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Saw this advertised today, on my Facebook feed, and thought of you: "SPECIAL OFFER. 2 Day CBT course for New Riders ?65.00 We have 10 places left on our special 2 day CBT course for new riders. This is brought to you in partnership with Transport for London. We will teach you everything you need to know to riding a bike safely. Call for more details. 020 8819 4231 ONLY ?65." I did my full licence with these guys, they were good instructors IMO.

Proj London Health Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A cab driver's Sat Nav was pinging him of speed > cameras but no sign of any. After many days he > pulled up and found them covertly mounted. Some sat navs rely on data provided by users to identify where speed cameras are. You do get some false positives in that data, e.g. where a driver once saw a mobile speed trap. I'm just speculating that someone has seen the discreet camera your cabbie found, and tagged it in the database as a speed camera - when it may be some other camera. As far as I know, speed cameras have to be sign-posted. And yellow. All the others round there are.

Thanks for sharing. Fair enough that people shouldn't run engines so much. This isn't exactly going to put a dent in our Kyoto commitment though, is it? And it will be fun in winter, when people have to de-mist windscreens for 5 minutes in the mornings. Meanwhile, we could have been making a real difference to the planet by reducing energy consumption in buildings. And we could have improved road safety by giving our enforcement officers proper training for their vehicles. (The council seems to think it's sensible for its staff to ride scooters around town without giving them enough training to pass a driving licence test.)

So far on this thread, I'm none the wiser about what it is the Police are supposedly not doing that OP thinks we should pressure them into doing. Is there some suggestion that they fail to follow up properly on some knife incidents, for example? I haven't heard about anything like that here, yet. I'll be very surprised if they don't already take knife crime incredibly seriously. I do have a suggestion: pop up metal detector arches at stations. The police use these sometimes for certain carnivals; it's both scary and comical to see the sheer volume of blades dumped on the station platform when people realise they are about to set off the gate alarm.

benfaulkner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > - what do other riders in ED do to avoid motorbike theft?? Congrats on getting your licence. Personally, the thing I do is have a wander round my street and have a look at everyone else's bike security. I try to make my own security better than enough of the others that hopefully mine will be low on the steal list. I reckon mine is currently the 12th most nickable bike in my road. (All the more secure ones are parked right under people's windows, on crunchy gravel drives covered with motion sensitive security lights. You and I can't compete with that.) Mine is chained to a post that I reckon will withstand freeze and angle grinder attacks. Chain is good although not quite uncroppable, but high enough off the ground to be a pain to crop, and as the links are rounded rather than squared it will be harder to get the first 'bite' with croppers. Kryptonite disk lock, can probably be cut with a portable grinder in 20 seconds but at least it means a thief with croppers alone can't take it. Tracker is the next thing - i've got one ready to fit. A determined thief knows how to block the signal instantly though, using equipment available in Poundland, so they can poke around and check for trackers at their leisure later. Luckily most of them don't do that, and prefer to park it up dor a day and see if anyone comes to recover it. The main thing is to find something substantial to chain to, with a decent chain (Almax or Pragmasis are good, Oxford is poor) so the thing can't be lifted into a van. Apparently the scumbags will steal practically anything, so I wouldn't get a crappy bike in the vain hope of putting them off. A good suggestion I read somewhere was to wrap a band round the horn switch, as a simple alarm for when the ignition is on. Just as long as you remember before you turn the key yourself in the mornings! Best of luck.

As Sheff said, there's a downside in that the meter is proprietary to the energy company, so switching providers will be slightly more of a chore than before. Southern Electric have been hassling me to book a smart meter fitting. I did a comparison and instead I've switched providers - looks like I'll save ?400 a year. (No idea what the smart meter protocol is from the new provider.)

Zelig Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is not facebook ffs u ok hun? xxx Haut cuisine comes to North Cross Road:

I'll keep using my 72% ethyl alcohol anti-bac hand gel on the bus thanks. You never know where other people's fingers have been just before they push that bell. If a fellow passenger took a lighter to my hand right away after appying the gel, I wonder if the flames would burn me, or just be a harmless cool blue effect like when you set light to excess deodorant on your skin? Any clever people here know the answer? I don't plan on experimenting? :)

No, but I can get you a lovely time share in Grease?

Now now DKHBilly. There's no need to poo-poo the new link ;)

An occasional feature, like a poor man's version of Red Devil's CGF (that's here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,737891,1651678#msg-1651678 MOAR PLEAZE!) Starting us off: Self-defence experts intervene to educate ED:

katgod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > After many years of trouble free milk deliveries > we recently have had our milk attacked by foxes - > chewing the plastic bottles and resulting in milk > steaming down the front path. Wasteful and > annoying. Tried hanging a bag half way up the > front door which worked for a while but today > they managed to jump up Interesting that it's just started happening. Ingenious behaviour from foxy! I wonder if it's being learned, like when birds suddenly started learning how to peck through milk bottle tops in the 1920's. What amazing, clever little animals they are! Some good ideas on out-smarting them on here. We aren't called homo sapiens for nothing, so finding a harmless solution should be no problem for anyone with an IQ higher than a fox's. (Although one poster's IQ is exceeded by his testosterone count.) Here's another plan for the mix: - put a large, empty container inside your door - hosepipe from your letter box to the container - funnel on other end of hosepipe, sticking out of your letter box - milkman empties milk into the funnel HTH :)

Vol-au-vent: another frog-related foodstuff with a tricky plural. Turns out, the plural is the same as the singular. I just found that out today.

🎶 Six gins and tonic, Five beans on toast! Four sisters-in-law, Three toads in the hole, Two ducks ? l'orange, ?and a pedant in the EDT. 🎵

Disgraceful. Hope the victim's face heals well. The licensee will need to sort their house out, by the sound of it.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you'll work it out... Like the constipated mathematician? (She worked it out with a pencil?) Sorry about that. Anyway, I had a question: when the long arm of the law reaches the elusive Dulwich Dumper, what is the penalty? Is it the same as not clearing up after your dog? Assuming that he manages to avoid a charge of indecent exposure.

I'm inclined to sgree with Seabag's suggestion, especially as more bikes have helmet storage now (when the actual fuel tank is under the seat, the big painted tank at the front is for shopping or lid). Having said that, if you wander round in a balaclava, you can't complain if you frighten someone into giving you a pre-emptive thump. A mate of mine had a pair of very jumpy coppers turn up at his place, threatening him with their batons, as the neighbours had called when they spotted him out the front of his house in a balaclava at midnight. It was winter and he had just got home to find his bricks had been delivered, so he was moving them round the back in multiple trips. His neighbours had done the right thing, and no harm was done that a change of underpants couldn't fix.

Happy to 'boycott' the big screen, by staying home and watching all the latest movies freely available on the internet. No worries about living wage - none of the folks involved in the movies' legitimate production and distribution will see a penny. Just the guy who stole and sold the content, and the people who run the website. Millions of people around the world do this every day. Or, we can go to the cinema (any cinema) and pay money which pays everyone working in the industry. Even if you feel that some or many of those people are underpaid: at least they are paid!

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Nasty business. Thank you for taking the time to warn us about this violent, cowardly little gang of thugs. Hope you're back to full health, and best of luck for the end of your studies.

If the tiddly one in St Thomas' is anything to go by, it's sensible of them not to make a fuss. That one is ok for picking up a sandwich or ready meal if you happen to be on site, but it can't cater for any volume of people expecting to do worthwhile food shopping. That one on Lordship Laneis pretty good though. I love the candy at the checkout. Yum.

did you get any blood on the nearby products, and is it too late to find them in the discount section? Stay well :)

You can legally sell them. It's just the continued listening to the tracks that would be a matter for your conscience :)

None of us having an ethical problem with Ubering then? I've delegated my ethical judgement on this one to TfL, on the basis that if Uber flouts minimum wage or safety standards then they will lose their licence. Willing to hear arguments against using them though. Apparently their CEO just got rated one star by the driver he had a row with :D

Jim1234 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why /how was this thread renamed? The > title I gave it was 'racist incident this > afternoon' In fairness, 'terrorist' is not in and of itself racially offensive. If the boor had directly referred to the couple's ancestry, for example by calling them 'Micks', 'Paddies', 'Fenians' or simply 'Irish b*****ds', then that would be your proper racism. Top marks for civic mindedness. Personally I don't think ringing the law was a good use of your time in the circumstances you described.