Senor Chevalier

Perhaps Sue in a clever double bluff...

Beginning to agree / mixed feelings / reserving judgment. But you have to admit Mr Ben's comment was inspired.

Cheese vendors on the buses, inspired. Now that's a movement I could get behind.

I know these are austere times, but where the freak is all the silliness people?

boned

bores (sorry civilservant - my editing is poor form and spoiled the fun)

Cures (fixed)

Curls Cured (Can we run a bifurcated thread until they merge and all order is restored?)

lubed (and irony for the-e-dealer)

*Bob* I got hauled up on a Hicks quote on a previous thread so I'll do the same to you. Oh and if you're in marketing...kill yourself

Slime

Surly Minkey - disqualified ClareC - pay attention

Not sure I followed much of that HAL. But I think I agree with the bit at the end about the simple stuff. Before we get ahead of ourselves pondering whether a robot could ever have a soul/religeon....parking the OP's question for a moment....There is the intermediate step of having machines basically deal with the tedious crap and thus free up humans to either (a) sit in ivory towers contemplating the robot / soul dilemma; or (b) watch X Factor / Chelsea slags whilst eating Domino's pizza. That is presumably coming sooner than the replicant T9000 scenario and probably boils down to a matter of cost and energy. I wonder whether we will we notice any difference when basically it boils down to what we have today with Eastern Europeans replaced by machines.

I think it was a Frijj milkshake rather than a water bottle with the added benefit of dripping sickly flavoured milk on upholstery...

Today sat in traffic tights near East Dulwich Grove and Townley Road, the guy in the car in front of me dangled a plastic bottle out of the window for 5 mins before throwing it into the road. It was one of those situations where he appeared to be weighing it up (toying with me?) before eventually doing the inevitable. Obviously a tosser in at least 2 and presumably all 3 senses of the word... So what to do. Options going through my mind at the time: a) Pick it up and throw it back through his open window b) Make a note of his number plate and start a naming and shaming thread (ooh scary) or report to someone (who?) c) Seeth with rage but do nothing d) Hit the accelerator and ram his car hard from behind Luckily the wife was with me and talked me down from a few of these, so now I am sat here still a bit cross wondering what to do with his number plate details... Thoughts?

Have to agree TG. The stage has been set and there must surely be more chance of prices going down than up now...? Only human inertia holding prices where they are as far as I can see and inflation is eroding real values. Not sure there is anything that is a good safe bet right now. If you want to invest in something that will make a killing then I reckon you'd have to choose something like Libyan coastal property but it'd be quite a ballsy call.

Indeed - Brockwell Park surpassed my expectations. I'm always a bit indifferent to fireworks after a couple of minutes, but a pint in the PR and then fireworks to music from the last 200 years was really excellent and all paid for by our neighbours over in Lambeth...

Euro crisis explained: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/28/euro-debt-crisis-animated-explanation

A short hike from the South Bank, but worth it to get to Zucca on Bermondsey Street.

pk wrote: "but Sam was a private security guard defending the property of his employer, and i doubt that those who have a 'fear of crime' are particularly scared about people stealing stuff from Sainsbury's " ____________ Thin end of the wedge. If society stood together and refused to tolerate behaviour that is clearly wrong (rather than cowering and turning a blind eye) then we would be living in a better place. Now as many have said, you cannot know how you might react in a particular set of circumstances. I like to think I would step up and try to help, but who knows, I might bottle it in the heat of the moment. But those that do stand their ground are doing the right thing and are acting on behalf of society. They should be supported not criticised.

Suspected I might not get away with that...

You're right H. We should all hold hands and pretend it is all OK. Anyone who says, "hang on is it right that there is a system of accumulating debt upon debt that may never be repaid?" should either be burnt at stake or drowned. If we all collude in collective delusion then we can get the asset bubbles going again. Start a religeon, extend the boom, and to hell with the bigger bust that will surely follow in due course. Darn those pesky dickwads.

Or if you don't know or can't remember the functions you can use first principles and go for "squaring" to give a positive number and then "rooting" to return the positive square root. =(A9^2)^0.5

Not an expert by any means, but Megaflow should work very well with your presure. If the flow rate is a particular problem for you then this can be addressed by upgrading your mains inlet pipe to a 28mm or 32mm pipe. This does require paying Thames Water to dig up the road. When we did mine, we got as far as the front boundary wall and just used the existing (14mm?) connection to test things out. The flow was perfectly good enough so we saved the expense of upgrading the street connection with Thames Water as we had been intending.

Interior light broke on mine. They reckoned ?100 to replace inc call out fee. They would not explain how to replace it as it was their policy that only their engineers could do so. It was supposed to have a 5 year guarantee but I forgot to register the form within 14 days of purchase so they didn't honour it. I am in a rental house at the moment with AEG DW and the dishes never dry properly or clean very well and now the display has failed so you have to guess the programme. A friend has one and has had to replace the heating element twice in 2 years and now bought a different make. I assumed it was univerally accepted that these were just crap. Interested / surprised to hear others have had better experiences. In fairness the AEG oven I have is fine.