I've just joined it, the stay could be short it makes the Pools page look like Mensa.

Some almost parody illerate wannabe child hooligan from Barrow giving it large on there at the minute, and some 'hilarious' contributions from our own Tim Dawson.

Fook me it's like rubber necking a car crash reading it for five minutes. The reality of relegation has now hit home.

Jamie McTurbo Turnbull of Barrow in Furness

According to his Facebook profile he is the former president at Cannibis Chronicle, he studied 'smoking weed' Furness college his post on the page was "wish my look lads got caut today fuk the police" when asked to elaborate he says "did nowt mate they tryin to say was kikin off with black burn"

I think this new language he is speaking must be to fool the police.

Do know what as well according to his profile he's single. Who'd have thought it?

I often think young people like that know fine well they are spelling incorrectly half the time. Its just crappy text speak/shortening words due to laziness or spelling in that shit manner to try and look "cool"

What I find more shocking is 40/50/60 year olds who don't seem to have a clue how to spell basic words or construct a sentence.

have allways or is it always had trouble with spelling from schooldays to reaching 70. does not make sence or sense to me. try to use words i actually can spell most of the time. double letters sometimes, use of e or a when both could work. lot of foreign languages are easier to spell.

i HAVE TROUBLE WITH MY CAPS LOCK TBH SO MAYBE I CANNOT TALK.

(Yes that was intentional this time)

Is it not more worrying that PJ is stalking a single young lad, who supports Barrow on Facebook????

Genuine stalking clicking on a Facebook profile that's comedy Gold.

It staggers me how thick some kids and older people are who have open social media accounts painting themselves in a bad light. Do they not think prospective employers don't check these things? I have a good friend who was Barrister and he said one of the first things he did when he got a case was check out the main players on social media. It's amazing what information some people voluntarily offer.

Main Players ? Who's your mate Judge Rinder ?

No problems there, Mr Accrington. The whole point of communication, after all, is that we should be able to understand each other.

PJ's point, however, highlights a far more common trait and is of genuine concern. There seems to be a real lowering of standards all-round nowadays and kids routinely stumble over the alphabet and basic maths tables, in some cases, so I'm informed, because they are no longer taught. The result (as also mentioned by tREE regarding 'older' people) is the awful standard of spelling, lack of punctuation and the use of capitals etc. that surrounds us The mention of fractions or percentages are anathema in many cases, even to those attending University. In a way, I feel sorry for them as they don't appear to be taught (and therefore understand) the subjects as opposed to knowing how to obtain answers by pressing buttons without grasping the background knowledge. Obviously, technology has overtaken traditional teaching methods but at what cost? I am sure that there are people on here who are in a much better position than me to offer a more balanced view.

PJ also highlights a serious issue with people spouting off about themselves on social media. I worked on the Data Protection Act for a while and would hear e.g. social workers sitting on the train with their mobiles, blithely divulging all sorts of Personal Data about their cases to all and sundry. Unbelievable.

Spelling is only a convention. When you hear or speak a language you don't, or at least I hope you don't, spell the words in your head.
Having said that, written goobledegook is still gobbledegook.
Basic arithmetic on the other hand is a lot more than just a convention.

I is reaaly gud at spelin,grama and countyn number, innit m8!

This makes me sad. I was top of the class at spelling and mental arithmetic at school. Still pretty good with numbers, but have noticed in recent years spelling is becoming more difficult. My perception of my digression is due to lazyness because of technology, ie Spellcheck etc.

Fair comment, Monty.

Do you find that Spellchecker is a great help, Bishop? The fact that the American bias changes correctly spelt words into their version pisses me off big time and I think that I would spend more time checking the ‘Checker’ than not. I suppose what I am saying is that the premise with technology is that it is always correct and in years to come, there will be more and more people around who, having been brought up with it, will not be in a position to query things and meekly accept everything. In addition, we are hardly in control of our own actions and the system is not exactly noted for its infallibility, is it?

A recent example. I bought a couple of magazines in W H Smug and, having a pocketful of shrapnel, I counted out the exact total and checked it three times. I was the only customer in there and the two ‘assistants’ were having a chat behind the till. One said, “Put your money in the machine” to which I replied, “Would you mind checking it, please, as I don’t exactly trust these machines?”. She repeated her comment so I repeated mine. She flounced round the counter, scooped up my coins and put them into the till, dropping at least a couple on the floor in the process. She picked up a penny while I retrieved a twenty pence coin before clink, clink, she triumphantly announced to me, “You’re fifty nine pence short”. What? If she had said it was a quid, I might have thought, “Hmmm” but fifty nine pence, that’s a minimum of four coins ffs. I reminded her that I had asked her to check it but she was adamant that my money was short. When I refused to budge, she got arsey and said. “Oh well. We’ll just have to be fifty pence short”. Her colleague then chipped in with, “I can guarantee they don’t make mistakes”. I told her that the previous week, a woman in front of me at another branch had said, “I know it’s only two pence but it didn’t come out” so she was reimbursed. Silence. They then said that my money could be checked and some coins appeared in a tray. I immediately said that it wasn’t my money as it contained only two ‘Two Pence’ pieces. Her reply was that it had “come out of a different tray”. I know that money in banks can be weighed nowadays but here’s my point. Imagine that someone on here had bought something off me for, say, £8.71 (e.g. the price of a pint in London) and I put it in my front pocket. You then said, “Sorry. Can I just check that as I think I’ve given you my lucky penny” so I replied, “No trouble” and took money out of my back pocket. I think I’d need to be out of the door pretty sharpish. How the fuck am I going to convince anyone that’s proof of the situation??? This is the type of bollocks that we are routinely being asked to accept these days and I’m not happy!

Rant over.

Joined and left within a day, generally just seems like idiots mouthing off at eachother and that includes pools fans!

Googles "cool story bro" image

I bought a few things in a local supermarket yesterday and on my way out, noticed a couple of extra items that took my fancy.

Being situated next to the exit, I used the self-service machine or rather, asked the assistant to perform the transaction for me. I put in a tenner while she returned to her position and waited for my change to appear from the machine. And guess what? I received ................. a fucking tenner back. Ahem.

Yes you can occasionally do well out of Capitalism, swings and mostly roundabouts, makes up for all the pound coins you lose in vending machines

You know those coin changing machines? Every time I go in Tesco with my eldest he goes and checks them. I think they must randomly drop coins out as he always finds some in the tray. Most he got in 1 go is about 80p. Has also found loads of foreign coins in them too.

Am I the only one who is reading this guy's posts and hearing them in my head in the voice of Norris from Coronation Street?

One of the better stories I've read on the Bunker recently, just about beats watching last Saturday's game.

Bollocks, I'm really impressed how you got me in one although I lack Norris' charisma, unfortunately.

Hopefully, you're not the only one as I would be deeply upset if you were to feel isolated all because of me.

Rudolph is nowt like Norris!!!

More like that shady Phelan gadgie on Corrie now.

He'll tie you up and douse you in petrol whilst locked in an old barn if you don't stop chewing him!

I haven't seen Corrie in years, Phil, so I couldn't possibly comment!!!