*Bob*

You do, Rosie. Every else - see me. It may seem nit-picky, but I think sometimes nitpicking is relevant on a forum where searching for 'Nazi' will probably yield more results relating to traffic wardens than anything to do with Nazis or indeed neo-Nazis. But I suppose that's just a bit of fun, isn't it?!

Ahh.. you mean neo-Nazis? Well, yes, there are those. The joker in question you cite bagged an impressive 78 votes in 2007. Not quite up to Third Reich/NSDAP standards, I'm sure you'll agree.

Your swastika is dream scrawling material for a certain percentage of graffiti morons. It's quick to do, requires no special artistic skill and has the immediate power to offend - job done. It might mean something on another bus shelter somewhere else, but I don't think it amounts to very much round here.. and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with Nazis, who (adjusts mortar board again) don't exist any more.

There has only ever been one 'Nazi' Party: The NSDAP, which ceased to be as any sort of political anything with the demise of Hitler. That's what 'Nazi' means - the NSDAP. If everybody's planning on lecturing everybody else about not knowing about this or that (even though everyone does know anyway) then I thought I might as well help-out with a few key historical facts.

Does a refusal to accept the deep significance of a couple of swastikas on a bin lid now mean you're some sort of Holocaust denier? Luckily for us the Anti-Nazi League are still going.. good luck to them and their single-minded and unstinting opposition to a political party who ceased to be over half a century ago.

je ne regrette rien Well maybe un or deux things. There this one girl, see, and I really regret not giving her one. Don't get me wrong, she asked me to give her one, and I was bang up for it, but for some reason I hesitated and the moment was lost. Anyway, a few days later, I thought I'd see if she was still up for one, but apparently she couldn't because she was already giving one to someone else. Nice girl. Married a doctor, I heard.

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That Father Christmas was superb - very gentle and > a really lovely experience You make him sound like an high-class escort. He may be so, of course.. Santa work is seasonal, so I'm told.

Just mildly inebriated. Ignore me.

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live in hope! Of being a worker? Me too.

Hanged - just for touching cloth? That's harsh. The past is indeed a foreign country.

I wish I could - but the curtain only comes down to just above the waist. I don't know if I could get a decent wipe in without being spotted.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been tempted to spoil mine in the past. I've been tempted to soil mine.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Voting is as you point out a thoroughly good > thing. However, as I understand the complicated > and ridiculous 2nd preference vote scheme any 2nd > vote for any candidate that is not in the run off > (which practically means either Ken or Boris) just > won't be physically counted - and therefore > becomes just waste paper. Personally as I'm voting > for one of the big two, i'll ignore the 2nd > preference slot. I agree it may not count, but it will still be counted. Unimportant (in the major scheme of things) as such stuff is, it will be recorded, examined and interpreted by someone, somewhere - and will mean something someday. Maybe. Or not. Who knows? I think I just talked myself out of it.

Not.. .. .. Aromatherapy?!

It's a cracking movie. Right up there with Pearl Harbour - and other such Michael Bay masterpieces.

karter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ... but > witnessed today ludlow car fighting foxtons car > for a space. Like in 'Transformers'? Cool.

That's a coincidence... Mrs *Bob* says it makes her laugh too.

Ant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They stuck it on a spike, didn't they? Call it what you will. I prefer 'Mr Jiggles'.

Let's not get this out of perspective. All over South London, ever since the second horse and cart arrived on the road and cut the first one up, people have been getting out of their vehicles and calling each other c*nts. C*nts - the lot of 'em..

If I wasn't the kind of person who only saw the good in people, I could be forgiven for thinking that you might actually be enjoying the current economic uncertainty, Macroban.

If I want to speak out of churn, I will, Ant. The sooner people realise this, the cheddar for everyone.

A lounging. That's what you get for speaking out of churn.

I think my point is: I don't believe there's any such thing as a 'wasted vote'. The only wasted vote is one which isn't used. The Greens have never won significant seatage anywhere in particular over here, but (partly) because of all the 'wasted votes' they've had over the years, half their policies have been incorporated by the mainstream parties. Repugnant though they are, I'd rather someone vote for the BNP than not vote at all.

Ahh... Nunhead.

It'll never be as good as the the wine bar I used to go to before, therefore I fully intend to slag it off before it's even opened.