I'm going to have a rant here.
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Mimmy
- Heavyweight

I'm going to have a rant here.
I don't give a chit no more. fcuking ban me if you want. Right here is my rant. infact my rant has taken me a considerable length of time to type as i'm pissed on rum and depression tablets, but that is not an excuse for my topic that I have posted here on Boxrec. My son's birthday is at the end of November and as a gift I thought (foolishly) I would get a couple of tickets for the Fury v Chisora fight.
Now! if I was the promoter who was wanting to fill the Excel Arena that night, The 29th November or a ticket issuing comapny I would at least make things as easy as possible to purchase tickets with a seating plan in place. I do not posses an iq of 145 or have a view of a seating plan in my mind when the seats that are offered to me to make a judgement that I want to sit there. Granted I do not want to spend over 50 quid per seat, however I would like to think I could at least view a seating plan of the arena.
My issues is that I am sure there are boxers on the bill that would like the arena full as I suspect that there maybe, quote maybe clauses in there contracts that say they are paid on the quantity of tickets sold. So in my opinion I would make sales easy as possible with a detailed seating plan for punters to see.
It is also frustrating to go to the promoters web page to find that the site is down. So it is impossible to even try to buy tickets from their site.
Basically I was given seats Block 4 Row H seats 9 and 10. Where the hell are they placed. Are the seats in Watford? I don't know because I cannot find a plan.
So should I waste 90 quid on crappy seats or spend it wisely on a 2 for 1 on P and O Ferries and go to Amsterdam, at least P and O are showing me where i'm going to sleep on a night.
bollox to it ill pop 20mg of Citalopram Hydrobromide instead.
Now! if I was the promoter who was wanting to fill the Excel Arena that night, The 29th November or a ticket issuing comapny I would at least make things as easy as possible to purchase tickets with a seating plan in place. I do not posses an iq of 145 or have a view of a seating plan in my mind when the seats that are offered to me to make a judgement that I want to sit there. Granted I do not want to spend over 50 quid per seat, however I would like to think I could at least view a seating plan of the arena.
My issues is that I am sure there are boxers on the bill that would like the arena full as I suspect that there maybe, quote maybe clauses in there contracts that say they are paid on the quantity of tickets sold. So in my opinion I would make sales easy as possible with a detailed seating plan for punters to see.
It is also frustrating to go to the promoters web page to find that the site is down. So it is impossible to even try to buy tickets from their site.
Basically I was given seats Block 4 Row H seats 9 and 10. Where the hell are they placed. Are the seats in Watford? I don't know because I cannot find a plan.
So should I waste 90 quid on crappy seats or spend it wisely on a 2 for 1 on P and O Ferries and go to Amsterdam, at least P and O are showing me where i'm going to sleep on a night.
bollox to it ill pop 20mg of Citalopram Hydrobromide instead.
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Best go to Amsterdam. The card you buy tickets for, and what enters the ring that night will be chalk and cheese. With Amsterdam you know what your getting..... hookers and drugs.
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Haha spot onchad wrote:Best go to Amsterdam. The card you buy tickets for, and what enters the ring that night will be chalk and cheese. With Amsterdam you know what your getting..... hookers and drugs.
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Where can I get my hands on those pills? Need them after reading that post!
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Mimmy
- Heavyweight

Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
basically go to see you GP tell him whats happening in your head, but be very careful you do not want sectioning.mcbrando wrote:Where can I get my hands on those pills? Need them after reading that post!
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I don't give a chit
I hope your
Joking mate!! Being a parent your child's role model is an important job!!
Pull yourself together for your kids sake you dope
Joking mate!! Being a parent your child's role model is an important job!!
Pull yourself together for your kids sake you dope
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forcefraser
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Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
Mate, those seats are the worst in the house. Sell them on ebay.mimmy123 wrote:I don't give a chit no more. fcuking ban me if you want. Right here is my rant. infact my rant has taken me a considerable length of time to type as i'm pissed on rum and depression tablets, but that is not an excuse for my topic that I have posted here on Boxrec. My son's birthday is at the end of November and as a gift I thought (foolishly) I would get a couple of tickets for the Fury v Chisora fight.
Now! if I was the promoter who was wanting to fill the Excel Arena that night, The 29th November or a ticket issuing comapny I would at least make things as easy as possible to purchase tickets with a seating plan in place. I do not posses an iq of 145 or have a view of a seating plan in my mind when the seats that are offered to me to make a judgement that I want to sit there. Granted I do not want to spend over 50 quid per seat, however I would like to think I could at least view a seating plan of the arena.
My issues is that I am sure there are boxers on the bill that would like the arena full as I suspect that there maybe, quote maybe clauses in there contracts that say they are paid on the quantity of tickets sold. So in my opinion I would make sales easy as possible with a detailed seating plan for punters to see.
It is also frustrating to go to the promoters web page to find that the site is down. So it is impossible to even try to buy tickets from their site.
Basically I was given seats Block 4 Row H seats 9 and 10. Where the hell are they placed. Are the seats in Watford? I don't know because I cannot find a plan.
So should I waste 90 quid on crappy seats or spend it wisely on a 2 for 1 on P and O Ferries and go to Amsterdam, at least P and O are showing me where i'm going to sleep on a night.
bollox to it ill pop 20mg of Citalopram Hydrobromide instead.
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Rum & depression tablets.
How bad was the hangover the next day?
How bad was the hangover the next day?
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He made it to the following day?UrbanFox wrote:Rum & depression tablets.
How bad was the hangover the next day?
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el_grande_mauro_mina
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Boxing is awful these days. Mimmy remembers the old days and how it used to be - even with just two world titles.
The facts of it are you can't take it that seriously and there comes a time you have to detatch yourself from the
nonsense of boxing politics and get on with your life. I remember as a kid naming the top ten WBA Minimumweights
and worrying about Pretty Boy Lucas getting his IBF world title shot as he was their perennial contender - now, I
just do not give a shit.
The facts of it are you can't take it that seriously and there comes a time you have to detatch yourself from the
nonsense of boxing politics and get on with your life. I remember as a kid naming the top ten WBA Minimumweights
and worrying about Pretty Boy Lucas getting his IBF world title shot as he was their perennial contender - now, I
just do not give a shit.
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it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.
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el_grande_mauro_mina
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palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.
So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
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Datsue
- Heavyweight

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palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.
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Boxerbeetle
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Page 380 on BBC wasn't it?Fat Git wrote:palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.![]()
So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
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el_grande_mauro_mina
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Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
Boxerbeetle wrote:Page 380 on BBC wasn't it?Fat Git wrote:palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.![]()
So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
It was! You have just made the part of my brain that stores all the useless numbers and bits of information from the past jolt!
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freddydoesdallas
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That was the 'Other Sport' section. I think boxing was normally 381 or 382.Boxerbeetle wrote:Page 380 on BBC wasn't it?Fat Git wrote:palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.![]()
So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
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382 rings a bell
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Bard of Boxrec
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Haha i used to check ceefax as recently as 2004... didn't have a laptop until 2007Boxerbeetle wrote:Page 380 on BBC wasn't it?Fat Git wrote:palooka wrote:it is awful; I can remember going to teletext and obsessively looking in the other sports section for random results from around the world and taping Trans World Sport to see Khaosi Galaxy - like Carlos, I just don't have the same interest anymore; we are milked like cows.![]()
So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
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el_grande_mauro_mina
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Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
380 for the headlines and 381 and 382 for in-depth reports if I remember rightly.
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Boxerbeetle
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Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
Yeah 381 or 382 was normally boxing, but often if there was no boxing news it would have something random like figure skating or alpine skiing, so I'd always check 380 before committingfreddydoesdallas wrote:That was the 'Other Sport' section. I think boxing was normally 381 or 382.Boxerbeetle wrote:Page 380 on BBC wasn't it?Fat Git wrote:
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So did I, teletext had all the results of the big fights in those days - looks like we were living paralell lives in the 1980's.
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Counter-puncher
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Boxerbeetle wrote:
Yeah 381 or 382 was normally boxing, but often if there was no boxing news it would have something random like figure skating or alpine skiing, so I'd always check 380 before committing
ah, ceefax. happy days.
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jameswilson
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I loved ceefax and teletext. Apart from when an article had about 8 pages and I didn't manage to read the page in time so would have to wait for all those pages go by before I could read the page again. Did anyone else use to enter the number in again so you could see the numbers running by at the top of the page to tell you when the next page would flip over?
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Datsue
- Heavyweight

Re: I'm going to have a rant here.
jameswilson wrote: Did anyone else use to enter the number in again so you could see the numbers running by at the top of the page to tell you when the next page would flip over?
I genuinely thought that was just me!
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Counter-puncher
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ha, yup. the good old skinternet.jameswilson wrote: Did anyone else use to enter the number in again so you could see the numbers running by at the top of the page to tell you when the next page would flip over?