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29 Sep 2024 09:22:18
Heres a english word question, for those who fancy a challenge.
As my wife is an A level english teacher I finally caught her out on this, and also another head of english too.
What word describes the sweet smell in the air when its started to rain and also after a very light shower.
One for you here Stokey.
1.) 29 Sep 2024 10:01:06
Petrichor.
2.) 29 Sep 2024 10:08:54
Argillaceous odour. Petrichor is a made up word.
3.) 29 Sep 2024 17:33:23
It’s a good one Redsocks mate. Never heard of it and had to google ??
It’s a wonderful and evocative smell though especially after hot weather. It’s like when I smell cigarettes I always think of going to the City Ground with my Dad before smoking was banned.
Marcel Proust famously wrote a whole segment of his wonderful novel “A la recherche du Temps perdu” translated roughly as “In search of lost Time” after smelling a batch of freshly baked Madeline cakes.
I also thought of one of my favourite poems by Edward Thomas called “Tall Nettles” which ends:
“This corner of the farmyard I like most,
More than the bloom of any flower,
The dust on the nettles never lost,
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.”
Just lovely.
26 Aug 2024 16:56:18
Read in Saturday's paper that HS2 trains have to be altered due to wrong platform levels. They have built the new station platforms for HS2 trains at a lower level, so the new carriages are built to suit that level. So when the HS2 carriages go into standard station platform station it's the wrong level.
£200,000,000 to now alter the carriages, whose fault is it at design level?. Disabled folk might not even be able to use these trains. HS2 is UKs show piece to the world, did we invent railways?
{Ed033's Note - We might have founded railways. :)
1.) 26 Aug 2024 19:06:51
Awful if that's correct Socks. What a waste of taxpayers' money.
I wouldn't spend that sort of money just so disabled people can use it though - sod them, make them crawl.
2.) 27 Aug 2024 17:14:43
Just read “British Rail, the making and breaking of our railways” by Christian Wolmar who is THE go to expert on railways for all the media, press and governments. If you want to know exactly what a disaster privatisation was and is, just have a read of this friends.
Such basic errors as platform height differences and facilities for the disabled would never have occured with an integrated system as run by British Rail.
Incidentally, there was absolutely no appetite for privatisation until John Major decided it might be a good money spinner to sell off the operation already paid for by me and you, the long suffering tax payers. It was such a shambles he never mentioned it in his autobiography which is 900 pages long. ……
By the way, the stories of British Rail running dirty stations, late trains, stale sandwiches and the wrong type of snow on the tracks are complete media inventions by the Tory Press to prepare the way for its break up. As late as 2021, the spiv Transport Minister Grant Shapps was still peddling these lies…….
3.) 27 Aug 2024 17:26:49
I was banging on about this sort of thing to my worldly wise friend Bowie a few weeks ago with reference to his line of work with the privatised water companies. How can Thames Water for example, go bankrupt ( and pollute our rivers) when all the infrastructure was already in place from the tax payer going back to Victorian times and their raw material falls from the skys?
Like the banks, railways, water companies etc the bosses are paid handsomely for failure knowing the Governnent will bail them out at our expense ( and they still pay out dividends). To Thames Water, add Lloyds Bank, Bradford and Bingly, Royal Bank of Scotland and East Coast Railway etc etc ???.
02 Jun 2024 16:28:42
A man walked down the road and saw a bedraggled man fishing in a large puddle in the road. Feeling sorry for the fisherman he offered to buy him a drink in a near by pub. After he drunk his pint he was offered another. The man said, how many have you caught today, to which the man said, " eight, and you make it nine".
1.) 02 Jun 2024 18:41:07
The old man comes round from his operation, a bit groggy, he sees a nurse and says " Nurse are my tentacles black", the nurse says "I'm sure I don't know", " please nurse can you check" says the old man. The nurse lifts the blankets, pulls aside his hospital gown and says " They look fine to me". The old man clears his throat and says, " NURSE, are my TEST RESULTS BACK! ".
14 Mar 2024 19:07:47
Just look at the remains fixtures, we play bottom six. All six pointers.
1.) 14 Mar 2024 21:24:40
That's what I've been saying redsocks, it's in our own hands
If we can't get enough points from the games we have left then we don't deserve to stay up
What I want to see is good team selection
No giving free kicks away around our area and then putting chances away
All down to nuno to pick the right side, no square pegs in round holes.
2.) 15 Mar 2024 01:06:48
Hopefully we will be all right with the run-in we've got. Still scary though. Don't know why, I wasn't this worried last season. COME ON FOREST! PLEASE!
23 Jun 2023 16:14:05
Just idling the time away this sunny afternoon, so I decided to look up Garibaldi quotes. There's a fair few to be going at, he was dedicated to the cause, hope this coming season is the same with our team. Now there's a leader, think J C, could do worse for our coaching team.
28 Aug 2024 23:08:48
Is it in the contract that he could be dragged kicking and screaming to play in Greece, regardless what he wants.
09 Jun 2024 09:37:09
Sorry, not for me.
01 Oct 2024 21:25:28
I am up early tonight, and it's not a full moon. Just to say welcome to our world, the coffin lid was not refitted properly.
29 Sep 2024 20:29:39
Been out all day Stokey, and missed your quiz. Port Vale - got that, but struggling with the other.
With your nettles in the farmyard, our dog is allergic to nettle pollen and at the moment its count is high. Poor dog's eyes are red raw.
29 Sep 2024 09:15:11
Dont ask me to explain, my wife is a retired english A level teacher and I regularly get pulled up on apostrophe usage. Its as though I never left school.
{Ed033's Note - Right, i found it amusing that Scouseduckred's post contained 13 random numbers and he asked if it was acceptable. So i replied that it's unacceptable and noticed he pluralised Ed as Ed's so added the last sentence as a laugh.
28 Sep 2024 17:43:19
Never mind what they did, or the penalty, what did we do and did we look the part. NO!.
22 Sep 2024 18:18:12
Ref nicely turned out, has his kit worn to his style. Impressed me no end, as for his decisions.?.