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House husband!, what’s that all about?, sounds like auld Rolla is hen pecked. “Want’s the fudgin lot”, Aye as long as the ironing basket and the kids lunch boxes have been seen to first

Legend! Thank God for this forum, will stick with the happy endings for a tenner

3 packs for two and a half quid in a Thai market!! I ain't no expert in Pokemon but even I wouldn't fall for that one. I'm still trying to complete my 1982 Panini album.. anyone got Graeme Souness?

None of it would have been possible without TGC. The donations particularly kept the doors of GESH open and Maureen reminds me every time she speaks to me to thank everyone. Much appreciation to everyone involved @MrUKHackz in particular was determined the doors stayed open through a brutal Covid period where income was non existent for GESH.

Shit for brains Saturday selections.

A slot is literally a RNG which then displays the result in it's graphic form, no AI is used as they are heavily audited and make so much money without cheating they would never risk losing it all for a few more dollars.

Hey everyone! So happy old mate is back. Feels like such a long time. Hope you are all still kicking and well.

Exactly. Put us out our misery Comrade Putin.

If these ballistic missiles work as well as Elons space X demonstration the other day then we can all safely in our beds . Seriously though Putin is keen to make a deal and do must Zelensky at this point. It’s time for the Donald to conduct a wise guy sit down and put this shit to bed.

I take my wife shopping at the Glasgow Barras on a Sunday, not quite Mayfair. She smokes Mayfair though.

I’m voting for reform in future, I’m sick of these fucking idiots in Hollyrood. I’m sick of these fucking idiots in Westminster. I’m sick of a Labour government whose members backed Kamala Harris leaving us in an uncomfortable situation with our long standing allies. I’m sick of a Labour government who snubbed Elon Musk who arguably is the second most powerful man on the planet at present This daft prick Starmer thinks arresting a handful of people traffickers is going to make any difference!!!, how many will be standing in line to take their place, it’s a license to print money. The British public are a tolerant nation.. too tolerant. We all know this bastard in Merseyside killed those baby children for a reason, the media once again cover these things up just as they did with the Manchester airport attack on the police. I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon filled Nigel Farage with information on this very subject. Do you remember Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf threatening to take Elon to court for calling him a racist?, soon changed his mind when Elon threatened to make Yousafs private twitter messages public knowledge.

She’s alright is Melania, she’s no @Chrissy_M though.

I will wait till a landmark anniversary before splashing out on such luxury.

I have been watching the documentary on the "Big freeze" of 1962/63. At least in those days we had coal and wood open fires to provide heat . I doubt if we got a similar event nowadays that the infrastructure would cope at all not to mention all those batteries in electric vehicles. The trains were steam trains and even though many froze solid at least you could light a fire under them and get them going ! There was a bad winter in 1947 before this and I remember some bad snow in my younger days even if for much shorter periods but have not seen anything for many years. Indeed in Ireland there is often excitement at the prospect of any snow falling. No more winter fayres on the frozen Thames like there were in Victorian times. May be of interest to someone

I see the bookies dying off pretty quickly in my home town, within the past 5 years PP has shut up shop, Ladbrokes have closed 2, Corals gone completely, no independents at all. Basically left with 2 Hills, 1 betfred and Ladbrokes who look in trouble as the shop is stone dead. Needless to say I’m not crying many tears over this.

The WDF darts starts today at Lakeside @david1111 for anyone interested there is a livestream here

Last kick of the ball loser as Crystal Palace level with the toon. Hate losing like that

That's true. They have forced the situation. The online restrictions are kind of pointless now anyway as the casino's themselves will no longer allow people to gamble how they want. The whole thing has been a waste of time and money run by people who have no idea

Fucking hell, looks like a Temu version of the PDC

Every online slot is set to a certain RTP though meaning an online casino literally cannot lose money on slots, you might find some casinos have a lower rtp than others but that’s on us to check, they have no need to rig anything. I think everyone has been on a bad losing run and called foul play but that’s just a gamblers nature

No "normal" person can mate. You have to buy super bonuses that are usually in the 400+ buy range on the 20p stakes. And you "have to" buy those to even have a potential to win it big. Playing base game these days is waste of time and no fun at all, since you already know that you will get the shitty bonus anyway. There are hacksaw games that you still have potential to win big with the 3-5x the stake "boost" bet in base game but even that you are already on a much bigger stake than before. Since these super bonus buys came about it destroyed the whole gambling experience for most of the gamblers, because you cannot really win big anymore on 99% of the slots without buying them.

Yeah, someone playing with limited funds runs out of cash pretty quickly with no chance to win it back. The high rollers are different. They can continue with bonus buy after bonus buy until one hits big which it inevitably will at some point. It's out of my league completely

Speak your mind Doug, we’re not quite at the Orwellian stage yet, they’ll probably discuss it in private groups anyway. Im with you on this, I simply do not trust RTP or anything else they convince us is above board frankly.. greed is always in the hearts and minds of these operators regardless of the vast sums of money earned. I haven’t played computer blackjack in quite some time as I personally feel it’s rigged, the regularity the dealer has of turning 20 or BJ is astounding. Sometimes you just have to go with a gut feeling that something isn’t quite right and walk away.

That would be quite the conspiracy...

Noone is controlling the slot outcome. Its a program with algorithm, RNG + sound and graphics set to certain RTP. It is simple as that.

Hi All! Well what a year it's been - Yes i'm still alive (Just) Hope you are all well, and winning big!! Massivly oversharing here ha ha. Lets start off in July this year - Turned 0.01 USDT in to $2500AUD. Playing poker Won 5 sattalites to the main event and then took that down! Withdrew most of it, thought Fudge it I never play the slots. Was half cut at this stage, bought a $500 USD bonus on a slot... Won $27,000 AUD. Withdrew it all. August. - Paid off my car, paid off some debt. Got a new laptop and phone, and thought what a good idea to go to Thailand. Was a decent trip other than the normal stomach bug where you can't walk across the room without shooting brown liquid down your legs. Second last day, I was going to the shops on my scooter and I noticed the traffic backed up and thought shit a police road block so turned down the closest street. Obviously one was waiting there, saw my can. Basically rammed me off the side of the road, i pulled over he turned the scooter off and dragged me by the back of the shirt ( I wanted to fight back but figured best not to) Long story short - Court was closed for the weekend, took me to jail. Stayed Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Then got bailed out the Monday from my Thai friends. Had to buy new plane tickets home. Mother truckers as it was about 400 quid. Had a nice flight home, had the whole 3 seats to myself, free booze on the plane. Slept like a baby. Got back to Melbounre, thinking what a great flight and oh wow how fast am i getting through customs. "excuse me sir" can you please step over to that line. Walked me out the border secuirty, said can we check your bag? Yeah no worries mate what ever. Nothing in my bag. Now can you hand over your devices? Said wtf, Yeah what ever handed over my phone and spare phone and laptop. What's the passwords? Said im not telling you my fking passwords!! Said oh well we can just hook it up to our systems and it will unlock anyway. These fucks spent 2 hours going through every photo, everything on all social media every single personal aspect of my life - All in the mean time im kicking off hard, calling them dogs and what the hell is this about? oh its a country for sexual explotation, as you have sent money overseas you were flagged by the bank. So we are checking for terroisim and or ch*ld p0rn. I lost it hard, started tipping shit over, kicking the perspex. Cops were called and said if i dont calm down ill get arreseted. 3 hours later they let me go and gave me back my phones. and I was on my merry way. September. Guess even before Thailand, I was feeling well depressed, life problems. Still drinking like a fudging moron, health problems and so on. Felt like I just wanted to end it all. Took about 20 valiums, some anti depressent shit and a bottle of scotch. Room mate found me passed out on the floor in the kitchen and called an ambo. Woke up in hospital connected to all sorts of shit. Said luckily you have a high tollerance most people would have been dead or needed their stomach pumped. I said look, I need help now. Please just admit me to the hospital, I can't stop thinking this way and making too many stupid choices. I'm pretty much begging for help. Sorry nothing our team can do you need to seek private public health. This was 9am. Was in there all night, ripped the shit out of my arm and chest, walked down the to the bottle shop and bought some beers. Contiuned drinking throughout the day and needed to go to the supermarket and get some food, big mistake. Again highway patrol was going about 10km over the Limit, pulled me over and breath tested me. Car got impounded on the spot and now have a court day and face possible Jail here. All my fault, I know yes. This was literrly the same day as being discharged from the hopsital. October-November Back at home, did a little stint in a rehab place. More like a respite with onsite doctors and what not. Cost me a freakin fortune. Mentally feeling a little better. Really glad to have come online and see Rolla and all you guys, just bought me a sense of releif if a way. Hard to explain. Thank for reading (if you got this far) Trying to stay off the piss and punt and just be a good Human being.

Maybe the black bar will get fixed now

Russia is a huge country but it only has a population of 145 million or so with many of them a long way from Moscow and I am sure that some of the former USSR states would happily put the boot in if given the chance, not too mention China looking at a land grab to put people on if it suited them. The fact that China economy has expanded so much over last decade and it is still not the largest in the world shows how far things have fallen behind there, Russia was a major country at the end of the 19th century and has fallen way behind living standards of the rest of Europe though as with many countries at that time there was an awful lot of poverty. Iran has fallen a long way behind many countries in the Middle east after being run by the Ayatollahs. The UK has squandered its oil riches and though it is still a large economy I can see it falling a way down the pecking order in years to come. Like you say the UK politicians need to accept that we are not as relevant as we once were and stop acting like we are. Successive govts have undermined the Armed forces with the numbers nowadays being far too low and despite the PM continuing to back Ukraine they have announced further cuts in recent days. World Power is moving from the West to the East because most in the West want a very soft life compared to their ancestor and crazily the illegal immigrants are rushing here. One has to hope that if push comes to shove that the people who have to launch the weapons that could cause devastation will not do it as happened in the past but at the end of the day it is only a deterrent if the other side believes you will use it.

Aye all is good pal. The forum is extremely quiet but I’ll see it through to the end like one of the musicians on the Titanic that played the violin as it sank. We’ve managed to get Aunty Maureen the MBE which she should be receiving soon. I applied for it after we raised the money to keep GESH doors open. I thought it was going to be a simple case of filling in a short form but it took some legwork as you need glowing references and contributions from financial advisors etc.. it took me a while to get it all together but finally three years later she was accepted for the MBE along with Ally McCoist and Graeme Souness no less. I’m just waiting for the picture of her holding up the medal thingy then I’ll fire up the story on here. P.s. Did you hear Rolla is in jail

Not bad thanks. Not much going on really. Trying the crypto got it out of my system and I have no real urge to go back which is a good thing. My GS still has about 18 months to run I think. Hope all good with you

No other way. But we are still 2 months away from Trump taking over. These democratic lunatics can do all kinds of dumb shit until then. They are making huge mistakes though. People are finally seeing what they are all about and I think republicans will now take over US for a few decades.

They keep lying about everything. They also lied about these missiles being intercontinental ballistic missiles. Putin told them what they used and also US officials said there were no ballistic missiles used.

All Western propaganda outlets are standing by this North Korea involvement narrative yet they haven’t been able to locate a single one.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/duct-taped-banana-maurizio-cattelan-auction-hnk-intl/index.html I particularly like the line he will receive a banana and a roll of duct tape. He will also be expected replace the banana to keep it fresh. No to sure how easy it will be to spot a fake ! I expect that a few fakes will make an appearance in Scottish auction houses as @Blacko looks to boost the old Christmas funds and maybe get the funds to pay for the brothers light box postage from Australia

You’re Captain Venture winnings wouldn’t last long in that gaff hardman.

Who knew a 200-year-old church could be transformed into such a vibrant London food market, st Mark`s Church Mayfair London

I also see that the PM has decided that the UK should cut emissions by 81% from the huge 1% of emissions that the UK contributes. He said this at the great COP29 where the host said that Oil and Gas was a gift from god. As part of the effort to reduce carbon footprint the UK government decided to send 470 people on a 5000 mile round trip to Azerbiajan. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/britain-has-an-astonishing-470-delegates-at-climate-change-summit/ar-AA1ud1kI I also saw that yesterday despite a huge amount of farmers getting together at the Welsh Labour conference he decided to slip away out the back door rather than discuss this with them where maybe he could of pointed out that killing all their stock would not only help carbon emissions but mean that they would get a reduced inheritance tax bill. never mind the fact that the UK would have to import all the food to replace it probably leaving an even bigger carbon footprint but hey ho targets would be met. This is like the Irish government saying how well they have done to reduce carbon footprint by closing down older power stations and then importing electricity from the UK and France and they like the UK have a power grid that would totally collapse if they hit any of their electric car targets.

i read he threw a total of 16 punches. I think Barry McGuigan threw more than that in his promo for I'm a Celebrity

I thought the fight was in the early hours of Sunday morning so I missed the lot. Most of the commentators advise viewers to give it a miss if you haven’t seen it. There are a vast amount of people feeling sorry for Tyson and how he “needed the money”.. a net worth of $10 Million US is not needing money, it’s hardly two torn fivers he has to his name.

The ring is constructed and they are ready to go

You old charmer! You wouldn't say that if you saw me right now. Im a bit under the weather

Fuck all this politics pish, back to normal chat. Is Melania in your wank bank hardman?

I get what you mean, but no one on the top is clean imo. Some just better hide the shady shit than others. I mean, democrats (Biden-Kamala) had 4 years to make things better, but they made all things worse and not just for US but for the whole world. Trump in his 4 years actually did improve many things in the US even though media is lying and saying he didnt. You can look the numbers up yourself and see the real facts. I look at the technology in a complete different way hardman and think it is a good and necessary thing to improve it to evolve as a species even though it will have an impact on less jobs and many other things. I would also rather have a shady business man as a president than someone who is pushing for wars all over the world which takes so many innocent lives + all the other completely insane stuff that is going on now. Only tariffs are not the answer but for sure will help if they want companies based in the US rather than other parts of the world. That is just one thing that he mentioned but media always only points the things they want to. He has a whole plan for the economy and yes that includes tariffs as well. I also thing that he has to do a good job if they want the republicans to keep winning in the next 4 years after him. They took over everything now including the senate after so many years and I doubt they will just throw that away. All that said, I know how the politics are and how many bullshit things politicians say to get the votes. Only time and actions will tell the truth. If he does 10% of what he said it will improve the country. I am also a "conspiracy theorist", or at least that is what a lot of people would call me. From one side I want to believe that presidents and politicians can actually do real changes, but what I really believe is that the real power and decision makers are hidden behind all this "who is the current president bullshit". The most important things in the world will never change no matter who is the one in the front. The richest people in the shadows pull all the important strings and run the world in their favour imo and these are not the ones who are showed on the forbes list of the richest people. If you look at the history for hundreds of years back there are always the same family names that were involved and had the most influence and power but all the sudden were not mentioned in the most recent times anymore. When you dig a little bit you can see that they still own the most important corporations, lands and patents and banks but media only keeps mentioning people like Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates etc.

The American public seem to be frothing at the mouth at the idea of Trump and Musk working in partnership. In my opinion the former is a scammer who has fucked over countless building contractors throughout the years whilst the latter actively improves technology to eradicate the need for Human Resources. I have a very basic way of thinking, I reckon if raising tariffs was the answer to Americas problems then it would have been implemented a long time ago.

@Blacko I have found a place where you can take @Blacko's Wife for your next anniversary dinner !

I get it now !