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Radiator? Heated towel rail?

cockwomble - that has to be word of the year. Remember, remember, remember, rememember, remember, reeeemeberrr, remember your a cockwomble. With all due credit to Mike Batt.

It's the union flag numpties. In the early series he could fly, and unless my memory fails one or two kids hurled themself of buildings to their death so they changed that. I am sure that I remember another series of the time when the heroes had to explain to the kids at the end of each episode that they couldnt really do the things they did on the telly and don'd do this at home. Help me someone as I am sure these are both true but can't find any confirmation. Ignore the union flag, as I am just being pompous.

I joke that everyday I cycle along Rye Lane (most days of the week) another bar has opened. It feels that way. And low and behold I pass the old tile shop after being on hols for a short week and it has suddenly turned into a bar. 15 years ago it was the other way round as pubs were becoming grocery stores.

When I moved to London East Dulwich was actually West Peckham Now it feels like Peckham is East East Dulwich. Times change

There was a documentary once about someone being shot, what happens to the flesh when the bullet goes in, how the body reacts to protect essential organs and stem the massive blood loss. Gruesome stuff and not the cowboys and indians I my misguided youth. Dunno what we do as a civilised society to move away from this, when guns and gun ownership is celebrated across much of the world and life is often so cheap. Killers in America work seven days a week.

I go away for a few days and you all start fighting. Certainly not having a curry with you. Comfort food? Well I suppose there are foods that I like that may seem the same to many but I can tell the difference between different cafes chips, fried eggs, ketchup and beans. Funnily enough the Regency doesn't do the best fry up, despite its authenticity and popularity. As for pie and mash, always did Goddards in Greenwich which I am pleased to see back. Barbur? Fusion not Anglo-Indian if that makes any sense. And sooooo expensive so only on special occasions. Gurkhas is fine. I did like the Indian Dining Club in Norwood, but last time has some bizarre thing in a pastry crust.

How would you go about this? How would you get popular support? Would politicians join in? What would the masses say? What would you do about video games which are already available to most kids irrespective of controls. Not that I have an issue with the concept. Sadly as a society we glorify knives, guns, crime, gangs, dangerous driving etc, and this sells books, games, TV series, films, merchandise etc. Controls on booze and fag ads only happened because most other things failed. And where there is money to be made capitalism doesn't care!

Will the overseas investors market crash? Market for one millon pound apartments has slumped. will the City bonuses mean that SE London continues to remain attractive? Will the bubble that the London Overground brought burst? Will interest rates spiral out of control? will the government do anything to cool house prices? will buy to let, and now buy to Airb'n'b ever end? Will the pension funds continue to invest in property? Will students continue to come to London, in particular the rich ones? How far can student debt go? God knows! Most of us who have brought property can always point to a better time to do have got on the ladder. Apart from some purchases in the late 80s when house price inflation was high, and there was a feeling that we'd never had it so good, there probably hasn't been a bad time to buy in the last 30 years IN LONDON. Some parts of the UK haven't recovered since the 08 crash.

Cycle, I am ancient and have done this sort of distance since the 80s. It's not wet and cold everyday. 30 mins pootle.

Ha ha. Whether it be footy, cricket or tiddlywinks, no need to participate or spectate as your phone can do it all for you. Stewart Lee does a good sketch which has far too many expletives about the good old days when you could go down to the pub and make things up in a conversation with the other blokes (or blokettes), rather than now when someone will Google it to check the facts. He doesn't add that smart phones should be banned, but I am sure that he is inferring it http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/written-for-love/my-perfect-pub/ Speaker in Westminster if you want a mobile free pub

Read an article in the Torygraph (comes free with a bottle of water at airports) that the Iphone 8 had to be a success or society will collapse. How much more can it evolve? Doesn't it do already do everything you need to do already? An early adopted of mobile phones yet I was dragging my feet over coming into the modern world but swapping my work Blackberry for a Samsung S7 made me appreciate having a mobile computer in my pocket. And downsides? Hungry Horse, mobile betting, twaddle on your Whatsapp groups, not needing to get out of bed, another nail in the coffin of our national sport, and even more difficult to arrange a meet up? Anyway the connected world, sharing economy, internet of things etc all looks set to change everything. A discussion thread, not my personal views (apart from not agreeing with the journo).

I saw two men having a qucik kiss in Portugal last week I didn't find it erotic, nor offensive. I just thought how far we have come in my life time, particularly as we were in a catholic country, and nobody batted an eyelid. I don't find Rees Mogg erotic either, but whilst saying he is offensive is a little strong, I would hate to think that we could become less tolerant.

Bit late and no it is not Steely Dan. But pretentious Brummie shite, I love it

OK gloves of. I don't do any of the above. I don't eat meat. I have had food in India. I cook a mean curry. I can and will eat a curry with my right hand using a chapati as a tool. I've never seen a nan bread in the North of India. My word, I am in deed a hero. Please do explain to me how most of the vegetarian slop I have at the average curry house is not the same as the next. Tell me why they add sugar of all things to the spinach. And a bland over-garlicy under spiced sauce. Perhaps the meat and fish dishes are all wornderful. The veg aint. And about 600 million Indians don't eat meat. So I think I may have a few people on my side. Now if you are taling about Bangladeshi food that has been modified for European tastes that is a different thing. Just doesn't appeal to me. I've listed a few restarants broadly classified as Indian which do appeal to me. Try them and let's discuss.

Took the kids there years ago and it was great. So much better than when I was a kid seeing Chipperfields and Gerry Cottles. The former had a bad reputation for treating their animals if I remember correctly and a prosecution. Understand what is being said about animals - I expect that we are nearing the argument for not keeping pets, which I understand but not yet in a world where this will be prohibited. I am sure we can get into an arugment about farm animals too.

OK on the positive - some places that are not Little Engerladered/Anglowcized India Club on the Strand - forgot all about this place but was in the Grownad yesterday. Food is a little better than the review, hit amd miss from wonderful to oh dear, but great atmosphere and BOYB. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/01/the-india-club-strand-restaurant-review-marina-oloughlin Nemaaste in Camden - oh come on we would all have preferred to live in Camden when we were younger (or are still young) https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/namaaste-kitchen Ia ir bird, is it a chain? Not sure. And back to Sarf East London this place in Brockley - an area changing but still with some edge: https://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/masala-wala-cafe And rightly calls itself a Pakistani restaurant/cafe Going back to the real food you also have Goviandas in Soho and the Indian YMCA, canteen 41 Fitzroy St - was a bit disappointed. So the big question is why are most curry houses the same. Is it because we have no sense of adventure and like it this way? Some people I know always have the same dish everytime, and then use this as a bench mark. Tika or korma. But there again 90% of Thai, and Mexican, places have the same menu too. Not Thai Mexican I hasten to add. And pubs with the same food from Carlisle to Carrickergus to Chatham to Caerphilly. Perhaps it's economy of scale, but I can eat in many European Cities at a reasonable price without a packet source or Brakes Brothers veggie lasagne (now roast squash) in sight.

Beckenham is very Conservative so a good call.

Short trips - Morocco including Essaouira on the coast Granada or Seville (nice in Xmas in Spain, much less commercial and things generally open apart from Xmas eve evening). All t-shirt weather in the day http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/morocco/essaouira/articles/essaouira-morocco-holiday-what-to-see-and-do/ Long haul, India, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, but need a few weeks. Check with Thompson or Jules Verne for specials and cheapies eg Goa Great to be away from all the nonsense in the UK at Xmas

Bally hell. I receive great wisdom from this site on faciinating matters. But this thread has been pants. I thought that I'd get some interesting views on money markets, and how they may fare as we are signing our suicide note. How low can our pound go? May as well just have Googled it. PS I was aware that the pound tumbled on the unlikely chance that Labour would win the election. And since then we have no credible way forward out of the mess. But I could have got that from the Brexit thread.

Not where you change. Nothing beats the change shops in Victoria Street. Rather how bad can it get. It always amuses me the rates in the airport.

When will the rates get better? Will it ever end?? Changing ?1 for .95 Euros in Stansted last week. Clearly I should have put my life savings into Euros two years ago when I could get 1.40. Obviously a first world problem but it does make me weep. Somebody (think it was Hague) said that too easy to blame Brexit. Well I certainly do. At Xmas when it was 1.20 there were some predictions that the Euro was overvalued and 1.25 was reasonable. Now some are predicting parity or worse.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Aghhh, I meant to add that video, "What is the blandest thing on the menu...." Was also going to mention the Babur, but boy is it pricey.

They are not Indian restaurants. They are Bangladeshi restaurants serving Anglocised generic food with a nod to the sub-continent. The flavours come out of a huge packet. I am always surprised when people compare Indian restaurants and rate them. It all tastes the same to me. Obviously there are good places in Drummond Street, West Croydon, Tooting, probably Southall, definitely around Wembley and Harrow and funnily enough Gravesend. That place the Cheese Block ran was OK but I expect a bit too pricy and now long since shut. Happy to give my recipes. Well the ones I use anyway. And this place is a bit special http://www.welovehotstuff.com/ Even more so as it is next door to my beautiful launderette/