Huguenot

Erm... WTF?

Quids, you're not thinking it through. Nobody in social services was malicious here, I doubt anyone was lazy or negligent. These things aren't always straightforward. If you pursue vicious vendettas against people striving to do a good job faced with manipulative and deceitful parents in difficult circumstances, then guess what... nobody wants to do the job. In that respect you could argue that it's actually people who 'want to make someone pay' that have contributed to this disaster in the first place. I wouldn't go into public service, I wouldn't want the vengeful, slavering mob as my boss.

Can I add that you can't get rid of the early morning flights without having the flights start later in the far east. All you'd be doing by saying 7am is the earliest would be making Johnny Foreginer suffer (much louder) take-offs at 2am. If people take fewer low cost flights, there'd be fewer flights QED. If you reduce flights without reducing demand then the price goes up and many people don't get seats - cue public outrage. You should be grass roots campaigning against your peers, not the government! [see Plastic Bags] Perhaps you could contact Eurostar for deals for ED residents who choose rail over flights to go to Europe (although it won't effect intercontinental flights). Run the deals through this forum. You'd probably also need to get hotels deals to cover all those businesspeople who have to spend an extra day away from their family to have morning meetings. Or, of course, ban international travel.

Regarding Energy costs per country, you may be thinking of the attached data. The important thing to note is that this data refers to changes in cost for each country, not the actual difference in cost between countries. The suggestion is that with UK prices previously 15%-20% cheaper than average European costs, the consequence of the disproportionate prices rises in the UK has not been to make energy more expensive for the UK compared with other Euro countries, but simply to make it closer to average European prices. I understand that the UK is still lower than Euro averages. Before we get up in arms about this, we should compare energy costs with average household income - the UK has a greater income per head than most Euro countries, meaning that whatever happens, energy is a smaller percentage of overall household expenses in the UK than elsewhere. Regardless, energy is going to become increasingly expensive as we gain global equality. Historically for every 65 lightbulbs of energy consumed by a US citizen, a UK citizen uses 35, and a Chinese citizen 1. It should come as no surprise that the Chinese no longer feel it's reasonable to scrabble in mud so we can live in luxury. They want 35 light bulbs-worth each as well. Gone are the days when we can expect to keep foreigners in poverty to feed our colonial greed. That means greater demand on fixed resources and sky-high costs. If you want lower energy bills, use less, or expect to go to war every week.

Good question SteveT, best addressed by accurate data! First I give you fuel prices. UK is the third highest price per litre of unleaded in Europe, beaten only by Belgium and Norway (WTF???). However, we can see that the tax component is 60% of the pump price. This is interesting regards price cuts due to changing price of oil - even if there was a direct correlation between crude prices and pump prices of petrol, a 50% cut on behalf of suppliers could only ever produce a 15% cut at the pumps!! Edited to clarify that even at 60% of pump price, the UK appears to have the second lowest petrol tax regimes amongst major Euro countries.

*scratch scratch* *shuffle* *scratch* *pat pat pat* "Aha, there's the flipping bung"

Hmmm, I picked up this definition... "the income produced by a financial investment, usually shown as a percentage of cost" It seems that estate agents are being economical with their definition of cost, no? You cannot establish yield on property without establishing the cost first, and it's underhand to limit this to the purchase price. On such corruptions are housing bubbles made...

ffup ffup ffup *pfffft* "oh bloody hell, not again" ffup ffup ffup *pfffft* "Fer crissakes" ffup *pfffft* "If only this blinkin' thing would..." *ppfffftt... faaaarp* "Ow, fugging hell.... what?? who's that???"

Bluewater? You can lob petrol bombs and fireworks out of the window when you drive through New Cross

PGC, it's funny you should say that.... :-$

To SteveT, 18 would be overkill, but allow for scissor errors. You can lay 9 without alteration, leaving 6 more that should be cut to 50cm x 32.9cm, and the final one to be cut to 32.9cm x 32.9cm. Having said this, the final two could be carried over to your next job and you could thus charge the customer twice for your single purchase. Very smart. That would effectively render your purchase price over the two consecutive jobs at a (1-(34 [purchased tiles]/36 [charged tiles]))*100 = 5.5% discount to the retail price. Since average business margins are around 10%, you'd have delivered more than half of this with a single swindle.

Well it technically depends how much flex you have on the carpet tiles I guess... 6ft is 182.9cm, so 6 foot square is 33,452 square cm. A 50cm x 50cm tile is 2,500 square cm. Hence in strict suface area calculations you'd only need 13.38096 tiles. In other words the cut-off cast away of one tile may well fit the exposed gap on another area of your floor. It would be crackingly dull though, as the cut-offs became smaller and smaller with each successive iteration of the floor filling process until you cursed my name and drowned my offspring. This error would be compounded if the floor tiles had a pattern or texture that only worked in one direction. You would, nevertheless, have made the point. So, yes, 16 would cover the issue ;-)

Wasn't that an utterly talentless photographer?

Nope, not good enough estate agent, I've seen worse but thats nuts. Where is cost of transaction accounted for?

Bloody French ;-)

Do be aware that giving too much publicity to this can result in the unintended consequence of copycat gangs.

AFN, you're failing to make the distinction between a decision made because of someone's skin colour, and a decision whose indirect effects change across cultural boundaries. One is racist, the other is oversight. The deliberate confusion is made by those who peddle racial conflict. I do however notice that driving racial conflict seems insufficient for you, and that you've managed to make this a class issue too - well done to you, opening up multiple fronts. In doing so, you've had to fabricate a back-story for me, which is nice. I can assure you that I supported the Iraq war, never touched the white stuff, and my favourite bread is Mighty White. In short you've committed all the crimes of prejudice that you're accusing others of.

"That a School such as Waverley road Girls Academy has a school populous who the executive are uninterested in due to Ethnicity" That's an outrageous accusation, certainly libellous and without doubt divisive and offensive. AFN, you've excelled yourself. You should be embarassed. Can I recommend that you self edit and stay out of court?

AFN - you did suggest that traffic management was racist didn't you? Did you? Was that for real? Is this a TV show?

The Mayans certainly had a strategy. However, they wouldn't have been able to resolve the fact that the earth doesn't go around the sun in fixed multiples of the time it take the earth to revolve on its axis. If you want time to work on an annual basis, then you need to accept that 3pm will be a moveable feast, as it were. Crikey, somtimes I bore myself... ;-)

No less. And he did well to rid himself of the awful trollop in the end, as he picked up a bit of tail on the beach.

It's because we is French innit. That's why we visit the 'promen-aaaahd' in the sarf, and the 'promen-aid' up norf.

Bermuda Triangle It makes people disappear Bermuda Triangle Don't go too near But she Doesn't see my angle And she thinks I'm being dumb So Bermuda Triangle Here we come!

Tottingham... Haringey council has blocked Tottenham's plans to build a new ground on Northumberland Park. A town hall source said: "We don't mind having a funfair there once a year, but a circus every fortnight is a bit much." "I was playing Scrabble and had enough letters to make 'Tottenham Hotspur Football Club'. I was gutted when I found out it was only worth two points." Tesco are releasing new Oxo cubes in Spurs colours. Customers are told to look out for laughing stocks. A young boy goes to social services and tells them he has nowhere to live. "What about your parents?" asks the social worker. "No, they beat me," says the boy. "What about your grandparents?" says the social worker. "No, they beat me even harder!" says the boy. "Well ... where do you want to stay then?" replies the social worker. "Tottenham," says the boy. "They don't beat anyone. ? What do a toothpick and Tottenham have in common? They both have two points Juande Ramos, shortly after another training session, comments to the head groundsman at White Hart Lane how impressive the pitch is looking. "It ought to," replies the groundsman. "We put 70 million quid's worth of manure on it every week." I just went down to the newsagents and bought Tottenham Hotspur magazine. Thank goodness they had porn mags to hide it in. ? What does a Spurs fan do after he sees his team win? Turns off the Xbox After leaving San Siro, Jose Mourinho was asked if he was going to help Spurs get out of their slump. He turned around and said, "No way, I ain't that special". Apparently the entire Tottenham squad have been busy honing their skills playing the computer game Championship Manager. Sadly it seems Juande misunderstood and thinks they want to play for a Championship manager. Contrary to what you may think, Spurs are the strongest team in the league at the moment. Sure, aren't they holding everyone else up? What do the Premier League and a cowboy have in common? They both have spurs at their feet. A man was found dead floating in the Thames, wearing a blond wig, full make-up, bra, knickers, suspenders and a Spurs shirt. Before informing the next of kin the police removed the Spurs shirt to save the family embarrassment. What would an improved version of Spurs be called? Newcastle United. Did you hear that Juande Ramos was clocked doing 169mph on the M1 coming back from Stoke? Apparently he was just so desperate for three points. ? Is it just me or are Spurs the team to beat this season? Everyone's at it. A man is sitting in a pub with his jack russell dog one Sunday afternoon. The football results are coming up on the television in the corner: "Stoke City 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1," reads the announcer. Suddenly the jack russell jumps up and shouts out, "Oh, no, not again." The shocked landlord says, "That's amazing. Why did he say that when it was announced that Tottenham lost?" "Because he's a Spurs supporter," the dog's owner replies. The landlord then asks what the dog says when Tottenham win a match, to which the man replies, "I don't know. I've only had him six months." When a groggy Vedran Corluka regained consciousness in the ambulance leaving the Britannia Stadium on Sunday he asked medical staff who he was. On being told he played football for Tottenham Hotspur he lapsed into a coma. All trains through White Hart Lane have been cancelled due to a massive points failure. What's the difference between Juande Ramos and a cowboy? A cowboy wears Spurs on his boots whereas Ramos is a crap manager. What does THFC stand for? Tottenham Heading For the Championship. A little boy gets ?10 for his birthday and rushes down to the sports shop to buy the new football he has been desperate for. He gives the ball to the shopkeeper, who says, "Sorry, son, this ball is ?20. You only have ?10". The boy says, "OK, if you blindfold me and I can guess the name of the club on any ball, will you give it to me for ?10?" He agrees and gives the boy an Arsenal ball. "I can hear cannons blasting, so it's an Arsenal ball." Next he gives him a Millwall ball: "I hear lions, so it's Millwall." Amazed, the shopkeeper says, "Get this and you can have it for nothing." The boy listens and says Spurs. The man asks if he's heard a cockerel. "No," says the boy. "It's going down." What's the difference between Bigfoot and the Spurs defence? Bigfoot has been spotted several times. Spurs have been forced to rename their ground "White Lane" because their "Hart" was surgically removed when Berbatov and Keane were sold. Breaking news: Tottenham Hotspur have finally won a game. It was a friendly behind closed doors at non-league Walthamstow the other day. And if you don't believe us here is the proof.

I was only teasing Alan, jayes, far be it for me to expose a man's past misdeeds when he's already recanted. Still, you wouldn't want him on your side in a scrap eh?