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Huggy
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Sorry,but i found it funny
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Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 20, 2010 8:52 PM GMT
They are usually such a cerebral and withdrawn bunch too.
Report panglima • January 20, 2010 8:53 PM GMT
:D
Report BurtSaddo. • January 20, 2010 8:58 PM GMT
:^0
Report annie. • January 20, 2010 8:59 PM GMT
:)
Report BillKiller • January 20, 2010 9:00 PM GMT
A very satisfying thread, that
Report a bitofinterest • January 20, 2010 9:01 PM GMT
he posted goal.
what did i miss ffs ????
Report Big Charlie • January 20, 2010 9:05 PM GMT
Footie supporters = bunch of women.
Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 20, 2010 9:06 PM GMT
Oooh you **!
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 20, 2010 9:06 PM GMT
Dreadful place, if it wasn't for football i wouldn't go near it.
Report panglima • January 20, 2010 9:08 PM GMT
Love it


you can call anyone any name under the sun over there, no-one bats an eyelid, post up

GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!


then everyone goes ape sh!t :D
Report Big Charlie • January 20, 2010 9:09 PM GMT
I think you should all pop over there and post how lovely I am on my thread :)
Report jimmy69 • January 20, 2010 9:09 PM GMT
Let's see if we can do it again...
Report Dan Chipowski • January 20, 2010 9:09 PM GMT
I wouldn't call the 4 or 5 ppl who replied 'the whole footie forum'.

:|
Report macarony • January 20, 2010 9:10 PM GMT
would this go down as another succesful chit chat invasion?
Report panglima • January 20, 2010 9:14 PM GMT
Dan, have you seen those goal threads or false threads like Ferguson gone

to have a haircut

they usually get a dozen or so threads full of abuse

its laughable
Report Dan Chipowski • January 20, 2010 9:15 PM GMT
:D , I'm not a regular visitor to those parts....

Seems a few of them are highly strung though :^0
Report Big Charlie • January 20, 2010 9:17 PM GMT
I don't like footie. I go on there now and again and bring up every post that has no response, which started miss big baps off tonight.

Now and again I start a GGGOOAALLLLLLLL thread.

I did this about two years ago while there was a BIG GAME on the telly. I wasn't even watching it but I started the thread, and by pure chance somebody scored one second after I posted.

Some bloke come on the thread and said 'What facking connection have you got ? You posted before it was in the net.'

I told him it cost £65 per week and I had just snapped up all the 9/4 on the team that scored.

He asked me who the IP was, I said I'd tell him after the match

He put 'ttt' on the thread about 100 facking times, thick**t.
Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 20, 2010 9:18 PM GMT
When you post up a long thread title that goes off the edge of the screen, that sends them really mental! Some real **wits over there but at least transparently so, not like the horse racing forum that contains some bona fide **s.
Report Dan Chipowski • January 20, 2010 9:18 PM GMT
:^0 :^0
Report Coachbuster • January 20, 2010 9:21 PM GMT
come on ..lets get on Jimmys goal thread and make out the game is playing
Report Huggy • January 20, 2010 9:22 PM GMT
I told him it cost £65 per week and I had just snapped up all the 9/4 on the team that scored.

He asked me who the IP was, I said I'd tell him after the match

He put 'ttt' on the thread about 100 facking times, thick**t.




i am in tears :)
Report bigH • January 20, 2010 9:29 PM GMT
Comedy gold!!
Report pox doctors clerk • January 20, 2010 9:30 PM GMT
charlie lol, perhaps you ought to seek the safe haven of chit chat for a short period before your next jaunt over the footy section, with your famous spanner in the works excersize
Report panglima • January 20, 2010 9:31 PM GMT
Class Chaz :D
Report Big Charlie • January 20, 2010 9:32 PM GMT
Jimmy started a GGOALLLLLLLLL that's going well. :^0
Report Coachbuster • January 20, 2010 10:03 PM GMT
Jimmy's first ever thread on the soccer forum ;)
Report macarony • January 20, 2010 10:18 PM GMT
HRH The Lager Khan 20 Jan 22:18


When you post up a long thread title that goes off the edge of the screen, that sends them really mental! Some real **wits over there but at least transparently so, not like the horse racing forum that contains some bona fide **s

Your not far wrong there anybody that is not in the horsey clique and posts a thread usually gets abuse.
Also the reason there is a £2 minimum bet on betfair is to make the horseracing forum feel at home
Report Almagro is a no no • January 20, 2010 10:37 PM GMT
tennis was a nice cliquey place just like the racing and everyone like it. The kids have arrived for two weeks now though
Report Big Charlie • January 20, 2010 10:41 PM GMT
Some facker wiped out the tennis forum. :)
Report Almagro is a no no • January 20, 2010 10:43 PM GMT
I got banned that day for a retaliatory strike on chit chat
Report BillKiller • January 20, 2010 10:43 PM GMT
there is a £2 minimum bet on betfair

Is there? I never risk more than 50 pence, me.
Report i-only-lay • January 21, 2010 12:17 AM GMT
Big Charlie 20 Jan 22:17


I don't like footie. I go on there now and again and bring up every post that has no response, which started miss big baps off tonight.

Now and again I start a GGGOOAALLLLLLLL thread.

I did this about two years ago while there was a BIG GAME on the telly. I wasn't even watching it but I started the thread, and by pure chance somebody scored one second after I posted.

Some bloke come on the thread and said 'What facking connection have you got ? You posted before it was in the net.'

I told him it cost £65 per week and I had just snapped up all the 9/4 on the team that scored.

He asked me who the IP was, I said I'd tell him after the match

He put 'ttt' on the thread about 100 facking times, thick**t.




comedy gold :-)

funniest thing ive read on this forum
Report curious-cat • January 21, 2010 12:52 AM GMT
:^0
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 10:18 AM GMT
Some of you lads need to get out more if you really think it's that funny - it's not as if it hasn't been done 100 times before (last year alone)!
Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 21, 2010 10:19 AM GMT
Leave the house? Are you insane?
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 11:11 AM GMT
I went outside in September.

I saw a middle aged pi$$head wearing a football shirt, swigging lager and chanting 'YOU NIGH TID - YOU NIGH TID - YOU NIGH TID'

It was a Doncaster shirt.

Cvnt.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:14 AM GMT
Bc, 1 Serious Spyker 0, lol
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:14 AM GMT
Surely you go out to shout at the neighbours from time to time?
Report redbag • January 21, 2010 11:15 AM GMT
JUST READ THE THREAD :^0

making me pmslist reported
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:15 AM GMT
Oh dear box - I suggest you stop commenting on how serious I am as you obv don't get it!
Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 21, 2010 11:16 AM GMT
I find using a loud hailer from the east gun tower suffices when conversing with the neighbours.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:18 AM GMT
Oh dear Spyker, I obviously don't, I would appreciate any guidance you have to offer.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:22 AM GMT
This must be a misprint then, from BC's footy thread...........



spyker 20 Jan 22:32
boxing - not everyone is being serious you know........,





































(i am though)

OOOORRRRAAAAAALLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:29 AM GMT
I have a very good sense of humour but I also comment on threads/people that just aren't as funny as people seem to think they are. Imagine of you struggle out the house and make it to a pub with the footy on, some people watching it, some people aren't, somebody stands up and shouts goooooooaaaaaallllllll! for no reason. How many people in that pub would find it any more than mildly amusing? Why is it any funnier on a forum?
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:34 AM GMT
Spyker, chill mate, you will burst something.
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:42 AM GMT
You see - there you go again misunderstanding on purpose - I take it you is a lady?
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 11:45 AM GMT
spyker 21 Jan 12:29
I have a very good sense of humour but I also comment on threads/people that just aren't as funny as people seem to think they are. Imagine of you struggle out the house and make it to a pub with the footy on, some people watching it, some people aren't, somebody stands up and shouts goooooooaaaaaallllllll! for no reason. How many people in that pub would find it any more than mildly amusing? Why is it any funnier on a forum?


I was in The Red Lion in Plaistow when a cup final was on. I had backed Reference Point for a tidy sum in the A.R. Dennis shop across the road.

I dont like football, so I grabbed the remote, switched to channel 4 and threw the remote over the bar.

The horse won and I went to collect my dosh.

When I came back to get my keys and my fags the cvnts had locked me out of the pub.

No sense of humour, some people.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:45 AM GMT
boxingthefox 21 Jan 12:18
Oh dear Spyker, I obviously don't, I would appreciate any guidance you have to offer.

You had you chance..........lol.


Spyker, I have to stop for some physio/exercises, It's just a bit of fun mate, no malice, or nastiness intended, cheers.
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:47 AM GMT
no course not - are you a lady doing exercise and getting all hot and sweaty btw?
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 11:52 AM GMT
If you must know spyker I am recovering from a series of operations, the most serious was on my spine, would I gladly swap with a sweaty fit lady mmmmmmmmmm, let me think about that one, gl
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 12:14 PM GMT
Good luck with that - I've had/got serious health problems as well so know it aint easy, should get easier after the initial hard work/horribleness!
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 1:06 PM GMT
Cheers, Spyker, at least i'm at home and the Physio is only 5 mins away.
Good luck with your health too mate.
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 1:15 PM GMT
Luckily mine is stable and should remain so as long as i take care of myself (got liver disease). Physical pain only lasted about a year though i do get the odd twang - prob not a lot compared to you - watch those painkillers they can be addictive!
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 2:12 PM GMT
Kinell, Spyker, sorry to hear that mate, hope it remains stable for you, and does not impact too much on your daily life.

I've just got aggressive osteoarthritis, so far, had op's on the right Shoulder, right leg, (knee) spine, left ankle, Spine op about 60% success so far, just the left shoulder to go.Specialist Reckons I will get another 2-3 years out of the right knee...result!!. I will be the 6 million dollar dope when they are finished, lol.

Look after yourself, and be lucky. I'm off out for some air, catch you another time. Cheers.
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 3:49 PM GMT
I thought I was rough but there's always somebody worse off.

If we were horses they'd shoot all three of us. :(

Good luck to both of you
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 4:00 PM GMT
Lol, BC, we would have been on a French dinner log ago, or worse still glue!!!.........in that case.........would like to think we would be SUPERGLUE!!!!
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 4:18 PM GMT
Cheers the pair of you, BC - they very nearly did 9 years ago! i was as close to death as i ever want to be until it actually happens - I'm only 36 now - puts everything into perspective which is why I have the live and let live outlook now - lifes too short to be bothered by pettiness.
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 5:05 PM GMT
I shout at the telly when the adverts come up loud, even if I've got the remote in my hand.

It's allowed when you pass 55.
Report KaneGould • January 21, 2010 5:19 PM GMT
over 55yr old, lol, acting like a 12 yr old on the football forum, attention seeking loner
Report Huggy • January 21, 2010 5:34 PM GMT
60 replys :)
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 6:06 PM GMT
I'll be happy just to get to 55 (and will also have my place in the Guiness Book of records) at least i don't have to worry about a pension and becoming an embittered old man........
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 6:45 PM GMT
KaneGould 21 Jan 18:19
over 55yr old, lol, acting like a 12 yr old on the football forum, attention seeking loner


Go back to the monkey cage, Pike.
Report Howdi • January 21, 2010 7:23 PM GMT
you tell me Charlie lad :)
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 7:55 PM GMT
spyker 21 Jan 19:06
I'll be happy just to get to 55 (and will also have my place in the Guiness Book of records)


Spyker, do tell, if thats ok.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 8:06 PM GMT
KaneGould, if you cannot be civil to our much respected BC, then please refrain from posting unwarranted, unsolicited rude, remarks. fyi BC is a pillar of this community.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 8:08 PM GMT
The Riff Raff, we get on here really!!!!!!!!!
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 9:22 PM GMT
I've got alcoholic cirrhosis and various other accompanying things like varices in my oesophagus which if they burst i end up drowning in blood but they are under control. Think that picture of George Best in hospital and that was me a year or so earlier (in fact we had the same doctors but he paid for them!), he drank again, I haven't, he's dead, I'm not - of course he did have a few years on me!
I had a blood count of 2 which basically means my blood was water and i had to have all sorts of transfusions (most of which leaked out of a hole in my hand!) and was in hospital for 2 months. Horrible experience as i was moved around and ended up in a leukemia ward and I was pretty close to topping myself as there was i with a (mostly) self inflicted illness and these poor sods were dying and it wasn't their fault. Anyway i got through that and left hospital about a month before i should have done but I wasn't hanging around there any longer!
The liver controls an awful lot of the body, many hormones, temperature and of course blood cleaning etc so if it fecks up then most of the other organs can do as well. Something like 2/3rds of people with what i've got die within 3 years (1/2 of those within 6 months). It is under control and as long as i don't drink or come under too much stress (such as a road accident as i can't have a general anaesthetic) it should be all right but the doctors don't really know as it's usually older people that have this so don't last as long (and many drink themselves to death). I'm susceptible to infection but can't take many medicines (anti-biotics for example) so if I get ill then I have to ride it out, i also can't take pain killers (apart from codeine). I'm kind of a running experiment and am closely monitored and if the time came I would prob be ok to have a transplant but the rest of me might be feked by then. My granddad died from liver failure when young (and he was teetotal) so there seems to be a weakness there and this obv wasn't helped by me being a heavy drinker.
I've maintained my health for this long (9 years in April) but I can tell the doctors are getting 'itchy' as they haven't had many (if any) patients that have lasted as long as me so if I get to 55 I'll be well chuffed! Like I say at least i don't have to worry about saving for my old age!
I volunteer for a few charities to highlight the dangers of booze (but am not anti it or preachy) to try and pay something back as i'm fully aware of my own stupidity but this is getting harder as i'm getting more tired more often. i've always been chilled so don't concern myself with the future and just get on with it, fate will do whatever she wants and I'll take whatever is chucked at me.
Report BillKiller • January 21, 2010 9:26 PM GMT
Well done, Spyker, you've got a great attitude. Keep it up and you'll see us all out.
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 9:47 PM GMT
Keep throwing punches Spyker, it's not over until the final bell.
Report boxingthefox • January 21, 2010 9:52 PM GMT
Jesus,Spyker, thats amazing, a great example of the human spirit, I could cut my fking hand off for that stupid chill post this morning, sorry mate.

I am aware of the tiredness problems, I have had me/cfS for 20 years, bedridden for 4 years, I have learned to manage it and have had a good few good years in between the bad ones. I only mention this because tiredness/fatigue is extremely hard for healthy people to understand. and can be even more difficult for the sufferer to accept.
I know it can frustrate you but you just have to go with, sorry i'm waffling now.

My health, problems which are non life threatening pale into insignificance compared to yours. I want to see you in that record book, I'm sure many others will feel the same. I have to go now, but will catch you again tomorrow, GN, mate
Report clarkson • January 21, 2010 10:20 PM GMT
Great post Spyker, good luck with that mate.
Report Huggy • January 21, 2010 10:21 PM GMT
BLOODY HELL IS THIS THREAD EVER GOING TO STOP.
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 10:24 PM GMT
Thanks for the kind words all but trust me box - people like you are much stronger than i'll ever be - you are ill through no fault of your own and probably have to manage more pain in a week than I have in the last 9 years. Although i was in all prob born with a liver weakness i basically made myself ill so deserve what comes my way and when in hospital i decided to turn down a transplant if offered it as i didn't deserve it - this has changed a little but I'm still not sure i'd accept one now.
I've had a funny year as the dwp in their wisdom say that i am no longer entitled to incapacity benefit as my condtion is managed. I've been through 2 appeals but as i don't fit in the box they say that i am not eliigable - ironically if i started drinking again I would be eligable, fecked up or what?
They have forced me onto jsa but no fecker is going to employ me atm so my outlook is a bit bleak. I tried doing a full week at the charity i volunteer for last year but it didn't work out (which I've told them). I've also been informed that they suspect me of benefit fraud when i have done no such thing.i'm seeing 1 solicitor tomorrow about my appeal and another next week about the fraud case! i've got a meeting (under caution) on the 1st Feb with the dwp and council about the fraud.and can't wait to hear what it is they think I've been up to and trust me you may be hearing more of this in the media when it's all done as it's tantamount to harasment., I've got a few media contacts as I have been on tv about my illness. i love proving people wrong though and will have great delight in doing that with the dwp as whatever they've cooked up is**- i did win 10k last year over a weekend but that isn't against the rules and i didn't go over any limits - it's enough to drive a man to drink!
Report Big Charlie • January 21, 2010 10:45 PM GMT
spyker

they're having a go at you and singling you out because of your age.

They probably envisage paying you until you die, so they shove you on JSA which has a lower rate or payment. After 26 weeks you'll go on to Income Support, which is paid at the same rate as JSA, therefore saving them a forutne if you don't work but live for 20 years.

I've just been awarded DLA high rate and the low rate Care Component, backdated to September, which was when I applied. I discovered this also entitles me to free car tax and a Blue Badge. I'm not in as bad shape as you are, but I'm 58.

See the difference the age makes.
Report HRH The Lager Khan • January 21, 2010 10:50 PM GMT
spyker.

You're going through that and they know stress makes things worse! Utter bastids! Good man, keep proving people wrong one day at a time.
Report spyker • January 21, 2010 11:30 PM GMT
Cheers - i don't think they thought they'd be paying me as long as they have done and it's not that i feel i have a divine right to be on benefits in perpetuity but the fact that they have chucked me on jsa without any help in finding a job. i feel i'm more use doing the volunteering i do and eeking a living on here (I am a decent gambler even if i do say so myself!) than doing a job just to get along that could well damage my health. If i was on IB they would have to help me find work but on JSA they don't - they just force you to look for it and 5 months on it has shown me that people aren't queuing up to employ soembody like me atm! Like i say i can't wait to see what they have cooked up and i've already told the investigating officer as much on the phone - should be qutie a giggle though that is not what they are expecting me to be like! night all.
Report BillKiller • January 21, 2010 11:38 PM GMT
Good night and good luck, Spyker
Report boxingthefox • January 22, 2010 9:38 AM GMT
Morning guys.
Report Hoss • January 22, 2010 9:56 AM GMT
Mornin' BTF, I too have been lying in bed for the last few years, I was paralysed 21 yrs ago but had a good life and down the pub every day. A few games of dominoes, a few pints and a few bets until I had to have a leg off and a new aorta fitted due to bad circulation a few years back.

I'm getting a couple of hours of physio a week, which has led to me now being able to sit out for an hour or so a day.

On the plus side, with all this enforced free time, I've found that I can now turn a fair profit percentage for the 1st time albeit for my smallsh stakes ;)
Report boxingthefox • January 22, 2010 10:13 AM GMT
Bl00dy hell Hoss, sorry to hear that mate, I am up and about, it was a good few years ago that I was confined to bed. I am going through a bad spell M.E wise due to the recent op's that caused a re-lapse, but nothing like the "Early days".

I feel a bit of a pr@T, for feeling a bit sorry for myself, when I see what some other guys are going through on here. There are probably more here given the amount of people posting. GL mate.
Report Big Charlie • January 22, 2010 10:56 AM GMT
Orioles broke a fingernail yesterday.

We shall have a prayer meeting at noon in the local church.
Report boxingthefox • January 22, 2010 11:38 AM GMT
Lol BC, post of the week, sounds like you are on good form as usual, despite the Sh*t that life throws your way. GL
Report BillKiller • January 22, 2010 11:41 AM GMT
Orioles broke a fingernail yesterday.

I called for medevac but they said they've got a weight limit.
Report spyker • January 22, 2010 1:32 PM GMT
Just got back from solicitor and she says I've got no chance re the appeal - which is what the c.a.b said about the last one and I 'won' that (got the rehearing which isn't exactly a win)! Sod em, I'm going to go ahead anyway as I've got nowt to lose - onto the intriguing fraud hearing a week on Monday now........
Report boxingthefox • January 22, 2010 2:10 PM GMT
spyker, Hi mate, i don't have to tell you what a shower of to$$ers you are dealing with, they set up a cr@p system that's open to abuse,then panic and bring in ridiculous broad sweeping changes as a "Catch All", like trying to repair a watch with a crane, FFS. Apart from that hope you are well, i'm off for a while, catch you later.GL
Report Big Charlie • January 22, 2010 4:17 PM GMT
It helps matters if you've never had an office job when claiming I.B, or at least tell them you haven't when signing for JSA. Any job they find you is useless anyway.

I have no idea what the rules are now as they change all the time, but they used to be 'If your incapacity prevents you from doing your NORMAL job, you may be able to claim Incapacity Benefit.'

Bearing in mind I'm too old to be trained in sap warehouse systems or excel spreadsheets, and always manage to appear dyslexic :) no office will employ me.

I won't stop smoking cigars, but they insist on non-smokers these days. I have a voice like Lee Marvin with a**ney accent, am partly deaf, and thats not the telephone manner they require.

So I'm stuck on IB. until I retire, or a contract comes up that I like.

The staff at the Jobcentre already assume you are thick, so play along and be too thick to employ.
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