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top notch eats - starting with really good bases and throwing on some decent toppings. Cheap as you like, too. I can easily imagine a friday night takeaway queue that stretches down the road... and that would be totally worth joining the back of.

Any local establishments with skysports that won't switch to football halfway through?

My wonderous institution produced a footballer, a few right wing politicians, the highest ranking black officer in the British forces (which we appear to be quite proud of, a bit "see, we've got black friends") and a lot of early C.20 cricketers, plus significantly before my time: Bill Wyman (Ex-Rolling Stone) and, the one that I found the most interesting, Harold Sydney Bride: Wireless operator on the RMS Titanic. Plus, I can't help mentioning, the infamous headmaster of more recent years. After a decade in post, did a runner with funds intended for new classroom block construction, and subsequent investigation revealed that he wasn't actually qualified to teach, just creative on CV day...

50-50 agreement with the wolf - I used to be terrified on a regular basis by suicidal pedestrians, and lemming lane was possibly the worst, day or night: trendy chaps in flip-flops popping between the bank and smbs by day, drunken chaps spilling out of the bishop by night. Also found that motorcycling actually gets the worst of it rather than it being easier, because the same lemmings start to cross when they see a bike and only leave 2ft of the lane for the bike to slot through, then they can nip over the rest of the road. I once accidentally mugged an annoying city lady who did this so close that her bag strap caught on my wing mirror and I took her bag with me for a few yards! But since temporary fiscal belt-tightening involved flogging the bike, surviving on public transport involves religious adherence to the ipod. But only on the commute. People missing safety drills because of them goes one over, though, and must be a real pain in the arse.

dulwichdreadlocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Speak for yourself mate but not all of us have "a > bit of extra lard" Have you considered going on > a diet or something? A little unkind, dreads. There are 2 perfectly valid ways of shedding the excess - limit the calories you take in, or up the calories you burn off. Players choice, and there's no wrong choice: I like exercise to keep the spare tire at bay because I like my food.

... and yet not so keen on the whinging man who now struggles to walk to the shops ;-)

I find/found the pleasure of running comes from "I can run for x minutes/miles", easy to quantify improvement and only competing with myself. I started during a rough study period and it was cheap, got me out of the house/library each day, plus it meant that there was a 30 min period each day where i couldn't look stuff up or read texts, i just enjoyed the scenery, focused on my breathing pattern and pounded. I'd been running for approximately 6 months and was starting to wonder if there really was any point in it when i had to run for a train at london bridge: flat out sprint from ticket barriers to platform 16, made it just in time, took a single deep breath and sat down completely recovered. couldn't have done that 6 months earlier, would have missed it and then spent at least a quarter of an hour hacking up my burning lungs. felt rather chuffed. Oh, and I banished the beer belly. sort of. but this is all past tense, as the price of running on my body is one seriously shagged knee. Haven't been for a run for about 3 months. And as much as this should probably confirm that it was pointless, I really miss it.

CONGRATS!! :)-D

some fine flaming abound, good work chaps... I can see the headlines now: Pub gets new lick of paint locals concerned about migratory patterns of varied socioeconomic groups when we painted our house we weren't attempting to attract a socioeconomically different dinner guest, it was just looking a bit shabby and needed painting. I have a feeling that pubs are free to do the same thing for the same reason, without collar-colour, chavdom, middle-classedness or any of this other nonsense getting into the equation. Fresh paint does not a culture-defection make. I'm not personally a fan of this place, but I fully support their right to decorate...

The comic-book geek in me feels the need to put x-men2 in: i'm not normally one for special effects fests but I thought this was good

Sunrises (if I'm already up) & Sunsets Jasmine Riding a motorbike on an empty, scenic road, but slowly because why not? The smell of really good, really fresh coffee Seeing unprovoked acts of kindness between complete strangers: gives me hope Walking barefoot on cool grass in summer Flicking on the TV on a rainy, hungover Sunday to find an old episode of Poirot (topical)

I suspect that Angels&Demons will test that statement even more than the new Star Wars films did ;-) I'd have to join Annasfield on The Spy Who Loved Me - the Union Jack Parachute moment is a pretty special, as is the speed boat chase from The World Is Not Enough. But then the opening sequence became such a big part of the Bond Cocktail that it's to be expected that they've put together a few good 'uns. I think I'd like to add the opening sequence in Gladiator, which is pretty decent. Immerses the viewer into the period in quick-time, and great action. On a less ballistic note, the deserted street and quiet score that open Breakfast at Tiffany's always make me smile.

What keef said. Apologies for confusing everyone (or, at least, a select group) regarding Nuremberg: To Clarify: antijen denied bringing up the Nazis, yet she brought up Nuremburg. I was attempting to highlight that antijen had exemplified Godwin's Law in action, because the only other reason for bringing up that particular city would have been if there had been a similar ethics incident there, which there hasn't. My own brand of dry sarcasm doesn't always come over very clearly in print. As for the "debate" on this thread, it pittered out long ago, when one side attempted to put forward it's 1st person understanding of professional ethics, and the other side simply blazed away at them without actually reading, digesting or responding to what had been said. That's not a debate. Debate requires 2 camps with differing views to allow eachother a voice, and to have the basic courtesy to listen. That's not what's happening here. And that is why, like Deborah Meaden in every single episode of Dragon's Den, I'M OUT.

There-their-they're cock ups - we all slip occasionally, but habitual misuse is just lazy.

Err... unless you were referencing some obscure case of confidentiality breaching in Nuremburg, what were you doing? Please clarify your stance re: Bavarian ethics in practice before you get all hauty. Perhaps even re-read your own posts as a starting point, although since they make very little sense to me I can appreciate that may not help you much. As for the rest of the tripe that you're spouting, South Wales being a small country, The NHS being the national health business, and your cracking example of what you think is standard practice in terminal illness but what is, in fact, a major breach of professional ethics... well, I find myself desperately hoping that you are playing a long game of 'avin' a larf. But remembering your similarly ludicrous stand-point on homeopathy, sadly this seems unlikely. So, back on topic, as 'twere, not signing because don't agree with petition. Not arguing anymore because might get called summat nasty by someone who then denies it on the same page/do not have good enough working knowledge of ethics in the news in Southern Germany (delete as appropriate).

Thanks for the link, antijen, but as I have said, I know the NMC code of conduct. When you're on the NMC register, it's sort of a good idea. Nobody is suggesting it's an easy set of regs to follow, but that's bugger all reason to abandon them. And Godwin's Law, anyone?

to journo's, tv producers and apparently a lot of forumites, perhaps, but NOT to a nurse or a doctor: that's just not how it works...

Sherwick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think you understand me. > Patient care is not "vitally" important. It is of > PARAMOUNT importance. > Going through the formal process whilst people are > being abused is not satisfactory. > As Ted pointed out above: "Before the film went > out, Panorama obtained the retrospective > permission of every patient - or their relative - > whose cases were featured.". > > I really cannot believe some on here are defending > the panel that struck her off. And whilst panorama did what they are obliged to do in order to broadcast the footage, the nurse in question did not do what was required to obtain it. It's a less than ideal situation, for sure, but as annaj has explained, there are some basic principles of healthcare that must remain sacrosanct in order for it to occur, and confidentiality and informed consent are amongst them. In registering with the NMC (or the GMC) you agree to that, as stated in the code of conduct. You do not sign a contract and then quibble about the special circumstances when you breach it. You do not stand in the dock and explain to a judge and jury that, actually, you had to take a vital journey and that's why you were drink-driving, and you do not breach the NMC code of conduct because you think that, rightly or wrongly, there are special circumstances. For the record, I think it's a pissing shame that the act of whistleblowing backfired on the whistleblower, but it has not backfired because she blew the whistle, it backfired because of a significant breach of the code of conduct, and an NMC committee (of her professional peers) decided that this was unacceptable. This you accept when you register with the NMC. I did, so did she. She fuct up.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The technical breach of failing to obtain the > patient's consent to the filming was, to my mind, > required to expose a greater damage to the > patient's safety. Not her decision to make, though, and that's the point. I don't know the full details in this situation, but retrospectively stating that the end justified the means does not, in the eyes of the NMC, excuse doing something that you know to be inappropriate at the time. As for the general principles of confidentiality, what they do/should mean and how they are fleshed out in reality, what annaj said.

jaybee82 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I mean honestly...waxing, moisturiser...make > up?!?! Men are supposed to be like the Sean > Connery types of old. Fact. I'm as big a fan of Sean Connery as the next chap, but didn't he publically say that "Sometimes there are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for - the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack." (Guardian Article, 10.12.2005) ? I suspect that the "real men" did time for domestic abuse and so something more restrained became the norm.

i've been sans bike for nearly 2 years now so slightly out of date, but i tended to find that a lot of places were like this if i still had my lid on - nicer once the lid came off, but not always. To be honest, I don't blame them.

The walk-in to to take the pressure off A&E sounds like a fantastic service - thanks for spreading the word

More of a Peckham character than an EDC, but there's the bloke that gets on the bus at peckham rye with his bird (actual, not misogynistic). He has a chain from it's foot to his wrist, but it sits on his hand, quietly and unflapping. Something of a double-take moment the first time I saw him...

why give up completely? why not just cut back? I went through the crap-sleep-is-it-the-coffee dilemma, and I'm down to 2 cups in the morning, one either with lunch or when i get home, and nothing after 7pm. why not have a bash at cutting back and see if that helps?

congrats familyKeef!