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Grok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well im sure you do stick to the numbers rule sue. > But when the doors are closed thats when punters > move their chairs and block gangways etc. When? > Hmmm let me see, at your last ivyhouse gig, > remember when you nearly fell off the stage > because you had 'a bug'! > As you will know if you have actually been to a gig, we have somebody on all the doors checking handstamps throughout the whole time the gig is on. The doors are in use throughout the evening and people could not possibly sit in front of them. If they moved their chairs they would be asked to move them back to where they were. And no I didn't "nearly fall off the stage" at the last concert, which I only went onto once to give the headliners an encore. Nor did I have any symptoms of my present bug at the time. But please feel free to continue slagging me off in your usual charming manner. Can you not find some more constructive use of your time? ETA: Ah. Are you one of the people who brought chairs into the ballroom on Friday from elsewhere in the pub, ignored the person on the door when he told you you weren't allowed to do that and then had a real go at me when I insisted on removing them? That would explain a few things. We get very few unpleasant people at our gigs, and that was one of them. So if not you, somebody of similar character, judging by your posts on here.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was glad to see that my useful input was > appreciated, for once... > > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?3 > 0,1637693,1637693#msg-1637693 Thanks, that made me laugh out loud :))

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Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RE Grok and stalking, there was a well known > poster on here, banned many a time back in the > day, who used to get off on doing a bit of that. > He'd mention having seen people at puns and stuff. > One day the guy walked up and introduced himself > to my wife in a library, having worked out who she > was. That was a bit weird. He did the same to me. In Boots in Forest Hill.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah I was thinking the same... it's almost > stalker-like. (not trying to worry you of course, > Sue) Unless he or she comes up with some actual examples of unsafe gigs (which s/he won't be able to) then I think it's a pretty safe bet that s/he has never actually been to any of them. Grok and Earlydoors - hmmm.

Rolo Tomasi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Rolo Tomasi Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Common myth. > > > > Really? > > > > When I used to work for a public sector > employer, > > many moons ago when I actually had a budget, I > > had to use it by the end of the financial year > or > > it was lost. > > > > And so did others. > > > > Not only that, but as BNG implies above, if you > > did not use all your budget it was assumed that > > you had too much and it was cut back in the > > following year. > > > > Have things changed, then? > > Yes. I work for southwark and this is not the > case. Years ago it was but not now. Ah, OK. I'm talking circa 1990 :))

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a great swindle going on with blue badges > and disabled bay parking and criteria for > obtaining a blue badge in the first place is > tightening. I'm glad to hear that, as somebody I knew had one (this is about ten years back now) and was definitely not disabled. He kept it in the front window of his large car in order to be able to park more easily in places like the West End :( I don't know where or how he got it but he was the kind of person who would know :(

Did you post on the wrong thread?!

Hi James Hope you had a great holiday. I am having problems with the recycling people chucking my small brown bin into my small front garden after emptying it, and each week aiming it at the same place and breaking more and more off the same terracotta pot and flowers. This has been going on for four weeks now, despite the fact that there is a clear and separate place where my bins including this bin are kept. I have emailed you about it, as I want to complain to the council, but I wonder whether anybody else is having similar problems?

Thought I was over it, then woke up today feeling like crap. My OH has it as well :( So much to do, and so little energy. Wondering whether to just give into it and go to bed :( I'm presently just sitting staring at my very long to do list (and posting on here, obv).

Grok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have been to quite a few of your gigs Sue, at > various venues, including singarounds. > So where have the aisles and escape routes ever been blocked with chairs, exactly? And when have we ever crammed people in to take more ticket money? Please give me examples. Even at our club nights we have always turned people away as soon as the room became unsafely crowded. We have never yet had to do that at a Singaround, which in any case (as you will know if you have been to one) are unticketed, but we would have done if the numbers got unsafely large. I look forward to your response. It's really worrying that somebody who posts such crap on here may be coming to our gigs :( Our punters are generally really lovely people.

Rolo Tomasi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Common myth. Really? When I used to work for a public sector employer, many moons ago when I actually had a budget, I had to use it by the end of the financial year or it was lost. And so did others. Not only that, but as BNG implies above, if you did not use all your budget it was assumed that you had too much and it was cut back in the following year. Have things changed, then?

Is there any reason why you don't want the old fashioned kind? Space? Cost of tuning? I don't have a lot of experience of digital pianos, so may be completely wrong, but the few I have played just did not have the response of a "proper" piano in terms of sensitivity. Maybe they have improved or I was just unlucky.

Grok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, re common sense and buggies blocking exits > makes me lol as you dont mind blocking aisles and > escape routes with chairs at your gigs if it means > you sell more tickets! I don't even know why I'm bothering answering you, but if you had ever been to one of our gigs you would know that we take health and safety very seriously and not only do we not block aisles and escape routes with chairs but we do not allow people to bring extra chairs into the room. There is a legal capacity to the room and therefore a limit on how many tickets we can sell at our concerts, and we have never once gone over that limit even when we could have made a lot more money by cramming people in. You really are a nasty little troll, aren't you?

To be fair, and much as I dislike Conway, anything left in the budget and not spent by the end of the financial year is lost for ever. So it won't just be Conway desperately finding things to spend it on. Lack of forward planning I agree, but it was always thus :)

Leviathan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently it was a mugger Hope they got the bastard, then. Somebody I know who walks with a stick and has other disabilities, some quite visible, was mugged on Friday night - by a woman. The police were brilliant and sent somebody round very quickly, but I doubt could have caught her. I couldn't believe anybody would stoop so low. Good on the police for taking action where they can.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Are you actually "grok"? I wondered that as well. A couple of weeks after registering and a load of aggressive, trolly and personal posts. ETA: And strange that Grok isn't posting on this thread, though s/he is commenting on it in the lounge.

OK sorry Loz, I think I'm confusing two different things. And I can assure you that I haven't visited any iffy websites, Fox :))

sheff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - what happened?! > I just settled down to read the latest > developments in the Pat and Jess breakup and it's > been deleted! Oh crikey, sorry, only just seen this and I can't remember now. I had a PM from Jess though, who knows why?! I guess others must have had one as well. The whole thing was bizarre.

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Irrelavant. No, it's not irrelevant (sic). If you had children you would know that a hungry child of breastfeeding age (and for quite a bit after, actually) needs to be fed, and not "wait till it gets somewhere a bit more private". Unless you're one of those people who thinks you need to train a child from birth to eat (including drinking breast milk) only at times convenient to you, irrespective of the distress caused to the child as a result?

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Deeply unfashionable as it may be to say so around > here, I think the police did a great job. A bit > more of that might turn things around. Still got a > warm fuzzy feeling about it and a general sense of > being a bit safer. Good to hear.

It's definitely the Great Tit. Known in my house as the Squeaky Wheel Bird. ETA: Blackbirds have a beautiful song nothing like a squeaky wheel. Their alarm call is different, but you wouldn't be hearing blackbirds' alarm calls constantly. You usually hear it if there is a cat around. And parakeets are certainly squeaky, but far more strident. The great tit is deffo like a squeaky wheel which keeps on turning. It's one of the few bird calls I recognise, ever since I lived on a farm and the squeaky wheelness was pointed out to me by one of the farmers .... ETA: I think the birds are singing a lot at the mo because it's their mating/nesting/defining their territory time.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Can you actually see your D drive from explorer? > On my Dell, I can only see the C drive and the E > drive (my dvd drive). The recovery partition is > not actually mounted, so it's not accessible (and > therefore my AV doesn't scan it). > Yes I can see the D drive. Never actually looked at it very closely before :) or indeed at all :) I think ianr may be right. Though I have no idea what the AOL Connectivity Service is. I still have two AOL email accounts which I occasionally check, but I haven't used AOL as a browser for some years. Do I still need ACS or could I just uninstall it and then delete the uninst.exe file? Also, given that the PC status is now showing as protected, am I OK or not?

earlydoors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- the kid can wait until it gets > somewhere a bit more private before its fed. Do you have children, earlydoors?

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, > > The factory.wim file on the D drive is the Dell > factory restore area. Rather than give you a > CD/DVD with the OS on it, these days they put it > onto a separate partition on your hard drive. You > can do a few button presses on startup and > reinstall the OS Basically, you don't ever read > that file, unless you do a complete OS restore. > > Looking around, you aren't the first to report > this, and no one has ever seemed to have come to a > conclusion one way or another as to if it just a > false positive. > > What was the process you said you stopped in Task > Manager? > > PS MSE is one of the better AVs around, if not > currently the best. Thanks for this, Loz. I was looking on task manager for the trojan, but it wasn't there, so in the event I didn't stop anything. I was looking there because I found a website which said to do things in this order: 1. Stop the process running in the background via task manager - presumably as a stop gap temporary measure apart from anything else. 2. Remove all files associated with the trojan. 3. Remove registry entries associated with the trojan (which I wouldn't have done myself anyway).