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'Always On My Mind' - The Pet Shop Boys
Do You Love Me Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
I remember it so well ..............
The Shadows, Wonderful Land :?
Everything I Do, Bryan Adams...which I suspect will lead to a few cases of 'snap' for people due to it being number 1 for so bloody long :P
my family is from the age of rock and roll :rofl: so back in black by acdc :proud:
or tnt by...acdc :proud:
i saw that on the news aswell today, the judge a roboteer? john blackburn?
That's not bad at all.
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Originally Posted by joeychevron
snap :P
Happy towel day everyone!
http://www.robotgames.nl/images/leo-towel.jpg
http://www.towelday.org
Have you managed to 'hitch' a ride yet? :wink:
I let the Vogons pass. :proud:
please tell me the FRA had SOMETHING to do with the robot wars in Bradford
I doubt it. I don't think we would have allowed that grinder.Quote:
Originally Posted by craig_anto
This was not an FRA sactioned event.
Any body like MeatLoaf
try This
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPko-aXvJM
So, how many people here have heavyweight bots that would be ready to fight at a moment's notice?
There was an event in Bradford?
Anyone got any info ie run by who, robots attended, arena details, youtube clips etc?
Mike.
and that is whats wrong with the FRA and why i wont be paying for membership
Bradford was a competition between schools, and had nothing to do with the FRA.
Well the real question is, were the FRA approached for support in running such an event? Difficult to assist in an event if you don't know about it.
thats the problem Leo
the FRA is next to useless
The RFU is involved in EVERYTHING rugby in England, the FA is involved in EVERYTHING football, no they dont and cant control football on the streets but anything related to local goverments is brought back to governing bodies like the FA and the RFU
I've just started work as a community rugby coach and nothing in the local area rugby union related happens without one of us CRC's knowing
This FRA was founded as a governing body to do this such thing for robot combat I know I was there and we in the early days made the approches to bring in such projects as this but this has happened entirly without the FRA knowing anything about it
The local authority that put this event on did risk assesments and obtained liability insurance for this event and however unsafe it may have looked at time they ran the event and got local TV coverage
The FRA is a failure this just makes it more clear we dont need the FRA anymore
Craig if you think the fra is useless and you dont need them anymore then just dont renew your membership. Simple really. dont go slagging it off just before you leave tho cos there are some of us that think the fra is a good starting place for roboteering. even if thats all it does its there. better than nothing at all. Its about time SOMEONE got it on tv even if it was a news clip.
who says i'm leaving
As Gary said - bit difficult if we have no knowledge of it. If they approached the FRA with regard to what I call an inter-schools engineering competition then we would have given them every assistance.
Do you know this for sure? It is not a public event but an educational project.Quote:
The local authority that put this event on did risk assesments and obtained liability insurance
Wrong! My son plays for a local community soccer team and he is signed up with the FA however when it comes to his school team the FA are not involved whatsoever.Quote:
The RFU is involved in EVERYTHING rugby in England, the FA is involved in EVERYTHING football
Godlike omnipresence is not something the FRA can manage when it comes to non-public events - no doubt and no apologies for it either.
And after all the time I gave up arranging your arena inspections, finding and getting the right people to talk to for technical advice and them giving up THEIR time as well. Me bitter? Nah!Quote:
The FRA is a failure this just makes it more clear we dont need the FRA anymore
I have family in local goverment they cant do anything without obtaining risk assesments and insurance so yes i do know this,
Your sons school team will be referee's by either FA certified Referees or teachers who have been on refereeing courses, I dont know that 100% but thats how it is with Rugby, The school team will have to obide by FA/FIFA rules as events like this should run by our rules
we dont need a ''Godlike'' presence how hard is it to make the FRA's presence known a standard letter to all local authorities is all you need to do with information of the local rep
Peoples time arranged for an arena inspection was more than appreciated, on the day and the event after I made sure to thank everyone who came, the FRA is not doing its job its not just here to write rules and organise the EO's
that Bradford event is a prime example of a potentially dangerous event, I would like the think that upon seeing this the FRA would get in contact with the local authourity and make its presence known
If the FRA is not even plannning to do that it really is a failure
Unfortunately the FRA are not in a position to provide the same support that the FA can.
You are comparing an organisation with around 100 paid members to one of the biggest sports in the world.
The FRA spends a lot of time and money providing the framework and support for event organisers to use a common ruleset and put together safe events.
Just because a group of schools decided to put together and organise a Robot Wars style event without using the rules we put in place doesn't mean we are doing a bad job.
The simple fact that these sort of events are appearing is just the kind of sign that shows the sport is still alive and that the interest is still there.
you dont need millions of pounds to send a letter to the appropriate places you need one letter copied to the all the local authorities
The FRA is the FA of robot combat is about time we started acting like it
We can act like the FA with the resorces we have because our sport is small enough to control with what we have
Is someone going to get in contact with Bradford?
I'm sorry I dont think the FRA is a Failure but I do think it has failings
I would be willing to pay my FRA membership if I thought the FRA was going to make progress on matters such as this, and I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is, If the FRA permits I will produce this letter and deliver it to the local authourities
the letter would need to be approved by the committee but I'm willing if the FRA is
Craig
You do realise there are 486 local authorities in the UK if you miss out Northen Ireland you could whittle that down a little.
indeed I do Ian thats just the local authorities not including the school governing bodies and the universities which we should also target
Quite simply the FRA - or rather the members of the Governing Body do not have the resources in time to look up the names and addresses of all 486 local authorities and every university or technical college in this country plus any particular contact person - let alone the cost of postage (for example 2nd class post at 30p x 500 letters = £150), then there is paper, envelopes, printing ink, time, time and time.
Email? - OK we need the time to find all the addresses - time, time and time.
I don't know about everyone else but I am already working a 12 hour day, looking after my family, sometimes I find the time to eat properly and if there's any time left I may sleep a little.
Why it hasn't been done before? Why can't it be done now - right now! Well, some of us have lives!
Why is this in the 'Randomness' thread?
Working out the cost of postage to every council in Great Britain and Northern Ireland strikes me as quite random to be honest :proud:Quote:
Originally Posted by anukhet
...on a serious note, I'm sure somebody in the FRA will have enough time to look up all the necessary email addresses and pass them on to Craig or whoever does the letters - it needn't be done all in one go, the effort is surely worth it to make the organisation known to the authorities. I'd be willing to offer my ample free time even, although I'm not an FRA member at this present time (joining in the summer hopefully)
This is the random thread, WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE BEING RANDOM!?!?!?!?!? :rofl:
*Releases several live facehuggers into the thread*
...Have fun. :proud:
Who started the thread anyway? Was it Geoff? I don't know anymore...
There used to be a lot more posts on here at the beginning of the thread before they were 'disposed' of, most iekly because the thread was becoming huuuuuuge and on the old forum the number of archive pages was well in the range of 100 or more.
But before they were cleared up I went to the beginning of the thread to see who started it and to see some of the random things that started it off, and I seem to recall the thread was Gary's creation. So he's responsible for all this random madness :lol:
guilty as charged :oops: