Turk Thrust

The over use of Absolutely instead of Yes. And my pet hate that’s caught on in the last few years of starting a sentence, particularly an answer, with So……

On a quiz show last week to the contestant, Q   what do for a living? A   so, I’m an IT technician.  Q. Any hobbies?  A. so, I like surfing.   Q and if you won the money, what would you do with it.   A.    so, I’d like to spend it on a world cruise

duh. 

5 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

I don’t think we should believe friendlies represent anything more than training.

 I think we will struggle to break teams down based on our current personnel.

A lack of pace and trickery, combined with no obvious partner for Collins to find with crosses, could make us easy to defend against.

Agree. I think we will struggle to score many

13 hours ago, FlyBritishMidland said:

Crikey, I wished I’d never read this thread as you’ve started something now.  Another is going forward. Why do people need to say “going forward we need to”?  What else are you going to.  Reverse time and do it again?

”What I’m thinking in my mind…”.  Well where else are you thinking (don’t answer that 😂)??

”A question for me…”.  Who else are you asking it for??!!

Yes using redundant words and saying the same thing twice is called tautology, like “an added bonus”, “a major breakthrough”

41 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

The players are actually female French players but with the heads of the male players super imposed on them. 
 

Blimey. I must be getting old not to have noticed that! I’ll just have my Horlicks and have an early night. 🫣

Hmm. Not sure what to say. I wasn’t amazed. It was just good football highlights. Why was it brilliant?

8 hours ago, YouRams said:

People forget this when they say about players moving clubs and we should be beating the likes of such and such to signings. We have very nice training facilities, stadium and 30k fans but it's a new house and a new city (which ours is looking more of a **** hole every time you go into it) I do sometimes wonder if that genuinely puts players off, can't just take them to Duffield and hope they don't see the town 😂

Agree. I moved from Derby ( born and bred) 40 years ago and in the occasional times I return, I feel so sad to see the state of the city. Looks really run down. And as for the beautiful Friargate bridge, don’t get me started. I can understand why footballers would be put off.

On 29/06/2023 at 22:05, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Yeah sure.

Should be tomorrow, cloudy Saturday but my wife said it's Sonny again on Sunday.

I’ve heard today will be Muggy, followed by Tuggy, Weggy and Thurgy…..

17 hours ago, Eddie said:

I have the utter contempt for people who are deliberately stupid.

But surely Eddie, no one is deliberately stupid. It’s innate innit

15 minutes ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Davison and Hector.  This geezers scored a massive 67 league goals in 10 years, including 5 years in this league. 

Are you sure ?

6 hours ago, David said:

6 hours ago, David said:

Had some health issues I believe, stepped away from the forum 🙁

Unfortunately Ovis Aries passed away about 4 years ago

Gravity sucks!

I miss all my mates I had in the late 60s and early 70s in Derby before I moved firstly to Brum and then to London. I also wonder what happened to all my old girlfriends

Is our badge the only one in the PL and EFL that doesn’t contain the name or club initials?

Outside toilet with strips of Daily Mirror hanging as toilet paper

Just back from the WHU v Arsenal match. Arsenal looked really good at first with quick goals. But then WHU came back into the game and were the best team in the second half. Arsenal looked really ragged after Saka’s missed penalty

2 hours ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

 

EDIT - I should add that I’ll enjoy the ride whatever happens, league one or championship next season bring it on. 

Me too. Think I prefer to go for promotion next season when restrictions are lifted but will always be there 

5 minutes ago, Premier ram said:

 

                            

31 minutes ago, Pontius Pilate said:

Speaking of karma, do you think this bad run of form you're on is a result of not paying your taxes?

Dear Pontius Pikelet, I feel much calmer now it’s odds on Florist will go down

Not a legend for me. Yes had some great games, but not a Derby lover

8 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

David and Boycie.....

Which is which though. One’s a big fat lump and the other is small, cuddly and loveable. Hmm I wonder….

I lived the first half of my life in Derby (I’m now 76) and I was around when the cattle market was up and running in the, then, town, centre. Blood and guts running everywhere. And the smell!  And there was the long wooden bridge from the river gardens, a real safety hazard. Thankfully all gone but others have gone which shouldn’t have. And the lovely St Alkmund’s Churchyard opposite St Mary’s Church, sadly demolished to make way for the inner ring road. Next to St Michael’s Church was the centuries old Nottingham Castle pub and the chapel where Wesley preached. Just torn down. Just a car park I think now. 
 

I only very occasionally go back to Derby and I find the centre very down beat. Just walk down St Peter’s Street and look up beyond the shopfronts. Dirty and decrepit. The gorgeous Friargate Bridge in disrepair.  Don’t get me wrong. Most of my memories are in Derby, from the Baseball Ground to my times in the Sea Cadets, my much loved school days at Joseph Wright School of Art,  to the 60s Mod days on a scooter with a stuffed squirrel on the aerial top, meeting mates at the Seven Stars, my first job as a librarian in the Wardwick, then at the Unemployment Benefit Office in Normanton Road. Great memories but Derby is now for me peopled with ghosts of the past and depressing. I am pleased though that something is going to happen to the market place and the choice of Derby for the GBR HQ.

1 hour ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Harry M. Stevens, eldest son of James Stevens, a foreman of Midland Railway Locomotive in Derby!

But the most popular story concerning Harry Stevens relates to a chilly April day at New York City’s Polo Ground, in 1901. By now, Stevens had the catering concession for major league baseball games, but was losing money trying to sell ice cream and cold soda. He sent out his salesmen to buy up all of the ‘dachshund’ sausages they could find, along with rolls to put them in, and encouraged his vendors to go round the ground shouting “They’re red hot. Get your dachshund sausages here”.

https://www.visitderby.co.uk/things-to-do/how-derby-invented-the-hot-dog

Well, it sounds good, but it’s only one of many origin stories unfortunately 

1 minute ago, Bob The Badger said:

Great story.

Have you considered a career answering questions on Quora?

You'd be most excellent at it. 

OMFG, it's almost like she knows what she's talking about!

At the 6.20 mark, she asks people to challenge her.

Are you up for it @G STAR RAM?

There'd be no texting other members of this board under the table if you get stuck though. That wouldn't be fair, she's an old lady who wasn't even born for the bits where she wasn't born so how could she know anything?

 

 

Quora? What’s that? Not sure why I’d be good at answering questions on it whatever it is. 

I met Mr Lineker a few years ago at a “do”.  Someone muttered “self preening, pompous @#%*” as he walked away. I assumed he was talking about GL and not me. But just about sums GL up 

I went to the game yesterday. Florist were absolutely terrible. Really poor. To be honest West Ham weren’t much better but they have some good players. The Red dogs fans starting leaving in their droves after the 2nd goal.

I was in a god-forsaken place called Bolgatanga in northern Ghana a few years ago and some local lads were playing football ( no grass, no boots, pitch like concrete, temperature in the 30s) and one of them was wearing a very old and dirty and worn Rams shirt. I had to leave before I had the chance to ask him where on earth he had got it.