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Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- "yep I understand statistics too" Then why quote correlational relationships as thought they imply causation AGAIN? I know why...

Oh dear... are failing relationships rescued by marriage? Using correlations as conclusive evidence of causation = massive fail, as this Wikipedia example (yeh yeh) illustrates...

We got a 5ft foot one from the Clockhouse for ?35 and it comes with a stand if you donate ?1 to charity. I didn't ask how much the stand would cost without the donation.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who? You know, the cowboy builder.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the point binary_star was that every > situation is different, not that regulars get > favours. > I think it's pretty insulting to admin and the > mods to suggest they indulge in that sort of > thing. Woah woah woah I didn't say they did, I said I understood why admin had to do it, but that it might LOOK like favouritism from outside. > It's not possible to have a blanket rule that > either bans or endorses negative posts. There'd be > no court in the land that would attempt that > either. You can't ban negative posts no, but you could ban anything that might be libelous? What if Andrea Binda decides to drag up the posts from all that time ago and have a legal pop at the forum owners for those? It might be in everyone's interests. > It's a judgement call, and taking down a post > doesn't mean it's wrong, just that it's > impractical to resolve. Absolutely.

Either you have to allow it or not, you can't have one rule for regulars who may or may not know their accusers personally and one rule for everyone else. Well you can but it looks a bit like "protecting your own" then doesn't it? What does it say about the forum that you can only expect to come here to air and read views on local tradesmen, unless what? Well you know, unless they're regulars or we know them personally. I understand why admin has to do it, but there are plenty of threads on here about rogue traders and cowboy builders that have been left to remain. Shouldn't they be deleted too? Or does it take the threat of legal action for them to go?

There is plenty of bollox on here, you just have to look in the right places.

XFM or 6Music

I live on Barry Rd and can't fault our bin men. Comparing them with other boroughs in London and various other cities in the UK, I've no complaints. They take the bin up and down our drive, empty it when it's overfull, remove rubbish left to the the side of the bins. I've lived in a borough where you had to have your bin handles facing the road or it wouldn't be collected, or if you put it out too early in the evening you would get a fine for obstructing the path. No complaints.

I find Tesco ok in general, they normally substitute for equal or greater value. Sainsbury's are good because they give you a tenner when they're late but we found the benefits Of that outweighed their unreliability. What's the 25% voucher all about though?

Citizenship fail.

I agree that it's not really viable to have 100% mortgages, and I know individual circumstances are just that but we are struggling to raise the ?20-30k needed for a deposit, especially given that rents are so high. I think historically, it has been a lot easier to buy a house for first time buyers than it is now, which is why the market is saturated with renters...?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But isn't that what a break clause is for? It's so > either side can end the contract at that point. Yeh absolutely... ETA: Actually the above is not correct. After finding out our landlord wants to give us a Christmas eviction we thought we might give notice ourselves to move earlier, but in our contract, the break clause applies to landlord only. > So if you don't want to risk being kicked out > after 6 months, you need to hold out for a 12 > month contract at the outset? After explaining we wanted to settle, we were "assured" by both landlords of long term lets, which we knew at the time to take with a pinch of salt so we insisted on a 12 month minimum contract but couldn't get one without a break clause, sadly. Maybe too many landlords burnt by bad tenants? Or estate agents just being cautious? Either way, it wasn't an option. And we have always been served with a notice using section 21 at the beginning of the tenancy (which removes a tenant's right to two month's notice - if anyone's interested, Google "Sword of Damocles"). Private renting is a fecking laugh.

Sorry but any tenant in London thinking about "enforcing" their landlord's obligations can expect a section 21 in the post! We've been evicted twice now in as many years. Both times because the landlord wanted to do the place up and sell on, both using the 6 month break clause written into our contracts. It's is fair enough, it's their place to sell but we did state we were looking for long term lets both times so admittedly this has made me a bit biased. The ONLY reason we haven't bought a place (because it would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper for us to do so) is because we can't afford the deposit. I don't know whether I have a "proper" job but I work a 45 hour week and earn (apparently) above the average London wage. Friends who missed the boat getting 100% mortgages have fallen into the same trap as us, and most of our friends who have bought have mortgages cheaper than our rent so I can identify with what others have said above. /rant

Ok we're back up...may well have been on at 5pm yesterday, not sure as we had rebooted our router and so only reset the wifi pw this morning.

You can ask the tenants to suggest a guarantor? It's usually a family member since they'd be liable for however much rent the fixed term is for - if you think even a studio flat could be ?1000/month so over a 12 month contract, they'd be liable for ?12000 if the tenant did a bunk. I can't see an employer signing up for that! My brother was my guarantor for a flat I got straight out of Uni when I failed the credit check. He of course had to pass a credit check - no point using a guarantor if they're also a financial risk... If the tenants pass the credit check, I don't see why you would need a guarantor. I certainly wouldn't now expect to need a guarantor as a solvent adult.

We have no Internet either...virgin say it's a local issue that will be fixed by 5pm tomorrow.

Have lived on Barry Rd for nearly two years, noise from the bus is annoying, especially as the 12 is a 24hr service but there is a stop literally outside our house so I'm sure it's quieter if you don't have one on your front door. Find the neighbours really friendly - talk to neighbours on both sides and know a few others on the street. Will second the vibrations from buses. Not sure if it's this or subsidence, but we too have cracks in the walls, as do our neighbours.

This will wind you up even more (my bold for emphasis have removed some copy from the original letter)... Dear XXXX, I am am happy to give the Metropolitan Police Service interpretation of the legislation which covers advance stop lines (The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002). [CoL Police have never fined a driver who blocks a cycle box (ASL)]. This reflects the common misconception that cycle boxes can be enforced in the same way as yellow box junctions. In fact, there is no specific offence of stopping in the cycle box. The legal position is as I described in my fairly sparse response below; the ASL merely repositions the stop the line for vehicles other than cycles. Indeed, the legislation states that a vehicle that crosses the ASL as the light changes to red must stop at the second stop line - effectively, this provides a defence for the driver who enters the box in slow moving traffic when the light is green (or changing) but then becomes marooned when the light changes to red. Taking the above into account, a police officer who arrives at a traffic light to find a vehicle stationary in the cycle box would have no way of knowing whether the vehicle entered the box before or after the light changed to red. Because the offence description is "proceeding beyond the stop line when the red light is illuminated" an officer must witness the vehicle crossing the ASL against the red light. The driver can then be ticketed for a traffic light contravention. Most forces (including the Met) are unable to provide statistics for the number of drivers ticketed for contravening an ASL because the offences are statistically indistinguishable from convential red light contraventions. To answer your two questions: For the reasons given above, The Metropolitan Police Service is unable to ticket or prosecute drivers for stopping in ASL cycle boxes...The driver of a vehicle who contravenes a red light at an ASL is liable for the same penalty as if he/she contravened a conventional stop line (it is the same offence). Regards, Jon Plant. Well that's not the position of the City of London Police - they fined 57 people for "Code 024A - Stopping Beyond Advance Stop Line" from Oct 2006-June 2008.

bon3yard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not sure if its been covered elsewhere in this > thread Not this thread, but: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,561178,561638#msg-561638 Winds me up as well!

This is BRILLIANT!! ETA: And Happy Birthday to you too, whenever it is...it must be coming up if your sister's card is in the post!

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Well I suppose it depends on your definition of bullying. According to Wikipedia (I know!): Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse ? emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying,[5] while some U.S. states have laws against it.[6] So although it doesn't look like there is a legal definition in UK law, I would agree with LM and say that intimidation is very much part of bullying, especially if it is persistent or targeted at one individual. Anyway, to the OP - I think if you know who the boy is then avenues such as the parents, school or police are open to you, but I would try to gather the evidence from the website before he gets chance to delete it. Otherwise it will become harder (although likely not impossible) for you to locate.

The DLR is also on that map. Just sayin'.