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Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For heaven's sake, lets be positive - we stand a > damn good chance of getting a cinema in ED. To > quote (ironically) the late Mrs T - rejoice! So those who work there should be expected to work for less than a living wage so you can go to the flicks?

At Darrel Road we had a very polite and indeed rather diffident libdem chap asking for numbers - it was all I could do to stop myself offering to fetch him a sandwich

Oh dear. I really am a grandad if this is what you all are digging man. I have heard some of these chaps, not all, but I do think most of it is boring tiresome shite and am well aware this makes me a dreadful old tosser with no taste. Just thought I would throw that into the mix.

SteveUK1978 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jamon Iberico a-go-go. > > Saturday lunch just got more expensive. At ?12.50 for organic lotion - so did self abuse.

...and anyway - THIS is how you deface a political poster-

Hansen was just too out of touch - the world has moved on a lot from when he played though that is nearly true of Sheerah too. I'd like to see Gobby Savage give vent on MOTD more and would LOVE to see an outsider allowed to regularly express a fan's opinion. Someone with a passion for but no ties to the game - like Chiles used to be when he first started MOTD2 or Colin Murray who annoyed the buggery out of the ex-pros by criticising their friends (Hansen once told him to leave the analysis to the experts); just somebody who would not be afraid of upsetting old mates or biting the football hand that feeds them.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I watched it - thought it was rather good. > However, there was a follow-up programme hosted by > Martha Carney which did my head in. If you want > to burst a blood vessel, watch that too. It's a > drama FFS! Yes I saw that too - attacking the writer/producer for making the young germans 'attractive' and doubting their relationships given the upbringing they would have had. I think the portrayal of the Polish resistance was harsh and can understand their objections to the series - less so the US bleating about having Nazis work for them after the war - but it WAS only one group and the possibility wasn't ridiculous. It did what drama is supposed to do - stimulated debate and provoked thought/reflection on how it might have felt to be there.

Done.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Definitive for OKR. > No definitive for Edgware. > > Personal preference and all that. > > Looking at the waffle I spouted earlier, now I'm > wondering about "the" UK, USA and UAE. Not to mention La France... On a properly random note... http://www.wimp.com/viewtime/

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there a government in history that couldn't be > tarred with a sound bite friendly phrase Hm, yes... but here is how some may just view things... Suppose one has been (perhaps) a life-long Labour voter (let's say) and came (for example) to loathe everything the Right stood for - then they experienced the New Labour regime with its almost constant knee-jerk legislation, its drive to restrict personal rights in the name of fighting terrorism - and the war thingy; then a fellow might have looked kindly on the (oh how nostalgic it all seems) "I agree with Nick" thing. Before they revealed themselves as lying chancers there was a possibility that integrity and honesty (especially when it came to promises made) still mattered and that even if right and (new) left tore into each other a voice of sanity existed. The spectacle of Cable justifying the hedge fund profits from selling of the Post Office, long after the tuition fees argument had faded, was a timely reminder that (in exchange for a laughable charade of a vote for electoral reform) the libs are whores who will do anything if the price is right. Labour and Conservatives are only vying now for who gets to take the whore into bed. Don't know where ukip fit into this - vying with the EDF (not this one) and BNP as the home for the mad, bad and dangerous to live next door to?

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will you be paying your staff the London Living > Wage? No but they will be screening a grainy documentary about their plight.

Ukip seems to be a very useful red herring to avoid discussing which of the other bunch of lying, two-faced, hypocritical self-interested slugs one is casting one's X for; kind of a "At least I don't support Ukip!" stance to make us all feel better. So who's in the race? The lying Libs? The legislation-crazed, I.D. card-hungry, War-criminals of Labour? (dropping "New" doesn't make it alright) or the divisive Tories? Farage loves all the martyr stuff and that kind of defacement - whilst perfectly acceptable as political comment - is more likely to get those entrenched ukip supporters out to vote ("No bloody paint throwing do-gooder is going to tell me how to vote") than make the undecided to vote against him.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The WHU Board's statement about what they expect > playing style wise is pretty clear. Slightly undermined by them also saying "We should also stress, though, that while improvements do need to be made, Sam deserves credit for the job he has done thus far" and "our impressive record of 14 clean sheets last season." Makes me wonder if Allardyce hasn't convinced them that clean sheets are more important than entertainment and a top 10 finish is all that counts. The sub-text is that the man has a year left on a contract that these short-sighted porn merchants (it makes you blind) don't want to have to pay compo for terminating. It's all about the cash. If he keeps Morrison (?3.75m to flog him the Swansea!? Come on!) that will show that a hyena can at least try and change his spots. Not holding my breath though.

Too much to hope it's not another Brindisa?

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Look away now Irons > fans...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/t > eams/west-ham/10843428/Sam-Allardyce-to-stay-on-as > -West-Ham-United-manager.html Like I said earlier - the signs were there*. Now I expect we'll buy some big strong lads to keep a clean sheet, get rid of Morrison (talent equals trouble)... oh, and get another someone to cross balls in for Carroll. Plan A. Route 1. Same as last year, we were just unlucky, fans should be glad of someone of Sam's experience, never been relegated, unfairly maligned, no such thing as West Ham style, I'd be England manager if i was foreign... blah blah blah *still hope this is wrong though.

...and 29 bleedin' 00 too.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the dilemma of the owners at WH is that > they have to stay in the PL with the move to the > Olympic Stadium happening. They know SA will > deliver that with his record. Even if this were true - which isn't a given by any means - the result might be the club and BFS moving to the Olympic Stadium but the fans staying away. Don't think the porn bros. will be too keen on crowds of under 20,000 in a massive shite stadium (for watching football that is - and yes I've seen all the drawings - fans are too far away, it'll be crap) especially watching the thump and run that will have been played for the intervening years. However, what > manager could they get who could ensure PL status > and get WH playing the way they think (or their > fans at least) they should be playing? Add, on a > budget, to that. Perhaps Moyes would? > If a man like Pulis can change his spots and start a team playing exciting football then almost ANY manager should be able to attempt it without the disaster that most ill-informed commentators seem to predict as an inevitability. Any except a stubborn "My bloody way or the bloody highway" old sod who has a muscle for a brain. Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whatever the consequences.........be careful what > you wish for. You could plummet down a division or > two. Having worked at UP for 6 months and seen how > ruthless the current regime was about people who > had worked there for years, I have no time for the > owners or their very senior representative. What > you've written is emotional but not rational. It's > not your club and you haven't been insulted. > Frankly if you played beautiful football you > wouldn't care if the mafia ran the club. Would > you? They used to! We've always had arseholes as owners/chairmen etc so the poisonous Brady bunch are nothing new - what is new is that clubs NEED to attract fans now more than ever and if the fans say 'stuff it' the club is in trouble. It is not all or nothing. Clubs will be relegated and come back up as they always have done and if that happens it won't be a disaster if the club is playing good football. They will get back into the PL and probably have an increased following as has happened in the past. If they get relegated playing Sam's way then they lose PL status AND fans.

Despite the names of Koeman, Poyet and Moyes being bandied around, the departure of Joe Cole (after being totally ignored by Allardyce or shoved out on the wing to be another provider of long balls in) and Morrison looking like joining Swansea seems to point to BFS being kept on. Another season of: Thump - "Get on the end of it! ... Big strong lad... importance of a clean sheet..." beckons

I'm a 'blowing through' rather than 'in' (which sounds like a leaf wedged in a gutter). Like a lot of provincials who moved to London (in the 80s in my case) ED is just another area of the city I have lived in and I don't expect it will be the last.

Passed by today - lots of artwork re the Y? Y? girls and poppy 60s French stuff inside - looks like it might be fun.

Perfectly happy with PG, Typhoo, Tetleys et al on a day to day basis but, just as there are more expensive and tastier coffees so there are, of course, teas and then Birchalls (nee Imporient) is my tea of choice (as mentioned before somewhere in the bowels of the forum). Recently, however, I was gifted some English tea (Tregothnan, Cornwall grown) and if you get a chance to try it you really should - it's bloody lovely.

Apologies - I read this as 'flipped over carl?' and was about to offer advice involving Wotsits and jabbing with a stick.

Congratulations EP - two trophies decided, two Irons victorious... bring on the CL B)

Rhinestone Cowboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Modelo Especial > I like it > I like the Negra version - I was hoping for Brazilian beer but maybe it's time to revive the old game of only drinking beers from the countries playing at any given time (last tried this in 98 with some help from Utobeer at Borough Mkt) So day one, kick off with Brahma and Karlovacko - early night (in training) first full day Dos Equis or said Modelo combined with a cold Castel or a bottle of Mamba (shop early) then an easy San Miguel and Amstel combo and finishing the evening with a cold Escudo or two and a well chilled Carlton Crown. this should be easy...

signed up - now to find an alternative to Brahma in time for k.o.... any suggestions?