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I note that K&C aren't removing them (which would add to destructive parking habits), just making the two hours free in order to allow people local shopping access, but not making it convenient overspill parking for commuters. Which are the pay and display zones you want changing to give two free hours? I understand that the K&C one is to combat the free parking at Westfield? Is there a new scheme that threatens this area also?

I'm not sure where you're going with this, kuntama and becks. From your description, you've decided that this was racist with no greater evidence than the colour of the hapless customer's skin. This is not nearly sufficient to make such an outrageous accusation. It's as puerile as Ali G - "Is it coz I is..'. It's equally plausible that the bar was reserved throughout: it's a highly popular destination for lunch, or that the unhelpful bar staff were simply negligent or poor at their job. Becks has followed up with the assumptive argument that not only is East Dulwich populated with aspirational racists, but that they're somehow emulating Dulwich Village (which by extrapolation must be populated by white supremacists). Kuntama, for someone who seeks 'a compassionate and meaningful existence', making unsupported accusations of racism on a local forum is likely to put you considerably further from your objective. Frankly, allying with becks is likely to put your cause back much faster than witless bar staff. In fact, it's unnecessary sh*t-stirring. Go and look up hypocrisy ;-)

It depends where you go really. In the 24 hour restaurant across the road (the equivalent of the local pub I guess) a 660ml bottle (1.2 pints) is $6, which was 2 quid a couple of months ago, but now it's 3 quid as the pound tumbled. On Boat Quay (the tourist centre-of-town equivalent) it's $12 for a pint now meaning around 6 quid. As you can imagine, I don't go there much. Honkers is the same (so prices must have dropped), with Wan Chai one of the most expensive areas around 6 to 8 quid, and most popular with tourists. In Kowloon you can get thrashed much more cheaply.

Did you go to Warwick indiepanda? The largest bar there is/was actually called 'The Airport Lounge' for very good reason! My first pint was probably ?1.10 at the Five Ways Hotel in Worcester around 1986. I believe it was Hofmeister, but I graudated to Kronenbourg 1664 very shortly afterwards at ?1.35. My ?5.00 pocket money could thus just accommodate 4 pints of the hard stuff each Friday night. Just enough to get me twinkled.

LOL!

So does QT actually happen on the day it's broadcast? Is it live?

Those are marvellous photos. I'm so envious of great photographers, it makes me feel quite small. It's such a terrific skill to have - a snapshot in time and character.

I think that's flipping great. Top shelf.

Sound words indeed. But I thought he sold windows?

Congratulations! Fabulous catch!

Great post TLS.

For some there is no 'innocent until proven guilty', the legal approach of the lynch mob is more attractive it seems. SQ1, you're hysterical! Am I to be the target of your unfounded allegations now? Oh woe. Guilty of the crimes of living in a foreign land, guilty of censorship, guilty of encouraging drug trafficking? I can see you now, leaning across the garden face with a string of invective and a scowl to frighten a bulldog. Perhaps you're pointing out my house with a stabbing action and purple cheeks? ;-) I can assure you that I'm as British as your indignation, and as East Dulwich as the roundabout at Goose Green. Please consider me as adding a touch of tropical frisson, not unlike the plam tree overlooking the EDT or the potatos on your plate. I've made no views on David Mills activities, it certainly seems that he has been shamed and brought to rights. Congratulations to all. What I take issue with is your persistent mud slinging at Tessa Jowell. She has been investigated and found to be innocent of any improper conduct - a charge that carries a much smaller burden of evidence than a court. As a lawyer all of his contact is with people on the cusp of legality, all of it. He's a lawyer. As his wife, you can't investigate every client, you wouldn't be able to do the day job. Or perhaps that's your agenda, you don't want her to have a day job? Not for you the legal process, the evidence of criminality. For you she needs to be shamed, socially crippled, humiliated even, and it needs to be done publically. You want to get her, and don't care if it's wrong or right. TLS, well really, she's not stupid, she's just human.

That 'audit' doesn't surprise me. I've always contended that the shopper parking 'issue' could be fabricated by traders who simply want to park conveniently outside their own store all day, and don't give a monkeys abou the horrific living, shopping and driving experience they impose on the local population. I'm not saying I'm right - I'm merely observing that this is a very real possibility, and the truth should be explored. We should run 11am to 3pm audit to see who actually is parking on the Lane, how long they park for, what they buy and how long they stay. If traders suggest that this audit shouldn't take place, then I'd suggest that tells us something about their motivess.

I love that! "sorry about your car but "four black girls" is a really silly description" HA! Four... black... girls... It could be describing one blue cat, couldn't it? How silly! Perhaps witnesses should do just that? "What did you see sir?" - "Well, one blue cat on a hedge in Harrow" - "But sir, I was informed you saw four black girls interfering with the car and returning later at night?" - "Ah, yes officer, but I didn't want anybody to be under the impression that's actually what I saw" On another note, it takes spectacular wit on a thread entitled "For the attention of ford fiesta owner starting NV02 parked on Upland Rd" to believe that the OP actually owned the car. North London indeed ;-).

LOL! Is that because our politicians would be wise to spend more time exploring sexual scandal, innuendo, tittle-tattle and spite, rather than finding reasonable social solutions to our society's challenges? No wonder Nunhead's in trouble.

Giggirl - "Before you judge someone walk a mile in their shoes" I can see how you were frustrated by that one, because you didn't get the full story. It should read: "Before you judge someone walk a mile in their shoes; because then you're a mile away, and you've got their shoes"

This seems bizarre, and I have faith in the readers of this fair forum to interpret wisely! Firstly, SQ1, it's medieval to make a wife responsible for her husband's behaviour, let alone incriminate her for it. I'm disturbed that you think that way. I'm pleased to see the UK as a progressive society where women are recognised as independent individuals rather then mere chattel. Your own interests would best be served by not pursuing agendas that will result in your own subordination. Perhaps you feel that she shares culpability by not making further enquiries as to the provenance of her husband's fees. However, if her husband was as great a ciminal as you make out, it would not be beyond his abilities to demonstrate these as evidence of his expertise, not dodgy dealings. The number of responses on the 'con-woman' thread demonstrate how the best in society can often be victim to the worst. Perhaps you feel that she should involve herself more actively in her husband's affairs? Personally I'd prefer her to spend her time in a more focused way, delivering the services her constituents demand in the role she has been elected to. I'm sure if the expos? had revealed she was working on her husband's business rather than her government role, you'd be up to hang her for that too. Whether I agree with her policies is by the by. She should be judged on those. That's what elections are for, use your vote wisely! This smells like a dirty, nasty smear campaign: housing estate scandalmongering. I sincerely hope that our politics never descend into that filthy gutter. Those that try to drag us there should be chastised and ostracised. No witch hunt here please!

North Cross and Lacon ;-)

Old Lady A: Isn't it windy? Old Lady B: No, it's Thursday. Old Lady A: So am I, let's have a cup of tea.

That's not a bad idea matthew123. It seems that although there can be a lot of these crimes, they're often committed by very few people. I remember a gang of kids getting caught on the Bakerloo line a couple of years ago, whereupon that it was discovered that these 5 people had commiteed 600 of the 700 reported crimes on the line that year! In that sense it's not always wise to invest even more resources in prevention (which assumes crime is a social disease), but upon identification and capture (which at least lays the crime at the feet of the perpetrators). In-home CCTV set ups can be linked to internet servers via broadband connections, with the kit costing around 40 quid per camera, and the server cost only a couple of quid a month. What price actually catching the bastards eh?

I should add that the IAB globally has been unable to date to identify any practical solution to audience measurement across multiple IPs, Platforms, registrations etc., and they're playing with tens of millions of pounds and the world's largest online publishers, agencies and researchers. The technical work is being done in the US, and you can find it here. The UK's been sniffing around it, but the Yahoos, MSNs and Googles of this world are not going to pay to have the work duplicated over here when the solution will have to be global anyway. Unlikely to be resolved shortly by the EDF ;-)

Aha d803cn - the greatest questions in online! And if it's IPs then are the EDF editing according to botlists, and whose botlists are they using? And if it's cookies the what are they doing to count chaps who regularly clear their cache, or whose privacy levels prevent cookies? And if it's registered users then how do they identify those people who may have two registrations (legal and/or illegal), or alternatively those families who have more than one user on the same PC? I suspect that you'll find the system is relatively simple, and also that it doesn't matter much. As the EDF isn't a commercially traded site, then thankfully these questions don't need to be addressed from that perspective. I suspect that sponsors contribute to the site for its results, not it's UU list. If you're talking about whether the system allows chicanery from trolls, well manually there are ways and means of identifying some kinds of behaviour, so largely these issues are resolved from an administrative rather than technical viewpoint.

BBW, red devil? Not really. I just try and imagine a 'reasonable' case, and I don't think a butcher joke is in the same league as an allegation of sexual impropriety. We all rely on each other to catch ourselves if we're sailing close to the wind. I thank you for the reminder! On that note, we'd probably better amend your note at the top of this page!

Recognised and amended Red Devil, you should do likewise ;-)

I have no such delusions, that's an outrageous slur. Copulation is to be endured, venereal disease is to be tolerated, and encounters with the opposing gender are to be ennumerated, calculated and compartmentalised.