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http://crankpunk.com/2013/12/03/tell-me-lies-lance-sweet-little-lies/
Nice piece on a decent little blog.
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I'm free 'til the new year... Pick a day...
Slacker. Waster.
If I manage to make it down on Sunday, I'll speak with you then.
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Even though I love mix-up tournaments I think we've got the LO for that and also having a tournament at that time on a court that good, there's no denying this would be the perfect warm up for the euro's.
We?
Nerged.
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I wonder what bill thinks...
I wonder what bill thinks about it being a two day tournament?
who's bill ?
You see, this is where the so-called polo mods fall down. All the above, according to their twisted & deranged logic, should be merged into the shuffler's thread.
In the meantime, though, I will take the opportunity to nerg you all.
Again.
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Not that anyone has asked me for my opinion or anything.
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10 teams, 20 min games, 5 rounds of swiss
25 mins (with changeovers) a game, 25 games total? That's 625 mins or 10 1/2 hours. Assuming a 9am start, that'll be finishing at 7.30pm.
20 mins a game (inc changeovers & over-runs) gives 8 and a bit hours.
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It's not about the number of teams, it's about the number of games. 10 teams RR = 45 games, or over 11 hours of polo on one court, which is too much, IMO, requires far too much volunteer effort. Is the point of the Invitational to showcase bike polo? In which case, you want the best possible conditions, i.e. plenty of people available to ref, operate score-board etc.
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Last London Invitational had too many teams in it - too much polo, too many teams, too much scuffling.
Keep the Open open, and make the Invitational elite, so you get quality polo in every match.
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11-6 Crow Bangers. Prawn has all stats. Really was a game of 3 chukkers...
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This won't help with finding sweat-free clothes, but it's a very interesting primer on garment industry, and specifically t-shirts.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/11/15/245470814/episode-496-where-the-planet-money-t-shirt-began
Later episodes cover issues around labour etc.
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The worrying thing is that there appears to be a slowing of cycling growth in London (Gilligan wrote this just before he was appointed Cycling Commissioner). We need to await the Travel in London Report 6, which should come out in the next few weeks, for confirmation or denial of this change in trend.
Gilligan mentioned this at the Hackney Cycling Conference, he's obviously concerned about the numbers. It's difficult. I don't think cycling is inherently dangerous, but if I am asked to agree that speeding up traffic (this is what 'smoothing flows' means) and cutting enforcement of road traffic law is going to have no effect on road casualties, I obviously have to disagree, which means I think cycling has become less safe under Boris, so I am bound to say so.
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lifted from another thread but relevant to here:
an interesting read.
It's just nonsense.
Mark Treasure and Mark Ames have NEVER excused reckless behaviour by any group of road users.
10 years ago it wasn't only 'professional cycle couriers' that ran lights
etc etc
The piece is tendentious unsubstantiated assertion and innuendo.
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Gilligan says there have been 17 cyclist fatalities in Paris.
That's disingenuous. 17 in Ile de France, which is a much bigger area than Greater London.
Kieron has the dope.
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The splendid Cynthia Barlow.
Most wonderful human being.
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meanwhile...
Thank Mary Portas for that.
Reducing the amount of public space that car owners are allowed to use to warehouse their cars should be a top priority in London.
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Is le coq blameless in all this? Is any clothing manufacturer?
Ok, so was this a serious enquiry? If so, the answer is than 2nd hand garments are always the best choice, even if they were originally bought from the Nike superstore.
Otherwise, Gildan, who are a very popular choice of t-shirt for polo team shirts are pretty terrible, for example, using contract factories in central America (a.k.a. maquiladors) in which conditions are often as bad or worse than anything on the Pacific rim.
Chunk are much better, as most of their stuff is made in Turkey (I think), where workers' rights are much more respected, and freedom of association is much less restricted (freedom of association is probably the most important single factor - restrictions on freedom of association can make it virtually impossible to form a workers' organisation. Workers' organisations are essential to improvements in workers' conditions).
For an overview, one of the best places to look is Labour Behind the Label. Read that, and you're unlikely to go shopping in the lower end of the 'high street' shops ever again.
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My teammate's mum knitted us team hats, we didn't pay her and she stayed up dead late doing it, are we bastard, sweatshop slave drivers too?
Not if you have signed up the the Ethical Trading Initiative. Then you "conform to the highest standards possible within the garment industry".
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Is le coq blameless in all this? Is any clothing manufacturer?
Criminal practices, which lead to grave abuses of workers' rights, are widespread in the garment industry. Calling one brand out doesn't mean that the others are excused. It just means that one brand has been called out.
The playground defences of "but they did it first" or "but they are doing it too" do not stand up in court, whether a court of law or the court of public interest.
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12:07 I believe the emergency call was, he was declared dead at 12:37. Think that was on the rider down thread.
Also, fwiw, I agree with Buffalo Bill about banning HGVs from London. I've previously written this up with colleagues:
Ah, hadn't seen this before! Great stuff.
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Wait, what about today?!
I mean today as well.... :-)
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what happened to ref beers by the way?
I didn't see any yesterday - or is league 1 exempt because of the superawesomepoloskillz?
Special rules for special people, apparently.
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this is some maddening, victim-blaming bullshit from the police this morning:
(telling people they should be wearing hi-vis and helmets, fining them for the state of their bikes, as if any of that would stop them being crushed like a bug under a left-turning dumper-truck)
The police love a bit of that. Frequently associate RLJing with lorry deaths, when the exact opposite is true in the vast majority of cases.
I wrote more about it here, I don't know if it's worth raising with the MPS at a higher level.
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Cyclist under lorry Beech Street, by Barbican Station.
Reported by one of our riders @ 1205. No other details.