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Relief is at hand, we are now growing our own chickpeas https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/29/uk-first-commercial-crop-chickpeas-harvested-norfolk

If this is a fun thread there is already one about the irrational rage. I'd include the latest fad of making calls on speaker when you are in a public area. Great when you are on the bus. This tops watching videos on your phone without using earphones or insisting on showing other people your videos and YouTube clips on your phone with your bally tinny speakers. If is is a serious thread have a look on what I said earlier - failure of other means to control, appetite for regulation (oh no, we don't want to alienate drivers....), costs/effectiveness and unintended consequences including the black market and fueling criminality. Having said the rise in on-line betting is feeding an addiction. Self regulation is about as successful as letting the fast food/soft drinks industry reduce abuse.

Some sods sold me a place when we had a new family, and there was hardly any flow from the hot water tank. They denied that there was a problem.... It was an old galvanized tank in the loft surrounded by grotty insulation. Eventually I found that the gated valve from the tank to the cylinder was faulty - the gate simply falling under gravity and all but stopping the water flow. A plumber should pick this sort of thing up. If it is a traditional system - cold water tank feeding both the cold water and the hot water cylinder they will be both under the same pressure. If it was silting up (rust rather than silt) should be fairly easy to clean up. Even our hard water should not be blocking valves and pipework with limescale. PM me if you want me to have a quick look (I'm a few streets away). I had a shower that was only working on cold and did all the sensible things to check including getting the guys to look at when having my boiler serviced. They couldn't work it out. Eventually I traced it to a gauze filter that keeps sediment out of the shower pump. Something was growing in it! About ten pence for a new filter. For the want of a nail a battle was lost!

I've found the vid of Francois exploding, it's quite graphic so please don't open if you are of a nervous disposition

Interventions are required when good citizenship and the rule of law breaks down (a) for health and safety of the population (b) for our economic welfare © to support future well being and our communities It has to be proportionate and achievable, and not with unintended consequences such as being driven underground. Prohibition anyone? So we could ban lots of things but who is going to enforce it - and anything that alienates the masses aint going to happen (20mph zones?). It's all about making money isn't it? Society has to change. Blame Corbyn and/or Thatcher. I love the classic interview in the street "I hate government as they tell us what to do" And what do you want government to do? "oh they should ban x y and z". To return to your questions. Betting. A tenner on a nice time out. Whats the issue? It's entertainment. When it goes beyond entertainment.... So when we say ban the question is why and how?

Not really sure what this thread is about? Dulwich is full of families who feel that they are entitled. Go to DHFC on a sunny day and it is full of buggies. Go to Horniman museum and it feels like it is a place for toddlers to run wild whilst the parent is Whatsapping friends. My favourite is the parent who got the potty out on the shop in North Cross Road and when challenged by the shopkeeper said "where else is Gethsemane supposed to go to pee pee" (I got this from the shop owner). These families appear to be in the majority - yet this thread simply allows us moaning Minnies to agree with each other. It would be more interesting if Gethsemane's parents gave us their view.

Corbyn was the reason that England lost the England World Cup. If we'd left the EU then things would have been different.

FHGP they were the best of times they were the worst of times. Penguin 68 has it spot on. Dangerous twaddle HP.

We've probably run out of things to say. May's attempt to satisfy both camps, with a mixed cabinet and some alignment, to be stabbed in the back by ERG and BoJo. BoJo dropping DUP without a second thought Tories move to the right and exodus of the moderates BoJo managing to make the country even more divided A worse deal and a worse PM than under May yet much of the country swallows it On the good side it's focused my view on what't to blame - an internecine conflict on the fields of Eton Nothing new there but thanks for letting me get this off my chest Cat

Talking about Americanisms it is now Kraft's Chocolate Cream. Although Cadbury's shut the Fry's factory before we became an outpost of Hershey. Hershey Boys, Hershey Boys, lace up boots and corduroys

Ali Dia was also a great player

World Cup Wullie (Scottish take on English mascot when England failed to make the 1974 World Cup).

Billy the Fish Gorgeous Gus Billy Dane/ Charles Dead Shot Keen

First album was a masterpiece and subsequent ones very underrated. Where are they appearing?

Ww marched last week when I expect most of us thought that the game was up. It then felt like a false dawn when I watched the political programmes on Sunday rather than taking it easy with music on the radio. Particularly after hearing from Letwin on Sunday - his intervention being purely to move to a deal. And here we are a week later no further on. What are the facts? One remains. Johnson is not to be trusted. Or should I say Johnson and his team are not to be trusted. Jezza is pretty rubbish but has some integrity. Cameron had some integrity. May had some integrity. BJ is a smart cookie and I don't think that RM and DC are pulling his strings - RM I expect is means to an end. I can't find a clip of Grieve last night on Newsnight saying about BJ being dishonest so this one will have to do www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/oct/02/dominic-grieve-accuses-dominic-cummings-of-lying-to-undermine-mps-video

Lidl and other budget shops suffer from floor space and the time taken to get served. Did Peckham last Sunday afternoon and gave up the will after half an hour. Where is the best one? Sydenham suffers as it is a small shop, Peckham too damn busy, Catford an alternative, OKR just feels too far and I don't see myself going to Camberwell. Now one in ED, particularly as the bakery is superior to any of the up your backside middle class supermarkets.

And do you have a view or just too lazy to post one natty?

The reason is that they don't want no deal. Remember that was BJ's bargaining tool and the Brexiteers cry that the the other members wanted a deal more than the UK did. Shame that Macron pushed for the tighter extension last time rather than a year. Will he push even harder this time? If we'd had the whole year to sort of this bag of manure would it have made a difference?

We had some nasty fungus that killed loads of frogs in the 00s. See them occasionally now, but as you pointed out the newts will eat the tadpoles so they can't breed.

All remainers are supporters of Saddam Hussein? What tosh. The west did a great job of supporting him, and the disaster of the second Gulf War will be there for decades. Not a simple case of a despot that needed removing or else we'd invade China, North Korea, Russia, Syria and numerous other countries That nonsense falls sort of some of even some of the rabid comments on the BBC website. Happy to have a chat about geopolitics anytime. Not sure how aligning ourselves to Trump will do any good for world stability. What did the Romans ever do for us eh? Here is a brilliant history lesson:

Dairy farms - cheap imports? WTF that is about? I am sure that last time I looked all fresh milk was from the UK and there was still masses of English Cheddar for sale. The scare about French UHT evaporated with tinned milk in the early 80s. But of course when we leave the EU Canadian, NZ and Aussie Cheddar will return to the supermarkets. There may be an argument on guaranteed commodity prices, subsidies and the loss of the Milk Marketing Board. And in latter years the strength of the supermarkets (price controls and restriction of trading anyone?). We'll leave the latter to the history books but saying that farmers went out of business all due to the EEC is rather simplistic. Right, now onto the Gulf War.

Better to have some light hearted humour than Daily Mail ranting I say. Theft for selling for scrap has always happened (no excuse of course). Lead of church roofs in my childhood. Controls on scrap yards may reduce some of the resale market. You can hopefully get an indie to do it fairly cheap or even DIY. For Prius's help is at hand : https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/233352308006?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=233352308006&targetid=595627705193&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006965&poi=&campaignid=6619152137&mkgroupid=84510981808&rlsatarget=aud-629407027585:pla-595627705193&abcId=1140496&merchantid=6995734&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi7DtBRCLARIsAGCJWBrCmV9msVOwDohd2aqIf8uUe7B60IPuyK6xhAhQerx6ByORE3vJM9saAtIUEALw_wcB

I had a brother called Kevin.