david_carnell

I also suffer from eczema as an adult and also did so as a child/teen all with varying degrees of severity. I find it's worse at this time of year which I've attributed to a) less sunlight and b) central heating systems. Try some extra vitamin D - mushrooms, fatty fish or supplements. The change in humidity and heat at this time of year also cause flare ups to this day. This is difficult to manage in modern houses though. Finally, stress is also a big cause. Whilst this is unlikely in a 4 year old in the same way as in an adult it's also possible that the situation surrounding the eczema begins to become a vicious circle. Best of luck.

Except that barriers to entry in being a competitor to Amazon are huge. The cost of establishing a rival company at this stage would be close to impossible. So we could easily enforce (or change) taxation legislation requiring them to pay profit on UK generated profits to HMRC without them shedding thousands of jobs. They don't sell items cheaper than anyone else due to cunning tax lawyers, they do it through shrewd negotiations in economies of scale. And their customers already pay their costs. They have the operating profit to show for it. This isn't some ethereal company that Google could possibly claim to be.

To those who say it's not illegal, you are correct. Then again, neither is being a dick. But no one will ever thank you for it.

The idea that this can be blamed only on the government (or a series of governments) is simply ludicrous. The fact that Amazon.co.uk try to claim they are not a UK company, despite having "fulfillment centres" dotted around the country housing thousands of products, employing thousands of people all paying UK PAYE income tax, billing customers in British pounds, using the Royal Mail and British road, rail and air infrastructure is the height of duplicitous disingenuity. Governments have offered businesses plenty of tax breaks, grants and discounts and yet still these multinationals use their pan-national status to avoid paying money they do owe. The premise that MamoraMan puts up is a straw man. Taxing these companies wouldn't result in job losses. Just less profit, less shareholder payout. And if (hypothetically) Amazon tanked, I'm sure many a high street bookseller and retailer would happily pick up the slack. The demand for the product would still remain. To keep this ED specific, if Costa on LL closed - other coffee shops pick up the trade and could employ more staff. Or another one opens in the same site and the identical scenario takes place. Unless of course, MM is claiming coffee consumption increases proportionately to number of outlets available? Starbucks may well be a franchise, but they all pay fees and profit ratios to the head office. The fact they sell coffee from an office in Zurich (Switzerland being a renowned coffee producer!) and claim to be making losses in the UK is humourless irony.

Sharon Feel free to post this in the Lounge and I'll endeavour to make sure it stays there. Is that ok with you? Regards David (Mod, when I can be bothered)

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Oh dear. KP to the rescue?

Also baths in Camberwell, Peckham, Forest Hill and Herne Hill (Brockwell lido might be a bit nippy in Winter, mind you). No idea whether prices differ from one to another though as they are all Southwark pools outsourced to, I think, the same contractor.

anapau Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is dubstep > > > > but so it this > > > > personally I like the former but detest the > latter > > What sets it apart from other EDM genres just > comes down to tempo really > > oh and often heavy sub-bass (the 'drop') although > this isn't too noticeable unless you are in > possession of unusually good speakers Well, I can say I learnt something today.... Much like you, I quite liked the former, dark, interesting and slightly unnerving. The latter sounds like someone have an epileptic fit on a Korg. Dear god. And you're meant to be able to dance to that? There is, literally, no rhythm. Mentalness. As *Bob* says, the world has gone mad. And I feel old. Reading the Guardian I, of course, am listening to "djent". A genre mixing rap and metal. Listen up punks:

I think the BBC is cherished in this country. But rightly so. Compared to public or private broadcasters almost anywhere in the world and its output is miles ahead. But to reiterate SJ, this hasn't stopped it evolving over the last couple of decades (see it's web presence and the success of iplayer) and it will continue to do so. To demand that it immediately does so in an unspecified manner to pacify the current cries from the usual suspects would be cutting off ones nose to spite the face.

Does The Bill themetune need updating again?

Elephant and Castle?

Especially for Quids....this is why true BBC is still great and the alternatives are so lacking: http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/2012/11/george-entwistle-bbc-broken-embattled-still-best.html

And Entwhistle has resigned. Not really sure if that achieves anything except to briefly silence the haters.

Whilst I think e-dealer's points are weak I agree with his overarching point. With housing benefit and welfare reforms meaning that more people are being moved away from expensive inner London housing to cheaper housing in the suburbs, the ability to commute to your place of work will be essential. If fares are rising, are wages are remaining static then the Tory commitment to making work pay becomes harder and harder. I think subsidised, cheap, efficient transport is not only "A Good Thing" but actually results in a more productive economy as people get to work quickly and efficiently.

The Civil Service don't seem to mind too much.

It's dead already. Don't bother. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, Tumblr. All are more alive than Google+

Twitter reports of armed police shooting tyres and smashing windows of a car, before dragging out passengers for arrest. It's like a Jason Statham movie. Only not shit.

Although it's the BIJ who have done the work and sold it to Newsnight. Not a BBC investigation. They can't stop reporting just because of an editor's fuck up.

Explosive Newsnight allegations on their way.... https://twitter.com/iainoverton/status/264308253033381888

And yet Joanne Good and Vanessa Feltz remain?! Seriously? They're keeping the woman who devotes one show a week to pets?! I give up.

Terrifying. http://www.theleek.net/articles/science_technology/images/catdog.jpg

I'd agree on Blair but not on Campbell. Attacking new Labour spin is like blaming antelopes for running quickly when lions are chasing them. The shoeing Labour got from the red-top and Associated Press media in the 1980s and early 90s was such that their tactics were absolutely required. And every other govt has had press attack dogs (Bernard Ingham anyone) who did just as unpleasant stuff behind the scenes but never copped the flack Campbell did.

Oh god....the shite shirts......please stop them.

I think the problems arises when such behaviour is not limited to a few "dodgy generals" but is seen as institutional, to quote a famous line from the MacPherson report. If, to take the Savile example, the public feel that the protection of famous stars from the law was not merely the action of the few but a culture of behaviour from top to bottom where nobody feels able to speak out then the whole organisation is tarnished regardless. And I think the idea of institutionalisation is absolutely front and centre currently. The whole of the financial sector is seen as being cretinous and oleaginous where blame is probably more correctly apportioned only with a few select individuals within a few select institutions. Whilst I don't doubt that some MPs are stand-up folk, the impression amongst the public with every breaking financial/expenses/gate/saga is that the entire lot are rapacious thieves. Appearances and impressions matter and the sooner MPs/police/bankers/BBC realise this and get their houses in order the sooner trust could be restored. But they seem to show very little inclination to do so and, worse, intent on defending themselves in the face of obvious guilt.