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I wasn't coaching them last season ! But no they've got 4 points from the last two complete seasons - I didn't know this before going there...currently 4th in a division of 15 so not too bad.pinno said:
I guess they didn't go up last season.DeVlaeminck said:[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]
To be honest thinking of binning it off anyway players have too many other commitments and interests - same in lower level men's football these days - you need a squad of 25 to get 11 at a game so you can't actually coach.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]1 -
Richard Dawkins has been d-locked.0
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First.Aspect said:
Richard Dawkins has been d-locked.
Another crazed cyclist. Wonder if he had a chip on his shoulder.
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More to the point, what on earth was he thinking tweeting that? What an absolute bin fire of replies.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:Richard Dawkins has been d-locked.
Another crazed cyclist. Wonder if he had a chip on his shoulder.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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rjsterry said:
More to the point, what on earth was he thinking tweeting that? What an absolute bin fire of replies.briantrumpet said:First.Aspect said:Richard Dawkins has been d-locked.
Another crazed cyclist. Wonder if he had a chip on his shoulder.
Quite. Perhaps his not being aware of the cyclist until the 'unprovoked attack' might have been where he went wrong in the first place... I guess it's not impossible he's completely in the clear, but...0 -
Am I the only one whose tainted, cynical view reads it as "I caused a cyclist to fall off his bike and they got annoyed and smashed by window"? Fell off his bike in his fury is a weird thing to say.0
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Pross said:
Am I the only one whose tainted, cynical view reads it as "I caused a cyclist to fall off his bike and they got annoyed and smashed by window"? Fell off his bike in his fury is a weird thing to say.
No, you're not, as you will see if you read the comments. He seems to think that his brand of car might have been what provoked the rage.. yeah, right.0 -
People have strange points of view. If any car has full video of the events then its the Tesla so no need to appeal to twitter unless theres something to hide ?0
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No memory stick in it, he says...... that's jolly bad luck.mully79 said:People have strange points of view. If any car has full video of the events then its the Tesla so no need to appeal to twitter unless theres something to hide ?
Interestingly, since he is past the age of reproduction, if he had been beaten to death with a d-lock it would have no consequences from an evolutionary perspective. Put another way, there's no evolutionary disadvantage to being a c0ckwomble, providing you are past a certain age.
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I really miss my football (walked past a local league Saturday match the other day, and I’m certain I could’ve gone on that pitch there and then and bossed the midfield)… anyway I digress…, but I do not miss trying to rally 11+3 players from Wednesday to Saturday every week!DeVlaeminck said:To be honest thinking of binning it off anyway players have too many other commitments and interests - same in lower level men's football these days - you need a squad of 25 to get 11 at a game so you can't actually coach.
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Missing memory stick sounds laughable.
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You can't prove it. Bit like God.focuszing723 said:Missing memory stick sounds laughable.
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But God is a chocolate teapot.First.Aspect said:
You can't prove it. Bit like God.focuszing723 said:Missing memory stick sounds laughable.
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He's the guy who claimed to have seen dogs doing a 69, right?0
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Billy Preston was 22 at the time of the Get Back sessions with the Beatles in 1969. He knew them from Hamburg, when he was playing with Little Richard's touring band, in 1962.0
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kingstongraham said:
Billy Preston was 22 at the time of the Get Back sessions with the Beatles in 1969. He knew them from Hamburg, when he was playing with Little Richard's touring band, in 1962.
That's the way God planned it.0 -
In the beginning there was primordial soup.womack said:kingstongraham said:Billy Preston was 22 at the time of the Get Back sessions with the Beatles in 1969. He knew them from Hamburg, when he was playing with Little Richard's touring band, in 1962.
That's the way God planned it.
Some time later, a bunch of over developed apes with time on their hands... started worshipping a chocolate teapot.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
In the beginning there was primordial soup.womack said:kingstongraham said:Billy Preston was 22 at the time of the Get Back sessions with the Beatles in 1969. He knew them from Hamburg, when he was playing with Little Richard's touring band, in 1962.
That's the way God planned it.
Just chill it in the fridge and call it gazpacho.
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Nearby Thames side village. Farm got sold. New buyer put up xxxx off barbed wire fences along all bridleways, footpaths, narrowed the Thames Path, blocked off access to a grassy riverside area used very long term by families for picnics, kids games etc etc. Wayneker.
Recently noticed some, not all but def improvement of the fencing had gone. Today learned the wayneker was some 'senior' figure in the f-wit 'kipper party or whatever it is now, who cares. Turns out he got harassed and run out of town by the local villagers, sold up, new owner much more sensible person. 💪
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We have a beach locally and a new owner of the house attached to this stretch of beach put a long fence up. Many enjoyed decades of easy access to a stunning bit of beach and coastline.orraloon said:Nearby Thames side village. Farm got sold. New buyer put up xxxx off barbed wire fences along all bridleways, footpaths, narrowed the Thames Path, blocked off access to a grassy riverside area used very long term by families for picnics, kids games etc etc. Wayneker.
Recently noticed some, not all but def improvement of the fencing had gone. Today learned the wayneker was some 'senior' figure in the f-wit 'kipper party or whatever it is now, who cares. Turns out he got harassed and run out of town by the local villagers, sold up, new owner much more sensible person. 💪
#willofthepeople
There was a viscous rumour which circulated around that me and some mates poured an flammable liquid on it and set it alight.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I'm guessing you're not a farmer. They always like to clear up after the public have enjoyed themselves, left gates open and not uncommonly killed stock with dogs off leads. It's a public service job really.orraloon said:Nearby Thames side village. Farm got sold. New buyer put up xxxx off barbed wire fences along all bridleways, footpaths, narrowed the Thames Path, blocked off access to a grassy riverside area used very long term by families for picnics, kids games etc etc. Wayneker.
Recently noticed some, not all but def improvement of the fencing had gone. Today learned the wayneker was some 'senior' figure in the f-wit 'kipper party or whatever it is now, who cares. Turns out he got harassed and run out of town by the local villagers, sold up, new owner much more sensible person. 💪
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Could have been a sticky situation.pinno said:
We have a beach locally and a new owner of the house attached to this stretch of beach put a long fence up. Many enjoyed decades of easy access to a stunning bit of beach and coastline.orraloon said:Nearby Thames side village. Farm got sold. New buyer put up xxxx off barbed wire fences along all bridleways, footpaths, narrowed the Thames Path, blocked off access to a grassy riverside area used very long term by families for picnics, kids games etc etc. Wayneker.
Recently noticed some, not all but def improvement of the fencing had gone. Today learned the wayneker was some 'senior' figure in the f-wit 'kipper party or whatever it is now, who cares. Turns out he got harassed and run out of town by the local villagers, sold up, new owner much more sensible person. 💪
#willofthepeople
There was a viscous rumour which circulated around that me and some mates poured an flammable liquid on it and set it alight.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Another public service expected of farmers is pulling cars out of ditches when they chose to drive in snow with the wrong tyres. Stranded animals stuck in snow needing feeding is obviously of secondary importance.0
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There's good and bad farmers just like there's good and bad in all walks of life. You're just as likely to find one that has made using PROWs through their land as difficult as possible to use or that drag mud out onto the road creating a hazard for everyone else.0
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Yep. The good farmer who allows easy access but is the one pouring Nitrate based fertiliser on his land which after passing through his bovine stock is polluting local tributaries - and also accumulating in slurry silo's.
[At least we are still adhering to EC levels of nitrates for the time being].
It's not black and white is it?
People who venture into the sticks can be really silly. A couple and their child picnic'd in a field near Cheltenham and were tragically trampled to death by cows and a bull for example.
Locally, many dogs have had to be shot and you would think there would be more sense living in a very rural community.
So Bean needs to realise a little bit more balance here.
[For one who has been habitually balanced.]
The example 'Loon gave was part of a confrontational culture that has long existed amongst some.
We have freedom of access here in Scotland but that does not mean it is unrestricted.
It has long been a rub.
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I certainly didn't say that all farmers are saints, but fencing in public rights of way protects people from farming and vice versa.0
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Bzzzt. Object. As per the Rt Hon member for upskirting.
This was an aggressive use of full barbed wire fencing, all strands not just the top one, constricting and inhibiting public rights of way usage. Example where the Thames Path, a national trail with access rights negotiated and agreed with landowners to reinstate the old towing path from the times of barges on the river.
A specific line of this unnecessary barbed barrier narrowed the path to make it difficult as well as unfriendly to continue to walk a rel short distance, couple hundred metres or so, to get to a river crossing across a lock. Assume it was the legal boundary but with historical bank erosion etc... Just make it difficult for normal people, just be a total Wayneker. Maybe the EA or whoever is responsible for trail maintenance supervision had a go at him, maybe not. Local villagers def did.
And of course he didn't clear back overhang and encroaching growth into previously fenced 5m bridleway sections. Which is a responsibility, largely unenforced, of the landowner.
Good riddance. 'kin Wayneker.0 -
orraloon said:
Bzzzt. Object. As per the Rt Hon member for upskirting.
This was an aggressive use of full barbed wire fencing, all strands not just the top one, constricting and inhibiting public rights of way usage. Example where the Thames Path, a national trail with access rights negotiated and agreed with landowners to reinstate the old towing path from the times of barges on the river.
A specific line of this unnecessary barbed barrier narrowed the path to make it difficult as well as unfriendly to continue to walk a rel short distance, couple hundred metres or so, to get to a river crossing across a lock. Assume it was the legal boundary but with historical bank erosion etc... Just make it difficult for normal people, just be a total Wayneker. Maybe the EA or whoever is responsible for trail maintenance supervision had a go at him, maybe not. Local villagers def did.
And of course he didn't clear back overhang and encroaching growth into previously fenced 5m bridleway sections. Which is a responsibility, largely unenforced, of the landowner.
Good riddance. 'kin Wayneker.
The trouble is, of course, that obstructive farmers like this make the headlines, while all the farmers who do look after ROW at least passably aren't headline news, and rarely get any thanks.0 -
If the farmer failed to maintain a public right of way, then I have sympathy for your case, but in your opening rant you mentioned blocking off a family picnic area which isn't really the purpose of farm land, and I can understand why a farmer might want to do it.orraloon said:Bzzzt. Object. As per the Rt Hon member for upskirting.
This was an aggressive use of full barbed wire fencing, all strands not just the top one, constricting and inhibiting public rights of way usage. Example where the Thames Path, a national trail with access rights negotiated and agreed with landowners to reinstate the old towing path from the times of barges on the river.
A specific line of this unnecessary barbed barrier narrowed the path to make it difficult as well as unfriendly to continue to walk a rel short distance, couple hundred metres or so, to get to a river crossing across a lock. Assume it was the legal boundary but with historical bank erosion etc... Just make it difficult for normal people, just be a total Wayneker. Maybe the EA or whoever is responsible for trail maintenance supervision had a go at him, maybe not. Local villagers def did.
And of course he didn't clear back overhang and encroaching growth into previously fenced 5m bridleway sections. Which is a responsibility, largely unenforced, of the landowner.
Good riddance. 'kin Wayneker.
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