Stive Pesley

I only partially agree.
Playing devil's advocate - anyone who considers themselves a right-leaning exponent of free market capitalistm would have a hard job denying that they aren't just providing high-value, high-demand goods/services at the maximum profit levels that the market will support. They have identified a market and are servicing that market in a very profitable way. If the market didn't exist then neither would they. That's the Tory dream isn't it?
However, you're right that, in reality,  even the most ardent Thatcherite can see that their business model is abhorrent to human decency. Which suggests that even Tories hav a red line when it comes to shafting the poor!

I thought she called it Crich?

My antideluvian sat nav calls the A52 ... Brian Clow way 

Bolsover - Bozer

I thought she called it Crich?

Sorry 

I only partially agree.
Playing devil's advocate - anyone who considers themselves a right-leaning exponent of free market capitalistm would have a hard job denying that they aren't just providing high-value, high-demand goods/services at the maximum profit levels that the market will support. They have identified a market and are servicing that market in a very profitable way. If the market didn't exist then neither would they. That's the Tory dream isn't it?
However, you're right that, in reality,  even the most ardent Thatcherite can see that their business model is abhorrent to human decency. Which suggests that even Tories hav a red line when it comes to shafting the poor!

Have to agree. There are a couple of teams forums I've used in the past and a few I haven't but still check in on daily and the amount of abuse and bickering that goes on between fans OF THE SAME CLUB is tragic. That's all it seems to be on thread after thread and it gets sad and tiresome.
This forum mostly I have found to be filled with fans of varying backgrounds and opinions like Jono said but each willing to listen to one another and try to help too if need be. Rarely do folk get abusive or obnoxious and that is despite Derby being a big club and therefore the site having many many more users than many clubs. You'd have thought you'd get a fair selection of knobs but no. Everyone is friendly and there for help and advice about anything if needed. Even hard to talk about things like depression and addictions. Nobody judges.
Spot on Jono. It's a great and fun place to be and that's credit to all the Derby fans that use it and of course Dave and the mods that help run it.

This forum .. No I really mean it. I am conversing on a regular basis with folk from numerous different backgrounds and with political, social and sporting beliefs that aren't the same. Yet we all get on pretty damn well. There is a fantastic, fun, sometimes combative exchange of opinion but always in a brilliantly open self policed way. Yeah, we have our "mates" of like mind but it is great to come across a different view and have your own shifted just a few degrees because someone has made you think outside your own boundaries. 
Jeees I really am thinking of parting with some folding stuff as a gesture of support and become a plus or whatever it is.
owners / operators take a bow. 

In-Laws just got back from the Champagne Festival in Belgium and filled my fridge with this bounty. Nothing below 8%. I think I need to take my time and enjoy this lot slowly

Piss head?

In-Laws just got back from the Champagne Festival in Belgium and filled my fridge with this bounty. Nothing below 8%. I think I need to take my time and enjoy this lot slowly

Having picked up a bout of the trots at a kids party last weekend & feeling properly rough......
Waking up this morning feeling back up to full speed, then tightening my belt a notch and notice I've lost 4lb.

Eggs. Next door neighbour keeps a couple of hens and a couple of ducks on a patch of land at the back of our houses.
Regular thing to receive half a dozen of each over the fence. Those duck eggs, huge, and totally free range. And free.

My Dad coming out the other end of an operation to remove a cancerous growth on hi lung in fine fettle, and the doctots really confident they've got it all!!!

Bought this today, will fill you in on the contents once opened!
Bought the missus the Chase Williams one, full of Vodka and Gin.
Before or after work is the only question?

I've been wanting to start this thread for ages
As the "Random stuff that annoys me thread" reaches 100+ pages, it is pretty clear that we could solve the world's energy crisis if we somehow harnessed man's natural ability to complain about things.
So, as one poster accused me of having "no balance" I thought I'd try and tip the scales of karma and start this one up as well. Let's see if it is just as popular?
So I will start with an easy one.
When you read through a lengthy online debate and you disagree with what people are saying, so you stick your neck out and say something - get a torrent of abuse back - and then suddenly someone you don't know pops up and agrees with you. Immediately restoring both your faith in humanity and the thought that you may be going mad.

That's a little harsh on newsagents.

Letting Agents who still insist on Tenancy Guarantors for people who have a secure long-term full-time job, meaning that their parents have to sign-up to be legally liable, not just for paying their rent, but also unlimited liability for anything else going badly wrong regardless of whose fault it is. And then charging a fee for "arranging" it. Scamming gets.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - anyone with the word "agent" in their job title should be first against the wall
 

PM me if he doesn't.

Letting Agents who still insist on Tenancy Guarantors for people who have a secure long-term full-time job, meaning that their parents have to sign-up to be legally liable, not just for paying their rent, but also unlimited liability for anything else going badly wrong regardless of whose fault it is. And then charging a fee for "arranging" it. Scamming gets.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - anyone with the word "agent" in their job title should be first against the wall
 

Agreed - and at its extreme, I've sat and watched those stunning OK Go videos over the years and been mightily impressed. Could I hum you a single tune of theirs, or even tell you the song names? Nope...

Where is it? The Somerset levels?

Seeing something that makes you giggle, even when you should know better.
 

Never having seen them gives me one.