Turk Thrust

2 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

What is it that makes a 'leader of men'?

Hmm. A leader of men is just a phrase and could be a leader of women, or of goats. A Leader is someone who can make sound -- and sometimes difficult -- decisions, creating and articulating a clear vision, establishing achievable goals and providing followers with the knowledge and tools necessary to achieve those goals., giving and gaining respect.

He had one of the best benches in the Cup, but didn’t use them when he should have. He had arguably the best midfielder in Maddison. Southgate’s record is not great.  Not the best choice and he just doesn’t come across as a leader of men.

12 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Mine is the phrase "living my best life".  Someone at work has it as there go to phrase 3 times a day for the last 2 years as they go on and on about doing something else. This will happen soon.

 

And the strange expression “how is he in himself?”

People who start a reply with “So….” still annoy me as do people who say “Absolutely” instead of “Yes”, but my current moan is people who say “from the get go” instead of “start” or “off”. Yes I know it’s a US College abbreviation of “Get Ready, Get Steady, Go!” but for some reason hearing it stirs up strange feelings of ire instead me. Grrrr!

11 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

30 mins in. Derby deservedly ahead. We look expansive going forward and fairly solid at the back butt there's space for Burton to exploit...

I find that laxatives work well 

Statistics like these have no credibility. They are not comparing like with like

2 hours ago, DavesaRam said:

I know I’ve got to, but I can’t wait!

Urinary tract infections gets us all in the end

4 minutes ago, angieram said:

Matchday and still in my own bed at 8 45 a.m. Luxury! 

Welcome home. ?⚽️

 

Whose bed are you normally in then?

Met her in London in the early 80s. Lovely woman, great group.

Haven’t seen much of Derby recently but this performance so far is pretty dreadful. The passing is poor. Any loose ball seems to go to a Newport player. Think I might switch over to watch Dr Pimple Popper, might be more exciting

Borrrring! And this obsession with possession based football at all costs, is depressing.

Good to see our proper fans, unlike the so-called fans of West Ham where I saw them lose today to Leicester, they were streaming out of the ground with 20 minutes to go. Mind you they were crap.

5 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

Allys Tartan Army.....that was their "response" to a disappointing first match defeat by Peru.

Iran must be one of the few remaining national teams that you hardly ever get to see apart from world cups so there is still a sense of the unknown - i suspect they could be well organised and quite tough. Generally short players with little legs as well....

I remember their left winger, Iran really fast…..?

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

What did I miss?

Look at Boycie’s post again

Salami and gherkins

55 minutes ago, Mucker1884 said:

Zoom in, scan around, and don't just assume all poppies are the standard/obvious paper type, pinned to the outer left breast.

You might be pleasantly surprised.  ? 

 

LWF
xxx

Yep, there’s one other with a partially concealed poppy and the bloke with the outstretched arm has a metal badge. Can’t see any others so not pleasantly surprised though my eyes aren’t what they were (well, they were always my eyes but, you know what I mean..?

9 hours ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Is that @angieram turning her back on the Rams in protest?

And only one person wearing a poppy……sad

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

Hold on, the PM’s were for easytiger, what happened to him/her/them?

it?

15 hours ago, Crewton said:

Reminds me of the old gag "did you know that Muffin The Mule was a sexual offence?" 

The version I remember was “do you like Muffin the Mule?”   “I don’t know, I’ve never muffed a mule”.
 

Well we were young.

20 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

That became Ranby’s ? 

No, it was on the corner of East St and St Peter’s Street. Ranby’s was always around and became Debenhams 

I remember my mum taking me shopping at the Midland Drapery, a department store in East Street/St Peter’s Sreet. Lovely building, long gone of course

I remember before computers, when at work (in a government department) if you needed to have a written document, you would write it by hand, fill out a typing pool slip and put it in a folder and place it in an out tray. Every 2 hours a messenger would do their rounds and pick up the folder and take all the collected folders back to the post room where they would be sorted. Then the folder would be taken to the typing pool and placed in the in tray.

the Superintendent of Typists would record the folder in her (always a woman) register and allocate it to a typist. Eventually the typed document would go back to the Superintendent to note the register, mark the folder back to you and put it in the out tray for the messenger to collect. Once sorted in the post room, it would be placed in your in tray.

You’d check the typed document, note any errors (there always were, and there was a special code for noting different sorts of errors) go through all the same procedures for it to go back to the typist for corrections and the same procedures for it to get back to you. About 2 days but there was a procedure for noting whether it was deemed urgent or non urgent.

This was the same procedure dating from Victorian times. All the way through the two world wars.  How  did anything get done? But it did and very efficiently too.

PseudoantidisestablishmentarianismIcally?

9 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Anything could happen in the next 4-5 pints!

A good Derbyshire brew. Excellent beer. But try Jaipur X at 10%

Forest pen saved by Wolves keeper