Jah Lush

I love Deli Alli. That is all.

West Ham's Sofiane Feghouli has had his red card against Manchester United rescinded by an FA independent commission.

With a nice warm glass of seasonal mulled wine in my hand I mulled things over about any New Year resolutions I could make for myself for the coming year and thought I'd stop procrastinating about procrastination and fully procrastinate with focus and concentration from the very start. But since then I've stopped to ponder about the wisdom of that.?

I don't know. You wait ages for a scorpion and then two come along at once.

Indeed, I'm as baffled as the rest of us how she got an award. She probably has a team of designers to do her work for her. She just adds her name to the designs. Hopeless woman.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Eno , bit of a hypocrite > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/bands-o > n-the-run-1164826.html That story's 19 years old.

Thank you my son and the same to you. You're a silly old goose with delusions of gander.

Omnipresent.

From Brian Eno's Facebook page. Good points well made. 2016/2017 The consensus among most of my friends seems to be that 2016 was a terrible year, and the beginning of a long decline into something we don?t even want to imagine. 2016 was indeed a pretty rough year, but I wonder if it?s the end - not the beginning - of a long decline. Or at least the beginning of the end?.for I think we?ve been in decline for about 40 years, enduring a slow process of de-civilisation, but not really quite noticing it until now. I?m reminded of that thing about the frog placed in a pan of slowly heating water? This decline includes the transition from secure employment to precarious employment, the destruction of unions and the shrinkage of workers? rights, zero hour contracts, the dismantling of local government, a health service falling apart, an underfunded education system ruled by meaningless exam results and league tables, the increasingly acceptable stigmatisation of immigrants, knee-jerk nationalism, and the concentration of prejudice enabled by social media and the internet. This process of decivilisation grew out of an ideology which sneered at social generosity and championed a sort of righteous selfishness. (Thatcher: ?Poverty is a personality defect?. Ayn Rand: ?Altruism is evil?). The emphasis on unrestrained individualism has had two effects: the creation of a huge amount of wealth, and the funnelling of it into fewer and fewer hands. Right now the 62 richest people in the world are as wealthy as the bottom half of its population combined. The Thatcher/Reagan fantasy that all this wealth would ?trickle down? and enrich everybody else simply hasn?t transpired. In fact the reverse has happened: the real wages of most people have been in decline for at least two decades, while at the same time their prospects - and the prospects for their children - look dimmer and dimmer. No wonder people are angry, and turning away from business-as-usual government for solutions. When governments pay most attention to whoever has most money, the huge wealth inequalities we now see make a mockery of the idea of democracy. As George Monbiot said: ?The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the purse is mightier than the pen?. Last year people started waking up to this. A lot of them, in their anger, grabbed the nearest Trump-like object and hit the Establishment over the head with it. But those were just the most conspicuous, media-tasty awakenings. Meanwhile there?s been a quieter but equally powerful stirring: people are rethinking what democracy means, what society means and what we need to do to make them work again. People are thinking hard, and, most importantly, thinking out loud, together. I think we underwent a mass disillusionment in 2016, and finally realised it?s time to jump out of the saucepan. This is the start of something big. It will involve engagement: not just tweets and likes and swipes, but thoughtful and creative social and political action too. It will involve realising that some things we?ve taken for granted - some semblance of truth in reporting, for example - can no longer be expected for free. If we want good reporting and good analysis, we?ll have to pay for it. That means MONEY: direct financial support for the publications and websites struggling to tell the non-corporate, non-establishment side of the story. In the same way if we want happy and creative children we need to take charge of education, not leave it to ideologues and bottom-liners. If we want social generosity, then we must pay our taxes and get rid of our tax havens. And if we want thoughtful politicians, we should stop supporting merely charismatic ones. Inequality eats away at the heart of a society, breeding disdain, resentment, envy, suspicion, bullying, arrogance and callousness. If we want any decent kind of future we have to push away from that, and I think we?re starting to. There?s so much to do, so many possibilities. 2017 should be a surprising year. - Brian

Deli Alli, we've got Dele Alli etc etc.

Bob Bradley sacked as manager of Swansea. No surprise there. Terrible appointment in the first place. Should never have sacked Franceso Guidolin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38442329

For anyone locally who has given up their free time over the holiday period and volunteered at Help The Homeless/Crisis At Christmas.

That's a great find, Sue. Who'd have thought the Victorians had such a good a sense of irony.

http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushhead/15697520_10154865568476457_2319044103933224143_n_zpsqveabr7i.jpg

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah Lush Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ooh, while I'm here. 7,400. > > > Disallowed and yellow card - you can't set up your > own 100 as any pro knows. Tch! I was unaware of any rules. Consider my wrist slapped.

Ooh, while I'm here. 7,400.

Arf! Gooners losing it again.

Indeed. The office has closed but I've still managed to get a cab from outside the old office after a night in Herne Hill as some of the cabbies park outside waiting for fares.

The full Antonio. You got to admit it's a much better job than Rooney's. http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushhead/image.jpeg_zpskhjwknv6.jpg

Uber.

Yeah, that's about the only time I've used them. When I had the builders in a few years ago and they wanted paying in cash but for everyday use, forget it.

You don't see them that often anyway. They're about as rare as hen's teeth. So not too bothered if they phase them out.