I haven't thought of Sheffield thread yet, might wait until after the two up coming home games with all this MA stuff going on. As for Rotherham I might need to speak to you about that privately...something has suddenly come up and not sure at this moment in time if I can make it, time we come round to travelling to Sheffield I will know more and explain on our Vale journey.
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Ok. The last few days have been good to get the forums buzzing again after suffering a period of very low traffic, unfortunately it is now time to get back on serious matters. When using a gentleman's rest room (bog) WHY do they have loads of sinks and only 1 or 2 hand driers? even Priestfield is the same, 8 wash basins yet only 2 driers Sort it out Scally!
brb you should be ashamed of yourself ! None of the clips were funny ( certainly not the LAST one ) . I didn't laugh once - not even at the woman with the BMW trying to stretch the hose across her car. I would have liked to have known the gender of the motorhome driver - and how on Earth do you overturn a car approaching a petrol pump ? You know my thoughts about the mental integrity of the general driving public - so I was not surprised with any of the clips.
Firstly - give brb's video a look - try NOT to laugh NOW brb have you thought about a different argument for standing arenas ? I'm sure you'll have more success when you explain the health benefits and the £millions saved on treating people for obesity. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24532996
What a joke...wannabe government parties announce future energy price freezes so prices get banged up 10.4% and 8.4%...I'd laugh but seriously this ain't funny. Just remember IF any future price freezes are implemented...you will be already paying for it!!!!!!!!!!
Has this country gone ' politically correct ' mad ? You probably know the story in the link below - so you are excused from reading it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24563131 I know that I might be sounding a little dense - but - how can anyone find the FIRST thing wrong as racism ? An appropriate ' complaint ' would be to compare anyone with the 'lower' intelligence of a monkey. The England manager ( in my view ) was making the obvious reference to the ' high ' intelligence possessed by a monkey - which generally is able to perform relatively simple tasks asked of it ( as long as you keep feeding it ) - unlike English footballers who ( on too many occasions ) seem incapable of performing the relatively simple task of passing the ball correctly. Hodgson was saying that passing the ball was not rocket science - hence the reference to astronauts. I don't think Hodgson was trying to be make a joke - English football generally does a good job of that without any help - now sue me !
He used it as an analogy as I understand it. So the question I ask...is any one who thought it was racist, are they in fact a racist for interpreting it as so? It may well be a silly phrase to use and not one I would use, but when I personally use the term monkey or see one, it bears no resemblance or thought process towards any race, surely any racism therefore is just in the eyes of those that decide to interpret it as so...unless of course used as a purposeful direct or indirect attack. Only Hodgson knows the answer to the latter. To which I say unless proven through foolish repetition give the guy a break.
Thanks to the incompetent sods who work for Southeastern my train to work this morning was half an hour late. Now this didn't affect my work too much, but this happens time and again. Today they didn't even bother to tell passengers the reason as to why we were all late to work! I get on the London Victoria to Ashford International line everday, getting off at Maidstone East as I work in Maidstone. After Maidstone East there are several more stops at Bearsted, Hollingbourne, Lenham, Harrietsham and Charing. For people who wanted to go to any of those stops, they also had to alight with everyone else getting off at Maidstone so that they could fast track to Ashford to make some of the time up. Now I may have only been 10 mins late for work but some other people who would have needed to get off at say Hollingbourne, would have had to wait another 30 mins for the next train to turn up. They would been an hour late just to get to the their normal stop off point and they didn't even get an apology! People rely on trains everyday to get to work, but all SouthEastern care about is themselves, as for their customer service, I would like to actually find some! Seriously how can these cretins be put in charge of our trains and charge us extortionate amounts, for such a poor service? HOW?!?!? Its cheaper to get a season ticket from Brighton to London than it is from Gillingham to London and yet Gillingham is much closer! How can it be that expensive and how can they be so poor at running trains?!?!?! Rant over
brb I do not like racism. I am sure that I am not unique in having friends / relatives from different cultures - who have different colour skin. When I first heard about Hodgson's comments, my first thoughts had NOTHING to do with racism -but an 'attack' by Hodgson on a/ the players ability to pass the ball to a team mate. As you have pointed out - racism has reared its' ugly head because somebody has twisted the analogy used by the England manager. THIS is often the case in a situation when, people of a certain skin colour sulk about not getting everything they want - even if it is not deserved ( and where people of a more prevalent colour of skin do not get any more than the 'aggrieved'. ) It is in THIS situation that they play the racism card - just because of a quirk of fate has given them a different colour skin. Sadly I suspect that THIS situation occurred in the Mark McCammon case. He might genuinely think that he was the victim of racism - but as far as I could see the evidence pointed to a human resource cock up - which some might say is more in keeping with GFC - but you can't stop people feeling that the whole world is against them - just a few loyal fans of a small football club who expect a bit more than 5 goals in 3 years - regardless of the colour of your face !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24580742 It beggars belief that councils have nothing more important to occupy their time. In a secular country, how can the council claim that the 'inscription' was inappropriate ? A few years ago my father died - and is buried in Gillingham cemetery. Prior to having a proper gravestone for the 'plot', the family placed edging stone blocks around the grave - to give it some 'definition'. A few weeks later we found a notice on my father's grave ( and many others ). The council objected to the edging that we had erected. They cited health & safety issues when the surrounding grass was cut ! - Yet they suggested that a plastic edge to the grave would be acceptable - even if it was more likely to splinter when the grass was cut. The notice made my mother extremely upset & brought her to tears. The family removed the edging blocks and hastily arranged for a 'proper' gravestone . The insensitivity of Medway Council still upsets my mother on her frequent visits to the cemetery. I know that the Council have details of the owner of each plot - but, in our case ( & I suspect in the case of all others ), they failed to even write personally to my mother with their 'request.' I think one or two other people also complied with the orders of the Medway Gestapo and removed similar 'erections', but practically all the 'inappropriate' erections remain in situ. ( and good luck to those families who are telling Medway Council where they can stick their orders.) It's obvious that Councils have done such a wonderful job of looking after the welfare of the LIVING, that they feel justified that they can hound the dead. I could suggest a way of irrigating the graves of the Council officials responsible for these rulings when 'their time has come' - and saving the Coucil even more time - with which they can harrass even more grieving relatives - and I wouldn't be extracting the urine in the 'process'. R.I.P Mr. Robinson. edit - sorry for my sombre mood - went to a funeral yesterday - makes this subject a little more personal !
You have to understand that I am NO fan of Chelsea ! -- but -- what is all the fuss about Chelsea's equaliser v Cardiff ? Goalkeepers are over protected. They can't catch a ball. They definitely can't count up to 6 ! They get away with ridiculous time wasting. Why is there a need for them to bounce the ball ? ( the same question regarding tennis players as they are about to serve ) The fact that a goalkeeper is permitted to carry the ball for 6 seconds negates any need for bouncing the ball. If the keeper releases the ball in a downward direction, it (the ball) should be considered fair game - just as if the referee had 'dropped' the ball to resume play. It would be different if the keeper 'throws' the ball up slightly whilst at the same time prepares to kick it.
It's a mistake anyone could have made - I'm worried that madness is hereditary. After Gills game v Notts County, I decided to stay at my mum's house overnight - allowed me to get a couple of tickets for the Sheffield Utd game before returning home. Mum asked me to do her a favour - to vacuum the carpet on her stairs. Being a good boy I agreed. She told me that the vacuum cleaner was in the downstairs bathroom. I went in search of the equipment and smiled. I found two vacuum cleaners - I just knew I would get the wrong one - but decided to see how things would pan out. Both cleaners were conventional vacuum cleaners ). One was covered with a clear plastic bag - not sure why. The other wasn't - so I assumed that this latter one was the one I should use. I took it to the stairs and plugged in. As usual mother decided to interefere and stopped me in my tracks - and tore me off a strip for getting the wrong cleaner. I decided not to comment - I thought it would have been futile - and as Gills had won last night I was in a good mood. So I returned the offending vacuum cleaner to the bathroom and picked up the other cleaner and took it to the stairs for the task in hand. Mother was not far behind and upon seeing the cleaner in my hand called out ' you stupid boy' !! and continued the sentence by saying " that's the wrong one." I'm not sure what offended me most - being called stupid, boy or compared with Pike. I asked my mother " What the hell do you mean it's the wrong one ? - you ripped my head off when I brought out the 'other' vacuum cleaner from the bathroom." She then demonstrated that no matter how devious I have become, I am still in League 2 compared with my Champions League winning mother. She said " Not those vacuum cleaners - the one in the box ." (( completely covered by a lace cloth - and with a dish of pot pouree on it !! )) How stupid could I have been - of course my mother was always going to have 3 vacuum cleaners in one bathroom---- and for good measure she has (just) one vacuum cleaner in a bedroom !!!!!
Now I actually have a lot of time for the police, despite Always picking up on my use of the term "the filth". But the whole plebgate affair has me fuming. It seems to me that the police are acting as a law unto themselves (pun whole heartedly intended). Ok Andrew Mitchell may have had some less than savoury words for the officers in this case, but it has been hasn't been proved that the word "pleb" was uttered and there is plenty of evidence contradicting the police officers accounts. Whether or not the police officers deliberately lied is debatable, however I have my views (I can't think of many words that rhyme with pleb), Mitchell has lost his job in government due to the "misunderstanding" and at least deserves an apology and for the Police Federation to refuse to apologise reeks of protecting their own.
Plebgate........Two wrongs don't make a right but I think it's a nice change for one of the public services to 'shaft' the government for a change. Goes a little way to recompense for the grief that successive governments have dumped on them.
That was so funny...genuine tears of laughter mate...story well told...brilliant...mothers eh...I can just imagine you standing there dumbstruck as she said 'you stupid boy' only mum's could get away with that.
