Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Tx Tighty, I might give it a whirl to have a look at Kate, doesn't sound like it's gonna expand much on what this diary taught me tho.

Apparently today is the 70th anniversary of the 'Australian Pearl Harbour' which is far less famous, due in part to it happening so soon after the other one, partly because getting news out of Australia was not quick in those days, and partly due to the authorities performing a bit of a cover up so as to not spark some kind of Aussie panic....strewth

I had never even heard of that, & yet 262 died.

Even on a poker forum, we - or I - learn new stuff daily. When I was a kid, I hated having to learn, & was unable to, anyway, but the older I get, the more I want to learn. The life cycle is an odd thing.

Thanks Jeff.

http://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/Special_darwin.htm

Ps - The Kate stuff holds no interest, except to Team Perv, who are doubtless salivating at the mere thought. Any pair of tits seems to do the job. I'm more of a drooler.

[Nakor]

John Wilson was the King of the Angling Show. His enthusiasm was infectious and obvious.

As was his enjoyment...

Thanks David, I had quite forgotten about John.

How can anyone not be enthused by him? He never stopped laughing & smiling, I love "up" people, smilers.

Do you know some people amost never smile, then wonder why life seems a bit uphill at times? Smiling opens so many doors in life, but it's not cool these days, I fancy. It's the passport to everywhere & everything. I specialise in a sort of gormless smile.

"Up People" - sadly not the best description of Mr Wilson.  In real life he is rude and unapproachable a generally a miserable bugger.  Amazing for a man who earnt his pre TV living serving the public in a shop.
My late Grandfather did quite a lot of business with John and always found his Tv persona a world away from the real man.  I now work in the village where John lives and the story's and the general feeling around there is much the same as my Grandfather had all those yeaers ago.
I guess some people are not always what they seem on the TV - can you believe that?

[titaniumbean]

Did you see that maintenance chap? - "I love the smell of the underground"?. Proper legend.

Pffft - it was called 'Sound of the Underground'.

Some Girls Aloud fan he is.

You're wheat to chaff post ratio is so frigging high. 

[tikay]

John Wilson was the King of the Angling Show. His enthusiasm was infectious and obvious.

As was his enjoyment...

Thanks David, I had quite forgotten about John.

How can anyone not be enthused by him? He never stopped laughing & smiling, I love "up" people, smilers.

Do you know some people amost never smile, then wonder why life seems a bit uphill at times? Smiling opens so many doors in life, but it's not cool these days, I fancy. It's the passport to everywhere & everything. I specialise in a sort of gormless smile.

"Up People" - sadly not the best description of Mr Wilson.  In real life he is rude and unapproachable a generally a miserable bugger.  Amazing for a man who earnt his pre TV living serving the public in a shop.
My late Grandfather did quite a lot of business with John and always found his Tv persona a world away from the real man.  I now work in the village where John lives and the story's and the general feeling around there is much the same as my Grandfather had all those yeaers ago.
I guess some people are not always what they seem on the TV - can you believe that?

No! Say it ain't so? I'm dev'd!

People different in real life to their TV personna? Who'd have thunk......

I heard the same about Ray Mears, several times, too.

[bobby1]

I guess he had reached this stage Tony, still quite remarkable.

An apparent self-protective behaviour known as terminal burrowing, or hide-and-die syndrome[24], occurs in the final stages of hypothermia. The afflicted will enter small, enclosed spaces, such as underneath beds or behind wardrobes. It is often associated with paradoxical undressing.[25]

[tikay]

Did you see that maintenance chap? - "I love the smell of the underground"?. Proper legend.

Pffft - it was called 'Sound of the Underground'.

Some Girls Aloud fan he is.

You're wheat to chaff post ratio is so frigging high. 

He's like Karabiner, never wastes a word, & every post is golden.

[tikay]

And?

Lovely photo, that. Proper cool.

That was my APAT Chairman introductory photo. Bit of water gone under the old bridge snce then.

How is Vegas going? Crushing, are we?

[RED-DOG]

John Wilson was the King of the Angling Show. His enthusiasm was infectious and obvious.

As was his enjoyment...

Thanks David, I had quite forgotten about John.

How can anyone not be enthused by him? He never stopped laughing & smiling, I love "up" people, smilers.

Do you know some people amost never smile, then wonder why life seems a bit uphill at times? Smiling opens so many doors in life, but it's not cool these days, I fancy. It's the passport to everywhere & everything. I specialise in a sort of gormless smile.

"Up People" - sadly not the best description of Mr Wilson.  In real life he is rude and unapproachable a generally a miserable bugger.  Amazing for a man who earnt his pre TV living serving the public in a shop.
My late Grandfather did quite a lot of business with John and always found his Tv persona a world away from the real man.  I now work in the village where John lives and the story's and the general feeling around there is much the same as my Grandfather had all those yeaers ago.
I guess some people are not always what they seem on the TV - can you believe that?

No! Say it ain't so? I'm dev'd!

People different in real life to their TV personna? Who'd have thunk......

I heard the same about Ray Mears, several times, too.

So have I. Apparently he's a complete tosser.

He had a public spat with Bear Grylls and in a statement afterwards slagged Grylls off mercilessly. Grylls on the other had was full of praise and compliments about Mears. (Guess who came out of that smelling the best?).

Grylls is ex special forces anyway, so I'm backing him to kick ray's butt.

[bobby1]

I was 0n a train that Ray Mears was on that was stuck behind a train that was blocking the route. About 2 seats away from him. its abs true that as the guard came walking passed he started to complain that there was nowhere to get a drink or a sandwich as the food bar was closed.

[Claw75]

I met David Bellamy when I was about 7.  that was the first time in my life I realised that people that seem nice on telly can be horrid meanies in real life.

[tikay]

The Liderella story is back on track today.

Our boy Jeremy put in an excellent performance to lead the Knicks to victory over the defending NBA champions (the NBA world champions as they're called lol) Dallas Mavericks.

Lin had what seems his usual 28 points, a new career high 14 assists and five steals. Just to put that is perspective, the average of the current top performers in each category this season are 28.9 (Kobe Bryant), 10.9 (Chris Paul) and 2.47 (Mike Conley). Jezza had seven turnovers today, still far too many, but that'll come, the underdog story continues....

The Knicks other superstar player (they recruited two stars from other teams last season on massive contracts) comes back tomoro I think so it'll be more adjustment for Lin, hopefully it'll continue tho, feel good factor is great

ESPN obviously ran out of puns this day...

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/19/sport/espn-lin-slur/index.html

Several ESPN staff got canned for that. One word, one wrong convo, & you are a goner, Ron Atkinson stylee.

"Racism controversy" here is interesting, there was more than I realised, it seems......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Atkinson

You can say, among a tight bunch of friends, hypothetically, "Chinese women are ugly" (or "French poker players are all tez") but you can't get away with it on TV. Atkinson even called someone a "twat" on TV. Sorry Ron, next case.

Tighty sent a bunch of e-Mails to last week's Show on 865, "what do you think of French, Spanish, & Italian poker players?". Proper troll, Tighty, but I did my mock angry old bloke thing & had a rant. It got more feedback than 5 hours of proper poker chat.

Facially, Big Ron always reminds me of Barry Neville.

[Chompy]

Nakor beat me to it, had also heard drain-dweller John Wilson is difficult in real life. From a fishing tackle shop owner in the fens too, so must be true. A lot of these TV types can be right primas in real life.

Also, please, you've failed to answer my birdwatching UK-US crossover question imo?

The new yet-to-be-confirmed Sky analyst isn't Celtic? Cereal? Think you've missed a trick here.

[tikay]

I met David Bellamy when I was about 7.  that was the first time in my life I realised that people that seem nice on telly can be horrid meanies in real life.

There are exceptions, Claire.

 

[EvilPie]

Rolf Harris apparently a massive twat as well.

That'll have to do for my contribution to this great diary for today.

[tikay]

Nakor beat me to it, had also heard drain-dweller John Wilson is difficult in real life. From a fishing tackle shop owner in the fens too, so must be true. A lot of these TV types can be right primas in real life.

Also, please, you've failed to answer my birdwatching UK-US crossover question imo?

The new yet-to-be-confirmed Sky analyst isn't Celtic? Cereal? Think you've missed a trick here.

I already did, an hour ago. Not one person responded. Seems that chaps from the Fens are rather dull.

Celtic on 865. YBA. Did you see him @ SPT Luton, when I gave him the microphone? Kid in a toy factory.

Quality flounce by you @ Luton last night, wp wp.