£28m plans to tackle Stairfoot gridlock
More lanes doesn't tackle gridlock. We should have learnt that years ago. How about spending the £28 on more public transport and #supertram extensions to #Barnsley ?
https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/34922/28m-plans-to-tackle-stairfoot-gridlock
I spent the summer of '82 as a trainee at the National Coal Board. Three thousand feet underground at Grimethorpe Colliery. Riding coal conveyor belts face-down. Shoveling slag. Wearing a bright yellow hard hat in a sea of white.
It was a world already disappearing, though none of us knew it yet. Two years later, the miners' strikes would begin. By 2015, every pit in Britain had closed.
I've spent forty years in the games industry, and this summer had nothing to do with that. Except, perhaps, for my first job porting a little game called Manic Miner. But that's a story for another chapter.
Chapter 3 of my serialized memoir is now live. Down t'pit."
https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-3-down-tpit
#GameDev #RetroGaming #Memoir #Yorkshire #Barnsley #CoalMining
Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Ragazzo gay”: il figlio di Fletcher squalificato per sei giornate dopo l’insulto omofobo. Poi le scuse
Un insulto omofobo rivolto ad un avversario è costato sei giornate di squalifica e una multa di 1500 sterline al centrocampista del Manchester United Jack Fletcher. Il giocatore, 19enne figlio della leggenda dello United Darren Fletcher, era stato espulso al 62esimo minuto della partita poi persa per 5-2 contro il Barnsley in Efl Trophy, un torneo riservato alle squadre inglesi di terza e quarta divisione e rappresentative giovanili dei club di Premier League, disputato lo scorso ottobre.
All’epoca non era chiaro il motivo per cui il figlio d’arte avesse subito una squalifica così pesante, ma ora la Bbc ha reso noto che la Federcalcio inglese ha spiegato che Fletcher è stato sanzionato per aver chiamato un avversario “ragazzo gay“. Nel corso del procedimento disciplinare, il giovane ha detto di essersi scusato con l’avversario dopo la partita per “la parola offensiva usata nella foga del momento”, sostenendo di aver reagito ad un fallo e di non avere avuto “alcuna intenzione di usare il termine come insulto omofobo“. La commissione ha comunque inflitto la squalifica a Fletcher con anche una multa: il calciatore dovrà anche frequentare un programma educativo obbligatorio in presenza.
“Mi dispiace davvero per la parola offensiva che ho usato in un momento di foga”, ha detto Fletcher. “Capisco perfettamente che un linguaggio del genere sia inaccettabile e mi sono scusato immediatamente dopo la partita, ma questo singolo episodio non riflette assolutamente le mie convinzioni o i miei valori“, ha concluso il centrocampista del Manchester United. Il gruppo ufficiale di tifosi LGBTQ+ dello United, i Rainbow Devils, ha dichiarato di aver accettato le scuse di Fletcher e che “il linguaggio omofobo non ha posto nel calcio o nella società, indipendentemente dalle intenzioni o dalle connotazioni“.
L'articolo “Ragazzo gay”: il figlio di Fletcher squalificato per sei giornate dopo l’insulto omofobo. Poi le scuse proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
“Gay Boy”: Fletcher’s son disqualified for six days after the homophobic insult. Then the apologies.
An homophobic insult directed at an opponent cost Manchester United midfielder Jack Fletcher six days of suspension and a £1500 fine. The 19-year-old son of United legend Darren Fletcher had been sent off in the 62nd minute of the match subsequently lost 5-2 to Barnsley in the Efl Trophy, a tournament reserved for English teams in the third and fourth divisions and youth representatives from Premier League clubs, played last October.
At the time, it was unclear why the young prodigy had received such a severe suspension, but now the BBC has revealed that the English FA has explained that Fletcher was sanctioned for calling an opponent “gay boy.” During the disciplinary proceedings, the young man said he apologized to the opponent after the match for “the offensive word used in the heat of the moment,” claiming he reacted to a foul and had “no intention of using the term as an homophobic insult.” The commission nonetheless imposed the suspension on Fletcher with a fine as well; the footballer will also have to attend an mandatory educational program in person.
“I am truly sorry for the offensive word I used in a moment of heat,” Fletcher said. “I completely understand that such language is unacceptable and I immediately apologized after the match, but this single incident does not reflect at all my beliefs or my values,” concluded the Manchester United midfielder. The official LGBTQ+ fan group of United, the Rainbow Devils, stated that they had accepted Fletcher’s apologies and that “homophobic language has no place in football or in society, regardless of intentions or connotations.”
“Boy gay”: The Fletcher son disqualified for six days after homophobic insult. Then the apologies come from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
#Fletcher #ManchesterUnited #JackFletcher #DarrenFletcher #Barnsley #theEflTrophy #English #third #fourth #PremierLeague #theEnglishFA #LGBTQ+ #United #IlFattoQuotidiano
Valeria Guarneros-Meza reflects on her work alongside Barnsley's Educational Learning Support Hub, and highlights the multi-layered ways that precarity stifles community organisations. She argues that solidarity between different social groups is key for overcoming its debilitating effects.
#precarity #Barnsley #barnsleynorth #labour #work #uk #migrants #England #community #Organize #CommunityDevelopment #communityorganizing #migrantworkers #migrantlabor
I moved from Sheffield to Barnsley when I was 12. Fifteen miles, but it might as well have been a hundred.
To the uninitiated, the South Yorkshire dialect of the late 70s sounded like a collision between the industrial working class and the King James Bible. We used archaic forms like 'thee' and 'thou' unironically as standard pronouns. While the vocabulary was shared across the region, the delivery was not. In Sheffield, we hardened the sound into a flat, percussive d. Thee became dee, and thou became da. Barnsley kept the softer th, so to them it was thee and tha. Because I arrived with my hard Sheffield d, I was immediately pegged as an outsider. A dee dar.
It wasn’t just accents. The small words changed, too. What I had grown up calling a gennel was now a ginnel, or sometimes a snicket, depending on who you asked.
I remember one lad, Brian Dickinson, leaning over to me and saying, “Eyup, does tha lake football?” I thought he meant like it, so I replied, “Yeah, it’s OK.” But he pressed again, “Naw, does tha 𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 it?” That’s when I found out that 'lake' meant 'play,' possibly from Old Norse 'leika.' I had honestly never heard that expression in my life, coming from exotic and faraway Sheffield.
This was an excerpt from the first chapter in my serialized memoir, currently being published on Substack. Read the full chapter here:
https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-1-the-dee-dar-and-the-chemistry
All chapters are available for free on Substack, with a paid subscription option for those who want to support the project.
DS Burns there, turning a simple "what a twat" into a multi-paragraph inoffensive press statement. The training's worked well, DS Burns!
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