JoetheRam

Flashers.

No not that kind.

The kind who flash you in and out of junctions going completely against the highway code and causing more hold ups than if they had just proceded per the regular flow of traffic.

I take great delight in ignoring them and watching their faces scrunch up in anger as they eventually get the message.

On 29/07/2022 at 15:25, JoetheRam said:

Football Clichés.

 

Somehow forgot Athletico Mince as well.

The rest are too much about football for me.

How to with John Wilson on BBC 4 (I think - it's artsy enough to warrant being on there anyway).

It's sort of a US version of a funny Louis Theroux narrating dead pan over covertly filmed footage of randoms in NYC. Irreverent I think they call it.

Topics include How to put up scaffolding, and How to make small talk.

The 'culture wars'. Jesus H Christ it's boring.

Rope sounds like something Dickensian and venereal.

Margarita. Thin.

Eaten with a knife and fork. 

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Also Domino's is utter dreck.

15 hours ago, Patrick Rams said:

Are you sure? Could've sworn I watched on TV.

Didn't George Thorne equalise? 

 

9 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Think that one was on telly. You might be thinking of the 2020 game which we lost 0-3. Luke Shaw scored the first with a shot into the ground that bounced over kelle Roos I think. 

9 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

The 2020 one was on TV as well. The Rooney factor meant it was always going to be

9 minutes ago, davenportram said:

Was it the 08/09 one? Just after we’d beat them 1-0 in the league cup semi? My  kids had chicken pox so I left them at home with their mum and she couldn’t watch it

17 hours ago, Will the Ram said:

The match that wasn’t shown was at Old Trafford 2017/18.

I guess Google must be down for everyone...

Will is correct, my memory has let me down.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/manchester-united-12-year-streak-fa-cup-matches-a8097601.html?amp

All the games just merge into one after a while don't they?

19 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Nobody's telling anyone what to think.

Perhaps Souness is on holiday, who knows.

It's just patently absurd for Souness to say what he did whilst sitting next to a woman with triple figure caps.

'Traditional' phrases fall out of use simply because the world has moved on. Old farts like me got used to 'batter' and 'third' in cricket pretty quickly. It's anachronistic to continue using them but one is free to do so.

Language evolves faster than people it seems to me.

I do though find Batter inelegant.

Bullet Train

I guess Brad Pitt looks kinda cool in a bucket hat which is an acheivement for someone who's nearly 60. Anyone who isn't Reni from the Stone Roses come to think of it.  That's about as good as it gets (Japanese versions of Stayin' Alive and Holding Out for a Hero in the soundtrack aside).

I really don't know how I got dragged to see this. It's like the director decided he loves Guy Ritchie films, wishes he could have made Snakes on a Plane and once had Kill Bill vol. 1 described to him over a bad telephone line and he decided to combine these elements into one corned beef hash of a film.

Obviously these type of picture aren't going to be high art but there's no excuse for lines like "He follows me around like...something witty".

And it just goes on and on and on (as films tend to do these days) - this kind of brainless action should be 90 minutes tops, this is 125 for absolutely no reason other than to increases the product placement time of a bottle of Fuji artesian water (which has more backstory than most of the main characters).

Oh and one character (definitely inspired by Tyrone from Snatch) seems to have based his entire outlook on life from watching Thomas the Tank engine. Fine if he's a minor character and this is a small quirk revealed in a clever way (it gives an irreverent post modern touch) but somehow this ends up being a central tenet of the film.

Absolute Mascarell.

12 hours ago, angieram said:

They are the only club I know of that are guaranteed to be on TV every round of the FA Cup. 

Except when they play Derby. Our defeat to them at home about 2017 time (think it was 3-1?) broke a streak of something like 60 of their FA Cup games that were on TV in a row.

Only Derby fans could think the replacement for the evenly paced "and we are staying up" is to cram in "andwe'recomingstraightbackup".

It's "And we are going up" and you daft buggers know it.

We have a saying in our house "remember Sheffield Wednesday" in reference to our 3-3 against them in the Bald Eagle days which is brought up any time anyone suggests we knock it on the head at 85 minutes.

Glad to see it still applies.

The way it's reported is deliberately confusing. No one knows what the average household that the £3.5k annual figure (assuming the cap stays the same for a year, which it won't) looks like.

State the increase in pence per KWH (electric in October 21 was about 18p on BG standard tariff, gas 3p) so the annual increase to 52p and 15p per KWH is three times and five times.

Then report that standing charges have doubled as well to take on the  customers who were previously with the crap privatised firms that undercut themselves out of business.

Then report that we're gonna need more wind turbines, solar panels and hydro electric power and that these companies (and BP) can pay for it using the stacks of cash that they and their directors have creamed off the common man for the last 100 years else we're gonna come round their mansions and stamp on all their toys. The party is over.

Paris and LA.

Nowhere near as bad as people make out and actually quite good in places. Both dirty and unsafe in parts and the people are very much of their city and have little time for tourists. I think both just require a fair bit of scratching below the surface that doesn't really lend itself to the average holiday/city break timeframe.

Stoke is horribly scruffy and run down but most of the people are salt of the earth, traditional working class. Unfortunately I do often find such people quite unappealing so it's rated appropriately for me.

Just having a few days in the sun as the Prem's slightly hipster choice aren't they so not all that surprised. If I do my best to be objective it makes top third at best purely down to the strange capitalisation on F0ReST

An utterly bizarre list though.

Wolves is top 10 no quibble and Newcastle is good, but the rest are nowhere near. Barrow's looks like it's made on clip art and Luton's is a semi-decent 6th form design project.

Liverpool and Man Utd would struggle to make the top 50.

He's even got Wella hair gel rip off Bournemouth at 20.

Ours is top 5 easily.

Read that as we'd already drawn West Ham at home.

I'll take that tbh.

On 14/08/2022 at 13:56, Mucker1884 said:

Hadn't googled them before yesterday, so had no idea.

I now know they appear to have branches nationwide.

Whether that's a franchise thing, or traditional branches of a nationwide company, I've no idea.

 

Will call them (or call in the shop) tomorrow, and see how things go from there.

If anything interesting* happens, I'll update on here.  ?

 

*It's carpets... not sure how interesting it can get!  ?

Presume from the lack of an update it wasn't very interesting. Or it got very interesting and you've been rolled up in one and thrown off a bridge.

Drums - Alan Wren

Bass - Paul McCartney

Guitar - Keith Richards

Vocals - Jacqui Abbott

Noel Gallagher scrapes in as roadie just to put him back in his rightful place.

32 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

@Elwood P Dowdwondered why we only tended to remember the sunny days from school holidays as a kid and said I do wonder if good memories are made permanent by going through the memories over time.

And yeah we do.

We have almost no totally accurate long term memories.  We just remember little bits and then unconsciously stitch them together with presumptions of what we think probably happened.

There's been a lot of research done into memories and the most interesting/alarming is what are referred to as flash bulb memories.

These are the memories of highly specific events, and the ones that we are often the most sure about.

Well, (statistically speaking) 30% of those memories you hold are wrong entirely and 70% will be inaccurate in some degree.

One of the worlds leading experts in memory (can't remember his name and he's dead anyway so he can't help me out in this conversation) had a very clear memory of listening to a baseball game with his father when it was interrupted with the announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Only when he checked, there were no games in that December because the baseball season runs from March to October. He still struggled to accept it even when he knew it was false.

The day after the Challenger disaster they got a load of people (can't remember the sample size - my memory sucks) to write down where they were and what they were doing when they heard.

Only 5 years later they went back to ask them again and almost nobody could answer accurately. One woman got it utterly wrong placing her in a different town with different people. When shown her signed account she said her signature must have been forged.

And whereas she is somewhat of an outlier, not by that much.

We all have scores of false memories but they are incredibly difficult to challenge and the more we think about the false memory the more we embed it and the more sure of it we become.

This is why you get 5,000 people claiming to have attended the first Beatles gig, nobody admitting they thought Nick Pickering was a great signing or even @Eatonram denying he wore a full wet suit playing for Elton one time because there was a light drizzle, not because people are necessarily lying, but because that is what they *remember*.

Our brains literally rewrite history on the fly.

Where were you when you heard about 9/11 and more to the point, can you accept that some, or even a large part of that memory is in accurate?

Personally, I was with Lady Di watching Derby beat Forest in the cup final at Wembley prior to flying to Vegas to see Elvis' last gig. What a day that was.

This reads like someone trying to convince the forum to question their entire reality.

We remember the things that are important to us and trigger a big emotional response very well - asking someone what they were doing and where they were when something that they weren't involved in happened is extremely likely to have been forgotten because unless you were working at NASA or in New York or on planes you have no need to remember where you were for those events, it serves no purpose.

If the same experiment was done for people's first kiss you'd get a higher degree of accuracy.

52 minutes ago, Ramos said:

But…. Then why do Man City sing it too? Or did everyone used to scrap on Boxing Day? 
 

edit - just relistened to the city version and realised they don’t sing Boxing Day. But cant make out what they say. 

My take on this long debated who stole who's song business(by us saddos) is as follows.

Boney M release their version of Mary's Boy Child November 1978, unleashing Jester Hairson's 1956 song into the public consciousness (nobody bothered with the Andy Williams 1965 version featured on his album "Merry Christmas").

It was a regular occurence in those days for derby matches to be played around Christmas due presumably to train travel being difficult and a desire for a bumper crowd for the Boxing day game.

Derby played Forest Boxing Day 1978 and by all accounts was a bit spicy off the pitch and thus taking the new Christmas number one and recent incidents we came up with the catchy number that is still sung today.

However we know City and Wednesday sing versions and I'm sure there's others too but...

City and United have played many games around Boxing day but never actually on 26th itself and their 1902 Christmas Day meeting pre-dates the song by more than 50 years and wasn't exactly in the "golden age" of football violence. Their other meetings generally took place on 28th December or New Years eve which don't really lend themselves to the song lyrics.

Sheffield Wednesday, who like to claim every song we sing is copied from them, beat their city rivals on Boxing Day in a famous 4-0 win, which was also deemed to be "a bit hairy" off the pitch but this didn't happen until the year after Derby v Forest so surely their "acheivements" would have lent themselves to the tune of 1979's Christmas number one - Pink Floyds' Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)?

Therefore I reckon we were the most likely origin of this classic football ground anthem.

Sandbach or Knutsford services getting a battering then.

Good. #Keele'tilIdie

31 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Our NHS is pretty poo really and it’s getting worse. You can blame COVID lockdowns, cold winters, hot summers anything you like.

 

The truth though is our NHS is not as good as people like to think. 

 

In most cases in life you get what you pay for.

We spend less as a percentage of GDP than the rest of the G7 and if adjusting for Purchasing Power we spend less than the EU14.

So it's not terrible, but it's not as good as it could be either and there's a million and one reasons for that but in the end it nearly always comes down to money.

Unfortunately, voters in this country tend to think public services should be world beating, but also don't want to pay to fund them.

4 minutes ago, TexasRam said:

Shame those best guesses were so far  wide of the mark, for which Incredibly people have got knighthoods for. I really wouldn’t have locked down, pointless exercise that’s we are all now paying for and will cost far more lives. 

I’ll fetch my wheelbarrow 

Fair. Not a sarcastic laugh emoji either.

5 hours ago, BaaLocks said:

Best way you can save money is to agree not to get wrapped up (see what I did there) in it all. Two presents each, reasonable price cap, no stockings, new lights or bottles of expensive nutmeg flavoured liqueurs from M&S. Still have your Christmas dinner, still sing carols round the tree, still go to midnight mass or whatever but just reign in the consumerist claptrap they try to convince us all we can't do without.

I know, I sound all Ebenezer but look at your credit card statement on Jan 2nd and tell me I was wrong.....

Agree.

Stockings are an excellent gift though, that more than pay for themselves.

2 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

I've got just the job... Got it back in March...

Excellent. Will pay for itself after only half a season.