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Thread | Can anyone help my 8 year old with a 2nd hand kit
at 21:24 12 Jun 2014
Hello all . wonder if anyone is able to help me ( well my son really) out with a second hand shirt or kit for either this season gone or last season.
I have just managed after years of brainwashing to get him to declare his undying support of the hoops , watching the Zamora goal on an endless loop has helped and now he wants a kit.
Of course i am desperately trying to nurture this tender young blue and white shoot and thought it would be an easy thing to procure said kit.
Well there is nothing out there , have tried numerous websites , all sold out of small boys, only 12 years or over left, so I thought as a long shot i would throw this out to the community , if anyone has an old kit in reasonable condition i would be very grateful . I will pay for it at a mutually agreeable sum and ill pay for postage as well so fingers crossed someone has a kid who doesn't want theirs any more.
I would get this seasons but its $h!t and doesn't even have hoops ,i am not mug enough to pay 50 quid for an off the peg generic Nike stripy shirt with a badge.
i hope someone can help . thanks in advance. |
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Reply | Tube Strike confirmation
at 09:57 31 Jan 2014
Good point well made, and another thing that apologists for the right conveniently forget when they try to condemn union strike mandates as undemocratic for getting less than 50 percent of the total vote , boris was elected on 22, Cameron and the liberals combined got less than 50 so really they shouldn't be allowed to make" undemocratic " decisions like trying to sack 1000 staff either. |
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Reply | Tube Strike confirmation
at 09:29 31 Jan 2014
Im really sorry Northernr but you miss one vital factor in your rush to trash LUL and its workers and that is , like so many other metro systems such as the Paris Metro and NY is that generally they have 2 parallel tracks for each direction, rather like a duel carriage way meaning they can close one lane to work on it whilst the other stays running
You may have noticed the last time you were one a deep level tube station that all of them have only one line running in each direction, this means in order to do engineering work they have to close the whole section. Guess when they do all this work... Bizarrely they do it a night after traffic hours, and they have about 3 hours in a 24 hr period when they can bring the machinery in to do the repairs. If you run it 24 hrs a day when would you like the repairs done? , in the morning peak on Monday morning between 6 and 10 am perhaps?
I have no doubt the the New York metro was a wonderfully safe place to be at 3 in the morning with no staff but a perfectly running system but just consider this , all these systems were built after the London underground, the tube is Victorian and was not designed for the enormous work load that is now placed on it, so please before you make sweeping gestures about why the NY metro runs at 3 in the morning and by implication that London tube workers are lazy and useless for not doing so please just have a thought about the actual facts. |
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Reply | Tube Strike confirmation
at 22:04 30 Jan 2014
Final victims? Sounds like your talking about war criminals rather than your own fellow tax paying countrymen standing up for their rights not to be shafted like everyone else. Lets just hope we don't have a disaster on the tube any time soon with a thousand less staff. |
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Reply | Tube Strike confirmation
at 19:14 30 Jan 2014
Hello all as a long time lurker on these boards i find it amusing that the first topic that compels me to offer my ha'penneth is not to do with my beloved QPR, but this rather vitriolic debate which seems to be developing about the proposed LUL strike.
I have been dismayed that the first response to this thread was "w@nkers" when actively referring to people who are fighting not only to keep their jobs,( because lets make no mistake when you close every single ticket office on the underground you can be damn sure all those people will not be staffing the station despite what the lul management -tory propaganda machine tells you in the media,) but also to maintain the impeccable safety record that the system has, it is staff and well trained staff who deal with the emergencies, the bombings, the over crowded platforms in the rush hour, the mindlessly drunk , the fights, the heart attacks the one unders etc etc.
There seems to be a real race to the bottom with the argument that just because a worker in the public sector is fortunate enough to have a good salary and even more fortunate to have a good strong union able to defend his rights whilst everyone else has been absolutely shafted in real economic terms in the last few years that somehow they should be dragged screaming into the streets to be tarred and feathered,
Once again the argument has devolved to the old bogeyman of tube drivers, lets just be clear, yes drivers do get paid well but that pay is also to reflect ( like all pay for operational staff) that they do shift work including extreme shifts , the only annual leave guaranteed is christmas day so most bank holidays you find your self working and the work they do is safety critical, if you think driving a train is just about opening and closing the doors then think again.
One final point about the 24hr trains they are crowing about introducing on friday and saturday nights, the underground is a creaking decrepit victorian construction that quite literally is held together by string and chewing gum, when they introduce new kit the very often have to just bolt it onto pre existing technology , sometimes dating back to the 60s or 70s, and the engineering hours are vital to keep the whole thing running and i for one am really alarmed at the possibility that this time to carry out maintenance is going to be reduced.
sorry for the rant, but i have recently left London underground after 20 years service, i know its not perfect but by and large the workers are dedicated and just trying to make the best of a tough situation.
any way come on you RSSSSSS |
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