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Grovelling unreserved apology for not reading an earlier post properly and my misdirected assault. I deserve my on-line kicking and will crawl away and hide for a few days. I am too embarrassed to look at it again.

Here's a New Year's resolution, why not keep personal feuds away from a thread with a serious discussion. And let's not debate what I have just said. The US is clearly becoming la la land (whatever that may be). A nation that has typically being a bully is now out-bullied by its cousin to the East. Reminds me of Frankie's Two Tribes.

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had the misfortune to be stuck in a queue on > lordship lane recently behind a lady who was > explaining very loudly to someone on her mobile > phone that she'd had to take her child to a and e > because her gp didnt know anything, she'd checked > the symptoms on google and he was wrong. > > The idiots at a and e didn't know anythimg either > apparently. Any your an idiot too. How dare you criticise people working to look after your health and well-being. You are an even bigger hunt than Hunt.

He's a good bloke (Ivan Rogers) and all the coverage shows what a nasty piece of poo Farage is (an the ever more popular Redwood). Perhaps those voting leave can pay for all the extra resources needed to sort out this mess. Yes it is still personal. Here's some more stuff. Not vouching for the content. http://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/ripples-around-the-world-brexits-implications-for-europe-and-beyond/

Wow. Lots of discussion but only one person has said report it the police. Find out your local community police officer. Report it and ask them to come over. They deal with this sort of thing all of the time. They do not take sides (unless it needs to be escalated) and may be able to point you in the right direction. They will not necessarily visit the other party - as this may not be the best way forward. I expect they wont come in uniform. I've been there by the way.

Its a take on the Crucial 3 - Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch and Pete Wylie, but you'd have to be over 50 to probably get that one. None of the crucial 3 have managed football teams but Julian Cope is a druid and historian.

If there is a battle of the cheese shops will the loser be a cheese eating surrender monkey. Move away people, move on, nothing of interest on this thread, nothing to see.

Am I allowed to say Uncleglen? or does that cross the political line. I think that I can say Farage drinking in my pub because he is an rrrssss irrespective of his politics. I'd have the Daily Mail in this except the loathsome publication would be a low point of every year. Can I have a highpoint? Hillsborough/justice. Although that could also be seen as a lowpoint of the last 30 years (ie that the authorities' cover up and the hatred expressed by some of the media)

Sorry just catching up on two weeks of footy. An open question - who is the best/most liked/least unwanted of the crucial three Mark Hughes, Big Fat Sam or Pulis?

Gosh. I've been away for a few days and missed lots of excitement. Whilst I don't always understand the discussion I do feel a little more enlightened. My economics is pretty minimal. I had unfettered free markets, freedom of movement and global trade beaten into me a few years ago when working sort of in this area. Then in 2008 I found that this was all wrong and we needed some controls and interventions on financial markets. I then looked into the case study of Harley Davison who should have been allowed to go the wall. But was more successful in being propped up by the US government than our shoddy motor industry (Harleys at the time were unwanted apart from the die hards and a generation behind the Japs). So we want to prop up uneconomic sectors again? And then I see the masses want improvements in quality of life, the latest X or Y, with lifestyle slickly sold to them, but there aren't enough people around to pick the fruit, make the coffee or clean the toilets. And whilst my modest savings stagnate others can get a loan with a guarantor at a rate just under 50% APR. Am I now oversimplifying things?

He's in my pub again. Just as I was leaving so I didn't get the chance to wish him happy Xmas. And happy Xmas to all of you out in East Dulwich land. May you live in interesting times.

Perhaps I being mean - it came across as "I voted out and in the subsequent mess there are winners as well as losers." A contact I had worked in reinsurance and made a mint out of the 08 recession. I'd hate to benefit from the misfortune of others.

Z, your initial post was a whinge. And now you have gone off at a tangent. For some reason precipitated by my use of the term chrimbo. Step back and see how others may view your posting. PErhaps everyone else is too polite, or probably not bothered. Complain to the Council, go to the Local Authority Ombudsman, write you your MP - and then come back to this site. I doubt whether the papers or Private Eye will be interested. Funnily enough I have been there. The planning system may be arbritary, subjective etc but that's the one we have. Looking at the planning disasters around my way sadly it happens. I got nowhere in trying to shame the planning officer/s.

Democracty in action? Well it was democracy in that your elected representatives made a decision. If you can do any better then I suggest you stand for a councillor. I've experienced great frustration with numerous issues at a local level. But then occasionally stand back and think that there is a lot of hard work for little reward. If you really are a solicitor then you will know all about the avenues to complain and how to escalate this. Sounds like you just want to have a good whinge. In fact whay are you even troubling us when the Russians are running amok in Syria and we are helping to provide the Saudis with indiscriminate weapons that are causing hell in the Yemen? And we have a monkey in charge of the Whitehouse in the New Year. As a non-solicitor my advice is if you are unhappy serve them with pre-JR notice - loads of good templates on line. OK I have some crimbo cards to write.

WTF is Patrick Collinson on about in Grauniad money saying all is OK https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/17/investment-funds-bumper-returns-ftse-100-2017-predictions No doubt he lives around here as all Guardian journos do so must post on the site

You can make your own - get some proper turpentine and then heat in in a pan, in a second pan filled with water, and add lumps of bees wax. You can seal first with acrylic and rub down with some fine sandpaper if you don't want to get dirt into the grain - I think it adds character though. Mylands in West Norwood do a good range of wood finishes. www.mylands.co.uk Or Whitten Timber in Peckahm stocks Osmo, although Catford may have better advice.

Is this the silly season? Has anyone found LL Carpets to be surly and rude and turn away a grand's worth of business or am I the only one? Is anyone else shocked at the rise in the cost of samosas at the Cheese Block? What happened to the nice Ghanaian lady who used to have a stall in Northcross Road doing salads?

Umhh I've been driving for 30 odd years and yet to have anyone hit the front or back of my car. Loads of dents from doors being opened on it in supermarket car parks. I hit a car once when parked. Just been on an errand and someone had parked behind me in non-parking space. I reversed without looking and the tow bar went through their number plate. They demanded a fiver. It was a long time ago. Last night I parked in such a tight place on a very rare drive into town (Holborn), got our to find bumper against a Merc. If you own a ?70k white Merc it wasn't me. It was funny and no damage was done (and car quickly moved forward). It was bloody impressive parking, just not quite as close as I had expected. My best one was almost reversing into a Lotus that had parked half in half out of a space and was so low you couldn't see it. I also crashed into a car that wasn't there once in Crystal Palace, came up on my nearside. Bloke just says- don't worry (must have been dodgy). Someone then lightly rear-ended me a short time later when a blue light made me stop quickly. I decided to do same (don't worry mate). Who cares, they are just tin boxes made to get from A to B. Get a life, or more importantly get a bike!

I once went for an interview for the paper mill that produced tea bag paper on the Scottish borders. Wonder if it is still there. Switched to tea bags probably around 1971, the same time we changed from cups and saucers to mugs. You'll also find that men stopped wearing hats and more women wanted meaningful careers leading to the collapse of civilisation. I digress. The caddy was still on the wall (think we all had a plastic one with a push button on it) when my mother moved out of the family house ten years ago, with tea in it from the 70s. We kept using tea pots (although I rarely do nowadays - but the sign of a good cafe is a big aluminium tea pot). As a young child I couldn't understand how tea bags got into the cups (from the pot?) at the local Chinese restaurant. We were really cosmopolitan/progressive in my upbringing!

We can to an exchange for Ricky Gervais. They seem to quite like him.

Thank you Jezza. I can now sleep in peace.

The purpose was to do the sort of things you talk about Rendell. Doesn't help that the real ones don't think much of them. There could be a good debate here but I would not wish to reveal my source.

Been drinkng the stuff for years. Tend to buy the cheap stuff as I am a tights rrrrss. Thing that pees me off is that the small supermarkets (Tesco and Sainsbury's light) only stock the sweet stuff. Then again these places that seem to spring up every day don't have a wide range, and tend not to have the cheaper ranges. I digress. So in the spirit of either being mean, or amusing, I will choose the light side. My daughter used to refer to it as soil milk when she was two or three. Well it amused me anyway.

fourcandles. I'll keep posting until somebody acknowledges me!

Wow. How has my well worded thread attracted knee-jerk posts? Grok just insults them and Uncleglen goes off on a terrorist angle. Not that helpful for my letter to Sadiq. Can I have some more objective views please?