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Very cheap price in my opinion for a young highly versatile experienced international, we will never be able to sign one like him for a long time I suspect - hopefully we can get promotion this coming season - the administration has cost us so many players 
I really think he could be doing a lot better than Bristol city and that’s not trying to be disrespectful to them and I fully expect him sold within two years for £10 million plus. 

It was interesting at a family birthday last weekend, and this topic came up. Everyone of my generation (ie 40 and over) was of much the same opinion as a lot of people here - that these protests were counter-productive and annoying.
However, all the youngsters (ie the 25 and unders) were the total opposite. They all thought it was brilliant that people were making a stand, and brilliant that the older generations were so annoyed by it. I sat and listened to them and there was an overwhelming sense of helplessness. All they see is corrupt governments that aren't fit for purpose - not giving a damn about saving the planet, unless it's a net zero thing which can make them and their mates super rich regardless of what good it does to the climate change issue
They see the older generations as apathetic because we'll all be dead before it matters anyway, but for them and their kids it's a very real issue and they don't see ANYONE doing anything meaningful about it. What else can they do but encourage public protest? Write a letter? hahahahahaha

Guy walks into a dentists office and says, "Can you help me? I think I'm a moth?"
Dentist: "You don't need a dentist, you need a psychiatrist"
Guy: "I know"
Dentist: "Then why come in here?"
Guy: "The light was on"

No such thing as new music, or old music. 
There's music you've heard, and music you haven't.

I was working with someone from France the other day and ended up explaining to them what the word 'nesh' means (double strange this one, as I never heard it when I lived in Derby but it came into use after I left). I know we have 'mi duc' and the like but wondered what other words we have in Derby that are specific to at least the East Midlands.
Some that come to mind:
Mardy Bolched (getting your hair cut really short and being told 'blimey, you've been bolched') Nongy (only the Welsh, who call it a dunkie, have a better name for it) Boca (probably generational but anyone who looked a tramp, in honour of Mr Wright) Ote and note Jitty Tea (the evening meal)

It's terrible for all concerned but when people are spending £250k to go look (possibly, its not guaranteed) at a ship wreck on the ocean floor while nurses are using food banks it tells us just how crazy the world has become.

Carcassonne 

It must be so hard to give any kind of interview these days with the over analysis of every word, its ridiculous.
For me the interview was interesting but not particularly enlightening, as most sensible people already understand the way these things work. But I think that the determination to be upset is so overwhelming for some people that they can't help themselves when it comes to ripping these things apart.
If I was Paul Warne I'd wonder whether it was worth offering such candour preferring to just offer one word answers. I also wonder how some of these people would cope if Arthur Cox was in charge these days, getting any information out of him was like pulling teeth.

As a few of you know, I had been working at The Waterfall for quite a while, however, I have decided to open up a pub of my own. 
We've spent the past 10 weeks or so cleaning, redecorating, cleaning again, getting the place ready, to say it has been stressful is a complete understatement, and I'm sure my wife and business partners have been ready for killing me 😂
Anyway I imagine that a few will know the venue, it is Maypole Inn on Brook Street in the West End. 
We have opened up this week, and it would be good to see any of you that fancy a drink, have a chat and it would be nice to put some more faces to user names.
If you want to have a look at our social media pages, check out what deals we have on etc then they are below;
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092567867085
https://instagram.com/maypole.derby?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Hopefully see some of you soon 🙂

I'm sure many of us knew Sid - he used to work with my Dad and I'd always seem him at the game. A true gent and a true RAM
RIP old chum
 

Of course they are. The public in London are now turning to gangs of young black boys to protect them from the Boys in Blue.

Are you suggesting that the Met are wrong 'uns? 😂

Any party that supports privatisation of public services, curbs trade union rights, weakens human rights, makes it more difficult for poor people to vote, is in favour of pumping s*** into rivers and believes austerity is a sensible policy is far right to me.
As you can imagine, I've not got many parties to vote for anymore.

A couple of years ago Crass released a load of their stems so there are a whole load of remixes of them around, some of them are quite good.
 

https://youtu.be/uwr9qWjdUS8

No idea if I’ve managed to share this link properly. 1982. I liked the whole Crass thing. 
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I was on the side of climate protestors for a long time. Over the past year or so, their tactics to promote their campaigns are getting very tedious and becoming a nuisance to people who might well be eco aware, however they're disrupting their daily lives. 
What grinds my gears more is the level of hypocrisy. This is from all sides. The oil/gas companies making huge profits from a humantiaran crisis in Ukraine. The same goes with supermarkets. All have exploited the situation, "followed the market" and made their shareholders very happy. And then you have climate protestors filming all their content on brand new phones made in China, a diet which has a bigger carbon footprint than a regular balanced diet, because the vast amounts of importing from their food. I can't get behind any of these groups. I feel like I can't stand all sides of the debate.
Having watched Clarksons Farm, besides the larking about, it raised genuine concerns about issues with buying local produce, lack of support for local farmers and the vast problems within the UK food industry. I wouldn't mind if the climate groups actually joined together with UK farmers to promote the benefits of buying food grown from our own shores. There must be a carbon footprint saving, rather than the constant streaming of imports. We save the planet and it's more money for farmers. But sadly I can't see this happening, because of the horrible lack of comprise we've seemingly have forgotten about.
I understand buying British food is more expensive, it does come at the price of a higher shopping bill. If many UK families stopped eating fast food once or twice a week, which is the current average, that would cover the additional expenses of having to buy more expensive local food. Also, if we are to be more sustainable, we need to go back to eating seasonally. I feel like the vast amount of choice is damaging us because we've become so lazy and we can pick whatever we want, whenever we want. I'm not an old fart either, I've only realised recently to becoming more conscious about my lifestyle and wanting to see future generations not struggling because of our stupid decisions.
Sacrifices need to be made at some point, a shame many of the stakeholders from all sides can't have a grown up debate to sit down and discuss what we go doing forward to save the planet.

I think Aldous Huxley was nearer to the mark than Orwell, sadly
Orwell envisioned the masses subject to forceful suppression with those who tried to question it being crushed by the state. Not many rebels about and when they do show up, they are dismissed as idiots.
Huxley, on the other hand, described a society where the masses were mostly docile. Soothed by modern pleasures, mollified and amenable to control. He said that the pacification of the masses would be gradual with people blissfully unaware of their own complicity. Seduced by technology’s shiny baubles. 
What do you reckon?

How i see it.
The world's media is one component of the machinery, the news programs are not there to inform us, rather to shape our thinking and reactions.  International and local institution are also under the heel.  Big corporations have merged with this power structure, in what Mussolini termed fascism.  We the people herded like sheep and kept in perpetual fear, as our long fought for rights get whittled away by increasingly authoritative regimes and their militarized police force.  Lies are truth, up is down, wrong is right, or else. 
Orwell didn't write a novel, it was a field guide to the future. 
The megalomaniacs at the top (for now) like to multitask, each input designed for more than one connected outcome.  The Covid lockdowns and restrictions were part of tightening the consolidation of power.

You are right.

When the gas price went up wind didn’t become more expensive nor nuclear power. It is one big fix an weas the working class suffer because the price increases lower our living standards.
It doesn’t matter who is in power nothing will change like you said it’s a stitch up.