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KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hot tea that burns ya tongue and lips :( Yeah - bad - I still have a sore at the roof of my mouth from a steaming brew I made the other day. Mind, while tea can burn (odd that I never get it with coffee), the very worst offenders are Chicago pizzas - the tomato sauce is always about 20 degrees hotter than the cheese on top and feels like it has just come out of a nuclear reactor. ETA: must correct ourselves - liquids scald, not burn.

these charges are built into the banks profit-making structure. They will know that a certain number of accounts will go overdrawn by an average of x% and have the cash reserves. If these numbers are out it doesn't cost them much to borrow the money - we are talking about 0.05% over the Libor rate or thereabouts. It is well known in banking circles that the real profits don't come from interest but the fees and charges. So it's not the feckless paying for the sensible, but the inherent nature of the system.

Following Mr. Mockney's blinder posting yesterday on Spiritualized's iconic packaging for the Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space LP, here's a live version of one of the album's finest moments - .

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > with a bus driver that wouldn't > let one off. > I should be glad - buses are enclosed spaces and they smell bad enough! hehehehe!

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I have started to > believe that Maddie just ran away to avoid having > to listen to any mopre of their absolute drivle. Keef - I did laugh out loud at this - and am now getting bemused looks from all around me :))

reading the book at the moment - cracking stuff! Cannae wait for the film.

cool webpage - yeah the 12 mini CD version looks great - and I didn't know if it either - but then if I did have it I'd never want to open it!

MP - I still have that album, and the original packaging, pretty much intact despite being played lot, esp. when I was a student stoner :)). I remember very carefully opening the foil tray with a pen-knife to get the "pill" from out of the box. I still have all the bits - remember the instructions? Now, isn't there an Alice Cooper LP in the form of a pizza box? Similarly, Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box LP came in, er, a metal tin, kind of like a cinema reel. I only have the CD version, in a mini tin.

Agreed SMG - though airport security here is nothing compared to what we experienced coming out of Kenya a year ago. We went through several different procedures: your basic x-ray of luggage; someone then rummaging through check-in luggage; metal detectors and footwear bomb detectors; a pat-down search; and finally someone going through your hand luggage. And that's before you get through to duty free! You are then subject to a further scan/search just before you get on the plane. In all, about three hours of queueing. Mind, coming out of the UAE last year was a breeze - straight through the x-rays and detectors and into the lounge - which is odd because one would have thought it a bigger target. Odd.

Bad manners on buses. 1) People who put their feet on the seats. You'd never do it at someone else's house, or even in a different public place like a cafe or pub, so why is it alright to do it on a bus? 2) Those who sit in the aisle seat and put their bags on the window seat, thereby signalling to others that they are anti-social and selfish. 3) Of a similar type are those who, when you need to get off the bus, only swivel round in their seat rather than standing up and letting you out properly. It is worse when you need to get into a seat and they do the same, and they're usually the kind of person who does 2). And 4) People who stand on the lower deck but crowd round the narrow space between the entrance and the stairs. Move back you morons! There. That feels better.

sounds like a fair wage to me >:D

hmmm, yes a quick check done on Amazon: March. I may have to buy the R1 copy from the States. Yeah - I was done with the first series in a matter of days. It's just so compelling and rarely here's a TV show with real characters, not just mouths for 2-D plot devices. I love the way in some episodes seemingly nothing happens only for events to come crashing down later on, the look into people's f-cked up personal lives and the mistakes we all make. There's almost nothing like this in other shows, except maybe as vehicles to explore this week's "issue". And it's funny ...

Just found this thread. I got the first three series box sets for Xmas. I am totally hooked. It really IS one of the best TV shows ever made. I watched the penultimate episode of series 2 last night. Can't wait for series three. When is the fourth one out?

House prices! Front page of the Times Online this morning: house price growth slowest for a decade. Font page of Guardian Online: Prices up as 2007 ends ... every single day there is a story about house prices or mortgages. Enough! Similarly, I am sick and tired of the endless news stories about how we haven't shopped enough this Xmas, the High Street has been hit badly, M&S profits are down, Next sales are down. So what? Are we supposed to feel guilty? Because if we are, why then the next day do we read stories about how we are overburdened with debts, and how this is disastrous for the economy, etc.

Ooh, I missed the last one (the combination of office party and work mate's leaving do all in one on the same night as forum drinks) but I am pretty sure I can make this one, especially as it comes the day after pay day. Woo hoo! January will be a pretty tight month as it is, because I am having to make my salary stretch over six weeks, and what with Xmas and all ... I think I'll be needing a drink after all that ...

I heard that posties sometimes have to use their own cars to get parcels from the depot to the postcodes where they need to be delivered. Increases in postal costs have more to do with the massive bonuses extracted by incompetent management who want to run the service into the ground before it gets privatised. Let's have a bit of sympathy for postal workers (men and women with kids and mortgages, just like everyone else) who are fighting for their livelihoods in the face of a purely ideological campaign by management and the government to "modernise" and restructure the whole operation, principally by cutting thousands of jobs.

Klaus - I broadly agree with you on things like Ecstasy and pot. I think both should be freely available to adults. MDMA is reckoned to be statistically safer than paracetamol and no-one as far as I know has ever died because they smoked too much dope! Longer term may be a different story, but then taking ANY substance regularly over a long period can have deleterious side effects. I think the big stumbling blocks, though, are the counter-cultural statuses of the substances in question, which makes the prospect of legalisation/decriminalisation remote. Also, drugs are a good stick for politicians to use at election time (any time really). Like law and order, few politicians deviate from the "get tough" script. That said, I was surprised when cannabis got downgraded to a category C drug, on a par with steroids or "illegal" prescriptions. So maybe there is hope. When it comes to harder drugs, such as cocaine or heroin, the issue gets murkier. While I do think heroin users should be given free, clean drugs and a clean, safe place to use them, and that the industry needs to be taken out of the hands of criminals, I think a society that has heroin for sale openly in shops has a lot to say for itself. Same with cocaine. From a libertarian perspective, I don't have any philosophical objections to individuals getting high if that's what they want to do. But what does it say of society that people's lives are so screwed up or hard to deal with that they need to use chemicals to escape? I think it says a lot about how modern society is riddled with alienation and that it expresses itself in all manner of ways. Some turn to booze, some get violent, some get depressed, some gamble. I don't think the question of drugs and their use in society can be answered without looking at the bigger question of void at the heart of society and what people use to fill it.

Nice one Citizen! And Keef, all I have is a view of Aldgate tube station and a bit of the Gherkin. It's not much, but now even on a sunny day like today it looks gloomy. It's a conspiracy to grind us all down.

yeah - same here. The windows in our office don't open and the whole building is controlled from one point, meaning it can take a couple of hours for the temperature to change. In summer it is baking hot and in winter freezing. Added to this, the building is having a new series of windows put in, ones that block out most of the daylight. Now if there's one thing I hate more than aircon, it's fluorescent lighting.

It's called C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M folks ... By making ED into a desirable and cool area, residents and retailers (unwittingly, for sure) attract the big boys, whether you like it or not. It is the logical consequence of living in an advanced capitalist consumer society.

I've always thought Nana was cool as fook ...B)

citizenED Wrote: When I get to a foodie thread > I sometimes I feel I've stumbled into the pages of > the Egon Ronay Aficionados forum! Jeez you guys, > you need to stay in more. Indeed, citizen - the best I can afford in ED these days is a chicken shish from Kebab and Wine. V good tho!

Hi Shu.Kurimu.Sensei and welcome to the Forum. I haven't heard (or even heard of) The Aliens - but will check them out. Cheers. I think Mockney Piers also mentioned something about them just after I posted about the Beta Band. Anyway, in anticipation of their new album, here's one of the all-time classic cuts from the Wu-Tang Clan: C.R.E.A.M.

there's a book called "Podcast Solutions" (how to make a podcast)

thanks!