Why Dutch? I'm asking because I was thinking about trying to properly learn a different language. It would be nice to go away and actually be able to converse rather than just ordering beer and asking where the toilet is. Never learn a language where the whole nation speaks brilliant English (The D...

BalaamBoy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:26 pm Old dog new tricks ?

I'm learning Dutch, only on Duolingo but why not?

Good luck.

On one side of my family, my grandparents are Dutch.

It is a hard one and also makes German sound almost romantic.

dasnutnock3 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:04 pm Promised brisket for everyone on NYE. So here I am at 11pm, lighting the smoker. What could be more normal?

Do you have to stay up all night to monitor it?

The shadow of Ferguson looms large over that club since the day he 'retired' It won't be until he pops his clogs will the curse be lifted. I think what annoys me more about Man U fans is their surprise at how **** they are doing? The Ferguson Years were the anomaly. Outside of that they have always...

Thanks all

It will be much harder nowadays due to the gulf in wealth between certain teams . However , have a few bad years like Chelsea and however much money you have , it won’t be enough to convince players to drop out of CL football . Nobody is going to go there just because they want to play for Chelsea. ...

mumbles87 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 6:53 am 2008 was a global financial crisis, like the oil crisis and COVID

Things outside of the UK governments control so not fully fair to judge them on

COVID only gets judged because of their reaction to it

But you can't blame them for the start of it

Yeah I know man, I was just pulling your leg.

OFT wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:08 pm

Does it say SUNK on his T shirt

Sunak on the Trainasium. Just a shame he didn't fall off the top.

Monkeybubbles wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 11:29 am Just a note to say how ****ing brilliant that is.

Thanks Sir. Also, it was bin day, which is good, because I may have gone and retrieved it had it been there a day or two

I have Whitey. I think they were the most difficult(though probably also the most effective). I'm now off all antidepressants. In all honesty,if I can do it,then warriors like you and DL will p*ss it. I think ,for me, it's building the reliance on distraction and the meds gave me the time to do thi...

Personally, I always felt the magical "225" is as much mental as it is physical. I struggled for years to hit it (Bench is one of my weaker lifts) but as soon as I got it , I added weight to it very quickly, PB now 135kg. So a lot of it is probably in your head. Remember whilst striving fo...

When I found myself sizing up their "mini glue gun" and thinking "that could be useful for when my main glue gun is too big for the job", I realised I should probably stop wandering down those aisles. Yeh in truth I’ve bought lots of **** there I don’t need . Mainly food storage...

Two questions to those that have EV- How much is it costing to put a charge point outside someone's house? If you have an electric company car/van and you have to charge it at home most of the time, who pays the electricity bill?? I think my Pod Point was about £800 ish when I got the hybrid I curr...

Was asked about the early 90's nights out last night at a function I went to. Was standing with a group of our 20 something staff and I said well yeah , I used to do quite a lot of pills back then, not really thinking anything of it. Kind of wishing I hadn't today , FFS imagine how bad I'd be if I w...

My Grandmother was a nasty piece of work. Never had a good word for any one and plenty of attitude. one day a wholesaler delivering sacks of spuds snapped at her "Ma you've got more mouth than a cows got cunt1" Yep I heard my mate's dad say this once about one of our other friend's girlfr...

I gave up my season ticket quite a while before we moved the OS. Around 2009 when my first child was born as I wanted to be around all weekend going forward Once we moved from the Boleyn , I didn't think I'd ever go again but now the kids would rather spend their time on their phones in their bedroo...

Saw Scarface for the first time about 2 weeks ago.

Not sure why people go mad for this one.

1997-2008 was some of the best growth . One of the least depressing times to be alive . Things actual seemed and were positive . They did you're right but I like the way you left it at 2008 :crylol: If we consider what happened in 2008, it's like holding the 1970 Brazil team to a draw for 75 minute...

bubbles1966 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 6:56 pm Band 5 junior nurse starting salary.

What is? £38,700?

Seems high

One of my Risk and Compliance Officers in the International section of the firm telling me that if I want to contact her whilst she is at home in Shanghai in the New Year, that I need to download WeChat because Whatsapp isn't allowed. Done that and now think I am being subtly manipulated by CCP PsyO...