https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16197575/dad-paedo-dig-grave-buried-video-2/?rec_article=true

Tonight it's the Carabao Cup 3rd round. Predictions are for the score at 90 minutes.
Get them in by 7pm.
Good luck

Last Friday I decided to spend the day at Thorpe Park riding the roller coasters.
OK, I admit it, I'm a big kid at heart.
There were many thousands of people there, but apart from myself, I only saw four other people wearing masks.
Is it any wonder that covid is still around!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2021/09/20/september-harvest-full-moon-2021-when-uk-where-visible-time/

I bought a teak unit which is in very nice condition, very clean and suits the vibes of this odd place. Now on wheels courtesy of my neighbour so have seen it up-side down and no damp or anything there. I can only think it has been sitting in a garage for years unused. Problem is I just cannot get rid of the musty smell when I open the drawers. I've sprayed the drawers all over with Pledge, wiped down with Lavender essence and had in the sunshine outside for a day. I'm not a fan of air freshener or plug-ins. Had it a week now and the smell is still overpowering to me (though neighbour says he can't smell it).
Any suggestions, please, as I'm not sure I can live with it!

Today's Super Sunday match is a London derby. It's also the first Premier League match that is "net carbon zero", whatever that means? That's one for another thread.
There is also the sad news that ex-player for both teams, Jimmy Greaves, has died today. The Saint & Greavsie show on HeavenTV will be good.
Get your predictions in by 4pm.
Good luck

In today's world of unrestricted violence and where ALL the significant and sensible countries in the world are armed, our supposedly highly civilised, wealthy and leading nation chooses to have unarmed police !!

So we know best when the rest of the world does not ? All the other countries are out-of-step. 🤣

If our police had been armed over 50 years ago, many policemen/policewomen and civilians would be enjoying life today with their families.

It is absolutely pathetic that the mighty but small UK is included in the piffling list of odds and sods of countries who do not have armed police in this time of widespread total disregard for law and order and sometimes horrific violence, that we have to continually risk in our daily lives.
On this issue, we MUST be wrong, by an overwhelming majority decision.

I have often seen statements saying that the police themselves do not wish to be armed - my answer to that is if the Government sensibly got into step with the rest of the world and armed our police, then individuals who did not like it could find another job. Just like soldiers, who are also volunteers.

All I can say is - get on with it Britannia and good luck to all our police and fellow citizens.

The only way I have ever known on how to win is to have a bigger club than the other guy and to strike first.

Tonights Saturday night football comes from Villa Park. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Tomorrow the 19th September is Talk like a pirate 🏴‍☠️ day

You can practice with this video

https://youtu.be/2cKCkbWDGwE

The owner of a company doubles his employees wages

https://youtu.be/uvHwyrem24M

Quite a long video but worth seeing through to the end

Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81.

He certainly got me and very many others into the world of computers.

Thank you Sir Clive. RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521.amp

It's back to the Premier League for Friday Night football. Get your predictions in by 7pm.Good luck

You, as a doctor, need to treat a patient. The patient is the Head of a tribe called the Liars. You have a problem though. There are two tribes in the area, the Liars and the Truth-tellers.

As you journey towards the patient you come to a fork in the road. One of the roads leads to the village called Liar (where only people who lie live), the other to the village called Truth (where only people who tell the truth live).
There is a local at the junction, but you have no idea who he is, nor the tribe to which he belongs.

What four word question, consisting of fourteen letter, should you ask to make sure that you get to your patient without delay?

(Edited to clarify the honesty status of those living in each village).

The donkey told the tiger, "The grass is blue."

The tiger replied, "No, the grass is green ."

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.

As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"

The lion replied: "If you believe it is true, the grass is blue."

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him."

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence."

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue..."

The tiger asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"

The lion replied, ′′You've known and seen the grass is green."

The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?"

The lion replied, "That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!"

The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

When IGNORANCE SCREAMS, intelligence moves on.

I am back online with a new laptop.
Tonight's match if from the Europa League group stage. No extra time but all predictions are for the 90 minutes full time score.
Match kicks of 8pm so get your predictions in by 7.30pm.

Can we have Blodwin invited back onto the Anything group.

I think Tony Blair and George Brown should be sued for introducing the 'dash for diesel'.
I received the following and it will to cost me £12.50 to visit relatives.

Australia to build eight nuclear-powered submarines under new Indo-Pacific pact with the United States and Britain. Australia will be only the second country after Britain in 1958 to be given access to U.S. nuclear technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.
Which means the $90bn contract with France will be scrapped.
I'm sure the Chinese are not happy.
Full details:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-build-eight-nuclear-powered-submarines-under-new-indo-pacific-security-2021-09-16

A little boy and a little girl attended the same school and became friends.
Every day they would sit together to eat their lunch.They discovered that they both brought chicken sandwiches every day!This went on all through the fourth and fifth grades, until one day he noticed that her sandwich wasn't a chicken sandwich.
He said, "Hey, how come you're not eating chicken, don't you like it anymore?"
She said "I love it but I have to stop eating it.""Why?" he asked. She pointed to her lap and said "Cause I'm starting to grow little feathers down there!"
"Let me see" he said. "Okay" and she pulled up her skirt. He looked and said, "That's right. You are! Better not eat any more chicken."
He kept eating his chicken sandwiches until one day he brought peanut butter.
He said to the little girl, "I have to stop eating chicken sandwiches,I'm starting to get feathers down there too!"
She asked if she could look, so he pulled down his pants for her.
She said, "Oh, my God, it's too late for you! You've already got the neck and the gizzards."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/30/stephen-review-steve-coogan-leads-the-quest-for-justice-in-lawrence-case

Did anyone watch this 3 part series about the Stephen Lawrence murder with Steve Coogan playing the detective who reopened the case? I've only watched the first as I'm on holiday but I found it powerful. Will watch the rest on catch up.

Has anyone been following the amazing journey of Christian Lewis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09vx51n

Since the end of the filming of tonight’s programme he has now raised over £225,000 raised for charity

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRxvCn7s/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7jyXCQ2Zc

Why do eggs come in flimsy styrofoam cartons and batteries come in package only a chainsaw can open ?

Using coloured pencils

https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/09/14/ev-chargers-to-be-preset-not-to-work-on-peak-hours-to-help-the-grid/

Now this will really encourage people to switch - not!

Went to Sutton Marsden today, with a lovely driver from Kashmir (now Woking) who gave me a 35 min speech on the troubles there..still I like to learn, have an inquisitive mind.☺️ He LOVES this country by the way. Nice to hear.
Then later I asked the nurse who was taking my bloods, a bit too tight for my liking on the elastic band😟 if she was Polish. NO RUSSIAN she said loudly! Oh have you lived here long? 20 years. Mentioned my visit there in 80s, and “nice” Gorbachev. Huh she snorted PUTIN is the man and she lived good life in the Motherland growing up, her father was in the KGB. Yes really. Wanted to say maybe that’s why you lived a good life.😆 Thought better not mention the poisonings and submarine in our waters now snooping around. Then she yelled I HATE THE AMERICANS. Everyone turned round, so this crying Polish woman who I had spoken to before, trying to comfort her as worrying about dying and leaving her young son...been there.. shouted out I HATE THE RUSSIANS. I decided this is where I need to shuffle off to the cafe and meet my lovely old lady with the 80 yr old tortoise...left in her Will to the RSPCA. (PS. All the other nurses were from The Philippines and just carried on in their usual quiet manner).😉

A few days ago hubby said he see a man walking down the middle of the road in his dressing gown, holding the hand of a small child. I was sitting in the front room when I glanced up, and see a tall man walking in the middle of the road in a short dressing gown, holding a child's hand. People were walking past looking at him, as its not something you often see. The man just looked back at them as if to say what you looking at, as if it was normal. I've seen woman going up the shops in their dressing gowns and PJs. Never seen a man, wonder if its a new thing.

I have just received an email purporting to be from NHS, offering me (addressed to my email address) a covid travel certificate. If I don't respond in the next 12 hours it will be offered to the "next in line". There is an accept or decline button to click on. The way this was addressed and the "next in line" phrase alerted me and I checked on Google - it's a scam, that, if you accept, goes on to ask for bank details A genuine covid certificate is, in fact, available free on line from the nhs for anyone eligible who applies for it - you can use the nhs app to do this ( not the test and trace app).
Another nasty scam which looks convincing!

Monday night football from the Premier League. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

They were explaining about puddings. In particular I was watching the lesson about Spotted Dick.

The old name for pudding was either "Puddog" or "Puddick". Hence where the dick came from. It therefore follows that a spotted dick as we (probably) all know is a dick (pudding) with spots (the fruit). Slap on a drop of custard and you have an old fashion pud.

It, therefore, surprised me when they said that in 2018 the House of Commons changed the name. Gone was the Spotted Dick instead it is called a Spotted Richard!

What! The only reason I can think of changing the name is that the place is full of dicks and they didn't want there to be any confusion.

Ho Hum! Pass me the strawberry Pavlova and I'll show you an Eton Mess!

If you see trouble on the train do you know what number to call

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRHBmws5/

https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/campaigns/How-to-use-our-text-number/

Derek the ventriloquist is touring Sweden and, one night, he's doing a show in a small fishing town. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes.
Suddenly, a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting, "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype Swedish blonde women that way? What does the colour of a woman's hair have to do with her worth as a human being?

It's men like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community, and from reaching our full potential as people.

It’s people like you that make others think that all Blondes are dumb! You and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general ... pathetically all in the name of humour!"
Derek all embarrassed begins to apologise, and the blonde yells: "You stay out of this! I'm talking to that little shit on your lap!"

Today's match needs predictions in by 4pm.
Good luck.

that I moved. My location in Scooploop shows Stow Bedon!!!!

Emma Raducanu’s shot at US Open glory will be available to watch on free-to-air television after Amazon Prime agreed a deal with Channel 4 to share the women’s final on Saturday.

The 18-year-old has captivated the nation with her exploits in New York and she takes on fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the showpiece event hoping to become the first British woman to win a grand slam in 44 years.

Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service has had exclusive broadcast rights in this country for the final grand slam of the year, but has agreed a deal – understood by the PA news agency to be seven figures – for the match to be shown on both Prime Video and Channel 4, maximising the viewing potential for one of the biggest sporting stories of the year.

The programme is scheduled to start at 8pm.

And it has pledged to reinvest that money into British women’s tennis to help fund the next generation of players.

https://www.facebook.com/100011508247374/videos/361287055739718

It's back to the Premier League for today's match. Get your predictions in by 5pm.
Good luck

Did anyone see the coverage on BBC Breakfast this morning, in particular the interview with the Captain Patrick Connolly of the New York Fire Department.
Although he is a Captain today, Twenty years ago it was his first day on the job after training. He is such an interesting and gentle man. If you can catch up on the programme to see him and hear his recollection it is worth watching.

What do you remember of the day and how did it affect you?
Were you involved in any way?
Did you know anybody involved?