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Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > this lot are teetotaller's No further explanation required. Mr L fully exonerated, dress code notwithstanding. The secret to successful social teetotalling is laissez faire. Uptight abstention is a fast track to Coventry. There should be a test before you're allowed off the sauce.

It all depends how formal the occasion was. Was it black tie, white tie, or simply lounge suits? If black or white then I'm afraid Mr L's comportment was nothing short of scandalous. However, nowadays gentlemen are excused from standing for the ladies when the occasion is lounge suits only. By extension, one could argue that this is a setting in which ladies must know their place. To wit, speaking out on matters concerning how gentlemen conduct themselves would lie far beyond the accepted scope of ladylike topics for which the ladies' input is welcomed (such as flower arranging, organising the local tombola, and so on). I don't have my Debretts to hand but am confident I have recalled the relevant etiquette correctly here.

From the 197 bus this morning I saw police had taped off an alleyway in Addiscombe. A sad little feline shape lying a few yards in.

In today's Evening Standard: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/idiotboy77/3A2188FB-6AF0-427B-B70B-429AD05D8E7B_zps2kjk1nin.jpg

What singalto said. Veiola were making a racket at 2am at a business near me. I popped in during the day to speak to the people who work there. They had no idea Veiola were being so cheeky, and confirmed their contract required collections before 11pm. Problem sorted, and as a bonus we now know each other by name. Despite that being frowned upon between neighbours in London ;)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You lost me at "jazz". Surely you mean, "You had me at Hello Dolly!"

CassieBushell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always 'skip' across the end of the bus lane > just before finishes ? never had anything I got fined for exactly that, in Ealing. Caught by a CCTV operator, no more than two car lengths from the end of the solid line. Still makes me grind my teeth, 7 or so years on!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Buses are fitted with 'Forward Looking' Cameras It's true. Luckily though, there is a very widely followed consensus among bus drivers to make sure those cameras are turned off when they're on the road. Most of the driving offences they capture when they're running are their own and other buses!

I'm using a powerline adaptor. It works really well, but it was a bit pricey so if a repeater suits your place then that's probably better value. The powerline adaptor gets round problems of steel beams etc. You plug it into a power socket, connect it to the router with an Ethernet cable, and plug a powerline wifi device into another socket in the part of the house you need signal in. It somehow uses your house electrical circuit to carry the signal. Downside is the speed is a bit slower than when you're connected directly on the main wifi. Still, when your primary phone socket is in the gatehouse and you need signal in the south wing, it does the job ;)

Interesting art that changes, and some gold jazz nights that you can bring your own booze to.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It could be PTSD. Did you go to a convent, Louisa? I don't think a traumatised nun would resort to going round cemeteries, vanishing at monuments ;) Anyway I have an idea to lay these ghosts to rest: there are normally outdoor screenings in the cemetery for the Free Film Festival in September. This would be an amazing venue for the Sing-along Sound of Music! We could fill the place with more nuns and nazis than you can shake a swatch of curtain fabric at! Do you reckon the Friends of Nunhead would be up for it?

I was going to suggest we should go back to calling hamburgers 'beef burgers', like they did in the War. But a quick factoid check on Wikipedia has failed to confirm the story. Instead, the online oracle of unimpeachable truths reveals an even more suitable alternative: During World War II, waves of anti-German sentiment inspired some to refer to hamburgers as "liberty sandwiches."

?when my Facebook feed was all attention-seeking passive-aggressive statuses, cat memes and "u ok hun?"s

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We can concentrate on growing our own grapes for > wine because tariffs on decent European wines will > be extortionate. > > Louisa. ^^^so far the best upside on this thread. England produces some of the best wine in the world. Time to turn that into serious jobs! And better volumes. Yum. As for the complaints about xenophobia: go back to your own thread(s) ;-) I am a bit concerned though about the tariff barrier for decent Single Malts, when we have to start importing the stuff over the EU border (which will be at Hadrian's Wall). Finding the upside, I reckon we could distill ourselves some pretty mean hipster whisky right here. We've already got ale, gin and even mead in the area - I bet we could give the Highlands and Islands a run for their money :-)

That's enough bickering and doom merchanting now folks. Here's a space for making the best of it, assuming we don't get a reprieve. (If you really must rend your clothes, gnash your teeth and wear sackcloth and ashes for a few more days, there are other threads for you!). Some upsides we can hope for? More Aussies, Kiwis and Canucks. Or to put it another way, these are countries I'd love to work in. Let them come freely, if they will do the same :-) (Sorry USA, not you. Deal with guns laws and Mr Trump, then we'll talk!) Rekindle the Protestant Work Ethic. Someone is going to have to do all the jobs we've been leaving to our Central European guests. Scarily, it's going to have to be the notoriously difficult to manage British unskilled worker, with his misplaced sense of self-entitlement. With no choice but to put our compatriots to work, we will at last deal with this problem and rebuild our base of home-grown hard workers. (May require actual beatings. Luckily we can repeal the Human Rights Act as soon as we're out!) Tourism Boom. With the Pound worth so much less, more foreign visitors than ever will come to spend their cash on exorbitant National Trust ticket prices and Duck tours. And, as less of us can afford our fortnight in Spain or week in the Alps, now is the time to start setting up more pitches in the camping and caravan sites of our national parks. See, I've almost convinced myself this can work ;-) Help me out. What other good things are we going to see?

I agree with you. (Yes, you reading this now!) So now that you know I'm on your side, another small request. If you have small children, could you possibly rouse yourself from the depths of despair when you're walking them past the College Road toll booth? I ask only because the section of pavement right next to the barrier has become prime real estate for the tying of tiny shoelaces, chats over huddled buggies, and toddling as close to the kerb as humanly possible. That's the same kerb that cyclists and motorcyclists have to ride along to use the two wheel lane next to the barrier. You or possibly little Tarquin are going to cause an accident. If the cherubic fruit of your loins has left you too worn to care at this point, could you at least check your household contents insurance includes public liability cover for when you're out and about. The good policies do. That way, you won't mind when someone has to sue you. Thanks ever so! xx

Is it not possible / feasible for these works to have a clear coat of anti-graffiti paint over them? The stuff that lets you just wash off whatever is sprayed onto it. No idea whether it interferes with the paintwork underneath. I'm planning to use the stuff on the wall of my house, which is regularly tagged :-/

Good grief. So the Constabulary knows where these thieves are and what they're up to, yet the villains remain at large. By extension, what chance is there of arrest for stealthier criminals, like the sadcase who carves up people's pets? :-/ Back on topic, a cheap little extra measure if you're going away or mothballing the bike for a bit: tape down the horn switch. Easy to defeat but after dealing with chain, disc lock, steering lock, alarm etc the thief probably is not expecting it (I doubt they follow this thread). The horn going off just as they boost the ignition might just be the "oh s#++" moment that makes them leg it. Or might just make someone look. I'll report back when I've done this myself ? I'll inevitably jump out of my skin when I get back and forget my own 'booby trap' ;)

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > If you had read even a bit of it, you wouldn't > have posted that. But credit where it's due. Thank you Foxy for correcting the dodgy grammar from the original blog you pasted that from! http://fix-your-printer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/error-u052-on-canon-printers.html I can't work out whether this proves that you're not a chatbot, or whether your coder has hacked in a cunning grammar double bluff setting. The Turing Test continues? ;)

You might want to download some if the manufacturers print apps to see which ones are designed well. Airprint is Airprint - they all work fine. I use a Brother, no complaints.

Applied 6th June. Nothing yet. When is the deadline to return the ballot paper?

They need a littering fine. Rats eat cat food too.

Personally I find the Dulwich pool pleasant, but the gents' wet changing room far smellier that it needs to be. (Smell is from the loo.) I like the front desk staff, they smile and give you their attention. Comments in this thread about needing another squat rack are spot on. There was something about Peckham Pulse that put me off. I think it was a combination of the hassle of gym upstairs followed by a trek downstairs for swimming, combined with a sauna which was possibly located in Brigadoon, up on gym level. And the staff didn't manage to create the same welcoming experience as Dulwich.

I'm voting to: (a) scrap Trident, so that we can (b) fit a load of otherwise surplus submarine engines to Great Britain, so that we can © take the entire island on a cruise to somewhere more interesting. Possibly the Carribean. (Ireland probably needs to move out of the way.) #Brexodus You didn't put that option in the poll, so I've clicked on 'in' for the time being.

Based in the contract award notice, it appears to be a management contract only. Assets like gym equipment are likely purchased and owned by the council. That's my interpretation of the notice anyway: http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:145232-2016:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0&tabId=1