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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

Tough and effective headmasters Are you suggesting that this is due to female head teachers? You sound just like my late father!

Stuff this. I am going back to SE23.com. It may be extremely boring, but far safer than this forum. Up the hill I go.

Lord Byron - Morrissey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPdaspex-2w

Don't Don't Please don't Reform. No no no no no no It is captured in space and time. It means something to a period in your life. Don't. So to contradict myself I did enjoy seeing the Chameleons reform and similarly I think the Beat have got a nice mix of old and new (and the Buzcocks as well). All others (including Carter USM), move on, don't. In fact apart from the Fall as John Peel would say, all bands should split up by law after their third difficult albumn. Now I think you can get away with playing a few of your old songs, in your new band. Morrissey can get away with it. Sting can do alternative arrangements of his hits. I went to the Beautiful Days festival, this summer, which is mainly reformed bands, and all I thought was - OK so that was great 10, 20 or over 30 years ago, but move on. Including Hugh Cornwall, who's whole set was Stanglers hits, and newer stuff that sounded like the Stranglers. And Blondie playing their hits at Glastonbury with an average audience aged 22 singing along? Parallel Lines was just so good, but that was 1978 and even then Debbie was getting on a bit. The Clash could have reformed, and there was always talk, but it was never going to happen. Clearly the case now. Interestingly Strummer fronted the Pogues for a tour and that worked pretty well (and the last good stuff they did). Now the point in question, and I've mouthed off a lot about this in the past, are touts scum or are they just good capitalists? I believe the former and even contributed an economic argument, to a Select Committee, on this (distorting the market). So I was pleased to see some 20 million pound bids on e-bay yesterday to p them off, but a bit sad this morning to see genuine ?1000+ bids for ?60 tickets. Cheaper to get the DVD of them live in Blackpool in 89, and buy some e's to get the experience.

Ignoring the last post (what gives you the monopoly on wisdom eh?) Bill withers - Lovely Day (and what a lovely day it has been too)

Cowboys stay on longer Hank Wangford Band, featuring Irma Cetas (now running Raise the Roof, at Horniman museum) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPu54r8gqg

The speed limit is the maximum, so in effect this is the minimum speed that you have to drive. Very few cyclists can get up to 30mph, therefore it is best to ride on the pavement. The problem with pavements is the pedestrian. They have no rear view mirror, nor indicators (or will not make normal hand signals) and therefore do some very strange things such as suddenly stop without warning to check a text, or just cross the road without warning as they are listening to their i-pod or on the phone. There should of course be a walking test, a footpath code, and prosecutions for those who fail to obey it.

There has been a sense of humour failure I'm afraid. Tripping, Robbie Williams

What on earth has OFAH got to do with Peckham? Delboy has a vague SE English Accent. The only black bloke in there has a Scouse accent. Peckham in the 1980s and 90s would have had people from West Indian, West African, North African, Irish, the Indian Sub-continent extraction and no doubt a myriad of other ethnicicities living there. Now Eastern European as well. Desmonds reflected some of this very well. OFAH didn't. To make things even more amusing, the prequel thingy even managed to have an underground station in Peckham as well. Enjoy the sitcom by all means, talk about artistic licence, but do me a favour and please don't suggest that this reflects the people of Peckham over the last three decades. I would personall prefer to live in Walford, where you know you can go into the local/pub/cleaners and find a partner, job or local gangster, no one works in town, no one shops in Tescos, that apart from the occasional ethnic stereotype everyone is all knees up mother brown.

I dunno what this preoccupation with Only Fools and Horses. Yes a very amusing sitcom, but nothing to do with Peckham. Desmonds however was brilliant and I cycle past barbers that appear just like this.

Skatatlite of Love - Lou Reed (or various inferior covers)

Morning has Broken, traditional hymm/ Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)