[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Happy new year to you all

Had some lovely news to start the new year: Dad has another post-op check, and they've agreed to take him off the beta blockers and blood thinners a few months early because his recovery is going so well. So pleased!

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 02 January 2019 - 02:16 PM

[Malankazooie]

Ahhhhh snap-uh-pap-ah-papple van winkle!

I just have the biggest grin on my face (flippin' ear to ear). Man City beat them slack jawed droolers from Liverpool.

Where you at Macky? Better be in the pub drinking away the shame.

[Macros]

Malankazooie, on 03 January 2019 - 11:06 PM, said:

Ahhhhh snap-uh-pap-ah-papple van winkle!

I just have the biggest grin on my face (flippin' ear to ear). Man City beat them slack jawed droolers from Liverpool.

Where you at Macky? Better be in the pub drinking away the shame.

Yes. Drinking away the shame of narrowly losing what will be our toughest PL fixture of the season.
Veritably drowning my sorrows at being top of the league having played our closest competition twice already.

Bar Lovren and Mane I'd say Liverpool played pretty damn well. Ferandinho was the difference in the middle of the park an Lovren the difference at the back, he just goes to sleep so often!
Also Kompany lucky to have stayed on the field, and 11mm away from being 2-2, all told I'll take it, it was still a solid performance

[Maark Abbott]

Got a short story due out in an anthology in March.

[Malankazooie]

Macros, on 04 January 2019 - 08:25 AM, said:

Malankazooie, on 03 January 2019 - 11:06 PM, said:

Ahhhhh snap-uh-pap-ah-papple van winkle!

I just have the biggest grin on my face (flippin' ear to ear). Man City beat them slack jawed droolers from Liverpool.

Where you at Macky? Better be in the pub drinking away the shame.

Yes. Drinking away the shame of narrowly losing what will be our toughest PL fixture of the season.
Veritably drowning my sorrows at being top of the league having played our closest competition twice already.

Bar Lovren and Mane I'd say Liverpool played pretty damn well. Ferandinho was the difference in the middle of the park an Lovren the difference at the back, he just goes to sleep so often!
Also Kompany lucky to have stayed on the field, and 11mm away from being 2-2, all told I'll take it, it was still a solid performance

Aw come on. You have to admit it stings (just a little?).

It was pretty much even stats across the board when they showed the after game analysis and so the match could have easily gone the other way (probably would have if home field was different).

[Macros]

Not really.
Liverpool are so good this year they're making United fans support city. Its glorious

[Mentalist]

Won our quarter-final in style, 3-0 despite only having 3 subs (granted, the other team only had 2)

Had a breakaway when I took the ball off a midfielder at half-line, but just as I was about to go one on one with the keeper, the defender whom I rushed past hooked both of my feet cleanly off the ground.

Did a proper wipeout on the turf; and now I'm missing all skin on top of my left knee, which sucks. But we won, so I'm still happy.

[Gorefest]

Being a football fan is skirting dangerously close to being a masochist. Why do we do it? Ten years ago my team was proudly surviving the UEFA cup group stage, having beaten Udinese and Spartak Moscow (sure, we received a massive drumming from HSV in the knockout phase, but hey ho); these days we find ourselves in the bottom half of the second division with no end to the pain in sight. Where did it all go so horribly wrong?

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[Tsundoku]

Gorefest, on 05 January 2019 - 08:24 AM, said:

Being a football fan is skirting dangerously close to being a masochist. Why do we do it? Ten years ago my team was proudly surviving the UEFA cup group stage, having beaten Udinese and Spartak Moscow (sure, we received a massive drumming from HSV in the knockout phase, but hey ho); these days we find ourselves in the bottom half of the second division with no end to the pain in sight. Where did it all go so horribly wrong?

Well now, if you could consistently accurately answer that question there's a future for you in sports management.

[Malankazooie]

Wow. The temps here today tickled to the low 60s (Fahrenheit). That's way unusual for Jan. 6. Maybe I should be posting this in the 'Messing with your groove' thread because it's another example of global climate change? Yes? No? Meh?

[Maark Abbott]

Not only did someone actually buy my novel across the weekend, they're already mostly finished with it and have told me they're really enjoying it.

Big boost, that.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Mr-Not-A-Blacksmith met my dad yesterday (already met mum). They got on like a house on fire.

[Macros]

So lot shouting and screaming and the emergency services were called then?

[Morgoth]

Macros, on 07 January 2019 - 11:17 AM, said:

So lot shouting and screaming and the emergency services were called then?

Severe injuries. Scars that will never fully heal and cause a lifetime of pain.

Sounds like a normal first encounter with the in-laws.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Morgoth, on 07 January 2019 - 12:04 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 January 2019 - 11:17 AM, said:

So lot shouting and screaming and the emergency services were called then?

Severe injuries. Scars that will never fully heal and cause a lifetime of pain.

Sounds like a normal first encounter with the in-laws.

Horse shoes and other paraphernalia were thrown, ambulance involvement was thankfully minimal

[Tsundoku]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 07 January 2019 - 12:53 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 07 January 2019 - 12:04 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 January 2019 - 11:17 AM, said:

So lot shouting and screaming and the emergency services were called then?

Severe injuries. Scars that will never fully heal and cause a lifetime of pain.

Sounds like a normal first encounter with the in-laws.

Horse shoes and other paraphernalia were thrown, ambulance involvement was thankfully minimal

So ... all in all pretty lucky then?

[worry]

Lol the in-laws. Don't rush them!

[Maark Abbott]

Said reader has finished my book and told me they very much enjoyed it. I am giddy.

[Macros]

full application for finance is finally going in this Friday, with a view to having an answer next week. Not counting any chickens yet but the financial manager is quietly optimistic as I am in a position to service the repayments independently if the whole driving range thing goes tits up (not that anyone thinks it will, but financiers want that kind of security).

[Gintokian]

Maark Abbott, on 08 January 2019 - 08:26 AM, said:

Said reader has finished my book and told me they very much enjoyed it. I am giddy.

Yes, I've heard that apparently your characters are "more fappable than Bakkers"?