maxxi

All new cars should be fitted with a flashing brown light and 'raspberry' siren to alert other roasd users when such a calamity is in the offing - it wouldn't be confused with an emergency vehicle and it would help prevent road rage and facilitate a more courteous and understanding relationship between the city's thousands of motorists: "No, no, let him go. He's got his brown light on, he needs to pass more than I do the poor chap."

I shall be heading to SMB for a shito experience very soon...

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can get tailors in sainsbos as it goes. Yes, I used to get it at DKH but they haven't stocked it there for a while now. Maybe other branches still do.

I think the birds are all busy gorging on flying ants and the insectile mist that the recent warm weather has unleashed - when the mizzle returns then your feeders will be popular again - like the oppposite of an outdoor seating area at a pub. I had a coal tit coming to drink out of the top of a watering can yesterday and think that at the moment it's of more value to provide the local birds with some water for bathing/drinking and just cooling off.

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a left hand. Does it know what your right hand is doing?

http://images.chinaminimarket.com/images/products/zoom/1315486489-71998200.jpg available in Camberwell Chinese supermarket and most similar stores... and... http://images.mysupermarket.co.uk/ProductsDetailed/39/065439.jpg...available in Pretty's, NorthX Rd. apologies for the size - getting these photos in aint as simple as it usedto be...

Gingerbeer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So... > Does the UK have > anything similar to this? A challenging > walk/race/ride that *normal* people do just to see > if they can? Plenty of arduous and semi-arduouos treks to do - (though not many in the masses-of-folk-doing-it-together vein unless you have a large group of friends) - like the Penine Way, Three Peaks Challenge, Offa's Dyke, Hadrian's Wall etc. ... or if you have a few years to spare you could try doing The Munros. There are some 500 peaks in Scotland over 3000ft in height and climbing all of them counts as having 'done' the Munros. Like stamp collecting for people with iron thighs.

Just Flying Goose (red top) and Taylors Mustard but I use them all the time so hardly a 'treat'. Like the look of that pickle though...

Well if she doesn't fancy making money out of someone else's needs then maybe she should sell the flat and save herself grief. (just put in to pre-empt the deluge of "there are more landlord scams than tenant scams" posts this thread will prompt).

We've always danced on the edge of the flames - Kate Pierson

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ms B Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The man sitting next to me with his legs apart > by > > more than a 90-degree angle and his size 15 > feet > > centimeters from my bare toes in flip flops. > Why > > must they do that? > > > It's a male cooling issue Just be thankful he wasn't 'wafting'.

After all the high-fiving and back-slapping enthusiasm on here by local performers I am expecting it to be spectacular - or have you all just been told to say that?

This is only with regard to milk sold as fresh milk though and not milk bought to make supermarket cheese and other recipes - they have apparently not upped the price for that, so the protest will continue.

It is still Friday as long as you can manage to stand up and- *falls with a thud

Wait until your lease is renewed for the time you need - then give her both barrels and demand it is serviced by a gas safe engineer because without that SHE is breaking the law.

I think I'd rather have a chain than another overpriced tat shop like Old Villa... though I don't know if many food/drink outlets would relish opening up next to a funeral director... ooh, maybe a Nandos.

TillieTrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It had great pubs as I remember. Frog and > Nightgown, Dun Cow, Green Man, The Vic (Pages > Walk), Dogguns. Happy days! The Thomas-a-Beckett after the refurb - old boxing films on a big screen in the corner and the landlord and his wife doing mentalist tricks ("What am I holding?" "A set of car keys!") for the customers ...oh, and the occasional 'warehouse' party in the boarded-up fire station.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah - yeah that's what I meant, Maxxi's > description when he mentioned the 'the original' > sounded like he/she was on about C&P. My fault - I should have been clearer. I meant the original short story by EAP which I first came across thanks to a tv adaptation back in 1975 by Andrew Davies (who adapted Micael Dobbs' "House of Cards" amongst other tv and film scripts). He was lecturing at Warwick University at the time and was a friend of my then English teacher (Coventry circa 1975) who exorted us all to watch - I did and that's when I got my first real taste (outside of the Roger Corman epics) of Poe - and I think that particular title stuck.

Impettes of the perverse?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maxxi - 'the original' you speak of sounds like > Roskalnikov. > > I think the best IoPs are when it's the urge to DO > something (which 'normally' is just not done). It's more like another of Poe's 'unnamed' narrators (like the narrator in The Imp Of The Perverse) in the Tell Tale Heart. The IoP being: "an impulse in human beings that impels them to act irrationally, without apparent motive. This strange whim or caprice may be irresistible and may cause a person to carry out an annoying or embarrassing act?or even an act that can result in death.

steveb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Old Kent Road and Bermondsey at weekends in > the eighties Rounded off by DJ Dan Dare at the Harp Club in New Cross (before it became 'The Venue')

Handing over a nice crisp ?20 to buy some drinks in a pub and finding out it isn't enough.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the Imp is the urge and the perverseness > of the urge, rather than the dishonesty/honesty > around admitting the deed, if the urge leads to a > deed. Anyway I was always straight with the > gifted one. Yes I was being a bit too literal - in the original the protagonist gets away with a heinous murder but the imp of the perverse keeps prompting him to do that which he really shouldn't, that which it would be crazy to do, i.e. confess to the crime. I think it's an urging to do not just that which is wrong but that which will cause the 'doer' great harm if they do do the thing they feel an urge to do (be do). A bit like posting something on this forum that would surely lead to an immediate ban. The urge is there - however strongly suppressed - in all of us; some succumb and some even do so on a regular basis leading to multiple re-entry personalities all of which end in expulsion. The I of the P is working overtime in some areas of Nunhead East Dulwich. B)

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ahh, Maxi the T&C, good days (Wendy May on > Fridays?) but I think it's The Forum or summfink > now. B52s in 1989 was last great gig there for me.

Damn, I thought this was going to be all about confessions regarding poisonous candles or hearts beating under the floorboards and such... I think the Imp of the Perverse would truly be at work were you to drop the camera gear claiming it was accidental - and then - when your explanation had been accepted and you'd got away with it - to confess that it was deliberate.