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It's supply and demand. If Russia turns the screw then the price goes up. That said they'd be cutting off an important source of revenue. Unless we have a long hard winter, when storage is depleted, plus loss of North Sea production due to poor weather, and say technical issues, UK is very resilient. Big mistakes made late Thatcher and successive governments on energy policy, but that is another issue.

London and New York, the greatest cities in the world. Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Brighton, lovely to visit, and Bohemian too. Kent - some beautiful countryside but can be rabid.

For mobile it is rubbish. 4G barely exists too. Dunno why I have stayed with it for so long. Separately my work switched to EE and the signal is poo both in central London and up the hill. VOIP is even worse - I joke that it would be easier to have two plastic cups and a length of string for calls at work. Technology eh? Typed from a laptop in Bedford working with a mobile Vodaphone 4G box.

It was with work. I can cycle and my claim is for about ?2. Return on public transport via zone 1 would be 3 times that, so no issues with claiming for a Thames Clipper. Foot tunnel always takes so long, but it still feels wrong going via Tower Bridge. The Clipper is very cycle friendly and you can have a morning beer too. If you wanted. I'll have to try all three routes and write an article for the Grauniad.

There used to be a floating night club in Newcastle called Tuxedo (Princess, and Royale, two former car ferries). At a later date one moved up or down river to Tees where it became some sordid place (strip bar or similar) near to Middlesborough FC. Sounds like similar things happening at the Hamlet ground. None of this Tuscany business, old fashioned football fans.

Considered doing the Thames Clipper from Surrey Quays to Canary Wharf, but have chickened out so far as worried about getting lost this side of the river so do the Greenwich foot tunnel. Always takes 15 mins longer than I expect.

Wow. FM. Vigilantism/chattering classes gone mad. And we have the cheek to complain about the Daily Mail. Shop them to the feds. Job done. Well done. Been there done it myself a number of times.

And I expect they will put fake grass down too. You don't get petrol stations on their own anymore as the profit margins are too tight. You need retail too. Shame there wont be a Toys R Us (or Jamie's Italian) but hopefully a Harvester. Now if it was a Waitrose... (I am being ironic)

Debate and a bit of teasing (not trolling). Good to keep it anonymous. I left a previous forum (cough, FH, cough) as there was too much control, and after meeting some of the main contributors found out one was an opinionated wonker in real life as well as on line. I am sure he/she is monitoring this. Main issue is a number of interesting posters have gone in recent months.

Shop them, stop them, or shut up. And to the moaning minies out there far more health issues with (legally) burning wood, in an open fire or approved wood burner, the latter being well trendy around here. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/01/pollutionwatch-wood-burning-worsening-uk-air-quality (It's been known about for years, but the Guardian is often behind the times)

Please please tell me now as Duran Duran once sung. What can we do as individuals - not just the current incident.

Thanks JohnL. A big raspberry to Tractorlad. Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi. All places you have to stop off on an intercontinental flight, where you have brash glitzy duty frees at silly time in the morning. All the same to me. Due to geography we are plugged into the Norwegian main either at the gas/oil well, or though massive interconnectors. Therefore not dependent on the Ruskies. But them buggering around does affect nearer neighbours such as Poland, Ukraine and Germany and they can have a stranglehold. Geopolitical instability shouldn't affect supply to the UK, but will up the price.

I was pretty horrified when the World Cup went to Russia (and Dubai for balance). I'm following the sad situation in Syria and had planned to put a thread on before now. I know a fair amount about nasty stuff - chemical biological nuclear (and know what CBRNE stands for). I was involved in some of the Litvinenko response. Hey, let's not push him under a bus, let's do something far more exotic so the world know who we are. There will be lots of talk about what we do as a nation. What do I do as an individual? This is not first world problem. This is a global issue. FFS we talked about Russia as a trade partner post-Brexit. Answers please. No facetious ones, leave those for the threads that deserve it. I know geopolitics and the new world order goes beyond one nation.

Fake lawns are crossing a red line. Do reconsider. Millions of people have dogs and have kids, and live with the beauty of a real lawn, that provides a little bit of biodiversity. Please don't pave over paradise and put up a parking lot.

Four e-mails today from Ryanair, three for my flight on Friday and one on a forthcoming flight to Carcassonne. Bless. BA still free for bikes and before the summer kids hols flights look very reasonable. Planes are all a bit tatty, free food gone but....

Breaking news - after refusing to pay me compensation a mate who traveled on the same flight used an 'agent' (FlightCompensation.com) to chase them. Amazingly he has just got ?125 compensation (after costs) so at a minimum that is 180 passengers x ?125 = about ?20 grand they should have readily paid out under the EU compensation scheme. Full amount would be around ?220 with current exchange rate so you can make that more than ?30k I'll be hopefully doing similar. We were both quite surprised as expected that Michael could keep on hiding behind that "not my fault gov" or refusing to answer his mail. Courts are involved and not sure how much Ryanair contribute to legal costs, or perhaps the recovery company is so slick it is got this down to a tee. Please don't do me any bleeding hearts stuff about what a great company they are. I use them because they are cheap and fly to places other airlines don't. Happy to pay an extra fiver if they start treating customers better and stop bombarding me with spam.

I went to see the LPO at QEII hall once and someone rustled with a bag of sweets for most of the concert. That's why I wont go to the Southbank again. There are annoying people at most events that I go to. People of all ages and all walks of life are addicted to their phones. This may apply to you too. And one of the great mysteries of life is why they sell popcorn at all cinemas. No doubt it is totally silent at the Picturehouse, apart from the end when there is a round of applauds, people stay for the credits and then discuss the film as they leave. I wont be finding out.

Mirror in the kitchen?

The purpose of this thread was to come up with some amusing links to other forums, a few of you have done this and there has been some light hearted banter. The thread has now run its course, can it be now removed!

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Be nice to explain what Cyclehoop is to us people without our finger on the pulse. Google kindly told me. Cool by the way https://www.cyclehoop.com/

Interesting as in the post Brexit world children will be going back up chimneys. They were good times, poor sanitation, slums, low life expectancy, epidemics, but we didn't complain. We knew our place Nigel and Jacob, with due deference to our lords and masters. Then the trade unions, the labour party, and finally Brussels came and spoiled things.

Why isn't all this stuff about pollution, ULEZ etc on the Lounge. Only found this by accident.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can you imagine if only > certain police forces enforced laws against going > through a red light or parking on yellow line? The > result would be a lack of respect for the law. > So, unless all boroughs/all of the UK gets with > it, people will more likely ignore the law. Actually it is up to police forces on how they enforce laws, local authorities too. As a yoof not living around here driving old cars I'd be stopped several times a year. So now no longer a yoof if I've got a blown light I sort it out because I still expect the bizzies to stop me. Which of course they wont nowadays. That's why I don't park on double yellow lines, zig zags etc. As well as it being wrong of course. And that is why others do - as they have no fear of being done. GLA and the London Boroughs are useless in enforcing most road traffic violations relying on ANPR, CCTV and the opposite extreme of zero tolerance that prosecutes honest motorists for the odd mistake rather than the serial abusers. I tell GLA/TfL about this, and traffic management, another failure, from time to time for example in consultations. Some big ticket stuff - cycling infrastructure, increased bus use, ULEZ are great initiatives. Fail to join it all up though. If a car or van goes down the street with smoke pouring out - dropped engine ring, wrong oil or fuel, or filter illegally removed then sweet FA will happen. And dear motorists TfL had an antidling campaign in 2011 - billboard, advertising campaigns etc with turn your engine off you are killing people. Made very little difference as we motorists are an ignorant lot. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=TfL+anti+idling+campaign+2011&safe=strict&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEnvW52NLZAhUSM8AKHRyPC0gQ_AUICigB&biw=1344&bih=728#imgrc=Q3HW9-c5mwvotM:

Damned natural phenomena - why can't forecasts be more than probabilities. I suggest someone writes to God or the Rail Technology Magazine. Forecasts are predictions, based on probability. The better the model the closer they will be. The best modelers in the known universe are our own Met Office. Not rocket science. There's currently a ninety percent chance of snow in the capital. If you got a thousand metre squares and threw them from a great height so they were scattered all over London you'd find at this time it would be snowing on between 735 and 942 of them. Did you all have your eyes and ears shut when you were at school doing biology and learning about statistics? I am sure that there are plenty of night school classes.