The “ I’ve got something to say, but it doesn’t warrant its own thread “ thread.

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, foxile5 said:

Oh jeeze, yeah. Much easier to make policy that placates comment sections and shuts up the vox populi rather than make a difficult decision that's going to get them all chuntering. Particularly when political horizons only stretch as far as the next election, now. 

 

Imagine if there were a really serious communicable disease in the next year or two. You'd never instigate a lockdown again. Too many folks knowin' their rights about the scamdemics. It simply wouldn't happen. So doubtless the pandemic response policies of the future will be shaped around that. No point doing the scientifically sensible thing if those with the loud, aggressive voices are going to call the Chief Medical Officer an industry plant, or whatever. 

 

 

That's about the size of it, yes. People always tend to think that the outcome of exercising free choice is a universal positive, because, you know "freedom" and all that. It is not.

 

I've no idea how you square the particular circle we're talking about and I think neither does anyone else, not really, but someone had better come up with an idea, because the Earth isn't going to wait around for us to get ourselves together as a species. Covid was just a light warning shot. The next shot may well be bigger, and somewhere much more vital.

 

 

[AyewJoking]

in the film, Taken...

 

Liam Neesons character offers to follow his daughter to Paris to make sure she is safe as he is very good at being invisible.

 

She says no but why doesnt he go anyway? 

 

If he's that good she'll never have known until he intervenes and saves her life for which she can hardly be angry with him?

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 hours ago, AyewJoking said:

in the film, Taken...

 

Liam Neesons character offers to follow his daughter to Paris to make sure she is safe as he is very good at being invisible.

 

She says no but why doesnt he go anyway? 

 

If he's that good she'll never have known until he intervenes and saves her life for which she can hardly be angry with him?

And then we wouldn't have to watch the film.

[Jon the Hat]

On 20/04/2026 at 02:53, HighPeakFox said:

He's not weird, he's way way beyond that and scarily so. 

He is starting from a base of weird undoubtedly.  He's moved on from that to actually mentally ill.  

[Ian Nacho]

I wonder if reversing distance is counted in your cars trip calculator

[abc]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

I wonder if reversing distance is counted in your cars trip calculator

Give Ferris Bueller's Day Off a watch.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

I wonder if reversing distance is counted in your cars trip calculator

In modern cars it is added to your odometer. If your trip calculator works off that, then I guess so.

 

[Trumpet]

Unhomogenised milk is superb. 

 

[grobyfox1990]

After Arsenal at home in August 2016, first home game as champions, after the match at the Highcross i overheard a bloke at the bar say ‘I wish we were back in league 1 as it was so much better then.’ I have no context as to why he said it, but over all these years I’ve thought about him frequently. During the champions league run, the champagne football of 2019, fa cup win and in Rome at the semi final. Well today that m*****++++++cker got his wish 

[bovril]

15 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

After Arsenal at home in August 2016, first home game as champions, after the match at the Highcross i overheard a bloke at the bar say ‘I wish we were back in league 1 as it was so much better then.’ I have no context as to why he said it, but over all these years I’ve thought about him frequently. During the champions league run, the champagne football of 2019, fa cup win and in Rome at the semi final. Well today that m*****++++++cker got his wish 

I've always thought of Leicestershirians as the most English of everyone in England, maybe because they're right in the middle but also because they have that "mustn't grumble" mentality and comfort in being mediocre that exists in the country as a whole but seems to be taken to a whole other level by much of our fan base. 

[CornwallFox]

21 minutes ago, bovril said:

I've always thought of Leicestershirians as the most English of everyone in England, maybe because they're right in the middle but also because they have that "mustn't grumble" mentality and comfort in being mediocre that exists in the country as a whole but seems to be taken to a whole other level by much of our fan base. 

I've always wondered if there's an official word for people from Leicester. My favoured choice is "Leicesteronians' as I think that was an in-built custom team in Sensible Soccer back in the day.

Edited 21 April by CornwallFox

[urban.spaceman]

New life milestone passed today: my first relegation ‘California sober’. Happy 421. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

6 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I've always wondered if there's an official word for people from Leicester. 

Chavs.

 

 

On an actual serious note, Chizits.

[Jon the Hat]

6 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

I've always wondered if there's an official word for people from Leicester. My favoured choice is "Leicesteronians' as I think that was an in-built custom team in Sensible Soccer back in the day.

Lestohians surely.

[Stadt]

13 hours ago, bovril said:

I've always thought of Leicestershirians as the most English of everyone in England, maybe because they're right in the middle but also because they have that "mustn't grumble" mentality and comfort in being mediocre that exists in the country as a whole but seems to be taken to a whole other level by much of our fan base. 

Across a few different metrics it's the worst funded (the non-metropolitan area) county in the country. In a pork barrel county you need to moan and we only do it the most impotent grumbly way 

[Corky]

15 hours ago, grobyfox1990 said:

After Arsenal at home in August 2016, first home game as champions, after the match at the Highcross i overheard a bloke at the bar say ‘I wish we were back in league 1 as it was so much better then.’ I have no context as to why he said it, but over all these years I’ve thought about him frequently. During the champions league run, the champagne football of 2019, fa cup win and in Rome at the semi final. Well today that m*****++++++cker got his wish 

Someone on here, I believe it was @Paninistickers, claimed a while ago that an element of our fanbase cannot cope with the idea of us having a good team, having excellent players, and it is utterly bewildering.

[Paninistickers]

1 hour ago, Corky said:

Someone on here, I believe it was @Paninistickers, claimed a while ago that an element of our fanbase cannot cope with the idea of us having a good team, having excellent players, and it is utterly bewildering.

Yup, I can't remember the exact post or point but its one I agree with..

 

It's quite deep..We are a loser City. Loser mentality. For decades I've heard Leicester people decry the place. 'It's shit' is the default description. No civic pride. No dignity. No self respect. We don't have many winners here. Successful business people outside of the Asian community get fewer and farer. 

 

I nipped into the stag whilst working in London and was genuinely amazed to chat with a couple of lads who were eloquent and doing well for themselves. Even to me, it didn't seem right that Leicester people can make a career for themselves in another city..

 

The point is, there's thousands of our fans who are inherently uncomfortable with dining at the top table, being popular and in a way, the responsibility that comes with style, popularity and success. 

 

 

 

 

[bovril]

I think it's also partially because of the narrative created by the media around the title win and reinforced by KP that we were a little no mark team that miraculously won the league. A lot of our fans seem to have forgotten we were pretty successful not that many years before. I kind of understand it to be honest, it was such a fairytale, but we were never a small club. 

[Stadt]

15 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think it's also partially because of the narrative created by the media around the title win and reinforced by KP that we were a little no mark team that miraculously won the league. A lot of our fans seem to have forgotten we were pretty successful not that many years before. I kind of understand it to be honest, it was such a fairytale, but we were never a small club. 

It's so arbitrary but if we'd won the title in 1928, or won a few FA cups in the 60s - literally had about 270 minutes' worth of football  gone differently 50-100 we'd be viewed as a bigger club. Pre-war titles and pre-PL titles especially have such an outsized influence on the perception of a club's size.

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

It's so arbitrary but if we'd won the title in 1928, or won a few FA cups in the 60s - literally had about 270 minutes' worth of football  gone differently 50-100 we'd be viewed as a bigger club. Pre-war titles and pre-PL titles especially have such an outsized influence on the perception of a club's size.

Trust me it doesn't... 

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Trust me it doesn't... 

Wolves are viewed as a relatively big club

[The Bear]

If you look at the various stats and history of the English league then we're supposed to be massive. We've won 3 top flite league tiles, and runner up 5 times. 4 FA Cups and 1 League Cup. We come 5th in the all time football league table too. 

 

But we aren't viewed that way. We're a decent sized club but not one of the BIG clubs. 

 

The problem is current perception, in that we've only spent 11 seasons in the Premier League since 1984

So we're only really seen as a big Championship club, not a top flite one. Recent history always counts more than distant history. 

 

[Corky]

2 hours ago, The Bear said:

If you look at the various stats and history of the English league then we're supposed to be massive. We've won 3 top flite league tiles, and runner up 5 times. 4 FA Cups and 1 League Cup. We come 5th in the all time football league table too. 

 

But we aren't viewed that way. We're a decent sized club but not one of the BIG clubs. 

 

The problem is current perception, in that we've only spent 11 seasons in the Premier League since 1984

So we're only really seen as a big Championship club, not a top flite one. Recent history always counts more than distant history. 

 

Football in league form has been around for nearly 140 years. Cup football for over 155 years. Yet perception is narrowed to probably between 1950s to 1990s. Huddersfield won three titles in a row, the same overall as Leeds, yet would never be considered a similar size. Football has fluctuated throughout time and has probably been through several revolutions.

 

I mean, Man City are labelled as cheats for their recent behaviour yet Arsenal, in 1915, allegedly bribed their way to promotion. As it was before anyone who is alive now would remember it, it wouldn't be mentioned.

[Fox92]

5 minutes ago, Corky said:

Football in league form has been around for nearly 140 years. Cup football for over 155 years. Yet perception is narrowed to probably between 1950s to 1990s. Huddersfield won three titles in a row, the same overall as Leeds, yet would never be considered a similar size. Football has fluctuated throughout time and has probably been through several revolutions.

 

I mean, Man City are labelled as cheats for their recent behaviour yet Arsenal, in 1915, allegedly bribed their way to promotion. As it was before anyone who is alive now would remember it, it wouldn't be mentioned.

Arsenal's history is really interesting. They've never been relegated since then have they? Remember they were formed in South London too, and moved. Nothing different from MK Dons yet they're newer so get labelled "plastic" or whatever.

[grobyfox1990]

52 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Arsenal's history is really interesting. They've never been relegated since then have they? Remember they were formed in South London too, and moved. Nothing different from MK Dons yet they're newer so get labelled "plastic" or whatever.

Woolwich Arsenal are a docklands club through and through. Prob did get called the 1913 version of plastics until the generation forgot about it, just like youngsters now will think AFC wimbo and MK dons are two distinct clubs.

And Arsenal moving out of Plumstead was for v similar reasons, low crowds and not enough money before a new investor took them over and moved them North