louisiana

One organisation I am involved with on particular issues had been doing this: http://euelection.openrightsgroup.org/ Unfortunately, candidates do not always respond... This site is pretty handy: http://www.votematch.co.uk/europe/

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > espelli Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I will vote, although I'm not sure who for yet. > > > > > Does anyone know how your vote is counted if > you > > do not spoil it but also do not mark a vote for > > any of the candidates? > > It will be counted as a spoiled ballot. > > (I was an official election observer the first > year this was allowed in the UK, and have seen a > lot of returning officers interpreting ballots.) Also I was told at a City Hall ballot workshop a few years ago that offering a 'none of the above' option on the ballot - as they do in Australia and elsewhere - would be politically unacceptable in the UK. This is really the option you seek espelli.

espelli Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I will vote, although I'm not sure who for yet. > > Does anyone know how your vote is counted if you > do not spoil it but also do not mark a vote for > any of the candidates? It will be counted as a spoiled ballot. (I was an official election observer the first year this was allowed in the UK, and have seen a lot of returning officers interpreting ballots.)

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In all fairness as much as I do admire CM's stand > against the use of torture at a time when too many > poliicians and civil servants turned a blind eye > to protect their careers, he's not exactly > leadership material. Neither are most MPs. The last thing the government wants is several hundred wannabe leaders. > > A self confessed philanderer, adulterer, a > borderline alcoholic, the tabloids would crucify > him. A pity his integrity didn't stretch to being > a good husband or father. And that book is > painfully self aggrandizing isn't it. Crikey, he'd fit into the House really well.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, > there was a crash involving a convertible and a 12 > Bendy Bus on Lordship Lane at the junction of > Friern Road on Sunday afternoon. Um, it was mentioned May 25th, third post on this thread. By me.

Shrimps!

Do they have passports to allow them to travel internationally?

1. Never washed up, never cleaned, room full of left-over plates and blue-mould cups, between floor-piles of knickers etc, for weeks on end. Female. 2. Never cooked, but always magically arrived in kitchen 10 secs before someone else took pots off stove, in size 30 jackboots (down several flights of wooden stairs). Female. 3. Wanted to use room as cannabis factory, with high-power lights and all that jazz. Used freezer as magic mushroom coldstore warehouse. Never cleaned. Left all kitchen debris in situ, where it fell, encouraging cockroach problem (was a hotter country). Male.

Perhaps we could have a 'wanted' gallery with mugshots

black jacks, four for a penny fruit salads likewise flying saucers, two for a penny sherbet fountain, 3d? black/red licorice laces, 1d? and The Beano

"You have magnificent breasts. Are you loyal?" Within sight, but not earshot, of my partner. His FMCG employer apparently pays him a substantial 'mistress budget'. Perhaps I should name and shame the tosspot and his firm.

Carrie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Louisiana - you went to the same school as I did! > I never knew about Roger Moore He was only there for a short bit, during the war I think. So which year were you? I left in '78 (so two yrs behind Magenta and three behind Fern). Are you too young for the awful head Agnes McMaster? That dreadful woman went on to terrorise Croydon High School. Have to say I loathed the place. Small-minded suburban defined.

No but I did see the spectacular 'car drives into the back of a clearly parked number 12 bus' (at the 12 bus stand, junction of LL and Friern). Two cars wrecked? Sunday afternoon.

Snorky, how exactly did he get caught out?

Roger Moore Fern Britton Kim Taylor AKA Magenta Devine (described in Wikipedia as "an independently wealthy heroin addict and publicity agent" before her move to TV under Janet Street Porter) Rick Warden (Band of Brothers) Greg Hands (MP) Roger Hammond (cyclist) Donald Stewert-Whyte AKA Abdul Waheed ("Two years after leaving was arrested in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot")

Sterner Stuff

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > British people using Americanisms like "garbage" > instead of "rubbish." It's rubbish I tell you. > Rubbish! And "runway" when they mean "catwalk". Catwalk seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary of British journalists.

I once enquired about using my laptop upstairs at Dulwich Library (when the electricity was off in our road for the day). Like yours, my old laptop had short battery life so needed to be plugged in. The head honcho upstairs declared that (a) plugging in to one of their many power sockets would contravene health and safety and might cause an explosion and (b) computers using the wi-fi obtain their power via the wi-fi - through the ether - and so do not need to be plugged into an electricity supply: "That is what wi-fi is for." I kid you not. Priceless.

reetpetite Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And Icelands gonna be Waitrose ... Nah, it's going to be an outpost of John Lewis Food Hall. Complete with cheese room. Cos we don't have enough cheese on the Lane. :)

I still have a Vodafone mobile broadband dongle... Drops out every 60-120 seconds, sometimes more frequently.

What a bally good idea, chaps.

Wake me up whenever we get to wherever we're going :-S

Bus drivers that sail past the stop at top speed even when (a) the stop is not a request stop or (b) you have had your arm stuck out in mid-air for several minutes or © you are actually standing in front of where the bus has to drive and he has to swerve to avoid you or (d) all of the above even though (e) the bus is half empty and (f) it is not a training vehicle, and (g) it is not 'out of service'. Actually this is not a tiny thing. It's a huge thing.

So how does anyone remember when or where to turn up?

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have to disagree with you Louisiana. I'm old > enough to be a frequent user of an hotel. I'm sure > it's a generation thang. It would only have been correct to say 'an otel', not 'an hotel'. Take a look at whatever 'English usage' book you have. My Fowler (published 1965, 45 years ago) definitely frowns on it, though points out that - then - perhaps some 'old-fashioned' people used it 'because it is less trouble to say.'