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If anyone's wondering why I've put a song that was released in the 60s in the 90s classics - it didn't chart until 1992.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet.

I can only tell you what he told me, and I had no reason to doubt him.

I hardly drink now. A couple of glasses of wine with the roast on Sunday. I used to drink a little most evenings when I was working, it was a psychological reward for me after a days efforts. But I've never been a big drinker, partly because of a lad I met when I was around 20 years old. I used to do agency driving jobs to earn a bit of cash to supplement my income and that's when I met this lad, I'd taken over from him for a few days as he'd been ill. I met him on his return and he still looked pretty ill, jaundiced with a sallow complexion and losing his hair. He was 23. I asked him how he was and he said he had drink problems. He said that he'd become used to drink, and now had to drink quite a lot for the alcohol to have any effect. I asked him how much he regularly drank and he said 7 - 8 pints a night on a weekday but if he wanted to get slaughtered he'd drink 23 - 24 pints on a Friday or Saturday night. I'd never seen anyone look so ill so young without any other contributing conditions and I swore I'd never end up like him. The learning lesson for me was that he didn't see the damage the drink was doing to him.

Second one better by half?

If we shoot ourselves in the foot any more we won't have any toes left.

We could learn from cricket. Have VAR as a technology that is there but not used unless requested by a manager or the ref. Give managers two VAR appeals per game when they can ask for a decision to be reviewed and that's it. The ref can request a VAR review when they wish. Should speed up the game, cut down the number of reviews and improve decision accuracy.

Not an essential to me. Useful to have it to receive phone calls and the odd text but like a lot of my generation it's not an integral part of my life. I frequently go out and leave it on the coffee table.

I don't have any recent experience with insurers but some years ago I ran into one insurance company that had a habit of turning down claims or offering below what the customer thought they were entitled to. They only revised their offers upwards if the customer didn't accept their first offer. Again I'm not recent with this but some insurance companies used to use Glass' Guide for car values rather than the insured cost or a publication like Parkers. Hopefully there are some on here that have more recent experience than myself.

Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit. We have better quality players and a better manager. Our team will expect to win even if we go a goal down. QPR may fear to lose even if they go a goal up. The current regime isn't working for them and they need a change pretty urgently. They've been a big team before and have the potential to be so again. I first saw them at Filbert Street when they had Rodney Marsh and Stan Bowles in the side and they were a force to be reckoned with. Provided we turn up, and I can't see Enzo putting out a side that wouldn't, we have a great chance. And if we win and that promotes changes within QPR then both sides will benefit.

This is painful to watch.

Impressed by how many grounds some have visited. I can add Fulham Craven Cottage to the list. It was fifty years ago but there was no crowd trouble in an era where it was common and a good atmosphere inside the ground.

I didn't know that Symphonic Metal was a genre until I discovered Nightwish

Your desire to battle on at work despite feeling ill is commendable, but do you work closely with colleagues? If so you could infect them with whatever bug you have which wouldn't be doing them or your employer any favours. Also if you are ill and work it will probably take you longer to recover than if you rest up.

One of my favourite tracks from the Diesel and Dust album and one of several highlighting the Aboriginal people of Australia.

Now we find out if Stoke have a Plan B.

Sorry to hear about your Mum Izzy. We can often deal with our own health problems, and I know that you've had more than your fair share, but we can feel helpless when loved ones become ill. I hope that she's getting some timely treatment.

How many times have we sent a player out on loan only for him to get very little game time? Enzo appears to have no fear in playing loanees which in the longer term will make other clubs more willing to let us have potentially very decent players on loan. The down side is that we send out a below optimum side but we may not need to have our best out today and in any case we have a great bench.

Hi Izzy, thanks for remembering me. I have been ill and I noticed that my posts were becoming more and more negative (and my 'world' was shrinking so much that I couldn't see much past my own condition). So I decided to stop posting and only start up again when things were better. I'm still not in perfect health but I have undergone a procedure which has improved my condition, and I also got the all clear after another investigation causing my GP some concern. So I hope that I'm on the mend now. I started looking at FT a couple of weeks ago and took the plunge and logged in today. I saw that you'd had a bad time with Covid, hope that you're improving now.

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