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After 2 years I’ve just cancelled. Stopping, freezing, juddering pic and sound. Strong Wi-Fi, Netflix streams fine. Can’t be arsed to keep fighting with this. Ta ra. 
 

Ok, I’ve sat back and let this develop for a few pages before jumping in.

firstly let’s congratulate the lad for coming out, it must have been a huge step, and the general positivity on radio and social media is heartening that we seem to be moving forward. Hopefully others will follow his lead, by mere probability there must be many more both currently and historically 

I read with amusement the debate on ‘gays in the changing room’ and whether someone may be uncomfortable. As a gay man who has used communal changing rooms for many years I can categorically reassure anyone feeling a little awkward that us gays don’t find everyone sexually attractive, and we don’t stand, stare and drool uncontrollably at the ones we do find attractive, and the perceived awkwardness from the straight guy says a little more about them than me. If you feel awkward do as many do in my gym do, go home sweaty, change in the cubicle or do the hilarious towel dance, where everyone just presumes you either find yourself irresistible to the gays, or merely have a small pecker and are too embarrassed to show it!

for those who defended the comment about the the MAP guy coming out. It was clumsy but I don’t think he was presuming gay men are paedo’s. I am sure he has done his research where it shows this vile perversion affects gay, straight and bi people

lastly let’s not too woke, the jokes about ‘leaving the back door open’ are just funny. 

19 hours ago, The Bard said:

Yep all 20,000 Bristol city council employees are GAS HEADS

And another 100,000 who want a job there but have been locked out.

6 hours ago, Hampshire reds said:

I understand Jon Lansdown is the chairman. Well Jon can you come out with a statement telling the fans especially the 3k that went to Coventry what you are going to do about the rubbish we are watching week in week out. i Would like to say get well soon nigel your health and family must come first. Huge respect to the fans that went to Coventry you all deserve so much more.

To be honest, if the owner can’t be arsed to come out and at least try to rouse the team and the fans, you can understand the apathy among the fans. Spending comparably more in disposable income terms, shelling out for over priced tickets, with over priced food and drinks, getting ripped off for parking, and sat in idling traffic using up hugely expensive petrol you can see why people are getting peeved.

I bailed pre covid, the season after the ground development. The extra crowds were and are good for the club, but I got tired of the parking prices, the journey up and down to Gloucester, the stating out early, and getting home late, whilst feeling ripped off by club and local parking operators, the overpriced food and drink.

i wish the club well, hope the attendances keep high and there is success on the pitch for those that make the effort. I am happy behind by VPN now, still a fan but from a distance, where the decline of the team the last 2 seasons doesn’t hurt  (quite) as much. Of course it still does, I’d love us to do well, but I am sympathise with the fans getting angry, and those like me, who just started to walk away. 
 

sad times.

40 minutes ago, Alan Dicks said:

It hurts less and less every week?

Years ago, a loss would feel a blow, and it would ruin the whole weekend. Not sure it’s advancing age, or just where we are as a club, but yes you’re right, it hurts less. Nowadays I just shrug and move on. It doesn’t ruin the weekend at all now. I still care, obviously, and want us to do well, but losing from 2 1 up against 10 men who played us off the park? Not surprised, now, what’s on the telly…

12 minutes ago, S25loyal said:

So it’s fine for an employee of Bristol sport, to sexualise in public other employees of Bristol sport? Or anyone else for that matter.

Just as it’s male on male shouldn't matter, it’s exactly the same. 

I can make no comment on the emojis and whether I would choose not to have used them in an employee capacity, but I can say I have studied the video in minute detail and in slow motion and zoomed in, multiple times. I can find no fault with it…

20 minutes ago, Henry said:

If a straight male club employee, made a similar post about the ladies team, would this be okay?

weird bloke

Why is he (Downey) weird? I don’t get what you’re getting at?

great video though

Just now, redsquirrel said:

5.7k good game,good game

Didn’t he do well?

43 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

Not joking, I genuinely had to check it was real after I’d read it first time.

Jeez, thank you Dad for taking me to see City when I was a nipper. Imagine how life could’ve turned out

3 hours ago, bearded_red said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-rovers-press-conference-live-6030386.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Every answer, absolutely mental.

The bloke has a bit going on.

 

Genuine question, is this real or am I being whooshed? I can’t believe anyone could say this shit, with a straight face anyway. Unbelievable, Jeff 

2 hours ago, alexukhc said:

Here’s a question for us all, do you reckon they will ever be in the same league as us ever again?

No

5 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

I would much rather have A Night At The Opera.

And I hate opera.

How about a day at the races, then?

Like German, industrial rock?

try Eischbrecher. 
 

if you find rammstein too heavy and wished they were a little more melodic give these a go

My apologies it’s testing of a vaccine by September. To be rolled out next year. If it works https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-vaccine-johnson-and-johnson-clinical-trial/index.html

I don’t think they will risk mass events, festivals, concerts, Theatre, football matches until the government is happy they can cope with the numbers of infections that a relaxation will bring. 

How the government is (re)acting right now I feel we won’t  see an agreement  to fulfill a recreational activity at odds with current action plan, testing or no testing. Not ITK or anything, just my thoughts
 

3 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Or just finish the season when football is safe to be played again!  Why is next season more important than this season? 

One very important difference.  Football will be played again when testing is readily available which means the arguments against are moot 

When testing is ready? Apparently not til sept at the earliest and then prioritised for front line staff, medical support staff, etc etc. Don’t think league two football player and their reserves will be high on that list

If they are played behind closed doors you still have a bit of crowding ie

players plus subs

management team, 

4 officials

medical staff

ground staff to prepare ground - pitch, stadium, changing facilities, security

probably quite a few more unthought of here. I have a feeling if the government can close pretty much every business, every gym, restaurant and pub I don’t think fulfilling what is essentially a pastime is going to be very high up their agenda.

personally I think this season will be cancelled. Also if reports from South Korea are accurate and 91 people who have had covid19 have been reinfected I don’t think the lockdown will be eased soon, and when it does it will cycle off and on as the government try to keep infections to a rate where the NHS doesn’t fail. I foresee a 4 or 5 month period of lockdown as is then a relaxation of schools and some businesses until numbers rise then lockdown again. You can’t run a league program like that.

maybe got out of wrong side of bed today, but feeling very pessimistic about the country in general and sport is and should be way down the list of priorities.

2 minutes ago, RedM said:

So sorry to hear this, you must be absolutely shattered. I really hope you have other family or friends that are supporting you as you can’t deal with all this by yourself, and all the other stuff which is around at the moment. Take care, stay strong and safe.

M x

Ta. Thankfully yes. Great support from hubby, friends and work. Everyone’s been great. 

2 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

This is one of the most distressing things I have read. I'm sorry to hear of the terrible time you've been having. I hope things improve soon.

Cheers fella. So do I...

Can we just cancel 2020 now. I’ve had enough.

Here is mine so far...

January 3rd - brother diagnosed out of blue of having 3 aggressive brain cancers and has ‘short months’ to live

January 10th - paralysed down his right side he is discharged from hospital to die, where he lives with his girlfriend and our 90 year old mother 

January 20th - take over my mothers pension and bank account as brother is paralysed to find out they have extracted and spent over £50000 of her savings. I have no idea what is was spent on and they are not saying

January 22nd - I predict to my partner that now the raping of my mothers finance has stopped, so will her care so and mother will be dead in 6 months. Try to get her extra care, social services not interested

Feb 25th Get a call from brothers sister that mother had taken a fall and had been rushed into hospital

Feb 27th mother dies with fractured skull from the fall. Coroner refuses to release body for funeral as the body needs to go to autopsy due to ‘unusual  injuries’

March 9th  autopsy completed, cause of death obvious, how it happened open to interpretation. No further action taken

March 13th. Finally received death certificate and funeral booked for March 24th

March 19th funeral postponed due to corona virus

anyone able to ‘beat this’?

22 minutes ago, LondonBristolian said:

It is interesting but I’d want to know how much that figure fluctuates from year to year. If it is higher than 2019 but comparable to previous years then it may mean nothing but if January 2020 was significantly higher than other recent years then it could be significant.

I’m not an expert but a quick search brings back figures of around 600,000 deaths per year. Winter months around 45000 to 60000 deaths per month, falling to mid to high 30,000’s in the summer months. Looking back at last decade January deaths are anywhere between 45,000 and 60,000, this year was a spike though. But Is does go up and the last winter flu epidemic looks like it claimed 10,000 ish 

Death count

In January there was an increase of over 2900 deaths compared to jan 2019. 
9000 more deaths than December 

56000 deaths in January in total

looks like coronavirus has already claimed a few thousand in jan. I know there was no recorded cases but I don’t think there was testing was there?

So if the curve of deaths follow Italy and we lose 4000 in a month, there would be a lift of 8% on presumption that none of the 4000 would have died anyway

not sure what to feel about these figures. Your Thoughts?

15 minutes ago, redysteadygo said:

I did not intend my post to be critical or anyway offending so apologise if you saw it as such, it was just how it affected me at such a young age. At least we both had life changing experiences which hopefully instilled in us both some sensitive feelings to the rest of the human race.

No offence taken fella

5 minutes ago, redysteadygo said:

When I was a nipper in the mid fifties I can remember reading stories in the News of the World about these atrocities. Even at that age I could not understand how cruel human beings could be to other human beings and I have never wanted to see the evidence.

Fair enough. I just found it to be very humbling and it changed my outlook on life from that moment to this. As they say, lest we forget 

2 hours ago, BS15_RED said:

Why would anyone want their photo taken by the Auschwitz sign? Let alone posing with a flag of your team?

I’ve never been there, the only place comparable to it I’ve been to is the 9-11 memorial and museum in New York, I didn’t take a single photo in there as it was a very sobering experience.

It would seem that the significance of Auschwitz was lost on this particular moron. 

I would like to believe it’s been photoshopped. Having been to auschwitz, it’s quite remote so there is long journey to reflect on what you are about to experience. No words can describe emotions whilst you are there. It’s not dressed us as tourist attraction and no punches are pulled and there is little to prepare you for what you are allowed to see. Torture chambers, medical experiment rooms, huts 40 feet long that housed HUNDREDS of prisoners and rooms that are literally filled floor to ceiling with suitcases, glasses, and human hair. I walked round alternating between shock, anger, and tears. It truly is a awful awful place. Everyone should go if they can only to remind themselves on the atrocities that man can inflict on man due to lack of tolerance, hatred, and twisted ideology.

if this picture is real I am truly at a loss for words 

1 minute ago, Red Right Hand said:

A job for...……………………. Dean Saunders.

Now that would be funny.

I think they’d prefer Jennifer Saunders.