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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:45
It's the same for the Speedway track at Blunsdon.  They want to close it down and put a casino there and move the Speedway to Reading!

Now, I'm not a Speedway fan at all and probably never shall be, but it's been there since the 1940s.  Many people have also complained about the noise and many of these people have been residents there for years.

If you move next to a race circuit (or any other noisey place), you're going to expect noise!  Don't move there if you don't like the noise and the traffic associated with such things!

Idiots!

I forgot to mention it's also a Greyhound racing track, so the turnover from such evens cannot be too shabby, surely?


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I've got a major axe to grind today.Angry

Why is it that people feel the need to move next to an active race track then go through the courts to get noise restrictions put on this tracks ending any major international, or even national, championships the come to visit and making it even harder for these places to make even a small profit, and in some cases break even. A couple years ago some local morons complained about the noise of British GT/F3 races at the Castle Comb circuit in Wiltshire (I think) ending one of the best attended events of the calander for both track and championships.Angry Then, last year locals at Monza in Italy started complaining about the racing at a track that has been in continual use since it opened in the mid 1920's, resulting in the Monza 1000km sportscar race being canceled and the F1 race coming under serious threat. Now, when I picked up this mornings issue of Autosport, I found that the locals that moved next to the Zandvoort track in Holland have got noise restrictions placed ending the historic F3 Masters event, a major event that brings the best up-and-comers from around the world and pits them against each other. This event has been going on since the 60's. If these people are goingt o  bloody move next to a race track they should fuCensoreding well expect some damn noise, its a race track! What  makes it worse is the bloody courts pandering to these mindless morons.Angry

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:35
Indeed, those Sonderburg-Gluecksburg (aka Oldenburg) and Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha families really do sound English!

Have we ever had a Bristish monarch?
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:31
As opposed to a German/Greek cross, you mean?

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:29
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Now if something happened to poor Wills, then Harry the non-inbred and non-royal (it's not official, obviously), would become King.  To be frank, it wouldn't make a damned difference!
 
The weird thing is that the non inbred, non royal (allegedly) 3rd in line to the throne is even uglier and dimmer than his inbred royal brother. And he's ginger. Makes you proud to be British LOL.
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 04:14
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

A ginger king?

Unthinkable!


Harry-red the Unready...

Edited by Man Erg - March 01 2007 at 04:14

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 03:42
It could be worse, it could be Phil Collins.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 03:41
A ginger king?

Unthinkable!

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Now if something happened to poor Wills, then Harry the non-inbred and non-royal (it's not official, obviously), would become King.  To be frank, it wouldn't make a damned difference!
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Oh bugger - now the royal family's been mentioned I can feel a rant coming on in regard to the heir to the British throne... I must there fore prevent myself from again ranting about how some inbred ing halfwit should keep his ing nose out of things he knows all about (or worse, things he thinks he has knowledge of), and concentrate on those things he does know about - ie, talking to ing vegetables (aka his family) & shooting things!

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 03:21
I don't know what you mean, James...



No resemblance there, surely

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He's the son of James Hewitt, what does his family care? Wink
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England is pulling out of Iraq but Prince Harry is being sent over???
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Points: 20003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2007 at 09:40
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten<BR>Ah, Enid Blyton - Famous Five, The Magical Wishing Chair, The Magical Faraway Tree, Mein Kampf <img src=smileys/smiley36.gif border=0 align=middle /> - a childrens writer whos political sensibilities lay somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun. <BR></td></tr></table> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What about the Secret Seven and the Adventurous Four?<img src=http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley17.gif height=17 width=17 border=0 align=absmiddle alt=Tongue />  I grew up with them.</DIV>[/QUOTE Jim Garten
Ah, Enid Blyton - Famous Five, The Magical Wishing Chair, The Magical Faraway Tree, Mein Kampf - a childrens writer whos political sensibilities lay somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun.
 
What about the Secret Seven and the Adventurous Four?Tongue  I grew up with them.
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and I'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you pesky kids.... grrrrr
 
oh, wait a minute, isn't that Scooby Doo?....Embarrassed
 
and I'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you pesky kids.... grrrrr
 
oh, wait a minute, isn't that Scooby Doo?....Embarrassed


Edited by fandango - February 28 2007 at 09:40
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2007 at 07:24
Ok, I have to just get this off my chest..

If I hear that f***ing Scissor Sisters song again, you know the one about not feeling like dancing, you'll all be hearing about me on the evening news tonight..

Thats it for now. Back to work...
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 18:10
I grew up on Janet and John myself.  I read Pinnochio when young (an old 1930s copy), but I cannot remember what other books I read.  I also remember reading the Cubs books (Cubs Ahoy! and another one) books too, even though I was never a Cub or a Scout.

And it's not Rowling I dislike, or her books so much, it's just the hype.  Plus Daniel Ratcliff annoys me!

I agree with Jim though, it's wonderful to know that children (I dislike the word kids with a passion) are indeed reading lengthier and more intellectual books.  It's just other authors who are just as talented (if not more so), than Rowling, work their arses off and either never get published, or they get paid a pittance.  It's well known that authors (well, novel writers mainly), don't earn lots of money.


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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 18:02
Originally posted by Jim Garten<BR>Ah, Enid Blyton - Famous Five, The Magical Wishing Chair, The Magical Faraway Tree, Mein Kampf <img src=smileys/smiley36.gif border=0 align=middle /> - a childrens writer whos political sensibilities lay somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun. <BR>[/QUOTE Jim Garten
Ah, Enid Blyton - Famous Five, The Magical Wishing Chair, The Magical Faraway Tree, Mein Kampf - a childrens writer whos political sensibilities lay somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun.
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What about the Secret Seven and the Adventurous Four?Tongue  I grew up with them.
 
What about the Secret Seven and the Adventurous Four?Tongue  I grew up with them.
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:58
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

There is nothing wrong with Harry Potter or The Lord Of The Rings - sure, they've been adopted by cinema (with varying degrees of success), but the film adaptations and the media hype detract from the fact these books are getting young people reading. They are getting parents reading to their kids - for the first time in God knows how long there is a genuine anticipation among children (and some adults ) for the release of a book - not some shoot-em-up game for their PC/X-Box/PS3/Commodore 64, but a book!

Of course it's being over hyped, and of course it's now become an industry, and of course there'll be kids pathetically dressed up as witches & wizards at midnight on the day of release... but the bottom line is, the Harry Potter books are well written fantasy for children - if you've read all the books (as have I), you'll know that each book has progressed in writing style and plot complexity - these are no 'Janet & John' books, you have to think. If just a small number of these kids go from JK Rowling to JRR Tolkein & then develop a love of books in general as a result of a combination of being enthused at an early age by the simple joy of reading and well made film adaptations, then it cannot be a bad thing.

I admit it freely - I am looking forward to the release of the next book - I have it pre-ordered on Amazon, so yah boo shucks to the lot of you!
 
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 07:36
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I genuinely wish they had been around back in 1974, when all we had was the Famous Five...
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

my reading habit started VERY young with Enid Blyton


Ah, Enid Blyton - Famous Five, The Magical Wishing Chair, The Magical Faraway Tree, Mein Kampf - a childrens writer whos political sensibilities lay somewhere to the right of Atilla The Hun. My own book habit started with a gentleman called Sven Hassell's Wheels Of terror "The Book No German Publisher Dared Print!"

I have to say, both Vicky and I have appalling book habits - if we ever had a house fire (Gods forbid), the fire would burn for days!

Anyway - this is supposed to be the Ranting Room, so to bring back onto thread & continue on the HP theme (sort of)...

Rupert Grint = Ron Weasley, starts the series awkward & geeky:



& continues to be awkward & geeky:



Emma Watson = Hermione Granger:

Starts off as irritating swot:



And is still an irritating swot, but..... well the jury's still out as to what they're doing with her character:



But Daniel Radcliffe! He's Harry Potter, for God's sake!



He's not finished the Harry Potter films, yet, so how the F did he suddenly become Daniel Radcliffe the sex-symbol:



THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED!

Tsk!



Edited by Jim Garten - February 27 2007 at 07:38

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