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Daily use of a decent bike (?500 plus) would be at least ?100 for a standard bike shop service (consumables and labour) A new wheel every year or so (say ?100) Pair of tyres and inners (?50) Brake blocks inbetween service (?15) So ?265 before you even think about gears. I need new chain rings, casette and chain once a year - cheapest Campag would be around ?110 Twice a year if you are a courier and you can understand the attraction of single speed. Irrespective of the health and well-being benefits, and savings, once you get hooked on your bike you are hooked and you only want the best for your beast. Dunno what your opinion is based on Heugenot - suspect you are just being provocative. Now what really get's my goat is those of you in your twenties on lovely racers wearing plimsols, flip flops (yes you do see them in summer) or other soft shoes, peddling on the middle of their feet rather than the ball of the foot (soles). Wasting so much energy and buggering up your body at the same time.

I don't know its name, but in the early 90s it sold cut-price Levis, did tailoring, and had a stack of porn mags in the back. Somewhere off Lordship Lane. Black middle aged gent who ran it, said it was a good distraction for blokes out shopping with their other halves. Meanwhile do we have any local shops (or wider) with funny names to compete with: (I've visited the boutique in France, but it doesn't quite live up to its name) http://www.hifiwigwam.com/archive/index.php/t-18022.html

Perhaps those of you who loath single speed bikes, and blame the riders for the financial crisis may wish to take it up with the London club that represents them. They have a forum and no doubt lots of helpful info: www.lfgss.com/ PS my last single speed was when I was 6, but I also rode a lovely postie's bike when doing Xmas deliveries in the 80s.

This is a rhetorical question (or an obvious statement of fact) and needs no reply.

How are we supposed to judge whether supply and demand, and effective competition is working? They were totally unhelpful outside the Forest Hill Tavern tonight so not a good start or bech mark. But with so many outlets selling them surely we can shop around and get a deal. And with the recession (OK East Dulwich is immune to such things) demand, and hence price, should come down. Also interested how many of these outlets are legit! Last year we got one from Homebase (aka Argos) - it was the worst for years dropping all its needles by Xmas. ?25 at the Forest Hill Road Supermarket,smallish, may see if I can get a bargain. They are also open on Xmas day, I like thi spalce

For all of you: http://www.chumba.com/thatchep.php (dead on the suggested fiver)

Can your pussy do the dog - The Cramps

???? Do I take it that Thatch doesn't live in Dulwich any more? OMG Oh I am so sorry to all the residents of that posh estate for the number of times I have urinated outside and shouted the 'Maggie Maggie Maggie' chant. So there is this pub in a place called Kings Norton. If you live in Bourneville (Cadbury's Quaker land, no pubs) this is the nearest. You walk back to Bourneville, after a few pints, and just when you are hungry there is a chip shop. And just when you have finished your chips on your walk back and if by magic (or Mr Ben) there is a wastepaper bin. And a few minutes later just when you are wanting a wee there is an appropriate wall. I always likened the Thatch estate to that wall in Brum on my drunken cycle ride back from West Dulwich station. Only joking of course, that would be an offence. So back to Thatch, Chumabuvmbawumgba start one of their many political songs with 'every morning I wake up and I hope Thatch is dead'. So at the end of the gig, at Womad (can you get any more liver livered liberal), this gent says, well I do like the music but I don't like the politics. What are you at a chumawumbawumba gig then for? http://www.chumba.com/thatchep.php

I talk bolloxs all the time, but interesting bollcks, not juvenile blocks like many of you

Dunnon what colour/ethnicity people are but it does get my goat when you get implicit racism "oh if it was a black/brown/yellow" person abusing a white honky then there wouldn't be all this fuss. This is really going down the EDL line. I think at least one person who made such a comment did apologise on this site later. Equality in terms of racism (if this makes sense) may be an issue but is no excuse for bigotry. Do love the term white honky though, perhaps EDL can use this as a moto "proud to be a white honky" and reclaim the word. In case any of you young readers haven't a clue what I am talking about I was going to insert a Wiki link, but then found this in the Daily Hate (only the DH could have an article like this, too rabid for even The Sun: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031126/White-man-convicted-racial-abuse-making-honky-jibe-WHITE-security-guards.html

Very amusing. I've just p'd myself.

Found one by chance, PMd you it. Good night for SE London

Why are so many of you using texts to replace standard coversations. Why are so many of you assuming that if you text someone, particularly when it is an urgent message, that this is received and that this is acceptable. e-mail. Great for cetain purposes. Texts, ditto. I am sure BMS and i-phone have their roles somewhere. But if it is urgent please call me. That thing that goes ring ring. I will answer, and then both parties will have got that message. And if I don't return my landline AND mobile voicemails, then assume that I am in the desert or somewhere out of contact. Oddly I am not a luddite. I had my first mobile phone (a very expensive brick) ten years before people could not live without them at the Glastonbury Festival. No piss taking please, no arguing that I am wrong. Only like minded people join in. I have to have a word with my son in a minute who went missing tonight. I assumed rightly that another parent picked him up. But that parent(as too many people) wouldn't have the sense to call me and confirm that this was OK. No doubt they sent a text to God or David Cameron so that is fine. Have to go, Palace are 2-1 up so need to put radio 5 on, why didn't anyone text me!!!

Gumtree. 50% plus. Brick Lane. Car boot sales. Only occasionally e bay. And of course Bonio. And Diablo (wtf?) See my thread on revenge of the bike thief.

I am so proud of myself and my other colleagues. First time my moderate union has had a been on strike for thirty years. First time I have been on strike. Picket line was great. London Ambulance Service up the road was great. The Unison bus was great. The London buses were great. Passers by were great. We all work five hours plus extra unpaid overtime a week. We will work up our day, which we don't get paid for, in any case. We were not frontline workers so I couldn't give a monkeys what anyone thinks as I caused no disruption to anyone and only hurt my own pay packet. The union is not an individual. It is membership organisation. It represents staff in negotiating pay and conditions. If I had my way non members wouldn't have any protection! Union members whether they went on strike or not, that was a personal decison. Others, join your union and have your say. The government has really exposed themselves for their contempt of the common people. New civil servants for the last 7 years have not been on a final salary pension. The supposed gold plated deals that the Daily Hate etc talk about went in 1987. Pay increments went 15 years ago. The pension scheme will change, that is accepted. Pay rises will be non existant or tiny over years to come. We were a scapegoat for the financial crisis so they cut public sector spending. And what difference did thay make? Be honest, say it was a brave decision but it failed, rather than going to roudn two. It is case of who much (or how bad) the settlements will be, which is up for negotiation but in a very difficult decision, moderates like me have decided to take up our legal right and withdraw our labour for a day. Please don't continue this apples and pairs comparison of private vs public sector. I am not getting into any debate about this, but I just hope that for a few of you I have opened your eyes a little. So proud, but so disapointed with the government's vindictive and confrontational words.

They are a quid or so from Oyez the stationers but that isn't much help to you if you need it tonight. I used OCR (age old thing, optical character recognition) to put a Liverpool uni one into word. Possibly when my hard disc went I lost this, but can scan one in if you are really desparate from hard copy. You can add additional terms by hand. You may me lucky and find one on line. I was surprised how much help there is on landlord forums. Do pm me any time and I can point you in the right direction. ASTs are pretty straightforward, but I made such a mess of my S21 and S8 notices, but did represent myself in court. With the landlord forums you should never need to go to a lawyer. And as for you Guardian reading liberals (and I am one of them) there are bad tenants and bad landlords. But most of them are good and at the end of the day there tends to be much trust and good will. And as for East Enders - wot a load of blocxs when they think they can just evict tenants without going through any proper process. Happy of course to advise tenants as well!

Been cycling into London for almost a quarter of a century. And in that time only changed my route about three times. The suggested route takes in some of my earlier ones. But after all this time I have settled on the flatest, straight line. Forest Hill Road, Peckham Rye, Canal Path, Old and New Kent Road, Westminster Bridge. No particularly dodgy bits, and avoided pot holes, accidents and road rage (a feature of previous routes). Bike lanes, traffic calming etc. Can cut out some of the busy roads by doing some of Burgess Park.

It bothers me for a number of reasons: (a) These are season ticket holders that can't be bothered to attend, but don't pass them onto others. (b) That Arsenal unlike the other 'big teams' seem to attract these type of fair weather supporters (clearly it isn't a money issue as they can afford season tickets in the first place, or they would make an attempt to resell the tickets on one of the authorised spiv sites). © that they report attendances as at capacity when they are 10% or so below (d) That I can't find anything on the web on this, where I would expect to find other people with similar gripes so I could feed that I had the moral high ground. I suspect that it was the creation of a strong brand, and the sudden increase in capacity by over 20,000 that led to a new class of supporter who do not have the same loyalty as in the past. But on the positive side, no sign, absolutely no indication, of any trouble when you go there as an away fan.

Why can't the band also be used as the link? Is this the East Dulwich thought police?

A repeat of my earlier question: Can anyone tell me how no one picks up the thousands of empty seats at the Emirates, which are all counted as attending. Is this like Man Ure and the dead season ticket holders Whilst this question is grounded in vitriol I would still like to know why so many people pay money but don't turn up for the lesser matches.

Phil Collins has gone so it is safe to post again. Abba - Arrival (A track as well as an album)

Aren't there more important things to worry about like the state of the Greek and Italian economies, or did we fight two world wars to stop us going into the Euro. I was pleased to see Benjamin Zephania wearing a white poppy on Question Time, so perhaps the England team should wear a white poppy against a white shirt. Odd that the title of the thread is about Fifa hating out way of life. My mate went to the England Wales match, it kicked off betweeen Northern fans and Southern fans outside, then many of the England fans spent much of the match making sheep noises at the Welsh supporters. Can tell me what there is to like about this?

likansuk Check out SE23.com then you will realise was a seriously dull forum is. There are a few rrrses on the EDF, but to its credit some good discussions even if it goes too quickly off track at times.

Can anyone tell me how no one picks up the thousands of empty seats at the Emirates, which are all counted as attending. Is this like Man Ure and the dead season ticket holders Whilst this question is grounded in vitriol I would still like to know why so many people pay money but don't turn up for the lesser matches.

Can't think of anything as Phil Collins is so soporiphic See: southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Phil_Collins for a good example of this. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz