silverfox

What a load of nonsense in this day and age. Signal failure at Peckham Rye disrupts thousands of passengers at London Bridge. What a third world country we are now living in. There is no excuse for this in this day and age with 3 million people out of work (forget all that app checking stupidity). If a policeman can direct four way traffic at a junction with traffic lights temporarily out of order why can't railway staff direct trains along two tracks? The Victorians would have had an old oil-filled lamp and a flag. 21st century Britain can't sort it out? A signal is a light, green for go and red for stop (and maybe amber for slow down). There is no reason why people along the tracks can't give the train drivers this info, properly linked by phone to a control centre. God help us if a discharge from the Sun temporarily disabled all our satellites (and apps). We'll be back in the age before we discovered how to make fire and use a wheel.

Now pardoned

Apology accepted Maisonette1. I suspect you are just one of the 'new media' PR, marketing brigade who think posting false reviews and tweeting recommendations helps companies. I hope you, and the company paying you for such publicity, have learned a lesson. I'm actually of the old school and prefer to ignore reviews, positive or negative, for restaurants, films, exhibitions etc and prefer to make my own mind up. By the way, has Lucas's closed down or are they sub-letting the space to this 'pop-up' in their down time to help pay the rent?

JosehineB, Thankfully no harm came to you. However, Please can we have some facts about this incident. The reason I ask is the implication is it was the driver's fault. You say it was a lovely bright morning, you has a hi-vis jacket and a back light on. Why do you say this? If it was lovely bright morning you didn't need this paraphernalia. Are you mentioning these things by way of excuse? The driver turned left and Ono cked you off. I have no reason to disbelieve you but please explain what happened to sceptical drivers like myself. To parody HenryB, who has a lot to say on the cycling threads, I'd like to know the driver's version of what happened here.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The forces are agents of the state, required by > contract to do the will of the government, not > necessarily the will of the people and therefore > for me at least the pure image of the forces as > defenders of the people has been watered down > significantly in recent times, possibly 50 years. Your problem here Mick is referring to the 'will of the people'. You assume this 'will' is in agreement with you. Brave assumption. At the risk of contradicting myself, votes on bringing back hanging, excluding immigrants, disallowing gay marriage, leaving in the EU, and many other topicical matters, would all receive the agreement of the 'popular will'. You only have to review the local disconnect between East Dulwich Forumites with the 'popular will' over the Alternative Vote fiasco. Wake up man, countries like North Korea and Iran do not want nuclear capability for philanthropic reasons.

What I don't understand is do I put my shopping on the conveyor belt first and then jump up on the conveyor so the person on the till can scan my face or Vice versa? At least I can ensure my good side is scanned if I do it myself on the self-service till.

I agree with the sentiment of what you are saying Goose, although I do take many people's criticisms of poor service with a pinch of salt (eggs not cooked the way I like them, no wheatgerm bread, demanded a discount blah blah blah). For example, the current poor service in Lordship Lane thread - what does the OP expect, fawning obsequious staff treating her like the Queen of Sheba? However, in this case, despite the name of the establishment being censored, most of us know who '(A certain place's name removed, sorry - Admin)' refers to. Not sure that protects the establishment in the way it was intended.

Moose Hunter Shoots Norway Man On Toilet Should of gone to Specsavers? http://news.sky.com/story/1159343/moose-hunter-shoots-norway-man-on-toilet

Check whether the wall to be built on the boundary forms part of the structure of the conservatory. If it does object. Such walls need up to 2 feet 6 inches space around them for maintenance, re-repointing etc so it should be this distance away from the boundary on their side otherwise they, and their successors, would be seeking access to your property over the years to carry out the maintence, if needed, which they have no right to do. In short, if it is the case above, their plans cannot oblige you to grant them access to your property. Any reputable firm constructing the greenhouse would know this.

I wouldn't worry about it Lee. One 20th is peanuts. How much has it cost to put cycle lanes into the borough, 20mph signage, multiple redesigns of Peckham Rye four-way junction, just to name some obvious examples in this area. spread that over Southwark as a whole and you have a lot of tax payers with donkey ears. Give me fraud any day. costs me far less in taxes.

"...A total of 1,000 shoppers were asked over a three-month period about how easy it was to get around the nine biggest supermarket chains..." I've never filled out a survey in my life and never intend to unless someone pays me. Who are these 1,000 shoppers? Why should we take any notice of their opinions? It's a bit like the perfume/make-up ads on telly. The small print says 150 or so women took part in this survey so please, millions of women out there, buy our product. It's not just a Daily Mail issue here. All newspapers are swayed by this PR nonsense.

If you were hungry you'd eat it - stop being such a snob

Slightly off topic but I'll relate my story nevertheless. Recently I had to drop people off at Paddington station around 6.30am in the morning and then head towards the City for an 8am start. On the way back East there were a number of diversions (presumably due to Crossrail work). At one diversion Around Old Street, I turned right and speeded up to around 25mph. Then I saw on the road the marking 20 encircled by a ring. If there was an advance warning I didn't notice it as I turned into the road. The time cannot be more than 7.15am on a Sunday morning. I must admit I found it difficult to stay at or under 20mph with my car but I tried my best. There was nobody else on the road and I felt like I was driving in slow motion. I then saw a sign - something to the effect 'Islington, London's first 20mph Borough'. Call me stupid but what has that council got to be proud of there? It is probably costing the London economy billions of pounds in lost revenue/productivity because of the delays this foolhardy decision is causing. On topic - James you should be ashamed if you backed this idiotic 20mph speed limit on Lordship Lane

I'm not sure about the voice of reason - a bit harsh in my view. But I cannot be alone in noting how fascistic this thread has become from the cycling fraternity ('force' 'make' etc). Good point about how smelly cyclists can be though, having had to sit in meetings with them, as they enter with their front wheel in hand in case it's nicked. Also, if they can take a shower, how they contribute to global warming by expecting their company to front the bill thus saving on their bedsit bills)

You accept my point then henryb?