david_carnell

I don't believe I ever received payment for those. It was more of a bartering agreement.

It happens so rarely I need to highlight it. Huguenot - I could not agree more. You, sir, are on fire.

The trouble is that that way of looking at things merely allows for increased road building. We're lucky in ED that there isn't any room to do so and thus the traffic can only reach a finite number but elsewhere in this green and pleasant land (Bexley, say) where commuting is a way of life the increase in traffic is oft followed by calls for wider roads, by-passes and driver-friendly town planning. IMHO this is a fatalistically flawed way of thinking. It merely results in a vicious circle of increased car use. Something, for a variety of reasons I don't have time to list here, we should seek to discourage. I once worked in a transport planning consultancy, for a short period, on a team that specialised in looking at cycling. It was often a difficult balance to maintain between cyclist, pedestrian and driver and one that never leaves every party happy. Whislt I wouldn't be so brazen as to openly question your cycle lane = increased congestion argument I wonder whether the number of car users of that particular stretch of road may have also increased at the same time. I also wonder whether you are on the road at the right time to see the numbers of cyclists who do use it. Trust me when I tell you that endless surveys will have been conducted to test whether the cycle lane was warranted. In the meantime, however, enough of this seriousness....

They're welcome to him! Postcode-bandit that he was....

Dunno Ted? Maybe he was in the CPT one night....

Should we not be trying to encourage increased usage of cycles in ED and elsewhere (Bexley for eg) by building the adequate facilities needed (like a cycle lane) in the vein of "if you build it, they will come..."? If some of those car drivers swapped onto a bike there would be less traffic and the cycle lane would get more use than your anecdotally low statistic.

It's more of a self-help manual.

Homicide by David Simon. A terrific expose of the banalities of life as murder po-leece in Baltimore. The character descriptions are superb and the case files engrossing.

BNP member + policeman = this: (only not as funny)

Not to mention the Broken Windows theory which would seem to suggest that if you tackle low level aesthetic based crimes like litter/vandalism etc it encourages a low-crime atmosphere that extends to more serious issues such as burglary. It really is very simple. You know dropping litter/cycling on the pavement is illegal. Don't do it. And if you continue to, don't be surprised when someone actually enforces the law.

Seven ODIs?! For the love of 20/20......to find out what exactly? That we're rubbish at limited overs cricket? I knew that already.

Are they playing any proper cricket on this tour or just the coloured-pyjamas nonsense?

Genius at work.

Yeah, where is DulwichMum?

Of course as all comic book geeks know the Hulk was originally grey so it's not as innaccurate as first derided. I'd quite like a good quality apple turnover please if they're taking requests. How long has it been as well? I swear those girls started outside Moxons nearly a year ago.

So your current image of international playboy is a mere facade?

Don't say I didn't warn you....

I've started falling asleep whilst listening to Radio4. The shipping forecast has become my own adult lullaby. I could do without the national anthem though. I feel the need to stand and salute!

Pointless....but funny.

Except in Finland. So investing large sums isn't always the answer. I quite like macroban's idea of mixed schools but single sex alternate years. The bureaucracy involved might intially be tricky but it might solve the traditional dilemmas of educational attainment and social integration. I think to come out of an all-boys school after 7 years and be anything less than a social leper around woman is a good achievement. Those without sisters would struggle even more I would offer.

Till midnight on a Friday. The usual suspects will no doubt head to another hostelry after that, if you miss us Ant.

Never has man been so appropriately monikered.

Nowt wrong with the Highwaymen, Brendan. Although that version is a Cash solo effort. The eponymous track is a real hairs-standing-on-end number.

jumpinjackflash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'civilised'? you say. Because what those evil > lowlifes did was really bloody civilised. > Whatever happens to those scumbags in prison is > justified as far as I am concerned. i'd be > surprised if they last 2 weeks inside given the > media coverage this case has received. Now, who was it who said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"?

Ladygooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > david_carnell Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > To be fair, Almunia's not looked great this > > season. > > Really? and how many Arsenal matches have you > watched this season? Not as many as you, I'd hazard a guess - but through the magic of TV replays/highlights, press commentary and having a few Arsenal-supporting mates I thought it was a common assumption that he's not looked as steady as last season. I'm happy to stand corrected though if you say different.