[quote name="Godot Taxis" post="1262286" date="5th February 2023, 1:21 PM"]
Superb graphic, both quality and subject ,matter, Godot! I wish I had a professional photoshopping package.
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Quote: Billy Bunter @ 5th February 2023, 4:03 PMIncidentally, if the Spanish media outlet Nacional is to be believed (which it probably isn't), all is not well between Haaland and his team-mates and manager so he may soon be sitting out more than just the Aston Villa game:
Maybe it is to be believed after all...
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 5th February 2023, 4:03 PMThank you. Although I did use two chips, I'm not sure that the triple captain helped a great deal.
My pleasure, Billy. Bad luck with the triple captain. I thought you went early but you still should have got more. That said, you've been coining it from an ultra risky defensive formation (4 defs from 2 teams) for weeks so what have you got to complain about.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 5th February 2023, 4:03 PMIn my day of course it was Mrs Mimble that ran the tuck shop, famed for her juicy buns rather than for her bon-bons. Nevertheless it was good to come across her replacement.
Tee hee.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 5th February 2023, 4:03 PMIt was a shame that the runner-up couldn't be at the award ceremony but he did at least send his fridge to represent him, which selfless gesture led to floods of tears all round.
Pardon my ignorance, but don't understand this.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 6th February 2023, 12:29 AMPardon my ignorance, but don't understand this.
You need to be a Python fan
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 5th February 2023, 4:46 PM[quote name="Godot Taxis" post="1262286" date="5th February 2023, 1:21 PM"]
Superb graphic, both quality and subject ,matter, Godot! I wish I had a professional photoshopping package.
Thanks Herc. The software makes it very easy.
You can get Photoshop on its own for £9.99 a month.
https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=R3B5NZKF&mv=other
I would suggest Affinity Photo, which you can buy outright, unlike Photoshop (which you have to rent) and is available for Mac or PC. It's £59.99 and has all the pro features you need.
I've have PaintShop Pro X2, which cost me nothing, and can't justify £60 I'm afraid, but thank you for the info.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 6th February 2023, 12:37 AMYou need to be a Python fan
I liked Python when I was younger but I never had a lot of time for Cleese and when he began to support the SDP, that was it for me. I hate centrist melts. Eric Idle also f**ked me off recently with his Corbyn bashing from Los Angeles - silly old right-wing c**t.
Terry Gilliam retains my respect for an inventive oeuvre.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 6th February 2023, 12:40 AMI've have PaintShop Pro X2, which cost me nothing, and can't justify £60 I'm afraid, but thank you for the info.
Come on you'd spend sixty quid on sherbets or a lap-dance I'm sure of it.
There are ways of getting bootleg software but I don't know anything about that.
Edit: looks like Paint shop Pro costs nearly sixty quid anyway. https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/ultimate/?currency=en-GB&sourceid=PSP2023-xx-ppc_pla&x-vehicle=ppc_pla&skuId=UG&gclid=CjwKCAiAxP2eBhBiEiwA5puhNae-24gSrXOrn_oNuGtVF0QUHjPUVen4OsXSN3zlCKANY5QZccr3SxoCQikQAvD_BwE
Well, you won't enjoy the sketch, if you can ever find it that is, as it was Eric Idle doing a piss-take of Dickie Attenborough presenting some entertainment awards, with grovelling mock tears, as somebody who could attend the ceremony sent their fridge, which came on wearing a bow-tie. V.funny. Oh, and the guest celeb was a dummy Princess Margaret.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ 6th February 2023, 12:42 AMCome on you'd spend sixty quid on sherbets or a lap-dance I'm sure of it.
There are ways of getting bootleg software but I don't know anything about that.
Edit: looks like Paint shop Pro costs nearly sixty quid anyway. https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/ultimate/?currency=en-GB&sourceid=PSP2023-xx-ppc_pla&x-vehicle=ppc_pla&skuId=UG&gclid=CjwKCAiAxP2eBhBiEiwA5puhNae-24gSrXOrn_oNuGtVF0QUHjPUVen4OsXSN3zlCKANY5QZccr3SxoCQikQAvD_BwE
Yes, spent too much on sherbets and the like, but as I said, the PSP cost me nothing, as I made a copy of it from the one I had at the high school I worked at.
I'll speak to my son about a bootleg Adobe, as he is the kiddie for things like that.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 6th February 2023, 12:48 AMWell, you won't enjoy the sketch, if you can ever find it that is, as it was Eric Idle doing a piss-take of Dickie Attenborough presenting some entertainment awards, with grovelling mock tears, as somebody who could attend the ceremony sent their fridge, which came on wearing a bow-tie. V.funny. Oh, and the guest celeb was a dummy Princess Margaret.
Well, thanks for filling me in, anyways. Unlike queers in the 80s I won't die of ignorance.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 6th February 2023, 12:48 AMI'll speak to my son about a bootleg Adobe, as he is the kiddie for things like that.
Yes, make the brat work for his inheritance.
How are you by the way?
Was meant to have a cataract op last Thursday, but the top surgeon I asked for ( the one who did the trabeculectomy on my left eye a couple of years ago) had an urgent case come in involving saving some man's eyesight, so mine got postponed, which was fair enough.
So, it has been rearranged for the 16th (day after my birthday), BUT what has been gnawing at me, is there is a 1000 to 1 chance it can go wrong, and with the virtual non vision in my other eye, it worries me sick that I could finish up near blind - bad enough that I won't be able to drive, watch television, read, do crosswords, and of course this computer would be a no-no. In other words, my whole world would implode. And as for looking after my disabled wife doesn't bear thinking about.
Otherwise everything is f**king fine.
How is your health/hearing?
**EDIT Must go to bed now - will look at this thread in the morning
Have a thought for us players down in the dusty dank basement of the FPL.
It smells and we feed off scraps.
We dream of one day having a green circle with an 'up-pointing chevron' next to our name.
I can't even get a red one - being bottom and drifting out to sea.
Instead, to our eternal shame, we are doomed always to have a dull grey one to indicate our total failure at grasping the nuances of this game
Maybe, if your name is Stephen, there are some malevolent forces at work. (3 of the bottom 4 have this appellation)
I'm clinging to that thought to avoid reality.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 6th February 2023, 8:31 AMHave a thought for us players down in the dusty dank basement of the FPL.
It smells and we feed off scraps.
We dream of one day having a green circle with an 'up-pointing chevron' next to our name.
I can't even get a red one - being bottom and drifting out to sea.
Instead, to our eternal shame, we are doomed always to have a dull grey one to indicate our total failure at grasping the nuances of this gameMaybe, if your name is Stephen, there are some malevolent forces at work. (3 of the bottom 4 have this appellation)
I'm clinging to that thought to avoid reality.
I'm not sure there's anything malevolent going on, Goodlad. Two of the Steves haven't owned Haaland all season, which goes a way to explain some of the bottom-feeding. Most of us have had ALL his points, which at 171, would push you quite a way up the table. Also where's your Arsenal mid? I stuck with Son until game week 5 which hurt my ranking, and it's important to drop players fairly quickly if they're not performing. It's not that they won't come good - they probably will (Son and Salah excepted) - but in the meantime your rivals are hoovering up points you'll never get back.
You can comfort yourself with a few things - you're in good company. Dan Sweryt, who you're behind, is the reason this thread exists. Our absent talisman, his approach to the game is perhaps best summed up by the fact that he still has Cancelo, who's gone on loan to Bayern Munich. (The game even tells you this so you don't need a Fantasy Scout membership like Kipper). Or that his team has had the same 'Uproar and Turmoil' name since 1973.
As for it smelling in the basement - it smells everywhere - this is the UK. And no matter how bad it gets or how far you fall away from the bright lights, console yourself with the thought you're still a Yorkshireman, which I believe Geoff Boycott or Mr. Kipling said was to; "have come first in the lottery of life."
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 6th February 2023, 1:15 AMWas meant to have a cataract op last Thursday, but the top surgeon I asked for ( the one who did the trabeculectomy on my left eye a couple of years ago) had an urgent case come in involving saving some man's eyesight, so mine got postponed, which was fair enough.
So, it has been rearranged for the 16th (day after my birthday), BUT what has been gnawing at me, is there is a 1000 to 1 chance it can go wrong, and with the virtual non vision in my other eye, it worries me sick that I could finish up near blind - bad enough that I won't be able to drive, watch television, read, do crosswords, and of course this computer would be a no-no. In other words, my whole world would implode. And as for looking after my disabled wife doesn't bear thinking about.
Otherwise everything is f**king fine.
How is your health/hearing?
**EDIT Must go to bed now - will look at this thread in the morning
I understand your trepidation around the cataract operation. You wouldn't have an imagination or any feelings if you hadn't considered the complications. My mother was afraid of it for the same reasons. I think it's a good decision to wait for the surgeon you want. Billy will tell you a 1000-1 chance of it going wrong are not good odds at all if you're betting it will go wrong. It basically won't.
Anyway, going blind isn't going to stop you driving - at least in London - and TV is not worth watching in most cases. I can't do crosswords and I have good vision in both eyes. You could always give your computer to Kipper.
Seriously, if you want to talk about stuff and need another perspective, PM me.
My ears always need to be managed, but my health is okay really.
Thank you Godot, it' s good to talk, as they say, and you always say the right things; but I won't clutter the thread anymore, so will PM you if I need some "There, there-ing" reassurance.
As the techie I used to work with, who lost an eye in a teenage motorbike accident said, when he had to have a cataract removed from his remaining eye "What choice have I got? Have it done or go completely blind."
Blindness, I think is the worse thing that can happen to you........................
So, on the back of Marcus Rashford's 40 point haul last gameweek, do we ungraciously return the armband to Haaland or do we assume that the game's up at Manchester City?