night".
"
City" (or Citteh) could technically be any city in the UK that has a cathedral, but nine times out of ten that refers to Manchester City.
"
County". Again, that could be any county in the British Isles. But no, for some reason it is reserved for two teams that I know of. Derby County or Notts County. I'm going with Derby County because they have spent more time in the premier league than Notts County.
EDIT: And just one last one. "
Town". Or "
Toon!". I think everyone, including Stateside, knows who that refers to.
And on that topic, what are everyone's favourite American Footie nicknames? The Steelers springs to mind. Or, were they the best stealers of the ball?
My favourite names for overseas sports teams are Deportivo Wanka.
Quotehttp://In 2006, it emerged that Deportivo Wanka shirts had become a cult collectible item for British football fans, with over 1,000 shirts selling in the space of a few weeks. The British slang word wanker "one who masturbates", sounds like Wanka when said with a (non-rhotic) British accent. The Sun quoted a club spokesman as saying that "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name."
Their nickname is Los Wankas 😂
Also Newell's Old Boys (often referred to by their acronym, NOB):
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I'm such a big NOB fan.
Well I happily admit I'm a bit of a NOB myself. Newell's Old Boys sound like a great outfit :love:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newell%27s_Old_Boys
Quote from: Saulaac on Apr 28, 2025, 08:55 PM"The Den" is the Wimbledon ground, right? Certainly sounds like it. As in "Vinnie Jones gave 'em a right good kicking down at the Den last night".
^ aha! Vinnie Jones ! Thanks to your comment, I now remember debates and doubts about his sportsmanship. Quite a controvertial player, apparently!
I don't remember hearing
The Den being mentioned, but the team itself were usually referred to as
The 'Dons.
Bolton's current stadium is called The Toughsheet Community Stadium
:laughing:
BTW The Den is/was Millwall's ground.
Wimbledon play at Plough Lane.,
Crazy what happened to Wimbledon. No pun intended.
I remember Vinnie Jones playing for them. Robbie Earle etc.
Just seen Robbie Earle is now 60. I was a kid not long ago and now I can remember when a 60 year old was an athlete.
Sad!
Yeah the Den is Milwall all right, County is usually Notts County (Derby go by The Rams) and City is indeed Man City. Leicester City are The Foxes, Wolverhampton Wanderers are Wolves, Newcastle The Magpies and Sheffield United The Owls. A lot of animal imagery in there! Arsenal are the Gunners, Liverpool the Reds, Man United the Red Devils (don't mix them up!) while despite playing at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest just go by Forest. AFC Bournemouth are The Cherries, Everton The Toffees, Brighton are known as The Seagulls (more animals you see) and West Ham, unsurprisingly, are The Hammers.
Vinnie Jones was the hard man of football, especially during his time with Wimbledon, who, for those who don't know, sort of split into two clubs: AFC Wimbledon remained in Wimbledon while the part of the team that moved to Milton Keynes are now known as the MK Dons, holding on to part of the nickname. Vinnie, as you probably know, went on to become a movie star playing - surprise, surprise! - gangsters and hard men.
Vinnie was a cartoon hard man.
Terry Hurlock, now that was one mad bastard.
"Some of us [Millwall players] were playfully goading Terry about what he was going to do to Vinnie Jones in the upcoming fixture with Wimbledon. Without saying a word, he got up from the table and walked to the entrance of the pub and ripped the door off its hinges" – Millwall teammate Tony Cascarino
Don't forget the man they called Psycho!
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"You really are a colossal bellend."
"I bet your missus is being banged left, right and centre by a car driver."
😂😂😂
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1917326308033315266?t=RebUeStxw6ZGP_BVLvbCoA&s=19
Ah, the once-mighty human race! Reduced to a bunch of angry, impotent keyboard warrio... um. Well, you know what I mean. Why do they hate him? I've only seen him hosting Eggheads and he's mildly annoying in a too-nice kind of way, but hoping he'll die is so over the top.
Not sure but I think he films himself cycling around London and grassing on car drivers who commit offences.
There is another guy who does this on Twitter, says he's reported over 3,000 offences and has secured multiple convictions. Got it proudly in his bio the sad twat. Can't speak about Vine but the guy who is doing that is insufferable. Like one of the kids in school who tells your teacher you're eating sweets in lesson or you just said a swear word. Fucking gimps.
Probably a touch of anti TV licence hate as well.
BBC presenters are about as popular as politicians these days, especially the higher earning ones like Vine.
One for him? (In-joke for prog heads) :laughing:
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 30, 2025, 03:52 PM"You really are a colossal bellend."
"I bet your missus is being banged left, right and centre by a car driver."
😂😂😂
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1917326308033315266?t=RebUeStxw6ZGP_BVLvbCoA&s=19
Vine, what a liction. Massively copying Sidekick Simon and Alan Partidge. (Well, I guess a compliment for AP for once).
What's a liction?