LegalEagle-ish

I wanted to go back to the shampoo of my childhood, the squeakily clean destroyer of dandruf, Vosene. But i have searched high and low to no avail. So can anyone tell me, where has all the Vosene gone, long time passing, where has all the Vosene gone, long time ago?

I just laughed so loud that the drunkwomen at the bus stop looked at me like i'm mad!

The thought of being trapped in abody that is so delapidated that you can't physically end your own life seems like the stuff of nightmares. Why are we so keen on sending our young men into battle with other people's young men, but we are squeamish about allowing people to kill themselves when they think they have had enough and want to end their life? Is it because most of the people who make the laws are rich, greedy bastards who wouldn't trust their own relatives when it was their turn to consider the question?

So he's just been crying wolf?

I can take a detour!

Noam Chomsky is my favourite.

So is the Lounge the only one you can post on or can you flog your old unwanted items too?

Ok - I'll have to bum a DVD off someone else then!

It seemed to be my wise old mother-in-law's magic fix-all! Amazing stuff apparantly - not that I took her advice on this matter - I'm a bit too squeamish.

I was thinking of going to the Plough in about half an hour for an alcohol free Becks if you want to collect it from me. I'd like to swap it for anything else entertaining ytou might have tho - as long as it's not porn.

BBW - You got banned from the Drawing Room already? Tut, tut.

BBW - I've still got your Bleak House - I forgot to pass it on to Moosly.

The cocktails of artificial chemicals that we ingest and absorb through our food, furniture, cleaning products, petrol, paints, plastics etc have not been tested by anyone to see their cumulative effect on our systems. As far as I am concerned, I try to avoid as many artificial chemicals as possible because I do not believe that their safety has been proven and think many of the new and increased frequency of disease, especially in the western industrialised countries may be linked to the increase in artificial chemical pollution. The survival of humans for thousands of years in an environment free of artificial chemicals has however proved that this was an environment we survived pretty well in.

My old Jamaican mother-in-law used to prescribe wee wee!

Who did you have a punch up with??

Loving your signature Brendan.

Haha - it worked!

Ok one more try!

It didn't work! Ok going to try again.

I'm just a dedicated follower of fashion!

I love an optimist!

I would have thought that the nutritional value would depend more on how long the item had been hanging around in warehouses and on shelves rather than whether it was organic or not. I get organic when i can so i don't have to ingest the chemicals in non-organic food. I also try to keep the levels of artificial chemicals to a minimum in my house and wear a mask when cycling. The human body was not designed to survive surrounded by the cocktail of chemicals we have all around us, and for me, organic food is just one more way of reducing my exposure to some of them. I try to grow some of my own food now to overcome the loss of nutrients in shop bought food. Tastes flipping lovely when it's fresh from the garden AND organic!

I Can't believe the consensus on here, when i got shot down in flames for suggesting decriminalisation of drugs back in the mists of time! Another thing to think about is making it easier for these enterprising young guys to start up their own businesses in non-drug related areas, without being swamped in all the red tape that suffocate small business start-ups.

Lol, glad to see i didn't chase you off for good. I was starting to feel like a bully.

NASS disperse the asylum seekers to places like Liverpool, Glasgow and Newcastle because accomodation is much cheaper in those areas, so the asylum seekers do not stay in London for long unless they have settled friends or relatives who are willing to put them up for free. The problem with dispersal is that the asylum seeker has no control over where they are sent, and are often dispersed more than once, so their legal representation is often disrupted which can result in poor representation and them unfairly receiving refusals of their asylum claim, despite being totally genuine. When their claim is then refused, they get no further support from the UK govt and are expected to return to the country they fled from. I do a lot of fresh asylum claims of people in this position but we make sure that their evidence is properly verified and translated and commission various country experts to evaluate their original claim and the refusal etc and we have a lot who get a different decision to the one they had originally received. This is all paid for by the client and not the tax payer, so failed asylum seekers without the financial ability to pay for this kind of service often get sent back to torture and death. Many of the cases i see are ones where the Home Office have made blatant mistakes or failed to follow their own published policy. They often refuse to change their decision until we end up in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal-wasting our client's money and tax payers money too. The system is massively unfair, and by refusing pretty much everyone in the first instance, decisions which are wrong and often overturned on appeal, the Home Office are wasting millions of your pounds. They need to start evaluating the initial claims more fairly instead of the blanket cut and paste refusal policy they have now.