[What's cooking?]

Eat it whilst it's fresh, crab linguine with chilli, garlic and coriander...

[What's cooking?]

One of the lads who works for us his Mrs works in Brixham picking crabs, she worked last night and he brought me in this today..

As fresh as you can get the best sandwich around imo 

[what was the last film you watched]

11 minutes ago, lurcherman 887 said:

Yes I see that strange what people will do to try to get famous, Martha played a great part. 

Yeah she was really good

[what was the last film you watched]

18 hours ago, lurcherman 887 said:

Baby reindeer, very strange got a bit weird with the faggot bits, but f**k me that Martha made me laugh a few times she was one determined woman. 

Absolutely bizarre.. the bloke was so weird as well, plus the bloke who starred in it and wrote it is the person it all happened too...mental

[Boxing At The Weekend...]

4 minutes ago, Dutch said:

I can’t see Fury pulling out given the money involved. 
 

Based on that press conference the other week, he seemed to be in a good place and up for it

Got to agree, I think it may actually happen this time, I can't see Fury risking the backlash of pulling out again, plus like you say these last 3 pr 4 fights if they all get made are huge pay days that he won't be able to resist.

[Walking]

26 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

app i use is called fitness mate on your app store

I think yours is faulty mate lol

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

2 hours ago, DIDO.1 said:

I did a flea spray this morning then fcked it for the day and went fishing, now I'm meeting our kid for a quick pint, then I'll take my lad boxing.

We all define 'rich' in different ways

Said for years earning money buys you time, which is priceless.. great stuff mate 

[Veiw from your office]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

I will make it down to see you one year mate this year is just whizzing by and I,ve  more things to get sorted now than when I started in January 

Anytime mate, look forward to it, I'll make sure the bar is well stocked! Lol

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

I agree almost completely mate, but I think now in a world where we can go anywhere I’d be seriously looking at what places embrace the entrepreneur rather than keep throwing chairs in his way.

Mind you, it’s the same old conversations down the ages…..my old pal god rest his soul was a machinery dealer (diggers, tracked machines, JCBs etc ), came out of a travelling family in the same area of Deptford as my people, he was a lot older than me by 30 years but he used to say “I should have took my family to America when I was young” 

So I suppose blokes of a certain age always have these conversations.

Looking back, nobody would have put me off so it’s a bit rich for me to give lectures but I genuinely feel for young people getting started in this world……that’s where education comes into its own I suppose, my nicked supermarket bread crate full of dusters and dishcloths and ironing board covers is todays educated youngsters laptop. 
 

 

Yeah it's nearly always "I wish I travelled more" or "I wish I'd moved to...."... I think education is amazing if followed through to the end and utilised to it's potential, fantastic, I think it's a complete waste of time if it's 4 years on the piss to scrape a degree of sorts and start looking for work at £25k a year at 24 years old ... I love listening and working with educated people, my accountant is 73 years old and maybe the sharpest man I've ever known with numbers, I've known him a lot of years and still am amazed at some of the planning, financial advice, dare i say "dodges" he talks through with me... Other than me his clients are high net worth and he only has a few now, one being the scrap dealer I mentioned, the planning for him is extraordinary... I love trying to understand that level of financial wizardry lol, he is top of his field, dedicated time, study and has a mindset that makes him worth listening too .. I had an accountant years ago who was a pile of shit, cost me money and although held,in principle, the same qualification was light years away from the main man... Shoe box accountant, you know the type .. half hearted wrong mindset, educated yes, still shit ... 

Like anything there are levels, whether it's tradesman or the career professionals... 

[Boxing At The Weekend...]

2 hours ago, mC HULL said:

so was making him cut loads for the tank  fight it swings and roundabouts i think mate how do you think a rematch would go with garcia and tank 10 lb heavier ? 

Tank for me is the better all round boxer, but I think Garcia would be more comfortable at welterweight so not sure Tank would gain much by following him up the weight classes,, I'm guessing Garcia will fight Haney again at a catch weight then move up to welter, Crawford is way too much for him at that weight as is Ennis imo, I can't see any of them moving up a class abd troubling Crawford tbh

[Leave the mods alone and get outdoors?Pics from your walk ?]

12 minutes ago, Bush Rummager said:

Ah yes mate.. makes sense now I know you where on the west side of the estuary! We had a good poke about around where you are.. popped in at the farm shop at Powderham.. plenty of Fallow in the grounds there! It's a lovely area tucked out of the way down there. We stayed on the coast just around from Exmouth. Did the little boat trip from Topsham where the antiques place is back down to Exmouth then caught the train back up to Topsham. I remember seeing the boat reck in your pic!! I didn't take any pics myself as it was a bloody grim day! The rain just about held off!! Lol! I actually did think about you at the time..I knew you where down there somewhere!! Got a pic of Exeter cathedral though!! F@@k... I do love a cathedral!! Lol...

 

I'm the same mate, every city we go to we go in the cathedral, I'm not religious just something about them. There's a decent little art shop in cathedral yard, worth a look.

Glad you got about and enjoyed it mate, it's a nice part of the world, you should've given me a shout I would've come and met you for a cuppa...

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

7 minutes ago, waltjnr said:

Good on your daughter mate, sounds a good screw.??

bit forward ! Lol 

Obviously joking ,but read funny in my head ,sorry 

Haha...yeah, wasn't perhaps the best phrasing when handing out compliments lol

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

3 hours ago, Qbgrey said:

My lads 15 and not keen on school, he. Ones with me sometimes but I’m not pushing him into the construction, yes you can earn a bit but it also can go wrong , lots of risk doing foundations, brickwork etc. and you have no private heath care, pension money, holiday / sick pay , bonuses etc. my daughter 25 yrs old earns over 55,000 got privat hospitals locking after her, works when she wants.I’m seriously fuming with this govt, they tax you on everything effing thing you do. And when your dead they rape you bad once again. Shocking and I can’t see how they are getting away with it. I’ve no prob helping veterans, disabled folk, and people genuinely need help that are uk humans, why should we help incoming benefit spongers that just want to rob the system. 

Good on your daughter mate, sounds a good screw.

Your lad will find his way, they all do in the end mate... I know what you mean about construction, but make him more rounded, look at Estimating, QS work, Draftsman etc, you can learn a trade and off shoot into other parts of it... I know you've done well in the game so he'll be learning off you anyway.

[Leave the mods alone and get outdoors?Pics from your walk ?]

1 hour ago, Bush Rummager said:

Is that the rive Exe mate by any chance? If it is we were down there a few weeks back.

The 2nd pic with the coffee is looking at Lympstone/Topsham over the River Exe estuary, the first pic with the boats is the Exeter canal at Turf Locks, that's where the canal ends and enters the river mouth near Powderham Castle.

I grew up near Topsham right on the river, loads of good memories on the canal and river mate..

Where abouts on the Exe where you?

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

5 hours ago, mackem said:

Lot of kids do Mickey Mouse degrees,I know a girl who did philosophy and another who did fine arts,one now works in TK Maxx and the other works in a coffee shop,but a GOOD degree will take you far beyond the average tradesman in life,but I had to stress GOOD degree.

Many things will take you far beyond the "average" tradesman mate, yes a good degree can be one of those things, but I honestly think a lot of it is mindset. There are only so many top surgeons, top lawyers etc all have dedicated to study and their career, fantastic I tip my hat to them.... but like you say there are loads of people who go to University purely to appease pushy parents, or as it's the driven option at college (we are witnessing it now with Finley, his teachers can not work out why he wouldn't want to go). 

I guess I see it from point of view of successful working class, builder done good maybe, I've married a working class girl who was a hair dresser from 16, frowned upon as the stupid kids at college, she went on to build up and sale a very successful salon, helps a girl with training courses in and out (good friend of hers through the industry) that girl is in Aus teaching this week, flew there from 2 weeks teaching in LA, my point is trades can get you well beyond what is imagined if you have the mindset and drive. You will always have the "average tradesman" and they in the main earn really good money for minimal stress (the same as average solicitors or accountants etc) and that is great, but I get a bit sick of the general consensus in our education system that unless you go to Uni you'll be in a dead end job, kids need to be encouraged to use there strengths not have further education pushed on them as a tick box for the colleges and so  parents can have a pissing competition amongst themselves

 

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

5 hours ago, WILF said:

My daughter just blagged it and she is a legal assistant for some big gambling firm or something like that, works from home, never has to leave the house and her work is global.

Her and her boyfriend have just bought their first house in Belfast, she is 21.

He never has to leave the house either, does something called “coding” (??) online.

They are both on good money and all the benefits that come with a proper job, I’d never advise them to go it alone as a couple just doing a small business…..there was a time they could have earned more but I just don’t think that is the case now, better to pick up the cheque and not have any of the aggro. 
That can’t be healthy for a society can it mate ?…..I mean a society surely needs people who are going to get out and create something and it be worth their while don’t it ? 

Good on them mate, that's great going for such young adults.. you must be really proud and rightly so.

I guess I think there is opportunities for anyone with the right work ethic and if you want to step up your earnings then you need to take right amount of risk. The really wealthy people I know personally are entrepreneurial and extremely driven only one of them I can think of went to Uni, he worked for F1 for a bit and set up a very successful security camera/sensor business where they designed and installed security systems sold the company for a song and set up a clever scanning booth (we helped in early stage design), which is used at end of production line for cars to check any imperfections, clever bit of kit. I know quite a few blokes who run decent building firms, scrap yards, scaffold businesses etc and are worth a mint (multi multi mmillionaires), property etc, none ever went to Uni... I'm certainly not decrying education, far from it, but there are lots of ways to make money (you know only too well) and if you have the right mindset it is still there for you. I won't clog my lads views with negativity about being raped by our government or how many ways we are taxed as it could dampen the early drive/spirit, I tell him it is all there for him, take a chance, have a go etc... I agree with you and as an older more cynical man see the way we are pulled out straight, I genuinely feel sorry for people on the minimum wage grafting there nuts off to make ends meet, but (and I'm sorry if it offends) we all have the same opportunity, not everyone is built to take risks and put the extra bit in, and thats fine, but life can be a drag and a struggle if that's the case...

[Russia Ukraine WW3]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

I was chatting this morning and said I wonder how long people will stand keep being taken from ?

Surely there has to come a point where this is just no more left to take ?

I worked for myself nearly all my working life, worked very hard if I do say so myself and do you know what, I genuinely wouldn’t bother to start a business today if I was young again and just starting out……I just can’t see as it’s worth the hassle for the return ?

Government's have engineered society so that the only lending banks do really is mortgages, those numbers are getting bigger and bigger but the trouble is, mortgage lending creates nothing except profit for the bank.

The have engineered society to close every avenue where the small bloke could keep a little bit for himself and taken all that extra money and pissed it away without remorse, they didn’t use it to make society better, they just burnt it ! 
 

Again, this money has created nothing.

Meanwhile, I think lots of people are genuinely struggling to make ends meet, the credit card is maxed out (more money for the banks !) and there is f**k all extra in the tank ?

Small business has to generate so much just to stand still and I’m sure it’s the same story for your employed bloke, he is never getting forward.

Surely at some point people have to get sick of that ?

At some point there will be nothing left to take ?

I think lots of people are sick of it but they just can’t quiet get a handle and where the punishment is coming from, fact is, it’s everywhere. 

Funny I was yapping to my lad when n Saturday, hes 18 finishing his A levels in a few months in Biology and Chemistry plus a music production course..we got taking about university/jobs future plans etc... he's a bright lad and got his head screwed on, he said to me only one of his friendship group has gone into a trade (bricklaying), the rest are all going to Uni. His words were over half of them 20 years ago would've gone into a trade, they aren't super clever and the courses they are doing leaf to bog standard jobs and a pile of debt. I'm all for education but I agree with him, it's almost frowned upon to go into vocational courses with the focus on a job at the end, instead the "less bright" do sociology or Psychology when asked what they want to do with their qualifications the normal answer is "I don't know yet, but I'll habe a degree for the future"...why?

My niece is a prime example, spent years studying ancient history and archaeology, amazingly interesting but there are more people than jobs, she's 26 and had 1 placement so far for 6 months, now going back to open university to study again to complete the PHD, she hates her job in admin at a solicitors, but can't get a job in her chosen field...

Fin hit the nail on the head, he said there will be a shortage of trades as youngsters are driven into believing university of IT is the only paths to take, the saturation in these market places in 10 years or so and the lack of trades will be a void that needs filling... So we discussed his future, he says he has no passion for his subjects and doesn't want to waste his time or our money going uni, sensible... I've suggested he does an estimating course and cad drawing course, I think he'll come into our business and I'll ensure he is fully rounded to take on the roles you need to run a company, seriously mate there is still money in building, probably more than ever... I get not everyone has a family business to step into, but the opportunity in trades is very good for young lads, his mate apprentice bricky is clearing £600 a week at 18, your not getting any trade under £200 a day now most at £250, that's just labour... I think we'll see a flip in the near future once youngsters realised leaving uni with £80k of debt and no job opportunity is not the answer 

[London Marathon]

1 hour ago, mushroom said:

Our kid did the Marathon today in full drag to raise awareness and money for Scope (disability charity). He completed the whole thing in 4hrs 51mins… Fuucking legend raised 30k for the charity. Very proud of him

Fair play to him mate ..

Good mate of mines wife ran it for her local scout group, not sure how much she raised though ..

[New football thread]

18 minutes ago, Blackmag said:

I think the manager will go along the likes of rashford Antony Maguire casimero and a good few others will follow them it should generate a big budget for a transfers for a new manager 

I think all of those players are gone mate, strangely maybe Maguire could stay, considering he has to last ditch defend constantly as there is zero protection, he does ok..

Also Varane, lindleoff, Evans, Ericksen and probably wan Bissaka... None of them even make the bench at City, Liverpool or Arsenal... Time to invest in some of these youngsters and add the right kind of experienced players, not past there best former stars... 

 

[New football thread]

Some effort from Coventry, couple of inches and VAR away from the final... Casimero looks like he's got lead in his boots... UTD looked good first half but deserved nothing really in the end, hollow victory, wonder who will still be there next season.

[Boxing At The Weekend...]

5 minutes ago, kanny said:

Garcia has said he won't try 140 again,  he can't do it , so I'm guessing a rematch would be a catch weight,  no belt, think Haney has to vacate now anyway. 

Ah right, I hadn't seen that mate...cheers 

[Any watch experts in the house]

My sister in law does book keeping for a chap who buys and sakes watches, specialises in restoring Rolex's... I could get her to have a word if you want idea on values etc, brother says he's a real decent bloke, you'd like him he's proper eccentric! Lol

[Any watch experts in the house]

4 hours ago, Greyman said:

Slowly clearing shit out and have a bag full of old watches to get rid of was going to dump them all in a box and send to vintage cash cow but are there any gems thl experts can see or particular makes I should look out for cheers 

Is the rolex genuine mate?

[Leave the mods alone and get outdoors?Pics from your walk ?]

28 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

It was already prepared that way, when I got it mate 

I'd have got up and walked out, heathens!! Lol

[Boxing At The Weekend...]

How did one judge score it even?

Haney showed a lot of heart, but he got it all wrong, not really a fan of Garcia but used his strengths and was a deserved winner, hopefully he makes the weight for the rematch as that's a bit of a joke really