malumbu

Wow In my youth we freely used mong (downs) and spas (spastic) as insults. Thanks God we've moved on. If that is too politically correct for you then it is a sad day. Now I don't car about chalkboard vs blackboard, and brainstorm vs brainshower. It just seems to be a shallow insult/argument quoting PC. Whilst funny tubby comics such as Jo Brand used their size to good comic effect, and perhaps as she lives just down the road she would sit on you. In a crushing rather than other sense. Go and think about your words and write a 500 word essay.

Quite peed off with reductions in the London Bridge to Croydon (West and East) lines which will be fast (ie ignore much of Sarf East London) and my fast route to Gatwick.

No it aint, certainly Easyjet is much easier as I use both

I was going to just mention infiltration (by West Wickham and Beckenham) and with the migration of the hipsters from Shoreditch to Peckham, maybe we are seeing the same for older professionals from Bromley to SE22. Just look at the voting in the last general election and the referendum to understand there is a massive difference in demographics if not necessarily educuation/class

Its a no brainer. Sadly there are a lot of people with no brain. It wastes fuel and adds to pollution. Sadly the cops wont take action (in fact many of them have no brains too) but some local authorities do get their enforcement officers to do so. FPN. If you ask a no-brain to carry out a no-brainer action and turn it off, you are likely to get abuse. Cars are being progressively fitted with stop start which will switch the engine off. You no longer need to let cars warm up. Many leave them idling whilst tbey make a call or on one recent occasion smoke a joint. For once I would have been happy to grass (ha ha) on them if a bizzy had come by.

Salsaboy - why do you seem to have to revert to the language of the street? Gervais is in deed over rated and not funny. Do insult him for that but not his size. You should organise a one to one with aforementioned Nick Helm (a fat and bearded fcuk to use your terminology) where you can fcuk and cant at each other to your hearts content. Preferably in a sealed room without any connection to the outside world where nobody can hear you or read about it. The last one alive wins. Now that is what I call funny.

I don't usually join in beyond telling your lot to support your local team but that was so poor tonight.

Some great reminiscing (Sea Monster is of course Jo Brand) and similarly not a fan of Jimmy Carr. Remember being fortunate to have conversations with the likes of Arthur Smith. Two favourite stories at EDC were once when a scream went up due to a spider and the act said that this was the first time he'd been heckled by an aracnid. And another time when some act was getting grief so my mate turns on the member of the audience. "great the heckler is being heckled". You had to be there of course. But was the poo that I saw on Friday night dreadful or do I not understand 2010s comedy? I reckon it was dreadful but surprised that people just didn't walk out but seemed to thing ranting expletives was hilarious.

I have just checked in with Ryanair for a flight on Sunday. I remember a few years ago talking to a friend where he said "booking with Ryanair" - yes "did it take you a long time" - yes, as you were so paranoid that you would get one thing wrong for example not unchecking a box. And then Michael O'Leary woke up to how so many people hated them, irrespective of their competitive prices. And suddenly their Website was so much easier (not as easier as others) and you dropped your guard. Even when it said "are you friggin stupid for not getting insurance, only idiots dont check this box". But now the dark powers are back and checking in leads to a return of paranoia. They are also now restricting checking in to four days rather than the seven they had sensibly adopted. I think/hope that I didn't get conned into paying ?8 per seat. But I am not 100% sure. OK so they are a no frills airline and have to make their money somehow. Buyer beware of course but I do feel rather violated.

Both computers in red dwarf - Norman Lovett and Harry Hayridge were/are comedians. Great to hear all of the above but am I an old git to say it was better then? And yes, watch some of the editions of the Young Ones, some haven't stood the teat so well.

I should have said I would have had a better night listening to the Archers (I wont spoil the plot but a Ken and Deidrie moment) then going to the comedy at the Ivy (as suggested above) and watching the Last Leg on Channel 4 +1. Think there are two points - the 'stadium' comedy gigs - not to say they aren't talented but just not my scene and this stuff I saw on Friday night which is anything but safe but I thought was dreadful. I suppose it it like seeing art painted in excretia. Trying to shock but not entertaining. Stewart Lee can do it (ie be rude and insulting) and in the past I'd see people like the Sea Monster (I'm being clever here) and Mark Thomas, both rude but a bit more subtle in their insults. Loooking at the Edinburgh reviews of Nick Helm it seemed like pseuds corner. But as for Sarah Pascoe who is most desirable on the TV and radio circuit? Daniel Kitson comparing was the only redeeming thing.

I've been going to small comedy shows since a late teen. I was a regular at the East Dulwich Cabaret and other venues into the 80s and 90s. I saw many of the established acts in their early days, and saw some fall by the way side and others blossom. I've seen bawdy, blunt, rude and more subtle comedy. On Friday I went to Kings Place for a comedy benefit gig. Probably the worst comedy night I've had (with maybe the exception of Sydenham Twilights nightclub, and seeing Jim Bowen at a funeral directors conference). Stuart Lee was originally billed as headlining, but didn't attend. Sarah Pascoe's set featured a highly unamusing story about her inability to give hand jobs. Nick Helm (BBC 3 comedy Uncle) overan by what seemed like half an hour shouting chuffing and bunting at the audience. The headliner gave a totally unoriginal sketch about Brexit in a Jackanory/Ladybird books style. The Grauniad reading audience guffawed throughout. Was it Emporer's new clothes or just as I think total shite. So dear audience, theres is a fine line between comedy and just ranting profanities. I have no interest in the 'Live at the Apollo' where 3000 people laugh at every word. But was it just a bad night or is 'alternative' comedy no longer funny? I should have stayed in, just donated the entrance fee, and enjoyed Adam Hills on Channel 4.

However the cost of the Australian toilet will have rocketted since I bought mine due to the week pound, perhaps I should have bouught a job lot. Sorry for digressing. wc/sink not we/sink which sounds like a combined urinal sink.

Hmmm boom-bust. Yes in deed. Blair's government was going to rid us of this, noting we were coming out of an economic low at the time. But then we had low interest rates and low inflation, with low unemployment and lots of other factors to encouage us to borrow. This one is totally self inflicted. I am now liking it to the inflation post middle East crisis in the early 70s which my dad, probably rightly said, screwed up his pension. Which will be the same for me I expect. Perhaps if the leavers had campaigned with a "panic buy pot noodles" slogan we wouldn't be where we are. Interestingly it is difficult to stop panic buying which could be seen as a rational decision rather than selfish hoarding (or worse still profiteering). Government say don't panic, but we do as government can't be telling the truth. Media savvy experts say the same, still to the same effect. Usually it is bread, bottled water, fuel and toilet rolls that go first. Looks like we could be heading back before the 60s, even before the 50s, to the winter of '48 where people had to burn furniture to say warm. But they were good old days of course...... Fack I am unhappy about all of this.

I'll be a rebel, buck the trend, and answer the question. Yep got a bog under the stairs. Fortunately there is room for a proper waste pipe rather than one of those turd grinding things. To save space we got an intgegrated we/sink where you wash with clean water that then fills the cistern. Only cold mind you. Special model from Australia which fitted myself (there was a lovely pink more trad loo there before. When Mr Bennison did our central heating boiler his workers thought it most wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6qZMF9I70 Now find they are all the rage and much cheaper in price than our more top of the range http://www.diy.com/departments/cooke-lewis-duetto-close-coupled-toilet-with-integrated-basin-with-soft-close-seat/160720_BQ.prd

I'd bring back retail price control, prevent the supermarkets from selling fags and fresh bread, and return to the 1960s (along with grammer schools and hopefully hanging). To be serious price controls work in France hence they still have village shops and tabacs with about ten customers a day. Opening hours aren't so great though...

Yep

It's 30 years since I had so little interest in the national team. And that was because I was young and had other interests. Now its just dull. Half watching it in the pub last night many seemed to be supporting Slovakia. I recalled seeing us pip Italy in 1998 and singing on the way back on the bus - perhaps we just had much better players then.

It's now reflections 16 or so weeks on, but interesting that despite all the: we are going to make it work, Brexit means Brexit, take control, new oppotunities rhetoric the official reports of Chancellor's Hammond's visit to the US were all damage limitation to total catastrophe. The government's narrative was not being followed. Sadly not sure if the media really picked this up. Report that I saw was 180 degrees to ones such as this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/05/chancellor-philip-hammond-flies-to-new-york-to-reassure-nervous/ So hard Brexit - financial passporting is not guaranteed, multinationals will need to move some of their function out of the UK, the European banks are hovering like vultures, and there may be a tipping point where business moves lock stock and barrel out of London. I am an ignoranus when it comes to financial markets, merely reporting expert views. Yes I know this has now moved to the Ruritania thread

Or just Grok your a cock. Thanks again to rendelharris

Now you have spoiled it and the moment Grok. Go and think about your actions and write a 500 word essay.

I helped/advised a young lady on the way home yesterday from south side of Westminster Bridge to just by Horniman Park. It took me a few minutes longer, but was such a lovely change from my normal hammer it home ride. Most of my interaction with other road users is good, including powered four wheelers. I drive one myself. The grief I got from a taxi driver from the Elephant going onto the War Museum last week was just unecessary, and I was trying to say to him that the new layout isn't in anyone's interest and could have been designed by a five year old. He got out of bed the wrong side and I wish I could have handled it better.

Nice one - have now purchased and sent you a PM thank you

Has to be mailed to the US so not too heavy Tried to get a Ford Capri Airfix kit but no luck so far. A Union Flag bobble hat? He's from the UK but gone very native. Total maybe of ?50

Write to TfL who are responsible for bus franchising in London Write to your MP and ask them to write to the Transport Secretary as government was repsonsible for the privitisation of bus services. More that do it the more likely things will change Could be worse, could be Southern....