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  2. Predicting Crime

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Just as well those Wigan cops weren't tooled-up.

    Just imagine the scene ....

    "Yes your honour, even though he was unarmed, as a soldier he could have been a trained killer so we had to shoot him dead to protect ourselves and members of the public".

    "That's OK Officer you were only doing your duty and following orders - walk free with your head held high".

    Tough love, it's all these drunkards understand.

  3. Olympic Flop?

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    2012?

    Twenty million is pretty small potatoes, no? The US track and field team probably spend that much on sticking plasters in a year.

    I just hope it doesn't go to working class oiks in track and field disciplines; the real funding is needed elsewhere.

  4. Prediction League

    in The Sports Club

    Posted

    It's Chriiiiiiistmas!

    Not quite, but we have entered December. An exciting month lies in store with lots of games packed in around the festivities. Pete, if I were you, I'd get your month's worth of predictions saved round about now. There's nee way you'll get your Boxing Day selections chosen once you're knocking back the yuletide Guinnesses and eggnogs.

    However, before we get intoxicated with the heady scent of tangerines and Old Spice, a spot of house-keeping. The question on everyone's lips is, of course, "who won in November, like?"

    Here is the news:

    1. TonyC 45pts

    2. DavePa 40

    3. MrDarn 37

    4. Supermac 35

    5. Hamburger Pimp 27

    6. PDean 25

    7. Geddy 23

    8. Denzel 6

    Hats off to a popular winner in the form of TonyC, with an excellent 45 point haul. Credit also to Pete who scored 25 points despite only entering predictions for 29 games.

    What might have been, eh?

    Keep pulling the crackers, sports fans!

    I really need to up my game. :(

  5. Olympic Flop?

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    The Board of UK Sport meet today to divi-up the funding for the various sports for 2012. All the usual suspects are likely to get whacking great shares of the dosh but other (deserving) groups will probably fare badly. Watch out for piles of dosh being heaped onto rowing, sailing, equestrian, fencing, etc. - mostly the stuff the born-rich or upper-middle class do. Elite athletics (read drug cheats) will be rewarded for their crap performance in China (4 medals only 1 gold) with loads of our money.

    The problem with raising the required dosh from sponsorship is that the firm (Fast Track) tasked with this can't allow those Companies who wish to donate permission to use the Olympic Rings logo. So what Company is going to give-up tons of dosh if it can't display the Rings and other Olympic logos. I don't think they can even use the word Olympic as it's copyright rests elsewhere.

    Quite right too.

  6. Predicting Crime

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Then when an innocent gets topped on the Tube by the Boys in Blue (actually they weren't in uniforn) the Coroner, at today's Inquest, directs the Jury that they CANNOT return an Unlawful Killing verdict. Rubber stamp get-out for all those 'just following orders'.

    Picture the scene sometime in the future in a former mining town in Northumberland ...

    Bloke quietly walking down the street, stopped by a Bobby, "your papers please", "I ain't got 'em on me", "you know it's a crime not to carry them and we've been watching you on CCTV - up against the wall", bang, bang. Some time later ... "Yes your Honour, I feared for my life and for those around me, I thought he was wired-up, so I shot him", "that's OK Officer you were only doing your duty and following orders - walk free with your head held high".

    Sound familiar?

    Procative policing, that's what it's all about.

  7. Every One Asked Where I Was... Here I Am!

    in Chat Central

    Posted

    well well well, do a google on myself and find a load of gobshites taking the mick out of me... all of you hiding behind a computer screen and scared to go at it one on one... you all know my real name... Terry Mason, you all know where to find me...

    yes i moderated this site before it went down... would do it again too...

    yes i was in a plane crash got £21000 compensation for it, don't believe me go see Rodger Rhodes it was his plane and his insurance I sued!

    Yes I lived in a caravan... so what?

    got a problem go down the camp site at Hartford and let my family know, I'm sure they will be pleased!

    Thanks to the ones who defended me bedlingtonlass etc...

    And to all those who oppose hmm well?...

    I think you were in the same year as my sis at school - and your sis would've been in the year below me.

  17. We're Off On The Slippery Slope To A New Poll Tax

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    I knew a girl who used to go to Greenham Common to protest ... it's an industrial estate now, Yanks all gone.

    Mind, there could be underground bunkers there for holding the dissidents, camouflaged by an MFI store. Maybe that's why MFI's gone tits-up ... they never sold anything 'cos they were a Government ghost organisation.

    Let's hope so, we don't need a load of smelly old hippy women wandering the streets. I blame The Levellers.

  19. We're Off On The Slippery Slope To A New Poll Tax

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Now, what data will that little card chip contain and be copied to the Government's databases? All the usual stuff like height, eye colour, Nationality, marks, on so on; stuff they already have from passport applications. The new stuff, like our dabs and other bio-metric measurements, will also be included. Next comes the spooky stuff culled from the NHS Spine, our blood group, DNA, diseases/illnesses suffered (including pox clinics visited), allergies, hereditary information, and so on. Next the financial stuff - the data from the credit reference agencies, Land Registry, The Revenue, our Banks and credit card transactions. What next? Oh, yes - they'll get the data about our subscriptions to magazines and membership of clubs and unions. Oh, and there's our travel habits picked-up via Automatic Number-plate Recognition (have you noticed how many of these fixed cameras have sprung-up in the last year). Blimey, I almost forgot about our ISP's having to keep all of our emails for years and log all our web browsing.

    All/much of this data is/may already kept by individual organisations but when (not if) it all gets sucked onto one database (and burned onto that card chip) it can be more easily interrogated by GCHQ. So what? The Government will sell this information onto insurance companies so they may well refuse cover for those whose Granddad died of cancer. A subscribing company won't hire you 'cos your cousin is a villain (criminality might run in the family). Union membership ... drag the trouble-maker off to the Jails (Camps). And a thousand other ways to restrict our freedom.

    If you don't hear from me again you'll know the Government's plans are further developed than I thought and I've been 'lifted' by the Boys in Black, injected, chucked into the back of a van, delivered to a deep underground installation on the Outer Hebrides and water-boarded for posting this.

    I'll leave you with something Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote years ago ...

    First they came for the Communists

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Communist

    First they came for the Socialist

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Socialist

    First they came for the trade unionists

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a trade unionist

    First they came for the Jews

    And I did not speak out

    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me

    And there was no one left

    To speak out for me

    Christ on a bike. Get yourself down Greenham Common.

  25. The (lack Of) Wonga Of Woolies

    in Talk of the Town

    Posted

    Pete - "... it sounded like they flew from one side of the living room to the other, ...". Early surround sound :D

    I remember reading an article in Scientific America (don't mock ... I was a student in the late '60's) about wiring-up 4 speakers in a particular fashion to create a quadraphonic effect; this was at the time when proprietary quad hi-fi systems were just coming onto the market but with prices the likes of us could never afford. Anyway, I followed the instructions and was amazed by the effect.

    Beats the Stereophonics hands down.

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