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Myself with the youngest wee Scottish terror of a grandson Kaiden (5), we call him 'The Tank' cos when he runs into you or hits you it bloody hurts!!

I'm reading Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest - K.K. Downing's (one of the Judas Priest guitarists until the last 2 albums) autobiography.

Man Flu ( day 1 ) Well I have managed to survive the first night, It was not easy but I am holding on... Been coughing and sneezing and blowing all kinds of crap out my nose most of the night.. My head is pounding.. They are trying hard to disable me the little buggy fuckers but I will not go down lightly.. I will not go quietly into the night etc... I have always been a fighter if truth be known... Just thought I would document my condition on a daily basis in case things take a turn for the worse and these end up being the last words, at least I will have something written down for posterity.. First though I would like to explore the myth that Man Flu is something we have made up, well I can assure you it's very real.. It's so real in fact that the Oxford and Cambridgeshire dictionaries have included it as a term.. Oxford have defined it as 'A cold or other minor ailment experienced by a man who is regarded as exaggerating the severity of the symptoms' Others have it down as 'Wimpy Man Syndrome' Clearly these articles have been written by women who have never experienced it first hand and have just cobbled together what they have heard in their coffee morning gossip circles... My rota idea was a bit of a let down last night, It started out ok but around 1:30am people were starting to complain about 'feeling tired' and wanting to go to bed so around 2am I was left all alone and helpless, I felt abandoned, like that elderly relative no-one wants to take responsibility for.. After everyone had deserted me I tried to pull the cover over me as it was getting colder but I was so weak it felt like trying to pull a lead sheet up.. It was such a hard struggle I thought the dog must be laying on it near the bottom of the bed.. I struggled with it for 10 minutes before I finally got it up to my chin then had to push it off again as it felt like it was crushing me under the weight.. I could barely breath... Off the back of that I am now going to be keeping a detailed log of who comes and goes and for how long, I will cross reference this with the amount of convincing effort they are putting in when trying to make me feel better... I have warned them that given my condition and the gravity of the situation I may have to make sure my last will and testament is bang up to date and it will not be too late for me to omit family I feel have not put in the required effort during my final days.. As it stands our Dog and Cat stand to inherit the lot.. In the meantime I will be googling home help so that I can have round the clock care...

Read the book and seen the film with Hanks as Langdon, good read and a good film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/

How do you feel about Tom Cruise being cast as Jack Reacher in the films??? Does his character fall in line with the books and pretty much how you had the vision of the character being??? I must warn you in advance though your reply might get you put on ignore straight away from @nudge depending on the response... and only that Bottle of Scotch is going to undo that lock out...

THat's just fucking stupid though. Like @SirBalon callously said about fast food in that those who eat it are just 'thick' or 'lazy', the same can be said about people who start smoking just because others do and just to be cool; not man enough to make their own decisions for themselves.

Will the youth training ground be named after Adam Johnson?

Yeah I've always thought it was bizarre that people start smoking to be cool, they don't enjoy it, but they carry on until they can't stop. I mean cigarette companies paid the movie industry to have people smoking in their films. You've all been tricked into paying to slowly kill yourselves.

Anything for you.... I will probably chuck in a few bottles of your favorite tipple as well.... Postage is going to be huge!!!

Fair play. I’ve had a fair few pints. Another hypocritical thing to do...

I agree, smoking at least keeps you thin Joking aside, quality of food is definitely more important on a large scale, especially given cultural significance of food and eating.

Smoking is far more ‘disrespectful’ to your body than the odd McDonald’s.

Hope that's those old Heavy Metal issues...

Thank god someone is at least trying to help find a cure for this terrible affliction... It's appreciated, much love and a portion of my will has now been set aside for you.. If you could just get them posted to me I will arrange for someone to get the lid off... 'And other made up illnesses!'

The thing is that you can't choose your own path with WTO rules either. It works in the same way as with the EU trade rules. Right now our application to the WTO has been vetoed by Moldova, Israel and the USA... Curiously with the USA we're apparently close to some sort of deal but all the same, every WTO country has to be in agreement just as in the EU. The fundamental difference between trade laws in the EU and the WTO is quality and safety control for what is permitted to arrive in any EU state. You don't choose your own path in any walk of life! Even when you enter a shop to buy stuff, you buy by the rules and laws of the nation and then the shop you are in. You don't negotiate with the shop on what it has or how it will sell it to you.

These might help Joe...

I can't stop watching that Sette Camara - Habsburg battle, and that last corner. Jesus Christ what a gutting moment that must have been for both of them. Oh and Habsburg's full name is Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen btw

Typical... just finished shift and off for 4 days and I have been hit with 'Man Flu'... I was fine this morning and have obviously been ambushed by something nasty this afternoon... I have not got the energy to fight it.. the symptoms have taken hold already, I am ebbing away.... it's the end.. I can feel it!! Better get a rota up for the rest of the family on who gets to bring the teas and coffees up to me while I am laid up in bed for the next few days recovering.. I had better do it now while I am still strong enough to hold a pen without assistance..

I did the Three Peaks challenge with work over the weekend - hardest thing I've ever done. For your enjoyment, here's a picture of me acting all Danny fackin' Dyer on top of Snowdon as I found out that we'd beaten Derby.

Taken from the top of a hill where we met Jesus Christ, with a view of San Sebastian (La Concha beach) as the backdrop... The man himself (not sure if smoking or conducting in front of an imaginary orchestra)

Not posted any yet since she was born on July 11th. But my god... i thought i knew what Love was until she was born. Angles.............. We named her Violet Elizabeth Sharples.

Football chairman, football journalist, football scout, football agent and now football author. Will this be available in all good book shops? amazon? waterstones?

The new arrival is finally here!!! Say hello to Mia... Another soft bundle of potential chaos into our lives.... Leelah getting involved early... Both mum and baby doing well...

Congrats @Harry on the second. I'm still on the first, but we have briefly discussed #2. Here are some recent photos of my little one, the wife, and myself.

And here's me with the other one

Thats Gilles Grimandi!!

I think most of you know what I look like already.

Was interviewed a couple of weeks back by a journalist for something that doesn’t concern here but I liked the picture they used and I’ll share it with you guys.

When you're besties with Beetlejuice.

Me and the missus on my friends weeding a few months ago.

few of me and/or me & the missus from recent weekend away in Madrid