FURTHER MORE….

in reference to the other post regarding oposition towards the buying of a new home for families of injured service men..

Media (Accidently?)Missed this one!!!! Please read this:
The troops oversees would like you to send it to everybody you know. Subject: Denzel Washington, and Brooks Army Medical Center Don’t know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio,Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated fromGermany come to be hospitalized in the UnitedStates, especially burn victims. There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers’ families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time.While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his checkbook out and wrote a check for the full amount right thereon the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hearthis story and want to get the word out to the Americanpublic, because it warmed their hearts to hear it. The question is why does:Brad Pitt Madonna, Tom Cruise and other Hollywood fluff make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington’s Patriotism doesn’t even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio. A true American and friend to all in uniform! This needs as wide a distribution as we can create. Share it!
GOD BLESS YOU DENZEL!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT THE PALS….

with thanks to vespa jud.

SET OF MISERABLE CALLOUS BASTARDS!

“there but for the grace of god go i”*

not a religious guy, but that is a phrase i’ve heard my mum utter countless times, and it sums up the story to follow. i’ve cut and pasted this straight from a freinds e-mail, so take that into account when reading.

SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association) are buying a house close to Headley Court so that the relatives of the wounded and injured servicemen and women being treated there will have somewhere to stay, making it easier to visit and support them through their recovery.

Unfortunately, around 100 local residents have submitted strong objections (See Daily Mail excerpt below)

The planning application can be read here, as can the ludicrous objections submitted by some local residents – please take the time to write your own Letter of Representation, there may well be a time when you or a loved one needs to use Headley Court Please, please, please sign the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Headley/

– it really will only take a few minutes.

A campaign website has been launched here:

http://www.36grayslane.co.uk/

– This link has only been live for a couple of days and is not yet complete, please put it in your favourites and check back on it.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU CAN. WE ONLY HAVE A COUPLE OF WEEKS TO MAKE A STAND. THANK YOU ALL! Alan.

From the Daily Mail:

“The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, which has applied to the local council to to make some alterations at the property, including installing a wheelchair ramp, had been hoping for no objections. After all, Headley Court had been part of the area for more than 60 years. But residents apparently do mind. They have flooded the council with almost 100 letters of protest, raising every conceivable objection to the new property being used to house families visiting soldiers. They claimed ‘additional noise’ and ‘huge amount of additional traffic’ would ruin the peace of the private lane and warned that the value of their multi-million-pound properties would plummet. The families ‘would not be welcome’, they said, and their arrival could ‘destroy the character’ of the area. One resident even objected on security grounds, claiming the house could become a terrorist target, while another suggested wheelchairs would present a fire hazard. Planners at Mole Valley District Council will consider the case on August 1 but last night serving soldiers made their views clear. One Army officer recently returned from Iraq told the Mail: “They make me sick. It’s just staggeringly selfish. “Perhaps these people would care to come out to the field hospital in Basra and tell some young soldier having his leg amputated after a [bomb] attack exactly why his family isn’t worthy to rub shoulders with this bunch in their Surrey village. “Who do they think they are? Do they have the slightest clue about the sacrifices-young soldiers make on their behalf every day? Shame on them.” SSAFA spokesman Athol Hendry said: “These people should be ashamed of themselves. This level of hostility is incredibly disappointing and frankly astonishing. “If you’ve just got back from risking your life in Iraq, you’ve lost two legs and you learn your young family are not welcome near the hospital where you’re being treated – what kind of a message is that?” When the Mail tried to speak to residents, none would be quoted”

thanks to jinx for reminding me of this.

* if i’d had my accident 18 months before i did, i would have had my lower leg amputated.

and may still in years to come. looking good for the forseeable future though. cappy.

WELL…I’M SHOCKED…FIRST I’D LIKE TO THANK..

the academy, my parents, my loving wife, my son, god, jesus christ our lord…

PIFFLE AND TISH!!!!

ME???

A ROCKER??

NOT ON YOUR FUCKING LIFE!

i would like to thank four dinners for his vote though! and apparently i have to nominate five more. here goes.

camie vog.

ranting dullard.

cynnie.

cliff a go go.

* (asterisk).

i have reasons for all of these nominations, but i won’t embarrass them by saying why. i reckon they already know.

THIS SUNDAY!!!!

yup, this sunday i take the boy to see the simpsons movie.

a full review after.

FUNNIES

well i thought so.

YORKSHIRE SCOOTER INVASION 2007

LEPTON, HUDDERSFIELD, 13th-15th JULY

the patch

aint the space for all the pics, so these will have to do!

god knows where this is going, it’s huge!

i got there at 8am, straight from work, and decided to have a couple of hours kip. after all the rallies i’ve done, you’d think i’d have learnt. this was me after laying there for three hours!

my home for the weekend. you can’t see here but the place was muddier than glastonbury!! i had to push the scoot to here!

BEST IN SHOW! (or would have been! why didn’t you enter it wrighty?)

the official t-shirt!

and what had to be the highlight of the weekend. 10 year old matthew cummings doing an afternoon set of the jam and the who covers.

thats right. TEN YEARS OLD!

LOVE IT! SO WILL YOU!

FOR A.J. AS SHE ASKED.

i was tagged some weeks back. here goes.

8 THINGS ABOUT ME.

1. i’m a mod. i’ve been one since 1978. i will always be one. i’ll be buried one. the only downside is that most decent clothing doesn’t come in my size. thats why i look like a skinhead most days!

2. i’m a gemini. although i don’t believe in all that star gazing stuff. especially now that they have dicovered another planet, and told us pluto aint one any longer!

3. i lost my virginity in a school playground at the age of just gone 16. the sad thing is i can’t even remember her name.

4. i have lusted after a scooter since i can remember, yet i got my first in 1999.

i’ve had the following. italjet velicifero, vespa et4, vespa T5, T5 engined vespa px, 2000 model px, 1990 model px, and now a 2007 px. my ideal scooter has to be a mid 60’s vespa. eddie grimstead special i reckon.

5. ermm, struggling now. oh yes. one of my unfulfilled ambitions is to perform on stage. i’m not talking kareoke here, i mean be in a band, in front of a huge crowd. in fact scrap that, make it a fucking massive crowd. something like knebworth/wembley. to be able to stand thgere and have tens of thousands hanging on your every word….what power! what a buzz.

6. i had an unhealthy/healthy crush on the prettiest girl in our year. her name shall remain unkown to you lot, but she was out of my league. she was premier. i was rymans. or so i thought. bumped into her in barnsley a few years ago. she came right over to me, kissed my cheek and talked to me for around 15 minutes. told me that she always thought i was nice and funny, but didn’t dare talk to me. ME!! WHY NOT? AAAARGH! i worshiped the very ground you walked on! i could have been the coolest/luckiest boy in our school! i could have seen those pert young breasts naked! she looked like a young farah fawcett. if we’d only have gone to the youth club together for one night, and then you’d dumped me, i’d still have been out with you!!

can’t go back.

7. i re-read the hithhikers guide to the galaxy every year. all four books.

to me they are some of the best written books ever. up there with tolkein.

douglas neil adams. i and many others miss you.

(i am not a nerd)

another yearly read book is “cosmos” by carl sagan. unfortunately however, i never manage to get past the second chapter. far too clever for me. but one day i will finish it, then i can give it back to my dad! (bet he’s forgotten i have it)

8. i got booted out of my parents home at what? 19/20? after they found out i had quit college some months before and not told em, EDITEDEDITEDEDITED. in the long run i think it was the best thing that ever happened to me because it made me learn to stand on my own two feet and i have been able to look after myself. this is a biggy to put here because there are some people out there who i’ve known for years that don’t know this. for the record my parents and i get on like a house on fire these days, and me and my dad probably get on better now than we ever have!

if you know me, please don’t make a big deal of it. it happened, it’s long time gone, lets leave it like that.

so there you go. not going to tag anyone. it’s been nearly three weeks since i should have done it in the first place.

sorry it took so long jac!

BEEN TAGGED AGAIN!

i hate these things, and seeing as aunty jac hasn’t reminded me of what hers was about i guess i’ll have to do the one that *(asterisk) has set up

good grief;

1. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO?

to quote *(asterisk) himself, Getting ready to get married, more or less. Our tenth anniversary is in october

.2. WHAT WERE YOU DOING 1 YEAR AGO?

sitting at home being ignored by the wife after getting suspended.

3. FIVE SNACKS YOU ENJOY.

cheese and beetroot butties, carrot cake, pork pies, haslet sarnies, cheese/tomatoe/mayo stuffed pittas

4. FIVE SONGS YOU KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO.

anything by: the jam, the style council, paul weller, the whole of the american idiot album, little bitch-the specials

5. FIVE THINGS YOU’D DO IF YOU WERE A MILLIONAIRE.

give up work. direct a remake of quadrophenia. pay weller to let me play drums with him. buy ron daleys scooters in barnsley and keep all the staff on, but close early on fridays so we can all go on rallies. pay for myself and the wifey some liposuction!

6. FIVE BAD HABITS.

sitting here every day doing nothing. scratching myself. swearing. shouting at the tv. being anal about things like big ben, union jack, people being accused of being skinheads (it’s the tower of westminster [big ben’s the bell] it’s the union flag, and not every right wing wanker with a shaven head is a skinhead. you listening the daily mail?)

.7. FIVE THINGS YOU LIKE DOING.

see above answers

8. FIVE THINGS YOU WOULD NEVER WEAR AGAIN.

not sure, if it was that bad i wouldn’t have worn it in the first place. although i did once own an aqua-marine silk patterned shirt that was an abomination. but i thought it went well with my baggy jeans, and i looked like a member of the stone roses! (how wrong). basque, stockings and suspenders (rocky horror show). er….nothing else i dare put into print!

so there you go. thats taken half an hour, time which i should have spent in bed!!

p.s. my top twenty is now on

DRUNK PUNK RADIO

OH MY GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!

after god knows how many years of missing them every time they played locally (the last time they were still known as parva. yes that long ago)

I HAVE KAISER CHIEF TICKETS!!

me and V are going to see them in december at the hallam arena!

asked the boy if he fancied it, but he said no. loves em, but a little scared about being in a loud boisterous place.

me personally, i can’t fucking wait.

now all i need to do is get the night off!