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You're not alone Junad - some (not all by any means) bus drivers seem increasingly to regard passengers as an inconvenience rather than the reason they have a job. There are also a good many adults who feel unconditional respect is due them from minors regardless of the circumstances and if you gave them "back talk and attitude" in response you would only be confirming their prejudices. If they are leaving you standing then by all means complain but if it's just bad tempered mutterings and grumpy interrogation I would be tempted (provided there are no outright insults etc.) to advise you to smile benignly at them and dismiss it out of hand - pausing only to wonder how miserable their lives must be.

Chippy Minton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Has anyone been up The Orbit at all? > > We've got tickets for the Olympic Park can I can't > decide if it's worth the ?15 just to go to the top > of a building. Do you get a mat to ride on the way down? http://www.joylandbooks.com/themagiceye/images/hsspier2.jpg

Undisputedtruth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "You are only as good as your weakness link" said > my football coach during my playing days. Mine once said "Ohhhhh you are a bloody disgrace! Hey Baz!*... For missing the target from there you want bloody shooting!" *He always called me that.

The only thing 'alarming' about the England performance was that it was like all the other pre-tourny performances... Very Capello-like in their possession footy and in passing it around with an air of calm nonchalance and the usual disintegration into impotence in the second half... all very sedate and unruffled... as usual... until the first proper competitive game when they will all hurry the ball around as though it were a grenade with the pin out, pass badly, hit long balls and generally play with the fear, panic and lack of skill that has categorised England's major tournament performances for years.

Mrs Gorringe, ate an orange in Blorenge.

A logo on the window...http://insidecuisine.com/wp-content/themes/spectrum/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2012/05/20120526-JAARK-608x399.jpg&w=109&h=110&zc=1&q=90... might be nice... or even just a jazzy snazzy slogan... http://www.alliesinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/Logo-Design-Jaark1.jpg ...or perhaps a website...?http://jaarks-website.webs.com/Jaark.com%20symbol3.bmp ...nah, this is more you...http://www.studentjob.co.uk/files/customers/logos/0000/2623/normal/JAARK-Final.jpg?1334241353 ...hope that helps...

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I actually think it could be dangerous, and they > will burn patches of grass unless people have > taken bricks along with them. > > Surely one of them had access to a @#$%& garden. I had access to a fucking garden once... ...wasn't as refreshing as a beer garden, nor did it smell as sweet as a rose garden; in fact it reminded me a little of the Torture Garden - but then we're back to bricks and burnt patches again aren't we...?

Most of the curry houses (the CC included) do the fixed-price buffet thing for Sundays - might want to check to see if they're also doing the usual menu before going.

Clarey28 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jenjeroo Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Was she wearing lots of pink? I saw a rather > dodgy > > looking lady walking up and down upland road > last > > night. Hanging around the corners. We should > > report this to the local police. > > I can see why a woman in your garden would be a > massive matter for concern and I too would be > worried but are you really going to call the > police about a woman wearing a lot of pink walking > up a road. Jeez. Be fair, she was also "hanging around the corners" - this is a 'hanging' offence for some of the curtain twitchers around here...

Many a re-branded forumite...

TheRealMorris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a bit unnecessary isn't it Annette Curtain? > Some might say there's a fine fine between being a > creep and being a good old-fashioned romantic? > > Could it be you are feeling a tad jealous you > aren't receiving such attention I wonder... A fine line indeed... one that - should you manage to get it together with your neighbour and one night, in a fit of self-awareness mixed with modesty and narcissism, tell her about how you consulted 'the forum' about what to do - will become starkly obvious as she backs away from you with wide eyes and a "I think you should go..." trembling on her lips. Or she may think it a hoot.

The Dutch and the Germans to contest the final (the Dutch kicking Spain out of it in the semis as the ref's not Howard Webb) and the most boring final on record to go to penalties which the Dutch will win 5-4... with Schweinsteiger missing again. England to bow out with two losses (France, Sweden) and a draw (Ukraine).

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "keep playing until someone scores or they drop" > after 120 minutes do we start randomly dropping > differnet weapons on to the pitch, starting with > pugil sticks and escalting to RPG-7s? Nah, when they start cramping and crying we just barrack them even louder - the more they earn, the greater the humiliation heaped upon them... then when they can't go on we send in some five year old girls and a couple of grannies to dribble around them.

With sympathetic refs the Dutch could kick (as in lumps-out-of-everyone-else) their way to victory... but Schweinsteiger and co. will probably engineer some kind of Deutsches Wiederaufleben...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...I wonder where he's going? > > *scratches head looks towards West London Mark Hughes not leaving already is he? Re penalties - nope - just make them keep playing until someone scores or they drop. Let's get our money's worth. On another note - delighted to see the back of Bouba-Diop and Carew (Faubert gone too - had a few good games but never really made it stick) and hope rumours regarding Joe Cole are true.

lizbells6 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, I am the swarms collecting coordinator for the > London Beekeepers Association and can put people > in touch with the nearest collector. However, we > can only deal with honey bees, which I suspect > these are not. Just as well... honey with a hint of compost? mmmm!

The foxes and cats wouldn't stand a chance if the crows got tooled up...

what's not positive about personal gain? (on a personal level)

A group of 8-12 swifts screeching and diving around last evening about 7-ish

Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why don't men look after their feet? The place is > suddenly overrun with hobbits. As long as you can still pick up a dropped screw with your toes what's the problem?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As I understand it, runners do not automatically > get to keep their Torch. > > They have to pay ?250 to keep it. so it is just a > business transaction. > > Fox.. Exactly... just like the whole bloody charade.

A fractious, pernickety pregnant woman about to drop-?!? Take her on a tour of Amsterdam coffee shops, before the Dutch ban tourists in Jan 2013, and let her eat cake... lots of cake... the flowers are pretty too.

Anyone who saw the start of the birds of prey display at Dulwich Park festival last Sunday will remember the first two birds that the old-chap-in-charge put up, a kind of Falcon and a Harris Hawk I think, having a run in with a couple of crows. "They could see off those two crows any time they liked" asserted our Falconer - but to the untutored eye the crows seemed to be giving as good as they got if not better. Always liked crows, and magpies (though if I see a singleton I still salute it - about the only superstition I can't shed...)

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is no word in the English language (that I > can think of) that rhymes with 'Orange'. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQTW1usefkdRDqAHvcITQv4eZb-sFhIR0IHbOfjg-KRpZXFGe5NQw What do you mean, cheating?!?

Crows will and do attack anything they see as a threat - and also anything new in their environment. Is your cat a newbie? There's a reason why they call a group of crows a 'murder'...