Everyone should fall in love with someone and have their feelings reciprocated at some time in their life.
Anyone know a good team for a five year old in Southampton? My son does little kickers - who are really good - but they think he is talented and should be stepping up to play in a team. I didn't start playing until my middle school team so I know nothing about kids teams. Any advice?
Bloody hell what has happened on this forum? We've got 2 threads where people are getting narky about right backs and another where people are getting narky about noise pollution (I think). The International break has barely started will we make it to the end?
I couldn't agree more! The scientist in me thinks it's time for some statistics: We are unbeaten in 8 games in all competitions, 6 in the Premier League. We last lost a game on the 20th of September, which is now more than 7 weeks ago. In the sacred name of Matthew Le Tissier, why are we having a meltdown?
I've just come back from a meltdown. Friend broke down in town and I was asked to help go and sort the situation out. All I had to do was a bit of torch holding to be honest, but nevertheless, I'd have preferred to have been here. It's actually a bit chilly out there.
Dammit, I knew it was going to happen eventually. My internet connection is going up and down like a yo-yo. Poxy bloody crap supplied Technicolor/Thomson router.
Yeah, I'm going to make myself watch it and get depressed. I do know about some of this stuff already, but I bet I still get shocked. A niece of mine, who is about 40, upto a short time ago used to throw away food that she'd purchased because it had gone past the sell-by date. Note NOT the use-by date [and even that is for guidance only]. And she wondered why she had no money. The other thing was her children were into their teens and brought up with this idea, despite having environmental education at school. To this day, I'm told, despite their Mum thankfully trying to change her habits, the kids will not eat food past the sell-by date. It has almost become an obsession with them. Their programming needs changing.
I didn't get depressed watching it TSS, it's made me angry. The interview with Morisson's at the end is appalling; they don't give a ****. They take no resppnsibility for anything.
I used to get stressed, outraged and angry years ago, I just can't sustain it anymore, FLT, it's too destructive. Nowadays I sigh, shrug or get depressed about mankind's ability to be so ignorant. But we'll see if it does get to me again. I don't tend to shop too much at Morrisons, but we'll see what a little boycotting does to their sales anyhow. Anyone can do that.
Oh I've been on one tonight. It's not just Morrisons in the show, but all of them. Appalling stuff. Sending orders in for veg at gone 6pm and then cancelling them at 7:40 am The following morning (well reducing it by a half) when it's too late and the stuff is picked and ready and so goes to waste! The skips of good food wasted is frightening. There is a couple who drive around at night, illegally getting into supermarket skips to collect still edible food that has been thrown out. I knew waste was an issue but this shocked me. I really want to do my bit now. Don't even get me started on the veg thrown away because it is the wrong shape! Less than a days Mis-shaped carrots was a pile bigger than my lounge.
Don't blame the supermarkets alone for wasting misshapen vegetables...they are meeting a demand. Don't we all pick the best looking veg/fruit from the display. If there was a real demand for expensive, tasty misshapen food, supermarkets would be full of it. Customers demand/like uniformity. It's the same for clothes...people complain about foreign, poor quality products in shops...unable to see that their refusal to pay more for British-made clothes has killed that market.
I think I mentioned it on this forum the other day that there has to be a mechanism put in place which stops this food waste, and that the producer doesn't suffer the consequences because a supermarket reshapes their order at the last minute. The most appalling thing about this FLT is that it has been going on every day for years and years. Ever since the supermarkets got a stranglehold, and that's a long time ago. As for that couple who drive around getting into supermarket skips, I find myself saying more power to them. Don't lose the memory of that anger, mate.
Supermarkets could, and should do a lot more though. They could set up a separate shelf with reduced price items, they could give them to a homeless shelter. There are so many better options than just getting rid of it.
Fran, I have to point out one word in your post that got my goat tonight on the program. "Expensive" Morrisons did a test with odd shaped (they called them ugly) courgettes selling alongside uniform ones, but at the same price. If they really wanted to make an effort to stop the waste, they'd have discounted those ones. It is the public too, I agree, but I believe the supermarkets are in the most powerful position and therefore the best position to effect this. Their Cosmetic standards for veg could be altered, to reduce he waste. I stopped buying meat at supermarkets ages ago and I'm now going to find a green grocer locally too.
