LadyDeliah

Can you stop calling it porn when it involves kids. It's not porn, it's rape and abuse of children on film or pictures, not porn.

Whoops, been out of the loop a bit recently!

Not on past form AM.

Has anyone else wondered if the pope's resignation has anything to do with the stuff the butler saw?

Salt has been used to preserve food for centuries and I doubt anything horrible would manage to grow in something as salty as Marmite.

Everyone knows that Uncleglen is a particularly unpleasant member of the forum, so I wouldn't let him get to you too much. He's no doubt a very lonely, bitter, old white man, who can't cope with the fact that white men don't automatically get revered for no deserved reason any longer.

I agree with Burbage. Motorised vehicle drivers appear to assume that they have primary rights over use of the highways, but they do not. The highways are equally there for other forms of traffic. Drivers are going round in huge, lethal bits of machinery and the onus should be on them to consider the vulnerability of all other users of the highway when they take to the roads.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most cyclists can barely carry a pint of milk and > a couple of bananas. Sainsburys have no interest > in them. I use two big panniers and my rack to carry a hefty load of shopping on my bike. More than I could carry in bags on the bus. I see lots of other cyclist shoppers doing the same.

Was the last episode the last of the series? I thought it was brilliant even if it didn't always make sense!

Susiq, you appear to be missing the point. 1. In conflicts between humans and animals, animals usually lose, 2. foxes are wild carnivores who have grown in number due to an abundance of waste food to scavenge, 3. foxes have lost their fear of humans in cities because of regular contact, including with people who feed them, 4. foxes lack of fear is now causing them to come into conflict with the human residents of the cities, 5. see point 1. If you want to do the foxes a favour, stop feeding them because in the long run you are adding to the likelihood of them being culled. By removing their natural (and healthy) fear of humans, you are adding to the likelihood they will be harmed due to the increased conflict which results. Is that clearer? Homeless people and squirrels etc are clearly not the same as foxes. Rats could find themselves in the same position, however, if there was a sudden craze for feeding and taming them as there has been with foxes.

Try the insanity workout series. You download the 3 month programme (I think it's 3 months) and it changes as it goes along. Everyone I know who has done it claims it was life changing.

They do not attack because they are hungry. They have killed 5 of my chickens without eating any part of them. They left their mangled carcasses around my garden and several neighbours gardens. Plus they are very unlikely to be hungry with the amount of food waste people leave strewn around the place. I agree with the comments above. People feeding them has created a confidence around humans that has now made them dangerous to have in the city so you are directly responsible in part for what will have to be done to control them. You have done no-one any favours by artificially producing conditions the foxes would not find in nature and have actually caused harm. Your need to be thought of as a caring person or to try to bond with them, or whatever your motive is for encouraging contact between humans and these wild animals, is very selfish and will ultimately contribute to any cull that is needed.

Or you could borrow someone's dog. Most dogs will evict foxes from a garden.

You could just say. "Yeh, it's mine. Hand it over or I'll call the police". :-)

This might be useful: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/loftconversion

I occasionally agree with Hugo and am pleased to say I like his ideas for tackling our housing issues. Being the rabid pinko that I am, however, I'd want to treble the speed of introduction and tax second/third etc homes under a land tax regime at full cost (not just for properties over ?2 million). I know a young person who was homeless at 16 and after two years in a hostel, was given a 1 bedroom council flat in Peckham. She managed to get a job in Pret a Manger soon after and was happy to be supporting herself. Four years later, she has had to give up her flat, because despite working full time, the rent on her council flat took over half of her net pay every week and being under 25 she was not entitled to any additional help. Subsequently she got into rent arrears and she got into debt on all of her bills. The situation re housing and benefits is immoral and stupid people like uncleglen who want to blame people who can't get themsleves out of the mire because the odds are so stacked against them need to hope they don't end up in a situation of need and find the saftey nets have had massive bloody holes blasted all over them.

Just thought I'd share a link from December to one of my favourite blogs that gives another perspective: http://www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com/2012/12/liebrary-is-uk-national-debt-at.html?m=1 They are pretty good at making dry financial numbers entertaining.

So why are East Dulwich, Village and College wards exempt whilst in the rest of the borough they can take your alcohol?

iPhone 4s on T-Mobile, 2000 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data for ?29 per month (it's ?39 but you get ?10 per month discount through Carphone Warehouse) :-)

Don't worry SJ, tounge was slightly in my cheek :-)

This is happening at the same time as massive cuts to legal aid. If you contact a lawyer who deals with welfare benefits before the cuts come into force in April, you might be able to get funding to fight your case. I know Glazer Delmar in North are very good and they used to have a Legal Aid franchise for immigration, but I don't know if they do welfare benefits. I'm sure if you contact them and they don't take welfare benefit cases, they will be able to refer you to someone good who does. This is a very difficult thing to fight of you are bipolar, so getting a lawyer will make it much easier. Good luck

Not after half a bottle of red, most definitely not!

Waste not want not.

Yes he did kind of give with one hand and taketh away with the other.

Or the Roundheads :-)