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    Random stuff that people do that annoy me

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    19 hours ago, scarboroughwa said:

    Maternity Leave.

    You want to chuff off for up to three years holding a job no-one else can get. No worries. Everyone will act in and around it until you re-grace us with your presence.

    You only want to work two days per week? No problem, My colleagues and I will pick up the extra work as you and the others swan in and out.

    You want to work your nominated hours and demand school holidays? O f course, I don't have kids, or stuff I need to get home for.

    You want to make the main intention of getting a job so you can get pregnant asap to get the free cash and the three above? For sure.

    Unsustainable.

     

    I get tits off with all this. They are off for 9 months then come back 3 days a week. You haven't got a clue what they do when they come back and then at Christmas you go to book a holiday and they have already booked the time off.

    Random stuff that people do that annoy me

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    52 minutes ago, Paul71 said:

    Anyone who cheats the system, or doesnt pay tax when they should I agree....

    I include small business in that too not just the big businesses that are reported to evade tax. Your roofers/builders who want cash in hand to avoid VAT etc, or people who dont put 'everything' through the books.

    I know some that do and their excuse is 'everyone' does it. I don't - i no doubt have to pay more tax because of those that dont pay what they should.

    Too right. I just think it is easy for these TV companies to target the less educated people who have got nothing. Yet there are people out there that are living the good life and fiddling the system just as bad or even worse if you ask me because they can afford to pay the tax they just don't want to. 

     

    RamsTV Feedback

    in Derby County Forum

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    40 minutes ago, NiccoItalianRams said:

    Before I buy the annual live video subscription I need a clarification because I didn't understand very well. If you buy the annual package do you get live streaming and also live audio?

    For the live streaming is there the possibility to switch the comment from in house commentary to Radio Derby commentary?

    I'm not sure you may get RamsTV commentary which isn't that bad. Given the choice I'd rather watch the match than listen to radio Derby. 

    Forum Issues

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    14 minutes ago, David said:

    Which words? If it's a naughty word will be the forum, if not it's your phone

    No not swear words. But I think you have answered it. It must be my phone. I may be trying to type to quick and making a balls up.

    Baseball Ground Memories

    in Derby County Forum

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    6 hours ago, Ellafella said:

    I know...it's probably been done to death but...oh it was special...

    How apt: the very final game at the famous old Baseball Ground was against the Arsenal. I am minded of a game some years earlier against the same opposition, for it was an occasion that really brought home to me just how special the place was; a true theatre of football:

    The date: 8th September 1979. A sultry sunny September Saturday of an Indian summer. Sweat, cig-smoke and the smell of alcohol-breath fused with hot-dog onions filled the Pop Side air. Arsenal were in town, a side replete with silky, star-studded names that dripped from the tongue like golden syrup: Pat Jennings, Liam Brady, Sammy Nelson-the bum-show-er, O’Leary, Hollins, Rix, Talbot, Stapleton and Alan Sunderland, all perm and moustachioed; the latter two had, in May, ripped the FA Cup from Man Utd in the final of the century. For Derby there was no longer a Gemmill, a Hector, a McFarland or Todd, or even a Charles George. In rapt contra-distinction we had a ring of Irish: Aiden McCafferey, Vic Morland, David Langan, Andy Crawford, and a liquorice-assortment of stalwarts like David Webb, Steve Powell and Steve Buckley, all honest triers but in truth it was thoroughbreds v also-rans, giant oak trees against mere saplings.  We did though have John Duncan, Scottish International all handsome and broad, and neat, and the winger called Gordon Hill, who had killed Rams at Hillsborough in the FA Cup semi just 3 years before. The Baseball Ground was synonymous with trench mud but even that was no more. But there wasn’t a blade of grass either. Instead the surface was 35 tonnes of hard golden sand; had the ref entered the arena carrying a beach-ball nobody would have batted an eye lid. In the pre-match kick-in, wisps of disturbed sand danced on the air. The first half was a foregone conclusion long before 45 mins was up with Arsenal commanding a 2-0 lead.

    Then during the break, something strange began to occur. As sun and heat and alcohol combined, the Pop Side found its voice and songs of deep Derby irony began to fill the air...”You need SAND to hold a lit-tul bay-bee, you need SAND to wipe away a tear...” and “Mr SAND-Man,  bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung bung...”). At first, it was a mere ironic acceptance of the Derby team’s fate, but as the 2nd half kicked-off, with Rams attacking the Ossie End, what started to unfurl was a truly remarkable 45 mins. If only we could get one back. Suddenly, Buckley, with lump-hammer left peg, drove the ball at Jennings from 30 yards. The ball, zipped, and dipped, and hit the ground, leather travelling and bouncing on sand, and, smacked the back of the net with Jennings flapping on the floor; 1-2, Pop Side all erupting in Vesuvian delight, a deafening Derbyshire din of high decibel noise. The sound became a continuous stream; the sun, sand and black and white, wall-to-wall volume, a crescendo-ing cacophony of a collective consciousness was stirring the Rams to gargantuan efforts. Arsenal began to cower and fear took hold. I don’t remember Vic Moreland’s equaliser, but I do remember the rocket-propelled roar and the terrace surge as pure pandemonium broke out in the Pop Side. Now, with clock ticking down, 43 minutes had flashed by, we sung to kingdom come. Last minute, Langan...to Carter...Carter in the corner, crosses to Duncan and bullet-header...Jennings’s dustbin-lid sized hand parries...on to the post... and out for a corner....Ohhhhhhh! How we re-coiled....

    But wait...Carter’s corner, inch perfect...Duncan again...bullet forehead, ball bulges onion-bag...Goallllllllllllll, the roar again...3-2...mayhem....Final Whistle....Oh fffffff...foot-balll!

    As I walked from the ground, outside an Arsenal fan exclaimed, “Liam Brady walks on water, but he can’t run on sand!”. I’d been to the Baseball Ground many times before, but now as a 14 year old, I properly realised how the combination of the architecture – tight, compact stands that trapped the sound, sending it ping-ponging around the entire ground, the proximity of the pitch, and how the fanatical Rams fans, touched by the memory of magic, Real Madrid floodlit nights, - could all combine to fuel an energy that transmitted from the terraces to the men in white just yards away.

    Outside, I watched as the Gooners’ team coach drove away...Pat Jennings saw me stare from his front window seat and tipped me a wink. Monday’s Daily Mail match report described how Arsenal bemoaned that Derby had transmitted the sound of the 16,429 fans through the PA system, in amplification. As if... It was just a special place; and I was there.

    What's yourn?

    So many to think of.

    I remember the dark narrow streets around the ground. The packed popside on a fa cup replay in January with stream rising up from the crowd.

    Footballing wise wasn't great to start with. My memories started around the time of the 3 - 2 victory v Arsenal. I remember a lot of fans favorites like Charlie George,  Archie Gemmill,  Roy McFarland and The King returning to the Hallowed Turf. They weren't the answer to our slide. Growing up through the years with Derby at the BBG was like a soap opera. With the crowd surrounding the pitch and legging up a Fulham player. Talk of having to replay the match and empty terraces. 

    A slide to Division 3 then a climb back to the top flight.

    I can remember our first season at Pride Park looking out of the West Stand concourse window and seeing the old BBG floodlights and thinking I miss that place already.

    Random stuff that people do that annoy me

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

    Paul and Wolfie make great points about something I've posted about in the past. The over reliance of mobile devices.

    It's an addiction. Paul mentions the other persons phone going off, either bleeping or ringing and they just must see who it is immediately. The more they text / message on social media the more they in turn receive therefore the cycle perpetuates and this plasticky thing permanently stuck in the palm of their hand over time becomes something they can't actually live without.

    I don't use social media in the sense of facebook, twitter and all that malarkey and my internet use is pretty basic and sporadic but even I found it a little bit inconvenient recently when my internet was down and I couldn't use it.

    I thought of folk that spend all day on there and truly believe that if I found having no internet for a week preying on my mind, these people will experience major withdrawal symptoms.

    Everything is instant. Media and stuff are just constantly chucked in our direction through another screen. Tv, tablet, smart phone etc. I've been to a friends house and he had all 3 on within a metre of where he was sat!

    Phones are amazing. If I break down i can get help. If I need to text someone to get a message to them i can. If I need the number of a local chemist then it's there. If I want to buy Derby tickets the moment they go on sale i can.

    All useful and makes life easier.

    My phone makes my life easier but it's not my life.

    The distinction between the two is important.

    I gave up going on Facebook and it felt like a big cloud had lifted from me. 

    On the other hand it may have had something to do with Derby winning 7 on the bounce.

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