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StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > interesting article about how much people will > spend on music > > http://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-price-of-music/ that's really interesting- basically if all music consumers were willing to pay ?10 per month for pretty much all the music they could ever want, then the per person annual spend on music would be double what it was at it's peak in 1999 at least that's how i'm interpreting it

For anyone interested- Dulwich College beat Warwick school 53-5 in the Nat West Final today at Twickenham.

Bluerevolution Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What about the "Moyes Out" banner allegedly to be > flown over OT ? Red Issue has gained over ?800 by > fans to get this done, apparently. Bit sad. It can't end well for anyone involved. It's spectacularly embarrassing.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > red devil Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I was just about to say that Jah, he looks > totally > > disinterested. I don't think making a new > signing > > the captain is a good move any way, surely that > > right has to be earnt... > > Exactly and Dawson has certainly earned the > captaincy. I think giving the Ajax (Dutch player of the year) and sometime Belgium captain the Spurs captaincy is a no-brainer. He's a natural captain and one of the world's best centre backs. As it is we gave it to a limited defender who tries hard. If we'd have given him the captaincy upfront, i'd argue that his body language would be very different now. You pick one of your best players as captain, not one of your best workers. The captain should be undroppable. Dawson should not be undroppable. Man City wouldn't have thought twice about giving Kompany the cpataincy just because he was a new player.

I agree wholeheartedly about Dawson. The kind of guy you need around the dressing room. Not good enough as a player though. I think a succession of managers have made him captain because of his attitude rather than ability, which makes him difficult to drop. I would've given Vertonghen the captaincy as soon as he stepped through the door.

Fergie's no fool- he knew exactly the right time to get out. He knew Rio, Vidic, Evra all had max one season left in them at the top or at the club and the replacements (Jones, Smalling etc) weren't up to standard. He knew the centre of the park was weak and had been for some time. It's a minor miracle that they walked the league last season.

what about listening through a phone set at 320kbps with good headphones?

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bayern Munich are champions of Germany for a 24th > time with a record seven games to spare after a > 3-1 win in Berlin. > Scary. Philip Lahm completed 134 passes out of 134 attempted last night. Ausgezeichnet.

just read that the air conditioning broke down on buses in the summer leaving passengers sweltering. Apparently Thomas Heatherwick wanted windows that opened, but was overruled. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/meltdown-on-the-boris-bus-aircon-cockup-leaves-passengers-sweltering-in-30c-8690392.html

If i'm right, there are about 6,000 buses on London routes, and they are rolling out another 600 of the new ones in the near future. According to wikipedia, the cost of each bus is ?354k and the cost of a conductor for each bus is ?62,000.

If they were just intended as a tourist attraction then fine, roll them out on a couple of Central London routes. However; as a practical, comfortable way of moving a lot of people all over the city they are not fit for purpose.

They don't have the back open, at least they didn't when we wanted to jump off (at the side of the road in stationary traffic). But, there was no conductor on this one (which poses another question- one of the big reasons they scrapped the bendy buses was the ability to get on without paying, if there's no conductor on some buses, what's to stop people riding without paying on these?). Re- the seat comfort, I'm tall and my knees were touching the seats in front on the new buses. On the 12, 63, 78, 37, 363 and 197 there's plenty of room).

Getting rid of the bendy ones at great cost to the taxpayer and replacing them with these to even greater cost to the taxpayer.....to my feeble mind, this doesn't make sense. I didn't think Ken had done a particularly bad job, had he?

I'm sure there's been a thread or two about these, but I can't find them. I use London buses a lot. Most of my travel around London is by bus or by bike as I think they're the most pleasant ways to get around. I took a short journey on one of the new ones yesterday in Central London and I cannot believe how passenger unfriendly the design is. The upstairs seating is genuinely uncomfortable, has significantly less leg room than the other newish buses and you can't open the windows so the climate is controlled centrally (not everyone likes being the same temperature and the ride is bumpy as hell). There seems to be less seating than the other newer buses (I imagine because of the two staircases). Surely the whole point of these is to be like the old routemasters, where you can hop and on off whereever you like, otherwise, what is the point? I imagine they are more expensive to run as they need a driver and a conductor. The only similarity I can see between them and the old routemasters is how uncomfortable they are and that they look nice. I read that they are costing over a million pounds each to make, and the cost over it's lifetime will be ?354k, significantly more than existing buses. Happy to be corrected on this though. Is this, along with the Thames Cable Car Boris' biggest vanity project/waste of time? In fact while we're at it, and this genuinely isn't intended as an anti-Boris Johnson tirade, but has he contributed anything of real value to London during his tenure?

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Spurs as a benchmark you have to agree > Arsenal and Wenger have achieved. > > However as major London clubs there is perhaps an > argument that both should be doing better. > > As a very general rule the top clubs in Europe > come from the cities that are the financial hubs > of those countries, Madrid, Munich, Paris. it's > been rare over the last 25 years for London to > have a top club. Arsenal have occasionally hit the > heights of European finals but not enough in my > opinion and Arsene's stadium excuse is running > thin. Not that he references that himself, but > Spurs have struggled to find the right formula > altogether. When have Paris had a top european club? One appearance in the quarter finals of the CL for PSG is exactly the same as Tottenham in recent years

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely northlondoner, apparently it's ok for > some users to make overt racial stereotypes on > this forum for a 'joke' and not be pulled up on > them- and yet when I raise something comparably > insignificant like reserving a parking space with > a wheelie bin or class I'm hammered into the > ground. Very much double standards. Some of the > forum morality police might want to get their > priorities in order. > > Louisa. ummm, the poster was pulled up

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Spotify rips off artists... not nearly as bad as > p2p sharing which was the norm before it came > along. Depends how you look at it. From a direct royalties point of view it's not good for the artist; but from an exposure point of view it is. There will plenty of folk like me that will use spotify as a listening post before buying. They will also indirectly benefit from more peoplem paying for gig tickets because they have first heard a band they like on spotify.

I've had premium spotify since it started and frankly I can't think of a better way to spend ?10 a month. Having the ability to listen to pretty much any album before buying it has meant that I now buy more physical albums than I did before.

is she really saying what she thinks or saying what she thinks might get a reaction?

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > City denied a stonewall penalty, 2 red cards, > Robbem gets a pen for diving, anyone would think > English clubs are jinxed Barca also denied a stonewall penalty

fair enough. Just thought there might be a bit of local interest.

The cafe on Peckham Rye does a very nice fry up. Bacon, Cumberland Sausage, Egg, Beans, Mushrooms and a good Bubble. Only drawback is that it's usually full of screaming kids and parent's that don't seem to care. (Disclaimer: not all the kids scream and not all the parents are indifferent)

Coaching rather than playing

Dulwich College through to the final after beating RGS High Wycombe this afternoon at Allianz Park. Some extraordinary refereeing giving out 4 yellow cards and one red (three yellows and a red to Dulwich). One yellow was for pushing another player in the chest! Dulwich down to 13 at one point, but some truly heroic defending camped on their own line for the last 15 mins saw them through 7-3. The final is on Saturday 29th March at Twickenham against Warwick School. The more support they have the better. Only one other school has won three titles- but that was at the very beginning of the tournament when there was no limit on the amount of Scholarship players. So essentially a third win in a row for Dulwich would be unprecedented.

OK, apologies for getting carried away, this started as a list of five albums. The missus is away and I have to do something with my time. In my eyes these are all pretty much faultless, stone cold classics ? or will be considered so with the passage of time. I?d be very grateful if someone could recommend some more Jazz, Reggae and Folk classics. Bob Dylan- Blood on The Tracks (I know; pick an album, any album- but this is probably my favourite album of all time) Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (or Veedon Fleece or Moondance) Nick Drake- Bryter Later (but any of the three really) Neil Young ? After the Gold Rush (or Harvest or On the Beach) The Kinks- Village Green Preservation Society The Velvet Underground & Nico Scott Walker - Scott 4 (or any of the four really) Beach Boys- Pet Sounds Love- Forever Changes Stevie Wonder- Innervisions (I know people talk about that run of five albums being perfect, but for me this is a little step up from Talking Book, Songs in The Key of Life, Music of My Mind and Fulfillingness...) Marvin Gaye- What's Going On (I think Here my Dear doesn't get talked about as much as it should either) Terry Callier - What Colour Is Love David Axelrod- Songs of Innocence (or Songs of Experience) Donny Hathaway- Everything is Everything (or Live or Extension of a Man) James Brown- Live at the Apollo Gil Scott Heron- Pieces of a Man The Voices of East Harlem- s/t John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (or Bluetrane) Miles Davis- Kind of Blue (or Sketches of Spain) Charles Mingus- Black Saint and The Sinner Lady Lonnie Liston Smith- Expansions (or Astral Travelling) Pharaoh Sanders- Thembi Donald Byrd- Black Byrd (or Places and Spaces) The Congos - Heart of The Congos Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town Lee Perry- Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Cornbread The Last Poets - This is Madness (or The Last Poets) Eric B & Rakim- Paid in Full Public Enemy- Nation of Millions (or Yo Bumrush the Show) Beastie Boys- Illcommunication Blackstar ? s/t Mos Def- Black on Both Sides Boogie Down Productions- Criminal Minded De La Soul ? 3 is the Magic Number The Pharcyde- Bizarre Ride 2 the Pharcyde Raekwon- Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx Wu Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Portishead- Dummy Massive Attack- Blue Lines (anyone else buy this during the first gulf war, where they had to change their name on the album to just ?Massive??) The Good The Bad and The Queen- s/t Leftfield- Leftism Patti Smith ? Horses The Modern Lovers- The Modern Lovers Television- Marquee Moon Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation Pavement - Slanted Enchanted (or Crooked Rain..) Pixies- Surfer Rosa (or Doolittle) Dinosaur Jr- Bug Tom Waits ? Rain Dogs (or Swordfishtrombones or Nighthawks at the Diner) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- No More Shall We Part (or Tender Prey or Murder Ballads or Boatman?s Call or Abattoir Blues) Wilco- Summerteeth Bonnie Prince Billy- I See a Darkness Silver Jews- American Water Tindersticks ? s/t 2 The White Stripes- Elephant (or De Stijl or White Blood Cells) The Strokes ? Is This It The Libertines - Up The Bracket Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days (or The Shepherds Dog) The Walkmen- Bows & Arrows The Shins- Wincing the Night Away The National- Boxer Sufjan Stevens- Illinois Joanna Newsom- Ys Deerhunter- Microcastle Grizzly Bear- Yellow House Ty Segall- Twins Mikal Cronin ? MCII