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Interesting that James McClean got the only goal tonight as Ireland got into the World Cup play offs. He that refused to wear the poppy and got grief from home fans and opposition. Pat Nevin summed it up nicely that this was his choice, was informed, and this is his right. Wonder how many FLA sing "no surrender to the IRA". Not surprisingly I have already had separate debates on the subject of the thread. There is probably a old school working class reclaim our national sport, vs educated/middle class newbies angle to. Bit like Brexit.

Apologies for a link the the Daily Express. I am sure that there is a separate story here. 1000s of footy fans marched this weekend against extremism. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/863524/Football-fans-protest-London-Park-Lane-terror-attack-Manchester-extremism-terrorist-racism I'd be interested what people think. I've got my own views.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z- > index/ > > Euromyths. I like the Barmaids entry. IS this for real (I am pretty sure it is). Surley the best ever posting.

Ah good, thought Pogue may be banned as it is a rude word in Gaelic. Part 2. If unhygienic then expect that this is a matter for Environmental Health. If unsafe eg no gas safety cert then Env Health and possible the Old Bill. Hope Ratty helps, noting that ratty is a vernacular for an Environmental Health Officer.

Tried posting but wont go up, so here is the first part (the amusing line, which will be followed by a serious post, then a light hearted end. Spoiler alert. I read this as Pogue not rogue. Not sure if i would want Shane MacGowan living next door, although the craic would be good. Could be worse, Keith from Prodigy.

Fortunately the trade union is active. Got a nice article from our on-line web site Cinema workers in Prospect?s BECTU sector have won widespread support for their high-profile campaign for a living wage. Honour Bayes goes behind the scenes of this long-running dispute It?s the sort of David versus Goliath contest that has punters flocking to the cinema. But the story of the Living Staff Living Wage dispute, currently being fought by BECTU members against Picturehouse Cinema and its parent company Cineworld, should have you running away from the silver screen. For nearly a decade staff at Picturehouse have been battling for the living wage ? the Living Wage Foundation sets this at ?9.75 an hour in London and ?8.45 for the rest of the UK. In 2016 Cineworld declared profits of ?93.8m. It is the second-largest cinema circuit in Europe with more than 2,000 screens, but while Cineworld CEO Moshe J. Greidinger earned more than $2m last year, many Picturehouse staff struggle to pay their rent. The dispute has seen as many twists and turns as a Hollywood drama. In 2014, following high-profile industrial action organised through media and entertainment union BECTU* and after seven years of campaigning, the staff at the Brixton Ritzy in south London gained a 26% pay rise and an agreement with Picturehouse (and owner Cineworld) to renegotiate towards the living wage in June 2016. But for over a year the company has refused to pay the living wage at the Ritzy. Three union representatives there have been fired, a move BECTU is calling trade union dismissals. Neither will the company agree to recognise BECTU as the staff union in the other Picturehouse venues that have now joined the campaign: Crouch End, Central, Hackney and East Dulwich in London, and Brighton, East Sussex. ?We?re asking for people to boycott Picturehouse and Cineworld to show them that the public support us ? Alisdair Cairns ? please donate to support the strike fund (click picture to donate now) ?What Picturehouse is doing to avoid recognition is hiding behind a body that it set up, The Staff Forum,? explains Alisdair Cairns, from the Hackney Picturehouse, speaking on behalf of BECTU?s Picturehouse representatives. ?It is a staff association, with no trained officials, which provides feedback between workers and head office. ?But speaking to staff at Picturehouse cinemas across the country I know we want more than that,? he continues. ?We want a trade union that is actually going to provide genuine assistance in fighting for fairer terms and conditions of our employment and have the experience and expertise to be able to do that.? This desire is evident from the growing BECTU membership across Picturehouse sites, up by 50% to about 320 in the past year. Commitment shows no sign of waning ? in a recent ballot members voted in huge numbers to continue strike action. You can join a list of high-profile voices ? including actors Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon and film director Ken Loach ? and get involved in a campaign that is now also contributing to the wider discussion of the need for a living wage in the wider economy. The affected members are calling for a boycott of all Picturehouse and Cineworld cinemas until management agrees to recognise and enter into meaningful discussions with BECTU. ?We?re asking for people to boycott Picturehouse and Cineworld to show them that the public support us and and the idea that the company should be paying their staff fairly,? Cairns says. He adds that as well as telling friends, family and colleagues why you?re boycotting, it?s important to let Picturehouse and Cineworld know, too. ?It?s incredibly helpful if people who are boycotting can let the company know they are doing it, by sending an email or tweeting at them at the company head offices.?

Ah I'll be picked up for split infinitives next which apparently is also a modern thing. More importantly how many more lessons do our friends over the pond need about gun ownership and glorification....

Only issue with this thread is that it seems as if we can't discuss (the mostly excellent) posts. Just come back from the Ivy where there is a vinyl night, and much Northern Soul. Said that my memories were the singles that my sister bought, including Rock Your Baby (and Ghost in the House and other great stuff from the early 70s). This got Northern Soul into the main stream and here is another one from me. Not the greatest quality but I understand recorded at Wigan Casino

Curry sauce and chips, in deed great. I doubt if you'd get this sauce in India. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka or even Mexico. Nowt wrong with liking it though. And yes, student days.

Thought Question Time was quite illuminating. From a place that would have been old school Labour 30 years abo (East Dulwich please be aware that there is a world out there) many expressing stong views about the madness of Corbyn's Labour. Good to get some balance. Yes the rabid Brexiteering makes me shout. And struck both by a recent visit to Gdansk/Danzig and the Channel 4 Documentary retracing the steps of those crossing occupied Europe during WW2 about the harm of popularism/extremism.

Do everything twice and even more likely to succeed.

Politely but firmly request your full compensation. If this doesn't work then say that you will take action through the small claims court. Then it gets more painful as even if you get judgement enforcing can be a pain in the neck. You can sell the debt to an enforcement company, walk away and let them do the hard man stuff. Speak to trading standards who may help.

Politely but firmly request your full compensation. If this doesn't work then say that you will take action through the small claims court. Then it gets more painful as even if you get judgement enforcing can be a pain in the neck. You can sell the debt to an enforcement company, walk away and let them do the hard man stuff. Speak to trading standards who may help.

No Chicken tikka masala or Kingfisher so clearly rubbish. I suppose I'd better try it out just to make sure. I expect that it will be good as Croydon blessed with interesting South Asian restaurants.

Well I suppose it us no different to Grayling cancelling the electrification of the network, makes me angry.

Just go in an check the place out yourself! I'll probably give it a body swerve as there are places more suitable to my tastes. I'm struggling to remember many refurbs that improved a pub from my perspective but others tend to disagree. Nobody has assessed it on Beer in the Evening which is always a bad sign. Compare http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/53/536/Crown_and_Greyhound/Dulwich with http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/2991/

Delta cars are great. Use them once in a blue moon to get to Gatwick - good price (?45), good cars and good drivers. ?45 was what I paid in an incredibly expensive black cab ride home from East Croydon one night. But oh dear, what will the LTDA have to complain about nowadays? Their three hates were Uber, The Mayor and cyclists. Now down to one. And what will cabbies have to call into LBC and Radio London about - they seem to be the main people with free time on their hands to put the world to right. And with all this free time why are'nt any of you on this site? Anyway, irrespective of Uber, who are a bid dodgy but have changed the market (Sounds a bit like Ryanair), black cabs are under powered, over weight, polluting, and blocking up much of cettral London at this time of night. The regulations needs to be modernised to allow them to respond to market conditions, rather than control numbers that puts the value of the license plate through the roof. And where were the cabbies during Wapping and Orgreave? Probably phoning LBC to complain about Northerners. There are quite a few gauntlets laid down there.

Can anyone tell me why you are discussing a BA product on a thread about Ryanair? Beyond comparing the services between different budget airlines? If you want to discuss Avios then be my guest and start a new thread. Can anyone tell me why with some much going on there is zero interest in Ryanair? Is it because only your servants use the airline?? (That's a DH Lawrence reference, I am trying to be witty as per usual). Don't answer that as I am only trying to provoke a bit of discussion on this particular business.

In deed loads of components are made in the UK and Dagenham, whilst only employing a few percent of the staff it did in its Cortina days, makes half of Ford's light diesel engines. Ford can of course crate the machinery and robots and move elsewhere, as can BMW at Cowley - funnily enough who employ loads of Eastern Europeans so that may be a win win both for those returning home and those whining on about Jonny foreigners taking British jobs. Motor industry is very perilous at the moment - take their word for it not mine. Anyway back to the point in question. If as there has been much success in UK businesses in the supply chain then we could badge are cars up according to the different countries that contributed. It may be a bit messy to combine flags but perhaps we could do something simple like a blue flag with a circle of starts. In fact I see many have adopted already, Oh no this is not supposed to be a Brexit thread.... PS I have visited the Dagenham plant and I do know what I am talking about.

I meant Rooney of course. Head all blocked up with cold, that is certainly affecting my judgement (or judgement - North American and legal term). That said I would have been happier if he had said I am a completed and utter stupid twot and will do something with drink drive charities to deter others from doing similar. Perhaps he as said that.

They helped revolutionise the market (they used a model from one of the American airlines so didn't invent it) but for Christ sakes I'd pay an extra tenner for a better customer experience and care. Easyjet seems to have got it right.

Not sure if it is a craze but I seem to be seeing more cars with a union flag or cross of St George on their number plate. I assume that this is a buy British campaign https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Backing_Britain_Badge.jpg but I do wsnt to stop the driver and remind them that they are driving a German car. I think in the top ten the Astra (was US now French manufacturer) and Quashqai (Japanease) are made here. As for British owned companies I expect that Morgan may be the largest which is a fraction of the domestic market. Great to hear from those flying the flag.

Roony apologies for his error of judgement driving after about 8 pints. An error of judgment would be driving after that second or third pint. Interesting to hear any other exzmples on when error of judgement has been used as an excuse/cover up for wreckless behaviour. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/18/wayne-rooney-due-court-face-drink-driving-charge-2am-arrest/

I've been dying to update this thread for a number of months, but every time I don?t get round to it some other stuff comes up again. So here is a brief update: (a) 5 hour delay as they couldn't take off and land from an unsuitable aerodrome (airport would infer that they would have navigational aids including landing lights) - no apology, a farce in shifting us to the new airport, a filthy plane, no refreshments at the airport and bugger all on the flight, no compensation and bloody difficult to communicate with as you have to write to them in Dublin (they can of course e-mail back) (b) the free seats are not randomly allocated, they maximise the separation between groups of travellers © Chuffin hot flight recently and no interest in trying to do anything about it (d) their ?generous? cabin allowance now rescinded (e) mouth almighty going on about drunk passengers, limiting airport drinking, yet he invented the stag/hen do to Prague (f) and now this cock up on staff leading to mass cancelation. Yes I have used them for the last 30 years but s?truth this is getting bonkers. Flew with BA a couple of weeks ago. Well past their former glory. But great cabin staff, infomrative captain and a smooth take off and landing rather than feeling like you were crashing into the runway.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brilliant (link to the Producers) But they wanted the performance to be a flop and it was the opposite. Will Brexit be the same? Just some gallows' humour.