Loz

On the other hand, some people are just shoplifters. I was in a card shop back around Easter time and a woman came up to the counter and said, "someone just walked in, picked up one of those giant stuffed rabbits and walked out". She described him as "an oldish bloke with a walking stick". The lady running the shop looked annoyed and said she couldn't leave the shop (as the assistant had popped out for a couple of mins) and, anyway, little would happen to the person. So, I kept perusing, bought my card and wandered down the road and about 30m down there was a guy answering the description with a large stuffed rabbit, just like the ones in the shop, nonchalantly talking to someone else. So, I turned around and told the lady in the shop, expecting her to call the police. Instead, she marched out the shop and down the road, got to the bloke, grabbed the rabbit, said "stay out of my f****** shop" and marched back to her shop. I wandered off, wondering just what to make of the whole thing.

Also, check the rates vs LTV. If, after establishing the value, you have a LTV of, say 81-82%, try adding a few quid to the value to get it just below 80% and that may save you a couple of %age points. Last time I had a remortgage value done, the first question I was asked by the surveyor was "what valuation do you need?"!

On the wider issue, I'm with DaveR as well. Censorship in universities is raising it's ugly head as a real issue. The whole concept of 'no-platforming' should be dispensed with. Unis are a place for learning, not a place for censoring. I can't say I agree with Greer or Bindel, but I think they should be heard.

Yes, that's what the OP wants, but the question is : how long do you fix and what is the trade off between the length of fix and the increasing interest rates that the longer fix attracts?

Oh for f... So now the argument is climate change? OK, as long as Southwark plant a tree (hey, make it two!) for every one removed, you will be OK with that? Good, that's settled then.

That's a good point, RD. Some of the 'arrangement fees' can be well over a grand, which if you are looking to change again in a few years time can be significant.

I was looking at something similar. For the ones I looked at, the difference between a 2 and a 3 year fix was about 0.4%. So, you'd only be better off if interest rates go up by more than 1.2% in the next couple of years. Possible, but IMHO not likely.

I would ring your bank immediately.

If you go down to the "woods" today It won't be a big surprise. If you go down to the "woods" today You won't believe your eyes. A few scrubby trees and maybe a grave It's not at all something you'd wanna save Not really somewhere you'd wanna have a pic-nic.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry - does anyone have the number? Thanks. Yep - it's 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3

The bus station looks terrible (who thought a ski jump on top a caravan was a good look?) and it's horrible on a cold, windy night. The whole area is soul-less. The plans look to be to replace it with a new High Street. The plus would be to bring some life to a rather dead area, but the minus is that the numerous bus stops will now be spread out more.

Yeah, but I bet you get chicken fat on your undies.

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Best before can be ignored. There is a huge difference between, 'best before' and 'use by'. 'Best before' can indeed be ignored, but 'Use By' dates should be kept to. Having said that, one day may be OK, but do give it the smell test.

Having failed to convince the council and the public, they are now appealing to a higher entity.

Oh God, please make it stop.

Blimey. How many pair of underkeks do you get through a day, *Bob*?

It's a pretty awful financial deal, but nuclear is currently the most reliable, low-carbon electricity generating system we have. In fact, the financial side is so bad, it may actually open up an opportunity for renewables.

I'd still run Malwarebytes - it's a scan that is known to pick up things like rootkits and spyware which standard AV isn't good at. I use AV, but on the occasions I'm a bit suspicious that there might be something nasty slip through, then I fire up Malwarebytes. I first used it a few years ago when I stupidly clicked on a pop-up which installed a programme that hid everything on my system. AV didn't stop it, but MBAW cleaned it up. Other than that, maybe install a usage monitor on your PC. I don't know of any good ones off-hand.

20 gig is a lot. If you aren't watching/downloading lots of movies/iPlayer, etc, I'd be suspicious. You can log onto your BT account to see exactly what you've used this month, but unfortunately it won't give you a day-by-day breakdown. A couple of things you should do: 1) Make sure you've changed the network access password, just in case someone is using your connection. 2) If you are on windows, download and run Malwarebytes (https://www.malwarebytes.org/) - just use the free version. This will detect and clean up any nasties that may be on your system and using bandwidth.

"Huge anger"? Chortle.

You probably have a bad word. I've noticed that Richard Branson's company often trips the naughty word filter.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But fruit sugar is a bit different to be fair. No, it is completely the same. Sugar is the same no matter where it comes from - a mixture of fructose and glucose. Fruit does have some very good stuff on top of the sugar (OJ a lot less so), but don't kid yourself the sugar is any different.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SMALL Banana milkshake (the type you'd get in a child's happy meal) has 31 grams. Thank God my > kids still accept orange juice! Orange Juice: 25g per portion.

miga Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ???? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Which is a 'relatively' small population geographically dispersed or in terms of students > > largely converted already? > > There's very roughly about the same number of 20-35 as >60, about 20% of population overall. > Sure, they're geographically dispersed, but in the close seats it could make a difference if the lot > that doesn't vote turns out. Are they really geographically dispersed? Or are Corbyn supporting ones mostly residing in the very seats Labour has already won - i.e. urban central?

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz > > I couldn't disagree more. > > How is expressing sugar in teaspoons not informative compared to doing so in grams. Given a > large % of the populations still can't use the metric system (Dad, I'm looking at you - stop > using furlongs) then a visable measurement that everyone uses on a near daily basis makes much > more sense. You can still have grams too if need be. Because one package will use 'teaspoons', another 'grams' and another 'thimblefuls', making comparison all but useless (cf per unit price on supermarket shelves). Are we talking heaped teaspoons (probably what most people think of) or flat teaspoons? Also, percentages are better and more informative, as people won't know if five teaspoons is good or bad. I know that certainly sounds bad in in a 330ml can, but what about a 1.75 litre or 2 litre bottle? > Nor are taxes pointless. They discourage use and help fund the healthcare needed to treat and > rapidly growing obesity crisis that is in no small way down to sugar consumption. A 20% (or whatever) won't discourage use, except amongst those really on the breadline. Coke is already twice the price of a bottle of water, but it is still the biggest selling brand in the UK. You'd need to get up to cigarette-style proportions of many hundreds of percent to achieve that and AFAIK that is not on the agenda. Plus there is no evidence that it would "fund healthcare", either. It may fund anything - even Trident!