SeanMacGabhann

Watched Zodiac last night - David Fincher's film on the serial killer operating in the Bay Area through the 60s and 70s and who was never caught Absolutely loved it - great performances all around, and a fantastic sequence which shows a time-lapsed construction of one of San Francisco's iconic buildings thrown in. Some gruesome scences (in particular, the stabbing of one couple is particularly uncomfortable given recen forum discussions) but thoroughly recommended

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With all this talk of teaching and problem kids I'm tempted to point everyone in the direction of series 4 of The Wire Must be some teachers on here who can speak from personal experience. My opinion is that corporal punishment is both wrong and unnecessary - several scandinavian countries manage to produce more civilised children without the need. I remember corporal punishment vividly from my childhood and in my darker moments I still sketch out elaborate revenge planse a la "Complicity" (legal disclaimer: not really) If respect has gone for the teaching profession isn't it because, compared with 30/40 years ago, society as a whole has lost respect for it. Once a well-paid member of the community, now seen as a poor relation, with wages waaay down in the professional league tables. The children themselves, when not coming from troubled homes are more aware than ever that, unlike the promises of yore, a better education does not necessarily lead to a prosperous life - in fact it may lead to a prematurely debt-ridden one. Should a well-pad job materialise, that too could vanish - either abroad or to shareholder-value.

since the Guardian had the songwriter booklets last week and I re-read the lyric to Springsteen's It's Hard To Be a Saint In The City, the song hasn't been out of my head "I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova.." awesome song As for Mamma Mia film - I used to consume movie magazines by the whatever-a-large-amount-of-magazines-can-be-called but didn't even know about this, which shows how out of the loop I'm getting. As for Abba, I'm with Terence Stamp in The Adventures of Priscilla: "no.. more... F***ing ABBA!!!!"

swift adoption of a Keef-ism there muffintop - good work

from a left-wing liberal to a right-of-centre libertarian, bravo MM

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I'm so with Annasfield - As georgia and MrBen well know - morning time = speak to no-one time

Always here quids always here

I think it was the phrasing of your sentences when you first posted natasha. That and you posted just after spangles was cast into the wilderness Im less certain these days mind you.

I know I'm not the only one.... Having used the Tmobile web'n'walk browser for a year (never liked it) , someone pointed me in the direction of Opera-mini. What a revelation. Much faster browsing and page flipping and some great shortcuts in there as well. Recommended if anyone is interested I know the Safari browser on iPhone is slick but that needs wireless wheras other phones using 3G are more widespread

yowsa - what a major pain. If you need any help in the short term let us know I've said it before - but if you can get your bank to send mini-statements to your phone ever day that's a really good thing to have.

There are plenty of London-dwellers who probably think ED itself is a suburb, but like Moos, Keef, NatashaD (who I still suspect might be Spangles.. ;-) ) and others I have never been happier than living here and can't envisage moving elsewhere If I do move it would be for economic reasons - needing more space and not being able to afford it. And if it was to remain in the UK but not be ableto stay in London I would rather move to somewhere like Bristol, Sheffield, Edinburgh - all with well-reported crime issues as well coincidentally. We do open our papers to crime most days, but that's because that's where the money is currently at. I'm not sure what it says about the human psyce that papers which peddle fear sell more than others but there it is. If a genuine news story broke, all of these stories would be relagated to the paragraphs on page 11 (where they used to live and didn't generate as much fear) Personally I'm taking a stand against fear and refuse to be cowed by it

Although to be fair to Tony the ["] doesn't allow for very long quotes, unless I'm doing it wrong back on Topic - if I had to choose between living here in 1940/50 or now, I would choose NOW every singles time. I'm not oblivious to what the downsides are but everything is do-able

amazing who you bump into there as well.. ;-)

Not a lot to be honest Tony. It's not that I disagree with everything you say - I don't.. (just most of it) It's more to do with the fact that I'm suspicious of your motives - both on the topic itself and why you have bothered to register on here to talk about this and nothing else As the warning of a Gumtree invasion was posted at around the same time you arrived, I'm steering clear. I may be wrong - perhaps you will move on to other, less contentious topics and reveal a different side - but for now I'm backing off As for: "> Some linkage here... Where Sean?> " The "some linkage here" sentence should be a different colour - click on it and it should take you to the article

Again, we know nothing about the case so speculation is pointless. What we can say for certain is that it wasn't the Krays wot done it. Which is a shame because murder was sooo much better then

As I lived in those Devon towns for 6 years, moos, I'll back that opinion up as being "on the money"

regardless of points being made could I at least ask that Tony space out your words from the quoted text as It's getting very hard to tell them apart

Simon. . You are never boring. Thanks for the correction

I like most of the assistants in Budgens! I miss the east-European girl the most - but the regulars I see in there most times (1 female, 1 male) are both good-natured

* looks suspicioously at Tony form the 'burbs * Cheers muffintop - good spot

"he Suburbs.Recently(currently lol) my damn window will not shut in my car..I have parked in various places since then locally with no problems at all.Maybe I will come down and park it around Peckham for a couple of weeks and take my chances....Do you reckon that I will get away with it there M8?" Seen this thread Tony? Not burgled shocker

Steady Tony, only resident forumite ???? is allowed to call me that ;-) Otherwise I'm not sure how to respond to your posts - something isn't ringing true with your persona. Your terminology and sudden exclamation of knowing more black people than all other races combined... sorry if it sounds personal but I'm not convinced So if I google "Black British Forums" (thanks for providing a link btw - very neighbourly) you are telling me I will find narrow-minded people. Unlike any other forum in existence presumably? I'm not sure you have answered my points either, nor am I sure I can answer yours. You glibly state that there is very little street crime where the poorest communities (in your example Bangladeshi's) but as Tower Hamlets is home to a large concentration of Bangladeshi's I'm not sure crime figures would back up your statement. Looking back historically, long before immigration to Britain, there have been much more violent periods in British history. Some linkage here... You sound more like Mary Whitehouse blaming an external (in her case TV) source, rather than addressing any underlying problems. Another question back at you - what, in your opinion, should be doen about the problem of violent crime?

Jean Paul Satire? Marvellous books those...