Leicester Thumper

someone just told me that Leicester and notts centres are in police lockdown and have been all night as a precaution

ok guys, this stuff could kick off anywhere.... never say never. Just as a safeguard wherever you are I thought about these things: -Make sure you have mobiles on you at all times, fully charged with credit if needed -Make sure you have milk and teabags and basic food supplies, -Make sure you keep watching the news, If you are in the affected areas or not, as we need to know whats happenning next. Im off bed now, goodnight and I hope to return here later on. godbless and stay safe. Bruce

well done BBC, it's sony not sainsbury's....

i may do the same.

i need to be up at half seven, i cant sleep... im too wound up, and scared. maybe OTT??? im not sure...

the police probably couldn't give a T--s right now about a few posts mate!! sorry to be blunt but I'm probably right!!

I'm really scared. I live in Leicester. leicester has so many different races of people, so many different cultures and religions and im scared that its going to kick off here too. it's kicked off with some youths in London but i think it will get worse before it gets better... I feel very sorry to those who have lost their property and homes and such in the riots. I really do. they don't deserve to be victims. no one does. EDIT: what i meant with race and such is there are certain groups of individuals who will use this violence as an excuse to upset and rile up tensions for no reason, causing trouble

I think that's the problem. bad parenting/infant education and also the kids are pushing their boundaries cause of all these 'equality' things. I Went to a comprehensive school in Leicester, from 2003 - 2006 and those were the three longest years, most depressing years and most stressful years of my life thus far. Ok, I have a mental disability, some people do. No big deal to me, I am still human like everyone else, I should follow the same rules and get treated equally like everyone else. in the eyes of the schoolkids. No. hey he's different, let's bully him, hey he's intelligent, lets take the mick out of him. I have a long tongue, doesn't inhibit my speech now since i know how to control it, but they took the mick out of how i said things. the school was useless. they never adhered to my Special educational needs statement, and for 2 and a half years I never received my allocated support (in the end i just pushed as hard as i could...). I wouldn't say I was the snitch at school, cause i aint that sort of guy. If someone bullied me, I would go to the relevant persons and explain the situation, and i always explained to them, yes the bullying has hurt and upset me a lot, but i don't want them to hold a grudge i just want them to understand that we are all equal humans, we are subject to the same rules and same uniform, I just wanted them to know that we are to be treated fairly and equally, and that since i treated them from a neautral standpoint, i expected the same back. Next thing you know the following break I have 10 kids after me trying to physically harm me and I was near enough in a fight once a week. and I aint a guy for fighting, i aint for it, i did nothing wrong. absolutely nothing wrong and thats what i got. to top it off my ''friends'' suddenly decided they were not my friends when I was being bullied.... tells you a lot about kids these days and thats from an 18 year old!!! EDIT: then again, thinking about it, it was on the edge of a housing estate.. although to my experiance, housing estates are not always that bad

names bruce... my gran has an acer laptop which just randomly spurts out and talks to her about MSN and setting up emails meanwhile my poor gran is panicking shouting at the thing to stop whilst my cousin runs in to stop it!! lol

Hear hear, Mike. Leicester has about 6 main housing estates and i clearly see everyday examples of bad parenting.... although not quite the same, I was in the local morrisons with mother getting our fresh british steak for dinner (We do like their steak!!!) and we saw two acts of bad parenting. first one was near the fruit and veg isles. Two parents of average type with the two youngsters in tow. Now the kids wanted to be really helpful and get mummy's items for her, the mother had not clocked on to this and then the kids were putting said items into trolley when there was that item already in the trolley, she then turns around and shouts at the children for 'being annoying and attention seeking' by trying to help!!! is it me or are some parents backwards minded. If it were my kids I would ask them to go get certain items to be helpful. instead she turned two smiling kids into shivering wrecks. the second one was a rampant three year old running about the place whilst mummy didn't care and was two isle away, this rampant little git ran straight into my bad knee which i injured in a cycling accident and then damn me if he didn't proceed to push my mum out the way!!! in mind my mum is 45 and has a compressed spinal cord and sometimes struggles to move.... needless to say i wasn't happy! I didn't need to tell the mother off the kid had done something to someone else, and then there was a massive argument between the mother and another woman over her being a 'c*** parent and not deserving kids' some things leave me amazed....

my mum did the same. I used to cycle to my college 6 miles away everyday but during heavy snow and ice, mum thought it would be better me going in the car with her. one morning the other winter she dropped me off at college and caustiously set off home. the college i went to had a 11-14 school next door, and they were all making their way to the school. mum was driving down the road and a group of five kids threw several snowballs at my mums windscreen. as we know this is a particularly dangerous act, and with little .... gits shall we say, likely to put rocks and stone in the middle, no wonder my mum was so shocked and enraged. she did an emergency stop, slammed the car into reverse and ran out the car after the kids shouting who knows what whilst they bolted across the local golf course (public right of way runs right through the middle) i only know all of this because my classmate who was running late, saw the whole proceedings taking place, needless to say i said 'you wure it was my mother?' as she seldom reacts like that...

its good for us guitar lads too cause there's a forum of us (well several but the lads in the UK sorta get to know each other anyway). If one of us has gear nicked and has nothing left or we urgently need a part to make a guitar usable for a gig we use next day or same day couriers, marvellous stuff!!

firstly,, I would like to recite a phone call from someone we know a few months back caller: 'Do you have a satnav?' Me: 'yes we do it's called mother...' anyways... I can read maps, so can mother, dad is useless with a bloody map.... anyways, you don't need a satnav, and this map reading vs. satnav thing is tosh. If you are driving and require directions, you pull over at the next safest opportunity and consult your map, it isn't rocket science. people whould be able to read maps, bus timetables, simple budgets and all that simple life reigmarol, yet the more people progress, the less they seem to be able to do. hence why the satnav reigns supreme. think about it, 30 years ago what did a HGV driver do? the coach driver do? the family on holiday do? they took a mapbook with them. simple and easy. we have an ordnance survey road atlas from 2003, and considering it is 8 years on, the roads have hardly changed. sometimes the road layouts and routing has changed to that which is printed, but if you have some self initiative and your head screwed on it isn;t to hard to find where you are.

thanks for the responses, followed coombe's link, I forgot about those guys, Also remembered Shires too, but I think they are more expensive, shall remember though! it's just the insurance, as usual, which will kill it.

hey all, this month I will be applying for my provisional license to allow me to learn to drive a car. this I Believe, will allow me to ride a moped/learn to ride a motorbike. I'm 18 will be nineteen on the 15th and am very confused over this. I have read up on all sorts of stuff and its too boggling. (personally I think the DVLA make it too complicated but anyway, back on topic) I Really just want a moped to nip around on for the time being, can help with work and stuff like that but I don;t want a cr**y rev and go plastic heap cause i hate the damn things and they are all built like scooters, which i don't like the feel of. I ideally want something like an old Raliegh Runabout or Mobylette or something like that. My dad, who is being a grumpy old such and such today can't seem to be bothered in helping me understand the regulations even though he has riden these things for years. hence why asking you cause you never know, one of you might work in the right area or have the experiance to know. so i just need it clearing up. If i need to take more tests and tosh just to ride an historic 50cc then the DVLA can shove it up their exhaust manifold for the time being cause it will work out better to just get a car etc. so i'm just seeing what the regs are and what would be more logical.

well I know firefox is more secure, plus it don't crash like IE does on my laptop and I never understood why it always crashed but Firefox never does...

that one is my mistake mate, there's a company name which i'll try and read but i think the company who made the ribbon or the casing were in Stirling. Okies will do, had ventured across that and am contemplating joining

It could well be that, but the blue bits are a little wider, yet the silver and red are the same size, could well be that. thanks for that chart!

could well be, i can't find anything else on it

ESPN and ESPN classic perhaps.... sometimes Five US as well

its in a silver case, says stirling on the back or something im not sure, anyways that's the one. EDIT: obtrusive line is a crack in the glass front.

hang on ten minutes, i'll get a picture

looked up those two medals and that isn't it. Just took the thing out the cabinet, got RFC on the back so now assuming that means Royal Flying Corps, so WW1? I'm going to have a dig for it now, cheers folks

Many years ago when me dad was young and was working on a contracted job as a young electrician in an abandoned house/hall thingy (was being redeveloped) he came across a medal ribbon and put it in his pocket, just the ribbon no medal. he was going to find out what it was but we never did, and its sat in its little plastic case ever since in the antiques cabinet. I'm struggling to find it on any medal website, thought i would ask here as it is really driving my head in and usually one of you chaps and ladies knows something about something (if that makes sense!) I haven't got a picture but it is a simple description. there are five colour sections to it from left to right: Blue, Silver, red, Silver, blue. the blue is fairly small on each end, the silver is quite large and the red is very thin indeed. I did used to use a website which i could identify from i think you dobbed in the colours and it spat out the results... but cant find it??? google isn;t my friend tonight!!! lol if any of you guys could help that would be wonderful as it would stop my headache, haha