Earl Aelfheah

TheCat is right. These are two different things. One is an example of a female employee being paid less than men doing the same job (which is unlawful). The second figure relates (presumably) to the gender pay gap, which tells you the difference between the average pay of all female employees and the average pay of all male employees (which is about representation). A couple of highly paid executives of either gender can skew the latter.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plain fairy lights in the trees, like near The > Cut, or Herne Hill. This. perfect

It's not just cigarettes, it's any kind of littering - except dog poo, for which the fine is only ?50 bizarrely. Personally I'd rather pick up someone's sweet wrapper than their canine's excretions.

We don't want no foreign cheese anyway. We want Austin allegros and dairylee.

When we were kids we all had the full name, address and date of birth of one of our ex-classmates (he'd moved school) memorised. If ever we were asked for our details we'd reel it off without hesitation. He must have quite the record by now.

bobbsy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rendelharris Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > They will call the police - seen it happen in > > Brixton. Failure to give your details is a > > criminal offence. > > > > On a sidenote, does dropping a butt down a > grating > > - storm drains etc - constitute littering (I > mean > > legally)? > > Call the police? I guess that it's much more > pleasant for the police to come to charge a litter > bug than a serious crime. And for arguments sake - > would the theoretical litterbug wait around for > the police to come? I find it all a bit > ridiculous. That's when they get the helicopters out.

BTW - The 'redevelopment' of Denmark Hill was originally a ?4.18 million project to make Denmark Hill accessible. The works overran by more than a year and cost an additional 2 million pounds. It was a disgraceful example of mismanagement of public finances and from what I can tell, no one was ever held to any kind of account for it. We've been left with a station that is an accident waiting to happen.

It's only a matter of time until people get hurt I fear. I cannot understand why they didn't put another entrance / exit on Windsor Walk

So ?50 if you leave sh1t on the street, but ?80 for a cigerette butt?

I have a little penknife key ring on my keys (like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victorinox-Classic-Swiss-Army-Pocket/dp/B001BRTVZ6/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_200_lp_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DCRT2471HFQF4GQCN8VC ). I use it all the time.

What about spitting? Swearing?

The Irish Government has done more to protect the interests of UK citizens than our own representatives.

No one should drop litter and people doing so should be challenged. But ?80 is not a trivial amount of money for many and seems quite disproportionate.

Camberwell still not having a tube station after 60 odd years of campaigning is ridiculous.

In almost any other part of zone 2 /3 London you're a short walk, or bus ride from a tube. I don't expect to have a tube station in ED, but how does anyone justify the fact that 90% of SE London is completely absent from the tube network and there is no plan to address it (indeed we keep adding new lines to already well served areas)?

For someone struggling to make ends meet, getting an ?80 could really tip them over the edge... just for dropping a chip. It's ridiculous.

It's the snow in your glove box the police are more interested in.

?80 is a lot of money and could really hurt some people. Surely giving people a warning and making them dispose of it properly would be more proportionate.

...Much like Dulwich Fox.

.. he's also infallible apparently.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was taught at primary school that the meaning of > "lead us not into temptation" was that one was > asking God to lead us away from temptation, i.e. a > translation/expansion would read "Lead us so that > we can follow you away from temptation." Even as > a small child I remember thinking it'd surely be a > bit easier if God just abolished the old > temptation in the first place... But that would remove free will - which is apparently His gift to us. There is of course the argument that all things can only really exist in opposition. Without cold, how would you know warmth for example? In terms of changing the prayer - my understanding is that the Pope can do what he likes. He's God's envoy on earth and as such has a hotline to Him upstairs.

I don't want to sell. I like the area. I just wish it didn't take over an hour to get in to town in the morning.

DulwichLondoner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We have decided we have had enough and want to > move. It?s a shame, a real shame, because we both > used to love the area. The real question is > whether we should try to sell and buy at the same > time, or sell, rent for a while, and then buy. > Depending on what happens to the UK economy and > the housing market, renting for a while might end > up costing the same or less. Or not ? where is a > crystal ball when you need one? An estate agent recently told me that ED was a lot less popular than it used to be, mainly due to the deteriorating transport situation.

It's going to start falling apart in days.

Just some plain white fairy lights would be nice. I guess we might as well wait a couple more years now, by which time they may have come back into fashion.