DJKillaQueen

You deal with it by zero tolerance. But there are so many manifestations of it that it's perhaps impossible to ever be free of it. There are subtler forms of prejudice that are exercised in this forum from time to time for example (including sexism) but after my last experience of correctly challenging use of a word to find it then disgracefully mimmicked and ridiculed by a prominent female user of this forum I gave up. I have no time for bullies, esp childish ones like that. Truth is that most racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes etc are not particularly nice people......but sometimes it takes a while to see that.

No form or racism or xenophobia is ever acceptable, irregardless of who is perpetuating it.

No don't send them the original receipt.....send them a photocopy. If they need to see the real item take it to them in person, let them photocopy it, and take it back afterwards. These guys are trying to fine you even though you paid for parking....I wouldn't trust them with an original anything! And just edited to add, as anyone who has ever appealed a parking ticket will tell you, the process is made deliberately difficult imo to discourage any but the most determined from following it through.

Depends on what followed and whether there was any relevance. I'm guessing/ hoping he was simply making the point that the TUC had a connection to some of those who died (in the spirit of remembrance) and don't see an issue with that.

Sounds as though it possibly blew off from air passing through vents from under the engine. I'd write to them and tell them you have a valid paid parking voucher covering the time during which the penalty notice was served, that the warden could see this, but issued the ticket anyway and ask what kind of common sense their wardens have! If they persist...go to court...can't see any magistrate ruling in their favour tbh (and they will know this). If they won't back down...contact Britain's biggest selling newspapaer 'The Sun'....they love a story like this and embarrass the heck out of them.

(tu)....I always make double sure we don't leave any litter and I've even picked up the litter left by other footballers sometimes. I have seen Warden Mark speak to (male) football groups about litter. Having said that....you should see the litter around Dulwich Hamlets astroturfs - truly shocking...and of course if some people litter and it's not cleared up, it just encourages others to follow suit.

http://worzelgummidge.webs.com/Worzel-Gummidge-460_802674c.jpg Mr Medic ;)

Interesting..... Government plans for the reform of banks in the UK

It's not all footballers though...let's remember that but yes, empty plastic water bottles tend to litter the edge of pitches after a match. It tends also to be the case for adults rather than childrens matches. Again just disrepectful laziness by people who probably litter everywhere they go. There will be a record of who has booked pitches though, because they have to pay for them.

Are you sure? :) http://www.robertharrop.com/imageitem.php?i=22425&x=2&w=270&h=245&q=100&f=100 DJKQ feels the need to make sure her voice is heard at the next DH home game 'The referree is chit!' Edited millions of times to correct the spelling of broken arm tying!

I find it incredulous that anyone would try to defend those that urinate (especially given as the park has toilets), or let their dogs run loose in areas where dogs are required to be on leads. It is a huge park and there are more than enough areas where dogs can run free. Litter is also just disrepect. It's just plain laziness to not use the toilets, the bins etc. The reason why we have such a fabulous and free park is because most people respect it and don't break the rules or behave inappropriately. And Mark the warden can regularly be seen in the park. I see him most Sundays that I play football.

Playing style and work ethic are a major thing. But their playing style (possession footy) depends entirely on their ability to keep the ball and that is down to individual talent and skill. That Spain has produced so many world class players is entirely down to their cosching system. I think it's too early to tell regarding Mceachran. Mceachran has only had one premiership start in the past three years which illustrates my point really (and Capello won't pick him with so little first team experience). He should be playing first team football every week but is struggling to get a look in amongst the megastars at Chelsea and his request to be sent out on loan this season has been turned down. Wilshere of course massively benefitted from a season on loan to Bolton.

HA HA...love it....and nope, I don't look like a 1970's Italian player but I am tight fitting, and not in a sexy way either :D

Ah yes taper...I remember the Brainf's well :)).....lost count of how many games were lost in the last ten minutes and how many expletives I hurled at them for doing so. They could do with a better standard of ref this season too.....again the expletive count was high! :) Edited to say that I don't do expletives at Millwall...too many expletives being hurled by others - they'd drown mine out!

Last season they started off well too Taper but lost players through injury or movement to other teams.......if they are still top or thereabouts come Christmas then it will bode well I think. Still too early in the season to predict anything. Haven't seen any DH home games this season yet...they've clashed with Millwall home games so far. But I don't have a ticket for the sell out Millwall/ West Ham game next week so might finally make a DH game.

Wow that just blew my wi-fi bandwidth......

It's a little windy out there now......but just that...a little windy. A bit disappointing ready :D

I genuinely hope you are right about these youngsters and the impact they'll have on the England team. We'll have to wait and see. Can't really cite Germany as a comparison though. They have consistently done well in international tournaments and it's a record of achievement that England could only ever dream of. And yes Spain were the perpetual underachievers, but they do have the right coaching system and NINE of the players in that first team in the last world club play for Barcelona, week in and week out. What team at the top of the permiership can boast anything like nine English players playing first team football? That Spanish team could be at the top for the next eight years. We can forget winning anything until we can match them.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You need to run faster, DJKQ...! :)) Is the hurricane here yet?!!

Ooh I've never played on a heath! Hopefully it will blow all them damn mosquitos away. THREE times I got bitten on Thursday!

Hmmm...might make footy at the weekend a little interesting!

I think there's a lot of sense being voiced there guys and it's interesting to note that a few banks were sheilded from the recent crisis because they did operate in a more prudent and risk adverse way. So it can be done, and done so in a way that still allows growth but doesn't send us all down the road to crisis after crisis. If banks have to compete for deposits and are allowed to fail if they get it wrong, then operating a prudent business model becomes a necessity rather than a constraint to be structured around by financial innovators who will always find a way to arbitrage regulatory models. This I wholeheartedly agree with. Banks need to in effect lead by example, which in turns means keeping their own houses in order.

I think it's a great scheme and you can see who the money is going directly to as well and for what. Other people are employed to administer and collect on the loans, so I'm guessing the interest covers the cost of that as it's a non profit making organisation. But those jobs created are equally important in the area they serve. I really like what this scheme does.

Yes and no. What you have to remember is that when a bank gives you a loan...nine times out of ten it pays it into the account you hold with the bank making the loan to you.....so it is in effect the same bank perpetually loaning out that initial new deposit. So it goes like this. You give me ?10 to look after....and I loan ?9 of it to Mockney. He then asks me to hold his ?9 too, so I then loan out ?8 to Loz. But the day after Mockney deposits his ?9...he needs to withdraw it to spend it on whatever he loaned it to pay for in the first place. Now technically I have a problem...because I only actually have ?2 in real money because Loz now holds the other ?8.....unless of course he asks me to hold onto it for him. But if Loz deposits the ?8 then after Mockney's withdrawal I would have no physical capaital over ?2 to loan. That's how it would work for a street money lender, and that's why money lenders need to get repaid on time. But somehow the banks are able to get round this....and the reason they can get round it is because although the currency that they are loaning doesn't physically exist, as keepers of the currency that doesn't matter - so long as the system keeps turning over. And protection of that system is exactly why they work together, do business with each other and so on. It's a bit like a cartel in some ways and one that is too powerful to challenge, and the pursuit of money and profit is the only reason they are in business for. Everything they loan is based on one thing only....the figures in the deposit column, but as demonstrated above those deposit figures do not have any relationship to the money that really exists. And it's also why they are so easily able to write off bad debt. Edited to add an interesting stat. Something like 98% of all transactions are now done electronically in the US. Only 3% of the nations money on paper actually exists as hard currency. This suits the banking system perfectly.

But here's the problem UDT...when an English player plays in the Champions League, he is surrounded by foreign world class players in his team. Lampard is a very good example of that. He's performs well flanked by the foreign megastars of Chelsea but is lost within the England outfit. It takes 11 world class outfield players to make a great international Team. Wiltshire and Mceachran (for all the promise they show at present) will never be enough on their own to make much difference to Englands prospects....not when you have international teams like Spain, full of world class players. I would also argue that the longer they stay playing in the premiership, the less likely they are to develop the level of intricacy and game play that we see in the possession football of the Spanish or other leagues (this is partly Rooney's problem too imo). There's a very good reason why that young German side is already so far ahead. Germany changed their coaching system 16 years ago to adapt for the future of international football (Spain 30 years ago). These countries place an importance in doing well at international level and shape their league systems to benefit that. The FA doesn't. When we have international clubs trying to buy English palyers, then we can say they are world class.