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Like these: http://www.dominiquesonline.co.za/files/images/Clown%20Mobile_4.jpg

Even on my motorbike, it's only the clowns on mobiles who cause me any bother.

Maybe they were angry at the forever high price of fuel at the Texaco in Grove Vale.

Traffic calming has the opposite effect. It's probably because of the hold-ups caused by the roadworks, a kind of 'traffic calming' device, if you like.

The bloody amusement arcade survives, though. It's the LL shop equivalent of a cockroach. Someone's going to tell me it's closing now...

Curry favour Borrowing a cup of sugar from Tandoori Nights.

Snorky, you should go on Dragon's Den.

Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ken is drunk on power. He thinks he can do what he > wants, is profligate with his cash and is a crony > magnet par excellence. Boris will be on his best > behaviour because his Tory betters will need him > to produce results so that they can oust Brown and > co in a few year's time. Boris for Mayor! Nero Ken is also literally drunk most of time, according to city hall mates.

Everyone I know who does the Pickle method has great results with a happy, contented child.

"Just doing their job" Isn't that what the Nazis used to say?

They get paid ?8/hour too; surely that's better spent on their cause?

Some definitions of the word 'chav', just to keep you bikering: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav

Muzzle them.

They're a great idea. Wandsworth use them everywhere.

Which bars, sean? A workmate just had his card cloned at EasyJet's online booking centre. Took 2k while he was on hols.

Wasn't there an old gas lamp stump embedded in the middle of the flowers? Visible here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/vale/lordship_lane_roundabout.jpg

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm so glad I don't have a car anymore. Don't worry - they have other ways of watching you in the pipeline http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/commentary/ontechnology/rfid/

Sub-human scum, to paraphrase Alan Partridge.

Just talking about this at lunch - a mate had his Golf clamped and removed while on holiday for a parking fine incurred by someone who'd cloned his number plates. By the time he'd got back, his ?12k car had been auctioned off for ?2k and he said he had no recourse. Someone else at the same lunch received a parking fine via CCTV outside their house in Camden (of course), the day after their parking permit ran out. The same person then had the car stolen from the same spot a week later, yet Camden would not allow the incriminating footage from the CCTV to be used to identify the thieves, citing the Data Protection Act. This shady practice has been bubbling under for years, and we're all responsible for letting it go on.

Wrens - not too rare, often heard rather than seen. Expect to see more of 'em now the winters are getting milder.

This is why this the spread of CCTV enforcement is wrong, because often you won't have realised your error, for example: if you stop to read the restrictions on the sign in a CCTV zone, you'll get done; likewise, if you pause to look at a map, or drop off an elderly relative at the tube station, as I did once, you'll get done and you won't know until the fine arrives at your door, or not, in Ratpack's case. And they can't read disabled badges, so you're presumed guilty until you present your credentials to the council, or bailiffs. CPZ, anyone?

This would be a drainage solution, but wouldn't put off the taxman, unfortunately: http://www.resourceventure.org/green-your-business/green-building/turfgrid.jpg

Labour's class war bubbles to the surface once again.

Yes, a motorbike; parked on the street; yes, it's been nicked, but found by resourceful local police. It had a heavy chain on it too. Lock-2-Lock - good idea. I do it in the west end whenever I can. Using a cover is a good idea - it puts off the passing magpies.

BJL, they do, we do, but even the most careful driver will find themselves fined, not necessarily around here, where it's reletively lax, but definitely in Westminster or Camden. Apologies to seanmlow :) And mark, if their finances were in order, they wouldn't have to rely on people's genuine mistakes to make up their shortfall. Don't believe the hype, my man. If you can show me any example of highway improvements from your list, apart from the TfL-funded Walworth Road scheme, that Southwark have provided, then I'd like to hear of them.