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Reply | QPR Women
at 17:14 7 Jun 2024
Still bloody throw that lead away in Bend It Like Beckham though don't we.
Great news, I think integrating all sections of the club more can only be a good thing. Am I right in thinking this set of QPR Women were a new set up, from a previous QPR Women who a few years ago broke away and became their own club under a new name due to lack of support? Hopefully lessons were learned so that doesn't happen again. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:13 7 Jun 2024
I live near Narborough Road in Leicester, the businesses on which has the most nationalities represented in the UK, if that makes sense. Some great eateries down there.
It's also as a result an area with lots of nationalities living nearby, so lots of immigration. It has two independent hardware stores.
Pubs have shut because people stop going to them. Maybe the public smoking ban has contributed to that but to be honest I hated going in places that stank of smoke when I was younger so the public smoking ban is one of the best things to happen in my adult lifetime in my opinion. They were absolutely disgusting to be in beforehand. |
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Reply | D-Day
at 12:55 6 Jun 2024
I've got family who served in the military in the world wars, but not any who was in D-Day. My wife's grandad however, who died when she was quite young so obviously never known to me, went over in the third wave on D-Day itself.
There's a story passed down in the family that he did tell, one of the few things he ever said about it, where he was in a farmhouse checking for German soliders, looked out of a window and found a German soldier staring right back at him. Rather than trying to shoot each other, both just nodded and went their separate ways. A moment of humanity.
He then spent his post war life working as a painter and decorator I think. Such a strange juxtaposition to fighting in a war but of course they were all normal people who'd work normal jobs.
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things, as Brendan Foster likes to tell us every time the Great North Run comes about. |
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Reply | Man City - "Tryanny of the majority"
at 15:22 5 Jun 2024
The thing with Man City is it isn't just spending as much as you want, its (in my opinion) bringing in money to the club by fraud by getting companies associated with the owners spending well over market value amounts in the guise of "sponsorship".
In the normal business world, there are tax laws that outlaw that sort of activity. In football it just seems fair game and no-one cares.
Lets not forget its not that many years ago that Sheffield Wednesday were sponsored by a taxi company owned by Chansiri that didn't actually own any taxis, or operate an actual taxi business, or trade in any way at all, and nothing came of that either. |
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Reply | Bicycle stolen from work: Advice needed
at 15:18 5 Jun 2024
This, my bike is registered through here, it acts as a huge deterrent to thieves who steal bikes to sell on Gumtree and the like because the stickers on the bike make them much easier to trace back to the original owner (and they are tamperproof so they cant come off). Probably not so much of a deterrent to those stealing to use just the once before dumping in a river mind... but the police have good stats showing how bikes on the register are much much less likely to be stolen because of how easy they are to trace back.
D-lock and cable too, see if your local police station stocks some, in Leicester the city centre police station sell them at a subsidy to help people store their bikes more securely.
Sorry for the loss, hope you manage to get something back though it might be tricky. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 12:36 4 Jun 2024
I think it'll be a lot tighter than all the polls are saying right now.
As an outsider looking in, it does seem to me that everytime Labour get a sniff of being in power they immediately get spooked about it and start doing every self sabotage thing of turning on each other they can possibly think of to bugger themselves up.
It does feel to me sometimes that the left want to be the Dean Smith Justice League winners of being righteous if only they were in power, whilst secretly being quite glad they aren't, whilst the Tories are the annoying Preston North End types who'll do what it takes to win by any means necessary, including every sh*thousing trick they can possibly think of that winds everyone up, but gets results time after time.
Probably a pretty bad analogy as football/politics goes but hopefully gets my point across! |
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Reply | What is your second sport.
at 08:46 4 Jun 2024
As a participant, I'm a runner, which I'm relatively competitive in (obviously absolutely miles and miles and miles off elite standard, but reasonably decent at a local level).
We go to watch Leicester Riders basketball when we can during the winter season, will enjoy watching track athletics although watching road running is less interesting - I prefer being the participant. Also hoping to go to a few Leicestershire Foxes T20 games this summer, managed to make the first one last Friday.
Also watch the BTCC in motorsport although I've only physically been to one race meeting in the last 6/7 years, just dates always clash with other commitments but with ITV screening the whole day live I can always catch up on ITVX (and get driven crazy by Under Armour ads, as posted the other day!) |
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Reply | The Final: Attack on Wembley - Netflix
at 22:13 3 Jun 2024
£8k per year extra results in extra responsibility. Unsurprising. Whether thats enough for the level of responsibility required is completely subjective, that neither you nor I know the real answer to (although I suspect you believe you do because you believe you are right on everything) and is something that could go on for ages, and ages, and ages, and ages....
Which I'm quite happy to let you go on with. I was however, quite happy to point out you deliberately skewed some stats to make them look narrower than they truly are.
(Btw, £7.8k is 17.6% of the median London salary, according to the ONS. So that's a big disparity still between a nurse working 37.5 hours per week, and the low paid security guard getting £4 per hour less).
I look forward to your reply telling me why you're right and I'm wrong, and I'll leave you there.  |
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Reply | The Final: Attack on Wembley - Netflix
at 17:56 3 Jun 2024
£4 x 37.5 hours p/w x 52 weeks = £7,800 so nearly £8k still instead of the £8,320 on a 40 hour week. And again that's not taking into account overtime etc.
And we all have to deal with tax deductions so that's a bit of a non-point. |
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Reply | The Final: Attack on Wembley - Netflix
at 15:28 3 Jun 2024
Over a standard 40 hour working week that £4 per hour is worth over £8,000 per year, so that's quite a sizeable disparity, and that's without getting into the vagaries of working more than 40 hour weeks, overtime etc etc.
Unless you're on so much money Sheff that £8k is a mere drop in the ocean to you  |
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Thread | Under Armour "We're by far the greatest team..."
at 16:01 2 Jun 2024
I keep getting this advert repeatedly played to me on ITV X at the minute when I'm watching the BTCC on catch up and it's doing my absolute nut in, because all of the idiots in it are singing it to completely the wrong tune.
I didn't think Under Armour could come up with a more annoying advert than "Protect this house" but they've managed it.
Daveb works for ITV, can he get them to pull the plug on it?
I don't own any Under Armour gear either, I have in the past and it was garbage.
Arrrgggghhhh.
Sort it out etc... |
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 08:57 31 May 2024
Possibly moving topic slightly but one thing I think should really be encouraged in this country is that everyone who works within a five mile radius of their home should be able to get to work in a sustainable manner without relying on a motor vehicle. Cycling can play a huge part in that if people feel they can do it safely. And it would be a huge benefit to people's health.
Of course in reality you suggest such a thing you'd just get flooded with responses of "yeah but I can't because..." followed by some crap excuse as to why Ben or Jane can't possibly not use their car every day for a tiny journey.
At my old job there was a girl who lived, I kid you not because it was on one of my running routes so I knew exactly how far it was, one mile from the office, and she drove to work every day. Pathetic, and unsurprisingly was on the larger side to put it politely. That's a car completely unnecessarily on the roads, adding to the congestion for those that aren't so fortunate to work close to home, or trades etc who need to be out in vehicles.
Far too many people use cars because its an easy excuse and they are lazy. Lots of traffic in London and elsewhere could be solved by people not jumping in their car for every tiny journey. |
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 10:31 30 May 2024
There's already a bike register in the country Benny although it is voluntary rather than mandatory - my bike is registered on it and police have some good stats showing registered bikes that are registered are massively less likely to be stolen than those that aren't:-
https://www.bikeregister.com/
So my bike is registered under my name, to my address etc. Police, certainly in Leicester and I presume elsewhere around the country, offer pop up events where you can turn up and register your bike for free rather than pay the fee advertised on the website.
*EDIT* - Sorry, was a direct reply to post 50 from Benny but obviously clicked the wrong button to not quote it... [Post edited 30 May 10:31]
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 10:28 30 May 2024
I've been cycling to work in Leicester across two different jobs for nearly eight years now. My old commute was brilliant, my old house backed onto the disused Great Central Railway path which I could follow all the way to the edge of the city, then join the shared path along the outer ring road to the commercial estate I worked on, the whole lot was cycle/shared paths and was brilliant.
My current one is a bit trickier and I've moved house since so its probably around 60:40 in favour of roads to cycle paths, but the roads I go on I make sure are quiet residential roads because I don't fancy being on busy roads with cars coming too close so I just take myself away from that situation.
Example here - I pass the King Power Stadium but go around the quiet roads that go around the old Filbert Street stadium rather than the main one that goes past the King Power - its shut on match days but when an open road its very busy, and cars are going more than twice my speed if not more.
There's about 50 yards of my journey where I'm a naughty cyclist and go on a pavement - this is just a roundabout by the river where officially the cycle path goes all the around the outside, but with the angle I approach that roundabout on to follow the official route I'd have to cross a busy road, then cross three further crossings to end up where I'm going anyway - pointless. But then for that fifty yards I slow right down, keep behind pedestrians if anyone is ahead, and come past very slowly when I do overtake. Just common sense right?
The rest of it is just common sense too - on a narrow road where a car is coming ahead and has right of way? Wait for it like you would in a car rather than squeeze through a narrow gap. If I'm already on the road and have right of way when a car is coming - in fairness most of the time the cars will wait as they should, and I will unashamedly give a gesture if they come through when they shouldn't.
The last bit I have is going under a railway bridge that is single lane - priority is to traffic going uphill. Again most of the times cars will wait, occasionally they don't. A couple of times I've had drivers try to abuse me for it despite the fact I have right of way and I will happily tell them to fk off and remind them if they hit and injure me they will go to prison if they are happy taking that risk.
The same goes the other way - if I need to wait going downhill at the end of the day then I will wait - I'm not trying to squeeze into a small gap just because I'm on a smaller mode of transport. I've seen other cyclists do it and I will shake my head at them because it is madness and putting yourself at risk.
And the delivery cyclists drive me just as mad! But that can also be blamed on the gig economy as much as anything else - people take stupid risks because to them time literally is money.
People will always do stupid things, on cars or bikes. People in cars need to accept they can cause a lot more damage, a lot more quickly, than someone on a bike will, and the way media (and it is media) dehumanise people on bikes is really dangerous and irresponsible.
The rest of it is just using some consideration for others, and being sensible.
When I'm driving I bloody hate coming past cyclists on the road! Mainly because I just don't want to kill anyone.
And lastly - for all the people who like to complain about the number of cycle lanes built across the country in recent years - that was policy from the government that won the 2019 election, with money given to councils up and down the country to build them (including Leicester, we've had a lot pop up these past few years) so if you voted Conservative then hate cycle lanes being built, you are complaining about something you voted for. |
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Reply | League cup being messed about with
at 08:46 30 May 2024
Isn't there already an element of seeding in it anyway so Championship clubs get drawn against lower league sides? Sure I've read that before, I'm sure you never see all Championship ties in the first round. |
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Reply | being over charged on your card...
at 09:09 29 May 2024
They've been advertising it on the official site so presumably genuine, although as part of it we also seem to be joining the crypto NFT grifting game with "digital souvenir" which is really sad to see. |
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Reply | Away games revenue
at 15:38 28 May 2024
We get zero % of away ticket sales. I believe gate revenue used to be shared between clubs up until the 1980s when it was voted for home clubs to retain all of it, instigated by, surprise surprise, the biggest clubs in the country.
Cup ticket revenue is still split, I think its 45:45:10 (to the FA) but not sure if that's before or after costs. |
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