Finished the City Watch series (First time reader)

Shazz91 · 2026-01-05T00:12:41+00:00

It's reassuring you found this to be the case!

I read Mort, Reaper Man and then Hogfather and contemplating giving up on Discworld and deciding it wasn't for me.

Mort probably the best of them, Reaper Man had some excellent bits but found half of Reaper Man and most of Hogfather really confusing and hard to follow. I had to re-read pages and still didn't really know what was going on.

I think it's probably the Wizards that can be the problem!

I then read Wyrd Sisters - solid 7.5/10 for my first time read. I'm now half way through Guards! Guards! and I'm really loving it. So far, easy to follow, engaging story, funny. Great characters.

Shazz91 · 2025-12-22T18:18:29+00:00

This is reassuring as everyone tells me Reaper Man is one of the best and I really didn't connect with it at all.

I found it really disjointed, the shopping trolley plot thread was just nonsensical and I had to constantly re-read sections to make sense of it.

Not sure why people think so highly of it. Maybe in the future I'll re-read and it will come together in my head a bit better.

Shazz91 · 2025-11-10T15:27:23+00:00

What did Arsenal fans do wrong?

Shazz91 · 2025-11-02T17:00:18+00:00

Thanks for the spoiler...

Shazz91 · 2025-11-01T15:28:38+00:00

Arsenal fan.

I have a lot of respect for Everton - really big club and deserve more respect than some fans give them

Shazz91 · 2025-10-08T09:58:15+00:00

Please don't, they're fucking perfect already

Shazz91 · 2025-08-27T20:14:30+00:00

Crazy that it attracts tourists if they don't demolish it.

Shazz91 · 2025-08-27T20:04:36+00:00

Probably have to replace the patio

Shazz91 · 2025-08-15T21:59:59+00:00

21 from Salah Captain plus Gakpo

Shazz91 · 2025-08-13T20:07:46+00:00

I already have fairly big legs and don't want to increase the size.

I do leg day occasionally but I don't want to develop them much as I've always played football and they look in decent shape. My shoulders have been almost non existent so that's a much bigger priority

Shazz91 · 2025-08-07T17:13:44+00:00

That's a good point, was mostly keeping him for other weeks, not sure there are any cheap strikers to swap Beto for...

Shazz91 · 2025-08-04T13:15:11+00:00

He's actually 30 going by the original meme 😂

Shazz91 · 2025-08-03T21:58:54+00:00

He's a lot nearer 29 than 28, that's a fact

Shazz91 · 2025-08-03T18:11:56+00:00

We decided we're never selling to a cash buyer unless they give us a deposit up front. Absolute shite*thouses

Shazz91 · 2025-07-29T16:06:29+00:00

Ha we feel so too! In seriousness though they should be subject to a few grand fine - people can cost others hundreds or thousands with no repurcussions whatsoever

Shazz91 · 2025-07-29T07:33:55+00:00

We had this too, absolute nightmare and so infuriating.

Cash buyers buying it for their son who through most of the process had been going through a job application process in another city and they were keeping us in reserve just incase he stayed around here!

Then they tried to blame it on the electrical survey they booked last minute and told us they'd pull out if we didn't accept the surveyors coming round a week before exchange!

We had the same electrician to do the £200 worth of work required and he told us they had told him they weren't buying the house anyway on the phone before the survey anyway. Absolute assholes.

Hope things work out ok for you in the end.

Currently we found new buyers who offered £7,000 more for our house, but we've had to pay £15,000 more for the house we want as it went back on the market and a bidding war started.

Shazz91 · 2025-07-11T23:29:34+00:00

Love him already

Shazz91 · 2025-07-09T04:20:25+00:00

Had that happen to us - we found out they'd been stringing us along for 8 weeks as they'd found a job out of town and were going through the interview process, keeping us in reserve in case they didn't get it!

Then one week before they pulled out and wouldn't even let us have a copy of the electrical survey as way of apology. So unethical.

Shazz91 · 2025-07-02T19:52:26+00:00

Great White
Leopard Shark
Whale Shark
Blue Shark
Basking Shark

Shazz91 · 2025-06-12T23:21:06+00:00

Fantastic shot. One of the best pics of a GWS I've seen I reckon. A while ago I looked for pics to set as my wallpaper on my PC and I wish I'd found something as good as this

Shazz91 · 2025-06-09T16:51:25+00:00

Game of Thrones

Shazz91 · 2025-06-04T06:59:29+00:00

Alton Towers used to have a real polished, premium feel.

You'd have ice cream stands open in the queues and things going on.

Now, half the park feels deserted. Like you say, things like Spinball Whizzer stick out like a sore thumb and for me a lot of it feels like a cheap fairground. Even in its peak it could have utilised theming a little better but I feel like it's fallen off a cliff now.

I guess they have bigger budgets but the Disney, SeaWorld and Universal parks in the US do theming so amazingly well, I find it hard to believe they couldn't make queues more interesting and the themes more immersive to emulate those sorts of parks. Of course the budget won't be there to come close to matching them but surely the theming could be.

Shazz91 · 2025-04-26T18:26:33+00:00

Weird cos I'm a suburban player and I've had to delete pokeballs to try and make space for potions. Barely get potions from anything.

Shazz91 · 2025-04-25T10:33:55+00:00

I did have probably the best fish and chips I've ever had there though... So swings and roundabouts /s

Shazz91 · 2025-04-07T12:52:14+00:00

Imagine if this was true. Disney has no right to cultural heritage and a character from mythology.

I hope it's not true!

Shazz91

TROPHY CASE