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???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ditto "look" before a statement by every fooking > politician since Obama started it. Not > pronounciation, just dull unimaginativr ubiquity. Tony Blair mastered that one. It's supposedly a rhetorical device to get most people's attention as we tend to think 'visually'. Other speakers begin statements with "Listen,..." but apparently that's much less effective. Jack Straw had (and probably still has) an annoying way of prefacing everything he says with "Well,...", which not only makes his interviewer sound stupid, but also he speaks it without a full 'L' sound. So it's something like "Wew". Really bloody irritating. And don't get me started on young Miliband's glo'al stops... edt for sp.

So that's all right then... sheesh! The selfishness of parents is understandable but short-sighted and regrettable.

Neil Young - Down By The River.

Prince's solo, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", George Harrison tribute... arrogant, infuriating and a work of heartbreaking genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByqXu6nGYA

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,960124,page=1 Extraordinary expectations of entitlement...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and the Pension bit is why QE (which deflates > Bond prices) is causing real problmes for those > retiring with private pensions. > > I think we've years of this austerity to come to > right this situation plus a bit of inflation to > cheat. Overall incomes are going to stagnate which > eventually will make our economies more > competitive with the developing ones whose > citizens are now by and large getting richer and > with greater incomes this good thing is generally > ignored by the lefties such as Hutton who don't > see that globalisation has dragged million out of > poverty but been a shock to us > overpiad/overindulged/westerners, less income > disparity between the west and elsewhere is > painful for us but more 'equal'. > > > Interestingly the Boston Consulting Group > published a report last week saying the US is > likely to have a manufacturing recovery spurred by > a willing workforce, low labour costs by western > standards and cheap energy (Shale fracking)... Agree with much of this, but there's precious little evidence that shale fracking / shale oil / tight oil are ever going to be 'cheap'. They're only being exploited because energy prices are high and their poor EROEI rates mean that increased production will be unlikely to lead to a reduction in price - certainly compared to the good old days when Saudi Arabia could turn on or off the tap at will depending on the world price of crude.

Agreed... but you know it's dirty ;-)

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's all a bit kneejerk food snob. > > If I told someone I'd put E160c in their egg > sandwich they'd do their nut about chemical 'muck' > in food. > > If I told someone I'd put paprika in it they'd > compliment me on my creative flair with spices. > > However, E160c is paprika. So this a food snob who doesn't understand E numbers, right? I've met them, but I don't think I am one. If you want shelf life, then go ahead and add emulsifiers. I'd simply try to choose an alternative that was fresh. Needn't be expensive, needn't be snobby.

Cookies? Butter, egg, flour, sugar and vanilla.

Milk, cream, eggs, sugar and fruit or flavouring of your choice. Will that do?

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Which ingredient is muck BNG? > You've got your standard ice cream, plus the > flavours for cookies and vanilla. Soybean oil? Vegetable fat? > What's your problem? And, God bless, what are you > getting so angry about? There's no problem. I thought I answered your condescending comment in a straightforward way, but hey ho. > Bizarre. Right.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, but why does anyone really give a shit? A philosophy which has a worthy history, but in this case it's because the OP brought up the subject...

Ben and Jerry's have that residual sheen of 'coolness' like Branson's Virgin operations. Clever marketing, same old crap.

Huguenot, I know perfectly well what goes into ice cream and it's not all that muck. I'll stick to Italian gelati, thanks.

The India Club on the Strand next to King's College is unspoilt. Table, chair, jug of water, plate of food. Sorted.

Ben and Jerrys Cookie Dough ice cream ingredients: Ingredients: Cream (27%), water, condensed skimmed milk, sugar*, wheat flour, brown sugar*, free range egg yolk, milk fat, soybean oil, egg, vegetable fat, cocoa mass*, fat reduced cocoa powder*, vanilla extract*,molasses, stabilisers (guar gum, carrageenan), salt, natural butter flavouring, cocoa butter*, natural vanilla flavouring, natural brown sugar flavour with other natural flavourings, emulsifier (soya lecithin), coffee extract*. Muck.

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mandeer - an Indian veggie wholefood place that > served some of the best samosas in London in a > basement on Hanway Street And fantastic shrikhand for pud. I also miss the Hare Krishna Curry House at the end of Hanway St. Wonderful patra and a little waterfall in the corner lit up with fairy lights...

Don't eat the yellow snow...

Yeah, you had to become a member, which entailed giving them a quid and they'd give you a card and ask you to sign it. Very louche, but brilliant for a late-night tipple.

The Nell Gwynne's still fairly unspoilt but busier than before. The Troy Club (Hanway St) shut a couple of years ago when the lovely lady who ran it (whose name escapes me) passed away.

Pay In Blood = Bob Dylan

Ideal Store on East Dulwich Grove. Looks deserted but it ain't. They're very friendly in there and dug out the right battery for my ancient watch and fitted it while we chatted about the cricket.

"... a passion for cooking..." Oh really? "... a passion for self-promotion combined with a mild interest in tiresomely trendy cuisine..." more like.

Where does one sign up to be a POSH TOFF? I do believe I 'want some of that' as the young people say...

Agreed 100%