Recent content by father_and_son

I'll happily pay for good food at quite a severe mark up in a restaurant because I'm paying someone skilled to craft something special just for me. Absolutely understand that this mark up is to cover not just the skilled chef, but the rest of the staff, the rent, the rates, etc. This I have...

My challenge would be that soft drinks in restaurants are a complete rip off - the mark up is crazy. Whilst I'm lucky enough to be in a position not to worry too much, when I'm buying a diet coke in a restaurant at £3 for a tiny 250ml bottle and comparing that to my 2L bottle for less than £2...

Deeply offended that I appear in the table as Fahter and Son. He's the one with wind!!

The irony for me is that you can't actually see anything up there. 180 of the 360 degrees is just sea. Looking the other way, it's actually quite hard to see the Pavilion, the Marina is now just floating tower blocks so not at all interesting from that angle and... er... nope, nothing to...

Veltman HAS to be in there because he will have started it.

One of those politicians who you admire even if its mixed with love or hate. Wasn't one to change a position just to be popular. Glad for everything he did for us. RIP

I manage a team, am remote myself and all my team are too. Personally I get maybe 2-3 times as much done wfh than I'd get done commuting to London and appreciate that this is noticed, acknowledged and I get the latitude from my bosses as a result. If I need to slack off a bit to recover from...

Set up my account back in the day when NSC was the best place to get hold of tickets as a non-STH. The name was best to give clues about how many and what type of tickets we needed. _and_son doesn't know my user name and isn't connected to the account in any way and has his own account her but...

You should DEFINITELY not be tackle-out on the children's activities at the park. The mothers get a little angry.

Isn't the accepted rule of thumb is that it takes 10,000hrs practice to become an expert at something? By that standard, only the exceptionally dedicated players get to be really good... Beckham staying back after practice and kicked ball after ball after ball seems to be the required...

I know there are other mental health threads but this video hit quite hard. Look after each other everyone.

Certainly feel like I did Rome wrong. Left Portslade at 7.17 on Thursday morning Gatwick to Milan. Airport to city was slower than I expected and so only made my train to Rome with about 3 mins to spare. Arrived in Rome at 5.25pm (local time - reminding you this was thursday). The hotel...

Hey, stay safe everyone. Racing down from Milan to join you.

Just round the corner from where I'm staying. See you all there after the game.

I'm in this position at the moment. Flight to Milan, Train to Rome, Hotel - all sorted. No ticket. Am hoping that a returned ticket pops up soon so I can complete the set, otherwise need to make the judgement call about writing off the cost, avoiding the hassle/stress (have no contingency...