EDKiwi

Well there you go, chuck in a bit of cannibalism and I think we're done.

They all emigrated :) My Great Grandfather packed his bags in his 20's and ended up in New Zealand after a stint in South Africa (where he met his wife, also Scottish). Don't hold it against me though.... What they need is something to up the profile a bit, a Scottish version of Father Ted maybe? They have booze and funny accents at least.

Been living on Barry Rd for about 6 months and never seen one either.

SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps someone with a longer memory can remind me > what the Yanks' attitude was to the freeing of all > the (non-cancer suffering) Irish "terrorists" > under the Good Friday agreement? Didn't quite a bit of funding for the IRA come from the States, namely those who claim to be 'Irish Americans', or is that just an urban myth?

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?m pretty sure America is just made up anyway. Yeah it all sounds pretty far fetched to me.

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mockney piers Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I quote like the place. I say that as someone > > about as scottish as FnB. > > > > This thing is so ridiculous, reminds me of the > > freedom fries thing. > > Especially as a)the sort of American who buys > > scotch is unlikely to give ashit about calls for > a > > boycott (same ones who have doubtless been > > enjoying their scotch with an illegal cuban > cigar) > > and > > b)he probably didn't do it anyway, any longterm > > reader of Private Eye knows there are a lot of > > unanswered questions that compassionate release > > rather than an appeal was designed to avoid. > > I'm with MP. > > Americans are hysterical. As in disordered. > > Their crazy take on a Cuban booking at a Scottish > hotel not so long ago? An attempted boycott of > Scottish firms. > > More Islay malt and Talisker for us. Bring it on. Not to mention that their so called 'boycotts' are pretty lame, with the whole 'freedom fries' thing they didn't actually stop eating them, just renamed them. What did they seriously expect the French to do? Say "sacre bleu, the Americans have stopped calling their fried chips 'French Fries', we don't actually make them in France or get any money for the name 'French Fry' but we better bow to their demands and fall to our knees to kiss their feet"

Ah yes, the 'beautiful game', can't say watching it make me want to rush into the streets and start smacking people about the head or throw bricks through windows, then again I'm not a fan of warm ale and don't speak the Queens English, must be cos I'm a dirty foreigner, innit. Some people are just looking for excuses to have a rumble, I heard one fella on the radio today proudly proclaiming how he and his mates traveled down from Manchester for the sole reason they heard there would be trouble and wanted to be part of it. Knob heads.

Sorry, I was meaning more of leaderboard type games, I just meant that Battlefield had encouraged me to get onto xbox live (I was a big fan of Battlefield 2 on the PC back in NZ) so would be interested in seeing what other games are on offer, and if people are keen to start some sort of local leaderboard count me in :) As for team play in Battlefield, personally I find the lack of being able to type messages a bit of a drawback, still it's loads of fun for a casual game.

lol, love it, my kind of review. And why is East Dulwich further north than North Dulwich....or am I just being picky?

Could be up for that, just been getting into xbox live through my one month trail and 1943, am very tempted to continue it on when it runs out next week. What games did you have in mind? Hudson NZ

I drive around London a lot in my day to day work and am also amazed at the amount of red light running by both cars and cycles, several times a day I get cyclist running red lights out of side streets and then looking shocked that there is actually traffic heading towards them from the other direction. On the same note I had a white van driver honking his horn at me yesterday for not running the lights as they when from orange to red as we approached them. Maybe we should put all red light runners in a special part of the city and let natural selection sort em out.

We could hear it from our place on Barry Road, mainly just from our bedroom which overlooks the backgardens of Landells/Barry Road. Seemed to be in full swing when we got home from U2, but still managed to get to sleep later on although I kept getting woken every now and then by some lound lass, probably whenever she went out for a smoke or something. If it happened all the time I wouldn't be happy about it but a loud party once in a while is fair enough.

and no one can catch flies with chopsticks like Miyagi, he's a waxing, painting, fly catching machine.

I'll keep score....who's got first serve?

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And 5 hours allowed for some decent character > development. I thought it was boldly done - not > the ending I was expecting, dark and > thought-provoking (written as someone who doesn't > generally watch sci-fi in case anyone who does > wants to tell me it was a load of lightweight > froth) Yes I was surprised by how dark the program seems to be turning, defintley not one for the kids, but in a good way I feel, I do watch a bit of Doctor Who but at times it can be a bit cheesy and aimed at the kiddies so it's good they seem to have decided to put Torchwood firmly in adult territory (er...as in the dark nature of some of the themes, not the 'other' sort of 'adult' tv).

I've only just started to watch series 1 & 2, having seen a few odd episodes every now and then, but I'd agree that the 5-parter this week puts the program on a whole new level, some of the best TV I've seen in a long time. With 6 million viewers each night I presume they will be making more too, hopefully as good.

hmmm...yes thinking about it more it depends what exactly is in the way, generally speaking you need line-of-sight to the tv transmitter so if you're in a valley or have a hill (or great big tower block) in the way it will not help matters at all. I'd say if your neighbours still have trouble even with an external aerial then freesat may well be the way to go.

TV reception should be pretty good in ED, the TV transmitters are on the big tower in Crystal Palace, so out door antennas should be fine, or try pointing your indoor antenna in the same direction, although if there are a few walls in way (between the indoor antenna and the crystal palace side of your house) reception may not be too good. Another alternative is getting an indoor antenna with a built in amplifier, I got a cheap one from Woolworths (not that that helps now) when I lived in a dodgy reception area a while back and it made a big improvement.

Next time the cone is out move it to another free parking spot further along the road and see how they react to that :)

....gangs of clowns on drugs with knives

Yes where is this special magical seat, I feel like I have been missing out on something here. Is there some golden throne I haven't spotted? I was joking about the fare evaders, my bad, meant to to a ;) after it :)

*wakes up in skip* *brushes self down, settles down next to the pool to try and teach the pilot whales to fetch drinks*

Cracking down on fare evaders?

aw drinks at my local and it looks like I'm busy that day (ironically not on the Saturday, but hey ho).....will make it to forum drinks one day :)

bigbadwolf Wrote: ! > ....especially since no one has > raised the possibility that there could've been a > body in that suitcase being dragged up Landells rd > in the early hours. ssshhhhh!!! The filth might hear you, if it wasn't for a ruddy curtain twitcher I would have got clean away with it,