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Bonobo - Black Sands album Incredible live show at Big Chill this year (along with Caribou, Martina Topley-Bird...). Streets ahead of Massive Attack's show. And all 11 of them on a teeny tiny stage. Lovely vocals from Andreya Triana (who has an album out too). Stay The Same Eyesdown a remix of same http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpW8ddsleAM&feature=related Black Sands Ninja Tune is a label well worth exploring if you don't know it. And it's their 20th anniversary this year, so lots of parties.

dita-on-tees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have just been one of those tranced sainsburys > shoppers. i attempted the self check out too ha > ha. what was i thinking. need a lie down now. Sainbury's is the new Valium. That's why parents go there: it absolves them of all responsibility for the antics of their 'he's got ADHD' kids.

Did I mention the people on my road (owner-occupiers) who insist on filling every window of their many-windowed house with crappy, universally broken, dirty net curtains, which are always drawn (in a broken kind of way)? If they ever see it from the outside, they must realise how crappola it looks to all the neighbours and passers by, and if they never come out they must be seeing their entire world through those ghastly filters 24/7.

In fact, I've developed a huge loathing for all automatons in chain shops. Sainsbury's, Boots, WH Smith, you name it.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's no way to talk about the staff ;-) And talking of staff, another reason for not going there is all those checkout staff continuously demanding a Nectar card. Tiresome.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If they are going about their business & not > actually doing any harm, or hurting anyone, > Why not just leave them alone? One female rat will produce on average another 20 rats in a year, with the females each be having their own rat babies after just a few months. This kind of population growth path would produce a very seriously large number of rats in fairly short shrift if no attempt were made at population control. Do the math, as Americans would say. Rats are carriers of numerous diseases and parasites, some of the latter (such as rat fleas) also being the carriers of yet other diseases. Diseases can easily be transmitted to humans owing to physical proximity of rats, their urine and fleas etc. to humans and human habitations. At the extreme, stuff like bubonic plague (carried by the rat flea) has not gone away - it's just under control. Leptospirosis, Weil's disease more common, plus others... I hear that rats have developed a fondness for living and nesting under the garden decking that everyone seems to have been installing.

VeryBerryCherry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My gripe has to be child related, and I am a > little reticent to write this, as being a > non-parental, and can only imagine in my worst > nightmares what it?s like. But... > > Kids in Sainsburys!!! Yes indeed, and one of the main reasons I don't go there. Mind you, there are often about 200 adults in a trance state too.

Alternatively, I could create a mini-minaret to stand by the front gate. Or do you think that might just egg them on?

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or failing that, put a brass plaque on the gate > that reads as follows. > > 'National Centre for Satanic Worship and > Witchcraft' I'm liking the idea of a witchy installation, complete with hat and broomstick. Perhaps holding a water pistol to be operated remotely B)

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had JWs knocking at my door for ages and I never > answered. Then one day they caught me going > in......all it took was to tell them Darwinian > evolution happened and they've never bothered me > since. True story. > > I think sometimes they target you until you give > them a reason not to. It's a different lot ever time

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Yeah, they do cheap booze.... but so do Samuel > > Smiths, and I'd rather have one of those! > > xxxxxx > > I'm sure Wetherspoons have Sam Smiths amongst > their ales :)) And if my past experience is anything to go by, it'll be served at two degrees above freezing and undrinkable.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > skidmarks Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Oh Christ, sticky tables and no atmosphere > apart > > from the ambient background din of the glass > > washer and chillers plus the old man at the bar > > counting through his pennies to calculate how > many > > ?1.99 pints he can have before his heart stops. > > Why do they insist on covering the tables with > so > > many dirty and sticky laminated menus and price > > lists! I?d rather cut my balls off with a rusty > > saw than go in any Tescospoons. > > xxxxxxx > > So if you know what the owner looks like, their > pub isn't like this? > > And be bloody glad you're not an old man having to > work out whether he can afford a pint or not. Ah, Sue, so maybe I should be giving my money to the Vince Power/Mean Fiddler/Festival Republic/Melvin Benn events axis, rather than to small, independently-owned music events run by a people with a passion for what they do. Right!

Maybe what I need is a burnt effigy of a so-called religious leader

Fuschia Wrote: - > > My estimate of the cost of a staff member for one > morning per week is less than ?2k pa. Which planet are you on?

The Commander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder when Rat will appear alongside Squirrel on > the menu at Franklins? >:D Sainsbury's BOGOF! Buy a squirrel, get a rat free!

Maybe I need a Green River Ordinance.

Good one edcam, but my aim is to stop them getting as far as ringing the doorbell/hammering on the door. I had thought maybe a sign saying 'residence of the Bishop of Southwark' (remember him? ) or perhaps 'Quaker Meeting House' (and I'm actually quite fond of the Quakers), but I, like Brendan, suspect that their general education would not have reached as far as any understanding of other faiths. Perhaps some sort of porch installation that would cause them to turn tail in terror?

I've had three lots in less than a week, hammering on the door when I'm trying to write. (I can't not answer the door as I have several deliveries expected.) Different sects, with the usual daft games to get a foot in the door ("You don't know why I'm here so you don't know that you don't want to talk to me" wtf). Is there a sign or something I can put up to put them off darkening my door? I'm getting really fed up with them.

That happened to me too (only mine was rotting as I'd just got back from holiday). Eeuugh indeed!

Totally agree quids. And they haven't got a clue how to keep beer. If I waned the atmosphere of a bus shelter, I'd go and stand in a bus shelter.

Water pistol?

ImpetuousVrouw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why must he be short? http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/

The Fox gets a 4.4 on Beer in the Evening. Possibly the lowest score I've seen. Some interesting comments there too. If Wetherspoon take over The Vale, for me that's another pub I'll never go into.

Sexy electro house YES. Indie NO. (Well not landfill indie, anyway.) Sez this 50-yr-old :-$

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