TopGun

Yellow Merrells in the 4.45 at Tadcaster tomorrow.

I was told once that someone with the initials OK in the US Army was responsible for checking the gunpowder was dry in artillery shells before they were sent to the front line in WWI to be fired. So if it was alright it was OK. And it kinda stuck from there as so many soldiers saw OK written on the shells. No idea whether that is true.

We did lose at home to Notts County and Nottm Forest but we lost a total of nine games that season. I have a feeling we lost to West Ham at home as well that season. If that is the case I was there for all those defeats.

Last night was very poor. I guess they suffer a double whammy by setting the bar so high before now that when they are out of material (as looked to be the case) it just looks dreadful. And someone should tell Hammond that his long hair look is not good on him.

So Unreal continue to take VI.46 by storm. 13 wins from 13 games now entitles me to automatic promotion so the planning for Division V starts here.

Nice to have a dilemma about who is best rather than who is the worst!

The book called Vulcan 617 alludes to that although I'm not convinced of its accuracy. If you believe all that is in the book it was an amazing effort to bomb Port Stanley airport from the Ascensions though. A massive effort involving 13 refuelling tankers that refuelled one another as well as the solitary Vulcan to get it all the way to the Falklands, bomb the airstrip and get it back. The book talks about a training exercise in the US where the Vulcans escaped ground-based US radars and interceptors. But it could be a bit of bullsh*t too. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have flown undetected to Moscow!

An interesting tour of climate change over millennia and the last 150 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2009/copenhagen/8386319.stm Sure to get George frothing at the mouth.

The idea behind the Nimrod upgrades were initially that it would save money as the intention was to use existing airframes (old Comets), gut them and refurb them. This has happened to the same aircraft a few times. The last genuine intention to replace the original planes was discussed in the mid-1990s when a government tender was issued and refurbed Lockheed P-3 Orions were offered by the US along with France's Dassualt Atlantique in addition to upgraded Nimrods. TBF nobody apart from the US no one has spent loads in the area since as there has been no threat from Russia. All those planes were initially designed as cold war maritime radar reconnaissance aircraft rather than checking out the mountains of Afghanistan for ground threats. So a big change in the role of the Nimrod. It might have been the wrong decision but I think it would have been difficult to have foreseen the change in circumstances. In hindsight it might have been better to put new surveillance equipment into newer converted airliners but the decision had been made by then. The same issue exists with the RAF with refuelling tankers to an extent.

To an extent I agree with Benjii. You don't have to be a climate change zealot to realise that fossil fuels are limited and the UK shouldn't need to rely on imports. Viable green energy makes sense just because of that.

My Local was always massively overpriced anyway. And they were always up to conniving three for two pricing tricks that would end without notice etc. No surprise to see them go bust.

You need to live in sunny Manchester! And I'm not joking about today!

What a ridiculous post. All of it.

The forum at large has a problem with George. I think that he should be allowed to espouse his opinions but, as an individual who works in energy and environment stakeholder communications, I think it is fair to say George represents a very small element of the "vocal minority". Don't get wound up by George. It suits his unhealthy agenda. In effect, what George has here is a "letters to the editor" page where all his letters get published. I imagine he tries quite unsuccessfully to get various newspaper editors to print his rather barmy views in their papers on a regular basis but doesn't get much success and subsequent attention. What is interesting is that since George has reinvigorated himself here with his bizarre views, the more reasonable climate change neutrals/sceptics here have backed off. A case of how to win friends and influence people, if ever it has been taught!

http://www.newenergyfocus.com/do/ecco/view_item?listid=1&listcatid=32&listitemid=3279&section=Wind I wonder what George makes of that bunch of rabid communists, the Conservative Party. Their energy spokesman Greg Clark said: "I've already made the point that climate change isn't just about government. But I'd also like to say that it isn't just about business either. Climate change is about all of us. And that, as well as promoting enterprise and innovation, government also needs to empower communities, families and individuals to play their part too."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8387634.stm

We are a reasonable L1 club, that's it. But then again Millwall got to the Final in 2004 from L1!

Got my hard fought win at main rivals, 1-2, so ought to complete the season in VI.46 with maximum points now :-)

I can't go two hours without food or drink anywhere. Usual routine is: 08.00 Breakfast 10.00 Snack 12.00 Lunch #1 14.00 Lunch #2 16.00 Tea 18.00 Dinner 20.00 Supper I'm always hungry!

"The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed. Climate change is their new theology… But the heretics will have a voice in Copenhagen and the truth will out. Climate change is being used to impose an anti-human utopia as deadly as anything conceived by Stalin or Mao." The lovely Nick Griffin last week. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/nick-griffin-bnp-copenhagen-summit

You need a certain type of mind to plough through that!

More correct.

Wrong, as above post.

I actually live in Urmston, within Trafford. So I get a fair view on the issue. Pretty much all of Trafford is Man Utd supporting although I see a few City shirts also. Trafford is one of about a dozen boroughs that make up Manchester and IMO that gives them the right to support either large Manchester side or indeed one of the smaller ones. The nonsense that is peddled about Man Utd not being part of Manchester is pretty silly. If you want to talk semantics, Salford is a city in its own right and the boundary is right on the Old Trafford doorstep. But it's still silly.

George gets more lunatic by the post! But it is amusing to see that the more George froths at the mouth the less support he gets from other climate change sceptics on the site (excluding Dune of course, who is equally deranged).