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Time for a bit of Zeppelin...

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh no Major Buggie Car Park built on ICELAND Site! I like it... with optional buggie valeting - we wash off the vomit and organic hummus stains while you enjoy a flat white and a babyccino with your precious one...

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My black leather jacket. Looking really rather > shagged out now, but will still keep wearing it > ...

Clown shoes...

I don't think that's the point, Otta. The online world is quick to jump on "information" which can quickly become "fact". It's important from the point of view of crime and how people perceive crime that it's understood that this was an extremely ill-advised attempt to help a child and not an attempted abduction where "a man tried to abduct a Yr 6 child on his way to a local school".

I don't suggest tax has nothing to do with morality, though I would suggest that taxation only plays one part in our collective responsibilities to society. Paying the Revenue a sum of cash each year does not make me a good person... If you really don't like certain legal tax activities, then change the law so that such activities are illegal and chase the offenders by beefing up HMRC... but then Gordon Brown shed some 25% of HMRC staff because more of us are filing online. Smart move, Gordon.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So you're saying there's no moral difference > between tax evasion and tax avoidance? Wikipedia: "Tax noncompliance describes a range of activities that are unfavorable to a state's tax system. These include tax avoidance, which refers to reducing taxes by legal means, and tax evasion which refers to the criminal non-payment of tax liabilities." There is a moral difference between breaking and not breaking the law, regardless of what you think the morality of that law is. If everyone else apart from these wicked rich people minimising their tax liabilities is so moral, then isn't it an amazing coincidence that the level of tax we pay seems to be morally just the right amount to pay for the welfare state. Go and ask HMRC how many people offer to pay more tax than their liable to, because they think that their tax burden is "morally" too low...

Personally I think most people are "uncivic minded", but that doesn't necessarily make them "morally repugnant". Tax evasion that's illegal? Then prosecute with the full force of the law. Tax avoidance that's legal? Then close the loophole, but please don't go on about morals.

It is indeed simplistic, as her 'ditching' wasn't as cut and dried as that word suggests. They were and are regularly seen out together, as a cursory Google will reveal... Cycnics might suggest that her 'ditching' was a politically motivated temporary expediency.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > leenorris78 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > They are called "Small Blue". > > > > I went into the British wildlife place and they > > have Kidney Vetch planted in there, the > > butterfly's only food source. > > xxxxxx > > None of that in my garden to the best of my > knowledge, so they must be on their way to > somewhere else! It's the caterpillars that feed almost exclusively on kidney vetch foliage - the full-grown butterfly will feed on nectar from lots of plants.

The Spanish sports newspaper Marca produced a wonderful online interactive graphic for the World Cup and they've done the same for Euro 2012. It's a thing of beauty and amazingly simple, so you can throw away those crappy posters from the papers that no-one fills in anyway...

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you really want to understand crows read 'The > Truth about Crows' by Robin Hasben. Amazing story > about how he was a crow in a previous lifetime and > gives an insight into how a crow thinks, like no > other so called expert. Two other fine books about crows are Mark Cocker's "Crow Country" and Esther Woolfson's entertaining memoir "Corvus: A Life With Birds" about various crows that have lived with her family. Wonderful birds.

Probably not, as farting requires an anal sphincter. An avian cloaca does have a circular muscle, but not a sphincter, so any internal gas would simply leak out when produced rather than be expelled rapidly in fartian bursts. Hope that helps ;-)

Ravens are not carrion crows... and the Scottish Gamekeepers Association is hardly a disinterested party - they routinely defend members who illegally destroy any and every bird of prey or predatory mammal they can in order to please their wealthy hedge-fund clients who don't give a monkey's about wildlife or ickle lambs. As others have pointed out, at breeding time, crows are especially defensive. There's no reason to think they're "preying" on cats - why should they take the risk? There's plenty of food to be had for nothing all around the city. Personally I love crows - elegant and very intelligent.

Meh - OK lots of people find it exciting. Good for them. I can't think why...

I couldn't give a monkey's where the damn thing goes and the BBC's "follow the torch with live text and video" thing is expensive, dull and pointless. Blow the bugger out, I say...

Nice one, but I'm getting a weird header in my browser reading: - East Dulwich Forum Is it me or you? ;-)

No Face, No Name, No Number - Traffic

Just beer and music for us - we're simple folk...

Counted fifteen stalls selling cupcakes. Made it mighty difficult to find a stall selling tiny cushions...

Sue, Southern always run a bus replacement service if there's no train service. Trouble is it's utterly unreliable...

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was > responding to BNG's suggestion that we identify > ourselves when posting as a form of segregating > 'valid' opinions from 'non valid' opinions. Just to be clear, I was being more distrustful of politicians and journalists than non-SE22ers ;-) If they're testing local opinion, it would seem only right not to include others' (non-local) opinions. The validity of non-locals' arguments or otherwise is a different issue.

garnwba Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love all the parking fears - especially those > coming from the people who only a few months ago > claimed that there weren't any parking problems at > the other end of Melbourne Grove and voted against > the CPZ.... > > All different now isn't it..... > > Ho hum Yawn. So you know who's responsible for "all" these parking fears and where they live? Don't forget, the CPZ was going to reduce the number of parking spaces in the area. Oh, and don't forget that the anti-CPZ argument was not that "there weren't any parking problems", but that the CPZ didn't address them rationally or proportionately. How's the traffic/parking audit of local schools and businesses going? Yeah, I thought it wouldn't happen... So it was CPZ or nothing. Ho hum.

My, the non-SE22ers are touchy today! Possibly touchier than a Bugaboo-toting, Cath Kidston-packing yummy mummy trying to get through to Fusion... On a slightly more serious note, when politicians (or journalists) appear on here fishing for opinions, it might be wise for people to state their whereabouts if they're not 'local'. I'd happily pontificate about CPZs, buggy bans, dog poo patrols etc if I knew it would have no effect on me because I lived miles away. It wouldn't necessarily negate my arguments but it shouldn't be taken as representative of local opinion.

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > where do you keep your tomato sauce. Fridge= > middle class > cupboard= working class > ( this was pointed out on edf a while ago- makes > life so easy). Blimey, an' there was me finkin' I was a posh fella - just saw ah sauce in va cuupboard - turns out ah'm a geeeezer aft'r all. Maaarvellous!