johnh

In the 1970's I won a competition in Golf World magazine - caption competition.  The prize was an Atari game set which included the ping-pong game. Think I still have it up in the loft.

Marriage guidance counsellor says to his client 'your wife says you never buy her flowers'.  Client says 'didn't know she sold flowers'.

Passed a guy in the street with a sign 'Falkland's veteran'.  Gave him a tenner and he said 'Gracias senor'.

Her indoors is still in hospital.  Daughter was with her today and they were confident she was coming home but they came and put a new drip on middle of the afternoon.  Hopefully tomorrow now.  Daughter says she is a lot brighter now.  Fortunately, I can sort myself out, though I must admit, I am getting a bit fed up with toast!

Thanks for your support guy's.  Went in the ambulance, blue lights and sirens all the way.  Never been to the hospital so quickly and never been through so many red lights!  Because she fell as a result of fainting they had to do xrays for body damage and blood tests for the fainting.  Nothing broken fortunately, just bruising.  Blood tests showed a urinary infection which was causing low blood pressure and high temperature. She is now in a ward and on antibiotics.   I left the hospital at 2.30am, Daughter stayed until her indoors went on a ward. Daughter left at 4.30am.  Daughter no.1 is on her way down from London and we will be visiting the hospital this afternoon.  Thanks again fellow Toffee's, your support really means a lot.

Her indoors has had a very bad fall.  Fortunately my brilliant son in law and daughter are here, we a waiting for the ambulance.

1 hour ago, Palfy said:

I’m sure Mike can organise Louis to send one from everyone at TTF, not being tight John but I’ll think yeah great idea and completely forget. 

Good idea that Palfy.   (note to Mike - it was Palfy's idea not mine)

Just spotted this in our local (Maidenhead Advertiser) paper.  Ted Brown, a keen Everton supporter,  celebrated his 100th birthday on December 17. Born in Liverpool in 1919.  In WW2 he served in India, Ceylon and Burma.  Don't know the guy, but am going to send him a belated 'happy birthday card'.  Anyone who wants to do likewise, the address is:

Ted Brown,  Clivedon Manor Care Home, 210 Little Marlow Road, Marlow, Bucks.  SL7 1HX.

Be nice to give him a surprise from fellow 'Toffee's'.

There is one positive to take out of today,  we can now concentrate on avoiding relegation.

My mate came running out of the room, tears streaming down his face and shouting 'it's a boy, it's a boy.   That was 10 years ago and we haven't had a holiday in Thailand since.

Its early days but I don't think the 'Ancelotti factor' is a coincidence.  I don't think Silva had any clue how to make best use of DCL.  Ancelotti saw something straight away and both tactics and training ground work are showing some early results.

On 26/12/2019 at 20:50, MikeO said:

Only met the guy once   at a big family BBQ in the summer. All the kids in the paddling pool and having loads of fun but it was a Sunday and there was a Grand Prix on, another daughter and her partner put a lot of time and effort into the food so when it was ready we all sat down in the garden to eat. He was watching the F1 indoors and asked someone to bring in a plate for him while he watched the whole thing and the aftermath interviews, took an instant dislike, plain ignorant and ungrateful; he has a lot of work to do to get on my right side.

 

I'm lucky.  Youngest daughter is married to a guy who is a diamond.  Will do anything for us, is a wizard with computers and is a really genuine nice guy.  Eldest daughter is married to a Scotsman - enough said!  No, to be fair, he's OK for a Scotsman.  Talks a  bit too much, difficult to switch him off, particularly when he goes on about Celtic.

Tomorrow, we are getting together as a whole family at my daughter's in Flackwell Heath.  Unfortunately, only happens once a year due to family living all over the country. Grandson (Uni in Liverpool) will give me a report on the game v Burnley - which will be the highlight of the day!  I hope everyone on here has had as good a Christmas as we have.   Cheers.

The 1930's film star and sex symbol Jean Harlow once said 'I don't want a book for Christmas, I've already got a book'.

It would be good to have someone 'on the pitch'  who wouldn't put up with players not trying.  I think Ibra would fill that role.

19 hours ago, MikeO said:

So you are related to Michael Howard then. You obviously can't answer, "yes of course it's fair" because it self evidently isn't and you won't answer, "no, it's not fair" because you like it the way it is. Fair enough, I won't ask again.

Mike, I gave a response but for some reason you chose not to address it?

2 minutes ago, MikeO said:

Because the majority of the electorate are tory and labour voters who don't want a fair system because it'll stop their duopoly.

And (for the third time of asking), "do you really think it's a fair and equitable system when that the Tories got an MP for every 38,000 votes cast and the LibDems got one for every 332,500 votes?"

Are you related to Michael Howard?

 

Well the starting rules are the same for everyone.  Maybe the LibDems need a manifesto which attracts more votes in areas where they have no success.  

1 hour ago, Bailey said:

The problem is the top 2 parties in this country will never agree to it for fear of losing out. 

Neither will the electorate.  Rejected by a significant majority in the relevant referendum.

Yaroslav, welcome in.  You will be an Everton fan for life.  I don't see any games now as I live too far away but I was at Goodison when they had their record crowd in 1948/49 - 78,299.

1 hour ago, MikeO said:

The deeper you look the more absurd it gets, SNP get 48 members with 1,242,380 votes and the Greens get 1 to represent 865,697. The Mad Hatters tea party made more sense than this.

Before PR (which has been rejected by the electorate) we need to sort out the anomalies in FPTP.  Rationalising constituencies. Scotland is a  huge anomaly but the main objection comes from Labour who benefit from the current situation.

If we signed him he would probably get a bad injury halfway through the first-half of his first game.  Everton that.

Mike, in the 1960's the exchange rate was $2.80 to the £1.  I know this because I worked for a Caterpillar Dealer and we had to buy US manufactured products in US dollars.  It was $2.80 for many years and is burned on my brain.

1 hour ago, MikeO said:

Indeed. The other anomaly is that (on 2017 figures) our constituencies range in size in terms of electorate from 21,769 to 110,697, so that's another example of some being more equal than others.

The current anomaly of constituency sizes considerably benefits Labour.

1 hour ago, Matt said:

True, but it’s the actual democratic system, as fucked up as it actually is. 

It's amazing how the loser's always fall back on proportional representation.