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Hear, Hear Goofy

Seamus - I think that that's a pretty emotive response when loz was just making some genuine points about society's paranoia.....ditto Louisa's thread

Don't work for me but I am a luddite

"EDForumites in taking things too seriously shocker"

whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

I consider myself pretty libeterian but there's a load of horseshit in here.....The 2nd world war unneccesarry my arse and the laughable view that WW2 combined with WW1 somehow stopped us being a liberal democracy and a corporate something instead.....poor article IMO

Northerners are up in arms about this report but I think we should be - we don't want them down here with their whippets and talking to strangers on buses ways....keep 'em out

I suspect the hideous crime of parking on a yellow etc have really bumped up SE22s figures.....and dropping cigar butts

That report has been laughed at as naive and misguided by most commentators since it's publication as it's entirely based on people's desire rather than ability to pay....it's completley out of kilter with most commentators belives...and I haven't an axe to grind, although an estate agent probably has........

er....the real issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is the fact that banks lending models of the past 5-10 years are bust and that they are going back to more cautious lending ways, they can't even raise money themselves to loan at the moment so the supply of cheap mortgages has dried up (that's the Credit Crunch) and this'll be the case until banks restore their balance sheets but even then they are unlikely to go back to their recent lending model as they've been badly burnt....if repossesions /unemployment rise this'll get worse before it gets better....consumer sentiment and finance is secondary to this

Sooooo...no-one has heard of it...no-one knows what it does...and the massive total of 1000 people have signed up to support it...meanwhile Southwark Council could get ?500,000 for this space in one way or another, it's just possible that that Southwark might make better use of that money or space than the, no doubt worthy, but somewhat obscure "Spike"...I'm with Louisa

Is there an ED Fantasy League?

No-one did this for me and Banarama back in '82 :(

A sugar cube does the trick nicely Steve

and made up (a bit) and self indulgent as people don't read anyone elses.....they're in my top 10 hates

....just a thought :-S

I don't want to get all "Martin Lewis" on you but have you never had a creditcard, bank account, loan, mortgage, savings account, mortgage, insurance policy, etc? It's not swotting up it's spending a very small amount of time to learn about what to do with money/debt/credit etc to save yourself literrally ?1000s over time.....ignorance of money costs most people a fortune, it's not complicated, it's not even boring..... get empowered!

there's 'scary' and 'disturbing'.....the end of Chinatown is the latter and I've never been able to watch it more than the once...

Has anyone done the "I've never paid for it in my life" 'joke' yet?

mmmm...wasn't some 'socialist' on this thread recently crowing on about his lovely 20% tax rate out east.................HIYA Hugenot

IT'S HIS SLEDGE

Sean will be on soon telling you you deserved it - Licensed bandits they are and Southwark council

And the bint on the tube calls Plaistow - "playstow", silly stuck up old cow

er, Camberwells always been livelier than East Dulwich...by miles....just recently Ed has moved into less boring territory a few years back it was tedious...nice place to live though, but it's hardly fookin Hoxton is it?

D&C - if you don't like the 'nappy valley thing' wtf are you moving to an city suburb with loads of family housing stock? i'd suggest that you go somewhere a bit 'cooler' and inner city for an unpretentious dude like yourself