malumbu

Dunno why this thread is on here. Millwall aren't a local club. Arse, Chels, Scousers and Manure are our local teams. East Dulwich lives outside the time space continuum and floats around the universe being drawn to whoever is big in football terms on an individual day.

Just renationalise the whole lot. I preferred it without any choice. It's a rubbish market by the way. When you buy food for example you can make an informed choice. It just totally confuses me and after I spent good time researching the pros and cons, and went for BG (who credit to them explained their price structure) they immediately put their prices up. And up. And up. And if we renationalised production we'd actually own it. Like the Germans and French do, even though their markets have been liberalised. And for every savie consumer, you get one who isn't - perhaps elderly, so they subsidise our cheaper energy. It wasn't like this in the CCCP.

OK some easy points. A bunch of rich lawyers want the government to spend much more on improving air quality and are going to the courts to try to make this happen. This is not Greenpeace of Friends of the Earth, this is a single issue group who seemed to be rather obsessed. My view here is rather than spend 100s of thousands of pounds on legal action, spend this on helping to directly improve air quality eg a publicity campaign. Point 2, should they be successful then the extra money that is spent either at national or local government level comes out of your pocket, and is at the expense of other more worthy causes. So for example should money be spent on public health campaigns to reduce obesity, increase exercise, or tell people not to breath in polluted air. Of course incresaed expercise will often mean less driving. Point 3. The media attention on air quality will hardly make the slightest bit of difference to the behavious of the public and business. I doubt whether there will be a rush at the Toyota dealers as people in ED trade in their SUVs Point 4. There is a continued growth in urban deliveries. Urban delivery drivers may not be the most eco minded of people both in their choice of vehicles, and the way they drive them, and (with black cabs) these are a particularly big contributor to poor air quality. The growth of urban deliveries is because of? Guess what. There are some larger haulage companies out there that of course very eco aware as part of their business plan. I did like how my comment on the Grauniad article got beeped out, next time I'll just say how swanky I find it at times. Not quite sure where my point on coal came into it apart from a comment that air quality was poor in the cities before the motor car as well as after. Probably was that with domestic heating swithching from coal, and ditto with power (OK there are still some coal firec power stations but with much tighter emission standards) air quality has vastly improved since the 1950s. A decline in the UK's heavy industry has similarly contributed. As you enjoyed my rant so much also look at what I had to say about wrong decisions on energy policy and the loss of nuclear capability (ie to build power stations).

That turns me on even more.

See www.itv.com/itvplayer/first-among-equals-the-laurie-cunningham-story/series-1/episode-1-first-among-equals-the-laurie-cunningham-story Or my postings on racism in football for something more interesting/less shallow.

Excellent documentary on ITV last night (I don't usually use excellent and ITV in the same sentence) on Laurie Cunningham. First saw him when he was at Orient, who were about the only team who regularly had black players. Sadly a wasted career after too many injuries at Real Madrid. Shame there is not more footage, particularly in Madrid, and that BBC could not have shared some of their's. www.itv.com/itvplayer/first-among-equals-the-laurie-cunningham-story/series-1/episode-1-first-among-equals-the-laurie-cunningham-story

A group of rich single issue lawyers who could use their money much better by working with communities rather than spending 100s of thousands of pounds on the wrong pollutant. I bet they will all get in their Chelsea tractors after the court case. It is as much about you dear readers, do you want a 21 century lifestyle with cheap flights, commodities moved around the globe, delivery vans leaving their engines running whilst they deliver your Amazon purchases to your door, and your right to drive? Or would you like to return to Victorian times with few of these benefits but ironically even worse air quality due to industry and coal smoke. And as an occasional Grauniad reader it can be a load of wank at times. I know all you journalist live round here in any case so bring it on. Its not a UK thing anyway, its global and is governed by European air quality standards. So when we have to close hospitals due to these clowns as money is diverted on less important public health issues you will know who to blame. On a more positive note Boris is dead keen on air quality and we will all be in our electric cars in the next few years. Discuss.

I find her very sexy, even more that Teresa May. Has anyone got her contact details? Sadly I am being serious, well at least about the sexy bit....

Oh complete and utter bum. I'll be manamana-ing as I cycle past the Rye tomorrow. Do do do do do

Two things: A Millwall fan who directed racist abuse at a Leeds United striker has been banned from football matches for five years and ordered to pay more than ?500. Gerrard Scanlon, 53, was arrested after Sky Sports News broadcast footage that appeared to show some of the London club's supporters abusing El Hadji Diouf. Scanlon, a delivery driver, admitted his foul-mouthed tirade when he was brought before magistrates on Wednesday and fined ?425. He was told to pay further costs of ?85 and a ?15 victim surcharge, the Metropolitan police said. And the incident at the Emirates that kicked off my thread, where someone was abusing one of the empty seats (red, fat and empty); I jest of course, he was abusing the players. This bloke has been done as well.

My poll of cyclists was perhaps about 5%, maybe up to 10 if you considered poor lighting. Not all were the I couldn't give a fuck variety. On the odd occasion that I forget my lights I do my best to make sure that I am out of traffic's way or can be well seen. Don't understand those in black, on a black bike, with no lights, cycling past the traffic at speed on Rye Lane. Anyway more importantly pedestrians should wear lights, indicate, and be banned from texting and mobiling whilst pedestrianising. There needs to be a new offence pedestrianising without due care and attention. In the old days wearing something light, carrying a torch and a rolled up newspaper would have been fine. But for as many bikes without lights I see someone all in black crossing the road without bothering to look.

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She is a bit of nutter though (no issues with the charity I hasten to add, which I have no problems about supporting). That is Celia Hammond not Sarah. Nutter of course is a term of endearment not a derogatory term. Perhaps I should have said eccentric. Have I dug myself in deep enough yet?

Subtle as a sledgehammer, but I did not want to drag this out/couldn't be Arsenaled. If anyone is interested then I am happy to explain. Perhaps you PS3ers could predict the attendance at the Emirates, or is that too easy?

Fell asleep in MOTD this evening and woke the find deja vu, before realising it was the Boro Millwall match. Capacity crowd I see at the Riverside (twinned with the Emirates), 35,000 (although for some reason it was recorded as 15,377 Similarly there was also a sell out at the Emirates, recorded as 60,079 when the ground holds 60,361 so 282 unsold seats which is a shame for such a big club

Can anyone tell me why so many (supposed)Arse fans were dressed as red seats today?

After hearing that there was a serious fire in Forest Hill, pleased that it was only a fire drill at the Emiriates.

Cull would be quite dangerous as foxes may enter the foochain. Fox and badger lasagne anyone?

Do you remember when Eric Clapton's child fell out of window to his death? They never used the name of the mother, who sadly was there at the time. It is even quite hard to find her name on line - Lori Del Santo Eric Clapton's son's mother was in the appartment at the time....

Ah the highs and lows of my short time in Glasgow. I also went to Scotland vs Belgium in a European Championship qualifier late '83 after Scotland had already been knocked out. 12,000 attendance on a bitterly cold night. In a previous era Hampden had had 140,000 plus. Now one side of the ground and one end closed due to safety reasons (it was falling down). I remember the press area came out of the roof of a stand. Weird stuff. And I think the urinals were outside against a wall or perhaps that was a story from somebody else. There was secretarian self segregation with the DoBs in one set of terracing and the Fenians in the other. Both terms of endearment from people I met at Strathclyde Uni. someone else can explain.

I thought that I was being quite jolly. You ARE a sensitive lot. One of the most frightening matches of my life was seeing Forest Win 2-0 at Celtic in 83, 66,500 Celtic fans and 500 Forest hiding in one of the stands. Standing in the jungle with the lovely chants of IRA Irish Republican Army, and Argentina Argentina, it was quite nice for Forest to show how much stronger English football is. I did have to mouth the answer when someone asked me how long to go, as I was a big English scaredy cat. I'll tell you how I lost the ticket stub another time.

Long bus journeys are much better, as you can listen into longer conversations, as long as you keep away from the i-pod that is too loud. Even better was when a load of primary school kids got on my bus the other day off on an outing. Made the journey much more pleasant whilst I made sure that I did not come across as a dodgy geezer. I spoke a bit to one of the teachers, and suggested that she got the kids to sing as they would have done in France (well at least in my vision of what it would be like in France). I am sure that it would have been better than Kim Wilde.

It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food It is not the government's role to routinely test food The world has gone mad If we had a goverment that did routinely test food then we'd be up in arms about a nanny state We've been here before in the late 80s and early 90s with listeria, salmonella and then later E-coli. These made people poorly and government changed the law and then where necessary tightened regulations. By all means debate why they did not repond earlier to horse meat, and should this be something that was picked up earlier somewhere in the food chain. And how you can kick the food chain and retailers harder to get them to have better traceability whilst throwing the crooks in gaol. And this is all rich when I see people saying, oh we can't afford decent food, when they are paying ?50 a month for an i-phone and satelite TV. I am not saying lets return to post-war austerity where most of our wage went on living expenses. Just get it into context please. (Sorry I had to rant on-line as I was shouting a the telly again) Going to have a beer now. I'll be closely checking the label first to make sure that it hasn't got any fish in it. Or maybe I'll try some Austrian anti freeze. Oh good come back by the way Top Banana. Clearly you are a more measured and calmer person than me, and also my knowledge of the regulatory structure is a little rusty, although interesting to see that FSA were supposed to do more with less resource (a little bit of knowledge is dangerous). Trouble is I see FSA very different to the Meat Hygience Service(ie policy rather than enforcement), when they are the same organisation. Food labelling was also moved from the FSA back to the agriculture department (think that was the last lot) and nutrition policy went to DH where they thought it would be a good idea for the major manufacturers to dictate what is good for us so we are well on our way to returning back to pre-97 days. And FSA has had its research budget slashed.

Bet you didn't see that one coming PS3 chums

Just to correct myself, enforcement is generally carried out at the local level (but not by the EU) apart from the Meat Hygiene Service that is a national body.