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@darlin' - -- Ah, that's nothing - I got chased nearly up to The Vale after punching the side of a white van that drove straight through the zebra crosing by EDT. I had a full box of records on me at the time as well... he gave up in the end.

It's in extreme cases that I do that - and it's always when the driver has been in the wrong and just hasn't bothered looking. One woman followed me for ages, leaning out of her window shouting how she was 'phoning her boys' and getting them to come and find me. I nipped up an alleyway and never saw her again. I've never smashed a car up / damaged property or anything - just letting them know I'm there more than anything. I cycle extremely defensively - basically presuming every driver is brain dead saves you from a lot of scrapes. In London they usually are.

The main difference is if you are in a car you are using a deadly weapon. Cars kill other people. Bikes do not kill other people. Any legislation should be weighted in favour of the cyclist. Cyclists - if someone cuts you up, punching their side window fairly hard usually wakes them up. It might mean you get chased about a mile through Southwark by an irate Australian as happened to me once, but it was quite fun in retrospect.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about if they were dressed as clowns? I would clear the decks for a 192-pager.

Domitianus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let me ask a controversial question (or perhaps > not controversial). In light of the > black-on-black mass stabbing a couple of weeks ago > on LL, would people's responses to this thread be > different if the boys stabbing the bin were black? no. Two boys stabbing a bin is still completely uninteresting, even if the boys had done it in fancy dress.

I like the tombola stall where 90% of the prizes are booze of some description.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting that you mentioned that the boys were > white - nobody has taken you up on this. Hmmm. Ooh, that?s another 8-pager, are we all up to it?

Do you remember being young? It would seem you don't. I made a fertiliser bomb when I was about 10 years old and blew up part of a playground. Should I have been locked up? Thankfully I wasn't brought up around here, so I got a telling off and didn't do it again.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > lenk Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > So, was an offence committed? > > Yes, it is illegal to carry a knife without good > reason. (I don't think stabbing wheelie bins would > be classed as a good reason). It seems quite clear > cut to me, I don't even think there's a debate to > be had here. Courts are packed enough with pointless cases without people reporting someone stabbing a bin for God's sake.

Maybe we could have some sort of 'informant network', like they have in totalitarian societies. I would really enjoy living somewhere like that.

citizenED Wrote: > Telegraph Hill Village. hahahahahahahaha

So, was an offence committed? Doesn't sound like it. I'm sure the police will do everything in their power to um, get you off the phone.

There's a house on Uplands road I regularly pick rosemary from. That's my confession.

I was just in the Rye. Not for forum drinks. I was the one sneering at children and looking on in amazement at the Harry Potter lookalike carving an entire fruit salad into some braying knobhead's jug of Pimms as I waited 3-deep at the bar.

I drink everywhere - in parks, on buses, on the street - I've never been told to stop by anyone. If it was a man in a fluo jacket I would probbly ignore him to be honest.

ignore - just found another thread on this

Anyone been? Looks interesting. Might give it a go at lunch.

I'll be cycling through there imminently on my way home, will have a nose. Will try and bag a 'copter shot if I can.

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do the French and Spanish wine producers keep the > best stuff for their home market or do they send > it to the UK? Always thought best place to buy is > in Duty Free before flying home. It's not always about keeping back the 'best stuff' - a lot of producers just don't make enough of what they make for it to be worthwhile sending it abroad. A lot of Belgian beers don't make it over here for the same reason. The cost of a bottle is usually linked to the scarcity value of the grapes - obviously there are other factors that come into play but it plays a part. A bottle of Chateau Musar from Lebanon, though very nice, costs what it does because they aren't able to make much of it.

I must admit I'd been past Green and Blue thinking it was just a cafe for ages before I went in and realised you sold wine to take home. Nicolas is pretty unmistakably an 'offie'

Haha. Menu entirely in French. Ortolan a speciality. This is what ED needs.

HAL9000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Carried out an olfactory survey of Rye Lane late > this afternoon, one of the hottest days of the > year. Not a bad smell anywhere! In fact, the > distinct fragrance of incense wafted from some of > the shops. Is it possible that this thread has had > a positive impact? I don't think it ever did. I just think some people get anxious whenever they smell anything 'ethnic'.

I drink in the Prince Albert to make myself feel edgy and working class, apparently. Definitely not because it's the only 'normal' pub for miles.

If flock wallpaper, Coldplay on the stereo and a ?3.80 pint of Staropramen are your thing, you'll hate it.

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