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annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh no! Too late. He's already edited. > What did he do? What did I miss? > I'm so flattered to be called the grammer police. > I post with reference.com open in another window > to double check as I go along and get BN5 to proof > because I'm so afraid of the pedants. they'll never call you the spelling police! /pedant

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Numpty. are you the Cloak's missus?

bignumber5 Wrote: > *Removing bendies: reactionary bollocks. I disagree about these buses - they are too long for London roads, and bus drivers are among the worst behaved drivers on the road, driving like maniacs from stop to stop. Putting them in charge of an articulated vehicle 15 metres long is a bad idea. We all know that many cyclists run red lights - but plenty don't, including me (and I'm not quite sure what it's got to do with bendy buses, other than that every time transport issues are mentioned on a public forum, people start ranting about bicycles going through red lights) - I hope you're equally contemptuous of motorcyclists' illegal occupation of advanced stop boxes - nothing makes me want to jump a red light more than arriving in an advanced stop box to find it full of filthy polluting motorbikes. Bendy bus drivers often overtake cyclists as they approach a bus stop, thus crushing the cyclist against the kerb. This has happened to me on a couple of occasions.

...and that Darius Guppy business is murky to say the least.

this thread is a timely reminder for me to count my blessings, my upstairs neighbour doesn't have kids and is quiet and considerate. And she says she never hears our kids - being on the ground floor works out well in these circumstances!

nicely refuted Sean, with you 100%. The real shock is that after all these years, BJ is the best opposition they can find.

I liked the title of a thread on another forum: "Does Paul McCartney deserve 785 million quid of Paul McCartney's money?"

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We usually wait til after closing to break out the > drugs :)-D I think this is the emoticon you need: http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/thumbnail2/1994_snorting_cocaine.gif

I've been in the 'God-awful Greene king pub' dozens of times and consistently had good service, good food, and good beer. I went in Black Cherry when it first opened, and the service wasn't very good, so I've never been back, and never needed to, as there's so much competition on 'mostly sh-i-te Lordship Lane' - maybe I'm not the only one, maybe that's why they're not getting punters in. Just a thought.

> Team Snorky!! > Jeezzzz!! don't dis team snorky else you'll wind up getting one of Mr Allen's special bouquets

I'm with team Snorky.

ITV? how the mighty have fallen. Sadly, I know nothing about cricket so I'm incapable of even attempting to get this thread back on-message.

yeah yeah plumbing work hard to come by since the Poles arrived?

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Go Keef! Go Keef! > East Dulwich Forum > Knockin' 'em for um > Six! Six! Six! > > You can have that one for free. *Bob* - comparing this effort with your intimate knowledge of the intricacies of a combi boiler, it's clear what your real profession is.

Faith schools. I don't give a monkey's chuff what consenting adults teach in their own homes but I am livid that the two main political parties support the expansion of these absurd divisive establishments.

I feel for you - we used to live next door to a nutter on Adys Rd - the music used to start at about 11pm and get louder and louder until about 5am. The guy used to bellow along to the lyrics. Bizarrely, he always listened to The Smiths.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But Jah, Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl. "...but she doesn't have a lot to say"

looks like the idea's been misrepresented in the media: Goldsmith defended his recommendations, saying the ceremonies need not necessarily involve an oath of allegiance to the Queen. "It can be a pledge of commitment to the country; it can be a statement of what the rights and responsibilities of citizens are," he said.

> Not in Porridge or Faulty towers really. The two > most successful sitcoms I believe. It could be argued that Porridge is mostly about lovable working class lags pulling fast ones on the middle class warders. And the first ever episode of Fawlty Towers was called 'A Touch of Class': "When Basil tries to sneak away to eat breakfast, Sybil confronts him with an expensive advertisement he has placed in an upper class magazine. Basil says he is trying to attract "a higher class of clientele" so he can "turn away some of the riff-raff." He says it is working, as they have received a reservation for Sir Richard and Lady Morris"

blummin mod revivalists

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > working-class (WWC). As Sean pointed out, IT > outsourcing abroad is the modern parrallel. Personally I don't think the comparison is a fair one at all - mining was a very well-paid job for life for working-class people. The (probably inevitable) end of the pit meant no more work for whole villages. The end of mining, and the decline of manufacturing in this country, represented a seismic shift for the UK - and the 'working classes' were all out on their ear. This perhaps explains the confusion about what 'working class' means now - as the jobs which in effect helped to define 'working class' no longer exist in this country. I don't think the partially-successful outsourcing of a few thousand IT jobs is having anything like this impact.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't understand "waiting years for a council > flat" as a phrase - I mean, I do, sometimes > circumstances apply but as a general concept why > would one write off several years without hope of > finding a job and a place to live? as I understand it, social housing was not set up with the intention of providing exclusively for the unemployed - as the anarcho-kids' banner points out, the average salary compared to the average house price means that you won't be able to rent or buy anywhere if you're a manual labourer - hence the need for social housing. > > Getting leapfrogged for council housing doesn't > affect most people on this board - but I dare say > man of us could easily have been in that position > and the reason we didn't is because we had a look > around the world, found something interesting and > did it - does that make me sound like Norman > Tebbit? God I hope not > > Polish builders coming over here? Not like English > builders going to Germany then. We could write a > TV show - call it Auf Whidershen Pet. Just because our government is not the only one that allows/has historically allowed a degree of free movement of labour, are you suggesting that working class people currently affected in this country can't complain about it? > And although > I'm not going to expect any tears over it, white > collar jobs are being decimated by off-shoring. > I've lost mine twice in the last 5 years to that > And speaking to the English builders I've had > round my gaff, none of them want for money are > most are doing better than me so.... Nice one - I've had very good deals from some Poles and some Albanians.

Isn't it a fact that if you have kids, you go to the top of council housing waiting lists? People arriving from other countries with kids therefore go to the top of the housing list, ahead of people who may have been waiting years for a council flat. Is it controversial to say that? Getting leapfrogged in the queue for council housing probably doesn't affect most people on this board, so no wonder we're not that bothered by it. Similarly, when the government gives free access to our labour markets to (say) Polish builders, it's not us white-collar types whose wages are forced down, it's the native builders who suffer - less work and less money for them.

missd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i know -come on people - this is ridiculous. let > the business open before you go making comments > about how blurgh the food is. > > little harsh isnt it? if you think that's harsh, wait till Snorky finds out about the restaurant's fleet of branded minis.