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A) Four jobs I have had in my life: Seller of chocolate-covered strawberries at Disneyland Paris; EFL Teacher in South of France; "Assistant Language Teacher" in Nagasaki, Japan; webbloke in London B.) Four movies I would watch over and over: Godfather Part 1; Godfather Part 2; Kill Bill; Star Wars C) Four places I have lived: Stratford-on-Avon; Paris; Montpellier; Nagasaki D) Four television shows I watch: Channel 4 News; Have I Got News For You; The Wire; Armstrong & Miller E ) Last Four places I have been on holiday: Hong Kong; Bordeaux; Tropea; Devon F) Websites I visit daily: guardian; times; thisislondon; edf G) Four of my favourite foods: grilled mackerel; fillet steak; stuffed chicken wings; miso soup H) Four places I would rather be right now: Bordeaux, the Basque country, The Bishop, The Herne

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ken is a shyster. Although I think you may be right to a certain degree, I perhaps naively believe that he's in politics for the greater good, and not to line his own pockets. I also think he's been very effective at keeping the Daily Mail hate-mongers at bay. Until the Tories can find a convincing candidate, he's all we've got, but it will be interesting to see what happens when Ken finally packs it in.

As the opposition candidate appears to be an ignorant buffoon, Ken will get my vote too - though I wish he'd retract the free bus journeys for kids, and reinstate conductors on buses.

> > Scum if you ask me. maybe I've just been lucky. I would struggle not to resort to violence if this happened to me.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or in mine and my partner's experience: > > "I'm an on-call midwife responding to an > emergency. Hence the signs on the car. Do I really > have to pay you ?100 because you obviously can't > read and have clamped my car" > > "You have put the ticket over my pay and display > ticket." > > "I was walking to the machine to pay you prick!" > > "Yes this is in fact a legal parking space." admittedly, I'm not an on-call midwife, but I've yet to experience any of these situations, and I've been driving for a long time. And illegally parked cars annoy me and IMO should be ticketed.

friend of a friend

On returning to England after any holiday in France, Italy or Spain, there's always a moment of deflation when I realise I'm back in the country where they don't like kids. An Argentinian FOF who'd lived here for a while, then had a baby here, couldn't stand the pervasive negative attitude towards children here and returned home.

Cassius Wrote: > Sob! I work round the corner from it now. Looking on the bright side, these days I have more use for blank DVDs and the occasional ream of printer paper, than for plastic bondage trousers and patchoulia oil.

I used to love it too - got my first tattoo there, and my dodgy leather trousers. It's a PC World now.

As I was cycling through Kensington recently, I saw traffic wardens lifting a beautiful new Maserati onto the flatbed. i wonder if they crushed that.

> Well they did co-write the song together. I do > agree though that Iggy's version is far superior. true - not strictly a cover. I like both versions, but yeah the Iggy version wins for me too.

Iggy Pop's original 1977 version of China Girl from The Idiot - revisited by the great Dame David Bowie and sold millions

> The rest of your post was superfluous and utterly > one-sided account of rap lyrics. I wasn't suggesting that ALL rap is like Lethal Bizzle. Lethal Bizzle is certainly among the most controversial London rappers out there - but he is (was?) also very popular and influential. > I shot a man in Reno > Just to watch him die > Johnny Cash > > No-one blames country and western for America's > gun violence! not quite in the same league as Bizzle now is it? That's music from a very different context and a very different age.

I think rap music's got a lot to do with it. If you're a feisty adolescent with no male role model at home, people like Lethal Bizzle are only too happy to fill the void: I'lllll....crack your skull Leave you fu***d up in a wheelchair If you try to clash this evil bre And again I'lllll....crack your skull Leave you fu***d up in a wheelchair If you try to clash this evil bre [JAMAKABI] Rude boy fi just seckle Don't let Jamakabi ga draw fi da metal Not da gun, me draw for da belt buckle I make a bigger boy feel so likkle Just swing my belt round like a nun chuckle Bus you head and make your blood start trickle One more lick fi make da p***y hole topple Greet da bre with a fistful of knuckle [NEEKO] Killa killa real real Ni**as know the deal deal Don't care how you feel I will be cockin back my steel straight Bullets bullets run run Fire fire bun If you don't like killa killa Ni**a you can suck your mom [FLOW DAN] Fi start bun a MC Bun fire pon a batty boy MC Pick up my hour disrespect me Man I go step in a him face with my new Nikey's 16 bar 16 skar 16 noog shot in a you raas Man a toppa toppa and lickle spar raas Better hide, me a bun them boy Bun grass [OZZIE B] Me have a thing called desert eagle Make me think evil And want fi kill people Yo second gun is a Tec, nice You cut a lie me a gone take you life fool You wanna come and play your tool That's not the right tool That's just any tool Alright prick I'll knock you on the beat I'm gon' keep it clean You don't really want to beef [FORCER] Anyway I told you already we nah play Spray these swag MC's right away He's chatting shit about he's got an AK Armshouse comes down the boy runs away It's 2 double 04 ni**as don't play Streets are mine if you force I will slay You sound so gay, I'm gonna call you fake Don't care about your crew bun them anyday [DEMON] You don't wanna bring Armshouse I'll bring Armshouse to your mums house You don't wanna bring no beef Bring some beef and loose some teeth And again You don't wanna bring Armshouse I'll bring Armshouse to your mums house You don't wanna bring no beef Bring some beef and loose some teeth [HOTSHOT] You got a gun troll shoot it You'll say it bounce so shoot it What a waitin for you yute, shoot it No one needs to show you how to hold a gun Shoot it shoot it shoot it You nah shoot it if you nah true to it Yo muff you better mute it If you nah mute it, da glove come off ga mute it Put it in your mouth like a tooth pick It's too late no shoot it 2-2 shoot it 8 mill shoot it 9 mill shoot it Mark 10 shoot it Mark 11 shoot it 12 gauge shoot it Inch 12 a shoot it Revelton shoot it 44 shoot it 45 shoot it Spoil min shoot it Tommy Gun shoot it Lyman shoot it Kalashnikoff shoot it AK shoot it Gatlin shoot it

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The liberal pussyfooting around a (the?) major but > unmentionable issue on this forum is hilarious what can you mean? liberal pussyfooting around in the Guardian

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We were impressed by Kings and had no complaints - > certainly as far as the important part went. > > The 'ward experience' afterwards left a little to > be desired but I don't know how you could improve > on that part unless you go private. this is exactly how we felt about St Thomas's six years ago - the ward was awful, and Mrs Blinder99 couldn't wait to get out, but trying to get hold of a doctor to do the final checks took days. Last year, second child was born at King's - it was a bit better on the whole. I think we'd go for King's given the choice.

probably not a bigger hit than the original, but American indie band Cake's version of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM

if you can stick it in the car, take it to Vale St dump - there's a corner for dead fridge-freezers - otherwise, call Southwark Council to come and collect it - oh and Zephyr's flogging a fridge-freezer for ?40 over in Wanted!

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the search at the top of the page only searches > the last 365 days, if you click on Dulwich Mum's > name you see she's actually posted 1,924 times. I was referring to the number of times she's said 'OHMYGOD'

I would like to congratulate DulwichMum on reaching her centenary: ohmy...

gang? no way. It's Sean, Keef and Mockney's Circle of Trust.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think *Bob* is the master of irony (actually a > close second after Alan) uh oh now that's insensitive

A friend mine of Kashmiri parentage (born in the Midlands) said conversations often went like this: "Where are you from?" "The Midlands" "No, where are you really from?" or even "What nationality are you?" "English?" "hahaha no you're not"

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blinder, then your original argument about being > responsible about the amount of money you have > available applies. Why not ensure that your agreed > overdraft is there and sufficient to cover any > such emergencies? I've been ok for the last twenty years, so this is not something that keeps me awake at night. All I'm saying is, that if in the event of something financially calamitous occurring, I'm happy that I'd be able to cover it, and worry about the charges afterwards. My overdraft limit is in fact too high I think - it's tempting to live beyond my means (sadly, the Panasonic breadmaker will have to wait).

> Well then why don?t you just have an agreed overdraft for such eventualities? Of course I have an agreed overdraft. I use it most months. But if my salary didn't go in, it's possible that I would exceed my agreed overdraft.