acumenman

Remove all bus lanes and insert kerbed off bicycle lanes at the earliest. It should be pavement, followed by bike lanes, and then traffic lanes.

Many people assume we would immediately follow the American route were it not for the BBC. There are other options for example in Germany they have ten minutes of adds before the programmes start, and then no interruptions throughout the programme. Some would prefer that system. My view is that the BBC is soooo expensive for what you get, compared with a Sky or Virgin package. It is so top heavy with management roughly by a factor of x5 if costs are anything to go by.

Thank you for the map Yorkie, good man your self!

A large portion of petty crime is not reported, if it was the figures would be vastly different.

To get back on topic why do the BBC only broadcast radio7 so it can only be received by a DAB radio? Any BBC employees out there.

The thing I use most from the BBC is radio4 and you no longer need a radio licence:-S Radio 7 would be second but you need a DAB radio so that is unavailable in the car which is a disgrace.(6)

The manager responsible should be held down and have his face rubbed with them in the middle of a crowded shop! Making the punishment fit the crime:))

Mr Bull, is there a route map we could look at?

As far as I can fathom it 0.5% of GDP is around ?7.5 billion. Unless of course someone insider 'fiscal-ist' has later and more accurate figures than the ones I have used.

The other day the tv licence arrived and I deliberated about paying this iniquitous tax, as I rarely watch the BBC as it gets up my nose to watch the news they produce with all the spin. Cricket gets more air time than serious matters. There seems to be a surfeit of idiots at the BBC worrying about how a programme is delivered without considering the lack of content and the appalling bias. Every childrens programme it seems is fronted by an alien to these shores, which is political correctness gone bizarrely wrong. The money spent collected from us mugs who do pay the tax or licence, is wasted on unnecessary administrative and managerial staff, whilst the true creative talent is hopelessly underfunded. It works out we pay around ?12 per month for this shower for two tv channels and a half dozen radio networks. Sky for ?21 gives a hundred channels and more radio networks than one knows what to do with. The difference is I can choose to pay Sky if I want their channels but with the BBC you have to have your licence whether you watch them or not. It should be a matter of choice you either pay Sky or the BBC. GRRRRR!

That is the time one needs a phone camera. Gives a better description than a thousand words they say.

Narnia wrote: Seems they will sell anything to raise funds.What's next.........the beaches? They would like to sell off the gold reserves too, but they have already done that when gold was at an all time low.

I have travelled to Helsinki and out to other towns and the people are very decent, straight to deal with, and honest. Except of course for hotel cleaners, whom I wouldn't trust any further than I could see them. It is a very well run society and somewhat stricter than here, a small example, one cannot take a rod and line and fish in the sea without a permit for that particular piece of sea, in other words if you get a permit to go fishing and catch nothing, without getting a new permit you cannot fish anywhere else. If the police stop you for speeding they ask you how much you earn per annum and you are legally bound to tell them, if you try it on and tell them less and it is checked upon and you were found to be lying they double the fine, which is of course influenced by your earnings, so that a lowly paid nurse will pay a greatly reduced amount compared to the company director for the comparable misdemeanor. I personally think he (lordmuck) has no problems with his bag of cash to the cleaner, but he might possibly pay by travellers cheques I think written on them is 'legal tender'. I do not think that the hotel would want to jeopardise their trading by 'stitching up' their guests, otherwise it would be out of business and into the courts, and it is a very much stricter regime than here. I have stayed in such hotels in France and there is no one around and you get a code to get in the door, and in the morning a kind of machine thing unlocked itself to supply croissants for breakfast, all rather eerily done but it does cut costs hugely compared with a standard hotel. When I was in Finland about '95 it was the most expensive place I had visited (other than the arctic circle) to purchase food and drink, but I took our hosts to a restaurant which they recommended and on the menu was bear steak at around the ?100 mark probably double that now, I didn't participate although I know someone who did and he said it was a fatty grissly lump almost revoltingly inedible, and uncuttable, he wished he had had the chicken. My gut feeling is to say fear not fair 'Mucks' your fears are totally unfounded and I should very much doubt there is any scam involved. For cheap crossings there is (was) a Finnish Seamens Mission in Rotherhythe which may make travelling to and fro more interesting and with discounts. I drove my car onto a freighter and parked up amongst a load of new tractors being shipped there. We went through the Kiel canal which took a few days each way but I think it was good value and would cost much less as a foot passenger. They didn't have many passengers about a half a dozen was all and you ate your meals with the crew and there was an unmanned bar which you helped your self and wrote on a ticket what you had drunk, at the end of the voyage the tickets were added up and settled for cash.

Terry Wogan as prime minister, and Jack Charlton as deputy.

Everyone who has sympathetic leanings should light a large bonfire, as a show of solidarity.

Watching a pushy git of a crappy driver zig-zag the length of a road, only to get stuck at the lights behind a 'bendy' and have all the traffic that he passed now glide past him. I know it's petty, and I shouldn't gloat, but:)) said he gleefully.

He is obviously very determined, waving one's naked genetalia in these temperatures the term "brass monkey's" springs to mind.

All outlets trading on LL are and will be determined by the local populace, if no one wants a particular shop the quickest way to remove it, sensibly and legally, is not to buy their goods. It will disappear in a matter of months.

With all due respect this is a public forum and one should be allowed to express one's feelings about muggings, thefts, etc. when they are local incidents and of interest to the populace. It is a most upsetting and disturbing thing to be involved with if you are the victim Ruffers.

Yep. They grow them in the forests of Helsinki lady meadow.

I have always been short sighted when reading between the lines, so spell it out Ridgley, so we can do a real axe job!

Terry Wogan wouldn't do any worse than the alleged "professionals" who appear to originate from the same 'School of Feckwits' as our politicians seem to emanate from.

Lawrence wrote. (I am an sensitive line manager, I buy Lynx for loads of the staff and dole it out to the stinkers on line, thus avoiding any embarrassment) I would say that is a soft sell, after all they are adult, and if they cannot smell themselves and have yet to discover the delights of a bar of soap, then they should be asked 'have they lost their sense of smell'. It is a real pain working in close proximity with someone who reeks and doesn't realise it. I worked with one such smelly toad and I asked him "when did you last have a shower man, you have a great big hooter in the middle of your face and it's useless, you stink." He reddened and became threatening but when he came the next day he gleamed, in fact it was the cleanest anyone of us had ever seen him. Why should the rest of the decent tidy industrious workers in the place, suffer for one inconsiderate lazy, unkempt, low-life scum bag? If they are in the wrong they should be told, the rules are for the benefit of the majority.

Dr Hermann Otto Kloepneekler MD PhD, 1912. Was a clever man. Brilliant, Jah Lush!