*Bob*

Isn't this already covered by the 12.5% optional gratuity added to our Southwark council tax bill?

C'mon people - the fact is we don't know anything about the person that lives at this address. They could be a beautiful human being for all we know; the toast of the street. Like that bloke in the park with the pitbull, blue ink tats and thousand yard stare. Appearances can be so deceptive. We just don't know.

That was one quick resignation. Rats / sinking ship

I can almost see the heavily engineered double-pager the Snu will write when they recruit this guy. "That's it, hold the flag up a bit more. Can you look at a more more sad? Great! Tape recorder's running. Lets stick to loving your country and not being ashamed of being English. Don't say anything too vile.."

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But streaky bacon, cooked to a crisp... hmmm. Oscar Mayer, if you can separate the slices. Cook to a crisp and pour off the fat. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm oink

And the odd one about how you should spend ?40k on a sportscar http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10653979/Why-you-should-buy-a-sports-car.html

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- But there are lots of > articles of that ilk in the paper (well on their > website at least) now it seems. Doesn't this author write half of them?

Do you think he might believe what he writes? Or does he write what he thinks might be believable?

The family bonfire. My brother (aged 14) got bladdered on some partially fermented homebrew which had been bubbling away in an Addis flip-top bin. He was locked in the outside toilet for his own safety, where he vomited on himself. For my part, I sneakily pocketed a few bangers from the Crawfords 'safety first, Dad' biscuit tin and - possibly - may have touched a second cousin's tit. Happy days.

Frightening films indeed. To this day, I've never flown a kite near to an electricity pylon whilst wearing flared jeans.

Mustard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sure, great idea, especially the guide dogs, > assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and companions for > lonely elderly people. Sorry - I'm not interested in trying to see things from any perspective other than the one that works best for me and others who happen to agree with me. Blinkers on. Forward march.

Some people are responsible with them, but others are not. As with most things, the ones that aren't spoil it for the rest. They are noisy, disrupting sleep and waking the children. They're let off in areas where they shouldn't be. They pollute and cause mess that other people have to suffer. In the worst cases they can be dangerous and even kill. So perhaps it would be better if - instead of people owning dogs at home - they were kept in an isolated compound and let out once or twice a year, under strictly controlled conditions - for dog lovers to enjoy.

There's a whole page on that site dedicated to explaining (with diagrams) how to walk on a beach without leaving footprints because they 'damage the resource of a "virgin" beach' Whoever writes this cobblers seriously needs to get over themselves.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Bob* Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What sort of masochist watches commercials out choice these days? You *Bob*? I have an excuse: I am required to watch all manner of shite because it's part of my job. So that should I find myself sitting in Adam&Eve/DDB in front of someone wearing fashion victim sunglasses with a 'creative box' of play lego on their desk - and they ask me "hey, did you see our JL spot???" then instead of saying "no, I fast-forward all adverts because they bring nothing of interest to my life" I am able to say "YES! My body was enveloped in a curious warm glow, my heart melted - and I felt compelled to purchase a Nespresso machine and a faux-silk throw from a chain retailer sporting a slogan nobody actually understands - even the staff."

I'd like to see a post-watershed version with both penguins being shot in the face and the kid locked in a cupboard until Boxing day. Ho-Ho-Ho

It's like peering into a toilet after the flush to watch a turd go down - and finding yourself overcome with emotion by the smoothness of its removal. I'm mean, yeah, you could - but why would you want to, given the choice? It's slick, but then by christ it should be for a cool million.

What sort of masochist watches commercials out of choice these days? With PVR machines costing less than a hundred pounds there really is no need to spoonfeed lukewarm diarrhoea into your mouth and say mmmmmmmmmm. Quite frankly, the advert sucks satan's scaly pecker - but will no doubt strike a chord with anyone who beat a path to Kensington Palace and lay a rose, blubbering like a big baby etc etc

I'm not sure the council (ie us, by way of tax) should be footing the bill for moving trees from domestic properties - just because the owners haven't bothered to manage the tree properly themselves - over the course of twenty years or so.

Nice tree. Too big. Deemed a subsidence threat, I expect.

Annette - don't be put-off generally - it's just that 'do a search first' is one of the easiest ways to avoid a frosty response on well-attended internet forums. That said, this petition is a nonsense, with no detail or explanation. No wonder the currency and capital of petitioning in general has been devalued to near zero! At present, aircraft noise is already shared 'as much as it can be' - at least without dismantling and re-laying the runways and completely reworking the system of stacks and landing routes that has enabled the airport to run with an enviable safety record for nearly half a century. I find it ironic that someone from Brockley - claiming new/recent flight path intrusions over their bit of London - has signed a petition asking for fairer sharing of flight paths!

A Lidl carrier bag makes a deceptive receptacle - and it's opaque too.

He's got bigger pants

How many 'successful strikes' - followed by jobs cuts - does this make now? I've lost count.

True, RPC, true. He might also perhaps be allergic to the ink used in cheque books or - for ideological reasons - feel a desire to wrest control from established financial institutions and strike a blow for the people.

Ahem.. I think what Jeremy means is that he decided to pay in cash - what happened with it or was meant to happen with it after that wasn't his responsibility. Paying cash is not illegal!