Huguenot

Was this in the UK languagelounger? It's certainly intruiging. But since no-one in your family had ever mentioned this, and there is no record of your great aunt or her child, isn't it simply more likely that your neighbour is mistaken? What starts off as slander or innunedo can often morph through time and community into rumour, myth and then 'fact'. Rather than a cover-up of staggering proportions isn't it simply more likely that this didn't happen?

And crocodile36 is a newly registered name who has only posted bitches on this thread - yet they toss about other user names with much familiarity. It is particularly sad to create fake personas just to have a go at people, I feel nothing but pity for what must be a pretty pathetic personality.

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fabulous! you must be very proud!

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And Chips are Crisps. What a funny world. What do > you get if you ask for Crisps in the US? I think a 'fruit crisp' in the US is similar to a 'fruit crumble' in the UK. Crumble in the US appears to mean the same as crumb in the UK, and there the chain ends ;-)

Quite true - this tiny nation built its foundations unpon the exploitation of foreign labour and the rape of their natural resources. And now we get all petty about a few Polish maids.

Snowy, do you want a serious answer to that? Regarding wheelchair access, the obligation we make as a society is not to make everyone to sit in wheelchairs to make disabled people feel better, but to make an active compromise between wheelchair access and able-bodied access wherever the cost-benefit calculation accommodates. I'm not suggesting disbanding the black cab fleet, but facilitating consumer choice. There is still plenty of room to accommdate disabled passengers within that objective, so please don't be facetious. Regarding the knowledge, you may not be aware, but getting the knowledge does not entitle you to have a black cab, it merely permits you to. To actually get one you'll need to join the merry gang of black cab cartels to which entry will be prevented unless you fulfil a set of alternative criteria to which legislation is redundant. You'd need to be in the tribe.

I see what you're saying indiepanda - only black cabs can turn on a sixpence, carry five passengers and are set up for wheelchair access. Additionally they are more likely to know where they're going without referring to satnav. However, this should be a matter of consumer choice. The majority of journeys in London do not require u-turns, five passengers, wheelchair access and supernatural biological mapping facilities, so why should the consumer be forced to pay the second highest taxi fares in the world to a cartel of Essex tribes whose employment criteria are not merit, but being in the family? Issues regarding regulation of drivers could be just as easily addressed by minicabs as it can with taxis. Those who assert that bus lanes are to make buses go faster are both right and wrong - they're actually about compensating for drawbacks in public transport to incentivise use. The increased flexibility and reduction in prices delivered by minicab would provide an added incentive of equal merit, and shouldn't be rejected out of hand.

Who was the comedian who did a routine based on club dancing that included inter alia heavy shopping and nasal floss?

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Conversely a pursuit of free government spending may have resulted in a collapse of market confidence on a par with Greece or Spain, resulting in interest payments that trashed public spending far in excess of the growth of public spending that we've actually experienced in spite of 'austerity'. Is there a right answer in that one? Probably not, but I'm also pretty sure that if either DJKQ or GormlessTruth had control of the exchequer we'd be in a worse situation ;-)

As an aside, I'd be very happy to see 60,000 more minicabs on the road if it meant 240,000 less privately owned vehicles. I'd also like to see reasonable competition, of which there's none in the black cab cartel. I'd also like to see a bit of innovation and creativity in the private hire market that has been completely trousered by Essex based black cabbies who refuse to go sarf of the rivva after 4pm.

Oh well, it doesn't need a great deal of imagination to suggest that if there was a serious point to be made about the Natwest bunch, that a billion dollar fraudster such as Conrad Black wasn't the best guy to make it. Regarding US justice, I don't think any of us need a moment of clarity to highlight its failings.

Hee hee, Oh the irony. I'm not sure you know what parsing means? Rest assured that you don't need to read or write to parse sentences, parsing is what we all do everyday to understand what someone else has said.

:) I remember my first flat on Oakhurst Grove. It was building site for 6 months!

Huguenot finally got a client to pay a $30k bill after 1 year and 1 month overdue. Not bad eh? I think they were hoping I'd go bust the little fucks.

Sure sure, I geddit. I'm just observing that as with Birmingham postal voting, the outcome of 'democracy' is unlikely to be everybody's vote counting, it's likely to be the fierce enforcement of the prejudices of angry old men projecting their daft allegiances through the ballot box. You'll need three generations to see liberal suffrage, and even then it's not a guarantee. As you will no doubt remind me, that's no excuse for not embarking on that particular ship ;-)

German for Daschunds, Running for Cheetahs? Anyone? Anyone?..... Bueller? Anyone?

The waitress is as likely to understand as the drunken scrote on the street asking for 50p. Ie. not at all. Ad I said, it's likely that we'll all be overwhelmed by a pointless and generous instinct to tip. Don't. By offering penny pinching vapid tips to waitresses you are simply reinforcing and invigorating the exploitation. The 50p you give them may well make you sleep easier, but for the record, it makes you a shit.

Yup yup, absolutely right. As a Brit I sometimes live in an ivory tower when doing business, but it was pretty difficult to ignore the obvious divisions twixt the people in the room and the guys outside. However, these are not bright and generous communities. The replacement of Sunni leadership with Shia 'democracy' is a fake ideal. I don't want to characterise furryners as unenlightened, but there is no realistic chance of democracy when most decisions are likely to be made by an uneducated, tribal, and intellectually stunted gerontocracy, and their decisions are likely to be enforced by young male teenagers for whom spelling tests are so embarrassing to make them want to kill teacher.

I love the CAPITALS! 'specialist nursing skills for YOUR local community' Really? You think so? Several things.... How many of YOUR patients do you think you are looking after because they're local? When do you plan to stop positioning yourself as a foreigner who looks after retarded LOCAL people because you're doing it on charity? I'm absolutely sure that your car parking space in Camberwell is being persecuted, and I understand that you feel this is unnecessary, but I'm also pretty sure that your own attitude about US and THEM is probably pumping this up to an unpleasant level.

I don't really agree with Nette's point of view. Tips are used by business as a way of justifying poor wages and conditions - like handing over 50p in the street you may assuage your bleeding heart, but you're reinforcing a destructive cycle. If you care about the working conditions of staff you should be campaigning for clarity on the 10% 'service charge' which was a formalisation of tipping that got absorbed by companies looking to drive profits. You should support campaigns for catering businesses that sign up to employee charters. I never pay a tip in businesses that charge me 10% for service - it's a scam.

Agent Provocateur

Gosh, I didn't realise there was a lot of sentimentality going down - if so I'd have to agree with Quids, I can only imagine it's people vicariously reinventing emotions because they've seen the film surely?

On the subject of the oppression of women on the titanic: Almost 75% of women passengers on the Titanic were saved, compared with barely 17% of men - and you want to argue about class war? It's a sideshow. I should also add that only 50% of children were saved - so that means that women were trampling of the bodies of children to save their own arse, whilst the men stood by humming and haaaing about how righteous that was. To me that's bloody ridiculous. I don't think you have a better right to survive because you're a woman. What pillock decided that? So to paraphrase El Pibe - come the revolution let's hope the first against the wall are not the bourgeoisie, but women: just to even up the score a bit.