Now thats what I don't call music 1

Been watching adverts constantly popping up selling Now 88 which I would never buy and I don’t think I have ever owned any of them from number 1 back in 1983 to the present day.

 

The idea is good an album of singles but too many crap tunes for my liking. I was thinking what the first album was like and who was on it. So an internet search was called for which didn’t take long and I was surprised I liked a few on the album. Four in fact out of 30 would be on my play list and there are a few secret crushes, which I will keep to myself.

 

Here is the full list of performers videos with the help of You Tube.

 

Side 1

1.Phil Collins : "You Can't Hurry Love" 2.Duran Duran : "Is There Something I Should Know" 3.UB40 : "Red Red Wine" 4.Limahl : "Only for Love" 5.Heaven 17 : "Temptation" 6.KC & The Sunshine Band : "Give It Up" 7.Malcolm McClaren : "Double Dutch" 8.Bonnie Tyler : "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

 

Side 2

 

1.Culture Club : "Karma Chameleon" 2.Men Without Hats : "The Safety Dance" 3.Kajagoogoo : "Too Shy" 4.Mike Oldfield : "Moonlight Shadow" 5.Men at Work : "Down Under" 6.Rock Steady Crew : "Hey You (Rock Steady Crew)" 7.Rod Stewart : "Baby Jane" 8.Paul Young : "Wherever I Lay My Hat"

 

Side 3

 

1.New Edition : "Candy Girl" 2.Kajagoogoo : "Big Apple" 3.Tina Turner : "Let's Stay Together" 4.The Human League : "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" 5.Howard Jones : "New Song" 6.UB40 : "Please Don't Make Me Cry" 7.Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack : "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"

 

Side 4

 

1.Tracey Ullman : "They Don't Know" 2.Will Powers : "Kissing with Confidence" 3.Genesis : "That's All" 4.The Cure : "The Love Cats" 5.Simple Minds : "Waterfront" 6.Madness : "The Sun and the Rain" 7.Culture Club : "Victims"

Vanishing spray next season BUT not in the FL

There was a lot to like in the World Cup much to my surprise being not a fan of international football as a rule.

I liked most of the football, crowds, fans and the BBC coverage but something that made me full of joy was the humble vanishing spray. Yes, I was that easily pleased by a spray can. After years of hitting boiling point watching walls at free kicks and players encroach now there was away for me to stay calm.

I have been known to suggest referees should be issued with a nail gun to nail the players in the wall to the ground. Not to stop them jumping just to stop then darting towards the ball before the ball has been kicked.

Therefore, I was pleased to hear the vanishing spray that stops players in free-kick walls trying to stand inside the permitted 10 yards is coming to the Premier League. Has a by-product of the new innervation it will help stop players rolling the ball forward. However, it is not coming to the Football League just yet, which is astonishing.

Chief executive Richard Scudamore of the Premier League said: “At the Premier League, we are open to developments that enhance the competition and it was clear from watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil that vanishing spray benefitted referees, players, and all of those who watched the matches.

“Having witnessed that, and following consultation with our clubs and the PGMOL, we have decided to introduce it in the Barclays Premier League and look forward to having it in place for the 2014/15 season.”

In the Football League, it’s only under consideration but will be trialled in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. What a joke! Maybe they didn’t watch the World Cup or listen to the media pundits gushingly praising on about how helpful it would be in British football.

Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey said: “The introduction of vanishing spray into the Johnstone's Paint Trophy will give us the opportunity to observe its use in domestic football, so that we can better understand its effect on the flow of the game.”

I want some DM's

I want these

Thinking ahead, I am in the market for a good quality pair of shoes with winter in mind and now with sales there could be a bargain to be made for those who shop around.

 

I know what I would like, a pair of DM’s, but crumbs the cost. There is always a pair of Brogues and Loafers to tickle my fancy but they are just as pricey but my heart is set on DM’s. No £7.99 specials from Shoe Zone for my tired old feet anymore they need some quality in their old age.

 

No need to trudge from shop to shop with the internet the world is out there although a wander around town would be much more enjoyable.

 

DM’s first came to my attention down Ninian Park; skinheads were wearing them the boots not shoes. The shoe version was soon becoming popular in school but at the time, I was in platforms followed by a pair of rip off Brogues. I can remember the year I bought my first DM’s and remember where and how I paid for them. It was before the summer of 1976 I was just about to leave school and mum said I would need a new pair of shoes for upcoming job interviews. Of course, with money tight at home, what I had to spend was not enough so I would have to hit the bank of Nan for a top-up.

 

The more hard-core mainly skinheads would go for the 14-holed boots which must have been a nightmare to lace up remember it was a time the police would order anyone who looked menacing to take them off. Then you had the 10, 8 and 3 the shoe, I had a pair of the eights in ox-blood, which I bought in a shop come warehouse just around the corner from the back entrance of Woolworths in my home town of Cardiff. Not the best ‘shoes’ for an interview but I didn’t care I could polish up my school shoes.

 

No more studding the soles of my shoes which made you sound like a women in high heels walking along with DM’s you your in stealth mode how with my air-cushioned sole boots.

 

These days I prefer the shoe it goes with my age so I am in the market for a black DM pair of shoes.

Loan a dog

The wife is always on at me to have a pet a dog, or cat which ever takes her fancy depending on which furry one she sees.

 

I am not a pet kind of person, although I did have a cat when I was a kid our house was more of a cat home than dogs, we just didn’t do dogs. There was a story in this morning’s paper that caught my eye about a company who rent dogs out by the hour maybe that could curb the wife’s interest for a pet I thought to myself.

 

How it works? The dog owner pays a fee (£44.99) to register their dog and the dog borrowers paid a year’s membership fee of £9.99. When both have created a profile and verify there details, you are free to use the service. The time scale of the ‘loan’ is between the members and could be for a few hours for a walk around the park or for two weeks while you go on holiday.

 

I can’t see the union of dog walkers being happy with this or doggy hotels who could lose business so I am expecting to read about strikes and protest marches soon. However, I would like to emphasize strongly I will never be partaking of such a service so the wife will have to make do with looking and smoothing friends pets.

Only 14 days to go

Tic, tock, tic, and tock the new football season is getting ever closer. If you believe the bookies Cardiff City, my team are going to be one of the favourites in the race for promotion.

Pre-season has been so, so but does it matter? Win, lose or draw it means little it’s the first game of the season at Blackburn, which is the most important. I like the look of the new squad and more than happy most of the transfer activity was done before pre-season.

On the other side of the coin, other deals of players leaving the club have dragged on a bit. Will he won’t he rumours surrounding goalkeeper David Marshall, who was not looking to leave the club didn’t stop plenty of newspaper talk about clubs interested in signing him. Some lesser squad players have left but three players transfers have been long and drawn out.

The three in question are/were Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, and Fraizer Campbell all of whom have regularly featured in the sport pages linked with a transfer. Although the Medel is not confirmed, it’s highly likely he will be heading to Italian Football and Inter Milan, if a deal can be struck with the two clubs amid reports of payment issues holding up any completion of the deal. It could be helped along with strong reports of interest from Turkish club Galatasaray who have made an offer for the Cardiff City defender.

The other two now lay there training kit elsewhere. Caulker is now plying his trade back in the Premier League with QPR after a season with the Bluebirds. It turned out to be a prolonged transfer saga for the player played out mostly in the press. At one point, it looked like he could be on his way to Liverpool but reports of high wage demands put them off the signing. The Bluebirds didn’t want to sell their highly rated defender who would probably still be a Cardiff player if they had managed to beat off relegation last season. Fraizer Campbell has moved on to Crystal Palace choosing them over newly promoted Leicester City but somehow I don’t think Cardiff fans will morn his loss.

Its Hot Dog day

It seems every day as its day from “Read in the Bathtub day” to “Ballpoint pen day”.

More interesting for me is the food days because of my love affair with food that I love to eat. Today is officially “Hot dog day”. I do love a hot dog with lashings of fried onions and red sauce but not a frying pan in sight for me these days its oven baked boring but healthier. Not one of the vegetarians although you can get a veggie hot dog.

I am fussy about the hot dog/sausage these days there was a time I would happily munch into a tin of hot dogs and think nothing about it, then one day I read the ingredients. Mechanically recovered chicken just turned my stomach up and made me think about what I was eating and tin hot dogs were well and truly off the menu. I am not a fan of the German frankfurters either which I find tasteless.

That leaves me with real sausages and not the cheap and nasty one but the high-end full of real meat. Checking the price of a tin of eight hot dogs, it would cost me 69p, while the sausages I buy from my butchers cost me around £4 for eight. A big difference in price but a price I am willing to pay for quality.

Commonwealth games

Looking forward to the Commonwealth Games, well I am because I love events like this. It’s not the Olympics but still some of the greatest athlete’s in the world will be taking part who would also be in the running for medals in any Olympics.

No team GB has the athletes are split between the four home nations, Wales, Scotland, N Ireland and England making it interesting and giving lesser known athletes a chance to show their stuff. Where as in the Olympics team GB would be made up of up to three competitors now 12 home nations athletes could be on show.

There are 73 participating nations in Glasgow with Australia and England the biggest teams of over 400 and the smallest team coming from Brunei with a lone solitary cyclist. The Paralympic athletes will have their five sports included athletics, swimming, powerlifting, lawn bowls and for the first time track cycling alongside their able body colleagues.

There are not as many sports to look forward to like the Olympics. No sailing or canoeing, a pity but there will be my personal favourite lawn bowls. Yes I will be all keyed up for the battle of the greens it will be riveting. Its funny how some sports are in and the next time out. Archery is one you would think should be at the core of the games but no its not. Most participating countries must have an archery squads so why its not a regular in the games is beyond me. The strangest ‘sport’, which made one appearance, was Ten-Pin Bowling in the 1998 Kuala Lumpur games.

No football though but seven a side rugby but why can’t they have 5-a-side football it would be more popular than rugby.

Most of the games are in and around Glasgow with the swimming in Edinburgh and shooting outside Dundee but it is mention for Cardiff there are calls that it must be spread over the whole of Wales.

Planets of the Apes …. Advert breaks

I have been inundated with adverts for the new Planet of the Apes film on TV and on the internet and I noted tonight that the first offering of this new franchise is on Channel 5.

Thing is I would like to watch it but I hate TV advert breaks that’s why I would rather pay for my TV licence, or BBC tax some people call it. How many people will sit through the offerings of this 5 minutes or so feeling the urge to buy the crap someone decides you must have. More than likely you get up make a cup of tea/coffee or something to eat or a trip to the toilet. I’d channel surf myself.

I am more likely to pick something up in the supermarket than lust after it during an ad break. I don't think I have ever bought everything because I saw it on TV. In fact, I am more likely not to watch the film like tonight I will find a film with no adverts breaks. If tonight's film was on the BBC I would be watching.

Off subject a bit the BBC don’t seem to show many big films like Planet of the Apes which is a shame has they are advert free.

It burns! It burns! those damn red seats

Not happy planting your backside in the gods in the red seats well there are options and precautions you can take to stop those burning sensations.

 

Unless you are lucky, enough to land one of the few non-red seats in the new stand the next best thing is to cover it. Plenty of ideas have been put forward but why go cheap when you could go deluxe with this cracking little number. (See picture)

 

In the lovely colour of blue, it just doesn’t turn your seat blue instantly, but also offers you storage. You have somewhere to store your programme, a drink, and even your mobile and can fold away for easy transporting. However I have only been able to find it on sale wholesale, which is a bit of a pain especially has you can customise it.

 

I did find the same kind of cover on Amazon (See picture) without the storage but still a good option. Will some fans go this far? From the rhetoric I am hearing on social media maybe they are. As for the new stand, if you can look beyond the red it looks pretty impressive so pity it is surrounded in all the controversy.

 

Latest picture from the Cardiff City Football Forum

My top Britpop tunes

There have been a lot of different music genes over the years in my life from Glam rock, Punk, Mods Two-tone/Ska and too many others to list but at the moment I am listening mainly to Brit Pop the likes of Blur and Oasis.

 

Its 20 years since Brit Pop burst on to the scene with the name being given to a rash of bands that were deemed to be cool. Brit Pop bands had a distinct style attitude and clothing with very British lyrics.

 

Now nailing my colours to the fence over this big Blur/Oasis thing from back in the time. I liked both bands but if pushed I would side with Blur.

 

There was a lot of good music around the mid-nineties some could be dyer mainly stuff coming from across the pond, America. Bands played instruments although boy/girl so called bands were around they didn’t dominate the charts has Simon Cowell had not fully risen from his coffin. It was British made and exported around the world but it had to end sometime. A mixture of in fighting and the rise of hip-hop and R&B done for the UK music scene as young fans looked across the Atlantic.

 

I may have been a married dad with three young lads and the wrong side of 30 but I knew what I like when it came to music and this I liked. When they is not much in the way of good music around today the past is a great place to hangout. So I spent time blasting my ears out on a trip down memory lane to find out the classics still do it for me so here are my top 10, well top 8 two come under special dispensation. In no particular order,

 

• Pulp – Common People
• The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
• Oasis – Wonderwall
• Blur – Girls and Boys
• Space – Female of the Species
• The Bluetones - Slight Return
• Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train
• Supergrass - Alright

The next to could be place in the Britpop gene but is better suited to Cool Cymru

• Manic Street Preachers – A Design for Life
• Catatonia – Road Rage

Webcam Girls: At your Service

Sploshing

The World Cup final made me miss Channel 5 latest sexploitation show, Webcam Girls: At Your Service, so I caught up with it on demand5.

I was expecting to see scantily clad woman in lingerie but there was really none of that other than the odd bikini shot.

The programme didn’t delve into how far they would go in their pursuit of money but showed the strange and kinky side of Cam-ing.

It opens with one of the Cam girl stating, “British people are quite kinky”.

Judging by this programme there are some strange men out there. One of the girls was booked for 10 minutes to shave her legs for £10. The guy only lasted about three minutes before he ended the show abruptly. There was single Sam, who dominates sissy men among other things had a punter decked out like a dog was asked if he was are “you my little puppy” followed by a stern, ”beg” which he duly did.

As each webcam conversation clocks up a minimum of £1.60 a minute for these technological temptresses, these women can make over the hourly national minimum wage in less than six minutes.

Men paid for the strangest things like Alex who plays with toys and crash toy dinky cars in stilettos and could earn up to £1000 a week.

With a reported 28,258 people accessing online adult content each second, the world's appetite for saucy screenplay seems to be insatiable. Penny picks up between 3 to 4 grand a month and we see her singing a nursery rhyme to some guy flashing is bum.

From baked bean showers own as sploshing, balloon play, feet play and even wearing plaster cast it is a bizarre world indeed all done for the comfort of your own home.

Mk 2 was the business

Hot bike ... hot chick

Not a happy bunny this morning after a conversation led to someone (name withheld) that my beloved Raleigh Chopper being called a girly bike. There was nothing girly about the bike it was built like a tank.

I have said it before but I loved my old Mk2 chopper and have announced it has my best ever present, I just loved it. Even more than my Claud Butler racing bike which had the speed. It was a stable platform to ride, easy to change gears (three speeds) and a plush saddle. Sadly, I can’t remember what happen to it! I didn’t sell it or scrap-it somehow it just drifted out of my life.

Mum paid on the weekly to make sure it was under the tree for Christmas 1973. Back in the day, it cost between £30 and £35 and when you think my dad was bringing home around £23 plus a week, it was a big investment for two bikes including my brother. I had the red one while my brother had the purple one. I would have been well pissed off if I had the purple so I rather made sure the red one would be coming my way.

It might not have been the most practical of bikes but it looked cool. The bike was based on the American chopper motorcycle there was even a kickstand so that you could prop it up outside the sweet shop so you could nip in to buy some sweets or a drink. It had a long, high-backed seat – spring-loaded if memory serves – that was made for giving backies to your mates or a girl.

It also had a gear stick – three gears for most of us, five for the posh kids – with big, fat tyres and drop-down handlebars. It was made for cruising not racing and was cracking off road because of its sturdy build.

Afternoon film

I was watching the film ‘Click’ with the wife this afternoon. I was actually eyeing another film but I made the mistake of letting the wife get interested so I gave in to her and watched it.

I ended up liking the film as I am a bit of a fan of Adam Sandler and a favourite eye candy was also starring, Kate Beckinsale. However, the end pissed me right off because I’m not a fan of the happy ending. The film is about Sandler’s character getting his hands on universal remote that enables him to "fast forward" through unpleasant or outright dull parts of his life or back in time to see is past life on “rewind”. You get the idea if you know the menu of a remote control.

It got me thinking of which event in my life I would change if I could. There are plenty but truly, there is only one place, one time I would want to be and change. The morning my wife tripped out the back garden, falling grazing her knee that led to years of frustration and leading to the loss of her left leg above the knee.

I give up ....so off to Aldi I will go

I am sick of reading about Lidl and Aldi and what a great place to shop with fantastic prices that will save me a shed load of money.

 

Therefore, for the first time ever I am planning my first visit to one of these German wonderlands in the next week. After a quick check to find the closest it turned out to be an Aldi and with no car it would mean a bus journey and if I was happy and spent a penny or two a taxi home. Consequently, any savings I could make will be eaten away on transport costs but I would have this wonderful experience.

 

So what am I expecting? Lots of free food! I ever much doubt it but cheap prices hopefully and on food I like to buy. They carry fewer lines than Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury the big three in supermarket shopping but on a par with the there smaller stores.

 

I have also read it is now a mecca for the middle classes with items like fresh gnocchi and tagliatelle, Scottish mussels, crayfish tails, wafer-thin Parma ham, slabs of holey Emmental cheese and a bottle of Prosecco, all of which can be on their shopping list at a cheaper cost. None of which are on my shopping list. They turn up with their M&S or Waitrose bag for life to camouflaging their true shopping destination there is no home delivery and on checking out their website, it was piss poor.

Meaningless Game

Meaningless

I ask myself could this be the most pointless game of football ever 3rd or 4th place in the World Cup. A simple question for FIFA, why, and is anyone interested.

 

We know the opinion of the Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal who called it a pointless exercise and nothing to do with football. Other managers, players, and fans feel the same as most people who believe it is just a moneymaking operation on the part of FIFA.

 

There is the prize money! The winner receives $20m and $18m for the losing team a nice payday for a meaningless game like this. There must be a better way to find the third place team other than playing this match that could run into extra time, and penalties. I don’t think even England with be happy to play a play-off game for 3rd place but then again the English press would love it.

 

I can’t be asked to watch the game however Brazil need to save face after the 7-1 defeat they received at the hands of Germany in the week but I don’t think it will mean much if they do

Steptoe And Son - The Seven Steptoerai

One of my all-time favourite comedy shows is “Steptoe and Son” and this morning on Gold TV, I had a bit of a love-in even though I have seen the show countless times. I was only 14-years-old when this episode was first aired in 1974 on the BBC so god knows how many times I have watched it since. The Seven Steptoeai is a particular favourite and I was happy to get to watch it again with this episode about a local gangsters starting up a protection racket.

For those who don’t know of the Steptoe’s they are a father (Albert) and son (Harold) team in the rag and bone business and have a love and hate relationship but really they do love each other.

Local gangster Frankie Barrow fresh out of prison that morning pays a visit to the Steptoe’s to offer them “insurance” (i.e. protection) with two heavies in tow. After a demonstration of the need of “insurance”, they soon sign on the dotted line at £15 a week with Albert pointing out they only pay £15 year for their real insurance.

Worried by the exorbitant costs and fear of retribution if payments were not kept up Harold hatches a scheme to raise the “Oil Drum Lane Vigilantes” based on a famous martial arts film called “The Seven Samurai” with his own heavies from the scrubs (a local prison). On refection, he knows it is a pipe dream and will have to pay up but Albert indicates he can rustle up enough “muscle” to face Frankie and his boys.

Albert and his pensioners sidekicks while away their time at the local cinema watching “kung fu” films so when he sent Frankie’s collector away empty handed Harold is deeply concerned for they safety. Enter Frankie and his boys tooled up with assortment of weapons and entering stage left Albert and his old foggies as they square up to do battle.

It’s a forgone conclusion the outcome but fair to say the insurance company are sent packing. Thanks to YouTube the episode is below ... enjoy

The 14th hole

 

This is a golf course with a difference with the 14th hole incorporating a moveable floating platform at this Idaho golf course. You had better make sure you hit the perfect shot if you want to make the hole.

 

It’s proven very popular with members with the ultimate goal a hole in one, which according to reports has been achieved. Once you tee off and if you are successful, you then take a short trip via boat to finish the game.

 

The par 3 hole as three playable lengths ranging from 110 to 210 yards for men and 65 to 130 for women. Its movement is powered by a computer controlled twin-drum wench system that moves the green along an underwater steel cable network to the designated yardage setting.

 

Forget golf I can see plenty of money grasping ideas with business mind it would make a party view or a party venue. Coming soon to Cardiff Bay … lol

Strike day

Strike day for some and the government are sending out they attack dogs to brief the press and stake out TV newsrooms around the country to get their word out there. Its funny how government politicians are making themselves available for comment today but if this was an issue they were not comfortable with they would has scarce as a snow leopard. The unions have their officials out doing the media rounds with the rank and file members happy to chip in with their side of the action and why.

union man and woman outside MP's part-time work place

Their attack on the unions is that they are ‘irresponsible strikes on the basis of a low ballot’. It’s a bit rich when most of these highly paid politicians get there job with low turnouts themselves. Is every one in their constituency who don’t vote agreeing with the winner be it Tories or Labour, I don’t think so. They are happy to assume that no vote means the majority don’t support the strike.

The unions out on strike today come under one big umbrella covering a number of different unions and either striking about wages, pension, working condition, or all three. I understand what the strike is about and give my support to it but that doesn’t mean I support every strike ever called I still have issues with the unions for handing us the Maggie years.

I believe it is time to make voting compulsory for all voting be it strike or parliament with failure incurring a fine of say £50. These days with postal voting and the internet there is no excuse not to vote and it shouldn’t be classed as a chore but a duty because if you don’t vote that right he you to complain.

I like it

I would love to own it

This painting has been removed from a London exhibition because it was deemed to be “too pornographic and disgusting” according to the artist, Leena McCall.

 

The painting was selected by the Society for Womens Artists for the exhibition and after a charity evening and private viewing; it was removed before opening to the public. Ms McCall is known for painting on the subject of female sexual and erotic identity and the picture is of her friend entitled Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing.

 

The painting features the model smoking a pipe and wearing a fur-trimmed vest and short trousers, unbuttoned to reveal her cleavage and a strip of black pubic hair.

 

In a statement, the Mall Gallery said: “As an educational arts charity, the federation has a responsibility to its trustees and to the children and vulnerable adults who use its galleries and learning centre. After a number of complaints regarding the depiction of the subject and taking account of its location en route for children to our learning centre, we requested the painting was removed.”

 

I’m not the biggest lover of art in the world but I know what I like and I like this. The artist has definitely caught Ms May sexuality the picture oozes it. From her look to her pose, you can feel it and the tantalising cleavage some may wish for the button or stitch to pop whereby I love the fact it hasn’t. Even the shorts add to the eroticism of the painting. The most disturbing thing about this picture is not the obvious cleavage and pubic hair but the fact she has a pipe in her mouth.

These ladies are packing

Fancy riding this cowboy ladies

Four good-looking waitresses it would be a pleasure to be served by them if I happen to be in Rifle, Colorado. They carry a pad, pen and are packing heat on the hip, puzzled well it is America.

May not

Colorado is among the states where openly carrying a gun in public is legal and these waitresses carry guns and know how to use them. It’s not just the staff who are packing guns but the customers also, which could make for one hell of a bar fight like the old Wild West.



 

City off to Haverforwest

Pre-season training is in full swing and Cardiff City play their first pre-season friendly away at Carmarthen Town with the game being played at Bridge Meadow Haverforwest. Cardiff travel to Bath City on Saturday after the Hereford fixture was called off and play Yeovil on their return from Austria. (Full list here with times and dates)

Next week Cardiff will be off on a weeklong tour of Austria playing three games against teams from Russia, Germany, and Albania. What fans can expect at the Cardiff City Stadium is an open training session, a Cardiff Xl game against non-league outfit Chasetown rounding off pre-season with a match against VFL Wolfsburg.

Against the Welsh Premier League team, Cardiff will probably give a number of the squad a run-out playing two sets of players in each half. While the Cardiff boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was active in the transfer market early bringing in some new faces the expected departures have yet to leave although there has been plenty of newspaper talk surrounding them.

Off the field, the chairman is still on course to alienate the majority of Cardiff fans with the red first kit and the new stand decked out with red seating. Another season of discontent on the terraces while he will be in the director’s box in red with his cronies looking out at a sea of blue the shirt sponsors can’t be happy.

Kill flies with high-powered blast of SALT

I am a bit of a fan of chicks with guns especially if wearing a bikini it so brings out the inner perv in yours truly. These guns are different from the normal bang, bang your dead, and are not a toy or paintball gun even better a fly killer.

The Bug-A-Salt is an air-powered rifle that blasts a pinch of normal table salt at such high velocity that it is lethal to all manner of creepy-crawlies, including houseflies, bluebottles, moths, and even spiders. I am not some kind of butcher of little creatures but invade my space and you are dead meat. If a lion was to wander through the backdoor and I had a gun handy I would probably kill it.

The makers claim that the only clean-up this remarkable device needs is a quick brush has the tiny grains of salt rip the target to pieces, cool or what. The plastic shotgun uses compressed air to propel a pinch of table salt at the intended target, and holds enough salt for 50 shots before reloading.

A spokesperson for the company said: "This is a completely safe way to take out an annoying bug.

"Because it uses ordinary granulated table salt, it would never break the skin on even the smallest child - although we do not recommend firing it at people.

"If you've got half-decent aim, you can take out a fly from more than three feet away. It's an extremely effective method of killing pesky mosquitoes and moths as well."

The device is now available online in the UK, priced around £35.

It is a tough read if your daughter or son is packing for a holiday Magaluf, they are probably reinsuring you not to worry they have no plan to drink take drugs and have sex but will they succumb to the seedier world of Brits on holiday.

 

The press and social media is awash with the talk of the British holidaymaker who performed a sex act on 24 men for a reported ‘free holiday’ but ended up with a £4 drink after it was revealed ‘free holiday’ was the name of a cocktail. Still a free holiday for doing that is still all wrong. If you feel the need to view her antics its out there forever on the internet she must have been hoping her family were computer illiterate. However her little holiday secret is now known with her father unwilling to give a comment and her employer saying her job is safe.

 

While the story is mainly surround, the girl involved but just as shameful is the man who took part as well.

 

The ‘rite of passage’ into adulthood has much changed from the day when dad would take you down the pub for your first official pint. Now teenagers as young has 16 dump their parents and seek out a drink-fuelled holiday home or abroad.

 

Locals are outraged about their town being invaded in the summer by thousands of British teenagers who will stumble drunkenly up and down the noisy ‘Magaluf’ strip. They fill the seedy neon-lit bars, lap-dancing joints, and cheap take-away outlets each trying to outdo each other or joining organised party outfits like the haply name Carnage Magaluf . The Majorca’s government reacted with horror to the film, blaming the boozy, lewd behaviour of British tourists, both male and female, on their bad upbringing.

 

However, they must take their share of the blame going around for allowing this riotous behaviour with their lax licensing laws allowing clubs and pubs to stay open to 6am in the morning. They may be sick and tired of the young Brits but they are keen to part them from their money with a cheap location in the sun will always attract. It would be easy to kill this resort image as a party paradise close it and start again. Just shut all the bars, clubs and the trouble will move on like a plague of locusts on to other hapless town in the sun. The resort could be turn around to a family destination or a place to chill without the partying.

Nothing but sport today

If you don't like sport today is not the day for you as terrestrial takes the lead over the pay-of-view channels

BBC 2 - 9am F1
ITV - 10:30am Tour de France
BBC 2 - 11:50am F1
BBC 1 - 1:15pm Wimbledon
ITV - 4pm World Cup
BBC 2 - 5:50pm Wimbledon
BBC 1 - 8:30pm World Cup

All the above are live and there is still plenty more sport on Sky and BT making this the ultimate sports Saturday for any armchair fan and it's more of the same tomorrow.

Doing a line of ....

Fancy a vodka

You come across some crazy news stories when you frequent the internet as much as I do which I am quite happy to blog. The latest gave me a bit of a chuckle and I can’t see me doing a line.

No, I am not talking about doing a line of coke or even drinking a tin, as I dislike both but a line of vodka or rum, which I may give a go if, I get a chance. Palcohol, a US-based company are hoping to launch their new powdered alcohol range later this year, featuring both vodka and rum varieties.

Some idiots think it is hilarious to pour vodka in their eye in the belief it gets in to their bloodstream quicker, a myth. Now you could soon be doing a line of vodka and snorting it, who could tell if you were doing a line of coke or not. If they were to colour it I am sure the local drug dealer will mix in some food colouring to match it.

While their website suggests that users dilute the powders in water and flavoured mixers, comments already on the internet suggest that 95 per cent of users will insist on trying to snort it, or rub it in their gums. It is obvious that the product will be snorted and students will be setting records for the longest line consumed.

The company states it will be available worldwide so it’s pretty likely to see it on this side of the Atlantic.

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Nigth [Movie HD] 1964!

Something I have not done before. I am offering up a complete film and one of my favourites to boot ‘A Hard Day's Night’ a Beatles film via YouTube.

I was only four years old when the film was released and it was not until my mid-teens I remember seeing the film. There is a smashing, gear soundtrack within the film, which you would expect the acting was a bit tongue in cheek but that’s why I like the film. The Beatles travel by train from Liverpool to London to perform on television with Paul grandfather (the other one) who he is looking after. Lots of Keystone cops chase from the fans plus the police.

'Drink your sprouts!'

Don't look to go

Some swear by Marks and Spencer’s food hall, but I find it a tad expensive for my pocket. That don’t stop the wife and I having a wander around and buying the odd item to get a shopping bag. You then can fill the bag up with cheap shopping so people will think rich bastard he can afford to shop in M&S.

They (M&S) love a novelty product and recently gave the world the fish and chip pie, which I saw but left on the shelf. They now have plans for this Christmas for a Brussel Sprout smoothie. Yes, the much-maligned sprout is getting a national makeover in a major store.

I like sprouts, not every week but from time to time but I don’t fancy drinking them and I will be passing this offer by I can guarantee. To make it more palatable they have mixed it with apple and pear and I can’t see that making much of a difference. The only way I will get to taste this product if there is a free tasting and then I will have to think about it because my money will be staying in my pocket.

This delicacy will not be available until Christmas and will be part of M&S special Christmas food range that includes Christmas dinner in a pie, Christmas cake liquor and an edible cheeseboard made of crackers all of which will be tried and tested my others not me.

Pie is back on the menu one teatime only

I have bored the pants off just about everyone under the sun on my pie ban on Clarks Pies, my sacrifice has been great, but we have a pie on the menu today.

While the wife was wandering home, she called in Rees the Butchers for a few of their very popular steak pies. It has been awhile since I had a pie and it should be nice with some oven chips, peas, green beans, carrots, and a touch of gravy.

Only one of these pies have my name on the others already earmarked for other family members. Some, are deluded enough to believe these pies or better then a Clarkies, but not me.

It’s an old saying “Dad is always right”

After a disastrous few days, betting wise I decided to ask the book of knowledge when it comes to football my 84-year-old dad for yesterday’s World Cup bet.

 

I did not give him much time to settle down before I was telling him my awful run of bad luck with my latest round of bets, which he found quite amusing. Therefore, I decided to put his vast knowledge on all things football to the test asking him straight out who would win Argentina or Switzerland.

 

He was quite defensive saying it would be a draw after 90minutes but Argentina would win in extra-time, as Switzerland couldn’t score. I push the point further telling him to pick a winner within the 90minutes as I believed there were goals in the game, he said, “Argentina’ but I still think it will be a draw”.

 

Ok dad next up Belgium or USA to win in 90minutes again, he was mumbling away well I think it will be a draw. I put my foot down and demanded a decision who would win putting him right on the spot, “Belgium” he replied. He didn’t look overly confident with is prediction. Did I push him to hard, maybe I did just too hard.

 

I put my bet on Argentina and Belgium to win which would give me a measly £5 win on a £2 bet but a win is a win with my luck lately. Dad was adamant on two draws and I did ask him for his advice so I should surely listen to it. Well to be on the safe side I throw another two quid on both games to be level after 90minites it was the right thing to do.

 

Cha-Ching we have a winning bet and not the one I was expecting the draw bet came through dad was right and maybe he should make all my bets from now on. Oh yes I won £27.53 better than a fiver.

New wedding craze

What happened to just a garter belt

These crazes seem to sprout up regularly and one thing is for sure good old Uncle Sam seems to generate more than most.

The newest is a rather cheeky wedding photo trend of brides and bridesmaids flashing their bums at the camera. There was a time a shy shot of leg with a garter belt would suffice but hey, times have changed. The real story is likely to come years down the line when your kids get hold of them. How pleased will they be or will they care.

The pictures have been doing the rounds of the world of social media but it maybe new for official wedding photos but flashing a bum is nothing new and regarded old school.

It expected to cross the pond to the UK soon according reports.

I don’t think the wife would have been up for it and seeing has our bridesmaids were all family and underage it would be a definitely a no, no. Although the driver got an eye full of the wife’s underwear when her dress rode up getting into the car. Just think of today with all the cameras people have and social media she would have died.

Coin pusher thingamajig

Timber

I stumbled upon a naff game show earlier called the ‘Tipping Point’ based on my all-time favourite seaside arcade game. I cannot remember the game’s name but I always called it the coin pusher.

 

The coin pusher or penny fall were heavily advertised with a theme like pirates, cowboys, and Indians or some underwater adventure with lots of flashing lights. The lights may have the hook for some but it was the thought of easy money that drew me. Seeing all the coins teetering over the edge were enough to send me into a frenzy. The money was never easy, as you would soon find out.

 

First the coin just wouldn’t drop straight the pins in the backboard would send them all over the place. Most of the machines had either two or three coin pushing platforms with the coins building tantalizingly along the edge leaving you hoping it was your coin that dislodge them giving you that winning rush. More often than not, nothing happened. However, I would stand there feeding it to my last penny.

 

I soon worked out if you wanted fun at the seaside keep out of the amusement arcade or you will be wandering watching others have all the fun.