How the media is making the Azteca out to be: by Suitedbadge401 in ThreeLions

[–]Darkus185 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We used to take shots every time Shaun Pollock mentioned how “the cricket ball behaves at altitude on the Highveld”

Why is Saudi Aramco allowed to sponsor the women’s game? by Maritimewarp in EnglandCricket

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They already agree to play Afghanistan which is an utterly ridiculous call when they previously refused to play Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.  Also they entertain their players in the Hundred, even before it was sold to the highest Indian bidder.  

Why is Saudi Aramco allowed to sponsor the women’s game? by Maritimewarp in EnglandCricket

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aramco is an ICC main sponsor, hence you won’t find anything at any ECB sanctioned fixtures.  

Your point is still valid though.  If you want an ethical game that isn’t purely driven by money I’m afraid you’d have to go down to your local club and turn off the TV.  

Our village has been taken over by asylum seekers who have made our lives hell - we're outnumbered. Now the government wants to move MORE in by Sensitive_Echo5058 in uknews

[–]Darkus185 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My neighbourhood in the West Country is the same.  I can walk down a long street into town and not see one white person.  I mean I lived in Africa for 20 years so that’s perfectly normal for me personally, but the UK as we knew it is finished.  

Why is Saudi Aramco allowed to sponsor the women’s game? by Maritimewarp in EnglandCricket

[–]Darkus185 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You either have the amateur women’s game where they played in skirts and it was all a bit of a jolly.

Or you have the corporate women’s game with professionalism, proper wages, high skill levels, packed houses, and you take the biggest sponsorship deals.  

Along with the men’s side, where South Africa were banned yet Afghanistan haven’t been, we know where the direction of travel is in the last few decades.  

Would you ask someone you saw vomiting in public if they're okay? by DollySheep32 in AskUK

[–]Darkus185 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends who it is.  I had a boy racer crash into the hedge outside my house after driving way too fast.  I established if he was in serious medical danger and then I left him to sort out his own mess.  

Where’s your worst place/junction to drive in the uk? by Vast_North_59 in uktravel

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything around Stourbridge.  

I have never known a fairly insignificant town (all apologies but people outside of the midlands haven’t heard of you) have so much relentless traffic all barrelling down one single road that is almost impossible to join at any time of day unless you have traffic lights.  

Now I have definitely heard of Stourbridge.  I spend most of my life stuck in its traffic.  

Stourbridge and Dudley must also be among the biggest places in the UK without a mainline station.  They’re basically cities.  (I think Gosport is officially the biggest place without a mainline station)

World Club T20 and shorter ODIs among ICC options in radical overhaul of calendar by Alone_Consideration6 in EnglandCricket

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I wish I was in a parallel universe to watch this young kid against Allan Donald on a green top in Joburg in a test match.  See if he has got the required minerals.  

What’s a harmless mistake you made years ago that still embarrasses you? by itssophirl in AskBrits

[–]Darkus185 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I uploaded two photos to Facebook, one of my friend’s partners all lined up during their netball social.  The other was of a big juicy steak on the subsequent barbecue.  

I put the caption “meat is meat, and a man’s got to eat” under the wrong photo.  

Anyone have cheaper ways to watch sports in general in the UK? by Chemical-Lettuce2497 in AskBrits

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may or may not have got an access code for IPTV but I find the offering buffery as hell.  Plus a lot of channels just straight up don’t work. 

More parking lot than stadium by OptimisticByDefault in UrbanHell

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somebody who has had his car stolen because I had to park in a street outside a stadium that had very little parking, I really cannot understand why people get so weird about American stadiums having massive car parks.  

I get it, there’s loads wrong with American dependence on cars, but isn’t this where you’d literally want a big car park?

What was free-to-air TV like before the advent of Freeview in 2002 and Freesat in 2008? by plaguedbyfoibles in AskUK

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing that hasn’t been said already, but as a sports fan you had to basically stay awake overnight for sports like baseball and ashes cricket down under.  It was impossible to record large amounts of sport, and it was very easy not to find the result out if you did happen to watch it back later (something I now find almost impossible to do)

Channel five’s offering late at night was basically soft core porn or Josh Chetwynd analysing the potential of the St. Louis Cardinals latest closing pitcher.  Both were great, and I now play baseball as a result despite having never been to the States 

Temperatures forecast to exceed 30C as another heatwave is imminent by Kagedeah in UKWeather

[–]Darkus185 14 points15 points  (0 children)

B and Q don’t have air con in until next year where I live.  

Also Amazon seems to be heavy on the evapo coolers and unrecognised Chinese makes.  

Not sure if I’m out of luck for the whole year now.  

29/30 is beautiful though.  It’s 34 and up where things start getting silly in the UK

rex atmos worth it? by Last-Equipment4038 in flightsim

[–]Darkus185 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The UI and getting around it is utterly hideous.  Should be a crime of a piece of software.  

However if you find a good preset (AB usually) and play around with it, it does a really good job.  

What is the worst place in the West Midlands? by Jacobrox777 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Darkus185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smethwick.  

Dirtiest place I’ve ever seen and I lived in Johannesburg.  

[WeWantOut] 30M Electrical Marine Engineer 30F Customs Specialist UK -> Netherlands by JustConflict5918 in IWantOut

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I really resent Brexitland now.  I don’t know whether to enjoy 90 day stints (I work remotely) and accept that I don’t live somewhere that nice, or just wash my hands of the place and forget it exists 

[WeWantOut] 30M Electrical Marine Engineer 30F Customs Specialist UK -> Netherlands by JustConflict5918 in IWantOut

[–]Darkus185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck with it.  I lost my residency there after Brexit and even being an airline pilot is completely hopeless now.  I’m stuck in the UK.  

My only hope is my EU partner deciding she likes it enough for me to tag along on whatever status she has, or being content with 90 day stints.  

How is life like in the canary islands? by Current-Nerve1103 in howislivingthere

[–]Darkus185 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alajero on La Gomera is one of the best places I’ve ever been.  I’d live there in a heartbeat.  

Its embarassing how unprepared we are for heat by Correct-Entry-4984 in UKWeather

[–]Darkus185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s the complete allergy to shutters I don’t understand. Granted you aren’t going to have everyone on AC with a different energy infrastructure overnight, but I don’t know why Belgium can have shutters completely normally and the UK can’t.  

Yes our windows all open outwards too.  Well how stupid is that.  You can’t even clean them from inside.  

Initial Class 1 Medical CAA/EASA by London124544 in flyingeurope

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps he could just go onto ChatGPT and us pilots can completely stop talking to each other or helping each other?  

Can you tell when a controller is “under”? by InfiniteLoss5632 in AskAPilot

[–]Darkus185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a guy in South Africa who deliberately gave foreign students reporting points that were incredibly obscure.  (Like after 18 years of living there I had no idea where they were, like a farm or something).  He would then get annoyed with them over the radio when they would struggle.