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Best case scenario - torn bicep, worst case detached. Too damaged and swollen just now to know. ****s us over for Christmas travelling plans now too and lots of last minute rehashing of plans.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
As I said before - lazy *******s.
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Sorry to hear that mate, hope she’s on the mend and a quick recovery
Pundits like Gary Neville who failed miserably in management yet think they can tell current managers what they are doing wrong, and their go to also seems to be culture/identity problems.
I don’t mind the likes of Gary Neville most of the time. Those kind of pundits offer an interesting bit of insight most of the time. It’s when they don’t call it like it is because it’s their own club or personal relationships get in the way that’s annoying, Neville’s refusal to ever criticise Solskjaer when he was manager was a good example of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
I know fans like that who have never even got as far as failing in management, yet can do a much better job!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
G shock watch set up, cool watches but I've just spent the best part of an hour setting one up for my mum, instructions are rank, website is as bad, thank god for some Indian dude on YouTube as I was about to commit mass murder on Christmas day, in this day and age there is no need for something to be that convoluted
Board games which don't function without an app... and the app going down on Christmas day.
You'd not have that in my day!
Outsmarted, perchance? Six of us sat on the sofa excited to play it and we had to abandon. Rage!Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
‘Celebrity’ tv programmes. In the last few days I’ve noticed three programmes with 12 ‘celebrities’, none of whom I had ever heard of. Maybe that says more about me, but, somehow, I doubt it.
Love Actually
Every bl**dy year I have to watch this... because her ladyship says it's compulsory.
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Yeah, all these reality “stars” from Only Way is Essex, ****ing influencers and Goggleboxers etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Got a abscess before Xmas and got antibiotics for it, brought the swelling down a bit over Xmas but now throbbing again, tooth needs to come out but need to go to hospital to get it out as it is next to a nerve, will be in the queue early in the morning for appointment at dentist, paracetamol just doing nothing to take the pain away.
This brutal virus thats going about, my Wife is now a week and a half in and she has been totally floored by it, thankfully I seem to have a good immune system 🤮
Although the bright side is that she has been bed bound and Ive been in charge of the football control 🤣
Get the voddy oot the cupboard !Quote:
Originally Posted by silverhibee
Those stupid wee plastic things they use as packaging - particularly on clothes, and specifically pierced through socks.
Packing in general actually. I had to wade through a tonne of guff to open half my daughters toys over the last few days. Every little piece out on display and tethered down by plastic all under a sheet of plastic, etc.
Ive noticed the labels have increased in number and size too, ****ing pain, I had a new pair of swimming shorts on last year and it was like carrying a ****ing phone book between my erse cheeks with the amount of labels telling you size, how to wash them, how to iron them, what not to wash them with, what material they are and how to put the ****ers on properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
My Wife discreetly hacked them off whilst I baked on my lounger but then I spent the rest of the day scratching at my back crack as she left jaggy bits 🤬
People who have their Christmas trees up already, ffs it gets earlier each year 🤬
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Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
My Pet Peeve for today is...
People who post TOO MUCH INFORMATION on social media!
Aw bugger, I was going to post about too many labels on my swimming shorts too 🫣Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
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Tourists. It would appear to be Spanish season in Berlin. Why are they so ****ing loud? All the cafes near my work are full of them and each individual group seems to be having shouting competitions.
Probably excited because they’re on their holidays, however I do sympathise because the American tourists in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Derry and Belfast (four places I frequent regularly) often leave me with a migraine and a lessening will to live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
On that topic, 23&Me, Ancestry.com and the like. I was happier before I began being told about tourists DNA results and how that means they’re “Scawdish”. Wise up ya pillock.
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8 around a can of cola in the pub that lasts the entire length of whatever match is on TV? 🤔Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
I always find it funny how Americans are generally so passionate about being American, yet also need no encouragement to tell you that they’re Scottish/irish/polish/etc
Union Jack flag.
That “Union Jack” in green white and black in the HIBS end, can someone explain why it there to me?
Not being snarky, just cannot for the life of me figure out WHY?
I believe it belongs to the hibs CCS and the names on it are from past members who are no longer with us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albert Kidd 86’
Given it was the Spanish, were they complaining about the number of tourists they've got in Spain? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Yes, and I believe it's a deliberate *******isation of the UJ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Chewing gum on pavements. Haven't you got any vinyl/wood flooring where you live? Take your manky habit home and do it there.
Folk in the supermarket that instead of using the tongs provided in the bakery section to pick up items decide to use their hands while touching everything they can in the process 😡
The numerous relatives/several generations of the same family who seem to feel it's necessary to accompany a single member of the family to A&E. Almost as though the waiting area is a viable option for an family evening out.
Ice, ****ing almost gave myself a bad one this morning. Currently off work with nerve damage to my back and hip, putting the bin out this morning and slid all the way down my steep driveway and onto my arse, more pride hurt than anything else thankfully 🫣
Glad you’re alright buddy these things happen …Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
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People who don't understand how to scrape their cars properly.
Stuck behind a guy this morning who had obviously scraped his windscreen but left piles of snow on the roof and bonnet. As soon as he picked up a bit speed their were big chunks of snow flying backwards hitting cars behind him.
It takes less than 5 ****ing minutes to clear your car properly.
Saw a guy yesterday driving his work van, wee square scraped out of his front windscreen so he could see not muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Unreal
TV chefs, who, when finely cutting stuff, make a point of looking away for a few seconds and speak to someone or the camera, ‘Look at my knife skills, ain’t I great ‘ they’re thinking. I’m baying for blood, one of these days.:greengrin
I had a sheet of ice frozen on top of my car, after about half an hour of driving I pull up to a roundabout and the whole roofs worth of ice slid off and couldn’t see a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I’ve never left anything to build up on my car since.
If it was a woman it was probably my ex-wife. Wrecked our car that was less than a week old because she couldn’t be arsed waiting for the windscreen to demist before driving off. Didn’t even get out of the car park before she crashed into a bollard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I concur, grounds for a divorce are watertight there 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
TV headline news about wintry conditions. If it was July it'd be a story.
Since when did we become such a bunch of snowflakes?
When the realisation that ignoring weather warnings for essential travel only had folks on the M8 overnight and cars having to be dug out of snow drifts on the M80?Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
I'm over 6 foot and had to go on my tippy toes to clear the middle third of my roof - I imagine many people just wouldn't have been able to... although many more just wouldn't bother to your point. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Folk who post on Social Media about how bad a drama or soap has become and lie about watching it. “I stopped watching it years ago, it’s far to violent now, the storylines are ridiculous now and there’s no humour anymore” 😂😂😂😂😂They know an awful lot about a programme/soap they stopped watching years ago!
They've changed the English voice announcements on the Berlin S-Bahn, I've now got some Yank telling me what station we're approaching and it does my head in.
What’s the difference between anti social and unsocial behaviour, letter from the council about unsocial behaviour in the street, thinking it’s about my dirty noisy neighbours who have been a nightmare the last few nights.
Council came yesterday and swept the gutter in the street to clear all the fag ends. Disgusting.
I believe he'd lost his actual scraper and had to use a discount card, so he only got 10% off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Oh ffs 😖Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
On the subject of scrapers, while I’ve not yet seen this raise its ugly head on Facebook yet this winter, the conical plastic ones are absolutely useless. They show videos of folk using them and the hard frost falls away like water off a duck’s back. I stupidly bought one of these two or three years ago and frankly, they just don’t work. They’re fine for removing soft semi-melted frost or snow but they just slide over hard frost. The ‘reviews’ (fake) make out they’re the best thing so we sliced bread.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I'm not sure sliced bread would be much help, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Pretty sure he means he found an alternative use for the scraper, slicing bread, since it was no use as a scraper. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Bloody predictive text …… I must check before posting. :greengrin
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Originally Posted by Jim44
My sister loves internet shopping from China and got me one of those a couple of years back. Great this year with the snow we've had but completely useless with a typical frost. This year's present is a small box which "magically removes all the snow on the outside of the car, from the inside of the car." A few internet searches later and it's most likely to be an air freshener.....
I’m relieved to see somebody confirming my opinion. Last year on Facebook about a dozen or more companies, all apparently British but almost certainly Chinese, were pushing this wonderful product and I took every opportunity to highlight how useless they actually were. Not surprisingly, my comments curiously disappeared within a few hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Along the same lines a few years ago, I fell for a minor scam with one of these companies and was so pissed off that I made a point of checking out reviews on Trustpilot for any of these companies (Chinese as it happened). 99% of them were getting terrible reviews and I always put a comment on their adverts on Facebook, warning folk about their unscrupulousness, using the term ‘’scam’. I eventually got a warning ( from Facebook, I assume) warning me to stop and desist my negative reviewing. These companies and hundreds more are still flooding Facebook.
Just me or have shopping prices all gone up again.
Apologies for stating the obvious, but in Tesco, two months ago, a pack of two venison grillsteaks cost £2.90. Two weeks ago they were £3. Last Wednesday they were £3.50.Quote:
Originally Posted by DH1875
They're deer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
8 legs of venison for £70 ……. is that too dear?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
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Originally Posted by DH1875
The usual January increases, too many to mention !
Tesco are so obvious about it too.
I genuinely don't know how some people manage. I know the Lee Anderson types will say you can buy a bag of oats, 8 tins of kidney beans and a pack of spaghetti for a fiver and live for a week but in the real world where people want to eat a bit of variance and flavour it's hard going.Quote:
Originally Posted by DH1875
I cook almost everything from scratch. I waste nothing. If I have an onion left over I chop it, freeze it and use it the following week, same with things like celery, chilli or herbs. I keep a big tub of chicken bones and use them to make stock when I have enough, I chuck certain peelings in with that as well.
A couple of years back I could do a weekly shop for 4 of us for about £55 which I accept was pretty low but the lack of ready meals and the like definitely keeps costs down. That was a good varied menu. Plenty veg, fruit for snacks, fillings for sandwiches, a few treats etc etc. The same shop now is about £25-30 more expensive. Some of the percentage increases on things like butter, pasta, tinned tomatoes, baked beans (the latter 3 all being cheap staples) is huge and it all adds up. 50p here and £1 there on a list of 30-40 items quite easily becomes £20+.
I'm lucky that I can afford to absorb it and in some cases make cheaper choices but there will be some who just can't and it's only getting worse.
AI, or its use of. I saw something about a new film I didn’t know they were making. Watched a trailer for it on YouTube and thought it looked dire. Turns out it wasn’t the actual trailer but AI generated. It looked like a real movie trailer. With AI and deepfake technology that sort of stuff is only going to get worse.
Men who take up one and a half spaces at a urinal. ER is a nightmare for guys doing this.
If you just budged up a step you could get another person in. No one is eyeing you up😅
Or the ones who hold their pee in for hours and when they piss in the trough its like a ****ing water canon, need a ****ing divers suit, wellies and a snorkel just to go for a piss 🤬Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Sorry! [emoji45]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
Aye but I was talking about the ladies 🤭Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
Yeah... like I said.... sorry! [emoji1787]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bridge hibs
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Originally Posted by Just Alf
Thinking you have hit the right quiet time to use the toilet outside the Secretaries office to give birth to a humongous poop which wont flush even at the 5th attempt, then to give up and walk out to 3 or 4 desperate Women standing cross legged waiting patiently to enter hell 😖
Pavements made of inappropriate material. Walking along Princes Street towards Shandwick Place on a wettish day, there was a stretch of pavement which was like an ice rink. I know I’m a bit long in the tooth, but even younger folk were having to take extra care walking over the black, shiny slabbed surface.
All Edinburgh pavement slabs seem to be like that, it's like they don't test them before they buy and lay them, Leith Walk can be mental when it's wetQuote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Expect them to be on Clubcard prices soon - at £2.90 or £3.00 so it looks like you’re making a 50-60p saving. This is an old trick where a store can say something is discounted if it’s been on sale at a higher price - even if it’s at another store - for a certain period of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
DFS are brutal for this with their sofas, they’ll have one stuck in a corner in a store in the back of beyond marked up at twice its retail price. As soon as it’s been on sale long enough, they stick the 50% off stickers on the same sofa in all their stores, the price is still the retail price but they can present it as a half price sale and unwitting punters think they’re getting a bargain.
Back corridor in the house has a 10ft coatrack but I'm the only one capable of using the wee loop on jackets to hang them up. Wife/kids use the hoods and they just keep falling off as there's too many on a hook.
Drives me crazy!!
Being the unlucky ******* that’s bought a large packet of Thai sweet chilli sensations with nae *******ing seasoning on them. I am absolutely distraught.
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McCoy's are the worst for being a hit or miss on flavouringQuote:
Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC
Definitely not the real McCoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzzywuzzy
People who don’t apply rules consistently or to themselves. Either call out everyone doing something outside the rules, or no one at all
Posters who revel in the high school drama of messageboatds. Any use, in any context, of “here come the usual suspects”, particular when that’s all there post says, should be made to put those “suspects” on ignore or an automatic weeks ban.
Folk who moan about “the usual suspects”
Its usually the usual suspects 😆
Bags of often useless, damaged or dirty 'donations' being chucked in a pile outside charity shops when they're closed, despite the sign in the window politely asking for bags not to be left outside.
I sometimes feel the forum operates in a weird parallel universe where time has stood still for 20 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
I see posts about the site being 'riddled with' or 'reeking of' Hearts fans. 20 odd years ago it definitely went on. I was on the Kickback private board at one point because I'd built up so many posts on there and was a 'proper Hearts man'. Forums were new(ish) and exciting then and for the most part busier than they are now in terms of numbers, if not posts, and it presented scope to be a bit disruptive or make a bit of mischief. It was quite coordinated at one point and often very funny (the kazoo incident springs to mind). No one bothers with that now; I haven't been near Kickback in years beyond the odd glance for a laugh and the same will be true the other way.
I also read posts talking about 'well seeing the school holidays have started'. Aye because trolling hibs.net is what all the cool kids are doing:faf:. There is barely a poster under 35 on here and the vast majority will be 50+. Kids now are annoying grumpy old men (self included btw) by making TikToks of themselves being ultras rather than by posting nonsense on their online safe haven.
You make it sound like I’m almost a youngster, cheers PB :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The Kazoo incident is Bollahs greatest achievement in life and will never be beaten, there were a few similar ones we did over the years but they never hit the heights of the Kazoo, we had built up so many posts over there over the years they just outright believed anything we saidQuote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
I actually miss my trolling days to a certain degree, I got banned on so many BBC message boards like the Cycling Forum, The Snooker one and best of all Poetry Corner as they didn't like my poems
Kazoogate. That made me happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
That cycling board one had me in stitches, if I remember right you were debating with a proper track cyclist about putting playing cards in your spokes because it made a nice noise :faf:
Actually, i’ll add ‘auld guys having nostalgia circle jerks about messageboard historical windups’ into my pet peeves :greengrin
Is there a thread on the board somewhere with some detail?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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That cycling board one had me in stitches, if I remember right you were debating with a proper track cyclist about putting playing cards in your spokes because it made a nice noise :faf:
I tried to find it on keechback but failed. It must have been 15 years ago mind you!Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Geez the bones, though?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I managed to persuade a fair few of them that i had acquired 10,000 kazoos through a joke shop company liquidation, and that it would be a great idea to hand them out at the upcoming Aberdeen game and do well known hearts songs in kazoo like a mass kazoo band or something. A few of them had me pegged as a jealous hobo but i had been undercover for awhile and had some trust, and in a way its such a stupid pointless unlikely lie it sort of had a ring of truth to it :greengrin So a fair few of them liked the idea, pms were exchanged and a number of them arranged to meet pre-match at Diggers to hand out the kazoos. There were enough jambos seemingly keen on the idea that i actually thought i might have to buy the kazoos myself to kerep the windup alive! At the last moment Cambuslang Jambo (booo) outed me and i was banned shortly afterwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Brilliant :not worth:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
One of the doubters thought that although i was probably a jealous hobo, it was a grand groundbreaking idea anyway and they should acquire the idea off me and all start playing kazoos at the game. Which would have been absolutely wild :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I’d never heard of this kazoo story but that’s fantastic 😂😂
The old days of trolling Kickback were superb fun. I had found myself in a role at work where I had basically nothing to do for long periods each day and I spent hours between here and kickback trolling them.
It was the Romanov era and so even the most outlandish claims were believable.
I used to troll them during long nights on call when I worked for the rescue services.
Best fun I had was on a thread where they were trying to think of a nickname for Thomas Flögel back in the early 2000's.
I piped up as a helpful Austria Vienna fan and suggested they adopt the name the Vienna fans used to describe his fast catlike runs. They were all thanking me for my input and were loving the idea of making a few banners to make him feel at home until some pesky kid googled what "Fotze Flögel" actually meant.
I once pretended to be Lithuanian on there and they were hanging on to my every word. I was typing in pidgin English and they genuinely thought I was an in-the-know Lith insider.
I was unfortunately rumbled when one of their admin done a bit digging and found a profile picture of me on some site, wearing a Hibs scarf.
Really, really thick people on social media.
Something popped up to my timeline of a very obvious publicity stunt - a pizza restaurant that are charging £100 for a ham and pineapple pizza after they lost a vote on their social media channels on whether or not to add it to their menu against their will. Blatant publicity stunt.
Queue - literally hundreds - of middle aged and older people absolutely ****ing fuming about this, talking about boycotts, “nobody can tell me what I can or can’t eat”, and comments that read like a four year old wrote them “luv pineapple on pizza nom nom nom”.
What the actual living ****?
Probably been mentioned before but the expression about players 'getting minutes in their legs'.
The really rips ma knittin'!
Folk who go to the football and can't content themselves for 45 minutes at a time.
Guy next to me yesterday was in just before kick off. 5 minutes in he's up with the 'scuse me, scuse me'. Reappears a few minutes later, I'm assuming a toilet trip. 25 minutes in he's up again and comes back with 2 portions of chicken and chips (could he not have just combined that with the toilet trip?). Half time he's away again and comes back with 2 hot drinks. 5 minutes into the 2nd half he's up again, reappears a few minutes later, then at 80 minutes he was up to leave but stood at the front to watch for another 5 minutes.
I think yesterday was the first time I have sat in the west lower in about 20 years and I didn't like it one bit. We were low down so the site lines were crap, the whole corner between the west and south is obscured and it's pretty cramped. I'm not sure if it was a demographic thing as it felt there were a lot more kids in yesterday but folk around us were up and down constantly throughout the game. Guy next to me was one of many.
People who arrive at their seats after kick off, and spend ****ing ages stood in the aisles trying to figure out where their seats may be. Nearly missed the opening goal yesterday for a group who were having a full blown discussion as to where their seats may be.Quote:
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I was going to post similar to both these point last night but thought I was just being grumpy :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
I had one family turn up 20 minutes late, try tell me that I was in their seat (I wasn’t). They were adamant I was, ‘seat 127’ oh that’ll be the empty seat next to me then. Then once they were in and seated two of them spent the rest of the game coming in and out the row for various reasons.
There’s a couple of roasters who usually sit there when it’s season ticket seating but I’ll gladly have them back next time :greengrin
I don't mind when it's bairns. Kids will need the toilet or want a juice or whatever and up to a certain age you just have to go with it, particularly regarding the former.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
This guy was just with his partner though. He was also one of those guys who calls every player by a nickname as if they are his best pals. 'Good one Rocks', ' plenty time Wazza', '**** sake Millsy', 'welcome back Keegsy'. That irrationally irritates me.