Loz

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DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm just happy Poundland is open again :) Now there is a sentence I never thought I'd read.

silverfox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > in fairness Loz we elect our representatives on trust and if every candidate had to confess every > skeleton in his or her cupboard we probably wouldn't have any candidates at all. But we do > expect them to act with propriety when they are in office. To an extent I agree, but most of the transgressions listed in the letter were known before the last election and still they were re-elected.

silverfox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The writer is obviously unaware of the death of David Cameron's father (widely covered in the news > earlier this year) which makes him or her look rather foolish. I noticed that. I thought it made the writer look really quite heartless. But I think this is the important line: Who appoints our politicians? We do. We are the ones that re-elected all those people listed. We are the ones that gave them the job. We are the ones that blindly vote for Labour/Tory/LibDem whatever the situation. We should take some responsibility.

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can someone define poverty and deprivation. The important phrase to use, Tarot, is "relative poverty". This is a useful phrase, because it doesn't actually mean 'poverty', it just means 'haven't got as much as people who live around you'. It is of a similar made-up etymology as "mentally addictive" - people jumping onto the power of a word that doesn't apply to a given situation, by extending it to a meaningless phrase. Take this case: this girl was looting stuff because lives in 'relative poverty'. I mean, some of her friends drive Porsches - how is a girl to keep up?

Hasn't that always been the case?

Whoosh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mind you, there's worse on the other side of the > road where there's the traffic light system. > There's the bus lane bit for buses to go through > when it's green and then there's the other lane > for buses to go through when theirs is red. I love the fact that the sensor for that used to be *before* the bus stop. So, the bus triggers the sensor, the traffic lights change to allow the bus right of way but then stops to let people off/on. By the time that had happened the lights have returned to their normal phasing and the bus had to merge with the normal traffic before the lights. Brilliant piece of design. Now fixed I think.

Fabricio the Guido Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do numb nuts, nut-job right wing trolls belong to a union? Goodness me, no. Everyone knows that unions are strictly populated by numb nuts, nut-job left wing trolls.

Well it worked for me, though I only have a little 1300w model vacuum. Loz - IT Consultant (Fired)

Is your cooling fan on all the time? If so it is probably the cooling system. A quick blast with a can of air helps. If you don't have one, sticking the vacuum nozzle on the air outlets/inlets for 10 secs or so can often help.

indiej25 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In 1985 riots only 33% of those who were arrested > were actual ethnic minorities, it's not about > race, it's about poverty. In the case of 2011, it was more about people who like nicking things, smashing up stuff and setting fire to things.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "East Dulwich Road, eh? So just a stone's throw > from the Tesco..." Loz wrote on page one. > Anyone else even trying to hide a snigger at this > faux pas? No faux pas - it was an attempted joke, PR. I need to be less subtle. Though I blame admin for taking away our smileys.

cuppa tea Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If parenting is the most important job we can do, then how come > it is valued the least? Erm - it's not even close to 'being valued the least'. Which other 'job' gets time off from employment, tax breaks, special car parking spaces, etc, etc.

Magpie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The sporadic outbreaks of disagreement to the board's liberal consensus lasted for a few days, > but it looks like the lefties are beginning to regain control Don't get 'liberal' and 'lefty' mixed up - they are quite different and often opposing concepts. I'm a liberal, but not really a lefty.

richardbach Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maybe the kids nede to be canned at skol What? Like beer? Can't they be canned at Carling? It's much closer than having to ship them all the way to Scandinavia.

Good article, though I suspect you've not written it for the EDF, given the time references are wrong. I don't agree with everything you've written, but I do agree with the majority. May I suggest you contact Jessica Reed at the Guardian Comment is Free ([email protected]) to see if they are interested in picking it up as an article?

i*Rate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was one of the lucky Working Class people that > got a decent education under a real Left Wing > government in the 1960s and managed to make a good > life for myself and my family. Those principles > were damaged by Thatcher and finally destroyed by > New Labour and, it has been proven, the gap > between the rich and poor has grown significantly > over the last twenty years. Interesting. How do you see that those education principles have been damaged and destroyed over the years, given that there has been such a push for school leavers to move forward into higher education? I would have though it could be argued that education has become more accessible in that time.

Well, more: c) the positive sentiment behind the page is still greater than the furore over it's creator, so currently staying on there, but may change my mind at any time.

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know which bit you mean and it continues up the hill after the lights. > Works fine as it is and keeps the bus lane clear for buses coming up the hill IMO. It only works fine as it is because currently people - more often than not - use it in the way I describe. Which is pretty much proof-positive the markings should be changed accordingly. If the left turn traffic started trying to push across the bus lane, it would slow the buses down.

Monkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Errr... Summer probably thinks of her children > first with other people's children coming close > second. That makes her a good parent. Maybe. It also, in this case, makes her a NIMBY. > The tone of the responses here to someone who has legitimate > concerns about her children's safety shows that it > is next to impossible to have a constructive debate on this forum. Rubbish. Had the debate been about Youth Offenders Units in general then would be a lot to debate about, but "I don't like this, so put it near someone - anyone - else"... well, there's not a lot to debate, is there?

Well if you can find somewhere in Southwark more than 500m from any school, playground or child then you could suggest to to the council. Or is it just your children they should be concerned with?

You are not the first to ask that question, Chick.

They're misunderstood, angry about bankers bonuses, angry about Tory cuts, the ones in Birmingham are honestly so very angry about a shooting in London, bankers bonuses, they are angry about the cuts to local councils, bankers bonuses, if only we had more youth clubs it wouldn't have happened, they are angry with the system, bankers bonuses, not cutting the EMA would have averted all this, they are angry about tuition fees. Oh and bankers bonuses,

East Dulwich Road, eh? So just a stone's throw from the Tesco...

Asset, I meant the short stretch from the chippy to the lights. It can stay a bus lane, it just needs to be bus/left turn dual use. Otherwise, lane switchers are just going to clag up both lanes, slow everything down (for buses, cars, bikes) and make it generally more dangerous than it needs to be.