Turk Thrust

1 hour ago, StrawHillRam said:

Usernames can be misleading

 I was going to go for

 thepenismighty

Yes, I am not Turkish and my thrusting days are few and far between, sadly ?

6 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

No, i'll be sitting at home in the warm watching on TV, Those of you that turn up...good on ya?

Wimp. I remember Wednesday night matches at the BBG. Cigarette smoke and fog swirling round the floodlights, freezing cold. But then come to think of it I was a lot younger. Think I’ll stay in.

6 minutes ago, Boycie said:

Cold I can take, rain and sitting wet is for the younger fans. I’ve done my bit.

After living in London for nearly 40 years I’ve become really nesh. Feel the cold now.

3-1 Colin

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14 minutes ago, TigerTedd said:

Who remembers walkers cheese and onion being green? And when did they make salt and vinegar green instead?

 

The answer is: they never were, and they never did. 
 

I was just listening to a pod cast that sited this as proof that we live in the matrix and this was a glitch. Apparently loads of people swear they remember cheese and onion, I’m one of them. Am I just insane, or is anyone with me?

jusf to really freak you out, the podcast went on to say that it’s now a mainstream scientific theory that there’s a large chance we are living in the matrix. We will soon have the technology to create our own simulated reality with AIs who wouldn’t know the difference. If we can do it, then it could have already happened a billion times. The chances of us being the original are incredibly slim. Old Elon Musk reckons it’s billions to one that were not living in the matrix.

I need a warm drink and a blanket.

 

nurse! He’s out of bed again…..

Let’s not forget that he was awarded the CBE for his contribution to business and charity.

His contribution to charitable causes includes buying a £1.2m robotic surgeon for the Royal Derby Hospital.

He also supported the Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal, set up in memory of the BBC Radio Derby broadcaster who died from skin cancer in 2015.

On 21/11/2021 at 17:00, Ewe Ram said:

Anyone who says they change allegiance to a club surely isn’t being truthful. You just can’t, it’s in your make up, bad days, good days, underdogs, favourites etc etc. 

My great grandad supported Derby in Victorian times, my grandad in Edwardian times, my dad in Georgian times and me in Elizabethan times. It’s in my DNA. Wonder if I’ll still be around when Charles or William is crowned 

Damn. @Coconut's Beardbeat me to it

39 minutes ago, Charlie George said:

https://www.change.org/p/Derby-county-strip-mel-morris-of-his-cbe-for-his-services-to-business-2430ddc9-2d8f-4e8b-a595-be3c437052d5?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=12d02e60-4a38-11ec-b920-49ec1e03c11a&s=09

The link mentions CBE and MBE. It’s important to get it right. It’s CBE. The rules for forfeiture are:-

The Forfeiture Committee considers cases put to it when the holder of an honour has brought the honours system into disrepute. Examples include if an individual:

has been found guilty by the courts of a criminal offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than three months

has been censured or struck off by the relevant regulatory authority or professional body, for actions or failures to act, especially which are directly relevant to the granting of the honour

has been found guilty by the courts of a criminal offence covered by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (England and Wales), Sexual Offences Order 2008 (Northern Ireland) or Sexual Offences Act 2009 (Scotland);

has been found to have committed a sexual act which is listed in the Acts above following a ‘trial of the facts’.

But the Committee is not restricted to these two criteria, and any case can be considered where there is evidence to suggest that the retention of an honour would bring the honours system into disrepute.

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36 minutes ago, Asanovic70 said:

Do you mean, like chasing windmills? If so, it's a good analogy. The impossible dream & all that.

 

..............

I know the system is rigged against teams with the parachute payment, but I would counter that you don't have to follow the example of our erstwhile owner. I'm not sure I agree that Brentford broke any rules; they used data analytics to bring in players & re-invested in the team & have a link to the Danish league as a source for playing staff. A figure of £200m is often cited in relation to Brentford but I saw an article on the DET/similar online paper, that said Benham had a fortune of around £60m (his sports data company).

They sold talent in the tens of millions. I can't think of us doing similar, we've always sold players like Riggott & Christie (early noughties) for relatively low fees, & under Mel, probably our best sale was Hendrick in terms of outlay (home grown) & we recouped our money on Vydra. That's about it.

I feel that there are other ways to develop a club apart from overspending. One is to create a playing identity, like Swansea did, and have returned to doing so. Another is to follow a model of your own, like Brentford, & to a lesser degree, QPR are following it after re-investing the money received on Eze in conjunction with Warburton promoting youth. Stability & time are also undervalued commodities in football. Find the right manager & give him time, some managers & clubs are good fits, like Robins at Coventry.

We need to find a strategy that suits us or that our fan-base have to buy into. That will require some thought & is easier said than done.

 

This.   Well set out, and oh and the phrase is “tilting at windmills” though he was chasing dreams.

10 minutes ago, Eddie said:

This.

From a personal point of view, if it's something I can't control or I cannot affect the outcome, it gets filed mentally under "It is what it is" and I don't worry about it. It means that I can sleep at night.

Agree, though for me I find getting completely aresholed works just as well

10 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

When it says appeal will be dropped does this mean the 12 points deduction will be nullified or our adminstrators are going to withdraw the appeal

It doesn’t. It says the appeal hearing has been adjourned, and “adjourned” means postponed. However it will probably be dropped if some sort of agreement is about to be reached.

8 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Reggie is the one on the left ?

Ah so don’t accept a cigarette from him ( you’ll have to Google to understand) Ooh that means that Ronnie is on the right. Oh dear………

1 minute ago, Jimbo Ram said:

The look silly ? 

Oh. Don’t I look stupid now. But which one is Reggie and which one Ronnie? ?

1 minute ago, Jimbo Ram said:

Bit of the Krays about them ?

Yes I was thinking just that, though without the murders, and the extortion, and the protection rackets, armed robbery, arson, oh and without one of them diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and ending up in a prison hospital for the criminally insane,  and the other contracting bladder cancer, and buying their mum a pub in Spitalfields called the Carpenter’s Arms (still there with the bar supposedly made of coffin lids) but otherwise………

5 minutes ago, Steve How Hard? said:

Easy girlfriend. Keep up with the thread. I was comparing the two different types of Guinness, the West Indies Porter and the Nigerian brewed one. Go and have a drink and calm the sen down. 

Easy girlfriend? Oh dear that tells me an awful lot about you. Sad really.  So I’ll set it out in bullet point so you’ll perhaps understand:-

1 Guinness West Indies Porter. Brewed to a 1801 recipe. 6%. Re-brewed a few years ago. There is no Nigerian brewed version, there are no versions, just the original.

2 Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Brewed originally for troops and ex pats in the colonies. 7.5% (but 8% in Malaysia). Extra hopped for the long sea journey. Now brewed in most Commonwealth countries either by Guinness if there’s a Guinness brewery in the country (like Guinness Ghana) or by a local brewery under licence. Out of interest, all beer brewed in Nigeria contains sorghum and officianados claim to be able to tell the difference with the Nigerian Guinness Foreign Extra because of sorghum. I can’t. 
 

I’m just finishing a glass of Guinness Foreign Extra from Zambia. Chilled. Very smooth.

45 minutes ago, Steve How Hard? said:

 

It says it's brewed in Nigeria on the bottle buddy. ?‍♂️

Yes that’s the Nigerian brewed version of Guinness Foreign Extra. I was talking about the confusion between this and Guinness  West Indies Porter. Two different drinks. Keep up.

1 minute ago, Ramant62 said:

and I had a scotch egg...great minds etc

And I’ve just had a Scotch whisky! Spooky or what?

On 29/10/2021 at 20:15, Steve How Hard? said:

Found this variation of Guinness today. Not as good as the Nigerian version imho but definitely not the worst drink I've had. 

Nigerian version? There isn’t one. Nigeria is almost my second home. Are you confusing this with Guinness Foreign Extra which is brewed and available in all the countries that were once part of the Empire and is 7.5% and meant to be chilled. I’ve knocked back quite a few Foreign Extra in The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Malaysia, Barbados and India over the years.    West Indies Porter is brewed from a Guinness recipe from 1801 and the alcohol content is 6%. Although from a similar root, it’s a very different drink from Foreign Extra.

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15 hours ago, 1977 Ram Raider said:

What type of asbestos is that?

Well we do asbestos we can….

2 minutes ago, Owen87ITK said:

changes just throw a wrench in everyone’s plans. 

It throws a spanner in mine

12 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

What's the pun-ishment?

A spell in a pun-itentionary?

12 hours ago, StockholmRam said:

” disinterested” while earning umpteen million a year. Read that word again ” disinterested”.

Me and modern football are getting so far away from each other. Spurs meh... footballers who are disinterested...meh.

Take them for every penny Nuno. You are not the one at fault here. 

Im leaving this thread now. It disinterests me. 

I love to leap in when anyone uses the word “disinterested “ wrongly though I assume you are quoting.  “Disinterested” means impartial or unbiased, like a cricket umpire. “Uninterested” means having no interest or concern about something.
 

Interestingly, (and confusingly) if you’re a word nerd like me, the noun of “disinterested” is “disinterestedness” but the noun of “uninterested” is “disinterest”.  Therefore players can appear to be uninterested and play with disinterest.  I watch my nearest club West Ham with disinterestedness because I don’t support them, they are just the closest to my home. Phew, I need a lie down now.