SimonM

Underhill Road originally had no proper bus stops for the P13 - you just hailed it and stopped it. I think quite a few residents preferred that system! :))

Ah so it is a troll!

>>a venue in Forest Hill what do you expect?<< It's not in Forest Hill!!!

Threads "nasty and insulting"?? This may be true of the occasional comment but even in this thread the positive and supportive posts for the Threshers' staff have far outnumbered the couple of unpleasant ones. And I think you can see this repeated in other threads about various pubs and shops etc....Most posters go out of their way to praise bar staff and shopkeepers etc even when severely criticising the place they work in/for. And they seem to aim for objectivity and constructive criticism I think... There have been a couple of cases where certain shopkeepers have been given a lot of flak....but these are the exception not the rule and there's usually been unusual circumstances provoking these. Of course if Jasmine's neighbours work for Foxton's and/or support Manchester United then her post makes perfect sense...:))

I tumbled down the table because Terry got (unfairly!) sent off! :(

Erm...if you support a football club then you kind of expect insults to be thrown at you from supporters of other clubs. It's all part of the fun at most levels.... And he was calling Merde Utd "scum" not their supporters, which to any right-thinking football fan is no more than restrained fair comment... And heaven knows Leeds supporters get little enough pleasure in life these days....B)

Cobbles are great in riots too.....you can rip them up and hurl them at police, through plate-glass windows etc etc>:D

You forgot that (1) Derby's 1st goal was an own goal "scored" by Matt Kilgallon & (2) their second,winning goal was scored by Rob Hulse! (his first for Derby, first since coming back from that dreadful injury he suffered at Chelsea). I watched the game on Sky and we were pretty awful - thank goodness Beatty is back ...So enjoy your *good* weekend >:D

Watching that game on SkySports I can hardly believe I forecast a 0-3 score....Ferguson conceded his team were rubbish but still could not resist his little dig at the referee... SimonM (deeply depressed after the Derby v Sheff Utd game..)

>>btw: Who was tied to a rock and tortured by a vulture in Greek Mythology? >>Its for the ?125,000 Millionaire question and I have no idea?...Any idea M8?:D<)

Liverpool 0 v 3 Man Utd (No Gerrard or Torres...) Blackburn 0 v 1 Arsenal Fulham 1 v 0 Bolton Newcastle 1 v 0 Hull City Portsmouth 2 v 1 Middlesbrough West Brom 1 v 2 West Ham Wigan 1 v 2 Sunderland Man City 0 v 1 Chelsea Stoke City 1 v 3 Everton Tottenham 1 v 2 Aston Villa

I love all this rose-tinted spectacles bollocks that seem to attach to the nostalgia attaching to the old grammar schools. What people tend to conveniently overlook is that grammar schools took the "top" 20% (as at age 11, assuming the kids were not having a bad day when they took the 11+) and the remaining 80% went to secondary modern schools (or similar). The latter schools were given less money, fewer facilties and inevitably attracted a different kind of teacher (cough). Basically you were telling 4/5ths of the country's kids that their future education was just killing time until they went into factories, mines or whatever And yet for all that they were not hotbeds of violence and anarchy, the way many modern comprehensive schools ar portrayed. I am confident that the reasons schools are such different environments now have nothing to do with the non-selective systems currently in place and everything to do with other things going on in society...

Ok so how long before the "Real want Walcott" stories start appearing in the papers? :))

...not to mention the baker's outside Moxon's...

New-style Kitkat wrappers

What pk said!

He is no better, different to or less offensive than the kind of person who, if asked if they watched the Olympics 100 metres final, would respond "Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of jungle bunnies.....?"....

He has probably totally missed the irony - his "bunch of spastic cripples" are much fitter than he is and *much* closer, physically and spiritually, to the British competitors who won medals in the Olympics. Of course many Aussies are currently labouring under a massive inferiority complex anyway since "Team GB" tonked them so thoroughly at the latter event...

It is real enough and has been in the pipeline for a while. You get back ?20 per flight you took during the period I believe. The problem for us is recalling the exact dates we used Virgin Atlantic to visit the US (we took two return flights) and I am wondering if Virgin themselves will supply this info if I ask them?

Penelope's mother?? >:D

Sounds like a good place to grab a coffee after doing Sainsbury's....

>>(Currently trying to stop squirrels from thieving the bird feeders... Any (sensible) ideas greatly appreciated.)<< Only two options work really. One is to get the kind of birdfeeder that has a cage attached to it. The other is to gt a squirrel-proof feeder from the RSPB, though at ?50 this is not a cheap option. We have both kinds and they work with squirrels..

That's Newcastle struggling to stay out the bottom 3 this season then....anyone care to specualte as to how far from the top 4 Man City will finish? :))

Isn't it just the estate agent doubling the size of its premises?

"The Magnolia"?? So will it have a picture of Tom Cruise on its sign then???(6)