
peckhamboy
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DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My dad never charged for the out of service rides > :)) Isn't the ride payment in itself? Bob? Felt-tip is spot on here. Immoral, fraudulent and downright dangerous. I shall be writing to Tessa to demand an inquiry.
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I'd second Deux Alpes as a great place for beginners/intermediates. They have masses of decent blue runs (if I remember rightly, you can get back to the resort from fairly high up using only blues if you want). Won't be the cheapest resort around, but probably cheaper than Courchevel and similar places. If your budget doesn't stretch to that, you could try smaller non-French resorts like Soll in Austria.
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You could have a look at this thread. Not specifically family-oriented but some useful tips on there for beginners generally.
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Baby allergic to our cats - what would you do?
peckhamboy replied to Layla's Mum's topic in The Family Room Discussion
Either rehome the cats or rehome the baby, I guess. You'll just have to decide which of the two you want to keep more. -
Projectile vomiting baby - advice please
peckhamboy replied to nylonmeals's topic in The Family Room Discussion
Bit late now, but we had exactly the same issue when we moved from the newborn teat. Went back to newborn for a couple more weeks and everything was fine. Glad you seem to have got it sorted! -
There's an easy solution of course. Cull the cats, then foxes won't be able to get them and cat-lovers can stop having to worry about it.
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Doesn't everyone regret it sooner or later?
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Oh come on. It's ?30 a week - a reward for staying on but not a reason to do so, surely? And in any case, I thought it was established that it was an annual bonus of ?100 that was being taken away, not the weekly award? "those searching to increase social mobility would deny the poor a financial and educational benefit on the grounds that they're not trustworthy enough" seems to be putting it a bit strong. Taking away ?100 is not quite the same thing as denying an education. But then, I suspect you know that and are simply trying to get a reaction.
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This one is a little beaut - well worth a few minutes of anyone's time.
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EDT, Bishop, Palmerston, Actress, CPT, Castle, Plough, Clockhouse, Rye, Victoria, Hoopers, Vale, EDT
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Surely you mean quiet?
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Not really the season now but barbecues work well. The fur burns off eventually, but keeps the meat nice and tender while it's cooking. Works best with a spicy marinade.
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"While you were out" -- Royal Mail false delivery attempts
peckhamboy replied to Alex K's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Blimey. It's all getting a bit heated in here. EDDORDC - well done for coming on here and sticking up for yourself. On this occasion, it looks like the OP put 2 and 2 together and came up with 93, and consequently owes you an apology. It is also, however, true that RM has developed an incredibly frustrating habit/policy of simply refusing to deliver parcels. I don't know whether this is down to individual posties I don't know. It could be that the decision is made at sorting and the postie simply has the card pre-filled and thrown in with the letters for delivery. Perhaps EDDORDC could shed some light on this? -
Which it would. But not a bella pasta or zizzi, please - not because they're "not italian" but simply because they're crap. Si Mangia is no more expensive than those, but a hundred times nicer. Somewhere like that along LL would be great.
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Ummm, profits maybe? Let's get this straight - the UK government did not give every bank a large loan to pay off its debts, which is now being used instead to give huge bonuses to staff. The govt made available large amounts of cash on condition that the cash was used to lend to other banks, in order to help put an end to the liquidity (ie cash flow) crisis. Banks that took the cash (and not all banks did) were required to make certain commitments and to repay the money at a set interest rate over a set period. Once the liquidity crisis passed, banks were able to operate on a more normal footing and made large profits. Some of those profits were ring-fenced to repay govt loans. Banks were free to do as they liked with the rest - some would have been distributed as dividends, some kept in reserve to satisfy the increased capital adequacy requirements imposed by the govt, and some distributed to staff by way of bonus. Worth noting as well that a large number of bonuses in banks will be contractual rather than discretionary, so the banks have no choice but to pay them. Worth also noting that the govt is getting a much better return on loans to banks than would have been available on the open market, plus it bought shares in banks at rock bottom prices - LTSB for example is probably close to double the share price it was at its lowest. So far from taking all our money and not giving it back, the banks are actually proving to be quite a lucrative investment.
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So basically, what we're saying is that the government didn't impose sufficient or appropriate conditions on the banks when it offered additional liquidity, so now we should tax them as punishment?
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I agree that the 50mm f1.8 is a great bit of kit for the price, but for versatility something like the 18-200mm is unbeatable. I basically use it for about 90% of the time now, with the 50mm on for the other 10%. It's surprisingly good at all focal lengths, and it's light enough that I very rarely need a tripod. I would say that for a relative novice on a budget it's probably unbeatable.
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What about a one-off tax on Tony Blair? He's probably got more cash than most banks now.
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I've got a Sigma 18-200mm lens for Canon - covers pretty much everything you could want for day to day photos. Quality is not quite as sharp as a Canon lens but more than adequate, and significantly cheaper at about ?250-300. At f3.5, you still need a reasonable amount of light although it's got optical stabilisation as well which helps a little bit. Check out camerapricebuster for best prices - it's a specialist camera equipment price comparison site which keeps up to date with latest offers etc.
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In 2008, it was about limiting the damage to the UK economy following Gordon's reckless spending. Now it's about redressing the balance so that government spending is more in line with government revenue. It's somewhat disingenuous to take 2008 as an example - I'm sure you're not suggesting that Osborne and Cameron were supporting the spending plans between 1998 and 2008 that got us into the huge deficit in the first place? And as for the question about what you get when you walk into the Bank of England with your tenner - in theory, gold, as felt-tip says. Except that Uncle Gordon only went and flogged it all at rock-bottom prices a few years ago.
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For every cut made, think "Could a tax on hedge funds have paid for that?" Arguably the hedgies were just as "responsible" as the banks for causing the crisis, by short-selling bank stocks and encouraging runs on banks which exacerbated the liquidity crisis. And they make millions. Why not tax them? Or look at it another way. What do the cuts represent in real terms? In fact, hardly anything. For the most part, they are reductions in projected increases in budgets, rather than reductions in current budgets. What Labour did, you see, was make plans (knowing that they were not going to have to take the hit of finding the funds) to keep increasing government spending over the next 4-5 years. Of course, without a huge rise in tax revenues, that means increasing an already unmanageable deficit. But now, they're sitting pretty in opposition able to present the reduction of those increases to more manageable levels as wholescale slashing of public spending rather than prudent financial management. But let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh?
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But if you follow that logic *Bob*, then you're saying that the people who borrowed more than they could afford to repay to buy a house that was worth less than they paid for it are somehow partly responsible for the major financial crisis caused when lots of people couldn't repay their bloated loans. But that can't possibly be right. Vince Cable told me that it was the banks wot dunnit. And he has, after all, predicted nine of the last one recessions, and he looks like my uncle. So he must be right.
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Why are there no monkeys on this thread?
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Sounds exactly like our 17 week old. We're pretty convinced it's teething too. Calgel seems to help when she gets really distressed.
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