rendelharris

Before soya milk was commonly available in caf?s my (very lactose intolerant) wife used to carry a small bottle (Bodyshop perfume, I think, presumably well rinsed) in her handbag with soya milk in it for use in her tea and coffee - maybe people should start doing that if they're going to be ripped off like this. Just out of curiosity (I don't really frequent fancy coffee shops), do they charge more for coffee with cow's milk than for the same coffee without?

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't disagree - I'd add fibre optic broadband > (or whatever the next generation is called ) to > that list. I do think the Tories are going to do > some Keynesian stuff for sure now - Ed Milliband > must be shaking his head in disbelief. We agree on something, knew we would eventually! Definite yes on fibreoptic combined with a government initiative to encourage videoconferencing for business using the upgraded infrastructure instead of spending unproductive hours travelling to meetings, thereby cutting carbon footprints and doing away with the need for HS2 & 3 etc.

binkylilyput Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have other people had similar experiences with > bike's being nicked/ vandalised? I'm thinking it > must happen a lot so I feel sorry for the people > who have invested proper money in a bike. Yep, lost literally thousands over the years in stolen bikes and wheels, as well as through vandalism. I can only echo the advice given above re good locks; nowadays I never leave my bike anywhere outside overnight, always remove at least the front wheel and take it with me and try to think ahead for security, e.g. choosing pubs/restaurants where I can have a view of the bike from the window (or better still a pub where they'll let you lock it up in the garden, many landlords are helpful with this). Sadly the only real security comes from having the bike indoors, are you sure you can't bring it in? There are lots of clever hanging systems these days which minimize the space a bike needs. Alternatively (though quite expensively) you could buy a Brompton and never have to lock it up anywhere, just fold and carry with you.

bobbsy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I guess no one else got wound up by this, or wound > up enough to post at least. Haven't seen them but I'm intrigued by your description - can you post a photo?

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Selective quotation isn't the issue it's the > headline... > > I don't disagree with any of that - but we are > where we are so continual doom-mongering achieves > nothing and makes thing worse - the headline > selection is for me interesting and the relevant > point. > > Anyway, you got any ideas or are you caught up in > the whole Corbynista against everything but no > solutions zeitgeist? The man said "it is absolutely going to be horrible [referring to Brexit]" and the Guardian headline read "Brexit impact is going to be horrible, says leading City fund manager." In what way is that "out of context" as you complained? My ideas, for what they're worth, very much chime with what the same man said later in the same piece: ?The bigger question is: are they bolder? Do they go ?right, well we are in a different world; if we can borrow at a ludicrously low rates through extensive debt issuance, then let?s do so, specifically to invest either directly or alongside private investors in infrastructure projects?. ?We could resurface [the] M1 [motorway], we have a clear need for more gas-fired electricity generational plants. The private sector is not stepping up and doing any of this, unsurprisingly, so lets do some funding, some guarantees, make things attractive."

As you object so much to selective quotation I'm sure you wouldn't do it yourself, so you must have overlooked this bit where the same man said: ?I don?t think there was doom-mongering, because it is absolutely going to be horrible,? he said. ?Mark Carney?s speech [in which he warned of dangers of Brexit] was absolutely spot on. This is just really bad news. ?You can criticise the Brexit team for a) an utterly mendacious campaign and b) not expecting that they would really win, so never having a plan. I mean the whole thing is literally unbelievable. It is extraordinary how we have ended up where we are.?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Caviar was once peasant food. but now it is a > luxury. Edward II made the sturgeon a Royal Fish in 1324, since when the royal family have had first dibs on all found in British waters. I know you go back a long way Foxy, but still...

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This posted by a friend of a friend on Facebook: > > 'So, my special friend in Istanbul says this, > despairingly: "Most probably a real coup attempt, > which was vaguely known beforehand, and was > allowed to proceed, because they knew it to be > disorganised and weak. This means it will be > followed by a real coup by Erdoğan himself, > and the last remnants of democracy will be lost. > So worse becomes the worst. The Kurdish movement > and all of us in the opposition will be targeted > in the coming days. A civilian brown-shirt > movement is already in the making, and this will > rule the streets once the so-called coup is > defeated in a couple of days."' The EU are now saying that a hitlist of the 3,000 judges who've been arrested was drawn up prior to the coup, so it looks more and more and more like a setup.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't wait to get a nice bit of reasonably > priced fish either. Good luck with that. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3684024/Sterlings-fall-batter-UKs-fish-chips.html

danielson00 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @rahrahrah > > Yes I know, but I thought he would be interested > as it effects a lot of Londoners... who voted for > him! Well he is - as it says, he's campaigning for suburban services to be given to TfL, most recently this week - it's the government who are blocking it, not him: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/12/take-southern-rail-franchise-off-operator-urges-sadiq-khan

This posted by a friend of a friend on Facebook: 'So, my special friend in Istanbul says this, despairingly: "Most probably a real coup attempt, which was vaguely known beforehand, and was allowed to proceed, because they knew it to be disorganised and weak. This means it will be followed by a real coup by Erdoğan himself, and the last remnants of democracy will be lost. So worse becomes the worst. The Kurdish movement and all of us in the opposition will be targeted in the coming days. A civilian brown-shirt movement is already in the making, and this will rule the streets once the so-called coup is defeated in a couple of days."'

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. > It's warming and chilling and not very long! Second that - and The Ballad of the Sad Caf? by the same author.

Have you tried Haroun and the Sea of Stories? Although marketed as a children's book it's very good fun for adults, especially if you like fantasy, very funny and very apposite for the times in which we live. Having read six of Rushdie's novels I'd say it's possibly his finest book.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As Henry XVII said... links? (And remember, you > said 'near daily', so anything in the last week.) How about this: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/160166/corbyn%E2%80%99s-comments-chakrabarti-inquiry-were-no-mistake-they-were-a- Edit - can't seem to link direct to article, look for Robert Philpot's article on July 8th. > Personally, I'd have set lawyers onto Isabel > Oakenshott and Michael Ashcroft. Doubly so when > Oakenshott admitted later there was no real basis > for the story. Why didn't he then? Or why doesn't he now he's got time on his hands? And anyway, being accused of silly buggers when at university really does not compare with being called an anti-semite and friend to terrorists now.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bodsier Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I fear you are being duped by the vile attacks > that have been > > made against him via the media. > > I read this claim a lot, but I've seen very few > 'vile attacks'. Mostly I see comments in the > Guardian that basically amount to "how very dare > you not agree with everything St Jeremy of Corbyn > says". Nothing has been said about Corbyn that has > been anything near what Cameron endured with > 'piggate'. > > So, I'd like to see some of these 'vile attacks'. > Can you give examples? The near-daily accusations of being an anti-semitic supporter of terrorists? Daily Telegraph articles headed "Corbyn will be cheered on by terrorists and racists"? I'm not a Corbynista at all, in fact I think whatever his personal qualities he ought to go for the good of the party, but there's no doubt he's come under more sustained and concerted attack in the press than any main party leader in my lifetime apart from maybe Michael Foot. A bit of a giggle about Dave getting jiggy with a piggy doesn't compare.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > You have to drive 40m in a bus lane for any fine > to be valid. You should've appealed! 20m, I think, and it's only a guideline, not a law - if you've cut in front of a bus or otherwise hampered it you can still be fined. A mate was fined when a camera caught his left rear tyre just kissing the end of the bus lane at Grove Tavern when turning left - appeal refused on the grounds that he had forced a bus further back in the lane to slow down.

TwoScoops Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry Lordship but I find your posts high on > opinion/ emotion but low on balance/facts. Seems to me s/he has a lot more hard facts in his/her posts than either you or I, to be fair. Anyway, what's wrong with opinion and emotion, isn't that what fuels debate? Or shall we just confine this forum to the exchange of undeniable facts? Going to get a bit sterile, isn't it?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary ?! > > WTF ?! The most obtuse and tactless man in Britain, who thinks it's acceptable to refer to Africans as "grinning picanninies," and who set out to destroy our only cast-iron foreign alliance for his own personal ends, now represents us on the world stage. Superb. When the history of this period of British politics comes to be written it's going to make Machiavelli and the Borgias and Medicis look like Little House on the Prairie.

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Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's odd how people treat you tho, and I'm a very > calm driver btw. In the big Black VW, people move > over or let you through. I always wave and smile > whilst mouthing 'thank you' But when I drive my > lady's mini, specially with the roof down, oh how > different it is. People won't let you through, > they cut you up and are generally a lot meaner > (even I know I look a knob in it). So the bigger > vehicle is my preference to drive, but not park Odd isn't it, when we're in our regular small car we do seem to get a lot more of the sort of behaviour you describe than on the odd occasion we need to hire a bigger one. I guess many people just have an ingrained bullying instinct to pick on anyone smaller...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually, 1 person owning a mini is a far more > selfish use of space if you work it out. > Predictable targeting though..... And one person owning a large vehicle is more selfish than anyone. If a single person needs a car, they need a car. If they buy a small car they're not being selfish. If a family needs a car and buys a tank far bigger than their needs, they're being selfish. Predictable desperate desire to contradict everything I say though, give it a rest.

It might help if people with perfectly normal sized families didn't feel the need to buy seven seater people carriers or enormous 4x4s to get around! With all the discussion on emissions nobody ever seems to suggest a tax on the physical size of a vehicle, but as engines get cleaner and cleaner (so one can buy bigger and bigger vehicles without being penalised) it's really time for the amount of road room and parking space these vehicles occupy to be looked at.

It's certainly very interesting, Louisa, and my comments on the possibility of an optical illusion were in no way meant to denigrate what a spine-tingling experience it must have been! Do keep us informed of any further research... Best, Rendel

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I couldn't help but notice the similarities > between May and Thatchers victory speeches. Ok so > May didn't quote St. Francis of Assisi, but we all > know what a false promise that turned out to be. I > expect the same from May. I am a bit scared now... http://i.imgur.com/mTZ9YU5.jpg

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does that also create an opportunity for various > people in the party to beg Boris to reconsider, do > you think? As far as I can see he wouldn't be allowed back in the contest, only Gove as second runner up. Nothing to stop Boris leaping in with a challenge to May's leadership once she's in any time he fancies of course, but surely such a loyal chap who puts the interests of the country first and foremost wouldn't risk further destabilisation?