*Bob*

Is there 'history' between Celestial and G&B? Surely there must be more to this than meets the eye.

Why wait?! There's nothing more erotic than having a lay-dee playfully tugging your shirt out of your gruds as a prelude to gettin' jiggy.

It was good enough for John Major. Perhaps it gave him the edge when he was negotiating important treaties and the like.

Chav, you'll never end-up on Have I Got News For You if you don't keep abreast of all the important stories.

I think Foxtons are doing the right thing by not getting involved on this Forum. The estate agents who have tried so far, such as Osbourne Stewart have ended up with a whole box of eggs on their face, and the current slew of of anti-Foxtonian postings from the Lesser Spotted or even First-Time Poster come across as dubious to say the least.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you... the candidate for the Green Party!

There's a cruel irony at work where you usually see your English flag proudly displayed: a tatty cross of St George pinned-up in the crumbling window of some damp block of flats.

Obviously I'd love it if, when I went to my local butchers, they sprang forward to open the door when I arrived, greeted me like a long-lost friend, enquired as to the health of my silver-haired Mother, shined my shoes and then secretly slipped a tenner into my back pocket whilst opening the door for me on the way out - but - I'm settle instead for some really tasty flesh at honest prices. If I had to queue up all day for it, I might go elsewhere, but a life of loafing means I can nip down whenever it's quiet. AND.. our favourite butcher is BACK! Ahhhhhh......

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Bob* Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > There a always a few regular WR gripers, but > let's > > face it - the queues out the door speak for > > themselves. > > > people literally fight each other to get into EDD > on a weekend as well. > > And Blue Mountain > > so... So... Whether you think they're rude, cheerful, overpriced or good value: business-wise, they're just about as successful as they could possibly be.

I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but I did wander past Keef a few weeks ago and he was humming this exact tune. He was coming out of the CPT, looked a bit the worse for wear and was mumbling something about getting a kebab and going home to 'lay down some tracks'.

Great story, Keef, hee hee. Foxtons is based on the 'boiler room' mentality. Get some young go-getters, tell them they'll be millwionaires, Rodney - if they work 'ard and get the sales blah blah. Then they stuff fifty of them in a room together with silly headsets and force them to hammer the phones all day long. Ringing people every day. Then ringing them again. And THEN.. ringing them again because the last person who rang them forgot to leave a note on the file saying that this person specifically didn't want to be rung again, PLEASE.

There a always a few regular WR gripers, but let's face it - the queues out the door speak for themselves.

Joshing aside, I did have a pertinent point to make on the issue of resignations. In the good old days, ministers resigned because they were guilty of perjury, fraud and enormous hypocrisy with regard to their public / private life. These days, when the photocopier gets jammed in the bowels of Whitehall, there's always someone saying that 'the stink goes all the way to the top' and demanding someone's head on a plate, and I think it's utter tosh. I exaggerate to make the point, of course.

I'll be back, though. As the 'forum member without portfolio'.

atila the gooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bob, thank you for your kind and, I'm sure, > sincere and heartfelt words. You're too kind. Sniff.. aaw, Atila.. this is just too much.. I resign.

Well, er, have YOU considered.. er.. Ok, you're right. I bow to your greater wisdom (and impeccable employment record).

34 years without a hitch. Have you considered politics? We need people like you in government to make sure things like this don't happen.

Atila.. I'm assuming you had to apply the same uber-stringent levels of personal responsibility (all the way down the line to the tea-boy) in the jobs you've had within the retail, insurance, finance, music, customer service, and mortgage industries? It must be hard having to resign all the time - but I admire your principles!

Of course he shouldn't resign. What balls. (a load of balls)

Using 'front bottom' instead of punani in front of the kids is just plain wrong. There must be a better word for a chuff that could be used. Minge, perhaps?

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cards don't take any more time than cash with chip > and pin machines, They do in 'Thresher'. For some reason.

Great! I hope my VAT returns are amongst the missing documents hee hee

It would be a bit dull if people were only ever 'pregnant', 'dead' or 'having their period' though.

I'm told if you live 'on The Gardens' itself, you get a resident key to the square in the middle. Though I'm sure interlopers from the surrounding streets just hop over the fence when they fancy too. A lot of the building look to be flats now, which is a shame as buildings just don't seem to get looked after so well when split into multi-occs.

Keef, Ganapati is South Indian - but I'd actually go to one of the Pakistani ones. The Mirch Masala is still my current favourite - and the prices are so reasonable, they're laughable (in a good way). Make sure you get some starters: seekh kebabs, Jeera chicken wings on-the-bone, Onion Bhajai (like no other onion Bhajia), and take a bag to carry home the excess for your lunch the next day. It's all a bit downbeat canteen stylee and the service is duff, but you can't beat the food.