Cassius

Rowanofski Wrote: > As a personal gripe, it really bugs me how they > have women only swims on a Thursday. It was a > large majority of women last night anyway, so I > don't see the point. I believe that one of the reasons for the women only swim is that some women of certain religions are not allowed to be seen by men who are outside their family. If there wasn't the privacy of a woman only swim they would be unable to exercise.

Jah - puts this thread into perspective. Can only say that I am sorry to read about your current situation.

No matter what my opinion is of DM's post, I wonder what david_carnell feels how people who have created on online/forum persona should do if they wish to make a statement or point about something and that sentiment doesn't really fit in with this persona. Should they desist? should they go ahead and risk this sort of commentary? or should they have another log-in where they are themself and not their online persona? Moos - seem to have cross posted with you

Moxons sell sea trout, mmm oven baked in foil with lots of butter................. Incidentally there are some trout farms inland from Kalkan but I have no idea if it was rainbow or trout.

I am sorry for Jade Goody: a young person had died a painful death and left behind two small children. For the family it is a tragedy probably highlighted by the fact that she died on Mothering Sunday. For me it is no more than the sadness that I feel when I hear of anyones untimely death. In the end it was not Jade herself I disliked, after all I didn't know her although probably had I met her I would have had very little in common with her - it is the Max Cliffords of this world who know a good money making proposition when they see one. Even though she is now dead I thing the Jade parade has some way to go before it runs out of steam.

My father used to tell me that 'football was a game for gentlemen played by animals, and rugby was a game for animals played by gentleman' - amazing he died 16 years ago and was able to predict Wayne Rooney's antics on Saturday!!! My mother used to tell me after an argument that although she didn't like me very much at that moment she would always love me no matter what I did.

But don't forget folks that eating out is a nasty disgusting middle class habit - how dare we want to sit down and relax in front of a meal that we haven't bought ourselves from Iceland.

though balding sexagenarians in blue t-shirts are two-a-penny in the CPT You make it sound so tempting!!

I don't like the idea of the paranormal but still defy anyone to spend the night alone in Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes in Devon.

58, 18, looks like ? and 17.

....... eaten anything from Greggs ........bought anything from Mrs Robinson ........drunk in The Castle ........watched Corrie ........read The Star ........read The Morning Star

Best sunrise - over the Dead Sea. Best sunset - over a lake in Mexico in the jungle - seemed to go on and on and .....................

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fox poo tends to be a lot looser than dog faeces > and the smell is x 10! or more like x 100

Taped to mull over later - how can William Petersen do this .............

"The single was released on Chrysalis Records on January 15, 1981, peaking for 4 weeks at #2 in the UK singles chart."

Don't know if this has been done in the dim and distant past - apologies if it has:- Anyway I'd nominate Ultravox 'Vienna' for the best record to be kept off the number one spot - and in this case by the dreadful 'Shutuppa your Face' by Joe Dolce.

Best dive - diving through kelp forests off the Cornish coast (never had the chance to dive abroad alas and alack)

Best sushi I've ever had, top floor of the now gone Marriot hotel looking down on New York harbour.

Well actually Louisa until recently Torquay (being full of middle class snobs AND chavs !!!) had a huge variety of shops - from Greggs and Pound shops all the way to chi chi boutiques that would equal Mrs Robinson for range and price of clothes. I used the example merely to illustrate how lucky we are in LL to still have a busy and thriving shopping street (even if some of the shops are not to your particular liking) I would suggest that Exeter is buzzing more because it has a very good University rather than anything else.

What I really don't understand is if someone dislikes so much about a place, why BE there. ED is not perfect - nowhere is, but I'd rather be in ED than in Dalston, or alternatively than in somewhere really chi chi like Richmond. There are lots of shops I don't go in on LL - some are too expensive, some sell products I don't like or are not interested in, but I'd rather there ARE shops rather than empty shop fronts. In Devon where I originate from, Torquay has 46% empty shops. Just be glad that we are not like that (yet)

Surely inverse snobbery is just as elitist as snobbery. I agree that 'chav' is a lazy and insulting tag, however it is just as lazy and insulting to make assumptions that anyone who would want to shop in William Rose, Mrs Robinson (or who prefers an EDD sausage roll to a Greggs one) etc etc is a middle class idiot who has more money than sense.

Wonder if Tas would be interested - I really like their food (AND they actually do Pide)

I'd quite like to see inside Jenny Eclairs RIBA winning house on Denmark Hill - looked good on the telly.

Australia - amazing cricket grounds. Wonderful seafood - Morton Bay Bugs rule!! Fantastic weather (but then I LIKE it over 30 degrees), but certainly agree with small town mentality and some overtly racist attitudes. I was there for 18 days and would love to go back again for longer but wouldn't want to live there.

I didn't eat burgers even when I did eat meat - the smell of them made my stomach churn. Like Asset I am concerned that a McDonalds will lead to even more rubbish in the streets.