RosieH

Could well be, could well be - ashamed to say I saw it in a recent repeat of Sharpe on a digital channel and just liked it. Mikecg lurked around plenty after he swanned off in a playing-the-victim princessy hissy fit, waiting all the while for us to beg for him to come back (clicking on his name showed last activity and he was on here regularly days after his flounce). He acted like a cock. Then he didn't. But seemingly actually still did in PMs - I've got to go with Admin on this one. "Boy who cried wolf" my arse. The boy who cried wolf didn't threaten tombside micturition.

High cockolorum

Yep, with BN5. In some places the waiting staff do get the tips added onto credit cards, so is always worth checking. Not all restaurants are evil.

B@stards. Yeah, that IS annoying. I say dump them, they can't really value your friendship.

If the reason you're sending a text is because you can't / won't talk at the moment then say so in the text. I phone people because I like them and I like to talk to people I like. If for whatever reason I can't / don't want to talk to them, I let them know so they don't think me rude. Also, much like emails, it's usually a hell of a lot quicker actually just to talk to someone that it is to type out some dullard little message. Especially if it involves arrangements going back and tediously forth...

I like the rillettes from Waitrose. They used to sell rillettes in the ED Deli but don't now. I think I was the only buyer. But love for the potted pig is not enough. Screw Waitrose, I want a Fresh N Wild.... (not really)

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BRUM SCUM WITH VILLA ON HIS BUM hahahahahahahahaha Rarely do I laugh out loud at the EDF; the most I usually allow is a wry smile. This made me guffaw. Excellent work.

I'm in awe. It has been fascinating (and at times harrowing) to read of events unfolding in real time, and at least a day ahead of the BBC. I've been surprised that it has taken trad media a full day to catch up. There has been much talk of citizen journalism for years, but this is the first time I have found myself genuinely moved and swept along by its immense power. Revolutionary.

I had the same problem Sean, and my screen was maxed. However, clicking on the images brought them up full size, so unless there were more that were off to the right somewhere, I could access...

"The Palmerston and Franklins will keep even serious foodies happy"

Edited as while I believe in capital punishment for those who abuse helpless punctuation, this thread ain't done nothin to me and doesn't deserve to be killed.

I finally flipped and beheaded a serial abuser of apostrophes

Barry IS the man! Damn, why have I not been training for this day..?

Actually that was a total lie. I've often thought it might be amusing though. Have I over-shared?

Dracula tea bags not particularly gross. I know someone who made a black pudding from their menses...

Ooh, good call - she's a right one that Moll In a similar vein, I'll go Dick Turpin

lozzyloz, you don't think the people who invented them ever really existed? Sir Percy Blakeney President Bartlett Robin Hood Tabitha Winshaw

birthday mojito, double yum yum - I may turn up a little the worse for wear, but turn up I shall

Sorry, I've been staying away from this thread because it can only ever go round and round in ever decreasing circles, but seriously Tony, no, come on: since when did personal anecdotes equate to wisdom? I have known a number of criminals. Also criminal lawyers, forensic psychiatrists, policemen, and one social worker. I'm older than D_C and younger than you. And I'm anti capital punishment. Vehemently so. I can't work out where I should be on the spectrum.

I'm in total agreement that it's awful to have your purse snatched - it happened to me years ago and left me without money to eat. But I do agree with CF that pickpockets are opportunists and will strike anywhere - I don't think it's any lower to take a wallet from someone in a charity shop or from a bag on the back of a pram than it is from anyone else anywhere else.

thebeard, do you never give yourself a headache with all that SHOUTING?

Does that mean I can have the dubstep tent instead? I asked second!

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "you can't be a critic until someone is willing to > pay for your services and you can claim to have a > mandate." ... > I write as someone who was paid in the distant > past to write about wine and fortified wine from > particular parts of Europe Louisiana, I write as someone on the other side of the equation and it seems that things may have changed considerably in recent years. It can be nigh on impossible to get a broadsheet wine writer onto a lavish press trip - but even if you do, there's no guarantee that they'll write about the wine at the end of it, or that if they do, that it'll be a positive review. Perhaps I was doing it wrong, but if I'd known I could have slipped Jancis or Tim Atkin a couple of cases of australian plonk in return for a good write up, I would have had some very happy clients. These days, it's bloggers who tend to get targeted for press trips - altogether an easier sell. Edited to say, not posting to be argumentative, just that I think some journos can be given the benefit of the doubt not to have been paid off.

Me me me me me, I wanna dubstep tent, and we've got the room

No no no no no no no What's essential locally? Food, toilet paper, lightbulbs, News of the Screws. For god's sake people, get on a bus.