If

[St Chalet]

At times like this we should seek inspiration from Ralph's favourite poem.

 

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

 

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

[simo]

Adkins wasn't it or was that something else ?

[St Chalet]

No, definitely Ralph at the awards dinner. Adkins was 'The Man in the Glass'

[shurlock]

A tad melodramatic, no?

[Turkish]

times like this? Bloody hell, whats wrong with people? No minerals and that's a fact. Bit of stormy weather and people are wobbling all over the place just like in the summer. We've got some right soppy clowns for fans.

[St Chalet]

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[St Chalet]

times like this? Bloody hell, whats wrong with people? No minerals and that's a fact. Bit of stormy weather and people are wobbling all over the place just like in the summer. We've got some right soppy clowns for fans.

 

That was the point of my post. The world will still turn and we'll win again.

 

Perhaps we can get a chant going?

 

To the tune of Vera Lynn:

 

"We'll win again

Don't know how, don't know when

But I know we'll win again

Some Saturday "

[Tamesaint]

times like this? Bloody hell, whats wrong with people? No minerals and that's a fact. Bit of stormy weather and people are wobbling all over the place just like in the summer. We've got some right soppy clowns for fans.

 

Never, Mr Turkish, have you spoken truer words.

[CB Saint]

times like this? Bloody hell, whats wrong with people? No minerals and that's a fact. Bit of stormy weather and people are wobbling all over the place just like in the summer. We've got some right soppy clowns for fans.

 

This.

[doddisalegend]

Ronald's next press conference

 

[nta786]

This poem came up in my English GCSE. Bad memories of it tbh haha

[simo]

That was the point of my post. The world will still turn and we'll win again.

 

Perhaps we can get a chant going?

 

To the tune of Vera Lynn:

 

"We'll win again

Don't know how, don't know when

But I know we'll win again

Some Saturday "

 

The quote of the night was from my 8 years old "at least we're not dead" you could of cut the atmosphere with a knife especially with the goings on in Pakistan