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El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The original conans were absolute class. Conan the Librarian being my personal favourite.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ground Hog Day Oh, no - I could watch Groundhog Day over and over and over...

The T-shirts are already out... http://www.redmolotov.com/images/designs/scotsman-joke-tshirt_design_small.jpg

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any romcom with Adam Sandler in. Actually, I think his non-romcoms are worse. I quite liked 50 First Dates and Wedding Singer. I think having Drew Barrymore in both of them probably helped. Of the movies I've seen lately, 'Green Lantern' was really bad. I really want that 90 mins back.

Last newspaper poll - 53% No, 47% yes. But I think the usual preference for undecideds to stick with the status quo will see 'no' get a couple more %age points.

I love helping people get their prams upstairs. If you have the upstair side you can give the pram a bit of a wobble at the top and most times flip the little bugger right out. If you're lucky, they go down the stairs a bit like a slinky.

Cliffhanger. Truly appalling acting and an awful story. Stallone is usually a wooden actor, but you could have replaced him with a pine wardrobe in this and it would have improved it. And that was even though it had the cute woman out of Northern Exposure in it.

katanita Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Part of this is around affordable housing quotas, what this really means, and whether this is > enforced. How have Lend Lease been allowed to not even meet the minimum 35% quota in this case? I > wonder where all the residents who were forced out have now ended up. It's shameful. The shameful bit is the pitiful amounts Southwark are offering for compulsory acquisition of the flats. Some 1 bed flats have been 'valued' at as little as ?70k. These people need to be compensated with market rate as an absolute minimum, so they can at least buy something somewhere else.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We've been here before, several times. Traffic wardens or camera cars parked illegally, caught on > camera. Nothing will be done. The council are hardly going to ticket one of their own vehicles. Which is why I pointed out some of the infringements are police matters. They may not be so accommodating.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not like that! Oh dear. > Fifty Shades of RPC.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > An article in today's Guardian about just this subject... Somewhere in that mess of over-emotional rhetoric is a decent article struggling to get out. Example: We are replacing homes with investment units, to be sold overseas and never inhabited, substituting community for vacancy. The more we build, the more our cities are emptied, producing dead swathes of zombie town where the lights might never even be switched on. It sounds like a BNP immigration scare story, rewritten for property.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Life long friends. Bit early to make that assumption, no? :o)

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm no fan of these camera cars either, but... none of you have ever pulled up on a double yellow > line for a couple of seconds to make a phone call or something? If you did that while leaving the engine running, they can get you for using your mobile while driving AND parking on a double yellow!

Some of those infringements are police matters - if you have the reg number and the time/date you could report it.

One of the comments under that article says: Also, my understanding is that Southwark Council is on some kind of profit split. I mean, that's the explanation they've used for the low sale price. Does anyone know if that has any basis in fact?

Having moved from the Southwark council area to Ealing council area, I quickly appreciated how relatively efficient Southwark is. The Southwark website, especially, is much more user friendly.

Just did an online quiz with this one: Which city lies furtherest west - Edinburgh, Cardiff or Liverpool?

Mustard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You have to spend ?35 or more for free delivery. And unlike the others, you can't bump up your spend with a few bottles of El Plonko.

Rhinestone Cowboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/sep/15/colombia-womens-cycling-team-stylewatch? With a small change they could be the Brazilian cycling team!

What ISP do you use? Some, like Virgin, have filters you can turn on.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Still, if you believe the simplistic 'supply and demand' argument, then selling off the Heygate > Estate to developers in this way will significantly reduce house prices in Southwark > right? Ha! You don't believe in supply and demand? But, no, one development is not going to solve the problem, because demand is much, much bigger than that. We need lots more home building in London. Ideas like Heygate are, in theory, fine. It's just that it seems to have FUBAR stamped all over the way Southwark has gone about it.

I thought you'd sobered up!

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But we are talking Southwark > > http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/11/look-heygate-estate-whats-wrong-londons-housing From that article: Average compensation given to leaseholders of one bedroom flat: ?95,480 Average compensation given to leaseholders of four bedroom flats: ?177,421 I heard about this on ITV news the other day. That sort of payment for a compulsory purchase for a London flat (even in a craphole) must be way below market rate. Is there an appeal? I can't see that being upheld. Which will throw their maths out a lot.

A lot of people throw blame and ineffectual ideas around about house prices, but the only way you will bring down (or at least level off) London house prices is to build more. Lots more. Lots and lots more. And, in zones 1-4, pretty much the only way is up. So you can be a NIMBY, but don't complain when you are priced out of London.

hpsaucey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Too true! Lidl Basil - 5 months on still going - > and actually FLOWERING! Don't let it flower!! Basil dies after it flowers. Pick the flower heads off as they form.