Leaderboard

Don't use any of them at all despite my kids trying to badger me to 'get with the times' who the hell needs to hear their phone pinging every 15 seconds for notifications, likes and so forth.. I am old school and I enjoy old school things like peace and quiet...

@Carnivore Chris we need to have a pint mate when this is over. @CaaC (John) the forum needs the wise old heads like you and @Bluewolf to look after us all.

I can't say I miss him. My biggest enemy I've ever had on the forum and the one I can genuinely say that I cannot stand one bit. Nice lad? Idi Amin was nicer. By far the biggest cunt to ever grace this forum, or the old place. Nah, a legend of the forum and one I'd regard as one I knew from even before these forums, the only reason he wasn't on my list is because he's still somewhat active and is always there ready for the big returns.

Post yours! @JOSHBRFC PSN - JSharples18 @Rab PSN - ayorb @Bluebird Hewitt PSN - Hewitt85 XBOX - Bluebird Hewitt @Jay PSN - Jx746 @Dickie Xbox - Pwilly Alldilly @Skittles Xbox - Skwizzzle @nfb_10 PSN - nfb_10 @ficklered PSN and Xbox - ficklered @Toinho Xbox - gloryanton @Pyfish Xbox - FishyMackem23 PSN - FishyPy @UNORTHODOX PSN - codeineking01

Jim Broadbents?!?!? Hahahaha

I remember the last time I went out with my work colleagues a few years ago. Never again Three of us had birthday at the same time, so we booked a few tables + some food and drinks at a bar for the total of 20-25 people, the majority of them being younger ones, in their early 20s. Bloody idiots spent 90% of the time staring at their phones and some were even sending messages to the people sitting at the other side of the table The next day everyone was talking about what a great evening out it was.... Fucking hell, what a bunch of boring twats

Very happy to see somebody properly holding the current government to account:

There is a benefit if you can keep it lighthearted, keep up with people, see family photos etc but in general it can be very addictive

I think schools slowly need reopening because people can't get back to work or even work from home effectively if they're looking after their kids, but the government seems to have just asked it to be done without offering the right guidance. Some of the gaping holes are: Are we absolutely convinced that children can't spread the disease? Because my biggest issue with it isn't my own health, I'm a healthy 27 year old guy, but if I'm not convinced that I can't catch the virus off kids then I won't be visiting my family as long as I have to go into school because my Nana is in the vulnerable group and my parents have to see her all the time because she's almost blind and lives on her own. An even wider issue is just how much community spread will go through schools if they send too many kids back without taking proper precautions. The research slowly seems to be showing that the risk of that happening is low but it is far from conclusive and even the research that is out there already, you have to go looking for it. If the government is making this decision based on that research, they should be sharing it with us in a clear and confident manner. At first they want to send about half the kids back. For a normal primary school that's fine, but if your class sizes have to be 10-15 instead of 20-30, then you need to have twice as many classes from each of the year groups that are in school, and you need to have twice as many teachers to put in front of them. This is quite easily solved by pulling in the teachers that would usually have Years 3-4 and the others who aren't in yet to take half of the Year 1 and Year 6 students into the spare classrooms and teach them, but then are these teachers supposed to continue setting work online for those year groups that are still at home, while being responsible for their new students for the whole school day? You can't even get that far if you work in a junior school which covers reception, Year 1 and Year 2 because according to this guidance they're getting more than half of their students back which gives them a choice of either putting too many kids back together in each classroom or sticking to the 10-15 per class rule and not having enough teachers and classrooms to put with each class. There's a longer term issue here which people don't seem to have grasped yet which is fair enough because they aren't teachers and don't have the knowledge of the workings of a school. The government intend to get all primary students back to school before the summer. Until we go back to having full sized classes it's literally impossible to have all the kids in school at once. At all times, you'll have to have half the kids in school and half the kids at home, unless your school for some reason happens to have an entire extra school's worth of spare teachers and classrooms. The only way to get schools open again in any sort of normal way is to say you can have 30 in a class again. Most teachers are dying to get back to a classroom, myself included, but it really isn't that simple and people who are posting online or calling into radio stations thinking it's as simple as chucking all the kids from the village back in the building and getting them taught by a workforce that's already going to be at least slightly depleted by those who still need to shield themselves from contact with others have less than no idea. The worst part is, if they came across this post highlighting the actual reasons why it isn't that simple, instead of reading what I've put they'll just go "nah, there was a headline that a union told their members not to engage with the government and that's all I need to believe that ALL TEACHERS don't want to go back to work because they're enjoying the holiday too much". Silly twats. Trying to ignore them though, this thing is going to run for a long time and won't be fully resolved until it's safe to have full-sized classes again. If any of you have kids who have been learning from home, I'd expect to potentially have them continuing to do so for half of the time until there is a vaccine or treatment for this virus.

I am more of the Harp Seal family type... you get about 12 days of care tops then that's it.. fend for yourself after that mate..

Anyone deleted social media apps off their phone? Had Twitter deleted for a month now and it’s a very good change of pace, the amount of arguments you’re open to seeing is ridiculous. Just a negative algorithm in general. Also deleted Facebook too, though it’s a lot easier curate your Facebook page as you can just delete/hide people whose political opinions you don’t want to see.

Pissed myself laughing at you 2, at first I thought it was going to be post-meltdown time and this thread getting locked but it goes to show you that I am a newbie still on here and you 2 are bum buddies... ...not that way of thinking...gulp I wished to fuck I was around in the previous forums with you lot in here, I would not have been a newbie in here then but a golden oldie in the true sense.

I've never been as insulted in my life It's good to see you're doing well mate.

Kids today will never know what it was like to wait a week for your Kodak film to be processed only to find out half of them were either out of focus or as blurry as fuck...

Fuck off Deadlinesmans twin

Think they’ve done alright to cope trophy wise, there overall play however has suffered when Alves left, who was incredibly influential to Barca’s tiki taka bollocks or however you want to phrase it. You jump to conclusions faster than my missus.