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I work in a building in ED with numerous taps in different rooms. In 2 particular rooms the water is foul, undrinkable, really nasty. In the next room the tap water is fine, as is the rest of the building.

No idea why this is so, asked around and no one else in the building knows, we all just live with it.

Don't accept that it may just be the hardness that you're not used to, there may be an actual problem. Ask a neighbour if you can try their water or a friend to second test yours.

If there is a problem, call Thames Water, you pay water rates after all.

X Factor winner

He jumped into the garbage truck,from where Molly or accomplices threw a cadaver onto the street, then drove away.

Season 3 definitely been commissioned, tho' I'm not sure how 3 episodes can count as a season.

TheAnimist Wrote:

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> Based on the little girls screaming when she saw

> Sherlock, I assume Moriarty was wearing a mask

> during the abduction, long overcoat + mask on

> Moriarty's dead body, with assistance from the lab

> girl to cover this up once the body is inside.

From what I saw, this would be impossible. Holmes eyes were fixed on Sherlock the whole time, the body was in motion as it fell with arms and legs flailing, and the body they put on the gurney was definitely Sherlock, not Moriarty.

My best guess would be that Sherlock took a calculated risk. His flailing limbs and overcoat would have slowed his descent and he landed in a manner as to do the least damage possible. The next scenes were months later, after a recovery period.

I was disappointed his head popped up in the final scene, would have preferred him to be dead.

Hi Thomas, happy to help with homework;

1. Final resting place after a long journey around the country, where I chose to raise my children, probably one of the best places in GB.

2. Baby blue

3. Wood and brick and leaf

4. Triangular

5. Staff at Dulwich Library

6. Saturday, twilight, after a days drinking.

7. East Dulwich Tavern

8. Curry

9. A warm, bright sunny weekend.

Hope that helps :)

I'd love to see a good indian deli.

A chocolate shop sounds nice too, but an indian deli would get me coming back on a daily basis.

The old fish and chip shop 'The Codfather' is being turned into a posh fish and chip (and more) shop.

Bubble and Squeak, the old cafe, will either become an arts and craft store, a kids clothes shop or a nail bar. Or another Morleys, maybe a Tesco express.

What would people like to see there?

No Waitrose nonsense please.

Hi Ludoscotts,

I was in soho today and noticed as I passed so high soho on Berwick street a giant skull at the far end of the shop. Don't know if it was for decoration or for sale as I didn't venture inside. Hope this helps.

Prince's ninth, Diamond and Pearls, not my favourite and probably his last great lp.

Felt's tenth, Me the Monkey and the Moon.

Yo La Tengo's eleventh, I am not afraid of you and will beat your ass, best title ever hands down.

Acid Mother's Temple thirty fourth, Lady Pink Lemonade. Had to wiki that albums position.

I'm finding it hard to find bands in my collection that get beyond their first or second album, yet alone a decent third.

There are a few tho' that shine with longevity (Super Furry Animals, Ash, Boredoms....)

3 life changing debuts;

Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

The Doors - The Doors

Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced

3rds

Prince - Dirty Mind

White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Bongwater - The Power of Pussy

Dinosaur Jr - Bug

6ths

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

Super Furry Animals - Lovekraft

Can anybody do 9ths?

The-e-dealer said "But maybe if Judge Dread wandered the Park we'd have it treated better."

I can second that!

Judge Dread and his gardening posse.

An article in the paper today reporting on a paper in Science, obviously inspired by this thread.

It says that homosapien usurped the neanderthal because of greater numbers, food preservation and better weapons.

So we ate better, fought better and were better looking so shagged more!

Case closed!

Hi Ted,

Haven't heard of the book before, may check it out for some holiday reading.

Hi Mockney,

I did have food preservation and farming in my list also, I'm sure there are many other factors too, probably how we developed as social groups, how and where we travelled and our ability to use tools and think through problems. In all it was quite likely a gradual and inclusive process, one little step leading to another, one area opening up the next. Of course, all this is conjecture, none of us really know. It could have been aliens.

I don't believe it was omnivorism that helped us develop. Or teeth. Or sleeping with hebetic girls. Or Aliens.

Hi Rosie, to quote from your same article "Chimpanzees are largely fruit eaters, and meat composes only about 3% of the time they spent eating overall, less than in nearly all human societies." Which is what I said.

You all seem to be arguing about teeth, meat and puberty and not really telling us how, relating to our species, these factors could have helped with our evolutionary success. I'd like a little more elucidation please.

Just to reiterate my original argument, I don't think it was teeth, omnivorism or puberty that helped us advance, but the way we prepared food through cooking and preservation. These methods meant we were able to extract a greater energy from foodstuffs and introduced pulses and grains into our diet.

This freed us from the tyranny of a hunter/forager lifestyle and fostered farming and a move away from feast/famine in early human society. I believe that this was the secret of our success.

Hi Rosie,

Chimps are mainly herbivores and will choose fruit above all other foods, gorilla and chimpanzee teeth are very similar, though in both cases their canine teeth are more pronounced than ours. I don't believe teeth really have helped out in our evolutionary progress

Cattle also have canine teeth Heinz.

Binary star, gorillas also have a similar age for puberty among females, and in parts of Africa a similar life expectancy (barely 32 in Swaziland according to the CIA World Factbook, which is shocking). So I don't really see how this helped.

And DJKQ, is this the CATASTROPHE you were alluding to?

Hi Heinz,

Sorry, cattle do have 6 incisors, as do other herbivorous animals such as horses. The incisors are used to shear/tear through plant and fibrous material, and therefore can also be used to tear through flesh. Your canines are used to hold the food in place (therefore they are pointy) and molars grind it down.

A meagre 3% of a gorilla's daily intake is made of insects and catterpillars, a daily hazzard when you are chomping your way through 18 kg of veg a day. As they have an organic diet they don't have the pesticides to keep the critters away. I'd say a 97% herbivorous diet was pretty much vegan to me (especially as they shun dairy).

Back to my original supposition; I don't think it is what we eat that has led to our species advancement, but how we eat. Cooking has given us the ability to extract greater energy from our food, preservation through salt and pickling has given our food a greater longevity (and helped prevent the seasonal plenty/famine), and of course farming has given us a plentiful harvest that we can share as a group.

I have always assumed that is was the preperation of the human diet rather than it's contents that gave homo sapiens an advantage.

Fire opened up a whole new protein group of grains and pulses into our daily feast, meat was readily available to our ancestors in its raw form prior to that and that didn't seem to give us an evolutionary leg up.

Just had a look at my teeth. Nothing like a tiger or shark (carnivore), a lot more like a gorilla's (primarily vegan).

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Ha ha ha, from Paul Erdos to philosophy in 6!

How very apt.

Joe Meek

Phil Spector

Kramer

John Zorn

I saw this happen 3 times yesterday, they came up Barry road and off down Nunhead lane. Once would have been fine, but they repeated the same journey twice more.

We waved to them, but they didn't respond, so maybe not royalty.

It really has piqued my curiosity and would love to know what was going on.

Scooby Doo, where are you?

I'm glad this thread has descended into silliness, now I can post this without guilt!

We need Real Life Superheroes!!

Would any of your be willing to dress up and fight crime on the Lane?

Unsure? Check out our very own New Statesman.

This could be you soon!

There was a placard and a petition outside one of the shops on the left hand side (as you travel north), so it seems local businesses are already on the case using the old fashioned way.

I would suggest a visit and show your support by signing up if you are concerned about these traffic calming measures.

Oops, posted on the wrong thread! Sorry!

There's a nice little article at the back of this months Tape Op on the romance of the 4 track tape machine.

I can thoroughly recommend the magazine too, free subscription and one of the few I read cover to cover!

Sorry can't help you with your current quandary, please keep us informed of what you do purchase as one day(ish) would like a little four track myself.

Reminds me of younger days and the lo fi revolution when we used to use tape to tape on a crappy hi fi for overdubbing, each layer buried under stoner hiss.

There were whole albums recorded and released that were recorded on home cassette tape, the great Daniel Jhnston immediately jumps to mind, and also this little gem from

Good luck!