Peter Venkman
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« Reply #26535 on: Monday, September 18, 2017, 14:20:31 » |
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http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15541221.Surgery_horror___It_s_ruined_my_life_/?ref=mr&lp=1Why is this "news"? I appreciate it might be a very annoying and painful experience for the individual concerned, and I don't for one minute want to belittle her circumstances, but as far as I can see, she had private non-essential surgery at a specialist private clinic. She has had "complications" and then corrective surgery, which would no doubt take a while to recover from anyway. She now wants to have further private surgery in another Country and the Adver are covering the article purely from the angle of the gofundme effort? I have no issue with someone taking such private enterprise, but why get free advertising? If the article was an effort to uncover some sort of medical malpractice then it would make more sense, but it doesn't seem like any occurred, or even any effort to claim as much. I concur totally. Pointless article of "news".
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« Reply #26536 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 06:25:10 » |
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Swindon Sunday League now consists of just 3 divisions. When I played there were 9.
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« Reply #26537 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:05:58 » |
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But 5-a-side is the most participated sport in the country among adult males.
People just don't have 4 hours a weekend to give up.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #26538 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:26:38 » |
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People just don't have 4 hours a weekend to give up.
Why is this? The weekend still has the same number of hours, as say in the latter part of the 20th century. Perhaps other forces at work
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« Reply #26539 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:28:29 » |
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Why is this? The weekend still has the same number of hours, as say in the latter part of the 20th century. Perhaps other forces at work More and more people work at weekends for one thing.
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« Reply #26540 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:36:23 » |
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Why is this? The weekend still has the same number of hours, as say in the latter part of the 20th century. Perhaps other forces at work There were 7 divisions as recently as 2012 so the reduction has been rapid. Maybe quality of pitches since austerity and some players then preferring 3G pitches and futsal? I stopped playing in 2013 and noticed that the teens/early 20s playing then didn't seem to like the aggression and physicality that the older lads enjoyed. You don't tend to get slide tackles etc in 5 a side?
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« Reply #26541 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:39:00 » |
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Solicitors insisting on sending letters constantly instead of emailing or picking up the fucking phone. The whole process of buying a house would be so much quicker if they actually spoke to eachother
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« Reply #26542 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 08:57:56 » |
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^ Agreed The whole process seems antiquated.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #26543 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:01:36 » |
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There were 7 divisions as recently as 2012 so the reduction has been rapid. Maybe quality of pitches since austerity and some players then preferring 3G pitches and futsal? I stopped playing in 2013 and noticed that the teens/early 20s playing then didn't seem to like the aggression and physicality that the older lads enjoyed. You don't tend to get slide tackles etc in 5 a side?
That is a sudden decline... we know that post the 2012 Olympics rather than the hoped for legacy of a sport engaged populus, we got an obesity epidemic. Coca Cola and McDonalds don't invest millions of $ into sponsorship for nothing.
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« Reply #26544 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:02:18 » |
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Swindon Sunday League now consists of just 3 divisions. When I played there were 9.
Back in the early '60s it was a new league, just 1 or 2 divisions, we used to go down to Shrewsbury Rd cos you could watch 4 games at once. We used to 'support' the most inept team I've seen, they were called something like Corporation Highways, basically a team of binnies. We used to think they expanded the league each season so this team could drop down to a more suitable level. The centre half wore glasses.... he headed the ball once (probably literally) and a lens fell out into the mud. Classic. Used to get beat 1-16 or similar most weeks. On one of the pitches the Polish sons of the WW2 immigrants used to have 2 or 300 watching them, Błyskavika(sp?) Happy days.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #26545 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:12:07 » |
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Back in the early '60s it was a new league, just 1 or 2 divisions, we used to go down to Shrewsbury Rd cos you could watch 4 games at once. We used to 'support' the most inept team I've seen, they were called something like Corporation Highways, basically a team of binnies.
We used to think they expanded the league each season so this team could drop down to a more suitable level. The centre half wore glasses.... he headed the ball once (probably literally) and a lens fell out into the mud. Classic. Used to get beat 1-16 or similar most weeks.
On one of the pitches the Polish sons of the WW2 immigrants used to have 2 or 300 watching them, Błyskavika(sp?) Happy days.
Blyskavica, or however it was spelt, I was unreliably informed means Flash of Lightening, which I thought a good name. Chubbs will put us right. My personal faves were West Swindon Thistle...this a time when West Swindon as now didn't exist, but it was a name for the area around Westcott Place, Radnor Street etc and so consisted of Scots and Irish, who drank in the Ship, Gardeners Arms, Wild Deer etc as well as the WMC in Radnor Street. Celtic fans, so played in green and white you could guarantee a punch up per game.
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« Reply #26546 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:19:19 » |
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Solicitors insisting on sending letters constantly instead of emailing or picking up the fucking phone. The whole process of buying a house would be so much quicker if they actually spoke to eachother
Yeah but when you can charge x for a letter but only y for a phone call or email which option you going to use? I can understand the need for a paper trail but email provides that. I often do work which overlaps with property legals and I sent my first letter in 3 years a couple of weeks back, and that was only to an old guy who didn't have email.
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« Reply #26547 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:22:31 » |
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I used to play for Blyskawica and it does indeed mean lightning flash
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« Reply #26548 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:25:10 » |
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Ahh, The Ship. Great location for a boozer. I saw The Damned in there when it was Bar 12.
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« Reply #26549 on: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 09:27:22 » |
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Blyskavica, or however it was spelt, I was unreliably informed means Flash of Lightening, which I thought a good name. Chubbs will put us right.
My personal faves were West Swindon Thistle...this a time when West Swindon as now didn't exist, but it was a name for the area around Westcott Place, Radnor Street etc and so consisted of Scots and Irish, who drank in the Ship, Gardeners Arms, Wild Deer etc as well as the WMC in Radnor Street. Celtic fans, so played in green and white you could guarantee a punch up per game.
Yup, thats right Reg. Anteater, when did you play for them? I had a run out with them for one game late 90s/early 00's i think.
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