Bob The Badger

A friend just messaged me to say he had to go to Bakewell from Matlock to the bank and the queue for petrol started at The Peacock at Rowsley for the only filling station in the area that had fuel.

For those of you who don't know the area, that's about 3.5 miles away.

I went panic buying this morning.

Got 20 copies of this.

2 hours ago, sage said:

 

I like Bill Maher and spent $80 on a ticket to see him live, but he's not a very good interviewer.

He's too intent on looking smart and getting people to say what he believes.

More often than not, I tend to agree with him/them, but that's not really what interviewing is about.

Having said that, that was an interesting interview and one that more people should watch.

Nothing I didn't know (or anything anybody who read up on the topic would know) but eloquently put and on the money.

I also like the light from space metaphor.

I think about question than what is social media doing to us,  is what are we allowing to it do to us?

18 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

I've been a vegetarian a long time so can read between the lines. '

That explains a LOT! ?

19 hours ago, BucksRam said:

Yep, a sausage can be any meat so it needs a descriptor of what meat is in it.  But a sausage is meat only, not veggie. So if it's not got any meat in it, it's not a sausage. 

A burger is defined as meat (normally beef) or another product in a flat round shape so call it by what it's made of, not what it's not made of. Beef burger, lamb burger, bean burger, soya burger.  Not "No Beef" burger. 

Do you work for a local council by any chance?

11 hours ago, angieram said:

I know! Got to about 84 then had a full blown panic attack in a cage at Norwich. Didn't go to another away game for about 30 years.

Don't want to go back to those times. 

Indeed we don't. I went with 4 mates to a night match at Millwall in the 1984 and we never even made it to the game. Youths on every corner, very menacing.

I say youths, at places like Millwall and Chelsea they were often big guys, many in their 30s and 40s.

We ended up in a pub in Chiswick and found the score out on Radio 2 driving back up the M1.

We lost.

I was at Asda in St. Austell yesterday and there wasn't much of a queue at all. I had over half a tank and don't use a fat lot so couldn't be arsed to fill up.

The wife told me I was a muppet.

7 hours ago, angieram said:

I am speaking from my experience. You are 28. I am 64.

Supporting my club away from home is getting harder and harder due to people like you who can't see the problem.

It was worse in the 70s and 80s imho. My mum used to get freaked out at certain away games coaches got attacked on a semi regular basis. I had my car smashed up at QPR and we were regularly in physical danger  

That doesn't mean this is in any way acceptable or not bad, just that we tend to see recent events as better or worse than they usually are. 

3 hours ago, Foreveram said:

I have a really radical idea, why don’t we have an area for standing for those that want to stand and an area with seats in it so people can sit

That's so insane it might just work!

1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

My question would be is that on "drugs" or do you mean "legal drugs" or do you mean "illegal drugs"? Caffeine is a huge stimulant. Should that be banned? Alcohol is much the most toxic drug people can use and abuse, with the possible exception of heroin depending on how you measure toxicity. Cannabis is only super-strength "skunk" nowadays because of prohibition. When America had prohibition for alcohol, were there exquisite gins and lovely craft beers or were people forced to drink super-strength moonshine? Laced with other toxins as there was no regulation?

People should be allowed the choice if whether they drink coffee, smoke a cigarette, do a line of coke, have a double vodka and tonic or eat a hash cake. It's bonkers and irrational that two of those things are illegal when you compare them with the others. Personal choice, personal responsibility.

Of course I get that people have individual bad stories surrounding illegal drugs, but I would argue this is a lot to do with the organized criminality that surrounds them and the way this destroys lives. It would be a million times better for people to partake in a safe environment, knowing exactly what they are taking.

I think you're right that it's the criminality behind the frugs that poses the real issue.

I used to sell tickets for parties in the early 90s out of my shop. There were 40 or so regulars and sometimes as many as 80 people go from the Matlock area. I only know one guy who never took e's os speed.

Not one of those people became a drug addict that I am aware of and I still know a lot of people in those circles and word would get back.

I know a ton of people who have had issues with drinking too much however, including me and a close friend.

I'm glad to say I've never smoked, but my mum, her father, her brother and one of her sisters died ((the other one who didn't smoke it still alive and well into her mid-80s) for diseases directly attributable to smoking.

Tobacco and alcohol pose a much greater threat to personal health than illegal drugs.

Alcohol is quite literally a highly toxic and addictive poison that cannot even be drunk neat, but people are ok with that.

9 minutes ago, mozza said:

More the missus than me, under the weather mainly, can't be doing with the hassle /stress, of the current crisis, so decided, health comes first,  and cancelled. Always next year. 

Yep, health first.

4 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:

I'm not old old (only just turned 28) but I guess clubs being a complete turn off rather than a fun end to a night out is one thing. Fresher's week makes me feel older, they're all around campus looking happy and carefree and obviously are young whereas I'm trudging to my office tired out to get my next chapter finished. I've been round the country a good bit in the last 3 weeks or so (Hull, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Widnes, Sheffield, and Manchester) and I'm absolutely knackered. A few years ago I'd have been fine but now all I want is to sit down on the sofa with a hot drink and a good book. 

No, you're not old and I quit clubbing when I was 39 so you can...

2 hours ago, Eddie said:

Not necessarily.

I could, technically, have carpets made out of deer, elk or buffalo leather.

I feel so foolish for jumping to such rash conclusions now.

Message me your address I have a mate at PETA who thinks he knows you and wants to pop round.

1 hour ago, David said:

 

Being told you're that old the doctor now wants to do regular health checks.

12 years ago

Nose hair that grows quicker than the hair on my head.

Yep, the hair on my head handed its resignation in 35 years ago.

Electric scooters make me nervous.

Don't see them around here, but they probably would if I did

I do anything to change my appearance and be told you're going through a mid life crisis.

20 years ago maybe

Prefer the pubs down the other end of town away from all the kids.

Prefer not going to pubs

Find Friday/Saturday night TV irritating, Ant & Dec unavoidable.

Never leave Netflix or Amazon

Prefer the company of my dog than people.

100% yes.

Get targeted with make a will and life insurance ads on social media.

Nope, get targeted with retirement communities (mainly from the US) and funerals they presumably have give up on pensions.

Spend longer on the toilet in the morning.

Spend longer in the night when I should be sleeping

Not wanting a fuss over your birthday. 

Denying they even exist whilst internally wondering why they seem to happening every 7 or 8 months.

42 minutes ago, mozza said:

Cancelling a non-refundable holiday, due to ill health. (5 minutes ago..)

Sorry to hear that mate, hope it's nothing serious.

So you lied then, your slippers aren’t made of carpet?

Whats the world coming to?

On 22/09/2021 at 12:59, Eddie said:

I have several pairs of carpet slippers.

 Couldn’t you find any made out of suede with rubber souls.

Carpet slippers would make my feet itch. 

Rams looking impressive.

3 hours ago, 24Charlie said:

Sorry I have an open mind on most things but not drugs.

 

If you pick and choose when you’re open minded then you’re not really open minded. 

32 minutes ago, Curtains said:

A good midfielder I remember 

Very mediocre as I remember and kept out by George Williams.

I must confess I thought it was more, but  on looking it up, he only played 25 games for Derby over 3 years never scoring.

6 hours ago, Rammeister said:

I wonder when he will be back again.

Soon by the look of it.

1 hour ago, Ramslad1992 said:

I went to all the rams London games.

it’s not the same but I just love the whole day. 
 

I want to go to So-Fi too but it’s a bit out of my price range at the minute ?

I saw the rams play the Broncos around about 1988 at Wembley but it was pre-season and not that great tbf.

My first ever two live games for the Rams ended as a 7-0 win at home in Anaheim against the Oilers and a 6-0 loss away in New Orleans.

13 points in two games - exciting stuff.

30 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

I’ve been given multiple business cards in Fallowfield (Manchester) this week. They’re everywhere during Freshers.

Ket is massive here.

I spent 4 hours at a rave once helping a girl I didn't even know every well, but who had got her ticket from my shop so I felt responsible somehow, out of a K-hole. She was terrified for most of the time.

9 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

The "war on drugs" is the wrong approach and has failed as prohibition always will.

The saddest thing is that it's a KNOWN fact that if you launch campaigns like that and the 'just say no' one that Barbara Bush started in the 80s' you effectively tell younger people that more people are doing it than they probably realise and create social proof in reverse.

You have to make it socially unacceptable like drink driving and smoking.

 

1 hour ago, jimbo jones said:

You don’t all need a bag each, get a few lads to chip in and it isn’t that expensive, no more so than you would spend on ale...apparently ?

I heard that if you share it though there's always one mate who takes more than his fair share and will even pretend he dropped it down the toilet.

Just what I read once.