I'm going to say it again. Honestly, your stories and experiences are absolutely ridiculous, write a book.

still pretty swollen bun it did a week or 2 ago :-)

Back once again for the renegade copypasta



Maybe we'll get a decade of these on the first page of General Discussion eventually 

Seems to be one fifth odds as standard, doesn't look like there's any decent offers going around yet again. I've not placed any bets yet, but getting in early is a good idea.


(2024 thread here http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/grant-national-2024/)

https://www.oddschecker.com/grand-national/winner <- odds table, remember generally the odds tumble as the event closes in.

Don't bet more than you can afford to lose. The national is quite literally a lottery with so many horses running, the bookies can be "generous" On this event because with such an enormous field and now reduced E/W payouts they still win regardless.

Seems like all the good offers have not been repeated again for this year. I'll probably get bets in soon before the odds have dwindled.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2023, 11:45:08 AM
But I'm resurrecting this thread as a warning that I am going to try to plan a time to upgrade to SMF 2.1, which despite being a minor version upgrade is not trivial in the slightest, sh*t is likely to break. The main reason for this is that PHP 7.4 is end of life and I need to move the forums onto PHP 8.x before I start getting charged real monies for extended PHP support. Plus security and all that... After that I will consider doing the HTTPS change too.

Backups will be taken, ofc

Interestingly, to my recollection I have done sweet FA and yet HTTPS appears to be working fine, but let me know if anyone has noticed issues with this.

Which in turn means I only have to worry about forum upgrades/PHP 8 so I can finally stop paying for legacy PHP support. 

Lots of things dont seem to work any more mate.

got a JCB

brambles stand no chance now




p.s. did imgur used to automatically instert thumbnails with click for full image links or did we do it manually?  I was sure it was automatic?

lol noticed you fixed the thread I made about my finger

it didn't work and I pretty much gave up

I blame you nige, it's ever since you moved south - pretty much as far south as possible, it's obviously your flamboyant southern ways using too much punctuation and stupid little "cuddles" type text speak

Quote from: neXus on March 12, 2025, 06:01:02 AMHe's had worse 

when I went to A+E they bandaged me up, said if it's still alive tomorrow we'll fix it back on, if it's dead we'll take it off

back the next day, surgeon takes a look, all good he says, it's alive and doing well, we'll fix it back on

then they left me sitting in the waiting room 9 hours

on the operating table they un-bandaged it, said it's dead we'll have to cut it off... crossed everything off on the consent form they'd had me sign, wrote new stuff on and had me sign it laying flat on the operating table

pretty pissed off about that


and I've just realised... overnight bandage was tight holding it on... after they checked in the morning and re-bandaged it wasn't tight... weird it survived 12hours,  overnight, me bumping it in my sleep etc. then died in the waiting room... bet it wasn't pushed on tight enough

Quote from: XEntity on March 05, 2025, 10:43:21 AMThat must have hurt!

no pain at all when I did it

I wasn't even using them to cut at the time, I had them held to my chest with my left arm while I pulled on brambles with both hands... finger when in the jaws and a bit of bramble must have pushed the trigger... couldn't make it up

heard the noise of them cutting, felt them cut my finger, didn't know how bad it was

dropped everything... had thick gloves on, the finger was cut through... peeled the glove back and realised I was peeling my finger back too, cut right through the last knuckle, just a little flap of skin/flesh holding it on

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 04, 2025, 12:00:46 PMAnd you didn't wipe your arse properly either 

lol, didn't notice that on the phone screen, it's left over stuff from the operation.... I hope