Eames Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Liverpool are training about a 10 minutes drive from where I live. I was thinking about going down there and heckling Stewart Downing... Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 The police officer who pushed/killed Ian Tomlinson has been cleared of manslaughter. A police officer who hit Ian Tomlinson with a baton and pushed him to the ground at the G20 protests has been found not guilty of manslaughter. PC Simon Harwood, 45, of south London, denied the manslaughter, in April 2009, of Mr Tomlinson, 47, on the grounds that he used reasonable force. Mr Tomlinson, was pushed as he walked away from a police line in the City of London. He later collapsed and died. His family said they would be pursuing the case in a civil court. It is not clear if that will be against PC Harwood as an individual or against the Metropolitan Police. "After the unlawful killing verdict at the inquest last year, we expected to hear a guilty verdict - not a not guilty verdict and it really hurts," Mr Tomlinson's stepson Paul King, said outside the court. "It's not the end, we are not giving up for justice for Ian." Members of Mr Tomlinson's family cried in the public gallery as the verdict was delivered at Southwark Crown Court. PC Harwood, in the dock, and his wife, in the public gallery, also cried. The jury of five men and seven women had considered their verdict for four days. During the trial, the police officer accepted he was "wrong" to have hit and pushed Mr Tomlinson. He said that, had he realised at the time that Mr Tomlinson was walking away from police lines, he "would not have gone near him". Father-of-nine Mr Tomlinson, who was a heavy drinker who had slept rough for a number of years, walked 75 yards before he collapsed. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has said PC Harwood will face internal Met Police disciplinary proceedings later in the year over his actions. From BBC News Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Why is the term "w.anker" derogatory ?. Personally I think masturbation is ace and I reckon I am not the only one who participates in the act. You aren't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 20, 2012 Moderator Share Posted July 20, 2012 PC Simon Harwood’s house falls down after he uses ‘reasonable force’ to open front door PC Simon Harwood’s house falls down after he uses ‘reasonable force’ to open front door PC Simon Harwood, who was found not guilty of causing the death of Ian Tomlinson despite video evidence showing him doing it, has narrowly avoided serious injury after using what he decribed as ‘reasonable force’ to open his front door. PC Harwood described how his front door had obstructed him in the course of getting into his house by failing to comply with his request for entry. “The door was deliberately getting in my way,” he said. “I asked it to open, but depite repeated warnings it continued to ignore my requests.” “It was at this point that I took reasonable steps to gain access to my property by commandeering a double decker bus and forcing the door open at high speed.” PC Hardwood not guilty Pc Harwood denied that his actions were excessive by insisting that the door had been causing problems earlier in the day. “I was cleaning up my kitchen after I smashed up the sink following an incident involving a stubborn lid on a jar of marmalade.” he explained. “There was a disturbance coming from the hallway that sounded like a knocking coming from the door.” “The wife had forgotten her key, so I had to throw the television set through the living room window to let her in.” After he was found not guilty of manslaughter, PC Harwood, 45, was also involved in an altercation with a bottle of champagne. “The cork refused to come out,” he said “So I burned down an off license.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 PC Simon Harwood’s house falls down after he uses ‘reasonable force’ to open front door PC Simon Harwood’s house falls down after he uses ‘reasonable force’ to open front door PC Simon Harwood, who was found not guilty of causing the death of Ian Tomlinson despite video evidence showing him doing it, has narrowly avoided serious injury after using what he decribed as ‘reasonable force’ to open his front door. PC Harwood described how his front door had obstructed him in the course of getting into his house by failing to comply with his request for entry. “The door was deliberately getting in my way,” he said. “I asked it to open, but depite repeated warnings it continued to ignore my requests.” “It was at this point that I took reasonable steps to gain access to my property by commandeering a double decker bus and forcing the door open at high speed.” PC Hardwood not guilty Pc Harwood denied that his actions were excessive by insisting that the door had been causing problems earlier in the day. “I was cleaning up my kitchen after I smashed up the sink following an incident involving a stubborn lid on a jar of marmalade.” he explained. “There was a disturbance coming from the hallway that sounded like a knocking coming from the door.” “The wife had forgotten her key, so I had to throw the television set through the living room window to let her in.” After he was found not guilty of manslaughter, PC Harwood, 45, was also involved in an altercation with a bottle of champagne. “The cork refused to come out,” he said “So I burned down an off license.” Sounds like your ordinary decent average bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sir Alastair Burnet dies at 84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I went to the doctors to pick up a prescription for my sister but they didn't have it in the chemist so I was asked to go and pick up the slip for it from the surgery. So I went in there and stood second in line behind this girl when I realised, it was an old friend of mine who I haven't seen in years, who I had a bit of a crush on when I was in Year 7 (she was in year 9 at the time). She didn't see me and I kind of froze up like 11 year old me so I didn't say 'hello' or anything. I'm such a dork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 For the best mate, she was probably there for some vagiclear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Why is the term "w.anker" derogatory ?. Personally I think masturbation is ace and I reckon I am not the only one who participates in the act. You aren't Phil Dunphy's dad !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sitting in the pub reminiscing about dogs that have joined the big farm in the sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sitting in the pub reminiscing about dogs that have joined the big farm in the sky Amy Winehouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I have to go to some team roleplay thing based on IT, in London tomorrow for work so I get to pretend to do my actual job and have to travel all the way into London and get up at some ridiculous time in the morning to do so. I hate these strength through joy programmes we get foced into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Tomorrow is the perfect day to pull a sicky Sunny and 28c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Tomorrow is the perfect day to pull a sicky Sunny and 28c Got the day off, spending it over the park with a "mate" getting pissed. You know, despite living in London for nearly 16 months I dont have any friends down here I've not shagged. Well one actually, but even that's a female I've tried to shag. Its a little depressing, mostly jut annoying. Good job I love my own company (and I've had my fair share!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 22, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 22, 2012 Random question Through a combination of the bad weather and my mower being broken, I mowed my grass for the first time in weeks today. It had gotten extremely long. On doing so, I discovered several mounds of mud. I'd noticed one aaaages ago, but thought nothing of it. But now I thought it was weird that there were new ones appearing. On closer inspection I realised that they weren't just mounds of mud, they're ant hills. There's at least 5, and two of them are huge, and absolutely crawling with ants. I assume the new ones grew, for want of a better word, from the original. Anyone know an effective way to get rid of them? Will normal ant poison that I'd put down in my house if I discovered any do the job, or will an actual ant hill require something a bit stronger? Obviously I'll googel this as well, but thought I'd check with the good people of VT as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Random question Through a combination of the bad weather and my mower being broken, I mowed my grass for the first time in weeks today. It had gotten extremely long. On doing so, I discovered several mounds of mud. I'd noticed one aaaages ago, but thought nothing of it. But now I thought it was weird that there were new ones appearing. On closer inspection I realised that they weren't just mounds of mud, they're ant hills. There's at least 5, and two of them are huge, and absolutely crawling with ants. I assume the new ones grew, for want of a better word, from the original. Anyone know an effective way to get rid of them? Will normal ant poison that I'd put down in my house if I discovered any do the job, or will an actual ant hill require something a bit stronger? Obviously I'll googel this as well, but thought I'd check with the good people of VT as well Get one of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted July 23, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 Kids today... kid whose hip-hop epiphany was Drake hears It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back for the first time Note: This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before. Austin Cooper is an intern for NPR Music. Public Enemy have a brand new album, Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp, out today on iTunes.... There are a slew of classic rap records I've heard of but never actually heard — like Eric B. and Rakim's Paid In Full, De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and, yes, my no-longer-nameless childhood favorite, Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. There's at least one good reason I've never listened to any of those albums: The most recent of the bunch came out 3 years before I was even born! But this was the perfect opportunity to fix that, so — after polling my co-workers to determine the "most classic" of the three — I hunkered down at my laptop, pulled It Takes a Nation up on Spotify and put on my headphones. Although my experience with hip-hop is definitely limited in scope, I'd still call myself a fan. I remember the first time I really cared about a rap song. It was the spring of 2010 and "Over" by Drake had just come out. I couldn't imagine my senior year (yes, of high school) without that track. I still think it's incredible. His hook over that yappy guitar, the service-academy beat that drops shortly afterwards, the bells on the top-end — it's all so viscerally pleasing. Ever since I fell for "Over," I've been following a post-millenial strain of atmospheric, producer-driven hip-hop pretty closely — Rick Ross' Maybach Music, 808s-era Kanye, the Scottish producers Hudson Mohawke and Rustie, The-Dream, AraabMuzik, Lunice, Clams Casino and more. I love it all. But when "Don't Believe the Hype" comes on, I'm disoriented — I know I'm listening to one of the most acclaimed rap records of all time, but nothing grabs me and sucks me in. Chuck D.'s unvarnished vocals sit front and center in the mix, accompanied only by percussion that, to me, sounds thin and funk guitar samples that, frankly, I find cartoonish. To me, Chuck D.'s legendary flow also comes across like a caricature. His syncopation strikes me as strange, foreign — and when he does reach for melody, like in the opening verses of "Night of the Living Baseheads," it ascends harshly like the bark of a drill sergeant. It's rough, rugged, built like a tank — and I'm coming at it expecting a Bentley. I think it's telling that my favorite track on It Takes a Nation is "Show 'Em Whatcha Got," a short interlude with few lyrics. Absent is any narrative development; instead, faceless vocals crawl from beneath cobwebs of radio static and vinyl crackle to join Chuck D. and Flavor Flav's chopped chants to remind us that "freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes." "Show 'Em" is, in its own way, a pleasant surprise: its ambient, referential construction reminds me more of eerie, nocturnal electronic music perfect for post-club comedowns – like that of UK dubstep producer Burial – than mainstream contemporary hip-hop. But Public Enemy and I are on the same page only briefly: immediately following "Show 'Em" is the alarmingly dated rap-rock fusion of "She Watch Channel Zero?!" I simply cannot get past the bizarre, jolting juxtaposition of bludgeoning, Metallica-style guitar riffs and Flavor Flav's ebullient rhymes. I find myself more inclined to laugh than dance. As a whole, It Takes A Nation leaves me similarly perplexed. But what Public Enemy does offer me is the context to understand how much hip-hop — and I — have changed since our childhoods. Two years ago, I wouldn't have even thought to give It Takes A Nation a listen, much less spend weeks processing and writing about my reaction to it. 10 years ago, very few would have pointed to Toronto as a hub of hip-hop creativity. Ultimately, I have no regrets leaving It Takes A Nation on what is now an entirely metaphorical shelf. I'll gladly say thank-you, but given the choice, I'm going to blast Drake's infectiously triumphant mp3s every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I don't like this Six o'clock in the morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 23, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2012 Random question Through a combination of the bad weather and my mower being broken, I mowed my grass for the first time in weeks today. It had gotten extremely long. On doing so, I discovered several mounds of mud. I'd noticed one aaaages ago, but thought nothing of it. But now I thought it was weird that there were new ones appearing. On closer inspection I realised that they weren't just mounds of mud, they're ant hills. There's at least 5, and two of them are huge, and absolutely crawling with ants. I assume the new ones grew, for want of a better word, from the original. Anyone know an effective way to get rid of them? Will normal ant poison that I'd put down in my house if I discovered any do the job, or will an actual ant hill require something a bit stronger? Obviously I'll googel this as well, but thought I'd check with the good people of VT as well Get one of these Very tempting. They're awesome! Incidentally, I googled it and the consensus seems to be that I'm stuck with them. Rake the top of them and let the birds get at them and then stick some poison down to keep them at bay. But actually getting rid of them is probably impossible. Rrrrrrrrubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Watch they don't migrate into the house, then you'll have real problems!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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