
Loz
Member-
Posts
8,453 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by Loz
-
MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > By scary, I mean to the average normal (ok possibly middle class) guy, the kind of place you don't > take the missus to for a glass of Malbec or turn up in a suit in case you get glassed. Reminds me of a comment by the Aussie comedian, Jim Jefferies. "{You British] are so violent - you are the only people that use the word 'glass' as a verb..."
-
Really - who would want a gift of a Tracey Emin 'piece'?
-
I am a huge fan of Turing, but I don't think a pardon is correct for all the reasons above. But, I would like to see him celebrated a lot more. The man was a genius and played a huge part in winning WW2. He should be a national hero.
-
Looks like the glare of publicity is now going shine on the hospital and its staff... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/13/jacintha-saldanha-suicide-notes
-
Googled the markings.... http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/helmets/mkii-stretcher-party-139917/ http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/expand.php?key=765
-
Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Even if the intent is not to bully but just to "have a bit of fun", if the impact is that > somebody feels bullied, its is bullying. > > That the media have been able to behave in this way for so long doesnt make it right. Actually, there is probably a greater chance that this woman did not commit suicide directly as a result of the prank call (since she actually played such a small part in it) but because of subsequent hounding by the UK media. But, again, until the result of the inquest is made known it is all speculation.
-
Voyageur Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bullying? Hardly. He talks a lot of sense. Would you still have that opinion if you knew that the two DJ's read this forum? Go back and read his posts, imagining you are one of the DJs. How would you feel?
-
Look, until football does something concrete (e.g. retrospective red cards) then it is effectively sanctioning diving and cheating. Look at individual players all you wish, but until the game sorts the problem out and stops looking the other way, football will remain a cheat's game.
-
So how would you define wealth then, if not money/assets? So you think that it is quite possible for someone to think up a way to divide the world's assets evenly, but have no real ideas on how to do it yourself? Nor any thought about the problems such an approach would hit? You've not really thought this one through, have you?
-
*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it bullying if two hapless Australian DJs at the centre of a would-be-harmless=prank-gone-tragically-wrong > are pursued and vilified across the globe - in print, on screen - and (of course) on internet forums? > > I suspect this probably fits the definition better. > > What if one of them is driven to suicide? What if, what if.. Quite, *Bob*. Having been around this forum for a few years now, so I'm a bit surprised at some of MP's postings on this thread. I know who I think is coming across as the bully here and it ain't the two hapless DJ's.
-
Here's a recording of the call. Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse in question, is involved from 1:16 to 1:26. In other words, hardly at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjPPMLlZqo
-
Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > However, I come back to my earlier point. It was the Australian DJs that are responsible. I disagree strongly. 'Responsibility' means that they should have known that their actions could have had such a traumatic effect - and there is no way they could have known that. Prank calls have been around for ages. This one was not bullying or vicious. It was a silly prank that seemingly (as it has yet to be confirmed) turned out to have a totally unforeseeable tragedy come in its wake. Sometimes, no one is responsible. This seems to be such a time.
-
kamila Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, picture would be great :) > I know exactly who's dog been pooing just outside > my house but there isn't much I can do about it. Go and have a dump just outside their house?
-
Cyberia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > Yeah, and parked cars are positively lethal. > > Absolutely, Loz - silly me, I just didn't think it > through. Of course cars that are parked in London > are never driven there... why, that would just > create a whole lot of traffic and pollution and > noise! On that basis, each and every car these days contains at least one computer, arguably with more control over the car workings than the driver. So you've just answered your own original question, then.
-
An interesting question, though very difficult to answer. A little Googling suggests it is around US$30K, but how do you define 'wealth', much less decide on how you divide it. For instance, if there is a house in ED currently worth ?500K, would this still have the same worth after the Great Divide? (since no one would have ?500K any more). A slightly easier question to answer is how much would each person in the world get each year if world GDP was paid out equally in salary to everyone? According to Wiki, "in 2011, the GWP (Gross World Product) totalled approximately US$79.39 trillion in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), while the per capita GWP was approximately US$11,900." BUT! If this socialist ideal was realised, would world GDP drop like the proverbial lead balloon? Why would anyone work their little socks off for 18 hours a day creating a business if they just got paid the same amount as each and every one of their employees? Who wants to spend 7 years studying to be a doctor when their receptionist gets the same dosh? And if all houses were the same price (or allocated by some central authority), who gets to live in Mayfair and who gets to live in Croydon? It's very hard to take a capitalist concept like money and apply into another situation where it would essentially be worthless.
-
Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think it deserves making clear that a crime is a crime. Paedophilia is not an exception regardless > of the era (except that it is). > > Until recently (within the lifetime of people still alive today) it was okay for girls to be > married at 12. In other words, it was okay to be a paedophile if daddy said so (mummies didn't get a > look in). Strictly speaking, Paedophilia is wanting sex with the pre-pubescent. Hebephilia covers the early years of pubescence. Interest in the later teens is Ephebophilia. The things you learn by reading the Guardian...
-
Cyberia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ???? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > We don't need computers or central heating either.... > > What's your point? Are computers and central heating causing deaths or serious injuries in > inner London? Yeah, and parked cars are positively lethal.
-
garnwba Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ha yes, i am a councillor sat in a nice new glass > fronted building, wearing a grey suit and > comfortable shoes doing not very much (no offence > James etc)... > > The reason for starting this post was two fold: > a) To try and wind a few people up (you know who you are) > b) To give an insight (early days i agree) into what life is like in a CPZ area... and so far it's ok. I still don't believe a word of this. And won't until the 'new' road is divulged.
-
garnwba Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > loz - i used to live on Melbourne Grove, please excuse if me if i don't tell you my new address, PIN Number etc I didn't ask for your exact address, just the road will do. Unless you have the only house on that road, it isn't terribly identifying. You are being defensive. I think you are making this up.
-
Assuming that the council are actually only recovering the costs of administering the scheme (and, yes, that is a big assumption), then you have to have a zero sum game here. For easy maths, lets assume there are 100 spaces on a street and 100 permits would be sold. At ?145 per annum (which I believe is the going rate), that gives you income of ?14500. Now, if you were to bring that down to, say, ?40 per resident, but flog off 15 permits to commuters, then you have 100x?40 = ?4000 for the residents and you need to charge the commuters ?10500/15 = ?700. So far, so good. But, if you also want to bring the cost of daily permits down from ?3 to 50p, then funding for that needs to be bought in. Let's assume 20 per resident per year. That's a funding shortfall of 100x20x?2.50. Assuming that this needs to be covered by the commuters, that adds ?333 per annum, bringing you well over a grand for parking. Would anyone pay that??
-
You also have to remember that, if you plotted them on a simple left-right political map, Obama and the Democrats would be to the right of Cameron and the Tories. The whole US political spectrum is much more to the right than it is over here. Also, when reading that article, it is worth remembering that the US uses a very different meaning to the word 'liberal' as well. For the Yanks it roughly means 'anything that looks kinda left-wing/commie'.
-
I see garnwba still hasn't offered up the roads he moved from and to...
-
Am I being a 'cold calculating' libertarian, or does this pretty much sum up the average position of politics in the UK? To me it pretty much describes the current position of the three main parties (except replace 'PM' for 'president', of course).
-
Which street did you move from and which street did you move to?
-
Compare and contrast... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/03/asking-men-to-leave-feminist-film
East Dulwich Forum
Established in 2006, we are an online community discussion forum for people who live, work in and visit SE22.