Turk Thrust
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26 minutes ago, MuespachRam said:
Im so sorry for you.
Well it’s not Derby but it is just four Tube stops away and for over 65s a ST is £150!
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On 31/05/2021 at 11:20, Woodley Ram said:
whilst in the shower this morning I got to thinking what clubs are known for their, for want of a better word, nick names.
I thought the strongest were the following
Spurs
Rams
Hammers
Owls
I thought that most are known my the names of the club or even a shortened version such as Man Utd etc but although most clubs have a nickname few are known by them
I’ve been a STH at West Ham for 4 years and I’ve never heard anyone refer to them as The Hammers anymore. It’s the Irons and even the official screen says COYI.
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18 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:
I'm not bad. Just got back from the office and treated myself to a nice red pepper and feta salad. Feeling anxious a lot of the time atm as my studying time is coming to an end in the next 6 months tops and my ideal job (post doc researcher, junior lecturer) doesn't look likely in the slightest. As a result, I'm scrambling around trying to think of what I could do career wise.
After reading this and some if the other posts saying similar things about getting jobs, I am thankful that I have moved past that awful and worrying stage in life. I’m now 74 and retired 10 years ago. Paid off the mortgage, had an extension built (on the house, not me). I started out at Derby College of Art (in Green Lane) but left and signed on the dole, became a librarian (Warwick then Littleover branch) then various jobs before settling on Information management and spent the last 30 years advising developing countries on economic and structural and civil service reform. But I can remember the bad times and really feel for those younger ones leaving college but desperately trying to find a job of their choice. However, things have a habit of working out OK in the end.
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3 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:
Where? ?
Tintwhistle just north of Glossop
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I’m surprised at how many celebs were born in Derbyshire, but not sure if they are Rams fans.
Tom Chambers (Holby City and Strictly winner) born in Darley Dale
Jason Statham born in Shirebrook
Vivienne Westwood from Tintwhistld
Gwen Taylor (Duty Free and currently in Eastenders) from Crich
Author Hilary Mantel from Hadfield
Ellen Macarthur from Whatstandwell
and me
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Mail saying former Benfica boss Bruno Lage or ex Porto boss Vitor Pereira among the contenders
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1-0 Lawrence. We stay up!
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Just now, Turk Thrust said:
Black and white?
Oops too late. Others have taken it up
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13 minutes ago, Boycie said:
I bet his family remember the tonking Real Madrid got when they came to our little stadium in the days of black n white.
Black and white?
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16 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:
If he puts his trousers on left leg first, it'll be a sign everything is about to fall apart. Right leg first and he's a chancer who will bring us ruin.
But what if he sits on the bed and puts both legs in at the same time?
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26 minutes ago, Orphanram said:
Before putting Brian Clough on a Tory vs Labour moral pedestal, his views towards Justin Fashanu sexuality and his flexible socialist attitude when taking a bung make uncomfortable reading. I haven’t got a problem with Brian Clough whatsoever and still consider him a hero but in today’s cancel culture society it’s remarkable how we find a way to excuse the misdemeanours of those we love and weaponise what we can against those we dislike. Michael Jackson, David Bowie and John Peel seemingly get a free pass when it comes to being cancelled whilst poor old Leon Brittan’s family were utterly hounded with what turned out to be a smear campaign.
What I do think is fair is that these questions are raised with Alonso as it’s not unreasonable for fans to want to know about his views on such things. I can’t say I’m particularly thrilled if he has ‘Far’ right views but I find the views of the ‘Far’ left as equally deplorable and neo liberal cancel everybody and everything bunch the worst of the lot. This probably means the chances of us finding a perfect custodian of the club as I would like it pretty remote.
Quite. When I heard this possible takeover my first thoughts were whether or not the owners could bring investment and success to my club. But some others seem to look at his politics first and trot out the same issues as for the previous would be owner. Some even said that politics are more important than Derby County! Sacrilege!
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Uninterested and disinterested. There’s a difference but so many posters say that “he appeared to be disinterested”. Should be “uninterested”. “Disinterested” means unbiased.
The noun of “disinterested” is “ disinterestedness” but confusingly the noun of “uninterested” is “disinterest” so it is correct to say “he appeared to play with disinterest” but wrong to use “disinterested”.
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58 minutes ago, Wignall12 said:
Load of b@lls if you ask me .....and on cue I'll get my coat
He might just pocket the money
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6 hours ago, Reggie Greenwood said:
That name was tried out and failed at Mickleover Sports and we have always been a County club not just the City and surrounding places.
Yes. Note that we were created as an offshoot of Derbyshire Cricket Club but they thought that the first name that the football club came up with - Derbyshire FC- would be confused with the cricket side and so we became Derby County. But I do like Derby Galaxy
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Another grammatical one that is faintly annoying this time involving comparative expressions of the prefix ‘more’ and the suffix ‘er’. You often see some incorrect examples such as
His cat is more large than my dog.(wrong)
His cat is larger than my dog. (Correct)
There are a few basic rules that make it easy to tell when you should add ‘er’ or (ier) and when you should use ‘more’
For adjectives that are just one syllable, add -er to the end (big and bigger, green and greener, fat and fatter, loud and louder etc)
For two-syllable adjectives not ending in -y and for all three-or-more-syllable adjectives, use the form “more + adjective.” (Exciting and more exciting, humid and more humid,)
For two-syllable adjectives ending in -y, change the -y to -i and add -er. (Funny and funnier, muddy and muddier)
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1 hour ago, Pearl Ram said:
Got it on mute, don’t know who I detest more between Carragher and Sue Smith who was on Soccer Saturday. And that brings me to a bit of a conundrum... do you know anybody in your everyday life who refers to football as soccer ? ?
I don’t, I’m sure it’s a television world word, I mean, if soccer was correct, wouldn’t we have the SA as opposed to the FA ?
Sorry for rambling, you don’t need to respond to that. ?
Oh I do and lots of mates who are around my age (74). When I was first taken by dad to see Stanley Mathews at the BBG it was called soccer as much as it was called football and lots of magazines had Soccer in the title. (Soccer World, Soccer Review, Soccer Star etc) It’s not an American thing, it comes from Association football (hence soccer) to distinguish it from Rugby football (rugger). But I suppose it’s use now is just us old gits and Americans (who first adopted the word when it was still called soccer here and to distinguish it from American football)
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20 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:
I lived in Burton for 18 years, and have been coming back regularly since I left, and I’ve never once thought it smells bad, nor has anyone else in Burton said anything. And yet everyone who lives outside Burton says it stinks.
Is it like the smelly kid at school, who doesn’t realise he smells?
I used to travel from Derby to Brum every day in the 70s and going through Burton was incredibly smelly with the sickly waft of the breweries combined with sausage smell (was it Robirch?’
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My next thing that irks me is also a grammatical one. This time it is tautology. A tautology is an expression or phrase that says the same thing twice, just in a different way, for example “a round circle”. For this reason, a tautology is usually undesirable, as it can make you sound wordier than you need to be, and make you appear foolish. It’s best to choose just one way to state your meaning and eliminate the extra and unnecessary verbiage.
common tautological examples include:-
a new innovation, evening sunset, an added bonus, an over-exaggeration, personally I think....., a short summary, in close proximity, a necessary requirement, sad misfortune, a hot water heater and so on
You can also have logical tautologies, as with the phrase “You’re either hungry or you’re not.” “to be or not to be” These kinds of tautologies are self-cancelling. In other words, the sentence is always true since it includes both possibilities.
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Come on Mods. There are two current Lampard themes, one under Ex Rams and the other under Football Forum
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Aubergines. The vegetable of the devil. Ugh. (And yes I know it’s actually a fruit but most fruit I eat are lovely and tasty)
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Aberrant apostrophes! The problem seems to lie in people’s inability to recognise that there are only two possible uses for apostrophes – one being to show ownership of something – a possessive apostrophe and the other to denote a letter (or letters) left out of a word. This is known as a contraction or abbreviation apostrophe.
examples - possessive apostrophe would be “the player’s socks” meaning the socks belonging to one player. If you are referring to the socks of many players you simply make a plural by adding an s to player and add the apostrophe so it would be “the players’ socks.
an abbreviation apostrophe would be “the player’s left the club” in this case the word “has” has been left out and replaced by an apostrophe.
It’s true things can get slightly more complicated with words and names that already end in an ‘s’ but for a singular word ending in ‘s’ we just add ’s – as in “the boss’s complaint”. Though it can be permitted to just add an apostrophe eg “the boss’ complaint
Granted things are more difficult with “it’s” which is an example of an abbreviation apostrophe meaning “it is” but the possessive example is “its” so we have “it’s a great stadium and its pitch is perfect”.
See? Simple really. Once a damn teacher, always a teacher
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I went for my COVID jab and the doctor asked me if I had had a sudden loss of taste. I said no. I always dress like this
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5 minutes ago, BramcoteRam84 said:
Except he’s ripping it up this season more than last season. 9 goals and 3 assists in 13 games.
Don’t think he’s a one season wonder
Unless last season’s record was as good as this season so far, then he’s a one season wonder
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Yep they still have the song but a record not a live band. It’s hardly a rousing song to get the blood up is it “I’m forever blowing bleeding bubbles” My nearest team is the Orient, a lovely little family club with a supporters club bar that has won CAMRA awards. I go there now and again, once wearing a Rams shirt and didn’t have to pay for a drink all night.