How are you?

[-james-]

This can be pandemic related or whatever. I don't think we had a rate your year over Christmas did we? Time for a catch up.

[Shindig]

I'm alright, actually. Thanks for asking.

[Giggles]

Mixed middling.

[randomlegend]

I'm good so far. Everyone in my life has stayed well, I'm glad I'm still getting out to work. Our kids at work aren't being affected badly by covid. All the time off is giving us the chance to get the house sorted.

One surprisingly big downer is we don't have a sofa :moop:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm OK. Although going in to the office 5 days concerns me re getting the virus, it has at least staved off cabin fever, which, living alone, is a real concern. If this goes on for any period of time, or I get furloughed later, I am quite worried about getting properly lonely.

I am normally a sort of lone wolf anyway but I have cricket which gives me a full friendship group and 3/4 social occasions every week for half the year. That is currently wiped out so I'm a bit worried about mental state.

[Mellberg]

Doing well. I live alone and am 16 days in now. I'm a sociable person, so am missing people and just being out of the house, but coping with it fine. I've got an easy mental crutch to fall back on though, which is I've suffered enforced isolation before in more difficult personal circumstances :eyemouth:

So long as a loved doesn't die I'll be sound. Touch wood.

[Giggles]

You can’t be totally lonely with technology. So long as the wife, parents, and sister survive then the rest of it can ask my bollocks. There’s been more about bloody mental health during all this than actually avoiding the killer virus.

[Shindig]

Yeah, I wondered if I'd drop back into an unemployment malaise but, given that this is only temporary, I'm treating it as an extended break.

[Baz]

Fantastic. Lockdown and/or social isolation suits me grand.

[Smjffy]

I just had a humongous shit that not only left me feeling a few pounds lighter but I legit had to unblock the toilet afterwards so other than the close scare of overflowing, I feel pretty darn alive.

[hfswjyr]

Could be better if you finished your 50 albums of the decade.



I'm OK. Although going in to the office 5 days concerns me re getting the virus, it has at least staved off cabin fever, which, living alone, is a real concern. If this goes on for any period of time, or I get furloughed later, I am quite worried about getting properly lonely.

I am normally a sort of lone wolf anyway but I have cricket which gives me a full friendship group and 3/4 social occasions every week for half the year. That is currently wiped out so I'm a bit worried about mental state.
Do we not count???

[Jimmy Floyd]

You probably help, somehow. But I can text with my actual friends as well. It's the being together that I think will be missed. I've already forgotten how to speak.

[-james-]

Could be better if you finished your 50 albums of the decade.



I'll get it done. Felt a bit like the moment had passed, and it got oddly harder to elucidate why I liked albums as I got further up the list.

[Pepe]

I love working from home. Spend like three hours preparing my course and then the rest of the day I play videogames. I could do this full time.

[Pepe]

Also,

https://media1.tenor.com/images/89b5cd8244497ee5a4b0d4d5197713fd/tenor.gif?itemid=9239993

[Giggles]

I got tagged in a suicide selfie on Facebook today so all will be well now. Phew, all those urges to leap out the upstairs window because I'd to watch TV are eased.

[Boydy]

I got tagged in a suicide selfie on Facebook today so all will be well now. Phew, all those urges to leap out the upstairs window because I'd to watch TV are eased.

Tagged in a what?

[Giggles]

Some "post a photo of yourself and tag 10 people to do the same" to show some gubbins about not topping yourself for avoiding this virus.

[mo]

I'm ok. Used to having an extended period off work, although I'm also used to being able to fill my time with projects around the house, which is much harder to do at the moment. Did just finish painting the mantlepiece which has been sat around for the last ...4 years? Or so. One of those jobs that never quite made it to the top of the list. Just got to fit the fucker now.

[bruhnaldo]

Some "post a photo of yourself and tag 10 people to do the same" to show some gubbins about not topping yourself for avoiding this virus.

Yea as opposed to my first thought which was someone's killed themselves and tagged you in a goodbye post sheesh.

[hfswjyr]

The major surprise here is that Giggles is on facebook at all.

[Serj]

I'm doing fine, so far. I hardly miss anyone, so the lockdown has mostly just confirmed for me how anti-social I am. Though I'm not sure I'd say the same thing if I lived alone instead of with my girlfriend; I guess the daily routine interactions do help a lot.

Being able to go out more in this weather (20 degrees the whole week) would be nice, however.

[Offshore Toon]

I've met up with a couple of friends down the beach and for a cycle as things aren't so strict over here. I don't really crave social contact much anyway, so the only thing that was stressing me out was the lack of motivation to work, but I'm getting to grips with that. I've also managed to stop eating everything, so now I'm rooting for an extended lockdown.

[Giggles]

The major surprise here is that Giggles is on facebook at all.
Everyone is unless they're making a point of not being.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have never been on Facebook, but I don't know if that constitutes 'making a point'.

[Lofty]

Pre-Tinder it was good for shagging, not sure now as it's been a while. Probably still decent for talking to women who think themselves above dating apps.

[Ian]

I am also not on Facebook. I'm just not that interested in what all the people I don't give a shit about have to say or what they're doing.

And I got over arguing on the internet about 20 years ago.

[Manc]

Facebook is horrific.

[Lewis]

Facebook (like Twitter, and I suppose anything) is as good as the people you have on it.

[Disco]

My sleep schedule is completely out of whack now, today I woke up just after 1pm and had cheerios and slightly stale birthday cake for 'breakfast'. On the other hand all the weed is gone now so lockdown is about to get far more tedious but possibly a bit more productive.

[Offshore Toon]

I don't really know anybody that posts on Facebook regularly anymore. It's more for pages and events as most people have shifted to Instagram for their inane bollocks. Then there's the odd group where old people lose their shit over stuff. For example, the other night some woman in Jersey got into a text argument with a bloke that fixed her fence or something. He started getting quite abusive so she uploaded the pictures to a group slating the business. Turns out he's a pedo, and then the local pedo hunter got involved. You just don't get that anywhere else.

[Smjffy]

My sleep schedule is completely out of whack now, today I woke up just after 1pm and had cheerios and slightly stale birthday cake for 'breakfast'. On the other hand all the weed is gone now so lockdown is about to get far more tedious but possibly a bit more productive.

I've just this second secured a half which will my first smoke since the end of November-ish. :eek: Just the smell of it is making me feel funky.

[-james-]

To be honest I feel like I'm on holiday except it's been a month and I'm not ready to go home yet.

[Waffdon]

My cigarettes were meant to be getting banned as of next month so I was planning on just giving up other than when out drinking but the ones they’ve replaced them with to dodge the ban are better. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

They look like joints with their brown skins and are in 10 decks with the proper logos and not that brown colouring they all changed to the other year.

[Don]

I think it's day 49 for me, by my calculations. I've been doing great but it's 3am and I just spent approximately 20 minutes doing a Taxi Driver/La Haine routine in the bathroom.

[Shindig]

My sleep schedule is back to the same madness it was when I was furloughed. Speaking of Taxi Driver, I gave a lockdown haircut a shot. Trimmed the back with some scissors and it feels rough but looks passable. I hope my local barber's not gone under, though.

[Baz]

I’ve just had 12 hours sleep.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I talk to myself a lot these days. I see it as healthy, which in itself might be a sign of madness. I'm scared I'll forget how to talk otherwise.

[niko_cee]

Maybe you just have an inner monologue (https://mymodernmet.com/inner-monologue/).

[Yevrah]

I'm still 'good', but no more now. Living on my own and now not seeing anyone I like for 2 months has started to grate over the last couple of days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe you just have an inner monologue (https://mymodernmet.com/inner-monologue/).

I do and the discovery that some people don't has blown my mind.

[Boydy]

It's mental that some people don't. How do you think?

[Shindig]

It's a habit I had to train myself out of at work. "One day it'll answer back, Michael. HARHARHARHAR."

[Yevrah]

I bet the people that don't are the copper bottomed morons.

[mugbull]

I talk to myself a lot these days. I see it as healthy, which in itself might be a sign of madness. I'm scared I'll forget how to talk otherwise.

I still get to see people (Sweden) but the amount that I just sit and have conversations with myself has absolutely gone through the roof

[Jimmy Floyd]

I do still talk to customers on the phone but ideally I'd like my conversational range to extend beyond whether someone requires standard or oversize conrod bearings, after lockdown is over.

[Ian]

"Look, Francois, one it kill you once in a while to ask how I am?"

Also I too just assumed everybody had the inner monologue thing. Or at least never considered it for long enough to think people might not.

[Manc]

I've woken up today fully believing it was Sunday. :\

How are we all getting on?

[Lewis]

I'm having a great time. I think this is about ninety per cent how my life would be if I won the lottery.

[Shindig]

Yeah, this is fine. I've kept myself busy.

[Don]

It's all settled down nicely, only three things I really miss; playing football, sauna and night-time shenanigans. Those three are largely how I spent the majority of my free time tbf but two months of no commuting, minimal work and minimal seshing has me feeling the best I've ever felt physically and mentally and I can definitely do up to 12 months of this. Not a chance I could do it permanently though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I am badly missing cricket and my cricket club - not so much the game (I've retired from playing anyway and embarking on an umpiring career, for which covid should move me up the ladder as it polishes off a few old boys) but the fact that it gives me purpose in life, gives me something to look forward to at the end of the working days/weeks, and is my main social community containing 90% of my friends.

We're going to be ok financially, unlike many clubs, but taking that out of my life, and potentially for another year to come, has been pretty horrendous and no amount of box sets/zoom quizzes/TTH/guitar playing/sim driving and everything else I'm doing to fill the time can remotely compensate.

[Offshore Toon]

I've noticed that Haxball players have been coping a lot better than non-players.

[Spikey M]

Hear that lads? We're not good enough for old hoity-toity cricket pants.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You do help, it must be said. Some of you, anyway.

[igor_balis]

you're welcome mate

[Byron]

Think we've settled into a nice routine. It helps that I'm still working and that I've got a dedicated work space (complete with stuff that I've pinched from the office). We're using Teams as well to get a bit of human interaction as well.

I will say we were worried. I mean, we've been together for nearly 12 years and married for 3 and a half but a lot of people underestimate what a change it is to be with your wife 24/7 and barring a couple of minor spats, we're doing pretty well all things considered.

The company has made it clear that WFH will be a big part of our corporate thinking going forward, as we've coped with it perfectly so I'm looking forward to pushing for regular WFH in the future.

[Kikó]

I'm loving the fitness and rest side of all of this. Extra hour sleep everyday, more cardio, more free time. Less worrying about staying in the office. Missing things like not being able to head up to family but not overly missing football (playing or watching). I've been reading a lot more as well which is something I'm shit at finding time for.

[Ian]

Other than for the sake of something to have on while I do other things I'm really not missing football yet. I'll be annoyed to have no international tournament though as that's basically my favourite form of football these days.

Regarding the general theme of the thread I'm still just bored out of my mind. Probably grumpier than usual but I live alone so at least there's nobody to take it out on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I spend half the time seething about living alone and the other half of the time delighted about it. There really is no way of holding a consistent and balanced state of mind at the moment. Just got to roll with the punches.

[Ian]

I think if I had flatmates I'd despise them all by now.

My parents stayed with me for about two months a couple of years ago when they'd sold their house down south but hadn't got one up here yet and I was ready to fucking murder them by the end. And I generally speaking get on really well with my parents, but the constant lack of time to myself had me angry basically all the time.

[Spikey M]

I spend half the time seething about living alone and the other half of the time delighted about it. There really is no way of holding a consistent and balanced state of mind at the moment. Just got to roll with the punches.

We're living mirrored lives here Jim. I spend 75% my time loving being with my family and 25% of my time considering sleeping in the car.

I have always been a person that needs my own space, but that is extremely limited at the moment. I love my family, but sometimes I just want to sit on my own, scratch my bollocks and watch a documentary with a can in my non-scratching hand.

[Giggles]

Ive took my first day off in months Monday. Gonna see the folks.

[Waffdon]

I hadn’t had a shite since Tuesday night and now I’m on my third since 5 ish. Smells like poppadoms

[Giggles]

I’d love a poppadom.

[Waffdon]

I’ve had them today and on Wednesday. North Indian Garlic Chilli chicken :drool:

[-james-]

I am oscillating on around a six day cycle of absolutely sound to completely fed up of it all and back again.

When you really focus on it, deprivation of freedom really is the worst thing ever.

[-james-]

That was a reasonably long post but I deleted the lot and replaced it with that second line.

[Shindig]

There was definitely a point over the weekend where I started to feel it. I can go outside but, with barely any places open, there's so little to do.

[-james-]

Feel like I've done nothing but consume media for the past six weeks. I can't watch TV any more. It is mind numbing.

My mood is noticeably worse every day where I don't get myself out of breath, but I really hate exercising alone. Or maybe just running, which is fucking awful business. I'm craving a game of football or something competitive to share with someone.

[-james-]

Alcohol is just boredom relief. I've had spells off it with ease in the past but I have no resistance to a few glasses of wine every night at the moment. Just why would you not?

[Lewis]

Alright beast we're not LiveJournal.

[Manc]

You'll be able to gamble your life away within the week.

[-james-]

This is the livejournal thread Lewis m8.

[Lewis]

Play Your Heart Out For the Dead.

[Don]

That was a reasonably long post but I deleted the lot and replaced it with that second line.

Dickhead.


Alcohol is just boredom relief. I've had spells off it with ease in the past but I have no resistance to a few glasses of wine every night at the moment. Just why would you not?

I got on it on Saturday and my mood has been relatively foul for the past three days as a result. Shit weather and skipping my exercise on Sunday and Monday didn't help but living my life as a carefully controlled science experiment and analysing the variables, I can categorically say it's all down to the liquor and the disturbed sleep quality it led to on Saturday night. Quit it for 2 weeks, regulate your sleep and you won't be having these dips.

[Spikey M]

Alcohol is just boredom relief. I've had spells off it with ease in the past but I have no resistance to a few glasses of wine every night at the moment. Just why would you not?

'I can stop any time I want, I just don't want to'.

You sound like my dad just before my mum left him. He was found dead at the bottom of his stairs within the year. If you can stop, do it before you can't.

[Giggles]

'I can stop any time I want, I just don't want to'.

You sound like my dad just before my mum left him. He was found dead at the bottom of his stairs within the year. If you can stop, do it before you can't.

It’s like the lad I used to work with that always bragged about giving up smoking.
“I don’t see how anyone finds it difficult, I’ve done it 5 times already.”

I’m pulling back on it myself a bit now too as the old guts can’t take it as well as they used to and as much as I like trying a new beer, it’s not worth it.

[Lofty]

Also I was nailing the drink early on, also because I had homebrew to drink before the next batch needed bottling, but only drinking on the weekend gives the week more structure.

[Baz]

I felt great up until finding out my mum has [probably] thrown away my Euro 96 ball. :(

[Ian]

Why was anything you cared about still at your mum's house anyway?

Asking for trouble.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Women fucking love throwing things away, don't ever trust them with any kind of possessions. There's something wired in them that sees 95% of all human/male activity as a frivolous waste of time that needs to go in the bin.

[Baz]

Why was anything you cared about still at your mum's house anyway?

Asking for trouble.Good point.

It was ALWAYS kept under the stairs, right at the back where unless you’re a ninja or weigh less than 10 stone you simply cannot reach. Used to only get it out in special occasions (when we were going playing on the field because it was too precious to play with in the street or even the garden.)

She says it’s still in there but my dad REFUSED to take all the old coats out so she could go in and have a look, simply repeating its not when I asked him why they fell out about it this morning. :rosebud:

If she wasn’t vulnerable I’d have marched round and gone in there myself. But alas, I’ll cling on to the shred of hope that it’s still in there.

It’s not.

[Giggles]

If it's not an Italia 90 ball then there's no point having it anyway.

[Boydy]

Women fucking love throwing things away, don't ever trust them with any kind of possessions. There's something wired in them that sees 95% of all human/male activity as a frivolous waste of time that needs to go in the bin.

My mum's the opposite. My dad's always trying to get her to throw stuff she keeps out. Bit of a hoarder.

[Kikó]

Women fucking love throwing things away, don't ever trust them with any kind of possessions. There's something wired in them that sees 95% of all human/male activity as a frivolous waste of time that needs to go in the bin.

This or moving it to a location that will never be known again. The wife loves moving items I frequently use to a place so it's "less messy".

Drink wise, not been too bad. Maybe drink a glass of wine with dinner (which isn't that abnormal) and a few drinks on friday or saturday. Exercise has gone up either by running or videos. We don't have the TV on at all during the day and in the evening it's just to watch TV series so not really getting any negative bollocks.

Grab a book is my advice. Or watch Euro 96 with me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My state of mind has improved a fair bit in the last week since I started eating a bit healthier and have found a couple of projects to do in the evenings which take my mind off everything. Running isn't my bag but I like a walk so I'm thinking of during an endurance walk up to London and back at the weekend, now we're allowed to.

No doubt it'll swing back to shit soon enough.

[Boydy]

What are your projects?

[Mike]

Good point.

It was ALWAYS kept under the stairs, right at the back where unless you’re a ninja or weigh less than 10 stone you simply cannot reach. Used to only get it out in special occasions (when we were going playing on the field because it was too precious to play with in the street or even the garden.)

She says it’s still in there but my dad REFUSED to take all the old coats out so she could go in and have a look, simply repeating its not when I asked him why they fell out about it this morning. :rosebud:

If she wasn’t vulnerable I’d have marched round and gone in there myself. But alas, I’ll cling on to the shred of hope that it’s still in there.

It’s not.

Deffo there lad.

[Ian]

It's not.

[Don]

How long is that endurance walk?

I've currently not gone above 15 miles yet but I'm thinking of doing something similar when weather gets better, there really is nothing like it. Offie said it best, running is for oiks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How long is that endurance walk?

I've currently not gone above 15 miles yet but I'm thinking of doing something similar when weather gets better, there really is nothing like it. Offie said it best, running is for oiks.

I don't know really, however long I want it to be, but I've done 22 miles before and 20 seems a reasonable target at my current level of fitness. I was thinking of Wimbledon and back which would be about 15 miles although that may be over-ambitious for starters, I haven't fully plotted it out yet.

Stamford Bridge and back would be a fun one if I ever got physically capable and had some better socks. That would be nearer marathon length I think.

[Don]

I'm doing 10 miles daily but going off that 15 miler, 20+ sounds pretty serious. I'll be fucked if I'm not seeing what the realistic limits are (I estimate over 30 is asking for joint problems).

[Boydy]

It's just walking, you big fanny.

[Jimmy Floyd]

30 is probably dawn until dusk stuff, I'm not sure that's doable except for people a lot fitter than me. I've found that about 12 is comfortable and then every mile above that adds a layer of toughness. When I did 22 I also got lost and had to walk directly through a large herd of cows which stiffened the sinews a bit and probably provided the adrenaline to get through an extra 5 miles or so than I would otherwise have been able to do.

[phonics]

I’m back in the office today. Doing less work than I’ve done in weeks. It’s great.

[niko_cee]

30 is probably dawn until dusk stuff, I'm not sure that's doable except for people a lot fitter than me. I've found that about 12 is comfortable and then every mile above that adds a layer of toughness. When I did 22 I also got lost and had to walk directly through a large herd of cows which stiffened the sinews a bit and probably provided the adrenaline to get through an extra 5 miles or so than I would otherwise have been able to do.

Yeah, as is the style of the time, it's an exponential growth thing type thing, once you go above a certain mileage things start to hurt/fall apart rapidly.

Longest I've done was a 39 mile round the island job a few years ago and after about 30 it's hard/impossible depending on your levels of tolerance and the quality of your feet.

Anything up to 20 is alright depending on the ground.

[Lofty]

I did 42 for charity as a 16 year old, was in bits for a week. Probably die if I repeated that now.

[Spikey M]

Calm down Captain Tom

[Jimmy Floyd]

Hammer's famous walk from Leeds to Sheffield clocks in at around 33 miles, according to Google maps. Sod that, especially going from one northern turd dump to another.

[Ian]

I did about 10 walking from where I was staying to the British Museum then the Natural History Museum in London a couple of years ago (plus however long I was walking about in each) and thought my feet were going to fall off but that's likely because I am a blimp.

I'd planned to walk all the way back as well but got about as far as the pub where the Great Train Robbery was planned, thought "fuck this", had a couple of pints and did the rest of it by tube.

[John]

Hammer's famous walk from Leeds to Sheffield clocks in at around 33 miles, according to Google maps. Sod that, especially going from one northern turd dump to another.

The worst thing about that was him seeking out conversations with strangers all the way there, the fucking psychopath.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I did about 10 walking from where I was staying to the British Museum then the Natural History Museum in London a couple of years ago (plus however long I was walking about in each) and thought my feet were going to fall off but that's likely because I am a blimp.

I'd planned to walk all the way back as well but got about as far as the pub where the Great Train Robbery was planned, thought "fuck this", had a couple of pints and did the rest of it by tube.

Urban ones are good because you see so much along the way, even if they feel longer than they are. In New York (or 'NYC', as the hip young people call it through their hip young slang-filled mouths) I did 60th down fifth avenue to Battery Park, across the bottom, then back up third to 60th with a few detours for bagels and to see a few things. It felt like walking to the moon, but Google has it as 12 miles.

[Boydy]

I still want to know what Jim's projects are.

[Ian]

Urban ones are good because you see so much along the way, even if they feel longer than they are. In New York (or 'NYC', as the hip young people call it through their hip young slang-filled mouths) I did 60th down fifth avenue to Battery Park, across the bottom, then back up third to 60th with a few detours for bagels and to see a few things. It felt like walking to the moon, but Google has it as 12 miles.

Yeah I loved it for that. Stopped and had a lovely (and hilariously overpriced) breakfast in some 'trendy' cafe and then picked a route that let me see some notable stuff but I know so little about London I was fascinated just by walking past normal places that were new to me.

I did a lot of it in Valencia too, just mooching about and doing the occasional u-turn when I walked into what looked like it might be stab country.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I still want to know what Jim's projects are.

Writing (I do this all the time anyway, but on a particular kicker at the moment), improving my Spanish, and something to do with cricket which is too boring to explain.

[Lewis]

Watching it, playing it, thinking about it... Could be anything.

[Baz]

Remembering it exists.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Rugby league supporters thinking someone else's game is pointless, this'll definitely catch on.

[Spikey M]

They're both shit, but atleast Rugby League is a close cousin of a good one. You have Baseball for a cousin and tennis as a second cousin once removed. What a cunty family.

[Disco]

No, that thing you like is dumb.

[niko_cee]

By close cousin is he referring to football? Because fucking lol if it's the other one.

If I had any idea what I was doing with gifs I'd get Russ (https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/fb9711bd-3944-4aa0-95a3-b59512191ddf/gif) in here.

[Lofty]

Calm down Captain Tom

:D

Been doing some crappy 2 milers every night but want to go big on country walks if that is permitted now. Had just started when this happened, got a pair of walking boots barely broken in.

[Spikey M]

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[-james-]

'I can stop any time I want, I just don't want to'.

You sound like my dad just before my mum left him. He was found dead at the bottom of his stairs within the year. If you can stop, do it before you can't.

I mean we're talking 2-3 bottles of wine a week here. I've barely been pissed all lockdown. I fancy my chances.

On addiction though, my brother is probably the worst he's ever been. He's living with a load of expired crusties and it's obviously impossible to extract him from the situation for a time-out. Pretty bleak.

[Shindig]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/f9lK1ygQGXWo0/source.gif

I don't think the job's doing me any favours. I don't read the reports but the way we're doing things now make it clear which ones are suicidal over the lockdown.

[Giggles]

It’s the weather too. It’s rude not to drink in the sun.

[SvN]

I've definitely been drinking too much. I like a drink anyway, but during lockdown it's got a lot worse. I started at 5pm today because I'd had a super stressful day.

[Kikó]

You alright?

[igor_balis]

I'm GREAT, having managed to actually get a network game going with my mate on railroad tycoon 2, involved hamachi and some mad shit that changed the registry or something. IPX wrapper. I don't really understand computers.

I built a stone bridge from Miami to Havana as a demented vanity project then did a hostile takeover of my mates failing business. Excellent way to spend 4 hours.

[Giggles]

I never found one mate will play VP4. One of the cunts would even rather play funky pool.

[Baz]

I'm GREAT, having managed to actually get a network game going with my mate on railroad tycoon 2, involved hamachi and some mad shit that changed the registry or something. IPX wrapper. I don't really understand computers.

I built a stone bridge from Miami to Havana as a demented vanity project then did a hostile takeover of my mates failing business. Excellent way to spend 4 hours.
Not gonna lie, that sounds class.

[igor_balis]

I haven't been very good, but things have already started to pick up (eyyy), and I hope I've already reached my nadir.

My cocaine use had been pretty dysfunctional and fiendish for a while, but the last six months or so it's gotten really bad. Not looking for sympathy, as I'm aware it's self-inflicted. Finally realised I needed to sort my fucking life out, and reached out to my mate who is a recovered alcoholic, woman of 28 who was diagnosed with pancreatitis and told by her doctor she'd be dead in a year if she kept drinking like she was, and she still really struggled. Through her AA connections, she put me in touch with this lad who's active with CAA, and I'm now doing zoom meetings and on #1 of the 12 steps. Aforementioned lad is now also my sponsor.

This is my 12th day clean and sober, and I feel very positive and hopeful for the future and shit, though obviously wish I'd been capable of doing something meaningful about it before it got to this stage, but better late than never, ey?

The PROGRAM is fucking intense though, thank fuck it's the middle of a pandemic and I'm in a strange city with barely any mates, else I'd have no time for all of it with my notoriously packed social calendar.

In the first step (which can take ages), I'm supposed to attend THREE one hour meetings a week, and talk to my sponsor plus 3 other randoms from the "fellowship" every fucking night. I suspect all this stuff serves a secondary purpose of simply leaving you without enough time or energy to do fucking drugs. I'm not objecting per se, and absolutely accept it as a sort of penance for how much of a stupid thick twat I've been, but it is a bit intense.

[Spoonsky]

Igor :cool:

I hope this sober Igor doesn't lose his sense of humor though.

[igor_balis]

I must admit there is something quite surreal about actually saying "hello my name is Igor and I'm a cocaine addict", in actual real life, in a way not that dissimilar to when a transport police bloke literally did the whole "you have the right to remain silent" thing, er, when he fined me £50 for having my feet on the seat.

[Spoonsky]

Doubly surreal when it's said in your high-pitched banter-ready voice.

[igor_balis]

cunt :D

[Spoonsky]

Writing (I do this all the time anyway, but on a particular kicker at the moment), improving my Spanish, and something to do with cricket which is too boring to explain.

What are you writing Jimmy?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I am either reading or writing constantly, not least on this very board, but I do all sorts of other random shit 99% as a means of having an outlet for my over-active brain. When I wrote that post I'd had a good idea for a novel, did 20,000 words, realised I am not currently good enough to pull the idea off so it would be better as a short story, wrote the short story, that wasn't really any good either so I'm now turning it into a monologue which is better but will still need another five re-writes and by then I'll have thought of something else. None of it will ever see the light of day unless at some point in the future I do something which I really think is good to the extent that I become confident enough to show it to people. It's really just my own little hobby and I have no delusions of grandeur.

(one of the characters I tried to write a while back (unsuccessfully, I'm not a comedian) was based on one of my cousins, who does have delusions of grandeur to the point he has never had a real job and thinks he is an important 'writer', but actually everyone hates him. I could write him off the planet but then I could sell him off the planet, too - but his dad's richer than my dad)

The inside of my Evernote and my word document inventory are truly something, most of it a complete embarrassment.

[Lewis]

How can you even afford a cocaine habit?

[phonics]

I haven't been very good, but things have already started to pick up (eyyy), and I hope I've already reached my nadir.

My cocaine use had been pretty dysfunctional and fiendish for a while, but the last six months or so it's gotten really bad. Not looking for sympathy, as I'm aware it's self-inflicted. Finally realised I needed to sort my fucking life out, and reached out to my mate who is a recovered alcoholic, woman of 28 who was diagnosed with pancreatitis and told by her doctor she'd be dead in a year if she kept drinking like she was, and she still really struggled. Through her AA connections, she put me in touch with this lad who's active with CAA, and I'm now doing zoom meetings and on #1 of the 12 steps. Aforementioned lad is now also my sponsor.

This is my 12th day clean and sober, and I feel very positive and hopeful for the future and shit, though obviously wish I'd been capable of doing something meaningful about it before it got to this stage, but better late than never, ey?

The PROGRAM is fucking intense though, thank fuck it's the middle of a pandemic and I'm in a strange city with barely any mates, else I'd have no time for all of it with my notoriously packed social calendar.

In the first step (which can take ages), I'm supposed to attend THREE one hour meetings a week, and talk to my sponsor plus 3 other randoms from the "fellowship" every fucking night. I suspect all this stuff serves a secondary purpose of simply leaving you without enough time or energy to do fucking drugs. I'm not objecting per se, and absolutely accept it as a sort of penance for how much of a stupid thick twat I've been, but it is a bit intense.


Well done mate, sorry for ghosting. Everything was a little too close to home.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I must admit there is something quite surreal about actually saying "hello my name is Igor and I'm a cocaine addict", in actual real life, in a way not that dissimilar to when a transport police bloke literally did the whole "you have the right to remain silent" thing, er, when he fined me £50 for having my feet on the seat.

Welcome to the club :cool:

Well, not the cocaine club, but the saying things out loud which are surreal club.

[igor_balis]

How can you even afford a cocaine habit?

Well, that's a massive part of the problem. Luckily I never reached the stage of like, I dunno, nicking stuff (I don't think I ever would have tbh), but I'll probably be paying off the debts I've accumulated for fucking years, unless I move home and live like a hermit. Even then it'll take a while.

[Lewis]

And all so you could tell strangers you were 'off your head'. Embarrassing really mate.

[Waffdon]

I’m kind of glad I hate drinking in the house so means I’ll never really have any issues with alcohol or drugs. Not to the point of addiction anyway. I’ve not had any alcohol for over 7 weeks.

Proper 11am binge on Friday though assuming wee Nic gives the go ahead though.

[igor_balis]

I didn't even get to enjoy the wow look how high i am bantz, it was far more grotty. Muting myself in the group skype call during a quiz at 3pm on a Saturday so they couldn't hear me snorting lines.

Doing a key in my nan's toilet on xmas day was almost cerainly the low point though.

[Waffdon]

Worst place I done it was in the work toilets a couple Christmas eves ago as we went for the usual lunch at 12pm and I got half cut in the 2 hours thinking work was shutting not long after but had to stay to answer calls until 3.30pm so had to take a line to sober up

[Mike]

Good luck Igor!

[Shindig]

Aye, keep up the good work.

[Don]

The next TTH meet has lost another soldier but sounds positive son, don it and never look back :thbup:

[Don]

Reports of lockdown induced anxiety and psychological damage are coming in thick and fast but ignoring all that and just looking at my personal circles, I'm seeing two long-term stable relationships hit the rocks (they seem to have sorted it out but both the geezers have decided to quit drinking so they're dead to me now), a gambling addict who was years clean has fully relapsed and is back to square one with his life in tatters and a drug addict has gone from 6 months clean back to hitting the weed hard daily (not exactly a serious relapse but still). Are others seeing this phenomenon?

[Yevrah]

Sort of. Not overtly manifesting itself outright, but it's definitely bubbling among a fair few people I know.

My gut now is we're stuck with where we are now to varying degrees until Spring (when I think we'll basically be 99% back to normal), so it'll be interesting to see how people are coping after a whole year of change from this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've seen a couple of 4 year relationships die and a couple of others have solo problems.

Life routines have been smashed to pieces. I'm fast realising that staying in the office throughout has been a great, great thing.

[Offshore Toon]

UK mates do seem to be struggling and are much quieter. Jersey is fine, though, and look set to come out the other side in great shape.

[Yevrah]

Life routines have been smashed to pieces. I'm fast realising that staying in the office throughout has been a great, great thing.

100%.

A mate of mine who has basically become a hermit throughout this (his work sort of lends itself to that) couldn't believe I was going to a face to face meeting with 5 other people at the end of August when I told him about a month ago.

I'd love to know what % of the population that aren't in a risk group are scared to leave their houses. I bet it equates to a staggeringly high number of people.

[Boydy]

It's interesting the number of people who seemingly can't stand their own company.

I feel sorry for them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have a mate who lives with his girlfriend, they both work from home for the foreseeable (no problems there) and, thanks to playing cricket, currently at least gets to see all his mates 3 times a week. Still descending into mental turmoil because he's lost the routine of physically going to work, and he feels his life is essentially meaningless as a result.

[Giggles]

Probably better the relationships end now rather than later if just being around each other is enough to have brought it on.

[Offshore Toon]

His life was always meaningless. If corona brings widespread ego death maybe humanity stands a chance after all.

[Lewis]

My friend was running the grill for this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-52406342), so he has had the best LOCKDOWN.

[Shindig]

I've been fine with it. The alternative is working in an empty office and then hearing the bloke behind me ask for my opinion on a game I'm not playing. Office banter is only good when there's actual drama going on.

[Manc]

My friend.

Give up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Another one added to the list last night. We were all going to the pub after training, he said: 'I'm not ready for the pub, I'm not convinced it's safe'. Jesus Christ.

It's exploded people's heads.

[Giggles]

He's right.

[niko_cee]

He isn't when the prevalence rate is something like 3 in 100,000 people.

[Spikey M]

This is the problem with just chucking the figures on a website. People don't bother checking them and carry on living as if it's still April/May.

[Baz]

Funny how many people are now fully onboard with Team #GetAGrip, even though nothing has technically changed.

[Spikey M]

Other than the huge reductions in cases, hospitalisation and mortality rates?

It's all changed.

[Baz]

The virus is the same.

All those went down because people stopped going out. :cab:

[Ian]

Yeah, other than those.

[Spikey M]

The virus is the same.

All those went down because people stopped going out. :cab:

They are down because we have treatments now. Why would mortality rates decline because people stop going out?

[Giggles]

People thinking the lockdown and subsequent regulations didn't affect numbers :D

[Spikey M]

Nobody said that. Of course it effected the number of cases. It doesn't effect the percentage of people that die from it.

[Baz]

Nobody said that. Of course it effected the number of cases. It doesn't effect the percentage of people that die from it.It does though.

The vulnerable people were told to stay home, so the elderly, diabetic, people with respiratory problems etc (those who would almost certainly die from it) stopped getting it.

[Don]

Too early for the victory parade, Baz. They're not ready for our bunting.

[Spikey M]

It does though.

The vulnerable people were told to stay home, so the elderly, diabetic, people with respiratory problems etc (those who would almost certainly die from it) stopped getting it.

The spread amongst the general public has been minute for a good while. It's been Carehomes carrying the torch.

[randomlegend]

They are down because we have treatments now.

Do we? Dexamethasone has shown to be relatively effective, that's about it.

[Baz]

Take the L, Spikey. :stamford:

[Spikey M]

Do we? Dexamethasone has shown to be relatively effective, that's about it.

Reducing deaths by 30% is pretty effective.

[randomlegend]

Reducing deaths by 30% is pretty effective.

If you're going to use statistics like that you have to explain what you actually mean by it. The paper says it reduced deaths in ventilated patients from 40% to 29%, which you could easily present as an 11% reduction if it suited you. In non-ventilated patients only receiving oxygen it reduced the death rate from 25% in 21.5% and 17% to 13.2% (not statistically significant) in patients receiving no respiratory support.

Don't get me wrong, it's one (as I said) relatively effective treatment and the best thing we've found so far, but it's not the invitation to let Hammer's mates get back to it you're making out.

[Spikey M]

I'm sure there was another medication mentioned at some point too, but I can't find mention of it now (not the Trump one).

[Don]

I think you're referring to Chashitanpheltokonsidophyl.

[Lofty]

Reports of lockdown induced anxiety and psychological damage are coming in thick and fast but ignoring all that and just looking at my personal circles, I'm seeing two long-term stable relationships hit the rocks (they seem to have sorted it out but both the geezers have decided to quit drinking so they're dead to me now), a gambling addict who was years clean has fully relapsed and is back to square one with his life in tatters and a drug addict has gone from 6 months clean back to hitting the weed hard daily (not exactly a serious relapse but still). Are others seeing this phenomenon?

Apart from beating my personal best for most wanks in a day on a daily basis and scraping the barrel for films to watch I'd say I'm doing ok, could happily continue as I am but with the world opening up again. Maybe I was already immune to isolation because I had moved away from all my friends 3 years ago.

[Ian]

If you've been beating your personal best every day since lockdown started you must be in the hundreds by now. It'll be like mince.

[Spikey M]

He's not even sure if it's spunk or pus at this point.

[Shindig]

I thought we were talking about Mahow's paint spillage, for a second.

[Don]

Let's fire this up for it shall be active for the next month or two, rest assured.

I'm still nursing a hangover from Sat which isn't helping matters at all but I'm also trying to consider whether I should rearrange my working day to fit in an hour or two of exercise whilst it's still light (I doubt I'll go ahead with it as I don't like idea of exercising but having to come back to work).

Should we start a buddy system on here so that we can check in on each other and keep a nice live suicide tally?

[Yevrah]

Did we do any zoom drinks last time round? Family stuff was well and truly exhausted, but for the lols (for they will be few and far between) I might be up for a TTH one this time.

[Yevrah]

And Saturday was good, eh Don?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54773047

[Dave.]

Let's fire this up for it shall be active for the next month or two, rest assured.

I'm still nursing a hangover from Sat which isn't helping matters at all but I'm also trying to consider whether I should rearrange my working day to fit in an hour or two of exercise whilst it's still light (I doubt I'll go ahead with it as I don't like idea of exercising but having to come back to work).

Should we start a buddy system on here so that we can check in on each other and keep a nice live suicide tally?

A two day hangover? Lightweight.

[Disco]

Speaking of being a lightweight, someone gave me a joint to smoke a couple of weeks ago. I had half of it and felt so ill I had to go to bed for a few hours and sleep it off.

[Lofty]

I'm a bit more fucked off with it all the moment than I have been previously.

Think it is just being magnified by the fact one of my friends is lying on his deathbed in a hospice (cancer) and we were asked to record videos to send to him. He's 42 with 3 kids, none of us are allowed to see him and probably won't be able to have a 'proper' funeral for him either. I'm sure it would have felt just as intense and helpless without covid etc but somehow makes a fucking horrible situation even worse.

[Don]

And Saturday was good, eh Don?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54773047

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-53283351

What the fuck is this creature's reporting about? :D This is his second similiar vid I've seen on BBC. Man's getting paid to go bosh a balloon at these raves all because he can be the next Trevor McDonald ffs.


A two day hangover? Lightweight.

We all know I'd make Johnny Depp look a prude if I didn't have the burden of a white middle-class career to maintain.

[Jimmy Floyd]

"It's hot and sweaty, and there's no social distancing"

[Alex]

A two day hangover? Lightweight.

I tend to find the second day is worse than the first, in my (somewhat) advancing years. :(

[Shindig]

I'm a bit more fucked off with it all the moment than I have been previously.

Think it is just being magnified by the fact one of my friends is lying on his deathbed in a hospice (cancer) and we were asked to record videos to send to him. He's 42 with 3 kids, none of us are allowed to see him and probably won't be able to have a 'proper' funeral for him either. I'm sure it would have felt just as intense and helpless without covid etc but somehow makes a fucking horrible situation even worse.

I wouldn't know what to say in that situation.

And hangovers: Mine tend to last most of the day now. Although I've only truly had one or two bad ones. I define bad as being on the brink of throwing up.

[Giggles]

I never get a hangover since I gave up the bines.

[Don]

I never get a hangover since I gave up the bines.

This. I'm off on another 6 month cleanse.

[Kikó]

I can't remember my last hangover.

edit: actually I can. It was my birthday in March a day before lockdown.

[Waffdon]

Speaking of being a lightweight, someone gave me a joint to smoke a couple of weeks ago. I had half of it and felt so ill I had to go to bed for a few hours and sleep it off.

I had a space cake at the start of lockdown and was absolutely fucked. Sat there waiting two hours then it hit me. Fell asleep around 8pm and woke up at 11am the next day. I can’t even go 5/6 hours without waking up at least once or twice any other night. Just dreadful the next day. Comedowns were easier to deal with than that.

Unfortunately it’s the in thing with all my mates smoking weed and eating shite throughout the day. Couldn’t think of anything worse

[Lofty]

I wouldn't know what to say in that situation.


One of those really, I didn't know what to say and the instruction was to stay upbeat so ended up with a couple of crap jokes, felt like it was too difficult to do but knew I would regret not doing it, essentially the last time I will get to 'speak' to him.

As for hangovers, definitely worse with smoking but otherwise a roulette wheel for me, can wake up after 3 beers feeling rough or fresh as a daisy after half a bottle of whisky, no rhyme or reason though I did once spend a day getting involuntary erections after quaffing a lot of duty free Jim Beam.

[Queenslander]

No hangovers on the mid strength lager just the odd bout of dementia.

[Kikó]

Why do you keep posting that?

[Spikey M]

:D

[Queenslander]

:moop:

[Manc]

Light fading at three in the afternoon. End it. :happycry:

[Don]

I've given up all hope of life for 5 days a week, sustained purely by a diet of meaningless football and xvideos.

I stuck in 3 punnets of berries into my yoghurt lunch today though so I'm hoping to shit out all my troubles soon and be awakened to a life of fulfilling shit (pencil sketching and xvideos).

[Yevrah]

This really is going to be an awful 3 months, isn't it?

I'm starting to see why Nordic countries have appalling suicide rates, despite, lack of light aside, being fantastic places to live.

[Spikey M]

Nah, Autumn and winter is the best time of the year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's sim driving which is getting me through the evenings at the moment. I'm not normally a good gamer (a very bad one, in fact) but I'm OK with the wheel and it has the meditative, escapist quality whereby all you need to focus on in a ten-second period is the next corner, plus it's your feet, your hands and everything involved rather than just clicking around the internet.

I don't think I've got anything else, though.

[Boydy]

It's sim driving which is getting me through the evenings at the moment. I'm not normally a good gamer (a very bad one, in fact) but I'm OK with the wheel and it has the meditative, escapist quality whereby all you need to focus on in a ten-second period is the next corner, plus it's your feet, your hands and everything involved rather than just clicking around the internet.

I don't think I've got anything else, though.

What's your setup look like?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It looks like a fairly cheap Thrustmaster wheel (£150) stuck onto a very cheap seat, crammed into the tiny space between my Ikea sofa and the telly in my odd-shaped area which passes for a living room.

It does all fold up though so I can preserve my very small amount of remaining dignity by putting it in the cupboard when anyone comes round, although no one has come round since February.

[Pepe]

What sims are you playing?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have Assetto Corsa Competizione but don't play a huge amount of it as my PC doesn't run it great. I play more Project Cars 2 which is an inferior (albeit still decent) sim but runs really well/immersively on my laptop.

Nowhere near plugged in enough to justify iRacing.

[Pepe]

Yeah, iRacing is too darn expensive, but it is the best option. Haven't tried Assetto Corsa Competizione, but regular Assetto Corsa is good. There are a lot of good options nowadays, truth be told. Project Cars is quite good. I enjoy driving the Caterham.

You seem like the type to enjoy Grand Prix Legends. Will probably be a nightmare to get it running well nowadays though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Counter-intuitively I don't get a huge kick out of single-seaters in this context, I find them a bit harem scarem, I prefer smoothing GT3s or touring cars around the place.

GPL I doubt you could make work on a modern day machine unless you knew what you were doing, which I don't. That monster BRM in it is a beast though.

[Pepe]

I am all about the slow cars. Can't really be arsed with anything fast. Skip Barbers, Miatas, Clios, etc. all day. My best results came in the Lupo Cup back in the rFactor days.

[Pepe]

Dirt Rally is really, really good, btw.

[-james-]

Whenever I get a hint that I'm into something as much as Jimmy is into computer game racing, you know I'm going out and dropping a bomb on a top end pc, wheel, gaming chair etc. Probably why only one of us owns a house.

I'm pretty obsessively into climbing at the moment, which is a good one because there's not much needless money I can sink into it aside from a gym membership and outdoor gear that's going to sit in a cupboard for the next six months. Quite a bit healthier than some past interests as well.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dirt Rally is really, really good, btw.

I thought long and hard about that recently. Will probably take the plunge before spring.

[Spoonsky]

Whenever I get a hint that I'm into something as much as Jimmy is into computer game racing, you know I'm going out and dropping a bomb on a top end pc, wheel, gaming chair etc. Probably why only one of us owns a house.

I'm pretty obsessively into climbing at the moment, which is a good one because there's not much needless money I can sink into it aside from a gym membership and outdoor gear that's going to sit in a cupboard for the next six months. Quite a bit healthier than some past interests as well.

Been climbing a lot as well the past month. Only thing to get you through the winter here. It's such a good sport, the improvement is so satisfying no matter what level you're at.

My overall mental health is definitely hinging on the election.

[Pepe]

It's going to be ok, I am sure you will still be able to see Tronald in some reality show.

[Spoonsky]

It just won't be the same.

[Shindig]

GPL I doubt you could make work on a modern day machine unless you knew what you were doing, which I don't. That monster BRM in it is a beast though.

My PC's a 2013 shitbox but I managed to get GPL working. I can't quite tell you how but I'm sure a google sorts you out. I can't run it windowed but it seems okay everywhere else.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/grand-prix-legends-9zz

My sim list is pretty stocked at the minute with Assetto Corsa, the F1 games, DiRT Rally 2.0, ACC, Project Cars and Ride 4.

[Disco]

I keep threatening to get myself a wheel, and I'd be the same, the Supercars and GTs were the most fun in Forza 7.

[-james-]

Been climbing a lot as well the past month. Only thing to get you through the winter here. It's such a good sport, the improvement is so satisfying no matter what level you're at.

My overall mental health is definitely hinging on the election.

Yeah. The serotonin hit from getting up a new route that you couldn't do last week is basically real life video games.

[Kikó]

I was weeks away from doing my driving test and it seems that's all fucked now with covid.

[Giggles]

How does covid render you incapable of driving? Or is the test cancelled?

[Lewis]

Did you furlough the chauffeur or just sack him?

[Kikó]

How does covid render you incapable of driving? Or is the test cancelled?

All lessons and tests are cancelled until end of lockdown.

[Baz]

lol at billy big pasta not being able to drive

[Jimmy Floyd]

I work directly opposite a driving test centre and it has been very entertaining sitting at lunchtime over the last few months watching people fail and then throw massive screaming tantrums, ripping off their mask and chucking it in the bushes etc. Lockdown takes away all life's little pleasures.

[Lewis]

lol at billy big pasta not being able to drive

Sitting there like a mimsy while his wife goes in to pay for the petrol. Giggles mate you've won.

[Kikó]

She doesn't drive either.

[Kikó]

lol at billy big pasta not being able to drive

I never needed to learn :o

[Jimmy Floyd]

None of my mates in London drive (most have licences, but they don't use them or keep a car). Probably the biggest cultural difference between London/not which neither side really understands about the other.

[Shindig]

I just don't feel the need to learn. I can get places without one, although I always have one foot in the "Motorcycles are cool as fuck" camp. I value my collarbone and spine, though. In fact, my whole ability to walk.

There's also this weird feeling in the back of my head I'd start driving like I was in GTA.

[Kikó]

Running red lights is fine definitely.

Also, if you see a group of Hari Krishna then it would be rude not to run them all over.

[Shindig]

They're going to a better place.

[Lewis]

You learn once you're old enough because it's something to get out the way.

[Queenslander]

There was a racket when I was in high school where the driving school would take the students out to beaudesert/ rural Queensland to get their licence as it was guarenteed.

I had no business passing a driving test at the time.

[Don]

I had a similiar scheme minus the guarantee. Or the driving school.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The absolute jackpot for driving test viewing is the young, rich, Asian male. I saw one start a test in a brand new black E-class (with monogram on the rear bumper), and the start of the test was delayed by a good 5 or more minutes because he didn't have L plates on the car. The examiner stood to one side watching the kid desperately try to stick an L-plate on without leaving anything on the bodywork, as his sunglasses-wearing father raged at them both from a social distance.

[Queenslander]

I think laughing at Asian drivers is the only acceptable form of racism.

[Lewis]

You would think that it would be the other way round. If that racial stereotype is completely true all the time, what else is been kept from us?

[Queenslander]

I would say spitting but plenty of bogans spit as well.

I just realised Im talking about the China side of Asia and you blokes use Asian to describe India and Pakistan.

[Lewis]

They're all at it, driving as if nobody else uses the road. It's the same reason they litter.

[Queenslander]

:D

While we're at it turning a 5 bedroom house into a 14 room sharehouse for Asian students is another good one.

[hfswjyr]

The only time I've ever been pulled over for speeding was in Japan. I was going 60km/h. They drive incredible slow and orderly and safe (and boring) there.
But of course that's not what you mean when you generalise asians.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Yyf6WKgaM

[Queenslander]

Id never include the Japanese they do rule!

[Jimmy Floyd]

When I say Asians it means south Asians, for future reference. My Korean driving experiences were they were quite slow and liked to look out of all six windows.

[Baz]

When I say Asians I mean people of B origin. You know, Bolton, Blackburn, Bradford...

[Queenslander]

I just mean Chinese Australians and maybe male Indian Australians and Ill add 60 year old boomers driving around in those massive American trucks.

[Offshore Toon]

The London Turks are the worst drivers by far. The amount of hit and runs they commit must be mental.

[Disco]

Better than what they've been up to down here, bits of at least two people stashed in takeaway freezers so far.

[Lewis]

Id never include the Japanese they do rule!

And they don't litter.

[Spikey M]

And they experiment in the Chinese.

[Spoonsky]

A lot better than I've been since Tuesday.

[Queenslander]

My 11 week beard seems to have gone wooly overnight so Im happy.

[Don]

Keeping head above water on day 3 of no meaningful football. Tomorrow we play Bosnia [with a weakened squad] which will have to be rationed for the following 8 days in what will probably be the bleakest stretch.

Vaccine talk has offered hope of a free summer. Work has quietened down. I went out at 16:30 for exercise and returned expecting the clock to be close to 19:00. It was 17:30. Mother is doing well. Nephew is too young to be aware.

Don.

Last entry.

For god's sake look after our people.