Jeremy

...preferably within walking distance of a station.

Yes it is.

Will - I'll PM you, but don't get your hopes up!

I think we all know who's going to get the last word on this one...

Will_i_am Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Need a guitarist? > > Don't break my heart again... please... Sorry, not really! Maybe a bassist tho.

William, I would have been interested, as I'm broadly into the same kind of stuff, if not exactly the same bands. That is, if I hadn't just joined a new band.

marianne1 - Victorian houses don't tend to have garages!

DulwichDoll, you have got a nerve to accuse people of bullying. Just take a look at the excessive number of negative posts you've written about a certain establishment on Bellenden Road. Then look at the way you treated a guy who had different ideas about what establishments he'd like to see on that road (I didn't agree with him either, but that's not the point). You get very personal with your posts, use confrontational language, and pursue disagreements relentlessly - even spilling over onto unrelated threads. You should take a serious look about how you treat other people, if you want to gain the respect of others.

Supersonic - Bad Religion

Supersonic - Oasis

Personally I cannot see hydrogen fuel cells taking off any time soon. The vehicles are too complex and expensive, and the process of producing the hydrogen is costly and will take time to scale up. And nobody will buy these cars unless there are enough places to fill up (chicken and egg situation). I think the medium term solution for cars will be to improve efficiency, and to develop hybrid technology. Nuclear fission is a long, long way from being a feasible source of power. Maybe it will be viable one day, but the truth is that nobody knows. So we really have to look at alternative sources combined with lower consumption, instead of pinning hopes on a technology which may never bear fruit.

Aha, the forum's favourite subject emerges again!! I think prices will keep falling for a little while still. Lots of perfectly good properties have been on the market for yonks... plus the numbers still don't really stack up for any would-be investors.

The "in-store bakery" bread in Sainos tastes fine to me, especially the granary one. But frankly I don't really care enough about bread to make a special journey for it, and I probably only eat it at home around once a fortnight anyway. As a general rule I don't really care for the usual polythene-wrapped sliced loaves, but they serve a purpose too.

Sea Cow

From what I can gather the police did a reasonable job... but there are always a few who are a bit too "up for it", I reckon.

ThinLizzy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hmmm, isn't some of this financial crisis down to > the fact that the banks lent 'greedily' with money > they didn't have to feed our insatiable need to > buy property and goods inconsistent with our level > of wealth? It's more like they lent too much money to people who couldn't afford to pay it back. I agree that the customers have to take some of the blame too, but at the end of the day banks should lend money responsibly. You are right, the risk needs to be considered more. The problem is, credit risk is more difficult to manage than traditional market risk (i.e. stock prices, currencies, interest). Someone said to me the other day that no bank should be allowed to have enough downside exposure to sink the company. But surely if that was the case, nobody would ever be able to borrow anything? So it's not an easy problem to solve IMO.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Money has to > come from somewhere and yes you can make a lot of > it from moving it around in interesting ways, > skimming off the top and charging for the service > but you can?t just magic it from nowhere. Unless > someone somewhere in the world is producing food, > digging up coal, making clothes, programming > computers, building roads etc. you can do as many > clever things with money as you want but it?s > going to be worth bugger all. Well yes... but that's kind of obvious, innit? Lots of industries would be rendered redundant if it wasn't the for existence of one or more other industries. Banking is just one piece of the jigsaw, but a pretty integral piece.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plus getting the city back to a speculation > footing isn't sensible; Of course. There will always be a place for speculation within sensible limits... or by private individuals. But not by large banks, and certainly not running into billions of $ - that's not their role. (Or at least, that was what I'd always believed - I was genuinely shocked when I first found out the magnitude of the debt which had been bought by some of the banks).

Lots of protestors seem to be focussing their aggression on a branch of RBS. A *branch*!! Not the big office up near Liverpool Street, where the decisions are made and the investment banking takes place, but a retail branch! The word "Thieves" has been painted on the wall, along with the "Anarchy" symbol, shortly before breaking the windows. What a bunch of morons.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wanted to make the > point that the success of the banks is critical to > the success of the country and hopefully the > people in power can deal with it in time I agree with this... the financial industry has provided our country with a good income over the years, and I'm sure it will do again. Yes we need to invest in education, renewable energy, medical research, and many other things, but the money needs to come from somewhere. If we're left with a country with a weak economy, we won't be in a position to spend money on any of these things. The equation of corporation tax minus bailout money is misleading for many reasons. It ignores income tax paid by employees, and the fact that it provides employment to hundereds of thousands of people. It ignores the fact that government money wasn't charity... they've taken lots of equity in return.

Yep, I was imagining all these city workers trying to "blend in", in their slacks and loafers. I'm at home right now, but need to get into the Liverpool St area soon... I'd better get my slacks ironed.

You could get a meal and a pint for something like ?4 in the Foresters. It wasn't very nice though. (the food, or the pint, or the pub).

charliecharlie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It 'kicks off' at 11.00 (as I keep trying to tell > you all!!!) Of course... I don't think anyone would expect the crusties to get out of bed at the same time as the rest of us.

I bought some sirloin from W Rose last year, and found it slightly tough. On the other hand, the rump we bought from Sparkes a few weeks back was lovely and tender (and I thought rump was usually more chewy than sirloin). Still... such steak procurement activity is not extensive enough to draw any definitive conclusions.

Yeah... it seemed unlikely to me. I don't know why someone would bother doing that, when they could just whack you over the head with a blunt instrument when you're approaching your car.