Random Stuff!

[Ray Finkle]

All week all I've heard about is Black bloomin Friday, my deleted emails folder is full of Black Friday spam.

By coincidence I've just been on Tesco Direct to order my little ones Christmas present only to find out that it has been reduced by over £100. With the Clubcard Vouchers that we've accrued this year I got a Samsung Galaxy Tablet for £14.50!

My first ever 'Black Friday' purchase

 

[wolfheze]

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[wolfheze]

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[Barry Beeth]

Looks OK

 

[Ianbutty]

Today is the deadline for any 'other' bids for the 2022 Games. Very little online so far, so hopefully Brum is the only bid. Just hope it is compliant and successful. Suppose we will find out sometime beforw Christmas. Fingers crossed.

 

[jfy1999]

The World Cup groups have been drawn. Not a bad group for England...

• Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay
• Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
• Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
• Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
• Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
• Group F: Germany, Sweden, Mexico, South Korea
• Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
• Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan

 

[thunderchild]

All week all I've heard about is Black bloomin Friday, my deleted emails folder is full of Black Friday spam.

By coincidence I've just been on Tesco Direct to order my little ones Christmas present only to find out that it has been reduced by over £100. With the Clubcard Vouchers that we've accrued this year I got a Samsung Galaxy Tablet for £14.50!

My first ever 'Black Friday' purchase

I got a Bluetooth speaker reduced from £75.99 down to £34.99. Was thinking of buying one for a while but thought I’d hang on for Black Friday. If there is something you want and it’s a bargain I’ve got nothing against it but all that fighting over TVs a few years ago was just disgraceful.

Sadly I didn’t get any Black Friday flight bargains.

 

[Ianbutty]

The World Cup groups have been drawn. Not a bad group for England...

• Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay
• Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
• Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
• Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
• Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
• Group F: Germany, Sweden, Mexico, South Korea
• Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
• Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan

Lose to Panama. Draw with Tunisia and when all seems lost we only go and beat the Belgains...and so the agony continues to the penalty shoot out in round two. Good luck to all of the Teams.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Today is the deadline for any 'other' bids for the 2022 Games. Very little online so far, so hopefully Brum is the only bid. Just hope it is compliant and successful. Suppose we will find out sometime beforw Christmas. Fingers crossed.

Latest update from the BBC -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/42197941

It seems that the CGF have recieved 'updates' from Australia, Canada, and Malaysia but did not confirm any official bids.
It also says that an update was recieved from England - revised plans regarding whatever was not compliant?
The CGF will have a board meeting on 6 Dec.

Kevin

 

[Ianbutty]

Latest update from the BBC -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/42197941

It seems that the CGF have recieved 'updates' from Australia, Canada, and Malaysia but did not confirm any official bids.
It also says that an update was recieved from England - revised plans regarding whatever was not compliant?
The CGF will have a board meeting on 6 Dec.

Kevin

Did not stop the BBC initially and incorrectly saying 3 bids had been received etc gloat gloat gloat hee hee hee!.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Nail biting time for Coventry, announcement due within the hour

 

[wolfheze]

Nail biting time for Coventry, announcement due within the hour

What for?
Are they going demolish it?

 

[Ray Finkle]

It's just been announced that Cov will be the UK City of Culture 2021.

Well done to all involved

 

[wolfheze]

Well i have to say they've done something remarkable there.
I'd get them over to Pyongyang sharpish, they would probably have a good chance of persuading the North Koreans to give up their nukes.

 

[Paulsstrange]

Congratulations to Coventry I hope the whole of the West Midlands region gets behind this.

Let' hope Birmingham can follow this up with the commonwealth games 2022 ..

Let' also hope the idiots go and play with their crayons and stay away.....

 

[Ray Finkle]

I must admit that I took those posts as a little tongue in cheek, I could see how it would be interpreted otherwise but I'm sure that wolfheze wishes Cov well

Lets not detract from what a great achievement this is, Coventry has an even bigger task than Birmingham in shaking of a bad reputation and this will be huge for them. At the back end of the 90's I worked there for a couple of years and I have a huge affinity with the place, I also met some fantastic people.

To many the tag of 'Motor City' would be an unwanted one but most of the Coventronians that I have met are immensely proud of the title.

One again well done to all of those involved, so glad that all of their hard work paid off

 

[Paulsstrange]

My apologies if I took tgat the wrong way.

Apologies wolfheze I think I had my Moody head on !

Ray can you remove my first 2 replies ...thanks.

In the meantime great news for West mids.

 

[wolfheze]

Don't worry about it. I've got far worse things happening in my life at the moment to be offended by comments on an internet forum.

 

[Paulsstrange]

Well I'm sorry to hear that and am genuiney sorry once again.

Hope all works out well.

 

[wolfheze]

Thanks for that. While I'm here I will try and explain why I made those comments. When Ray first posted i had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and just responded in a flippant way. A few minutes later it became clear what it was all about and I remembered catching half of a report on midlands today a few nights back concerning Stoke on Trent and that they were hoping to secure funding for amongst other things the restoration of some of the few remaining kilns left in what appeared to be a very grim run down part of what was once a world renowned producer of pottery . From what I saw and heard in the report I felt Stoke on Trent was probably more deserving of the award than Coventry which although has it's problems and deprived areas has enjoyed some recent success stories particularly in the motor industry with for example the continuing expansion and prosperity of JLR and London taxis (shame it takes foreign ownership to get things right) hence my second post. Anyway hopefully the money will be allocated properly, spent wisely and provide a lasting legacy.