Earl Aelfheah

Yeah, I'm not sure either.

Staffies chewing the swings are likely to cause damage. They shouldn't be in there and considering that Goose Green is opposite, there is absolutely no reason to.

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FFS - I've just been nominated to do this. Really don't like this BS, but I'm going to look like a real miserablist if I don't take up 'the challenge'. Any advice?

There is so much of this type of 'like if you think cancer is bad' type rubbish on Facebook. If you want to give money to charity do it. I reckon a significant number of people taking this 'challenge' couldn't tell you what it's for beyond being 'a right larf'.

Assume it's named after The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Predates 2011 tsunami.

Wikipedia: "A meme is an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures."

jctg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who would have paid for the big refurb? Would > Punch Taverns do that? See here: http://www.fairpint.org.uk/

Fundamentally, sales is about convincing people either to buy something they don't want, or to pay more for something they do - At least with EAs it's the latter.

.... that said, I do think they get a bit of a hard time. Most EA's I've dealt with have seemed decent enough - a bit schmarmy perhaps, but that's true for all sales jobs.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Funny... I had most of the current crop pegged as > wannabe toff rugby boys, who found that their 2:2 > in Leisure Studies afforded them limited career > options. Not very bright public school boys - that was my impression.

You live near a popular public park which very occasionally has evening events. I appreciate that it probably disturbed you, but at the same time, I am sure a lot of people enjoyed their evening. On balance, it seems to me that you may be over reacting.

I can recommend cycling - only 4 miles

How much does does your father pay for a coffee in this scenario?

Please no more speed bumps. Can't we actually police the rules and arrest the hoodlums.

Apparently most of East Dulwich spends it's time riding up and down on the pavement - either a push bike (although only when certain people are watching, so you have to plan carefully), or on a dirt bike (depending on your socio-economic grouping and shopping preferences, so you may or may not be eligible). I assume it's the same for the over 55's, although Louisa may be able clarify.

Perhaps I look like a policeman - certainly never occurred to me before, but would explain why all the pavement cyclists disappear when I come walking along the street.

Well it's clear that it's just me that cyclists don't want to share the pavement with. I don't know whether to be glad, or whether to feel offended.

... although it does depend on where you shop, of course.

Then you may be arrested for riding your dirt bike on the pavement, but the charges will be dropped later. Page 22 of the Highway Code, paragraph 26.4

So we're all agreed that if you've been to Eton you may drive a quad bike through the isles of Iceland?

I have only once been knocked down by a rampaging aristocrat, but twice felt queasy after a double decker frozen pizza.

Well to be fair, some of those Iceland meals are probably more dangerous than a psychopathic Lord on a Lambretta. Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The ironic thing is - and this is my point. A poor > lord, down on his luck, riding through the streets > of ED on a lambretta (probably borrowed as he's > poor) would be less likely to be stopped by the > law than a working class person minding their own > business walking down LL holding a couple of > Iceland bags, purely based on the fact they would > look more dodgy to the powers that be than the > crazy psycho lord speeding along the pavement. > Does that make sense? > > Louisa.

So should the Lord down on his luck be riding his dirt bike on the pavement, or on the road? Does the Highway Code cover any of this? It's so complicated.

If they work in a junior administrative position, in an office, then I applaud their behaviour - as although they don't have a lot of money, I consider them to be 'white collar' and therefore beyond reproach. They're probably just blowing off steam and who can really condemn a little hi-jinx. If however, these motorcyclists work in the building trade, perhaps own their own firm / earn a six figure salary, I abhor such recklessness on the public carriageways. Clearly their blue collar occupation makes their actions quite reprehensible. Or... maybe it excuses them, they are after all victims of their own circumstance and society's class prejudice. I am so confused. What if they were born into money but subsequently lost it all - do we give them a bike and encourage them to run over a banker with it or not?