Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 3

[Teddie]

Has anyone seen the story about the "Welcome Home" party for the American POW being cancelled because of allegations he left his post?

Cant link as on phone.

Ridiculous carry on altogether. America. What a joke.

Why? Not idea why a deserter should get a welcoming home party.

[careca]

If I saw Rambo coming at me with two rifles, the last thing I'd do is take a pic of him.

[careca]

I somehow missed this until today, its interesting you could say its very unsporting but given the warnings the Buttler had I suppose its fair enough


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD43swBpWlU

Saw that yesterday and heard a few different opinions. IMO nothing wrong with it, similar to trying to steal a base in baseball. I only ever play for the craic (taveners) but we would be told before to keep your bat in the zone at all times. Whats the difference between that and going down the crease to swing at a short one, missing and being stumped???

[Theresa]

Why? Not idea why a deserter should get a welcoming home party.

Its not really about whether or not he deserves a party.

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[RichieM]

Has anyone seen the story about the "Welcome Home" party for the American POW being cancelled because of allegations he left his post?

Cant link as on phone.

Ridiculous carry on altogether. America. What a joke.

Is it because you have to fight for your right for a party.

Now that is a joke. The us military take the deleriliction of duty quite seriously I presume so I think the lack of cake could be this guys smallest problem.

[Teddie]

Its not really about whether or not he deserves a party.

What's it about then?

Yeah, the guy is going to be so long-term fcked-up, this is probably going to be the nail in the coffin. Hope he's getting some decent care.

He can hardly have expected a warm welcome home after he deserted.

[KevIRL]

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/06/05/emigration-will-be-offered-as-leaving-cert-subject-in-2015/

Wp again wwn

[Lord Sir Banter]

I somehow missed this until today, its interesting you could say its very unsporting but given the warnings the Buttler had I suppose its fair enough


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD43swBpWlU

LOLcricket. Scumbags.

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[Flushdraw]

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/201...bject-in-2015/

Wp again wwn

We better hope this Vietnamese news website don't have wind of it, or they might not realise it's a windup! They took this 'interview' with Howard Webb as the truth, and ran with the story!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qJ3Bnm9vMw

http://bongdaplus.vn/tin-bai/14/92163/howard-webb-cong-khai-tinh-yeu-lon-danh-cho-m-u.bdplus

Here's the translation

Howard Webb largest public love for MU

Beanyman Sports Channel has recently done an interview with referee Howard Webb . In the video shared on youtube , Howard Webb has frankly admitted he is a fan of Manchester United .

Howard Webb , 43 years old , began to hold the whistle industry since 1989 and is recognized as a FIFA referee since 2005 . Before she became famous referee of England , he had time to work as role of a police officer .

Beanyman Sports interview , Howard Webb told the team that he supports . To even mention the word " United " , but everyone knows this is the black king is referring to MU According to Howard Webb then " he and the Reds fans almost lost all faith in Manchester United when the team is also coached by David Moyes ."

BLD boss David Moyes was sacked at the end of MU last season after less than a year working for the Old Trafford side . End of last season , MU just finishing at No. 7 and not place in Europe next season . In recent years , this team is said to have enjoyed no less favorable decisions from referee Howard Webb . Therefore, no need to monitor the interview , many people default Howard Webb is a fan of the Reds .

[Kayroo]

There is no legal 'box' for that. The only judgements that will be handed down here are purely moral in nature. I think everyone will agree it's outrageous but there's nobody alive to punish.

I don't think the Guards are the right authority either and am scratching my head as to who is. Some kind of historical fact-finding enquiry but what context can you do that in? Over to Kayroo but I suspect this will be off the airwaves within a week.

Commission of Inquiry could be set up handy enough but don't think there's much of a chance that there'll ever be even a serious question of any real punishment.

CAB should have stepped in years ago and seized huge amounts of Church property and funds but the Residential Institution Redress Board agreement basically put the kosh on that ever happening.

[DeadParrot]

Excellent summation of the issues of simply "waiting for the church to die" across the way.

Content a bit heavy so linked and not quoted.

That's a great piece of writing in fairness

[tylerdurden94]

Seeing as the new season of Orange is the New Black is kicking off tomorrow on Netflix finally thought it was about time to get onto it, little bit of trepidation as it's from the guy who did the god awful Weeds but pleasantly surprised to say the show was outstanding.

[tylerdurden94]

Bitches be crazy yo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISLVDxPN4T4

[Guest]

I give it a week till rte get back to fellating pope francis for posting a selfie on his twitter account, or suggesting you should use smaller less sharp stones when stoning gays to death(omg hes soooo liberal) or some other bullshit

[Zod]

Thanks Buddy.
That's some real nice soccer.
Don't want no felony cards
Just kick that Soccer ball.

Probably the greatest world cup song ever written.

[eamonhonda]

Thanks Buddy.
That's some real nice soccer.
Don't want no felony cards
Just kick that Soccer ball.

Probably the greatest world cup song ever written.

Turn up the awesome!

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[CHDad]

Turn up the awesome!

Some of the names he comes up with are class. Jack Wheelchair, Biggie Smalling, Dwayne Rooney.

[one ill cat]

Seeing as the new season of Orange is the New Black is kicking off tomorrow on Netflix finally thought it was about time to get onto it, little bit of trepidation as it's from the guy who did the god awful Weeds but pleasantly surprised to say the show was outstanding.

Really looking forward to season 2, season 1 was way better than I expected, found it hugely entertaining.

[Denny Crane]

Mad Ted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

[Lazare]

@ Collie, I finally got a chance to listen to Veedon Fleece.

Beauty pure.

[Lazare]

Had a funny one today.

Myself and my boss (my mate) were listening to some tunes on his phone over speakers. Music blaring and we were having the craic singing and mess dancing (I know, tough job). Anyway, his phone rings and obv cuts off the music.

I goes 'Ahh, there's always some cocksucker rings when you're in the middle of a good tune'

It was his wife.

[Lazare]

Ha, that reminds of a similar case of foot in mouth.

Years ago, myself and my mate were driving up the Mayberry rd, beside the estate we lived in. I was coming up to the turn and there was this oul wan turning out from it, she was taking up half my side of the road.

I goes 'Look at that dozy fucking bitch taking up half the road, cunt shouldn't be allowed drive, fuckin eejit'

It was his Ma.

[KevIRL]

Pretty nifty little feature on the Guardian

Pick your all time World Cup dream team and play a mock match against other teams, my team is here if you wanna play me

http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2014/jun/03/-sp-world-cup-dream-team-pick-your-all-time-xi#user/2638112

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[Tar.Aldarion]

ah apple

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/06/05/apple-to-abandon-headphone-jack-suddenly-beats-deal-makes-sense/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[6starpool]

Pretty nifty little feature on the Guardian

Pick your all time World Cup dream team and play a mock match against other teams, my team is here if you wanna play me

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...i#user/2638112

Beat you 2-0. Your Pele got sent off after 50 mins. Can you see the results of games other play vs you?

[Lazare]

Rather impressive guitar skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsmeuC38nkw

Indeed. That's pretty awesome. All improvised too, he'll never play that the exact same again.

Fascinating how people just float on by down the street totally oblivious to such art.

[KevIRL]

Beat you 2-0. Your Pele got sent off after 50 mins. Can you see the results of games other play vs you?

Whats your team Dom? seems to throw up different results depending on who starts the match

[rounders123]

Booked my flights for the Arc trials at Longchamp - ''Godo lod byron''

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[6starpool]

Whats your team Dom? seems to throw up different results depending on who starts the match

Ya, I played you a load of times, gave plenty of different results. I think you edged it over the loads of games I played.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2014/jun/03/-sp-world-cup-dream-team-pick-your-all-time-xi#user/2638112

[mdoug]

mdoug over and out

Phone and wallet stolen on Friday night while I was abroad with some friends. Couldn't get into my email as I have 2 step verification for security reasons(worst fucking idea ever!) due to being hacked by a chinese ip a few months back. Get back to Ireland last night and didn't notice anything amiss. Log into my betting accounts today and my heart honestly just sank when I looked at a 0.00 balance

Whoever stole my phone gained access to my accounts and I presume saw neteller transactions to betfair in my emails and logged in then completely drained my account. Still too tilted to find out every detail as to how they did it but they got back to me and informed me the money is out of their system through another account so they cannot freeze any money in any accounts.

He gets my phone, my cash that night, to punch me and literally all the money I had saved for Vegas which was 2 side events plus some spending money. I got absolutely fucking pwned. I am done now.

[6starpool]

That sucks balls, Betfair allowed an account transfer then withdrawal from that account? Surely there is some security against this they should have in place?

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[Morihei]

Phone and wallet stolen on Friday night while I was abroad with some friends. Couldn't get into my email as I have 2 step verification for security reasons(worst fucking idea ever!) due to being hacked by a chinese ip a few months back. Get back to Ireland last night and didn't notice anything amiss. Log into my betting accounts today and my heart honestly just sank when I looked at a 0.00 balance

Whoever stole my phone gained access to my accounts and I presume saw neteller transactions to betfair in my emails and logged in then completely drained my account. Still too tilted to find out every detail as to how they did it but they got back to me and informed me the money is out of their system through another account so they cannot freeze any money in any accounts.

He gets my phone, my cash that night, to punch me and literally all the money I had saved for Vegas which was 2 side events plus some spending money. I got absolutely fucking pwned. I am done now.

Can you play the guitar?

[tylerdurden94]

ah apple
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonke..._medium=social

Little sneaky but makes a lot of sense for them, same thing that happened with the lightning connector introduction people will piss & moan and then get over it.

[Strewelpeter]

We already know that Apple products are strictly for people with more money than sense, formalising that would be a ludicrously stupid move.

I really doubt they are that dumb

[Lazare]

Phone and wallet stolen on Friday night while I was abroad with some friends. Couldn't get into my email as I have 2 step verification for security reasons(worst fucking idea ever!) due to being hacked by a chinese ip a few months back. Get back to Ireland last night and didn't notice anything amiss. Log into my betting accounts today and my heart honestly just sank when I looked at a 0.00 balance

Whoever stole my phone gained access to my accounts and I presume saw neteller transactions to betfair in my emails and logged in then completely drained my account. Still too tilted to find out every detail as to how they did it but they got back to me and informed me the money is out of their system through another account so they cannot freeze any money in any accounts.

He gets my phone, my cash that night, to punch me and literally all the money I had saved for Vegas which was 2 side events plus some spending money. I got absolutely fucking pwned. I am done now.

That really sucks Doug. It's only money though man, that's all. He could've just as easily stabbed you for it. Keep your chin up.

[SatNav]

Sending hugs mdoug

[Guest]

Sending hugs mdoug

Cant gamble hugs.
Send some money.

[SatNav]

Cant gamble hugs.
Send some money.

Moneybookers or Neteller?

[Closed_Account]

Any chance someone can do me a huge favour.

Have a second job interview today for a History teaching position. I was supposed to put together a pp on Martin Luther King. Went to bed and said Id do it in the morning, just got upand google blocked, been blocked all week as T. Square anniversary week,. Obv havent a rashers re Martin.

Can someone link anything to do with what the conditions were like for the old blacks prior to his I have a dream speech and something on herself on the bus who kicked up a fuss! Tyty! Up against the clock here, interview at 9!

[Micknail]

Any chance someone can do me a huge favour.

Have a second job interview today for a History teaching position. I was supposed to put together a pp on Martin Luther King. Went to bed and said Id do it in the morning, just got upand google blocked, been blocked all week as T. Square anniversary week,. Obv havent a rashers re Martin.

Can someone link anything to do with what the conditions were like for the old blacks prior to his I have a dream speech and something on herself on the bus who kicked up a fuss! Tyty! Up against the clock here, interview at 9!

Can I send you the links to websites or will they be locked too?
I can copy-paste wiki page n shit into a notepad doc for you if the above is a no go?

Test:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

[NewApproach]

Is it the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks was riding before she was arrested (a GM "old-look" transit bus, serial number 1132), is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.[1] Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
Contents [hide]
1 Events leading up to the bus boycott
2 Method of segregation on Montgomery buses
3 Rosa Parks
4 E. D. Nixon
5 Boycott
6 Victory
7 Aftermath
8 Participants
8.1 People
8.2 Organizations
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Events leading up to the bus boycott
See also: Homer Plessy, Plessy v. Ferguson and Claudette Colvin
In 1944, while a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, future athletic star Jackie Robinson took a similar stand in a confrontation with an Army officer in Fort Hood, Texas, by refusing to move to the back of a bus.[2] Robinson was brought before a court-martial, which acquitted him.[3]
The NAACP had accepted and litigated other cases, including that of Irene Morgan in 1946, which resulted in a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on grounds that the segregated interstate bus lines violated the Commerce Clause.[4] That victory, however, overturned state segregation laws only insofar as they applied to travel in interstate commerce, such as interstate bus travel,[5] and Southern bus companies immediately circumvented the Morgan ruling by instituting their own Jim Crow regulations.[6]
On February 25, 1953, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana city-parish council passed Ordinance 222, after the city saw protest from African-Americans when council raise the city's bus fares.[7] The ordinance abolished race based reserved seating requirements and allowed the admission of African-Americans in the front sections of city buses if there were no white passengers present, but still required African-Americans to enter from the rear, rather than the front of the buses.[8] However, the ordinance was largely unenforced by the city bus drivers. The drivers later went on strike after city authorities refused to arrest Rev. T.J. Jemison for sitting in a front row.[9] Four days after the strike began, Louisiana Attorney General and former Baton Rogue mayor Fred S. LeBlanc declared the ordinance unconstitutional under Louisiana state law.[8] This lead Rev. Jemison to organize what historians believe to be what was the first bus boycott of the civil rights movement.[10] The boycott ended after eight days, when an agreement was reached to only retain the first two front and back rows as racially reserved seating areas.[7]
In November 1955, just three weeks before Parks' defiance of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to a complaint filed by Women's Army Corps private Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.[11] The ICC prohibited individual carriers from imposing their own segregation rules on interstate travelers, declaring that to do so was a violation of the anti-discrimination provision of the Interstate Commerce Act. But neither the Supreme Court's Morgan ruling nor the ICC's Keys ruling addressed the matter of Jim Crow travel within the individual states.
Black activists had begun to build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of a 15-year-old girl, Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as Advisor.[12]
Method of segregation on Montgomery buses
Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back.[13] On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard.[14] National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Main article: Rosa Parks


Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott. [15]
In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where non-violent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested[16] for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5,[17] Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4[18], but she appealed.
E. D. Nixon
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Some action against segregation had been in the works for some time before Parks' arrest, under the leadership of E. D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Nixon intended that her arrest be a test case to allow Montgomery's black citizens to challenge segregation on the city's public buses. With this goal, community leaders had been waiting for the right person to be arrested, a person who would anger the black community into action, who would agree to test the segregation laws in court, and who, most importantly, was "above reproach." When Colvin was arrested in March 1955, Nixon thought he had found the perfect person, but the teenager turned out to be pregnant. Nixon later explained, "I had to be sure that I had somebody I could win with." Parks was a good candidate because of her employment and marital status, along with her good standing in the community.
Between Parks' arrest and trial, Nixon organized a meeting of local ministers at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church. Though Nixon could not attend the meeting because of his work schedule, he arranged that no election of a leader for the proposed boycott would take place until his return. When he returned he caucused with Ralph Abernathy and Rev. E.N. French to name the association to lead the boycott (they selected the 'Montgomery Improvement Association' ("MIA") to the city, and select King (Nixon's choice) to lead the boycott. Nixon wanted King to lead the boycott because the young minister was new to Montgomery and the city fathers had not had time to intimidate him. At a subsequent, larger meeting of ministers, Nixon's agenda was threatened by the clergymen's reluctance to support the campaign. Nixon was indignant, pointing out that their poor congregations worked to put money into the collection plates so these ministers could live well, and when those congregations needed the clergy to stand up for them, those comfortable ministers refused to do so. Nixon threatened to reveal the ministers' cowardice to the black community, and King spoke up, denying he was afraid to support the boycott. King agreed to lead the MIA, and Nixon was elected its treasurer.
Boycott
On the night of Rosa Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council, led by Jo Ann Robinson, printed and circulated a flyer[19] throughout Montgomery's black community that read as follows:
"Another woman has been arrested and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. This woman's case will come up on Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial. Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way to go except by bus. You can also afford to stay out of town for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off all buses Monday."[18]
The next morning there was a meeting led by the new MIA head, King, where a group of 16 to 18 people gathered at the Mt. Zion AME Zion Church to discuss boycott strategies. At that time Rosa Parks was introduced but not asked to speak, despite a standing ovation and calls from the crowd for her to speak; when she asked if she should say something, the reply was, "Why, you've said enough." [20] A citywide boycott of public transit was proposed to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses. Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would not be forced to give up their seats to whites.
This demand was a compromise for the leaders of the boycott, who believed that the city of Montgomery would be more likely to accept it rather than a demand for a full integration of the buses. In this respect, the MIA leaders followed the pattern of 1950s boycott campaigns in the Deep South, including the successful boycott a few years earlier of service stations in Mississippi for refusing to provide restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign, T. R. M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the brutal slaying of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience and later said that Emmett Till was on her mind when she refused to give up her seat.[21]
The MIA's demand for a fixed dividing line was to be supplemented by a requirement that all bus passengers receive courteous treatment by bus operators, be seated on a first-come, first-served basis, and that blacks be employed as bus drivers. [22] The proposal was passed, and the boycott was to commence the following Monday. To publicize the impending boycott it was advertised at black churches throughout Montgomery the following Sunday.
On Saturday, December 3, it was evident that the black community would support the boycott, and very few blacks rode the buses that day. On December 5th, a mass meeting was held to determine if the protest would continue. Given twenty minutes notice, King gave a speech[23] asking for a bus boycott and attendees enthusiastically agreed. Starting December 7, Hoover's FBI noted the "agitation among negroes" and tried to find “derogatory information” about King.[24]
The boycott proved extremely effective, with enough riders lost to the city transit system to cause serious economic distress. Martin Luther King later wrote "[a] miracle had taken place." Instead of riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools, with car owners volunteering their vehicles or themselves driving people to various destinations. Some white housewives also drove their black domestic servants to work. When the city pressured local insurance companies to stop insuring cars used in the carpools, the boycott leaders arranged policies with Lloyd's of London.
Black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott. When word of this reached city officials on December 8, the order went out to fine any cab driver who charged a rider less than 45 cents. In addition to using private motor vehicles, some people used non-motorized means to get around, such as cycling, walking, or even riding mules or driving horse-drawn buggies. Some people also hitchhiked. During rush hours, sidewalks were often crowded. As the buses received few, if any, passengers, their officials asked the City Commission to allow stopping service to black communities.[25] Across the nation, black churches raised money to support the boycott and collected new and slightly used shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow laws.
In response, opposing whites swelled the ranks of the White Citizens' Council, the membership of which doubled during the course of the boycott. The councils sometimes resorted to violence: King's and Abernathy's houses were firebombed, as were four black Baptist churches. Boycotters were often physically attacked. After the attack at King's house, he gave a speech to the 300 angry black people who had gathered outside. He said:
If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: 'He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword'. We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: 'Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you'. This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.
—King (1956)[26]
King and 89 other boycott leaders and carpool drivers were indicted[27] for conspiring to interfere with a business under a 1921 ordinance.[28] Rather than wait to be arrested, they boldly turned themselves in as an act of defiance.
King was ordered to pay a $500 fine or serve 386 days in jail. He ended up spending two weeks in jail. The move backfired by bringing national attention to the protest. King commented on the arrest by saying: "I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice."[29]
Also important during the bus boycott were grass-roots activist groups that helped to catalyze both fund-raising and morale. Groups such as the Club from Nowhere helped to sustain the boycott by finding new ways of raising money and offering support to boycott participants.[30] Many members of these organizations were women and their contributions to the effort have been described by some as essential to the success of the bus boycott.[31][32]
Victory


Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition[33] "381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott" at the Washington State Historical Museum.
Pressure increased across the country. The related civil suit was heard in federal district court and, on June 4, 1956, the court ruled in Browder v. Gayle (1956) that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. As the state appealed the decision, the boycott continued. The case moved on to the United States Supreme Court. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, issuing its decision in December, followed quickly by a court order to the state to desegregate the buses.
The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956, after 381 days. The city passed an ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they chose on buses. The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses. It stimulated activism and participation from the South in the national civil rights movement and gave King national attention as a rising leader.[34]
Aftermath
White backlash against the court victory was quick, brutal, and, in the short-term, effective.[35][36] Two days after the inauguration of desegregated seating, someone fired a shotgun through the front door of Martin Luther King's home. A day later, on Christmas Eve, white men attacked a black teenager as she exited a bus. Four days after that, two buses were fired upon by snipers. In one sniper incident, a pregnant woman was shot in both legs. On January 10, 1957 bombs destroyed five black churches and the home of Reverend Robert S. Graetz, one of the few white Montgomerians who had publicly sided with the MIA.
The City suspended bus service for several weeks on account of the violence. According to legal historian Randall Kennedy, "When the violence subsided and service was restored, many black Montgomerians enjoyed their newly recognized right only abstractly...In practically every other setting, Montgomery remained overwhelmingly segregated..."[37] On January 23, a group of Klansmen (who would later be charged for the bombings) lynched a black man, Willie Edwards Jr., on the pretext that he was dating a white woman.[38]
The City's elite moved to strengthen segregation in other areas, and in March 1957 passed an ordinance making it "unlawful for white and colored persons to play together, or, in company with each other . . . in any game of cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, track, and at swimming pools, beaches, lakes or ponds or any other game or games or athletic contests, either indoors or outdoors."[37]
Later in the year, Montgomery police charged seven white men with the bombings, but all of the defendants were acquitted. About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King’s appeal of his “illegal boycott” conviction.[39] Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting.[40] According to Charles Silberman, "by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus."[41]
Participants
People
Ralph Abernathy
Hugo Black
James F. Blake
Aurelia Browder
Thomas Dean Brown
Mary Fair Burks
Johnnie Carr
Claudette Colvin
Clifford Durr
Georgia Gilmore
Robert Graetz
Fred Gray
Grover C. Hall, Jr.
Jake Peters
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gregory McDonel (Youngones)
Edgar Nixon
Ellery Packard
Rosa Parks
Mother Pollard
Jo Ann Robinson
Bayard Rustin
Nate Singleton
Glenn Smiley
Mary Louise Smith
Kayla Michelle Smith
Organizations
(from Who Was Involved)
Committee for Nonviolent Integration
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Georgia Gilmore
Men of Montgomery
Montgomery Improvement Association
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Women's Political Council
See also
1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott
Boycott
Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
Jim Crow laws
Rosa Parks Act
The Long Walk Home

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[dobby]

In the pub, music playing but Sky Sports news on the telly. Reading the banner about WC. How are Switzerland ranked 6th?? Can someone explain the rankings simply for me. Can't be arsed googling. Thanks

[White Knight]

In the pub, music playing but Sky Sports news on the telly. Reading the banner about WC. How are Switzerland ranked 6th?? Can someone explain the rankings simply for me. Can't be arsed googling. Thanks

Of course ...

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The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. The rankings were introduced in December 1992, and seven teams (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) have held the top position, of which Brazil have spent longest ranked first.

A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIFA-recognised full international matches. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance over the last four years, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on 12 July 2006. The most significant change is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms that the FIFA World Rankings, based upon the previous calculation method in use from January 1999 to June 2006, did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams.

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Swiss Results

2013

2012


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Hope that helps.

[CHDad]

The Swiss are good at football and the FIFA rankings are flawed. That is why they are 6th.

The ELO rankings are much better. They have them at 16th which is about right. http://www.eloratings.net/world.html (scroll down for rankings)

[dobby]

On phone so will check ELO later but 3 losses in 2 years is a pretty good record. Thanks for the table White Knight.

[Pat Mustard]

Just updated my Nexus 7. Every app keeps crashing, especially chrome and the battery is playing up. Turned it off and put it on charge for like 2 hours and had 10% when I came back to it, anyone else had the same sort of problems?

[CHDad]

Just updated my Nexus 7. Every app keeps crashing, especially chrome and the battery is playing up. Turned it off and put it on charge for like 2 hours and had 10% when I came back to it, anyone else had the same sort of problems?

Updated mine a few hours ago and no issues.

[Jam-Fly]

In the pub, music playing but Sky Sports news on the telly. Reading the banner about WC. How are Switzerland ranked 6th?? Can someone explain the rankings simply for me. Can't be arsed googling. Thanks

Noticed that aswell. I knew the FIFA rankings were a bit funky alright, but Switzerland at 6th basically confirms the system is majorly flawed.


I remember actually Tahiti in the Confeds Cup last year. They were ranked ahead of the likes of Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein (teams that are rarely beaten by 10+). But jesus, looking at Tahiti, they were worlds apart from a team like Andorra. The rankings were obviously a product of losing all your games in UEFA groups and winning some games in Ocenia groups.

[dobby]

Noticed that aswell. I knew the FIFA rankings were a bit funky alright, but Switzerland at 6th basically confirms the system is majorly flawed.


I remember actually Tahiti in the Confeds Cup last year. They were ranked ahead of the likes of Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein (teams that are rarely beaten by 10+). But jesus, looking at Tahiti, they were worlds apart from a team like Andorra. The rankings were obviously a product of losing all your games in UEFA groups and winning some games in Ocenia groups.

So how could they go about changing the system? Should games have categories. Like a WC game would be Cat A, Confed cup, Euro Championships etc would be Cat B games and so on.

[TheDrunkenOne]

live steam stopped in HU 2-7 game wsop, wtf ?

have to go to bed if i cant get it back

[Hectorjelly]

Mdoug, in a way I sincerely hope I am wrong but that is the exact tale many people tell having drunkenly lost their bankroll.

[Mellor]

That sucks balls, Betfair allowed an account transfer then withdrawal from that account? Surely there is some security against this they should have in place?

Probably just offered max odds on a sure thing in some obscure market, 1000-1 that sun will rise in the morning.
Then José Fonerobber, slimes up with a few sheckles in his betfair account to scoop the loots by dawn.

[Mellor]

What I don't get is why you couldn't change your email password, and how he got your betfair password.
Genuinely curious as somebody getting into my email is my biggest fear when I think I've lost my phone.
Luckily it turned up the next evening in the freezer.