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Eileen Wrote: > For a moment, till I twigged the EDF humour, I > thought you were one of Benny's many followers. He > is a fantastic exponent of architecture history > and people come from far and wide to his tours and > talks... Worth coming to hear him and see his > slides. Oh come on Eileen You know what he means

John Sergeant Please vote for me this weekend

It's like the Number 12 - You wait ages for one to arrive, and then two turn up together joined in the middle !!! However following on from Hoser, why is it that buses seem to come in packs regardless of route or number... are the drivers scared to turn up alone incase of irate passangers who have been waiting ages for any bus at all...

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Shiney Happy People - REM

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we're not gonna take it - Twisted Sister http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk/songs/twisted-sister/big-hits-and-nasty-cuts/were-not-gonna-take-it.php

"I'm sane, it's the rest of you who are mad...." at least that's what I tell myself every time my physco-analyst books me in for another 48hrs holiday. P.S. I met Jesus last time I had such a short break, he was in an arm wrestling contest with Buddha, and Adolf Hitler was waiting to take on the winner whilst Captain Kirk played drums with Motley Crue. "Sigh" such happy memories, pity the holiday snaps never seem to develop correctly.

Well, one thing to say about Man-Flu, is that even with it, Diet Coke still tastes like sh!t I guess I must still be delerious to try that stuff again as it is really only brewed for the ladies to sup as they can't do alcohol without getting all light headed, feisty, foul mouthed and starting fights about 'that birds looking at you in a funny way' or 'who won the shopping match' on that there QVC station. These, like not whingeing when we are ill, are other things you won't catch us men doing. ::o

YOUR MUM ??? Why the lying cow, she told me I was an only child !!!!

blue sky thinking - if money / time / objections didn't stand in your way, then what would you like to do to improve Peckham and before any bright spark suggests it no to the following 1. JCB's and Wrecking balls 2. Blown up in an episode of Spooks (although....) 3. A random fire that takes out certain builds (not origional enough thinking) 4. Natural or other disaster 5. Moving it (however it would make an interesting C5 documentry and imagine the size of the lorry required for that one)

In my delerious Man-Flu rideden state I have been forced to choose between saving the universe on one of those video games thingies, or watching endless cr&p on television... the latter won out only because the games amchine is further away then the controller. however I saw the Iams Cat advert - that appears to be voiced by Leslie Phillips and it got me wondering. If your cat did speak and have a celeb voice, would Mr Phillips be the choice for you, it could make coming home strage hearing "Hellloooooo" (very sexiest tones) coming at you as you opened the front door. With all the cat owners out there, tell me who would you choose your cat to sound like if he/she could speak (and I guess in the interest of fairness you can nominate a voice for your dog) Personally I think "Mr Doggie" from Little Britian USA could the perfect voice for a cat. Also Tom Baker would be a great voice, but would keep me in stitches for days.

Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SMUG ALERT > I am a man. I have not had flu for years. I get a > jab every year and wash my hands with Howard > Hughes-like regularity. I haven't had more than a > one-day cold for yonks. Get the jab and scrub up. > You'll have much more of a chance of not getting > the lurgy. Either Nero isn't a real man or dare I say it he is one of those metro-sexual fellows ... my word can't have that now can we gentlemen - not getting man-flu, letting the side down and all that, tis an age old tradition older then Dear ol' Santa himself ... therefore I propose one simple solution to people like Nero... ...BURN THE FREAK !!! (or is that for witchcraft, which he seems to be practicing with this here 'jab')

Actually there is a Peckham Forum, designed to pass comment on the town centre, shopping and all stuff like that, but sadly it isn't being used much at the moment. Would be interested to see people on here posting in both places www.ptcmg.co.uk/forum/ If you are interested, but it has been a while since I last checked it

The Market on Peckham square still exists, however the London Farmers markets is no longer organising it, as I understand from my counterpart in the council, the traders are still coming on a sunday morning, and there may well now be additional availability for other food related traders. Hope this inforamtion helps

One gets the feeling that the ladies are not taking the seriousness of Man-Flu for real here Not only has buggie found that clip, but also I found the following Gentlemen, stand up for our rights to suffer sickness in silence, (well those who can stand that is) don't let women undermine us, next thing we know they will be demanding the vote, equal rights and to burn their bras (Phoooaaarrrr) and before you know it one of them will be running the country. too scary to contemplate I have to say. ::o

( * ) \ ! / Well that one still works

Until I spent the whole weekend in bed coughing like a Hyenia on LSD (trust me I have lived in the outback of my parents house you know) I would have said to citizenED that the best plan is tail end of one week and the start of the next, thereby giving you a few days longer over the weekend, plus Mondays and Fridays are suspect in themselves. however the flaw in this plan is that you actually may well contract Man-Flu whilst you are de-stressed from work and really end up in bed starting at the ceiling, wrything around a lot, sweating and kept awake whilst trying to work out what is going on. (sorry if this sounds like some peoples idea of an ideal friday night after the beers) So now I am feeling a bit better (sorry boss, got the pet weasel to type this from dictation so not well enough for work yet) and having read comments above I feel well enought to make the following observation. Strawbs, I did some research into your claims that you may have caught man-flu and at first I was dismissive, until I found an obscure article in the lancet from 1907 entitled 'Lady flu suffer was really thai lady-boy' the article went on to describe how a 'young dancer' at a club in Soho called 'tak-mi upmi-reer' appeared to suffer from a version of Man-Flu that doctors at the time christened "Lady-Flu", everyone at that time was stunned and accused her of faking the symptoms, and only upon a full examination did the medical professionals of the day discover that she was in fact a he, something that startled all the doctors, the public and bizarely quite a few well known MP's as well. Needless to say that upmi-reer was soon out on his/her arse shortly after. Interesting parallels could be drawn from this case, but I am sure that you aren't really suffereing propper man-flu now are you.

Man-flu withstanding, I won't make this one (actually I haven't made any of them yet)

I am sorry to hear you are ill Strawbs, but as every man knows, Man-Flu is gender specific, and I think you must just have a cold or something trivial like that. Please don't come on to this discussion again pretending you are ill and dying whilst all these brave boys and men are here getting on with their daily life and not even whimpering about he pain, agony and disabling experience of true man-flu. Gosh girls get a slight sniffle and what happens, they claim they are dying, can't look after the kids, can cook or wash up or even go to work... Sheeesshhh you would never catch a man doing that, even if he was hours away from meeting his maker from a deadly strain of Asian-BirdMan-Flu. I think that we should also have a national flag day to remember the fallen from Man-Flu, a parade down Whithall and the laying of hands on pints after... lest we forget the brave men who struggle to keep this nation going even with Man-Flu. So dear Strawbs, please keep your cold to yourself and leave us men to bravely carry on with running this country, the economy and making sure that family life doesn't deteriate into a lawless society whilst women with colds and slight sniffles languish in bed demanding sympathy and attention. (6)

It is interrsting, with the rate at 3% (and for those who's mortgages do drop in line with the rate cut) should they accept the lower monthly payments, or pay the same as last month (when the base rate was 5%) and see savings in time and payments on their mortgage. I estimate that by keeping my payments the same as last month, I will shave 14 months of my mortgage without any actual effort or making additional over payments. but then as a friend said, the drop to 3% - if followed - will buy lots of beer.... short term drinking / spending or longer term savings ? tempted to go for the longer term savings at the moment I have to say. It will also be intresting to see if my Mortgage lender tries to change the terms of my 2001 tracker, which has no collar at the moment. They can (if they so deem) give me 3 months notice of a change in the differental, but dare they and if they do what justification will they use and also would it stand up in a small claims court / Financial Tribunal if I challanged it? Personally I think a drop in intrerest rates is needed to stimulate spending again, if no one spends, shops go under, if shops go under suppliers go under, if suppliers go under factories go under... all with increasing numbers of unemployed and at each stage the lack of spending increases thereby fueling the company closure / Job Loss / decreased consumer spending spiral until we end up deeper and deeper in a recession. Whilst I agree that living on credit isn't the best solution, without consumer confidence at the moment we face a year plus of discontent. What we need is lower interest rates to encourage spending and keep the economy from sliding into oblivion and some government scheme to encourage savings (a bit like war bonds or something) which offers a good return, puts money in the coffers to then lend out to the financial institutions to stabalise the interbank lending rate to ensure that the country keeps on ticking over. And at the same time we need to get people off Credit and back into spending within their means (I guess this could also involve stores once again accepting cheques to ensure there is a real alternative to cash or credit card payments.) Have to say, I wouldn't like to be Mr Darling at the moment, whatever he does is wrong and equally even if he does something right it won't suit everyone...

According to a freind of mine fro Ghana, the Doctors out there also practice a strange ritual to cure Man-Flu for the weekend, it involves the 'black magic' called Guinness not Stella ... so there is a choice to help you all out this weekend.

Yeah Kel, go start your own discussion cos we all know youse is a girlie .... Okay now the girlies have gone, can I let you all into a little secret gentlemen, tomorrow night is (obviously) Friday night and we can't have man-flu over the weekend, so there is a short term cure that lasts from 6pm Friday until 7am Monday but listen up, come closer, no closer then that, that's it touch your nose to the screen and "COUGH" okay that's scared the girlies off again I bet they all thought they were going to get some amazing secret.... ....okay so the secret for the weekend is Shhhssss 'Stella' (I told you to be quiet, don't shout it out) not an obvious cure, and not to everyone's tastes but start on pints of Stella at 6pm Friday, drink one every 45 minutes until Sunday night at 11pm (when the pubs shut) and on Monday, the man-flu that you had forgotten about all weekend will come back with a vengance at 7am exactly... should get sympathy votes all over again, but as long as you don't tell anyone what you plans over the weekend are... Right back to coughing up fur balls, making horrible sounds, slobbing around the house in my trollies and farting a lot cos I have Man-Flu (I have never worked out why I live alone you know!! :-$)

A friend of mine swears by "Good ol' Chicken Soup" - but she is a girl and what do they know about Man-Flu ??? Newcastle Brown Ale is also a good cure (or at least a temporary way to forget the suffering !!!)

Oh Dear I woke up this morning with what can only be described as full blown, potentially terminal, man flu... looks like the season is upon us already gentlemen. Symptons appear to be a slightly sore throat, cough, maybe a bloked nose and mild ear ache. Sadly I may have already accidently passed it on to everyone in the Rye and Clockhouse last night, if you were drinking in either of these establishments or start to show any of the described symptoms then I would suggest calling your boss now and booking a fortnight sick leave from work as a precaution. It may also be a good idea to leave a note for your milkman (or the Ocardo driver) to leave the following additional items for you. ....A Night Nurse (of any description) ....Extra Milk (for all the tea you will need to consume) ....A loaf of bread (it's too hard to cook for ourselves in thus condition so dry bread will be okay) ....A crate of beer/bottle of Whisky (for medicinal reasons only) ....A copy of Nuts / Loaded / FHM / The Beano (to stop you getting bored) ....A set of spare batteries for the remote (see above) ....A get well sympathy card that you can fill in yourself to make people think it is worse then it is. Good Luck Gentlemen and I hope to see you all on the other side of the Man-Flu Pandemic that is just starting to hit us all.... :(