LegalEagle-ish

I just read the wikipedia page on homeopathy. The guy who invented it noticed that the bark used to treat malaria gave the same symptoms as malaria, so concluded that all treatments need to be based on the same symptoms as the disease they were seeking to cure - that was an extensive study! Then he decided that the best treatment was to dilute these ingredients by as much as the equivalent of a pinch of salt in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans - so now they don't produce the same symptoms as anything. I can't believe anyone actually believes something so illogical could actually cure anything and even more astonishingly expects the NHS to include this sh!t in their funding. I was unaware until just now exactly how diluted these stupid cures are - to have something with no active molecules of anything in it and call it a cure should be prosecutable under some knd of trade description or advertising standards Act! Fools and their money, easily parted!

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > northlondoner, shop closer to home, share looking > after the kids with friends and neighbours, > respect the fact that your laziness is reaping a > cost that you are not prepared to pay, but your > kids will have to. Look at them, and put the car > keys back in the drawer. > > Besides, your with your increased social links > you'll be happier and healthier. > > We're in a pre-credit-crunch boom time > ecologically speaking. We're squandering assets > and stealing against future losses. > > Project all the disquiet that is been addressed at > the government for not managing the financial > markets into a world ten years hence on > environmental issues. You know why they couldn't > stop that, and they can't stop this. You won't let > them. You're delirious, drunk on ecological > expenditure, crazed with delusions of wealth and > power, and you don't care. > > I can only assume that you don't have the > imagination to recognise the inevitable > consequences of your selfish rampages. That's why > I question your powers of reasoning. > > I too am disappointed with the Italians. Go get them Mr Hugs!

Xena, I'm impressed!

I'm never sure until nearer the date if I can make it because it always depends on if I can get a babysitter, but i'm going to try cos this one sounds good.

I don't want to upset anyone here, but do the people who say they don't know many women who might fit into the one in ten statistic think it might be possible that they are not the kind of people women they know who have been through these things would want to confide in? I am serious when I say that most of the women I know well have at some time in their life been attacked, sexually assaulted or raped by men they were either dating, living with or knew in some other capacity. I'm really shocked that some of you do not know how common this is. But I also know men who have been stabbed or beaten by a gang of guys - not as many as the women I know who were victims, but quite a few still. It may be a class thing, because most of the people I know well are not middle class, so have had a rougher experience of life anyway.

I didn't even know they had one in Herne Hill! Fusion do another membership for about ?45 a month which gives you acces to over a hundred centres and 80 swimming pools. Here is the link - not sure if it includes Herne Hill but you might be able to check on the link.

He expects his girls to end up barefoot, pregnant and chained to the kitchen sink so why waste his hard-earned!

Are you trying to get a rise out of us?

In my limited experience of the legal profession, the female partners I've had as bosses have been brilliant compared to the arsehole, meglomaniac male partners I've had to deal with. I don't think our limited personal experience on this is really relevant to anything, especially not a campaign against violence against women.

I want to come to the next one - what are the prices like?

I became a Christian in 2001 when I was at a very low point in my life, and that changed my outlook on life completely and enabled me to put myself back together.

I was 14 and it made me fear all guys for a bit, but as someone who can't handle being scared, I became a hard hearted bitch for a while to compensate. Took me until my 40's until I was finally able to peel off some of the armour plating and soften my thorny exterior.

I used to live in Forest in Canada, which is very close to London, Canada.

I'd love Lidl to get the LL space - mean I wouldn't have to schlep all the way to Peckham for my shopping.

That Markeddie guy's a bit of an aggressive little runt innit.

Fusion is good cos you get to use all the other ones if you want and the Peckham one has a sauna and steam room. Plus some of the classes are really good - if anyone on here can do Theo's bodyblaster on Fri eve's in Dulwich Fusion all the way through, then you've got my respect. He teaches in Peckham too I think and his sisters Jennifer and Cammilla do some seriously hard classes including spin.

Pretty much all the women I know well enough to talk on such a deep level have been, sexually assaulted, beaten up or raped by guys. I did martial arts for years to try to make sure it could never happen to me again.

Maybe Obama's Kenyan side is still unhappy about the British massacre of the Mau Mau and the British gulags in Kenya in the 1950's.

That is pretty grim.

I thought this was a thread about sexual practices, sorry.

Medical science can have any useful bits and the rest can be burned. If my kids are allowed to get the burnt bits, I'd like them to bury the ashes and plant a tree on top, so bits of me will live for years to come! A fruit tree might be a bit too grim but that was my original idea!

Ok, I was hungry and it was my lunch break.

Because I was hungry.

Why not? In response to Xena not Mike!

I learned that the Home Office's multilple criminal prosecution of my client for refusing to co-operate with his removal to a country he has fled from in fear of his life, may be illegal which means that his deportation for these 'criminal' convictions may also be invalid as he has no other criminal convictions so should not be facing deportation. Exciting stuff which is outside my area of law, but has been passed to top notch public lawyer. I learn something everyday - which is why I love my job (especially as it's part-time now too)!