May Contain Nuts

That's a bit ambitious for our current policy, "he looked alright, briefly, five to ten years ago"

That's a bit ambitious for our current policy, "he looked alright, briefly, five to ten years ago"

Well, that's the first time I've seen a cuddly toy with a prolapsed bottom. That unicorn needs some serious help.

Rather take my chances with Mengi than Stearman. Rather Roberts any day than Aluko. Agree on Gregory and Baldock. My bigger concern is how many games can Jagielka actually play.
As for Morrison. We took a gamble with Ibe and it failed. This isn't the same sort of gamble, but it remains a risk.
I would say at best we have got bodies in for bodies sake(if we sign them). It might be the best we can do but it doesn't suggest anything other than a long hard season of scrapping.

Do we think Baldock and Aluko have wandered into our camp by mistake and that they think they’re with Swansea?

Exactly, that's how national support makes me feel - alienated! I'm not asking others to agree with me or criticising people who do care and have expressed their delight, it's just a personal thing that requires a little rant sometimes! Maybe some others can relate though, so it's always worth posting.
My post was intentionally heightening reality, of course, not to be taken completely at face value.
I am alien to the world of supporting a national team just because it happens to be where you're born - while we're talking hypocrisy I know saying that and supporting Derby seems at odds, but it's about scale! Being a Derby supporter you're one of maybe 50,000 in a country of 56 million and although I don't necessarily see eye to eye with them all, they are still 'we', and we have something in common that goes against the norm.
Being an England supporter? Well you're just one of the masses in their millions, you're just 'the general public' really, no individuality. You're mainstream, you're basic. The years and years behind me of hating what the mainstream are supposed to like whilst it's forced down our throats has taken it's toll, but it's one of the reasons I can't get behind the national team! It may seem or be weird, but it is what it is.
I don't see people who were born in other countries as the enemy or feel any desire for 'us' to beat them. I'd genuinely rather someone see a smaller nation defy the odds and beat England than England stroll to another comfortable victory, because I know that England will always get another chance at the top table and the smaller nation might not. I don't even get upset when Derby lose to a lower league team in one of the cups tbh!
I can't start supporting a bunch of (mostly) Premier League players with scant connection to Derby (although I was very pleased for Mount & Powell) who I wouldn't otherwise give a toss about when wearing their club colours just because they're in an England shirt.  I don't all of a sudden start supporting Man Utd/Chelsea/Liverpool etc if they're in a Champions league game against a European team so for me it's exactly the same principle I apply to England.
Back to the topic of hypocrisy, I always find the sneering and condescending attitude towards Scotland/Wales/Ireland fans celebrating England's demise or when they overhype their own achievements massively hypocritical. Those teams are relative minnows, they're not really supposed to be competing with England. As if those no fan of a lesser club has ever laughed at Man Utd losing to Southampton and blaming it on a grey kit, or anything similar to that.
Anyway, that's probably as much as anyone needs to read on my thoughts for one major tournament! I'll shut up now and try to enjoy England's impending victory - I might just have to turn the TV off as soon as the final whistle goes and leave it off for 6 months.

Too soon?
 

There are a few options, including but not limited to a 10% TIPA and a 16.5% Stout

 
 

I do think he's been poor, plays advantage and then fails to bring it back when there is no advantage.
...although perhaps actually he isn't playing advantage, he's just not giving obvious fouls 

I’ve got those Vocations! Just having the gwei-lo one now and might have the triple IPA afterwards.
That barrel aged coffee one looks nice.

There are a few options, including but not limited to a 10% TIPA and a 16.5% Stout

 
 

You're not really spoilt for choice in Ripley tbf? 

There are a few options, including but not limited to a 10% TIPA and a 16.5% Stout

 
 

Can’t wait any longer for this one.

Judging by the OTT, inescapable, unbearably smug, excessively saccharine media response to them finally not ducking up a semi final or earlier round at a major tournament I'd say the fear is very justified.
You'd think we were a country on the level of Estonia and it's some sort of miraculous achievement against all odds and expectations for us to even be in the competition. The hype is absolutely ducking unbelievable.
Then there's the whole patriotic overload, the insinuation that "the whole nation" was sat there a nervous wreck throughout the match and a blubbering mess after it, all waving their flags and singing along to "Sweet Caroline" (I mean ducking hell, really?) while they hug their mates; that they'll be marking it down on the calendar as the greatest day of their lives, or soon to be the second greatest day of their lives, all because England have finally done something they should have been able to do years ago and done repeatedly, but kept ducking it up.
I'm surprised there aren't calls for 7th July itself to be made a public holiday, never mind the 11th!
Supporting England feels the same to me as the idea of dancing at a wedding reception, or clapping along and raising lighters at a gig but only when the band says so; an audience swaying their arms on X-Factor because there's a light above stage telling the it's their time to do so... and everyone bloody does it. Probably in time to Sweet Caroline. Kill me.
A total cringefest of enforced togetherness and mandated enjoyment. "If you're not full of joyous emotion right now there's something wrong with you!I" - not said directly, but heavily implied when listening to Sam Matterface's overbearing commentary.  The last thing it did was make me feel involved, if anything it's pushed me further away.
Can't even have a little smirk of schadenfreude at England losing to an inferior team anymore, it's been written that they've already achieved greatness by getting to a final and, because it's against Italy in a sick twist of fate England are the underdog, and I've sworn to support the bloody underdog, haven't I? duck.
I can only imagine how bad it'll get, and for how long, if they actually win it. Maybe all channels broadcasting any content involving an English football fan will go off air as the sight of everyone disappearing up each other's arses is seen as obscene material? Oh poo, just remembered it'll be after the watershed so anything goes, and maybe everyone will just spontaneously combust so there's nobody to turn off the feed.
God it's going to be unwatchable.

Wrong, the answer is bog
It's a colloquialism, or one could say a 'pet name' for the toilet, found in your home so a 'household pet'
Is it Man's best friend? It is if he's got the squits!

baalocks!

Contentment often means complacency.
One (just one!) of my bugbears are the people who said they're fine with us missing out on promotion and would happily see us staying in the Championship, winning more than we lose than going up to the Premier League and losing 70% of our games.
That went well.

Contentment often means complacency.
One (just one!) of my bugbears are the people who said they're fine with us missing out on promotion and would happily see us staying in the Championship, winning more than we lose than going up to the Premier League and losing 70% of our games.
That went well.

Got pinged by the app today & told to isolate for 3 days instead of 10, so the exposure must have been when I went out for a few beers in Lincoln a week ago. 
 
Double jabbed and negative lateral flow result this afternoon. 
 
Isolating? Bugger that. 

I'd probably use unsociable rather than unsocial, but I think either is valid.

About as cryptic as
4 down: "A popular household pet, man's best friend"
3 letters, middle letter o.

My mind is closed off? Cheers. 

There’s plenty of ways to discover new music. The radio has never been an influence for me. There’s word of mouth, flicking through the list of bands in liner notes, bands that tour with bands I like, music services algorithms, bands I’ve discovered from my old gig promoting days, music documentaries all to name a few. 

Radio is primarily a marketing tool utilised by the big record labels. I’m not saying I don’t like anything they play but they only cater a certain audience. 
 

I’ll be honest . I agree with almost every word of that . 

Judging by the OTT, inescapable, unbearably smug, excessively saccharine media response to them finally not ducking up a semi final or earlier round at a major tournament I'd say the fear is very justified.
You'd think we were a country on the level of Estonia and it's some sort of miraculous achievement against all odds and expectations for us to even be in the competition. The hype is absolutely ducking unbelievable.
Then there's the whole patriotic overload, the insinuation that "the whole nation" was sat there a nervous wreck throughout the match and a blubbering mess after it, all waving their flags and singing along to "Sweet Caroline" (I mean ducking hell, really?) while they hug their mates; that they'll be marking it down on the calendar as the greatest day of their lives, or soon to be the second greatest day of their lives, all because England have finally done something they should have been able to do years ago and done repeatedly, but kept ducking it up.
I'm surprised there aren't calls for 7th July itself to be made a public holiday, never mind the 11th!
Supporting England feels the same to me as the idea of dancing at a wedding reception, or clapping along and raising lighters at a gig but only when the band says so; an audience swaying their arms on X-Factor because there's a light above stage telling the it's their time to do so... and everyone bloody does it. Probably in time to Sweet Caroline. Kill me.
A total cringefest of enforced togetherness and mandated enjoyment. "If you're not full of joyous emotion right now there's something wrong with you!I" - not said directly, but heavily implied when listening to Sam Matterface's overbearing commentary.  The last thing it did was make me feel involved, if anything it's pushed me further away.
Can't even have a little smirk of schadenfreude at England losing to an inferior team anymore, it's been written that they've already achieved greatness by getting to a final and, because it's against Italy in a sick twist of fate England are the underdog, and I've sworn to support the bloody underdog, haven't I? duck.
I can only imagine how bad it'll get, and for how long, if they actually win it. Maybe all channels broadcasting any content involving an English football fan will go off air as the sight of everyone disappearing up each other's arses is seen as obscene material? Oh poo, just remembered it'll be after the watershed so anything goes, and maybe everyone will just spontaneously combust so there's nobody to turn off the feed.
God it's going to be unwatchable.