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[zara_backdog]

Morning all

Grrr...Another day stuck at home dam snow!, and another day's lost on the invoice

I did try this morning but only did about 3 miles and gave up ( that took an hour!) Couldn't even make the main road.

Saw 5 bumps and got stuck twice myself Did a fantastic skid - Mr Clarkson would have been proud of my control!


Oh well - another day of snow, dogs, kids and CITV

[voodooflux]

Still snowing here, and the schools are shut today.

In a remarkably effective use of technology for our education system, the headmistress at the school last night suggested that those with email addresses should drop her a line and she'd send out an email this morning to indicate whether the school would be open today.

[HeliCraig]

Morning all

Morning ZBD.

[voodooflux]

Morning all

Grrr...Another day stuck at home dam snow!, and another day's lost on the invoice

I did try this morning but only did about 3 miles and gave up ( that took an hour!) Couldn't even make the main road.

Saw 5 bumps and got stuck twice myself Did a fantastic skid - Mr Clarkson would have been proud of my control!


Oh well - another day of snow, dogs, kids and CITV

Morning Zara

Probably for the best - things look dicey out there this morning.

[HeliCraig]

In a remarkably effective use of technology for our education system, the headmistress at the school last night suggested that those with email addresses should drop her a line and she'd send out an email this morning to indicate whether the school would be open today.

The school which my friend's children go to has a text messaging system. It is also linked to the register - no show = text to mum & dad.

Skiving isn't as easy as it used to be!

[voodooflux]

As Johnny Rotten said: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Association Football nowadays is a form of punk-rock-alike exploitation of human activity that merely makes money for Rupert Murdoch via his Sky Sports franchise.

When I was a kid (like, six or seven years old) I used to go with my brother and his mates to see South Liverpool play.

They've built a supermarket there now. That's how important the sport is in relation to the community.

Soccer might have made sense when it was something tied to one's own community. Now, it's just a way for big business to make money from you. How many players nowadays grew up anywhere near where they play?

I don't actually despise soccer as a game, although it doesn't interest me. I do despise the way global corporations exploit the sense of community loyalty that they avidly suggest (via cunning marketing strategies) surrounds it, when it is quite clear that such community aspects of the game were already being destroyed in the Sixties, and are most certainly non-existent now.

YMMV.

I know what you mean. I consider myself fortunate to have become interested in the game in the late seventies, and followed both my father and brother in their support for our particular club - which happened to our local club. You could see the game changing from that point on though, with more and more big money transfers (Bryan Robson et al) going on - I think Sky was just an added catalyst (albeit a very powerful one). I think the sense of community had already gone in the 80's, with most of my local school friends choosing to support teams from further afield like Liverpool just because they were doing eather well at that time.

[voodooflux]

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[ControlG]

Morning BEL... isn't it always shorts & t-shirt weather in the north east pet? Wye eye.

Of course!

Sometimes we need knee length shorts though if the weather gets really really cold

[voodooflux]

Of course!

Sometimes we need knee length shorts though if the weather gets really really cold

Hey BEL

[zeitghost]

Morning all



It's frigging snowing again... and at the moment it appears to be sticking.

Bummer.