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Eh?

It's more the request for nudity that threw me...

I have it on good authority (I spoke to the sister of one of the girlfriends of an upstanding member of the community in Pontefract whose brother knew a bloke who caught a train to Luton where the chap who sat next to him knew how to spell Enfield) that much frsutration stemmed from the fact that Consumer Focus, the consumer rights group, will transfer to the Citizens Advice Bureau. It was felt that there should be more 'Citizen-based Testing' that accounted for temporary loans from homeware stores in Tottenham. Bloody Tories.

You do however, get my point that they involve cast iron pipes that were 'checked' using cheap tech? This one was also 'checked' 48 hours before. Your expenditure is across 35 years, yeah? But it's anticipated to deliver cost savings that means it costs 5bn in real terms across 35 years. So maybe just 150m a year then? Big difference from your scary topline figure of 15bn? Then you ask whether that's a reasonable price to pay for the safety of our communities? As the head count rises in the US it's clear they think tax cuts are more important. The evidence is that these technologies are none to bright, can't predict catastrophic failure, and the the US actually agrees that plastic is the only way forward? The only reason they don't have a national strategy is because American politicos can't be bothered to look after their nation. I'm glad I'm not there.

To be fair, it's difficult to tell how pernickity they were if they were killed in the disarrangement of a plane crash, unless they managed to tidy their immediate environs in the aftermath of the disruption before succumbing to an irritably disordered end.

Are you on acid Medic?

As Santerme said LD, I don't know. Neither do you. What I know without any doubt is that attacking the police with ridulous assertions of executions is generating a justification for teenagers in north London to ransack their community and burn people's houses. Why you want that to happen baffles me.

4 people die in California USA in at-risk pipes only 50 years old. The pipes had been 'inspected' using new fangled 'cheap' technology twice in the pevious year. You can't check cheaply for little leaks and paper over them - it's about systemic failure. Just to get it all in perspective, the USA has 140 major gas incidents a year, compared with 3.5 in the UK. On an equivalent per head of population basis that would be 28 vs 3.5 a year - almost ten times the incident rate! There needed to be a $100m bail out. What would we hoestly prefer? Explosions, dead people and $100m bailouts, or a sensible well thought out strategy to deliver safer communities for all?

No LD, nobody knows, and for some bizarre reason you're fuelling the fire of outrage. What on earth are you doing this for? You're like the Tabloids blaming Norway's tragedy on Al Qaeda. Nobody knows for now, and I have little doubt we'll find out. Now for heaven's sake stop egging on people in hatred and conflict. It's irresponsible.

No Annette, talking about cars is precisely the answer. More prosaically, the answer is "why should you single out smokers?". Life is full of compromises, and a subset of humanity thinks it can throw away all the laws of social interaction just to have a go at smokers. If you want to pursue this, then other people are entitled to throw away the 'reasonable' book and have a go at you. Then where would be eh? *shakes head*

Andicam, you'll notice that the email only referred to knife attackers, not firearms attackers. More importantly the police were 'looking at it' not agreeing that either it worked or that the Independent's reporting was accurate. This is because it's unfair to expect officers to protect themselves against firearms using defensive tools like beanbags or tazers that have 40%+ failure rates. Frankly I wouldn't do the job if someone gave me a water bomb and asked me to take on a man with a pistol Would you? Be realistic now. So why do you expect police to?

A disproportionate number of vegetarians that I know look a little anaemic. It's not a criticism, just saying like. Unfortunately by dint of their restricted diet, veggies do need to be slightly over fastidious, which isn't very attractive. I have the same slightly lowered attraction for my friends of various faiths here in Singers who have arbitrarily imposed dietary restrictions. So yeah, I guess, not as fanciable. :(

Excellent!

No, not at all. I like all of those things. Pork Pies are particularly fabulous. Do you feel squeamish about eating organic vegetables that have been grown in faeces?

It's mainly because of the huge difference in volme of pollutants generated. An average car doing 30 miles per day will generate about 400 grams of polluting gases. Conversely smoking a pack of 20 in a day will generate about 8 grams. Neither of those calculate pollutants generated by manufacture or distribution, but it does mean that 1 average single person driving to work and back for the day will generate as much pollution as 40-50 dedicated smokers. There's 30 million cars in the UK for example, and around 10 million smokers. So if all smokers were 20 a day, and they all stopped it would only achieve the same dent in pollution as taking only 250,000 cars off the road. Having said that, cars aren't the only problem either!

Don't get me started. Gastric infection, lactose intolerance all serve to make the average North Londoner highly irritable. Despite boycotts of retailers selling non-aged cheese, there's a massive and violent underground network controlling supplies and milking the profits. Profits are so large that they've been known to be worth killing for... It's a powder keg I tell you.

EDF is Elmendorf in Alaska, bloody yanks again. This one you can blame on Sarah Palin. It's all the Republicans.

Hmm, I've been in engineering tender reviews that lasted years for the London Underground. I found them exhaustive, and not short of a few 'genius' cheap American solutions that were obviously bollocks in practice. I certainly didn't find the engineers unfamiliar with world solutions. I'm thinking it's more likely that either... - the US has a different system/problem to ours in the first place and so the proposal doesn't work or.... - as with the Tea Party, American public services contractors are giving the population what they want (cheap but ineffective short term 'fixes') rather than a solution to the problem I'll reserve judgment until I can find some expertise on the subject, but in the meantime, the residents of Friern Road should know that there's very good reason for the works.

Ooooh, shush Ricky - don't let the workers hear you. Offal is the only good honest food - meat (as in muscle) was only for rich kids, not good honest toilers. These are all offal: Faggots (liver and cheek) Black Pudding (blood) Pork Pie (feet) Tripe (guts) Steak and Kidney Pie Luncehon Meat (Tongue) Liver Brawn (pigs head) Haggis (liver, heart and lungs)

I'm not a metallurgist, but I can tell you that iron needs an oxidising agent, not oxygen to rust. Both carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide will cause cast iron to rust in the presence of ground water. Both are entering the ground water in increasing amounts because of industrial pollution. Road salt also increases the salt in the ground water and the rate of rusting. So what would you perceive as the motive for choosing to do something you consider to be dangerous and disruptive? I'm not prepared to accept the politically convenient claim that it doesn't need to be fixed. It sounds like the Tea Party.

You wouldn't believe it, but.... that bastard George W Bush has already stolen BGS for Webb AFB in Texas. Perhaps ED could twin with them and code share?

Lol re. Burgess Park. As usual we talk ourslves into believing things that aren't quite true. This red line is the number of flights per year at Heathrow: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/London_Heathrow_Statistics.png/800px-London_Heathrow_Statistics.png The change over the last decade is too small to be noticeable. There will be a big uplift around the Olympics (maybe 10%?) but even that is probably too small to notice using our own subjective experience. Aircraft movements at London City Airport are only 15% of Heathrow, with much smaller quieter planes, so this couldn't account for it. I'm afraid it's probably just a case of 'good old days' syndrome.

No Lady Delilah, that's crazy. You've deliberately chosen shootings where the figures are so small they are meaningless. Those figures are just about the criminals, not about police behvaiour or policy. Why are you deliberately trying to inflame the situation and make misleading claims?

Nah, this is Frankito... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_niw1CdIcDs4/TSLnRhpcP6I/AAAAAAAAA2k/A89Z_aQRYsk/s1600/Scottish_Man_%2BLux.jpg

That data is a bit misrepresentative, and one might say inflammatory? This is a better way of presenting the data which demonstrates a police force making incredible inroads into effectively managing incidents: http://inquest.gn.apc.org/graphs/deaths_in_police_custody.gif In fact deaths in police custody are lower now than as far back as the records go. This isn't going to become a thread where people make inflamatory claims and others have to set them right is it?