Better pics of the new shirts.

New Kit for 08/09 Season

The new Hull FC kits where unveiled today.
Well, The home kit is ok, but it is mostly black (the shorts are also black this season) so that could be a problem in hot weather for the players. The away kit is far too light. The design is ok, incorporating the irregular hoops into the away shirt for the first time. The colour is wishy washy though. If it was a couple of shades darker it would have been smashing.
Shame captain Lee Radford (right of pic) Doesn't seem to have put his teeth in for the shoot. :)
I think I'll be sticking to club polo shirts once again this season. I personally havent bought a replica shirt since 2005. The type of thick polyester used to make em are awful in warm weather!
I know, I'm a miserable git! lol

UFO's!

I know this subject is a bit off beam from what I usually post about on here, but I have been fascinated by the UFO mystery for as long as I can remember. It amazes me how many people have seen something. I go on a forum called Above Top Secret that has a UFO section, and some very clued up posters. It's really interesting how some can take a video and look it over, more often than not finding it was a hoax.
I have had one sighting a couple of years ago. My Husband and I was walking home late one night, it was a very clear with no clouds, and I think you just naturally look up at the stars when things are like that. Anyway, something caught our eye, moving steadily across the sky. It was 3 lights, in a triangular formation. It seemed pretty high up, and we both stood and watched it move from one horizon to the other, maybe taking about 30 seconds. By the time it had nearly reached the horizon we had sort of thought it was maybe a plane (there was no noise BTW) or a satellite, then all of a sudden, all 3 lights shot off in different directions!
Now this could of course been the Red Arrows doing a training session at about 1am at night but somehow I doubt it!
People always say we never see any really good pictures of UFO's and that is true, but I have to say it never crossed my mind to try and take a pic of what we saw, and I did have a camera phone in my handbag!
Anyway, here's a video someone has put together of UFO photos going back as far as 1870.

You couldn't make it up. Part 3786 (or something like that!)

The world financial crisis is still all over the news. The amounts of money bandied about are just unimaginable. It's all quite ironic how all the fat cats are having to rely on the great unwashed to bail them out!
Take the UK governments bail out plan. I'm not sure about the correct amount (50 Billion?) they are using to help out the poor little banks, but apparently this is to give them capital to start giving loans again.
So let me get this right....I go for a loan, and the bank lends me public money used to bail them out, and I pay it back plus interest. So, in reality I would be lending my own money and the banks would earn a profit off it!
I tell you what, the only difference between those banks and Dick Turpin is that he wore a mask!

Economic Crisis????

The media has been full of news about the 'world economic crisis' and the 700 billion Dollar bail out that the US Congress didn't pass on Monday. A lot of pundits and the markets where gob-smacked that the Bail-out Bill didn't pass. What a lot of people didn't seem to cotton on too is that all of the US Congress are up for re-election at the same time as the US President is elected, and a hell of a lot of US voters don't like the idea of bailing out the Fat Cats on Wall Street.
I have to say I can totally understand how they feel. The UK tax payer has already bailed out 2 banks, (Northern Rock and now Bradford and Bingley) and what are we getting for this?? I heard a caller on a radio station today, and he said that all the Fat Cats lived high on the hog for some time by playing the stock market, selling mortgages that people really couldn't afford, and giving away credit cards like they where going out of fashion. While all this went on and they bought their Fararri's and had their big bonus's, the ordinary working people where skint, and up to their eyes in debt. Now their chickens have come home to roost, who has to bail them out? The ordinary working man.
Now the politicians, and the economic hierarchy say this bail out is the only way, (I read in the paper today that the UK is considering a similar scheme) but how do we really know? We don't do we? We believed them when we took out Endowment mortgages that didn't mature as we where promised they would and ended with a shortfall, we saw the housing market start to drop so people where in negative equity. We've seen people offered fixed rate mortgages that go up so much when the fixed rate time frame finishes, that they have to remorgage and end up, in reality, paying for their house for ever.
Now Gordon Brown says the Government (that means us the tax payer) will guarentee bank savings up to £50,000. How many of us have savings at all in bank? We just live week to week, month to month don't we?
Like I say, I can totally understand the ordinary American's reaction to all this.