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mockney piers

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  1. Clearly you were in classier fields than I. (did you follow the orange duck?) Mine were more likely to play Liquid - Sweet Harmony or Chimo Bayo - As? Me Gusta a M?
  2. Agreed, society has gone very "it's all about me". But in this case I think the guy was well with in his rights to complain about bad driving, especially if his kid got hurt. James you may well work hard for little pay, but you don't spend the whole day with people abusing you, shouting at you, crazies hanging around you, kids screaming about your lack of respeck etc. Personally they do have my sympathy and respect, especially those who keep their chin up, are helpful and polite, must be hard to maintain that;tough job. But as the bob* adage goes, there are c**ks too. I bet you have comfy cushions strewn around your office and table football ;-) *another forum neologism perhaps? *bob*'s law: The rule which governs the ratios in a particular culture, subculture, genus or class of c**ks to non-c**ks
  3. Mrs mockers used to work for surface in TfL. If there's any sort of trouble the drivers are told to stop the bus, hit the button and wait for the transport police, that's policy. Looks like the driver in this case hit the wrong sort of button entirely however. I was on the 484 the other day, and the bus driver was a fantastic bloke, greying dreads, probably late 40s early 50s. He kept us all entertained with amusing tales, but also complained that the latest crop of drivers didn't really give a s**t about the job and were very unprofessional in his opinion. That may have been a kids these days rant, but he seemed a pretty canny guy to me, and that wasn't my impression. Agree with Elfy that a culture of targets isn't pertinent to everything and in many cases can be counter-productive.
  4. now relax .... sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Juana Molina - Tres Cosas
  5. I've generally found the 176 to be the worst. It must be down to training because they're consistently bad. It's run by Arriva London fwiw. 37, 40 and 484 are London Central 185 East Thames Buses (publicly owned) P13 travel London Just should anyone get the urge to complain, you understand.
  6. Old classics, here you go fear Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (live at San Quentin Prison)
  7. I used the banging head technique. Well actually I just bought the paper every day and worked the clues from the answers. Coupled with three years of college, sitting in pubs and ignoring both episodes of neighbours while nursing hangovers on a filthy couch, I eventually got the hang of it. Here's a brief rundown http://www.pennypress.com/solvers/cryptic.shtml and wikipedia's not bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword
  8. That'd be by the shop that apparently still accepts access (bwip-bwup) your flexible friend.
  9. "fame has to be a combination of recognition and respect" I have one word for you. Jordan ...err .. and Jade ... Victoria Beckham ... Callum Best ... OK I have about a zillion words for you, but all are too crushingly depressing to think about.
  10. Tommy, just to clarify, but Sean was saying the opposite, that we should care. And I don't think this was lounged because it was about peckham, but that it veered of topic for too long.
  11. lovely!! thx Georgia imagines leader bagging a short time in Olympic event (6,7) _ _ _ _ R _ / _ _ _ _ I _ _
  12. Coming up to it's first birthday in august I think. Mark knows the administrator better, any dates? A party perhaps!
  13. Yep, really enjoyed that book but they went rapidly down hill, and the aforementioned incident was in The Sum of all Fears. It wasn't so much the wine ignorance as the fact that the book was s**t, he'd stretched reality to the utterly absurd, his story telling powers we weak and frankly life's too short.
  14. ta daah. can't get the second one mind.
  15. tee hee, same page. OK real ones...hmm sod it..over here
  16. Come here if you're looking for clues, posting up clues, needing help or just plain bored. I'll start: Draught beginning to stir hairpiece (4) monarch aboard metal vessel - it's what you'd expect of monarch (10) L _ _ _ _ _ S _ _ _
  17. Cryptic...lateral thinking. I cheated, it's actually quite a famous clue.
  18. Ooh, I do like the Telegraph crossword, nice and easy. And Henry Winter's alright, alot less miserable than James "misery guts" Lawton. Pass it over..hmmm Amundsen's Forwarding Address (4)
  19. * pokes head around corner * * hmm, no one invading anyone * Hey chaps, room for one more, a bit parched?
  20. A pint sounds good. I'd go for a glass of wine but Tom Clancy, oh he of such knowledge, reliably informed me in one of his novels, that Australian wine is substandard. I never read another novel and left him to enjoy his Ernst & Julio Gallo!!
  21. So MM, you're happy to at least acknowledge that many of the problems are to do with implementation of public service rather than the ethos full stop. Definitely true of education. I had some fantastic teachers who were mostly laid off (early retirement) toward the end of the eighties in order to pay for a load of kids who had little or no idea and were soon to be immersed in the spirit sapping culture of targets and 'choice' of this shagsack of a government. Money is one thing and you're right it's the commitment and culture of teaching full stop which has suffered. I'm sure in time and treading a different path education for all can be the wonderful thing that I was lucky enough to experience a couple of decades ago.
  22. Don't tell me, they get on their bike (the 300 miles to the nearest hospital whose relevant services haven't been hamstrung by Pat Hewitt's underhanded attempts to get rid of the NHS) *gosh this is a confusing thread as our posts step over each other*
  23. never bob, never, mine's a Landlord please. oops better make that a pint of Collectivised Land Reform lest I upset CWALD ;-P Or a pint of Get Orff My Land lest I annoy JonBoy.
  24. err and another good point sean, as the world moved on during my lengthy rant. Yep, pretty broad cross section of opinion on the forum. I personally wish White Stuff all the best, I just think their clothes are sh!t. Should my mid-life crisis hit home soon and I feel the need to spend a fortune to look like a goan drop-out or a welly-brigader at the Henley regatta, then I'm sure I'll partake.
  25. Exactly Sean. I've no doubt that private health care is 'better', ie cleaner with shorter waiting lists (though a goodly number of surgeons actually work for both and thus every private operation they perform adds to an NHS waiting list) than public. But that's only available to the few. If you can afford it then good for you (I've had health insurance through jobs for best part of a decade, and touch wood have not had cause to use it). I still pay my national insurance and am proud to do so. But to say that therefore the market should provide health in this country is a = b b=c therefore a = c (NHS is struggling, private health care is good, therefore private healthcare will provide a better national service) and entirely missing the point that Nationalised health is just that, for the nation, not for those who can afford it. Like Sean says, assuming you couldn't afford private health care/insurance, where would you rather fall ill or have an accident. I for one wouldn't fancy it in the states. I'd also refer you to one Dr Reddy who has made a $300 billion fortune by having his hospitals suspend services such as chemotherapy, a birthing centre and mental health care as insufficiently profitable, and refusing treatment to uninsured patients, or is that customers?
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