Universal Chat Thread

[Mr EliteL]

Good luck, PM. Yeah, knowing stuff tends to get others around you to rely on your expertise. Not too bad of a thing, but like you mentioned, would've been good if it was a job that would pay.  

Went volunteering today and got to do water vole surveying. Haven't done that since 2015, and always wanted to do that again. Even if today's had it's  quite extreme down sides. Reeds making it hard to find latrines and feeding stations, stinging nettles and insect bites. Poor guy I was with got swarmed by giant ants, so I helped bat them off. I had a few too going at me. Both of our arms got stung and bitten like hell. Took an allergy pill soon after, then later on put some cream on. Red arms for a while, but recovering well now. Was a good session, and glad it was only an hour or so of work. We finished quicker than we thought too. The Wednesday count (I wasn't a part of it) was an estimate of 80 after the formula, and we had plenty of recorded evidence today too. So we should in theory have plenty of voles about in our nature. Still would do this again, need to take gloves next time though. My hands were fine, but would've avoided a bit more nettles that way.

Watched England vs Panama today. No clue what Panama were up to, playing so poorly in the first half. We got 5 goals off them, two were penalties as they were more interested in shoving our players over than focusing on the ball. As much as that's "allowed" on the playground and funny to watch, here there's consequences so they got paid in full. Second half they played better, even scored a goal with the final score being 6-1. If they played like that in the second half when they wanted that goal all game, probably would've been 3-2. Well done to Kane for his hat-trick. I bet after the goal from Panama, both teams were half-arsing it. I expect England was after Kane's third goal (which was before the Panama goal). I felt no excitement from watching though. Not even the first goal got me interested. Although was finding Panama's first half funny.