Tony.London Suburbs

LuvPeckham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HonaloochieB Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Honestly you lot, the oldest trick in the book > and > > you fell for it. Methinks "Loochie" was talking "Tongue-In-Cheek" and the little scamp knew exactly what he was doing! Won't catch me so easily::o

LuvPeckham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tony > > Check all of the fuses in the box.... Hope this helps Thanks, I'll read what you have written carefully thru'! Just to say my Gas Cooker and Gas Fire in the Living Room still work fine. To update I turned the switch on again and just get a "whirring" sound and also my "Pressure Gage" goes up from "1" to "3" when it working and then retreats back afterwards(I know it should stay at "1" but, hey! it works normally) but this time it did not move!

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: And TLS, even I know that "World" refers to a newspaper title not a real world event. Nevertheless in Baseball they say "The reigning World Series Champions are the Philadelphia Phillies. ... include 29 clubs based in the United States and one club from Canada."....to all intents and purposes the Victors regard themselves as "World" Champions and in NFL they definitely do, which has got nothing to do with a newspaper title. The great Joe Namath mentioned The Steelers were "World" Champions twice alone...

woofmarkthedog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm writing this with a heavy heart & my eyes sore > from the tears i've shed.> > I had the honor of knowing Dr John Crane well..... > God bless you John ,you were one of a kind > > xx> > Woof Lovely post M8! That means he was just over 30 when I visited him at his Old Practice in Faraday Street, off Portland Street. He will be missed by many.

Sorry! NOT technically minded at all! My lights blew last night and I turned the Power off and took the little box out to get the new fuse wire added to it. At the moment the Power is on(obviously I'm typing this..lol) but my Central Heating is cold,whereas it DID work before. PLEASE tell me its because the "electrics"/"lights" box still hasn't been put back in! (Antiquated system I know!).... Thanks In Advance,Tony.

Sorry! NOT technically minded at all! My lights blew last night and I turned the Power off and took the little box out to get the new fuse wire added to it. At the moment the Power is on(obviously I'm typing this..lol) but my Central Heating is cold. PLEASE tell me its because the "electrics"/"lights" box still hasn't been put back in! (Antiquated system I know!)....

What an apathetic shower!:X I'll leave you towatch "Women Behind Bars" and "Britains Worst Mother-In-Law" then...(6)

I meant to say, the biggest laugh of all last night was Joe Namath coming on and greeting The WORLD Champions!..THe WORLD Champions!! where the only teams to compete for the Trophy are American.:)) Similar to "The WORLD Series of Baseball" featuring North American Teams only! Notice a pattern forming?...Thats the utter contempt that they regard the rest of the "irrelevant" Sporting Nations, around 175 of them! yet they want "us" to lap up their game and buy their merchandise:) At which point we say $?$$off!

I'll be admirably succinct then. The NFL WRONGLY ASSumed that European Sports fans would take to their "Product" in significant numbers. The demise of the unlamented "NFL Europe" shows how much the overwhelming majority of fans care about their "Product". The NFL coverage has been dropped from many Channels due to lack of interest and yet their Marketing People STILL insist that if they continue to push it by showing the sport on mainstrean tv here that eventually it will "take off" and be more than a Minority Sport in Britain. They have underestimated the tremendous interest and enthusiasm that we possess for our own Sports and also, underestimated the fact that no amount of "USA Razzamatazz and Hype" will make British Sports fans follow their game "sheep-like" just because they want us to. Others will have to buy their merchandise:) However, there IS one thing that we can learn from them, which is that they control their teams very well and stop a monopoly of the real talent just going to the teams that can pay the most under the system that you are well aware of. Also its a good idea to cap all wages, again giving a level playing field. They enjoy their game and good luck to them, equally we enjoy The Beautiful Game here.

What irritates me is that The NFL Bigwigs just assumed that we were going to be led like sheep to watch their game, even though Britain is the Home of The most popular World Sport:-$ This is what they are desperately driven to do in the name of Marketing their "Product".. Possibly the weirdest morning ever - the truth about NFL marketing in England 21-Oct-2008 Last night (20 October) I was sent a rather mysterious email from a marketing agency called Balance-Live acting on behalf of the NFLUK website, inviting me to a hotel in my home town of Birmingham at 8.15am on 21 October (today). This is the relevant extract from the email - which of course left me curious?. Date: Tuesday 21 October Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Bar Area, Smallbrook Queensway, B5 4EW Please ask for Ross Noble Time: 0815am - 930am You need to bring: A bag to conceal a ball You need to wear: Your normal work clothes, or casual clothes - we are aiming to blend in. What?s happening: Playing a game of catch with commemorative balls, and being filmed Questions: Speak to Ross 07793755278. Of course being curious that the NFL were finally conducting some sort of event outside London (a similar set of instructions for a Manchester event was also included in the email sent yesterday) I rung up Ross yesterday and asked him what was planned. Now Ross was a polite young man who was very pleased that I had rung him, but he confessed to knowing little to nothing about American football, and that this email was a ploy to get NFL fans in England to participate in an NFL ?flash mob? exercise. To those who are not aware ?flash mobing? is an event where you get people to go to a public place and do something stupid like have a pillow fight - see here - and then just disperse before getting arrested. The intention Ross told me was that we would collect a commemorative NFL Chargers v Saints game ball from the Holiday Inn and then in pairs throw these balls around Birmingham New Street train station, the largest train station in Birmingham. I got my local train around 7.20am this morning to Birmingham New Street, and as I walked through the train station towards the hotel I noticed the West Midlands Transport police had four uniformed officers patrolling the area where commuters travel trough on their way to offices and shops. I arrived at the Holiday Inn this morning at around 8.00am and found Ross standing in the hotel lobby (not the upstairs bar) next to a store cupboard blowing up about 30commemorative balls. Again Ross was a nice young man, but he was woefully unbriefed about the NFL and asked me what day the Chargers v Saints game at Wembley was being played. This made me nervous. He also confessed that he did not know how to correctly throw an American football, nor could he name more than one NFL team - the Dolphins. He did not even know the Dolphins played at Wembley in 2007. By about 8.15am another four people had arrived in the lobby, three aged in their early to mid 20?s and one gent in a suit. I was in my work suit too but I had a coat over it. We had a short chat about the fact Reggie Bush was not going to be playing on Sunday, and that Pierre Thomas will have to step up for the Saints. One guy even had Deuce Mc Allister in his fantasy team, so he wasn?t too upset to see Bush not making the flight. With about 30 balls blown up Ross explained he wanted us to take the balls and pass them around Birmingham New Street train station at 9.10am. I explained to all that there were a number of police officers patrolling the station, but Ross did not make much of a comment about it. At that point it flashed through my mind that I could be arrested for throwing a ball at the train station and my ?flash mob? partner missing the catch and it hitting someone in the head. I could also potentially be mocked by local journalists, if they had been tipped off to be at a ?flah mob? event taking place this morning. It was then, at about 8.16am that I pretended to look for a toilet in the Holiday Inn before dashing out of the hotel and unglamourously jogging all the way back to the train station alone, with my commemorative ball in my bag. By the time I walked back into the train station the police had actually set up a stand to promote travel security, so i dread to think about the four people who were still with Ross and the remainder of the balls. If this ill thought through idea to promote the NFL to a new English audience is the best the NFL marketing gurus can come up with then please call me. I have 10 years experience in public relations and can suggest some fun ideas that do not involve risking hitting commuters in the head with a full size American football who are walking through a city train station late for work on a cold Tuesday morning. I would love to hear from the loyal NFL fans who did stay with Ross this morning. Did you throw balls around Birmingham New Street train station and get arrested? PS - Its a sweet looking ball that is now sitting on top of my tv set - To view a picture of the ball please see my blog - link below.

Horsebox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mick Mac and TLS, I'm interested to know where you > get the feeling from that the sport is being > 'forced' upon people or 'rammed down your > throat'?> > How very queer indeed. This is all just crap marketing nonsense. I do recall that the NFL have already tried to impose this body-armoured, steroid-fuelled, waste-of-three-hours-even-though-it?s supposed-to-take-one pointless sport on Europe and got precisely nowhere. And the reason? People here watch sport to see people compete, not to see cheerleaders and $15m running backs do little celebration dances because ?they are the man? and certainly not to see drugged up thirty stone idiots shoving each other for three seconds at a time. This will have the same impact NFL Europe had.

Cheers!

Well this thread seems to have attracted some of EDF's finest. I have had my Central Heating on non-stop since 1966.

Rather a disappointing, muted response though I suspect this will be a "Slow-Burner"... I can feel the pulse of our great Nation and its Time for some radical action. Lets Go(!)

....there's still at least 6 inches to come! Take whatever defence measures are necessary is all I can advise....

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will we get the sack for such actions? KK: A Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady so grow some b***s and lets have no more of that lacka.lacker..lecker daisy e cal attitude please! Oh! Shoot! Just remembered U R a Girly but yer get the giste Babes:)-D

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Callo callay oh frabjous day. > No work for yours truly, I have spent the tine > wisely though ordering tickets for Mott The > Hoople's extra concert date on 1st October. > Bloody exhausted, so going back to bed. No-one can blame you M8. You've cwertainly done your bit(tu)

Well come on then! Who is in(?):)-D

Oh! I See! NOT that "A3".....as you were then....

Don't travel on The A3 today! Leatherhead is COMPLETELY snarled up and nobody is moving between Junctions 8/9 on that stretch of road. Hope that helps...

annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Given that most people are not going to work, I > think I'm showing spirit enough by turning up, > Tony. > I don't have to like it. Fair Play M8! I must admit I thought "Sod that for a game of old soldiers!" to continue that theme;-)

Let the Movement begin in what-will-soon-be World Famous East Dulwich! (The Home and Foundation of THe Great British Revolution, 2009 (!)>:D<.....

This is your golden opportunity today to tell your Employers and The Government to stick it where The Sun definitely don't shine! Tell 'em your off for a Month, in case the weather doesn't get better! The time and social conditions are right for radical change so.... En cada barrio, Revolucion!-Vive La Revolucion!-

annaj Wrote: And not everyone loves the snow. With Respect, poor effort(!) Is that the spirit that got us thru' Dunkirk(?) Normandy(?) The Blitz(?)...Stiff Upper Lip and all that Old Chap(!)

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This would have more credibility if it were a > Peckham vs East Dulwich fight, but no, the East > Dulwich wimps choose the chicken option. Yeah! I wanna be taking on the Rude Boyz and Gyuls on THe Peckham Front Line..NOT!!(6) p.s. If you need re-inforcements from The Burbs we are ONLY available for a barney or row with those Dulwich Villagers::o