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Ooh, barbed words keef, barbed words. As you well now I'm a nine-stone weakling, so hardly throwing weight around. I just happen to think a lounge is a place to relax, where I can avoid the people shouting at each other in the street. It'd be nice to do be able to do it in this lounge. If people constantly wish to offtopicate by slagging each other off for being posh/chavs festering cling-ons/arrogant blow-ins, that's entirely their prerogative. I for one am sick to death of it and think it'd be a good idea to have a separate room for it. Did you think a wanted... section was a bad idea because people should be able to advertise their needs and wants on the main thread?

Not everyone is a troll Louisa. I don't doubt that susyp's version of events encapsulates what she felt she witnessed. I've even had fairly shoddy in the Ivy once and that's a chain (Scott's, Caprice etc) that pride's themselves on immaculate service. Anyone can have an off day or make a decision that doesn't benefit everyone. As Bellenden Belle found, a complaint is an easy fist post to make but can arouse strong reactions, particularly around something that has been discussed alot previously and people have strong opinions about. BB got her fingers a bit burned, as, I suspect, susyp is feeling right now. But she soon joined the fray again where she's a welcome contributor, as, again, I'm more than certain susyp will do. Hello susyp, welcome to the madhouse ;-)

talking of which http://www.thechap.net/olympics.html I went last year and it's a must!

* Brings huge pile of fruit from inverness market and juicer * * hmm, takes it to kitchen for pulping as they don't arf make a racket *

Good effort Mark.

I've had a bit more of a thorough hunt around and Yersinia Pestis, which may have been responsible for the 17th century outbreak (victims of the black death all tested negative, but it could at a pinch have been a pneumonic variety of bubonic plague) can survive in soil. The context of this is from modern research into the bacillus in Asia where outbreaks still occur to this day, and that it survives in the faeces and soil around burrows which can infect the new generation of burrow inhabitants. Whether it'll hang around in the soil for 400 years without any sort of host sounds highly dubious to me, but I can't find anything to support or deny this, and what the hell do I know anyway. I shall email a biomedical expert who's always reading up on this sort of thing. I shall report back if anyone other than me finds this interesting. Am I a bit weird?

Anyone on the forum CWALD. I for one would be delighted to see you there, mines a Harvey's please (the beer, not the bristol cream).

Well a quick search does find alot of forums which makes her look a bit suspect, but most of them are harmless, so perhaps she just really likes forums http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%09jennyuk

Well I've just spoken to these guys http://www.anstrutherfishbar.co.uk/ and can say their product was second to none that I've tried anywhere. Light batter, clean and absolutely delicious, fish straight out the sea that morning. They use beef dripping, change it completely daily and keep everything conspicuously clean. You may pay a quid or two more, but it's worth it. Frankly it's worth a trip to scotland alone.

Sadly that's pretty much the size of it MadWorld. My last landlord had over 80 properties. Mind you he was a pretty decent fellow and treated us fairly throughout our 2 years with him. I've had some shockers in the past. We managed to buy with a little help from the olds, but sometimes reality isn't fair, and the way things are hereabouts now, are pretty unfair, but not much seems to be likely to change. For the record we bought in SE5 which was a lot more affordable and a mere stonesthrow from the mecca that is (allegedly) LL.

I've had a cursory hunt around and found no evidence that bubonic plague can survive outside of a nice homely environment like a flea or a human victim, and definitely not in the soil. There are some theories that the original black death was actually a virus as the spread was too rapid and widespread for fleas and their rat hosts to be responsible. Plus it was spectacularly deadly, with in many parts of Europe one in three dying, which no outbreak of plague (such as that in the 1660s) has come close to emulating. Can a virus survive 700 years in the soil? Gawd knows, I'm no expert, but I bet you not building on plague pits is more to do with superstition or just plain ickyness than plague. If someone got ill digging there it would more likely have been ecoli or somesuch than plague. that's just my theory after a quick swizz on t'internet btw.

>> but when a thread used terms like Cleansing in its title, it does rather invite this tyope of nanalogy. True enough. Sadly I think we have a culture of dumbed down lazy journalism to thank for that. Witness the over use of tsunami to mean 'alot of' in the months after that particular tragedy, a la 'a tsunami of heroin chic descends up on the Cannes Film Festival' Gaaaah!!!

Oh and for the record I too escaped the dull, slow death of the home counties to come here. Pretty area, nice place to walk in and photograph, but there it ends.

Snorky, I know you lie somewhere between heart on sleeve and being a wind up merchant, but that was an analogy too far for me. You are not contributing to the debate about what is happening here, (and in principal that there are economic forces at work here, but many that have left have done very nicely thank you thanks to those forces, but I won't kick that one off again here) through the use of this analogy. It is incredibly flippant towards the crimes that did take place, and to compare them to something as trite as house prices contributing to the altering of the make-up of an area, ultimately cheapens the scale, gravity and horror of what he and his Regu8alrs(sic)(?!?!) did, and most have yet to be punished for. General Ratko did indeed massacre thousands, but in the forest of Eastern Bosnia. A North Kosovan forest is far more likely to be the sort of place he's hiding in himself. I hate history being twisted and co-opted, usually very very badly and inaccurately, to 'prove' points.

Good effort Sean, was it being picketed by crusties who hate the getrification of Glastonbury, or were they just grateful for some hot food and a brief respite from the rain?

Their clothes smell all boggy

LOL!!

Its fish fresh and frozen

lounged Though if i could have put it in the Soviet, I would have.

>> placebo effect seems to pull the wool over some peoples eyes apparantly I love mixed metaphors :D And just what placebo effect are we talking about. That would surely have to be some sort of pseudo fish made from nutritionally neutral matter for the wool over eyes effect to become apparant(sic). Mayhap you were after the emperor's new (woollen) clothes.

* quietly puts duvet over sleeping MacGabhann * * having recently witnessed a nasty modesty moment involving a bathrobe that wasn't quite as effective as sleeping owner deemed it to be * * better to be safe than sorry, tiptoes out of room *

That's extraordinarily touchy feely from you there snorky. Obviously the beating heart emanates from the arhythmic pounding of 3 wheels on paving slab.

It's a complicated relationship but not necessarily. You can have a feeding frenzy on buy-to-let properties that push the housing market up but result in a glut of rental properties that push down rental prices for instance.

..and you might want to think about whether you have evidence to back yourself up, before casting aspersions on a public forum. Just a bit of advice you understand.

So a scotsman is acusing our local populace of a potatoey sheen. If (s)he means we're a bit pale then they may have a point, but obviously irony is not their strong point. Are they accusing us of being irish? poor choice of lingo old chap, and Mrs O'Mockney hates potatoes. Are they accusing us of not being image obsessed, botox* injecting fuckwits? Fine by me. Roll on the normal people of East Dulwich. *no offence dulwichmum. I trust you won't get your ?70,000 white bikini bottoms in a twist ;)