What is hacking you off today?

[Cricko]

Where’s the summer weather FFS.

working in garden and have had to retreat to green house as it’s chucking it down, too far to make a run for the house.

Hence writing rubbish on here

Wouldn't be the first time.

 

[londonblue]

Where’s the summer weather FFS.

working in garden and have had to retreat to green house as it’s chucking it down, too far to make a run for the house.

Hence writing rubbish on here

Is it always chucking out down at your place?

 

[RHB]

Sweet Caroline, Hey Jude & It's coming home. I really hope England win but I won't miss the backing choruses from TV interviews etc.

 

[manor15]

Scottish people’s bizarre hatred of England at a football tournament to try and be relevant.

 

[RHB]

Scottish people’s bizarre hatred of England at a football tournament to try and be relevant.

They certainly don't love us FEBs.

 

[Supershrimper]

Scottish people’s bizarre hatred of England at a football tournament to try and be relevant.

Probably bitter because Andy Murray pulled out of the singles at Wimbledon, got beat in the first round with his brother in the men's doubles then in the mixed doubles his English partner Emma Raducanu pulled out to concentrate on her singles progression.

No great goodbye at Wimbledon for the Anyone but England supporting jock. Might be able to watch Wimbledon now without the cameras constantly panning to his mums reaction.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

This is what I wrote in a Uefa Euro 24 thread.
The Scots blame their schools for the hatred of England. They can't forgive what the English did to them hundreds of years ago, and it's drummed into them from a young age. So even the older generation pass down the hate. Andy Murray winds me up. He had all that British support his whole career, which was mostly the English, and yet he cheers on any team that play England in any sport, and admitted to it.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Yes it's really really pathetic. Anyone but the English. My Scottish nephews are really suffering at the moment. Gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing.

 

[Supershrimper]

Scots hatred could be put down to one of the many different verses that have popped up down the years to form God Save The King /Queen. The anti-jacobite sentiment was captured in verse and included in the anthem.

Lord grant that Marshal Wade,
may by thy mighty aid,
victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
and like a torrent rush,
rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!

However, this verse and many others including a couple of anti-french ones were all dropped before the song was adopted as the British National Anthem around 1780 - 1790.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I always had a suspicion that Strictly was full of opportunist wronguns.

This is the generation that grew up watching Dirty Dancing.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

No believe me it's ignorance. Blind bigotry. Anyone tell me the year of Bannockburn without looking it up .

 

[Supershrimper]

No believe me it's ignorance. Blind bigotry. Anyone tell me the year of Bannockburn without looking it up .

Robert the Bruce vs King Edward (not sure which one) battle was in 1314. Don't ask me the month though

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

I used to sell football souvenirs down the old Wembley Way before it was paved over. I worked for R.W. who some of the older lot on here know. We would turn up in a couple of vans and had the old over the shoulder, cinema type usherette/vendor trays to sell football scarves and hats, etc. I did an England v Scotland match about 1980-81. We were endlessly threatened as soon as they heard our accent. Every seller had punches thrown at them. I had a full beer bottle thrown at me, just missing my face. The Scots showed true hate to any English. Fans, vendors, anyone. A few had flags with 'Remember Bannockburn' on, and 'God kill the Queen' etc. A lot were singing anti-English songs, anti-royalty songs. We knew we were at risk and going into the Lions den, but we never realised the hatred was that bad. After that I used to question any Scottish people I knew, as most of the English like me didn't understand the hate. They all say the same thing. It's handed down in generations, and it all comes from the history lessons taught in schools in Scotland. They are taught how nasty the English were to them hundreds of years ago, and it's taught in a less we forget way.
Even The Flower of Scotland, of which the actual tune is magnificent, carries on the obsession, and is about King Edward being sent packing and homeward at Bannockburn.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

We have had a week in a very wet and dull North Norfolk, near Holt. Beautiful countryside.
There are 10s of 1000s of new builds going up around there on good agricultural land.
Yet there is also going to be many thousands of acres of such land put over to solar "farms" to provide green energy for those same houses?
Why have they not put solar panels on the blooming roofs?
Or would that cut profit for builders, energy companies, land owners, after market fitters etc?

 

[Supershrimper]

We have had a week in a very wet and dull North Norfolk, near Holt. Beautiful countryside.
There are 10s of 1000s of new builds going up around there on good agricultural land.
Yet there is also going to be many thousands of acres of such land put over to solar "farms" to provide green energy for those same houses?
Why have they not put solar panels on the blooming roofs?
Or would that cut profit for builders, energy companies, land owners, after market fitters etc?

Have always thought that adding solar panels to new builds should be a mandatory planning condition. They should also come with the ability to store the power generated in a battery within the building too as well as connecting to the national grid to provide surplus energy.

 

[Holy Joe]

Have always thought that adding solar panels to new builds should be a mandatory planning condition. They should also come with the ability to store the power generated in a battery within the building too as well as connecting to the national grid to provide surplus energy.

And make it so they have a south facing roof for the panels as well

 

[RHB]

Parcel Force - A parcel was due for delivery on Saturday according to the company sending it. Parcel Force's tracking system showed the parcel was at their North Essex depot at 3am Saturday morning. No further updates on the tracking system until it rocked up at 9.20am this morning. No warning text or email at all.

 

[KevinJH]

Dustman. Where I live, we're asked (expected ?) to leave the bins out in an easily accessible, orderly fashion. So why, on emptying, do they consistently chuck the recepticles all over the shop and not pick up the @rap they've dropped ? Too busy on their flippin' phones in a lot of cases, I'm guessing......

 

[Rob Noxious]

We have had a week in a very wet and dull North Norfolk, near Holt. Beautiful countryside.
There are 10s of 1000s of new builds going up around there on good agricultural land.
Yet there is also going to be many thousands of acres of such land put over to solar "farms" to provide green energy for those same houses?
Why have they not put solar panels on the blooming roofs?
Or would that cut profit for builders, energy companies, land owners, after market fitters etc?

Jim - if you're in Holt, say hello to my best mate who runs this place: ->

https://vinyl-vault.co.uk/

 

[londonblue]

Dustman. Where I live, we're asked (expected ?) to leave the bins out in an easily accessible, orderly fashion. So why, on emptying, do they consistently chuck the recepticles all over the shop and not pick up the @rap they've dropped ? Too busy on their flippin' phones in a lot of cases, I'm guessing......

Similar here. We also leave our wheelie bins out nicely for them, and I've lost count of the number of times they dump them back across our driveway. They've also broken one of them. They're 'avin' a laugh if they think I'm paying for a new one. Thankfully it's just for "dry" recyclable stuff so it doesn't really matter.