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I'm with Groucho Marks on Private Clubs.....I remember when the Funky Monkey in Camberwell got delusions of Granduer andtried something similar upstairs......EDis NOT Notting Hill or Hoxton FFS. Horrible, snotty, elitist, claptrap IMO. I had a phase of going to SohoHouse with a girl...a place stuffed with a load of wanabees with far too much coke....it nearly turned me back to socialism....

THE BIG PROBLEM FOR OBAMA IS WHITE, LIBERAL, EUROPEANS DON'T GET TO VOTE IN US ELECTIONS hth

Keef -well said, The Stone Roses ARE the most overated band ever, one ok album.....(and I'm at the other end of the age spectrum)

Sean...who on earth said there was anything wrong with any of those descriptions.....seriously, I think they're not a bad indicator of East Dulwich.....you are a tad paranoia about any percieved criticism on the lovely SE22 on occasions. I choose to live here with my family for many if not most of the reasons I compared ED to Coldplay....I agree, I can't stand Coldplay though

that's another 10% of house prices

oh...and a bit worthy, forgot that

Coldplay (or Dire Straits for the oldies).....nice, decent, middle-class and a bit dull

Over vigourous twitching of the curtains is my info

He better leave getting w*nkered on 6 for a ?5 Stella well out of it....

How are the 'wall doing this season Tony? You won't see them on MOTD fella

"when a holiday seldom comes, it wished for comes"

gay is sooooo last year

I think it's a tough game for you tomorrow....Flash Gordon is one of the best crap fils EVER

...missus out, kids asleep, Flash Gordan on some random Sky Channel, cold beers in the fridge, MOTD at 10.30 with the mighty Hammers scoring 4, just about to play a couple of online poker tournaments......Nirvana

"It's a fabulous tree. What's not to like? Embrace it and move on" TREEHUGGER

I'd rather mice than a cat

have you a bladder problem?

Burger 79p, 6 pack of Stella ?5...where's that living off benefits for a week thread gone?

Dormitory Towns are the way forward for you then

There are a million plus illegal cars on our roads - uninsured, many driven by people without licences, many unroadworthy, a real danger to other people - their numbers have grown. The police do very little about this as these drivers are often far too difficult to deal with both legally, in terms of reinforcement (and often from a confrontational point of view) punishment is minimal and often (fines etc) ignored......decent, licensed, taxed, drivers made a mistake KERCHIING, thanyou very much FYI Sean I've never been done for a road offence as described here or any other (I have got off two parking tickets which were illegal and wrong - though this was a stressfull and time consuming process and inolved no compensation or apology) and paid one where I had overstayed my time...by an outrageous 3 minutes...so I think I do live up to it...you ever stayed late in a bar beyond the legal hours it is licensed for "mr good guy"?

Sheppey island's a notch up from canvey

Do they actually like Cheese?

Nice work

er-----they could reduce spending....

Lots of sense here.... How to make the recession less painful ? cut taxes If we want to get out of this recession in one piece, what really needs to be done? Interest rate cuts won't work. They haven't worked in the US, they didn't work in Japan. That's because as a nation, we're up to our eyeballs in debt. Banks can't afford to lend money; we can't afford to borrow it. All of us need to pay off our debts and build up our savings. So it doesn't matter how cheap money gets, we've snapped out of spending mode and strapped on our tin hats. So the quickest route out of recession is to help people pay down debt and build up their savings. Inflation is one way to reduce the value of debt, but it generally comes with a hefty price tag ? currency collapse and economic meltdown. Higher interest rates might help build up savings, but they'd also make debt more expensive to service. How can we help people save more without fuelling inflation or making our debt burden even worse? Simple. Cut taxes. If you cut taxes, you almost automatically increase productivity, because you take money from a wasteful, inefficient organisation ? the government ? and reallocate it to someone who actually gives a damn about how effectively it's spent ? the individual. And rather than squander the money on property (as the Government is proposing), individuals would use it sensibly, saving it, or using it to pay down debt. This isn't a magic bullet. It won't stop the recession ? nothing can. The looming bust is nature's way of telling us that we spent too much money on unproductive garbage during the good times. Look at it this way. If we'd taken all the money we spent as a nation on property in the past ten years, and had pumped it into ? let's say ? our energy infrastructure, then maybe we'd have lower gas bills, and a nice, productive industry providing highly paid, specialist jobs that would be tough to outsource. Instead, all we've got is big debts, an unwanted pile of jerry-built buy-to-let flats which are already turning into slums, thousands of unemployed estate agents, and a national energy crisis. It's depressing, yes. But what we can do now is put an end to the rot and the waste. The quicker those savings build up, the faster balance sheets are repaired and the quicker we can get out of this downturn. Will this happen? I doubt it. The Government still believes the great lie, that you can spend yourself rich. It still believes that "something must be done." Better get ready for a long, drawn-out, painful recession.