“Rhythmic” is another word to be avoided. Rhythmic gymnastics. Poncing about to music waving a ribbon on a stick. Perilously similar to Morris Dancing. I can think of better alternatives. How about a combination of long jump and kung fu? One sand pit, two run-ups, one from either end…. Sure fire winner. Several cities have recently pulled out of staging international multi-event athletics events due to the massive costs involved. I have read that the track and field (and particularly track) want to breakaway from bloated multi-sport championships and stage their own events more frequently but much more cheaply. People and TV cameras come to see the 100m and 1,500m not dressage or fencing. Rather than 4-yearly bun-fights, the world track championship could operate more on an F1 or tennis model, visiting a major city using existing facilities once a fortnight through the summer months.
The only problem with fortnightly track & field events is that injuries would rule out many top athletes competing so often .....and top athletes would pick and choose the more lucrative venue's to safe guard their health.
Professional footballers play twice a week..... Fortnightly was just my assumption but it is true some in athletics believe that track events are held back by the need to accommodate all the other disciplines. They wouldn't be able to pick and choose if points were awarded for performances which totted up for an annual world champion title and prize.
On top of the blatant efforts by FIFA to fix the award the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi's now wants to host the 2035 Women's World Cup. That's the same Saudi Arabia where women can't get a job without the permission of their male guardian, same-sex relationships are against the law and women's rights activists have been imprisoned. Women have only been able to drive cars since 2018. Now I'm not much of a feminist but really?
I've just watched Liverpool v Everton. Awful refereeing isn't confined to the lower leagues. Craig Pawson booked Everton's Ashley Young for a nothing trip on the half-way line after 20 minutes or so. Given this is a local derby a bit of common sense would have been in order. It was pretty much his first offence and a word in his ear would have done, but no. On 38 minutes, Young's second offence is another more serious trip on the edge of the box. Given the weakness of the first yellow, again a word would have been the wise thing but again it's a yellow and off he goes. Liverpool's Konate is booked on 50 minutes for a trip and given the cynicality of it, stopping a Everton breakaway, and the previous treatment of Young, that's the right decision. Later in the second half, he trips another Everton player in the Everton half of the centre circle with nothing between him and a goal but the Liverpool keeper. Given what's gone before it HAS to be a second yellow but Pawson lets it go. Now in a game of this level of intensity, you can argue 4 cards for those 4 offences is excessive. Certainly most fans would have preferred it to stay 11 v 11, but the inconsistency of it is terrible, especially as it looks a lot like favouritism to the home side.
Homie referees. Who would have thunk it........... I don't think I've ever seen one at Home Park. Now at Old Trafford well they turn up all the time or at least did when MU were big.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE SWEEPING RUSSIA. Olga Nazerenko has become the latest victim of this falling ailment.....she has died in hospital two weeks after" falling from an height" in what was described as an accident....according to reports. It was suggested that this middle aged women fell from a tree.....what was a middle aged women doing up a tree you might well ask ? Ms Nazarenko, who was known for her stubborn anti-war protests, had featured in several opposition media reports and video's.....she had staged weekly one-person protests...despite being regularly detained by police.....She had been attacked in the street and had lost her job as an associate professor at a medical university because of her protests. Several Kremlin opponents have been killed in falls in recent years after protesting about the war and of Vladimir Putins running of the country...which allows no opposition parties to exist in any form of freedom. Daily Telegraph...Mon...23/10/2023.
When will it end. 1.....Met Police Officer investigated for racial assault. 2.....Police Officer groomed 200 girls for sex images. Every day you read articles about Police wrong-uns.....are the police organized crime in this country....100's of them waiting to be investigated and thrown out of the Police Force.
I see there’s been another example of just how safe letting ordinary citizens assemble their own arsenal of firearms, from assault rifles downwards, makes America. Just 18 citizens shot dead in the normally quiet, rural and achingly beautiful state of Maine. They genuinely believe the right to bear arms keeps them safe. It’s patently obvious that it does the reverse. Not only do nutcases regularly run amok shooting innocents like this, the police assume that every time they stop a car, there’s a very good chance the driver has a gun. Therefore one false move if you get stopped is likely to get you shot in the head by an understandably jumpy police officer.. It was said that one of the reasons Maine has lax gun laws even by American standards is because it’s a traditional huntin’, fishin’ and shootin’ state. Fair enough, but is it really considered sporting to blast away at wildlife with an Armalite AR17? In the UK, it’s not considered properly sporting to have more than 2 cartridges in your 12 bore, never mind to use a full scale military assault rifle or a 9mm automatic pistol.
Modern technology...??? Next door has had his up market Range Rover stolen from the driveway overnight......why didn't he put it in the garage you might well ask.....well the answer is that his vintage Bentley takes up all the garage room. Good old key operated ignitions are safer than these keyless electronic systems....where you just need a box of electronic wizardry to unlock and drive away in moments. A £30 steering wheel lock might be a nuisance to put on or take off....but it slows down a thief from a quick steal.
If you have a high theft risk vehicle like a current model Range Rover, best practice is to keep your keys in a Faraday cage key box (available from £12.99 on Amazon) when not in use and in a Faraday pouch when in your pocket (available from £7.99 on Amazon). If you can afford a Range Rover (available from £103,000 to £192,000 from Land Rover), you can probably afford them. I don't have a Range Rover or anything close to that number of digits in the price but I do have an electronic key, which as well as a blipper, has keyless entry. That means I can walk up to it and open the door and start the engine without touching the key, which is handy. It only unlocks the driver's door though, so if I'm with other people, I can jump straight in leaving them standing outside in the rain. That can prove unpopular while I try to find the button that opens the other doors, especially if I find the button that opens the boot instead, as it implies I'm expecting them to get in there. One of them has to walk around in the rain and shut the boot, which isn't always popular either. Also, when I walk away from the car, I can use the blipper to lock it but I can't then try the door to make sure it's locked because I have the key in my pocket so it's actually open, although it's locked if I walk away from the car, if you see what I mean. I know checking you've locked a car that you've just locked and has bleeped at you to tell you you've locked it is obsessive, but there we are. As I write this, I see that you do have a point about useless technology although £21 spend on key storage would have been a good investment. Of course, the reverse is true. The manufacturer seems to have dropped keyless entry from the spec of new vehicles, presumably because its a feature people don't value much. Therefore, when I take mine over for service etc and have a courtesy car, it usually doesn't have keyless entry. I'm then left standing outside the vehicle wondering why the door isn't opening for me...... I was once given as SUV with a power operated keyless tailgate that nearly knocked me out when I got too close to it and an hybrid vehicle that I went back in to complain I couldn't get it started when in fact I just had to press the accelerator to drive away and not wait until I could hear engine noise. They do enjoy my visits.
I am a member of a rifle club and have a 12 bore for shooting clays. I also have a 308 fullbore for competition up to 1000yds. Plus at the indoor range i use my .22 Anschutz also for competition. I used to own a 9mm hand gun but our government has taken it away. I started shooting back in the 60s at different ranges in the Plymouth area. I remember shooting at Bisley for international competition. And yes my firearms are locked away in my gun safe...
did you have an electronic handbrake also .. mine has all those gadgets and a tracker i must say its not a range rover or anything that big.. im not a fan of them. I let the battery go flat as i never used it for a few months .. a toy.. what a nightmare.. could not get in it and had to call the garage and i had a special way of opening the bonet under the wheel arch then tou have to charge it in a special way as no battery showing but i suppose once i knew it was ok,, but so difficult .. we will have these things .. hence that one is sold now .. but one of the vehicles in the fleet is a new Nissan Nevada ,, that has that electric key also ,, push the button to start ect .. all doors open as well .. its trying to get use to it all as all the vans have keys
Yeah electric handbrake, automatic gearbox, automatic headlights and wipers, parking alarms, emergency brake assistance, cruise control, speed limiter, speed limit warnings, and lane departure protection system. I sometimes wonder what I am in charge of..... I can tune the radio all by myself though. Oh and it sends my phone an alert if I do forget to lock it and it will show me where it is on a map if I forget where I parked it. The problem with that of course is that I have to remember where I left my glasses in order to see the map of where I left the car.
I don't drive and reading the above think I'm glad I never have. My brother-in-law has a car that when you get in it and start it up it looks like the cockpit of a boing 747 rather than something for the road. A mass of lights come on and everything seems to beep if you don't do something. Couldn't handle that.
My first car was an Austin A35......I used to demisted the rear window by reaching over the back seat with a rag and doing it by hand....of course not possible whilst driving along.
A disciplinary panel found that Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks the two police officers who subjected the two black athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos to an ordeal after pulling them over....where lying about about smelling cannabis in their car.....both where dismissed from the police force for the actions they took. But these two ex-policemen have been supported by a crowd funding page that has raised £140,000 for them.....why ?
