BrandNewGuy

ironjawcannon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > NO, I don't want one. There is far too much of > our money wasted on the outdated royals as it is. What's that got to do with having a p*ss-up?

Anywhere other than a residential street would be a pain to organise... why not just have your own party in your own street or small group of streets? Much more fun than a big 'official' impersonal event. C'mon Southwark, waive the charges for shutting a street! And it needn't have much to do with the Royal Wedding - non-believers 'celebrate' Christmas, so I don't see why republicans can't have a p*ss-up on a Royal-related public holiday ;-)

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi BrandNewGuy, > I'm sorry about your experience in 2002. > Council officers under the Lib Dems were directed > to find a way of not charging for street party > street closures and persauded local papers to > provide a very low rate for the legally required > advertising of the street closure. If you ask > residents of Upland Road they've been having great > street parties for a number of years and it is now > much cheaper than your describe or when they > orignally started. > > I'm sure the Labour led administratino would be > equally supportive of street parties. > If anyone finds problems with the councils support > please get in touch with me straight away to try > and smooth things. James, you misunderstand. The main reason we had one in 2002 was because the Council waived the cost: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2011010.stm If we could have that again this year (or for next year's Diamond Jubilee), I'm sure people would be more willing to hold street parties. As I said, you don't have to worship the royals to enjoy the party ;-)

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BUT if anyone is thinking of holding a street > party you'll need to get cracking as the noticing > etc of closing a road and getting police, fire, > ambulance agreement takes 6-8 weeks and the that > bank holiday is only 14 weeks away. And Southwark Council charges hundreds for the privilege... For the Queen's golden jubilee (2002), councils were requested not to charge people for closing residential roads for street parties. We had a fine one on Trossachs Road with much food, booze, music and bouncy castling - and there wasn't any flag-waving, just a great chance for neighbours to get together and have a good time.

So that's Wikileaks consigned to the bin. Great. I wonder what's on telly...?

Hill Dweller Wrote: > Oh accept my apologies ;-) > Your post was addressed to me ao I took your > obsequious quoting from Wiki to have been for my > assistance. Enough with the annoying emoticons. And I suggest you look up the word 'obsequious'. Oh, and I don't have a messiah. And now I see you've added "megalomaniac" and "spoiled brat" to your ad hominem list. Yawn.

Hill Dweller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Hey, has the messiah expressed ANY concern for the > imprisoned mole that his crass careless 'work' > exposed? Any answer to that is utterly irrelevant to the rights and wrongs of what Wikileaks has done: is there a public interest in publishing these cables? Have any laws been broken by doing so? Has anyone's life been put at risk because of it? Question of Assange's sexual conduct and his manner seem to me to have nothing to do with answering these questions.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It means someone is trying to come across as > clever. I put the meaning in my post, and I can't help it if someone hasn't read it.

It wasn't just the interview - which I've seen. You've been making ad hominem remarks throughout this thread. And wikipedia happens to be right in this case. And you can't assume that everyone knows what ad hominem means.

Hill Dweller: "vain"... "wannabe messiah"... "really isn't better than those that disagree with him"... "made me cringe"... "WTH does he think he is?" Wikipedia: Ad hominem abuse: Ad hominem abuse (also called personal abuse or personal attacks) usually involves insulting or belittling one's opponent in order to invalidate his or her argument, but can also involve pointing out factual but ostensible character flaws or actions which are irrelevant to the opponent's argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and even true negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of the opponent's arguments or assertions.

"Wolfen" - creepy shape-shifting chiller set in New York... "Re-Animator" and "From Beyond" - two tongue-in-cheek but scary Lovecraft tales.

The late Clement Freud's favourite joke (best imagined with him saying it): This is a story about a man. His wife has told him that if he ever comes home drunk she will leave him. Nonetheless he goes out. He drinks a lot and throws up all over himself. He turns to his friend and asks what he can do. His friend is helpful. ?Go home,? he says. ?Tell your wife someone threw up on you. And put a twenty pound note inside your jacket pocket. Show her the money and tell her the other man gave it to you for the dry cleaning bill.? So this he does. His wife is at first angry. But he explains. He tells her about the drunk man who threw up on him. He shows her the twenty pounds. She looks. ?But why have you got two ?20 notes?? she asks. ?Oh,? he says. ?The other one is from the man who shat in my pants.?

07.57 to LB fine, 08.04 slightly delayed.

Brilliant - thanks s_d (tu)

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > New East Dulwich trees. > We're about to order 30 new East Dulwich ward > street trees. If you want to see the details - > please see attached. Very disappointing that there's not one native tree among them. I had a conversation with Southwark's head of Trees Strategy who expressed enthusiasm for planting native trees whenever possible. It's not narow nationalism to ask for this but a concern for London's wildlife - most non-native's are effectively sterile of insect life (apart from nectar-gathering) and this has a knock-on effect on bird life, possibly including our dwindling house sparrow populations.

Laura Norder?

Weegee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Barry > > Can you tell us why the 0845 from East Dulwich to > London Bridge has been delayed for over 10 minutes > for the past 2 days...and when the train does turn > up....there are only 4 carriages! > > Surely if theres a backlog of people waiting for a > delayed train, it makes sense to put on a Train > with a full set of carriages! ... and the 08.27 is more often than not delayed and only has four carriages, with the knock-on effect that the subsequent (delayed) 08.33 is fit to bursting. This morning was a right old squeeze.

... and walking all the way is a possibility. I put on boots,hat and iPod, set off from just off ED Grove at 8.15 and got to Blackfriars by 9.35.

Sue Wrote: > I think yew berries are only poisonous to humans. The dark seeds (and foliage) certainly are, but the fleshy red parts aren't... eating them isn't advised, however, as they taste disgusting :-)

Not so tiny or little, but a twenty-something d***head on a bike, cycling on the pavement behind me on East Dulwich Grove and *just* missing me when I turned towards the kerb to cross the road. Get on the road, you stupid prat!

Waiters, waitresses and bar staff saying, "Hi! What can I get you guys?" I'm a middle-aged man ffs. I don't want you calling me "sir", but please don't treat me like one of your mates. Oh, and waiting staff (Wagamama, I mean you in particular) who come and perch next to you when you're ordering. Stand up, take my order in a friendly, efficient way and stop being so bloody familiar! I feel better for that...

concita Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mr. Horniman is turning in his grave. He left the > museum and the grounds free to all London citizens > to enjoy and now it has become a political issue. Well, it's become a financial issue. It's possible that Mr Horniman left an insufficient endowment or that it has been mismanaged over the years, and that's not the fault of any government... Times of financial hardship tend not to produce problems such as these but to expose them 'as the tide goes out', so to speak. Poor returns on investments have caused problems with the Pension Reserve too: "There was a negative balance of ?5,409,000 on the Pension Reserve at 31 March 2010 due to the current deficit on the pension scheme." Financial statement, page 37 As with many organisations - public, charitable and private - decades of mediocre management can get found out at times like these. It's always easier to pay staff less than they ask for but promise them generous pensions because that'll be someone else's problem in the future. We're now reaping that particular harvest all over the place...

Dinant is an interesting town - birthplace of Monsieur Sax, inventor of the saxophone ? but perhaps not enough to see for a break. Perhaps you could stay in Luxembourg (the city), which has an unfair reputation for being boring. It has some great art, nightlife, beer and food, and yoy can easily do day trips to the Ardennes from there.

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Re-reading Moonfleet: what a great idea! I salute > you. I'm not prepared to tackle the yew > experiment, however. > > The new generation of jays seem to be bolder, > hopping around outside the kitchen window this > week, digging around in the soil. What are they > looking for? Can I help? They're probably burying acorns - or, in this weather, maybe retrieving them. Jays hide a phenomenal quantity of acorns during the autumn and research has shown that they remember most of them. The rest, of course, stand a chance of becoming oak trees. In fact, there's a theory that the great post-Ice Age oak forests were spread by jays indulging in 'caching' acorns.

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Islay is the home of the best distilleries. > Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Caol Ila. ... and Bunnahabhain, where my grandmother grew up before the First World War. Her father was the bonded warehouseman employed by 'the Revenue', but who ensured an occasional bottle made it into the pub to keep the locals happy ;-)