The New Years Thread

[Giggles]

I don't really know if this is necessary, but it's a bit depressing still posting in the Christmas one as it's over (:()

What's the plans for tonight and onward?

[Chrissy]

I'm writing and filming tonight. That sounds alot better than what it is. I'll be bored out my skull watching my more successful mates on TV come the bells.

I did have a gig up until 3pm yesterday when it got cancelled due to the management wanting to have a more "party night". Relieved as fuck, as it was in a hell hole of a social club, so bullet dodged. Skint this week though but the savings to my soul by not dying on my hole in front of 200 pisshead cunts will no doubt pay the rent.

[igor_balis]

Fuck knows. My mate invited me to a house party in Lincoln, but it sounds a bit shit and I really can't be fucked with the 3 hour train. Another couple of friends had invited me to some all night rave in Birmingham but it was thirty fucking quid and I couldn't really face staying out until 7. Another house party invite in London, but they're all intending to go to some club in Soho which sounds horrible and I don't really like the guy hosting it.

I'd just go and see my mate's band playing at the pub around the corner, but they've sold out of fucking tickets. Possibly gonna go to the thing in London though, as the least bad option.

[Magic]

Going out with my family, to a rammed pub full of cunts. Really can't be arsed, there's nothing joyous about it at all apart from 11:59 to 00:01.

Yay, queueing! Yay, drinks being spilled! Yay, fighting!

[Weaver]

I'm going to meet some mates at five, go out for a family meal at eight and then round to another mates at eleven-ish.

What about you, Giggles?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm making myself a chilli and sitting at home with the dog. Could well be the best New Year ever.

[Giggles]

I'm going to meet some mates at five, go out for a family meal at eight and then round to another mates at eleven-ish.

What about you, Giggles?

I'd love to say something exciting but the local does be rammed and all her mates stay back home for it, so we just get ourselves a few drinks and cook something and watch the rubbish new year TV shows.

[Chrissy]

I'm making myself a chilli and sitting at home with the dog. Could well be the best New Year ever.

That actually sounds quite good depending on the dog.

[Boydy]

I'm making myself a chilli and sitting at home with the dog. Could well be the best New Year ever.

I remember when you scoffed at the idea of getting a dog when the rest of your family were discussing it.


I'm working tonight. It'll probably be really busy and the customers will be even bigger cunts than usual.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I underestimated dogs, as it turns out. She got more right than me on University Challenge last night.

[Lewis]

Thursday night. Shit.

[SvN]

I can't wait to get a dog. Me and my wife have both said that as soon as we buy a house, it's one of the first things we'll do.

[Manc]

I'm as sick as a dog currently. The plan was to sleep through to 2016, but the Mrs won't allow for that. It's going to be fucking miserable.

[Byron]

I'll be on FM all evening. I'm not keen on New Years anyway and there won't be a pub that isn't crammed with absolute cunts.

[Giggles]

I'm going to have to switch off FM later on. She hasn't said anything, but I can imagine she's probably fed up of me being on the laptop.

[Lewis]

http://i66.tinypic.com/2mopnyd.jpg

'You got any plans for 2016, mate?'
'.....'

[Byron]

He looks like the kind of dog that would savage Phonics as soon as he walked through just for having oversized neon green trainers. What a don.

[Pepe]

That dog. :D/:cool:

We will eat something good and be in bed before midnight, like the past few years.

[Lewis]

He couldn't savage anything the tart. He's scared of engine noises and carrier bags.

[Giggles]

That dog is the best thing ever seen on this forum. And I include The Dugout in that too.

[Magic]

The wallpaper/Dunelm Mill basket holder thing/carpet though. :sick:

[phonics]

He looks like the kind of dog that would savage Phonics as soon as he walked through just for having oversized neon green trainers. What a don.
Dogs adore me, mate. I'm like the Dog Whisperer without the dodgy accent. I'm like Dr. Dolittle without the melanin. My friends dog went through a period of running through my mates legs to greet me instead of him and I barely said a word to the thing in comparison to the amount of attention it got from the rest of them.

[Lewis]

My friend's dog used to give it the large'un when I went round, but I can do a pretty good bark so I gave it back and showed it right up. Dickhead.

[Dark Soldier]

Just popped a fucking massive abscess behind my ear, its leaking like Magic's missus at a Dreamboys show. Been a successful New Years Eve so far, tonight I'll be watching films and drinking Oranjeboom.

[Reg]

Thought about going to a gig, but I'm not fussed about NYE, so it'll be Jools and a bit of FM.

[Sam]

Spending it round the gfs as she's doing a get together round hers and I probably should spend one with her by now.

Will get a few beers in and have a few, not much going elsewhere. Two of friends had kids over the Christmas period and others have either gone abroad or just want to doss in the local.

I reckon this holiday period has been the turning point, everyone settling down, damnit.

[Manc]

Is anyone actually getting on it?

[Lewis]

I've got an Asda pizza and a small box of Milk Tray, so yes.

[Lee]

We're going round to Lauren's brother's. He's fine, his wife is a twat and the oldest kid is the most annoying thing on the planet. The youngest one is a baby and so basically a spastic who does no harm. Still, they're feeding us.

[igor_balis]

Yes I am certainly going to be getting on it, Manc, but I have no idea where. Probably a load of shit pubs in Rugby.

[Boydy]

We're going round to Lauren's brother's. He's fine, his wife is a twat and the oldest kid is the most annoying thing on the planet. The youngest one is a baby and so basically a spastic who does no harm. Still, they're feeding us.

What age is this child you hate?

I'm assuming this is a different one to the gay nephew.

[Spammer]

Just going to a mates house in Sheffield for a quiet one. He's found a ps1 in his cupboard so I'm looking forward to using Patrick M'Boma and his Cameroon teammates to dominate the shit out of him on ISS.

[Dark Soldier]

I've bought a couple of bags of Cheetos (proper American ones, not the shit UK imitation) and a three pack of Wispas so its gonna get a bit hectic later.

[Manc]

Wispas. :drool:

[Lee]

What age is this child you hate?

I'm assuming this is a different one to the gay nephew.

It's him. He's five. It's not really his fault he's a knob. I think he has some kind of attention issue.

[-james-]

Going to a "street party" with a few others, which sounds incredibly shit before you even take the weather into account. Someone's decided they're doing roast beef for everyone for 7. No good party has ever started with a sit down dinner.

[Lewis]

The Last Supper preceded a proper naughty weekend.

[Giggles]

All my old work dos started with dinner and always ended up like fucking orgies.

[Samadini]

Little kid from next door is still here even though his family left a few hours ago. He's as bright as any kid I've met and has the sort of personality that will sadly be drained out of him by teachers in school as they don't know how to handle 'characters'.

Turns out I can't either. He's just told everyone in the family that I'm the cutest one here and he wants to cuddle me in bed as I'm like a teddy bear. I'm seriously hoping he's just calling me a fat bastard, but either way he simply has to go now.

[-james-]

I think I just tend to eat too much and end up wanting to have a nap.

[Sam]

I've bought 10 bottles from lidl and some of those chicken nipples. Doubt I'll be touching them but the bottles shall suffice. Dare not enter the new year at such a sober state, especially as the gf has her friends over.

[Magic]

So I'm now taxi so am limited to one beer. Fuck sake. Only until we get to my dad's but I have Kisstory blaring and want to get reamed.

[Giggles]

Tell them you don't want to be taxi. I assume you didn't volunteer.

Does she/her family even ask at this stage or do they just tell you?

[Dark Soldier]

I've bought 10 bottles from lidl and some of those chicken nipples.

:ae:

[Magic]

Tell them you don't want to be taxi. I assume you didn't volunteer.

Does she/her family even ask at this stage or do they just tell you?

It's just need me and her.

Disappointed that it's Blackstory at the moment. Though I did have tremendous fun walking about the house like Beyonce hands on hips when Destiny's Child came on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A quality 'going live' moment on Sky News just now, as some skyscraper burns in Dubai. Sky crossed live to a man on the phone who they thought to be in the building opposite the one on fire.

'So you're standing opposite the burning building?'

'No, I'm in Hillingdon, in Middlesex.'

[Sam]

:ae:

:yn:

[igor_balis]

Looks like me and my mate are just going to go into town and get fucked, fingers crossed there's some people about we know and don't hate. If it is shite we're just going to go back to his and play Fifa which'll be alright. NYE is overrated anyway.

[Sam]

Our lass is grand when she's hosting. Not only am supplying her with chicken nibbles (and now pizza and some fantastic looking indian stuff) but she wants my milk from my fridge?

To that, she can get to fuck.

[Magic]

Binned it and went with Tchami instead.

mokbull knows

[Luca]

I'm going to a banquet hall, which should be splendid fun. It sounds like it should be for the elderly, but it's targeted towards under-30s. DJ, open bar, that sort of thing.

[Giggles]

I'm going to a banquet hall, which should be splendid fun. It sounds like it should be for the elderly, but it's targeted towards under-30s. DJ, open bar, that sort of thing.

Her mates tried to get us to go to one of those tonight in Galway with them. Thankfully she laughed at the suggestion before I had to fake my own death or something.

[Manc]

The Mrs is getting dolled up because "someone has to put the effort in". Do fuck off love. I've been up since 5am and am on death's door. I may throw her off the balcony at midnight.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've just put some nachos in the oven. Grating cheese en masse > going to the gym.

[Giggles]

I've just got herself to throw a few nachos on her Dominos order for me and I've goujons to chuck in the air fryer to go with them.

[Mike]

Just had a Chinese. FM and some beer awaits.

[Offshore Toon]

Catching up on TTH. Got steak for dinner. Anything decent on TV?

[Giggles]

I'll be avoiding Chris Evans. Apart from that I'm not too sure what's on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Madden and A Football Life/some films for me.

Currently the story of Steve Gleason and his struggles with ALS has brought me to tears.

[Sam]

Glorious, they've given me a platform to talk about Ibiza so I'm good to go. Albeit the missus is having a go as all the bottles are 7.3% cider. As if I intended that.

[Adamski]

Just arrived at my dads for a Chinese then we're all heading up to my aunts.

We have a 9 week old baby so it could get interesting layer on. At least I've got a lift home (the wife not the baby) rather than an hours taxi ride on these prices.

[Lewis]

My mother is planning to watch Alan Carr, so I might go for a mooch if it isn't raining.

[Lewis]

The state of New Order on TFI Friday. Ian Curtis has more life in him.

[Spoonsky]

I'm debating whether to go into San Francisco for the fireworks tonight. On the one hand I'd arrive home very late on a bus, on the other it would probably be splendid fun. Toss-up.

[Reg]

My mother is planning to watch Alan Carr, so I might go for a mooch if it isn't raining.
I watched the first four minutes.

I feel for you, Lewis.

[Giggles]

We've that Gogglebox shit on, but if we didn't then it could be Alan Carr so I don't mind.

[Sam]

6th bottle gone, fuck pacing this.

[mugbull]

I wish I could get fucked up tonight. Tragically i'm in Salem, Massachusetts, home of witches, with the fam. Filial duty really is something

[Giggles]

I made a remark that I might not make it to 12 awake and she's gone all quiet on it. She has half an hour to snap out of it or I'm going on to bed whether I want to or not.

[Lewis]

I watched the first four minutes.

I feel for you, Lewis.

I went for my mooch instead. Now it's Piers Morgan interviewing Cilla Black. Fucking hell.

[Giggles]

Someone needs to shoot that cunt in the face.

EDIT: And flicking around I've just spotted James Cordon. He gets the first bullet actually.

[Smiffy]

.....

[mugbull]

Watching 'Clown' in bed, I imagine I'll be asleep before midnight. Just another day, really.

I do hope to do more in 2016, whoever said I'm relatively boring in the other thread was quite right. I have a date tomorrow with some Tinder lass, work over the weekend then I think I'll sit down and decide what my next steps are going to be.

Have a good un gents.

:(

I hope your movie is okay

[Manc]

Mrs is bladdered. It's going to be a painful few hours, but at least I'll get a blowie.

[Shindig]

I feel like I've started too late to get wrecked.

[Mike]

Watched Noel Fieldings DVD with a beer, just got into bed. Out next Saturday to 'bring in the new year' or something.

[Magic]

Fucking hell I just made a shit white people do joke I saw on twitter and one of them was call us nigger on Xbox forgetting my sister's half cast friend was in the same room. Let's hope she identifies more with us.

[Magic]

Fucking hell she's staring at me

[Magic]

I must be predisposed to making utterly inappropriate jokes, this isn't the first time for racism and homophobia. It's insincere I like to think. Fuck sake

[Manc]

Happy new year lads.

[Reg]

Happy New Year guys.

[Dark Soldier]

Happy New Year lads

[Lewis]

Look at these arseholes filming this mega London firework display on their phones. It will be on iPlayer if you want to watch it again.

[Ian]

Happy calendar day, chums.

[Giggles]

Tom Jones is 75. Seventy fucking five.

What a man.

[Shindig]

Fucking hell she's staring at me


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYAGyZlBY0

[Magic]

Love you lads. We all love Leeds

[Jimmy Floyd]

I watched all three parts of the recent And Then There Were None adaptation (Charles fucking Dance :cool:) and it ended at 23.57 in time to hold the dog down during fireworks. Probably my greatest success of last year.

[Lewis]

Four dads have taken the Hootenanny hostage.

[Lewis]

Somebody should tell this bloke what he looks like. Balding wank.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've got Bryan Adams giving it large, so count your blessings.

[Giggles]

Somebody should tell this bloke what he looks like. Balding wank.

Were those fucking noises he was making voluntary? Sounded like a dog coughing up half a tennis ball at one stage.

[Lewis]

What would be cheaper: faking my own death or becoming a heroin addict? Because if I'm watching Jools Holland on my own in 365 days time (Tom Jones or no Tom Jones) then that's what I'm doing.

[Dark Soldier]

What would be cheaper: faking my own death or becoming a heroin addict? Because if I'm watching Jools Holland on my own in 365 days time (Tom Jones or no Tom Jones) then that's what I'm doing.

Probably heroin, it'd kill you off in a few months if lucky and if you can get the hang of noshing off older men to finance it you're set. Good luck mate!

[Yevrah]

Are you doing that because you had no options to 'go out' or through choice? If it's the latter, revel in it. New Year's Eve's always a bit shit anyway.

[mugbull]

You sound swell, Lewis. Drop acid.

[Giggles]

Yev knows. I got curious and headed out a few of them over the years and quickly remembered how shit they were.

Stephen's (Boxing) Day, New Years, Patrick's Day, Easter Monday. All to be avoided like the plague.

Though we both said if we'd known the Coronas were the main act in the show in the city tonight we'd have drove in for it.

[Shindig]

I prefer to stay in. I hate going to packed venues. Puts a real dent into a social occasion when you're confined to a 6-inch space and have to fight for a refill.

[Lewis]

Throwaway comment mate. That said, there is something a bit depressing about the Hootenanny. It might be the audience. It's always the whitest collection of humanity ever assembled. They probably go home and think they've been through some sort of formative cultural experience.

[Giggles]

Throwaway comment mate. That said, there is something a bit depressing about the Hootenanny. It might be the audience. It's always the whitest collection of humanity ever assembled. They probably go home and think they've been through some sort of formative cultural experience.

Yeah it's giving off an extra strong vibe of Aunties 60th birthday party tonight.

Still though, Tom Jones.

[Dark Soldier]

Non-stop police sirens, good old Radcliffe.

[Magic]

Hootenanys is a shite pub in Inverness where folk music ukele playing queers reside

[Yevrah]

I've always thought Jools Holland was a twat and his Hootenanny the visual equivalent of a low grade, but debilitating, illness.

Are Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton on ITV and BBC1 respectively, pretending it's New Year's Eve two weeks ago?

[Giggles]

I've always thought Jools Holland was a twat and his Hootenanny the visual equivalent of a low grade, but debilitating, illness.

Are Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton on ITV and BBC1 respectively, pretending it's New Year's Eve two weeks ago?

Graham Norton was on earlier but finished before 12. I make a habit of never putting on ITV.

[Waffdon]

Actually spent it with my little brother watching still game and bantering on Facebook. What A time to be alive.

You guys are fuxkign great - especially #clublew

X

[Spoonsky]

What's it like lads?

[Lewis]

Better.

[Yevrah]

Pretty much the same as it was 94 minutes ago.

[Giggles]

And don't forget, the transfer window has been slammed OPEN.

[Waffdon]

January 2nd I think, sir.

[Magic]

Raped the wife's period back inside her. Good times lads.

[igor_balis]

Been dragged to some shit pub by mate cus he used to work here
About to drop some illicit chemicals and hit the clubs. Should be aite.

[Spoonsky]

My mom doesn't want me going into San Francisco because "she just likes having me nearby." We are fucked when I go to college.

I guess the alternative is becoming Lewis though.

[Pepe]

Bloody hell Magic. Literally.

[Spoonsky]

And fuck the Anchor too amirite?

[mugbull]

Guy on the weather channel says the only way this December will not turn out to be the warmest on record is if it drops to 120 below zero in the next 45 minutes. I wonder what total boner actually took the time to come up with that number.

[Boydy]

Happy new year you bunch of lovely bastards.


I watched all three parts of the recent And Then There Were None adaptation (Charles fucking Dance :cool:) and it ended at 23.57 in time to hold the dog down during fireworks. Probably my greatest success of last year.
Was that any good?


Raped the wife's period back inside her. Good times lads.
:sick:


What would be cheaper: faking my own death or becoming a heroin addict? Because if I'm watching Jools Holland on my own in 365 days time (Tom Jones or no Tom Jones) then that's what I'm doing.

Move to London. We'll get a flat together.

[simon]

So I've seen in 2016 by crashing my car at 5 in the morning. :moop:

[simon]

One for Lewis really, as he's always on about the roads in Lincolnshire being death traps.

I've hit some black ice on a country road and the car has spun me right round into a ditch. I'm absolutely fine but I had to walk home which was a bit of a ballache. And now I have to sort out getting it out of the ditch tomorrow, which will no doubt be frustrating.

Still though, the car seems alright, I'm not hurt and it could have happened 5 miles further away from my house. So I guess it could be much worse.

[Spoonsky]

I think I'm the last one still in 2015. It's better off without you sods anyways. :cool:

[Bernanke]

I drank heavily last night for the first time in 6-7 months. I'd forgotten the feeling of something having died in your mouth the day after.

Oh, and I witnessed a full on 3v3 brawl on the train home, good times.

[Kikó]

Happy new year gentleman.

I went for a meal with my missus and my mate plus missus. Really good steak, great cuisine compared to the usual in Manchester. As soon as midnight hit, I pretty much fucked off home, what's the point staying out after that?

[Smiffy]

.....

[Raoul Duke]

Stayed in, went through some wine and beers with a takeaway and watched 2015 Wipe and some Jessica Jones on Netflix.

Current 1st world problem: finding somewhere decent that's open and selling breakfast :nono:

What a time to be alive.

[Magic]

We went back home at about half 11 to bring the bells in with my dad and step mum who were babysitting. Some right totty out last night.

My shirt lost a button so I had to borrow my step brothers shirt which was a large. :(

[simon]

Thanks to the help of a heroic farmer and his tractor, the car is now out of the ditch and back on my drive. I reckon I've got away with this big time, as there's barely a scratch on it and it drives absolutely fine from what I can tell.

So, GOOD NEWS.

[Davgooner]

:drink::drink::drink:

[Lee]

I had a great time last night, much to my surprise. I didn't touch a drop (I was driving but I may well be off the booze permanently now anyway, I haven't missed it over the last few months) and the others being pissed didn't bother me. We just talked, played board games and watched telly. It was nice. Lauren was hammered so I took her to work this morning. She has a monster hangover which is obviously quite amusing for me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Was that any good?

It was, yeah. I had read the book fucking ages ago but couldn't remember who did it, and they pulled it off really well. And it has Sam Neill, and Charles Dance donning as usual, so what's not to like.

[Magic]

Her insufferable parents are here so I'm pretending to take ages to get ready upstairs.

[Adamski]

We're on steak pie duty with the in laws coming round. Goose fat roast potatoes, orange carrots and peas. Can't wait :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm watching the Strauss concert from Vienna. It must be the most Nazi thing still in operation. They even have a load of Aryan schoolchildren singing in identical uniforms. Fucking Ban Ki-Moon is there, too. Do I not get a break? Those wankers love anything that reinforces their romantic view of Europe.

[Kikó]

I'm in Manchester city centre and it's pretty dead. Fantastic day to mooch about without fuckers annoying you.

[Dquincy]

Her insufferable parents are here so I'm pretending to take ages to get ready upstairs.

Com'on, sort it out. New year, new attitude. Go give her mum a big kiss and cheeky arse grab whilst the father watches.

[Lee]

I'm still in bed. I've not had this kind of lie in for months. I'm going to get up now for a walk, then pop into Sainsbury's to pick up some fruit. Then I'll sit about and read/watch football.

New Year's Day is a nothing day really, isn't it? All the festivities are done with. Still, the day off work is a bonus. I'll probably take the Christmas stuff down tomorrow. Then on Monday work is back to normal and the kids are back at school so the traffic will be shit again.

[Mazuuurk]

Calm night last night, spent at home with parents & family and a few lads who came over. Little trooper managed to stay awake until 12.30 to watch some fireworks without kicking a fuss, and went peacefully to bed after, and we got to sleep until 11 this morning which is about as good as it gets for us. Made a fucking stellar dinner with fois gras toast for starter, then lobsters & homebaked bread, then fillet of beef with a bunch of stuff, then tiramisu that my lady made :drool:

[Kikó]

I'm sat in house of Fraser while the wife tries things on. I've misjudged this day, it's going pear.

[Lee]

I've lost my fucking wallet. I might have to pop into the office to see if it's there. I need it as it has my season ticket in it for fuck's sake.

[Giggles]

I've just put a turkey crown in the oven and am about to cut off a slice of biscuit cake to accompany my coffee. Not even getting dressed today :)

[Pepe]

Just woke up. Was planning to go for a ride but feeling like crap, might have to cycle indoors. :sick:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm eating some cheese with a knife and fork. Tastes at least 150% better that way.

[Giggles]

Just woke up. Was planning to go for a ride but feeling like crap, might have to cycle indoors. :sick:

On a stationary bike I hope.

[Lee]

Probably should have looked on the dining room table before going into work.

[Giggles]

:D

Then again, who hasn't that happened to at one stage or another?

[Pepe]

On a stationary bike I hope.

My regular bike on a trainer, same thing basically.

[Giggles]

They're good craic. A mate of mine used to cycle to work and kept one of those in his locker for quiet nights. Used to be on it loads when we were training.

[Mellberg]

Went out on New Years Eve. Saw one of my missus' mates get punched by her ex, so I legged him down the road and knocked him out.

Been itching for a scrap, so he did me a favour really. Good lad.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Lewis]

You can't just go around knocking people out, you knobhead.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Mellberg]

Knew you'd have something to say, Lewis.

If you saw a woman get punched what would you do? The correct answer btw is give him a slap.

[Lewis]

I think you can step in without being similarly violent, and it's not really for me to go lamping people on behalf of others.

[Mellberg]

Sorry, completely disagree. Violence is necessary in certain circumstances. That is one of them.

Not sure what good 'stepping in' would do when the girl's already holding her jaw, either.

[Lewis]

You chasing a bloke down the street to batter him might also look like shithouse behaviour to some, and they might feel the need to act the big man and lay you out. Her face isn't helped by whatever you thought you were doing, so, beyond preventing the person from doing it again, you don't really have any business taking it further.

[Toby]

It's the "itching for a scrap" but that makes it shithouse.

[Lee]

It's shithouse behaviour full stop. The bloke hitting the woman is a cunt, but then anybody doing any hitting is a cunt under most circumstances. How has smacking the bloke done anything other than made Mellin feel a bit manly?

[Mike]

Probably prevents the woman reporting it too if she's friends with Mellin with the worry he'll be reported also with his past.

[Luca]

Surely anything the courts would do to him would be far more injurious (long-term) than battering him a bit, and thus far better retribution. So yeah, other than reinforcing some sort of machismo, what's the point of that beyond being a bit of a knob?

[Mellberg]

I'd hate to be with any of you lot when needing to defend myself. You'd be too busy trying to rationalise the situation and then, whoops, you're on your arse. Or your mate is.

He's done it before and she hasn't pressed charges, he may think twice about doing it again. Fighting isn't big and it isn't clever, but sometimes you have to, or even should. Maybe we're just from different sides of the road. Can't imagine Luca, for example, having found himself in many similar situations.

[Lee]

You weren't defending yourself. But then I don't ever end up in a situation where I have to defend myself against violence. Neither do most people. Where the fuck do you go?

[Magic]

Come on Mellsy mate, we'll go and rip some cunts.

[Lee]

Don't you leave the glass jaw too exposed this time, Magic.

[Magic]

I'll just fight non-MMA champs this time.

[Lee]

:D

Go with mum's advice: Kick 'em in the bollocks and leg it.

[Mellberg]

You weren't defending yourself. But then I don't ever end up in a situaiton where I have to defend myself against violence. Neither do most people. Where the fuck do you go?

Not on this occasion, but then I don't mind as I believe it was entirely justified. I'm actually disappointed in everyone's responses and complete lack of backbone.

It was my local. It's a bit of a shithole, but I like it. If you're not prepared to fight, have you never found yourself in a situation where you've walked away, with someone having said or done something, and found yourself feeling worse for doing so/wishing you'd handled it differently? I find it hard to believe you haven't.

[Lee]

Not on this occasion, but then I don't mind as I believe it was entirely justified. I'm actually disappointed in everyone's responses and complete lack of backbone.

It was my local. It's a bit of a shithole, but I like it. If you're not prepared to fight, have you never found yourself in a situation where you've walked away, with someone having said or done something, and found yourself feeling worse for doing so/wishing you'd handled it differently? I find it hard to believe you haven't.

As an adult I've not been in any situation where violence has been on the cards. When I do look back on situations I normally wish I'd done or said less rather than more. What would be the point other than to make myself feel better?

I don't really see how this as an issue of backbone. The cunt is still a cunt whether you smack him or not and the girls has still had a slap. It was about you and your ego. It has to have been because nothing else was affected. He already knows he's a wanker, he's hitting a woman in public for fuck's sake. He just doesn't give a shit.

I don't judge myself on how 'hard' or 'handy' I am. The ones who did at school or on the estates I grew up on have either done time, are hanging around after years in the dole, or are dead. I think I'm probably winning.

[Lewis]

I feel like I'm capable of defending myself, but my six-time Best Poster aura seems to stop people testing me.

[Mellberg]

If it's about my ego then so be it, so is you leading on a woman at work whilst you're in a happy relationship. But my ego, or whatever the fuck it was (it's definitely not something I'm ashamed of), saw something happening that was wrong and I decided to do something about it. You don't need to be dressed in blue to put people straight and I would personally consider it cowardice to stand by and watch that happen. Maybe he'll give more of a shit now he's seen how people react to that kind of behaviour.

I don't judge myself by how 'handy' I am. I have plenty of other positives and negatives which are far more important. But I am thankful that I'm no pushover. If you are, and I'm not directing this at you personally, I'd consider it to be a weakness, not a strength. There are times in life when you must stand up for yourself.

Anyway, this has gone further than I'd have liked and become a bit too personal with someone I have a lot of time for, so I'm out.

[Lewis]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[ScousePig]

Little kid from next door is still here even though his family left a few hours ago. He's as bright as any kid I've met and has the sort of personality that will sadly be drained out of him by teachers in school as they don't know how to handle 'characters'.

Fucking hell where did this come from :D

[Mellberg]

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

:eyemouth:

I would request the van to sort you out, but no doubt everyone would get out, look nervously at their feet and ask if you're okay.

[Lee]

If it's about my ego then so be it, so is you leading on a woman at work whilst you're in a happy relationship

Well she was no victim in that but, yeah, I know my faults.

Not sure why you're so wound up by this but let's leave it there.

[Lewis]

:eyemouth:

I wold request the van to sort you out, but no doubt everyone would get out, look nervously at their feet and ask if you're okay.

Right. Next meet. You're dead, mate. DEAD.

[Magic]

Mellin right now = :cry:

[Samadini]

I'm sure you're a saint, but I can barely remember a single teacher who wasn't just out to make their own day as easy as possible.

[ScousePig]

I'm sure you're a saint, but I can barely remember a single teacher who wasn't just out to make their own day as easy as possible.

Not the point. Draining the character out of someone sounds like hard work, not easy. If someone's a 'character' then surely it's much easier just to let them be.

You're giving teachers far too much credit - they're not that powerful. Plus, it's just cliched nonsense.

[Samadini]

Nah, from what I've seen it looks a piece of piss to get everyone to shut the fuck up and not express an ounce of character.

[Mellberg]

Well she was no victim in that but, yeah, I know my faults.

Not sure why you're so wound up by this but let's leave it there.

I'm pissed off and I'm not going to sit here and deny it. The way women are treated is a sore point for me at the moment and the flippancy of everyone's attitude toward it is doing my head in. Woman gets a slap, it's alright, just don't let your ego get in the way. Woman gets raped, sound, crack on with your life, mate. It's a shit state of affairs and people should not just stand on the sidelines.

Yes, that is a seethe, and I'm not fucking ashamed of it either.

[Boydy]

Mellin the feminist vigilante. :drool:

Is this related to the 'shit ending to the year' or whatever it was you alluded to before?

[Lee]

It's true that I love violence towards women, especially rape.

[Lewis]

*backs away slowly*

[Toby]

I'm pissed off and I'm not going to sit here and deny it. The way women are treated is a sore point for me at the moment and the flippancy of everyone's attitude toward it is doing my head in. Woman gets a slap, it's alright, just don't let your ego get in the way. Woman gets raped, sound, crack on with your life, mate. It's a shit state of affairs and people should not just stand on the sidelines.

Yes, that is a seethe, and I'm not fucking ashamed of it either.

Saying that smacking the guy isn't the way to deal with it isn't saying that those things are okay. Your first post on the matter hardly made it sound like you were especially concerned with her wellbeing, given you chased him down the road without much thought to check if she was alright and saw the whole thing as an excuse to get the scrap you were apparently looking for anyway.

[mugbull]

To be fair, no one in the Western world says "crack on with your life" to a rapist.

[Pen]

I'm with Mellin on this. If someone starts throwing punches at a woman (or a mate for that matter) it's well within in your rights to go for them. I'd hope people my missus or sister hang out eith would feel likewise.

[ScousePig]

Nah, from what I've seen it looks a piece of piss to get everyone to shut the fuck up and not express an ounce of character.

Nice one.

[Magic]

At my two year old niece's party. Shite news.

[randomlegend]

I'm with Mellin on this. If someone starts throwing punches at a woman (or a mate for that matter) it's well within in your rights to go for them. I'd hope people my missus or sister hang out eith would feel likewise.

There's a difference between defending/protecting someone and legging it off up the road to deliver some kind of retribution.

I think the responses would have been different if he'd said he'd dragged him off her, got him to fuck off and made sure she was OK.

[Giggles]

Yep. You don't make the big claim about itching to deck someone if you're then going to give it the big one about being some kind of superhero.

[ScousePig]

I'm with Mellin on this. If someone starts throwing punches at a woman (or a mate for that matter) it's well within in your rights to go for them. I'd hope people my missus or sister hang out eith would feel likewise.

Mellin started by saying he felt it was the right thing for him to do to chin this cunt, and whilst I don't agree, it's his prerogative and I understand it. From then though he's gone on to say that anyone who reacted differently and didn't do what he did are cowards and have no backbone. Which to me is completely different, and completely wrong.

[Boydy]

Nah, from what I've seen it looks a piece of piss to get everyone to shut the fuck up and not express an ounce of character.

Is 'character' just a euphemism for being disruptive?

[Lewis]

I'm with Mellin on this. If someone starts throwing punches at a woman (or a mate for that matter) it's well within in your rights to go for them. I'd hope people my missus or sister hang out eith would feel likewise.

Have you seen yourself?

[Samadini]

Nope.

[ScousePig]

When did you last spend time in a school or classroom, Sama?

[Boydy]

It sounds like it.

[Samadini]

I worked in a school a few years ago.

[ScousePig]

That school must be in the last century.

[Pepe]

I've never been in a fight. :(

I blame it on those teachers who sucked all the character out of me.

[Mellberg]

Mellin started by saying he felt it was the right thing for him to do to chin this cunt, and whilst I don't agree, it's his prerogative and I understand it. From then though he's gone on to say that anyone who reacted differently and didn't do what he did are cowards and have no backbone. Which to me is completely different, and completely wrong.

That's fair enough and I'll take that back. Apologies for losing my rag earlier, but as I'm sure you're all aware I've been through the ringer as of late. And Boydy, yes, that's what I was alluding to before. I'm just going to come out with it - my missus was raped a couple of weeks back, so that's what's going on and where all this is coming from. I'm currently trying to restrain myself from putting him in a canal.

[Luca]

It doesn't justify anything, but I totally understand why you would have lost it given that.

Jesus, Mellin. I'm sorry to hear that, brother.

[Pepe]

Well, fuck. :|

[Giggles]

Well that was a bit of a curve ball.

[ScousePig]

That's fair enough and I'll take that back. Apologies for losing my rag earlier, but as I'm sure you're all aware I've been through the ringer as of late. And Boydy, yes, that's what I was alluding to before. I'm just going to come out with it - my missus was raped a couple of weeks back, so that's what's going on and where all this is coming from. I'm currently trying to restrain myself from putting him in a canal.

Fair enough. It did seem to me you added the extra parts just to back up your point, as often happens. As I said earlier, I don't agree with your initial stance but I understand it. I'm not a fighter but very much working class and many people around me would take the same stance.

As for the other part...shit.

[John]

Fucking hell.

Do you know who it was or was it a random thing? If it's the former, well, get the fucking van and we'll Strangers on a Train the cunt.

[Mellberg]

I know his name and where he lives, yes.

[Magic]

Fuck sake Mell as shit as this sounds we're here for you brother.

[Boydy]

Did she report it? I know that probably won't do much good anyway as conviction rates for rapes are shite.

I'd say you're well entitled to batter him.

[Mellberg]

She's reported it and it's with the CPS. The conviction rates are shit, but I'm obviously going to wait for the outcome of that before doing anything. There's definitely enough evidence to at least charge him.

Cheers, MJ.

[Pepe]

So was this a person she/you knew? That's incredibly shit, hope she is doing well.

[Mellberg]

She works with the cunt.

[Pepe]

Bloody hell, hope he has fun in prison.

[Lee]

Fucking hell. I can understand the sensitivity around it now. Might not be a bad idea to knock going out and drinking on the head for a bit though. If you see him out you'll have him and be in all manner of shit which helps nobody, especially Mrs Mellin.

[Manc]

That's properly shit. How's everything between the two of you?

[Waffdon]

In times like this, we need to pull the old headsets out and play some good old FIFA pro clubs

[Davgooner]

Sorry to hear about your missus. For what it's worth I think you were pretty justified in this instance; I think most people would react in the same way.

[Mellberg]

Good advice Lee, but a bit late. We're good, Manc, I'm just trying to be as strong as I possibly can be for her. It's difficult, but in a funny way we're even more solid than before.

Dave, knew you'd get it. Good man.

[Shindig]

Jesus. Hope you gets get the closure and justice you need.

[Pen]

Have you seen yourself?

You don't mess with a warrior like this mate.

http://s16.postimg.org/vhcfq4or5/tth.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/vhcfq4or5/)

[Kikó]

Sorry to hear Joe. I can't imagine what you and your missus are going through. ..

[Baz]

Soz Mellin. :(

Was going to post about my boring New Year but not worth bothering, really.