Today I'm angry about.....

[BWFC_Insane]

are you angry that other people aren't angry about it?

No, quite surprised.

And a little disappointed too, in one or two cases, I must confess. I was quite hoping for more of the usual seething bile from the likes of BWFCI as to how the men's 100 metre final will be ran exclusively in front of past and present members of The Bullingdon Club and so on.

Though I am myself thoroughly pissed off though that in times of supposed belt-fastening the Government can find £750,000 of our money to spunk on Olympic tickets. And, having bypassed the public ballot are happy to rub our noses in it on every conceivable level.

And yes, yes. I know, I know.....

Now see, I am annoyed at the waste of public money, and the inevitable and utterly predictable hypocrisy of a Tory government but.....

Quite frankly I'd rather poke my eyes out with a sharp stick and replace them with a nest of stinging wasps than watch the mens 100M which is probably why I'm quite happy for the Bullingdon Club members to have a jolly good day out in this instance......Most of em like looking at blokes in tight shorts anyways I'm sure.....

[Gooner Girl]

Yeah, suggesting that the females dress like females. I'm appalled. The sexist pigs.

Especially when fighting !!

Taken with the new camera you got for your 8th Birthday Bobo?!

[Gooner Girl]

are you angry that other people aren't angry about it?

No, quite surprised.

And a little disappointed too, in one or two cases, I must confess. I was quite hoping for more of the usual seething bile from the likes of BWFCI as to how the men's 100 metre final will be ran exclusively in front of past and present members of The Bullingdon Club and so on.

Though I am myself thoroughly pissed off though that in times of supposed belt-fastening the Government can find £750,000 of our money to spunk on Olympic tickets. And, having bypassed the public ballot are happy to rub our noses in it on every conceivable level.

And yes, yes. I know, I know.....

Now see, I am annoyed at the waste of public money, and the inevitable and utterly predictable hypocrisy of a Tory government but.....

Quite frankly I'd rather poke my eyes out with a sharp stick and replace them with a nest of stinging wasps than watch the mens 100M which is probably why I'm quite happy for the Bullingdon Club members to have a jolly good day out in this instance......Most of em like looking at blokes in tight shorts anyways I'm sure.....

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

[Bruce Rioja]

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

When the Commonwealth games was on up here in 2002, the organisers were falling over themselves, banging on at every opportunity as to how members of the local athletics clubs would 'be inlvoved in and and inspired by' the event. Half of Our Kid's lot, Bolton Harriers, ended up getting fished-in and ended up on car park jankers up Rivington for the cycling road racing, and picking litter up around the outside of the new baths on Qxford Street, that kind of thing. Awe inspiring stuff, I'm sure

[Gooner Girl]

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

When the Commonwealth games was on up here in 2002, the organisers were falling over themselves, banging on at every opportunity as to how members of the local athletics clubs would 'be inlvoved in and and inspired by' the event. Half of Our Kid's lot, Bolton Harriers, ended up getting fished-in and ended up on car park jankers up Rivington for the cycling road racing, and picking litter up around the outside of the new baths on Qxford Street, that kind of thing. Awe inspiring stuff, I'm sure

Yeah, thats not quite what i had in mind!

[Hoboh]

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

When the Commonwealth games was on up here in 2002, the organisers were falling over themselves, banging on at every opportunity as to how members of the local athletics clubs would 'be inlvoved in and and inspired by' the event. Half of Our Kid's lot, Bolton Harriers, ended up getting fished-in and ended up on car park jankers up Rivington for the cycling road racing, and picking litter up around the outside of the new baths on Qxford Street, that kind of thing. Awe inspiring stuff, I'm sure

Yeah, thats not quite what i had in mind!

No your after a few freebies

[Gooner Girl]

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

When the Commonwealth games was on up here in 2002, the organisers were falling over themselves, banging on at every opportunity as to how members of the local athletics clubs would 'be inlvoved in and and inspired by' the event. Half of Our Kid's lot, Bolton Harriers, ended up getting fished-in and ended up on car park jankers up Rivington for the cycling road racing, and picking litter up around the outside of the new baths on Qxford Street, that kind of thing. Awe inspiring stuff, I'm sure

Yeah, thats not quite what i had in mind!

No your after a few freebies

Too right i am, after all the thousands of hours i have put into VOLUNTEERING over the last decade or so to train up the next crop of Olympic athletes!

[Hoboh]

Then I hope you and your mates have stumped up to fund this billion pound shindig and not the poor taxpayer!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Well i think the way its all been handled is rubbish. I'd have loved to have gone and watched the Athletics at the Olympics but missed out in the ballot. Personally, i think they should have at least earmarked some tickets for the grass roots Athletics Clubs. Our Junior section should be going to watch and be inspired. To coin a cheesy line - they are the future of British Athletics.

When the Commonwealth games was on up here in 2002, the organisers were falling over themselves, banging on at every opportunity as to how members of the local athletics clubs would 'be inlvoved in and and inspired by' the event. Half of Our Kid's lot, Bolton Harriers, ended up getting fished-in and ended up on car park jankers up Rivington for the cycling road racing, and picking litter up around the outside of the new baths on Qxford Street, that kind of thing. Awe inspiring stuff, I'm sure

Yeah, thats not quite what i had in mind!

Indeed not, but please don't miss my broader point, and that is, that if local athletics clubs think that they'll have any favours forthcoming at the time of major events then they have another think coming. This whole - 'think what this'll do for our aspiring British athletes' palava is an absolute crock!

[thebish]

today I am mostly angry about all this incessant poppy-wank.

First let me make it clear - every year I personally arrange a "field of remembrance" here in Upminster where people buy wooden crosses with poppies on to remember named individual who they have lost. The at 11am on 11th Nov. I always lead an act of remembrance there. I also personally buy and wear a red poppy.

that having been said.

I am angry that the poppy has now become a symbol of ever more shrill and nasty attacks on people who don't wear them or bodies that are perceived somehow to be against them. The atmosphere created now means that EVERY bbc presenter, EVERY politician and everyone in public life now feels OBLIGED to wear them for fear of public approbation - and shrill voices yell and scream across the pone-ins and through the tabloids at anyone who dares step out of line.

now it's the england team. The poppy is NOT a national symbol of England (as I have heard many argue today) - not has the England team worn them for the last 50years at this time of year - it is just a handy foothold for people to have a pop at FIFA - is that REALLY what the poppy is about?

Given this public reaction against the evil poppy-denying FIFA - you might imagine that HORDES will turn out on Friday at 11am in Upminster at the field of remembrance to mark their silence. THEY WON'T - there will be no more than 20 people who come (there will be a similar number at the local war memorial) - all the rest being content to yell and scream at public figures who might not wear one.

It is not FIFA who are a threat to the poppy or to remembrance - it is the HUGE majority of british people who simply won't be bothered to mark it themselves - much better to copy and paste a fb status - or ring a phone-in.

all the politicians were weighing in to FIFA today - all under the guidance of the Speaker of the House of Commons - who isn't allowed to wear a poppy on his fine robes... hypocrisy?? surely not!

[Hoboh]

today I am mostly angry about all this incessant poppy-wank.

First let me make it clear - every year I personally arrange a "field of remembrance" here in Upminster where people buy wooden crosses with poppies on to remember named individual who they have lost. The at 11am on 11th Nov. I always lead an act of remembrance there. I also personally buy and wear a red poppy.

that having been said.

I am angry that the poppy has now become a symbol of ever more shrill and nasty attacks on people who don't wear them or bodies that are perceived somehow to be against them. The atmosphere created now means that EVERY bbc presenter, EVERY politician and everyone in public life now feels OBLIGED to wear them for fear of public approbation - and shrill voices yell and scream across the pone-ins and through the tabloids at anyone who dares step out of line.

now it's the england team. The poppy is NOT a national symbol of England (as I have heard many argue today) - not has the England team worn them for the last 50years at this time of year - it is just a handy foothold for people to have a pop at FIFA - is that REALLY what the poppy is about?

Given this public reaction against the evil poppy-denying FIFA - you might imagine that HORDES will turn out on Friday at 11am in Upminster at the field of remembrance to mark their silence. THEY WON'T - there will be no more than 20 people who come (there will be a similar number at the local war memorial) - all the rest being content to yell and scream at public figures who might not wear one.

It is not FIFA who are a threat to the poppy or to remembrance - it is the HUGE majority of british people who simply won't be bothered to mark it themselves - much better to copy and paste a fb status - or ring a phone-in.

all the politicians were weighing in to FIFA today - all under the guidance of the Speaker of the House of Commons - who isn't allowed to wear a poppy on his fine robes... hypocrisy?? surely not!

What!!! bish on is yearly rant

[Bruce Rioja]

I am angry that the poppy has now become a symbol of ever more shrill and nasty attacks on people who don't wear them or bodies that are perceived somehow to be against them. The atmosphere created now means that EVERY bbc presenter, EVERY politician and everyone in public life now feels OBLIGED to wear them for fear of public approbation - and shrill voices yell and scream across the pone-ins and through the tabloids at anyone who dares step out of line.

Could agree more with the entire article, Bish. However, I highlight this paragraph and in particular your use of the word "now".
The 'Poppy Mafia' has been alive and well and gathering pace for years now. First in their sights have always been newscasters in the you-will-wear-a-poppy stakes. At least they do actually wear the standard Haig Fund poppy now though rather than something that Interflora dropped by.
And before any of you call me a scrunge, I've bought a poppy again this year, same as every year. If any of you want to see it - it's in my car.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Yeah, suggesting that the females dress like females. I'm appalled. The sexist pigs.

Especially when fighting !!

Taken with the new camera you got for your 8th Birthday Bobo?!

I bet they'd look great all oiled up. NURSE, HE'S WAKING UP!!

[Prufrock]

Was it John Snow who refused to wear one? Remember there being a massive furore over him refusing to wear one whilst reading the news. He wore one in private, but didn't on telly as he thought it was a 'political' point, and thus inappropriate. Whether or not you agreed with him (I don't) the stick he got was fecking ludicrous. Surely forcing people to wear them defeats the entire point?

Also folk have been wearing them for weeks, to many it is some sort of contest to show who is the most patriotic. Ugh. I'll be buying mine this eve when I go to work, none of this pre-bonfire night poppy lark. Cheapens it.

[Il Pirate]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-15626365
“Roberta Vaughan Owen and her sister arrived separately at court”

Looks like it might have been logistically very difficult for them to arrive together.

Yep, saw this yesterday.

That is what you call 'thinking big'.

£161m VAT scam (yes tat's £161 MILLION !!) by people who didn't even have a VAT account .... and were claiming both Working Tax Credit AND Unemployment benifit all at one time, while putting the kids through private schools and looking into buying a Roller.

I'm tempted to applaud !!

Has she eaten all the fvckin' money!!!! Greedy bastards. Gaol 'em for 10 years.

[Gooner Girl]

Vets. £93 for my 2 cats to have their jabs today. Now i know when you take on animals you have a responsibility to their health and fair enough, no probs, but the £93 was after i had politely declined the flea and worm treatment and the special dental food (both far cheaper online) and the 'Life begins at 7' Club.

Begining to think i should have married one...

[thebish]

Vets. £93 for my 2 cats to have their jabs today. Now i know when you take on animals you have a responsibility to their health and fair enough, no probs, but the £93 was after i had politely declined the flea and worm treatment and the special dental food (both far cheaper online) and the 'Life begins at 7' Club.

Begining to think i should have married one...

I've told you many times - that vet rips you off time and time again!! i stopped getting jabs for my dog ages ago - fecking waste of time and money if you ask me... Old dutch lived for years without annual jabs and so does Lucky... and apart from Dutch getting run over by a car (which a jab wouldn't prevent) and lucky tearing half her side off on a nail (which, again, wouldn't have been prevented by a jab) they have been the very picture of health... (ok - so Dutch was a bit fat! - but Lucky isn't!)

pah!

[The Axman]

Vets. £93 for my 2 cats to have their jabs today. Now i know when you take on animals you have a responsibility to their health and fair enough, no probs, but the £93 was after i had politely declined the flea and worm treatment and the special dental food (both far cheaper online) and the 'Life begins at 7' Club.

Begining to think i should have married one...

Ninety-three squid! Good God. Move up North. My last bill for injections (fully protected as per canine passport) was just £17.95p

[Gooner Girl]

Vets. £93 for my 2 cats to have their jabs today. Now i know when you take on animals you have a responsibility to their health and fair enough, no probs, but the £93 was after i had politely declined the flea and worm treatment and the special dental food (both far cheaper online) and the 'Life begins at 7' Club.

Begining to think i should have married one...

I've told you many times - that vet rips you off time and time again!! i stopped getting jabs for my dog ages ago - fecking waste of time and money if you ask me... Old dutch lived for years without annual jabs and so does Lucky... and apart from Dutch getting run over by a car (which a jab wouldn't prevent) and lucky tearing half her side off on a nail (which, again, wouldn't have been prevented by a jab) they have been the very picture of health... (ok - so Dutch was a bit fat! - but Lucky isn't!)

pah!

Apparantly you can't get insurance without them having their jabs? The cats are in the very best of health and not at all overweight which she said was very rare - though she was very snooty about the state of their transport!

[Gooner Girl]

Vets. £93 for my 2 cats to have their jabs today. Now i know when you take on animals you have a responsibility to their health and fair enough, no probs, but the £93 was after i had politely declined the flea and worm treatment and the special dental food (both far cheaper online) and the 'Life begins at 7' Club.

Begining to think i should have married one...

Ninety-three squid! Good God. Move up North. My last bill for injections (fully protected as per canine passport) was just £17.95p

Blimey. And dogs are more expensive. I think i'll be moving to Derbyshire then!