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as she's the registered user. I suppose it could be her mischievous child, bored on school holiday and margaret is anive enough to leave her login details on her PC. In which case a clip round the ear is probably in order.

wow, don't know if that's a bug or hacking...ooorrrr perhaps JL messing about?

woo, just had a look, after about 7 they stop being direct and take 45 minutes with changes!!! However there is a trollied-train ant 1 past midnight which is direct and only 15 minutes. I never knew about that one.

Second timer. First post was "hi, I'm Margaret a piano teacher, would you like little timmy to learn to play the piano?" I'm guessing this lot are your core market, non?

having a few friends in crystal palace, your mate should be warned that the trains finish very early and buses are a reet pain. 37 to herne hill and the thingy (5?) up to crystal palace being a good bet. (or get drunk, consequently lazy and get a cab, not a penny over 8 quid!!!)

old favourites R?yksopp - Poor Leno

Ooh, how about A Century of Elvis by Belle and Sebastian. Love the last line "I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that, I haven't told my dad either"

When I had one of those I just slipped the end of a coathanger into the mechanism to stop the wheel. Hot baths galore!!

I thought that was the black helicopters ;-P

Because that's the whole theory of homeopathy. You get a posion and you dilute it and dilute it again until there is none of the original substance left, just a 'memory' of the substance. It's supposed to be 1 part poison to 100^30 parts water. That's the equivalent of one belladonna molecule to all the water in all the oceans of two earths. Some even believe you can take an electromagnetic signature of the finished article (a glass of water) and play it as sound to another glass of water, thus implanting the memory of that substance into the new galss of water. Anyone, anyone...Bueller?

Yeah, I thought it was going quite well :)

Wow, asset, that's not only irresponsible, that's downright dangerous. Of course we survived temperatures before paracetamol, aspirin or ibuprofen showed up. But it seems self-defeatingto turn your back on them on some bizarre principle when they are there and proven to reduce temperature and are relatively harmless, and substitute them for a substance that contains no belladonna. weird. I, being scared of flying, have my lucky charm that I take on every flight. It's worked every time so far. Let's face it, the first time it fails is also the last time!!

Arnica has been proven asset a topical cream, but homoeopathic arnica remedy doesn't actually contain any arnica at all. Of course herbal remedies can have a potent effect whether it's a dock leaf will helping to relive nettle rash, or aspirin scraped from a bark or penicillin, which is a naturally occuring fungus, or even a magic mushroom. But alot of people take these without the foggiest idea of what they do. Actually studies of St John's Wort have found little to recommend it regards depression though it is marginally better than the placebo in non severe cases of it, but it is known to interfere with cancer treatments. Plus I have no problem with acupuncture, as you say studies have been done and it's in excess of placebo in long term trials even if scientists can't explain why yet.

With you all on those really. Most low level ailments are lifestyle related. Rather than a pill, homeopathic or otherwise, find strategies to cope with it. Give yourself a few early nights, make sure you drink enough water, try and get a bit of exercise, even if that's walking to the shop instead of driving or the bus, going up the stairs instead of a lift at the office. Got a problem at work or frustrated about something, go down the pub, have a pint and offload on someone who's willing to listen. If you've got a partner ask for a back rub. Have a hot bath together with some nice smelly stuff. Bottom line, try to enjoy life. All pretty simple things that make a big difference. Recourse to a pill is an emotional crutch really. I avoid pills as ibuprofen makes me go weird and antibiotics really do do your body in and homeopathic remedies are patent nonsense.

Back pain is the most common ailment in the country, stress to some extent affects everyone. I suffered from RSI for about 2 months, but it was nothing that a wrist rest and a straightening up of my pc and desk didn't sort out pretty quickly. I think most people get headaches, though mine seem to be monring oriented and coupled with a dry mouth and a weird taste of onions and chilli, weird that. But I know what you're saying.

I should just add that this lot were somewhere in their 30s to 60s, the majority were divorced, the majority had poor relations with their scions. THey all struggled financially, they all lived in Letchworth. Those things alone are enough to give people cause for mental difficulties and enough stress to bring about neurotic ailments. You see what I did there, looked at something objectively and hypothesised that the obvious grouping (they are all new age alternative types) isn't necessarily the causal factor. Hurrah for science!!

Ooh Ooh, Africa by Toto!

I'm sorry to be constantly at odds with you MW74 as I'm really rather fond of you. I've spent my whole life around alternative types, Letchworth having had a long tradition of it (just read Betjeman's poem), and my family on my mum's side and her old hippy coterie in particular being new age crystal types, faith healers etc. And i can tell you they were a huge gang of hypochondriacs, the lot of them. They really were always popping a bach flower remedy, harping on about aconite this and arnica that, and i never go anywhere without my St Johns wort darling. I won't even start on the psychotherapy courses they all took when they were, without exception, a bunch of emotional screw-ups.

where else in the world would "lounged the coffee bar thread" actually make sense?!?

Just happened again when you lounged the coffee bar thread. I had 30 'new' posts scattered haphazardly about older threads and haphazardly within those new threads.

Return to Sender?

Can we have an ED forum version of Boyle's Law, say Louisa's Law, that the moment class is brought into the equation inappropriately, a thread is rendered null and void?

This site is frankly fantastic. Whack up the sea level from 1 to 14 metres anywhere in the world on a google map interface and sea how it affects the land. 14 metres might give Alan Dale cause for concern with most of Camberwell underwater. http://flood.firetree.net and london http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=51.5064,-0.0886&z=5&m=0

Ha [gender issue], that's just what ladygooner said to me. Mayhap true. Forgive me for my righteous ways. As it goes, chamomile, it's a pharmacuetical with known properties. How is that different to aspirin in any way shape or form?

Ha ha, genius, love it Paul!!