Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 26th January 2022, 8:56 AM

Godot, my man - you're back. I've missed your velvet tongue.

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I tried to PM you but it's not working yet. How's the eye?

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 26th January 2022, 10:10 PM

I tried to PM you but it's not working yet. How's the eye?

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Yes, I wanted to do the same, but Aaron said it was on the list and will be done soon...............

Well the left one I had the op on is holding steady on the pressure, so that shouldn't get any worse (not that it's much use now as the damage is done), and the right, decent one is holding good too with drops and the specialist said I should pass "no problem" the DVLA 3 yearly driving eye test, which is now due and is always a worry each time it comes around. Got the forms just this week, and it looks like they've changed the system and MAY be reliant on a report from the eye specialist, rather than the rigmarole of an independent eye test - let's hope that's the case.
A dear friend of mine I used to work with rapidly developed a form of macular degeneration and lost her driving licence - I really don't know what I would do if that happened to me, especially as my wife has been unable to drive since her stroke 10 years ago.

Otherwise, everything in the garden is looking f**king rosy. ?

Everything OK with you?

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 26th January 2022, 11:40 PM

Yes, I wanted to do the same, but Aaron said it was on the list and will be done soon...............

Well the left one I had the op on is holding steady on the pressure, so that shouldn't get any worse (not that it's much use now as the damage is done), and the right, decent one is holding good too with drops and the specialist said I should pass "no problem" the DVLA 3 yearly driving eye test, which is now due and is always a worry each time it comes around. Got the forms just this week, and it looks like they've changed the system and MAY be reliant on a report from the eye specialist, rather than the rigmarole of an independent eye test - let's hope that's the case.
A dear friend of mine I used to work with rapidly developed a form of macular degeneration and lost her driving licence - I really don't know what I would do if that happened to me, especially as my wife has been unable to drive since her stroke 10 years ago.

Otherwise, everything in the garden is looking f**king rosy. ?

Everything OK with you?

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You could always get a taxi ? I guess in the future self-driving cars will eliminate driving eye-test worries.

Senses are so important and taken for granted until something changes with them. It's not an exaggeration to say that my ear problems have ruined my life, but I'm also acutely aware that I am still alive - which seems to become increasingly more improbable and miraculous as the years drag on.

So I'll say I'm fine, with the proviso that I'm 'rounding up' to fine, like we do with numbers. Good Captain choice this week by the way. Shame it didn't pay off...

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 27th January 2022, 12:01 AM

You could always get a taxi ? I guess in the future self-driving cars will eliminate driving eye-test worries.
I can't see that happening in what little lifetime I have left - I love these cherry chats with you, by the way ?

Senses are so important and taken for granted until something changes with them. It's not an exaggeration to say that my ear problems have ruined my life, but I'm also acutely aware that I am still alive - which seems to become increasingly more improbable and miraculous as the years drag on.
As you know I have a bit of tinnitus, but nothing as bad as you have, so I really feel for you. Bastard problems we all have in one way or another - for eg, I have absolutely no sense of smell, which has been destroyed by the glaucoma drops. No great deal you may think, and yup, it appears that way; BUT what I wouldn't be able to smell is a gas leak - now that IS a f**king worry.

So I'll say I'm fine, with the proviso that I'm 'rounding up' to fine, like we do with numbers. Good Captain choice this week by the way. Shame it didn't pay off...

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Thank you. I'm gradually getting the hang of this prediction game, as I started off this season total shit - just a pity the season has now turned into total shit too. Bad enough predicting under normal circumstances.

I thought footballers with double barrelled names were a recent business what with the numbers of divorces and ethnicity going posh and all that trivia but it appears that a William Barnie-Adshead was playing for Aston Villa exactly a hundred years ago. His middle name was Ewart so he was named in that sense after William Ewart Gladstone and was better known for being a reasonably decent cricketer for Worcestersauceshire. Later he was a very good golfer and he had earlier played tennis for his university, being a natural at all ball games. The son of a twice elected Dudley mayor, he was a doctor who, given there was no pornography in those days, liked to specialise in gynaecological studies in top vagina organisations. Sadly he died of over-achievement at the tender age of 49. All of which is even further evidence that Frank Lampard is a ludicrously overrated and untalented clown.

I can see the tumbleweed rolling through this thread...............

I'm getting sentimental in my young age. Eriksen? Worth a punt? What a story...

Just a quick note - my account has been hacked and my team has had 16 transfers made for next week.

I'll let everyone know more when I know more but in the meantime everyone please change your passwords and make them very secure. GT

I had seen your name had changed, I thought you were having a joke.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 2nd February 2022, 8:15 PM

I had seen your name had changed, I thought you were having a joke.

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Even my jokes are not that unfunny. 'Change name' is an automated substitution that FPL makes when you use swear words or libel so he must have changed my team name to something offensive. He changed Godot Taxis to 'Ben Crellin' who is a real person apparently, involved in fantasy football.

This is what he did to my team for next week.

Managed to change all fifteen players without costing me any points. Only snag is changing them back will cost 60pts. Also activated Bench Boost which I've managed to deselect.

He also put me in a Spurs fan league and changed my flag to Hungary, the scamp*

*c**t.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 2nd February 2022, 3:44 PM

Just a quick note - my account has been hacked and my team has had 16 transfers made for next week.

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Bloody hell!

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 2nd February 2022, 10:26 PM

Even my jokes are not that unfunny. 'Change name' is an automated substitution that FPL makes when you use swear words or libel so he must have changed my team name to something offensive. He changed Godot Taxis to 'Ben Crellin' who is a real person apparently, involved in fantasy football.

This is what he did to my team for next week.

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Surely the powers that be can resolve it for you? And put everything back to how it was.

How inconsiderate... they could have done it last week at least.

I'm probably being naïve, not knowing the finer points of IT, but surely, they would have had to know the BCG FPL password, which we only knew through PMs - does that mean there's a mole. ?
OR, is the whole site hacked, and if so, shouldn't the owners be doing something about it.

Godot, change your password from 'password or we'll have 30 interlopers again.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ 2nd February 2022, 10:26 PM

Managed to change all fifteen players without costing me any points. Only snag is changing them back will cost 60pts. Also activated Bench Boost which I've managed to deselect.

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How did they manage to make 15 transfers without it costing any points?