Otta

We were interested but the wife doesn't like watching stuff with torture and lashings so we turned off pretty quickly.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The world would be a sad and empty place > without > > fried chicken Sue. > > But the chickens have the last laugh. > > Because:- > > Fried Chicken makes people Fat, Obese. Clogs up > peoples arteries promotes heart failure and type-2 > diabetes. > > Enjoy while you are still able to get of your > A**e and get down to the Chicken Shop. > > Foxy :) If I lived on a diet of fried chicken that might bother me slightly. But as I don't, it doesn't.

Go and sort them out Tarot.

What on earth is love bombing???

Well said Alice. So tired of people putting Miliband down for basically the way he looks/talks. If you disagree with his politics that's totally fine, but the rest of it is pathetic playground nonsense. Surprised to read so much criticism ofLeanne Wood who the wife and I thought did quite well at speaking up for Wales, which at the end of the day is her concern. And it was she who first suggested that the UK should not be pulled from Europe unless Scotland Wales and Ireland all agreed. A suggestion which Sturgeon was quick to repeat.

What Curmudgeon said. He may feel that he's not able to keep up with the class and need a slower pace.

> One small indication of human nature, and the > terrible (in many respects) world we have made for > ourselves :( And frankly there are far bigger things to get het up about (and I do).

The world would be a sad and empty place without fried chicken Sue.

More and more of the better kebab shops are making their own (much tastier and meatier) doner these days. I remember years ago (like late 90s) hearing on the radio a prank call to a supplier. They said they'd opened a new kebab shop and needed some cheap meat because funds were tight. The supplier immediately offered them past it's sell by date meat. But surely no one buys a doner kebab thinking they're eating anything that's not a bit dirty. See also maccas / KFC etc.

Which is exactly why I avoid seeing those conditions.

Done mine. Went for a drew between Arsenal and Liverpool. Not even sure I'm confident about that, but can't back them to lose.

Weird, couldn't post Jimmy Mc Govern without a space in the second name. Wonder why that's on the banned words list.

Well that's Jimmy Mc Govern, but I still don't know.

I've only just seen that there is a Dark Souls 2. SJ?

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No one seems to care or be interested in this > today so I'll make this my last point. I was interested, I just didn't feel I had anything valuable to say. Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you just woken up from a long coma, DC? All > the papers are biased and print crap in the run up > to elections. > > The one that made me laugh yesterday was the > terrible Guardian "Reality Check" page, which > attempts to emulate the excellent Channel 4 one. > They took on the Tories claim they'd created 1000 > jobs a day. An unnecessarily long thesis > involving a lot of graphs finally, grudgingly, > concluded that the claim was probably correct, but > then threw in the entirely unrelated "but there > are lots of food banks too". Just can't help > themselves. It's not entirely unrelated though. The fact is that jobs are being created which are barely worth having, and so food banks are needed. It'[s an important point which should be pointed out every time the tories boast about their record numbers of people in work.

I think some respect needs to be shown to Harris for actually listening on this one and backing off. Fair play.

For those that would suggest removing the sibling rule, imagine having two primary aged kids (don't care about secondary, any secondary aged kid without a SEN should be able to travel to school independently) in two different schools a couple of miles apart which started at the same time. It just wouldn't be workable, especially for those that have no local support from extended family or a good circle of friends. I know it's a system that gets abused, but at the end of the day, entitled arseholes with find a way to play any system. I say this as someone who is very much relying on the sibling rule to get my second daughter in to the same (not overly popular) primary as her sister, having moved to a different borough. But in my defence, we sent child number one to the closest school to home, having no idea that we'd be moving within 6 months of her starting.

DuncanW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta - I think that's a bit harsh! > > It's by no means a new thing that people move into > certain locales to be in catchment areas for > favoured schools. There is a difference between moving to an area for the schools and making your life there, and cynically moving temporarily to get a school place. It's inexcusable in my opinion.

Scruffy Mummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But one of the key reasons IMO why the current > Charter site has shrunk so dramatically in the > last year is that more and more people with > children about to go into secondary school have > been buying houses ever closer to the school. One > family I know has kept their original house they > in East Dulwich, rented this house out AND then > bought a 2nd one really near Charter so they could > be assured a place at Charter. Personally, this > is one of the pitfalls of a distance only > admissions policy. Yes, you can get your kids > into Charter - only if you can afford to pay the > premium on property. Is it more ethical or high > minded to do this than sending your child to a > private school - to send your kids to a local > good state school through buying a 2nd home - thus > denying a place to another child whose parents > can't afford to buy nearer Charter?? This makes me sick. Those people will say they're doing what's best for their child. I say they're scumbags. Traditionally the wealthy sent their kids to private schools, these days the not wealthy enough for that but still pretty wealthy effectively buy school places through property. So bloody unfair.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People filming video on their phones in portrait > mode. Thought it was just me that got wound up by this.

Well quite.

I'm quite jealous of Welsh fans at the moment, if they qualify it will be huge for them and they'll love the tournament whatever happens. Can't muster any interest in England because we'll more than likely qualify then more of the same. What's the point even watching?

Mrs TP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Your horizons widen as your children get older and > hopefully you will get more comfortable with the > idea of them getting the bus somewhere to school. > We are all nervous when they first do it but > providing you've practised and they are sensible > kids then it's a different hurdle that is soon > overcome. They don't go from being in reception / > year 1 to jumping on a bus to secondary, there are > various things along the way that help you as a > parent settle into them being out and about on > their own - going to the local shop / park > unaccompanied / going to ED baths / Peck Cinema - > these are all stressful hurdles as they come but > ease you along the way to the more independence of > getting to and from secondary school. For those > of us on the boundary of the ever shrinking > Charter catchment area, it is not the be all and > end all of state schooling in the SE London area. > Loads of us have been through it and surviving > other fab state secondaries :) I agree with this (not as a parent, as my kids are still young). I had local friends from primary school ho I remained friends with, but LOVED getting the bus from ED to New Cross, and loved visiting my new friends in other areas.

The response to the riots was pretty insane too.