Huguenot

Whilst everyone else is going digital, the Camberwell Arts Community is still in 1956... If it's free, who's paying? The advertisers or a taxpayer grant?

I do think it's funny that the people who got what they wanted are telling other people to stop talking about it. If Monica hadn't got her way it would never have stopped, she's be firebombing the community noticeboards as we speak...

'would have' or at a pinch 'would've' but NOT 'would of'. Tsk tsk.

*chalks one to d_c, rubs it out, swears under his breath, reconsiders, chalks one to d_c" Aside from taking the piss, I'm quite interested in this one: "burdening british businesses (especially manufacturing) with massive 'tax' in the form of expensive green energy and thus further underminding our competitiveness" I'm assuming that this isn't a rant, so I'd be quite keen on knowing what this is, how it's being paid, who is paying it and how much it is? In my pathetic existence as a small business chap, I'm aggravated by the price of energy... BUT it's a tiny fraction of my monthly overheads, for instance it wouldn't even pay for half a day of one of my employees. So it has no impact on my competitiveness compared with, say, having a hangover ;-) If you bung it up to a 10% surcharge it still wouldn't have a greater impact than an extra 5 minutes in the shitter and a swift fag in the carpark.

Fortunately UDT we have you with your exceptional international financial skills to help us see the light ;-) I can't believe Goldman Sachs ever let you slip through their fingers...

The forum isn't very enthusiastic about changing people's usernames - it can often make nonsense of threads because people will refer to the original username in their posts but the source will seem to have disappeared. In the first instance it's easier to simply register again under a different username. Whilst multiple usernames are frowned upon, if you don't use the original name again after the swap, I suspect Admin will turn a blind eye ;-)

You're entitled to your opinion - however it has nothing to do with what I posted, and the point I made in the post was taken up and reinforced by others. So in effect you're saying that you came on to this thread with the single objective of insulting me? You'd have to decide whether that behaviour was enfeebled and snot-nosed yourself, right? Either way, to interrupt other people's conversations by loudly braying about your personal issues over the top is really the ultimate in egotistical behaviour. Pots and kettles here Chippy. Look, why don't you just leave the thread alone and stop interrupting a perfectly good conversation about Fred Goodwin by indulging your self-loathing? I'm sure you're a nice bloke.

*sighs* Whatever. As you can see from the other responses, it seems I am not the only one who sees this as a politically motivated exercise. Should they all 'get over themselves' too?

In 1858 he lived in Windsor Lodge, in Linden Grove, Nunhead :) I'll be betting he downed a few at the EDT. Ooops, sorry, didn't see the other posts.

I remember it from the Malverns too :) We only lived just down the road so it was a regular outing. Although I have to say, that as a teenage boy it was hardly a cute girls fest. I wanted to hang around telephone boxes.

I didn't call you enfeebled and snot nosed - it was a description of your smart alec post. But what the hell eh? A union rep being economical with the truth? Who'da thunk it?

Mini Minkey celebrates the high protein diet with a pet portrait.... :) http://fun-gallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Supercat-1.jpg

Aha - well let's hope Hilton never goes for an honour himself considering his criminal record after abusing station staff after the Tory conference. Those arguments sound like far more plausible reasons for Goodwin's defenestration than performance problems.

Sure, but why haul Goodwin out to face the lynch mob? Why not strip Sir David Prosser, boss at Legal and General when they were found guilty of misselling mortgages and fined millions? That's verging on a criminal offence... Why not Sir Callum McCarthy, who regined supreme at the FSA whilst malpractice was rife across the entire industry prior to the crash - the man who could have stopped Goodwin but didn't and instead endorsed him?

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"Huguenot - you really need to get over yourself." What? Why the personal attack Chippy? You wouldn't like it if I did it to you, and I'd probably do it better. I think it's hopelessly naive to claim that this decision isn't heavily politicised. Besides which, you're a man who has built his career on the assumption that anyone in power is out to swindle and decieve us, that the government cannot be trusted and that they're all snouts in the trough. Now suddenly you've had a private epiphany and with a beatific smile you pronounce that everyone's telling the truth on this one? You expect anyone to believe that? Silly billy.

Why would I admit something that wasn't true, you empty headed prat? Are you so senselessly and depressingly thick that you think making these vacuous claims is somehow impressive? You had to search so hard and so far to find that scrag end in the most obscure corner of the BBC website that it makes much more sense that the reference was just an error doesn't it? But you're hardly likely to admit that, instead you're going to make some more daft pronouncements that through the haze of your barely functioning intellect you think are clever.

Am I alone in thinking this all sounds deperately improbable? A hate figure from yesteryear is hauled out of retirement in order to be stripped of a knighthood for doing what everybody else did? I don't reckon so. There's something else going on here. Criminal charges pending? Threatening to tak another high profile job? An oustanding grudge that took a while to mature for doing something he was told not to do?

Typo? Typo? That was a British Heritage Quality Pun that was.

Serguie wasn't particularly bright. Everyone nose you need to run out a cotton reel from the launderette to make sure you get back before Nick Kamen messes with your pants.

I wasn't aware that you knew Hester's targets too UDT? Good heaven, yet another thing were going to have to add to the list about your accepetional skills: Board Executive and Cheif Negotiator for RBS?

"Wildcat lil-lets jingle writer strike grinds London to a halt" From the Daily Bigot London ground to a halt yesterday at a cost of $1bn a day as Lil-lets jingle writers demanded an Olympic bonus. Spokepeople confirmed that the jingle writers were struggling under a considerably higher workload and additional pressure as an estimated 1m more people anticipated to be in London for the Olympics may overhear their jingles on Capital Radio.

That's your guess at the moment Chippy - there's been nothing in the open about what these frigthening, almost Victorian overtime requirements actually are? If the demands were so heavy, surely the RMT would already have been all over this no?

Can you imagine the pressure of watching the automatic gates open more often than usual???

I didn't suggest that station staff shouldn't get a bonus because the public didn't like it. I suggested that station staff shouldn't get a bonus simply for doing the job they're already paid to do. It breaks the basic relationship between incentive, performance and reward. You claim that the bonus is for working longer hours - if that's so then I agree it should be made available for those who overperform. Except there's no evidence of that as yet - just a lot of whinging about more people using the tube and the fact that if someone else is getting it they should too....