What's annoying me today

For the last 3 months, if I went to the gym in my building at 7am there might have been 2 other people there. Since Jan 1 I'm lucky to find a bench or machine I want to use that's open.

The sooner these people accept that New Year resolutions are shit and that they're destined to be flabby fucks forever, and fuck off and give me my gym back, the better.

In the interest of balance, were they moaning when everyone was using 'their' pubs and bars to get shit faced every day in December?

If they were, all the more reason they should understand the importance of staying in their lane.

My gut feeling (no pun intended) is without those guys you and McBain would have a lot poorer gym as the NY Resolution fatties are probably bankrolling the enterprise.

Yes of course, but I need them to stay at home consoling themselves with the knowledge that they are going to go the gym tomorrow. Or at the very least go at 7pm when I don't want to.

Ohhh, a 'G-yyym'.

Astro farm, astro farm.

Myself. Went to London just after New Year with Mrs and Little Miss BW for a couple of days of sightseeing and mooching about.

Had booked parking near Watford tube station for both days, plus a night at the Premier Inn like we've done many times before. When we went down for breakfast on day two, I checked the TfL app and could see that the Metropolitan Line was fully suspended because of a signal failure at Harrow. When we came to check out an hour later it was still the case, so I suggested we move the car to Stanmore (where I'd never been before but knew they have a large car park) and take the Jubilee to Baker Street.

What I hadn't realised was that journey would take me just inside the ULEZ zone and we happened to be in my car (an old diesel) rather than Mrs BW's (electric). I saw a sign on the way in but couldn't seem to establish online on the tube how one went about paying the charge. Having taken a look just now, I can see a clear page with instructions on the TfL website which for some bizarre reason I managed not to find on the day.

Being a twat, I thought that I'd likely only triggered one camera just off the M1 into Stanmore (rather than carrying on into central London) before turning into the car park and naively presumed that if that was an issue, I'd be invoiced by TfL for the daily charge of 12 quid or whatever it is.

Got my invoice this morning - a £90 PCN. I say again, twat.

Just been to the dental hygienist and paid over £70 for 20 minutes of pain and discomfort. When I asked, jokingly, if my teeth were going to fall out soon, she just shrugged and said "Not just yet, no".

The utter arseache that is the Forest away ticketing system. Since they introduced the tier 2 away memberships, the chances of getting a ticket have drastically reduced.

Once the tier 1 and 2s have had their pick along with complementaries, there are probably few left over, especially for the smaller grounds. The remainder get chucked into a ballot. I've been successful 3 times in the ballot, and the other tickets I've got by constantly refreshing the ticket page in the vain hope of picking up an odd one.

Now, in their wisdom, they've added a seatmap to the page. Given that you can refresh a hundred times with no tickets being available this is as useful as the chocolate teapot. When you refresh a few times, you get an error saying "unable to load seat map, try clearing cache or using a private browser" even though there are no tickets available. When trying to get tickets in this way, occasionally one will pop up and you have to get in quick before someone else takes it. Roughly 10% or less of these tickets can be successfully purchased.

Switching to a private browser, you still get the seatmap error, although you can refresh and it goes away most of the time, but still no tickets.

I'm wondering how they calculated the tier 2 away memberships, given that it was hugely difficult to obtain tickets even before this new clusterfuck of a system. How can the new members have obtained enough away tickets to meet the requirements for the new tier without some form of cheating, given it was supposed to be a queuing system.

Anyway, even for members outside of tier 1 and 2 away tickets are as rare as rocking horse poo.

It's certainly become much more of a closed shop this season. They introduced the 100 ticket ballot for season ticket holders to supposedly allow other fans to have a chance of going to an away match. The two tiered system has really narrowed down the fans who are able to attend.

We too have been successful in the ballot three times and two of those were Southampton and Brighton away when demand was lower for holidays/shit show to get there.

You'd expect it to be a roughly normal distribution if truly random, with some folks getting none, some almost all and most getting about 8 or 9 (when you factor in number of members and tickets).

I have loads of actuaries working for me, was thinking might get one of them to work out the probability of only being successful three times.

Wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't random. Not maliciously so but just by ignorance. It's hard to select truly randomly.