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Pretty bloody crap if you're broke!

Haha thanks Michael. I've been too busy to do much EDF-ing recently!

I agree with Gerry. I would not want my kids to feel they have to walk around in fear. All of us have done Taekwondo and 3 of us have done boxing too. When the guys in Paris tried to mug me I'd been doing Thai Boxing for about 6 months and that was enough to help me defend myself. Unfortunately the world is not all pink and fluffy, so we do need to be pro-active if we don't want to be made to feel like victims.

Lived in SE1 for 22 yrs and SE22 for 1 year so far. Never been mugged in the UK but had 2 guys try to mug me in Paris in 1989 late at night. I had a lot of money on me so fought like crazy and screamed so loud people blocks away heard me. A truck driver stopped and the guys ran off without my bag. I was a bit bruised and shaken but not really hurt. The only other people I know who have had anyone try to mug them was my son when he was about 13 and they got his change but he refused to let them have his phone. He was with a couple of friends, one of whom was disabled, so didn't really want to fight the guys, but wasn't going to give up his phone. I think he 'bumped' into them again at a later date. My 14 yr old daughter and a few of her friends were surrounded by a group of girls from another area, on our old estate and her friends ran to get help leaving my daughter on her own. The girls asked her to show them her phone but she told them that if they wanted it they had to try to get it themselves cos she wasn't going to give it to them. This delayed them long enough for help in the form of big brother and co to come steaming round the corner scattering would be muggers. The only other incident I know of was a friend of mine who was cycling on Walworth Road about 6 months ago on her way to my house had a couple of youts try to mug her and steal her bike. She said they were about 14 years old and my friend was so incenced she grabbed hold of one of them by the hair and started punching his face in. She used to do boxing so there was rather a lot of blood. The boy's friend legged it and the one she had hold of started crying cos she was dragging him towards the police station. He managed to wriggle free and she went to the police station to report it anyway.

Nope, just heard about it on the radio this morning.

What Mockney said.

I'd feel a bit funny dropping dog pooh in someone's bin! Imagine if they came out and started having a go. I'd feel really guilty and I thought it had to go through some kind of special process to make it safe - but knowing this council they probably just bung it in with the other rubbish anyway and stick it in landfill or an incinerator.

One thing that might help are more of the dog pooh bins. When I take my dog down Barry Road, if he has a dump at the top, I have to carry it all the way to the park before I can find a dog pooh bin and some areas have no dog pooh bins at all. You can't put the pooh in the normal bins because it's not going to be treated by whatever process they treat the stuff in the pooh bins. Does anyone know what they actually do with all the pooh that is deposited in the pooh bins? I've always wondered.

hmmn, maybe not, as long as all the fatties don't start up with "but I'm big boned"3 - that's my usual excuse anyway!

I've never managed it - if the chemistry is sexual that is, and not ingested. I became friends with my ex again recently and as soon as I'd had a drink or two, it was all over for me. Sad really, absolutely no self control.

We had the same problem re: very selective consultation in SE1 when they closed off certain streets in the nicer part of our area resulting in a rat run through our estate. The only people consulted where the ones who would be positively affected by the road closure and no-one on our estate was asked for an opinion at all. When we challenged this, they quoted their consultation data saying everyone had responded positively and after a long fight the roads are still closed and the traffic still runs through the council estate instead. I don't own a car at the moment and get a bit cheezed off about parents dropping off their kids blocking up my road, but I'd never want a CPZ in my area because of the nightmare it causes for everyone except the revenue people in the council. You need to be very pro-active if you want to make sure your veiws are heard. We weren't (on the Rockingham) and got shafted.

The Chambers thing came about because the athletics board messed up by not doing the requisite testing while he was on his ban so I don't see how anyone can really condem him fro something that there is now no proof of. Hair follicle tests can be used for drug tests, but would they pick up all the banned substances? I have no idea about that. I don't think drugs should be accepted in sports because the competitiveness which is a natural thing in top level atheletes would mean that a lot of young people might destroy their health in order to bring glory to themselves, their club or coach. Maybe the performance enhancers need to be looked at though, because not all of them are actually detrimental to health although I'm not sure about practices like blood doping where they put back a pint or so of blood they removed previously to up their red blood cell count. Can't imagine it can be very good for the heart. But maybe the situation with adults, over 21 or so, should be more of a case of informing them of the risks and letting them do what they want with their body, I don't know. But it would probably result in a very unhealthy elite sports world.

I agree with the fatty food pass - anyone over 13 stone would have to lose weight to get one!! hehe

Nah i think you should trust, but only so far!

Just got back from the Green Party Conference in Reading. Hope you had a good party Mr Lush x x x

I think MM has had the best real advice as he actually seems to have done his time. I am more of a "stick the job up your @rse" type of person, which is probably why I've never worked for a bully or in an office (before now that is - but my boss is a maverick so I love working where I am now), so my advice is probably not a lot of help!

me too

Good advice Keef!

I agree with Asset. Stay calm and ask her why she's doing it. I'd be slightly patronising and ask if she's unhappy at home! If you can get some evidence to back it up that would be good, but if not, cock your head to the side, smile slightly and sympathetically say, "we both know what you have been doing really don't we?" If she has the ability to sack you tho, I'd cloak the patronising tone a bit!

Go Mockney

The Americans are not a distinct race, so this can't be racist.

"in life, expect the best but be prepared for the worst" - my old biology teacher

"stop trying to be florence nightingale and ditch the arsehole" - about an ex of mine! "It's better to regret the things you've done than the things you haven't" an old work mate of mine. "you only live once and you're a long time dead" - my uncle

I remember as a kid sitting in about 2 inches of luke warm water and picking the ice off the inside of the window panes until I turned blue, cos we lived in a massive draughty old house which still had coal fires, and my mum was too broke to light more than one fire!

but I bet it's more than ?140,000 a year