Brendan

If my child, wife, parent etc. got hurt because the bus driver was driving like a cunt I would probably be smashing windows too.

Gets to me too. Sometimes it?s all I can do to hang on and not fall over the way they drive. I?m young and fit. What about elderly folk or someone on crutches?

Sorry about the senseless vulgarity there but my bastard vocabulary seems to be failing me this morning.

I think things like facebook are kinda like a village where everyone knows each others business. Except with online comunities nobody actually interacts face to face. In a place like London where everyone is so afraid of social interaction one hopes that shit like this can do some good and maybe bring people together.

I once met a bloke who sprayed deodorant in his beard and went to a fancy dress party as an armpit.

Just curious.

hmmmmm. In my observation as an outsider to this horrible little thing known as the british class system the divide between middle and working class is not clearly defined along financial lines anymore. It seems more about how people see themselves or more importantly how they want people to see them.

Marmite and butter on corn-on-the-cob.

Growing up in South Africa we always had marmite. Exactly the same stuff as here except it always seemed easier to spread. I think this may be because of the warmer temperature. I thought marmite would have just spread around the world with the colonies. Kinda like syphilis. Anyway I ran out of marmite about 3 months ago and the gods seem to be conspiring against my ever getting another jar. Every time I go to a shop I forget about it and come out with superfluous rubbish like jars of antipasti and that foreign beer that I just had to try but no marmite. I also ran out of marmalade this morning so all I had on my toast was margarine. MARGARINE I TELL YOU! SHITE margarine at that!:(

Hmmm so the two of you also live somewhere near the library then. I know the one.

It brings to mind the parable of the rich man making a show of his huge donation to charity and making sure everyone sees him. Then a little old lady is embarrassed by her meager contribution. The moral being that the fat cat gave less than he would ever even notice not having and the little old lady gave all that she had.

Considering the current housing crisis people with a second home should pay more for it.

Nah. It has been done. Although they all paint themselves orange at this time of the year and bugger off to Spain.

Hallelu - jah

We must be careful of applying our own political prejudices to how history should be interpreted. One has to try to be as unattached as possible. Difficult to do though as where else can we see the world from except from out of our own eyes?

As someone who comes from Africa I?m pretty certain that the current problems Sub-Saharan Africa has are more as a result of it being used a political chess board during the cold war. The current western exploitation of mineral wealth doesn?t help much either. Although the jury is still out over whether the relative benefits and employment this brings are worth it.

Sounds like some local kid has has sussed how to open your car and keeps doing it. Either sit and wait for him/her and scare the bugger away or find out who they are and report it to their parents or the cops. You could try having a different lock mechanism put on your car. Some older locks will open with something just vaguely key-shaped shoved into them. Sorry I'm asuming here that they are not smashing the window to get in.

*Hangs shoulders and puts away plastic gun* *Doesn?t look even half as cool without it* *Mutters something under his breath about being ?reconstructed? and writes out a ?120 cheque* *Sighs and accepts glass of fine wine from Jah Lush* *Makes inappropriate joke about boobies just to make himself feel slightly better about things*

*Sits at the bar, cigarette clenched between teeth, slowly sliding .44 caliber dum-dums into the cylinder of a Colt Python* *Contemplates how this has the potential to all turn a bit ?Falling Down?*

*Skulks in and grabs bottle of single malt? *Necks half the bottle* *Plugs ?59 Les Paul Standard into vintage Marshall stack and belts out heavily distorted version of Anarchy in the UK* *Flies into a sex pistols educed rage and smashes priceless guitar and amp to splinters.* *Downs the remainder of the whiskey, smashes bottle and collapses in a crumpled heap? *Enquires about the possibility of a refill* ?Sorry chaps having a spot of bother dealing with it being Monday and all that don?t-cha-know.? Fascist parking attendants have clamped my fianc??s car. They can?t seem to understand that an on-call midwife going to deliver a baby can park wherever she bloody well wants and now they want ?120! I don?t think I can reason with them by explaining how they are just a tool of an increasingly Orwellian system of control and state sanctioned financial exploitation of the common man.

I think she was referring more to the fact that already crowded inner city working class areas were earmarked for more social housing rather than more affluent areas where there was possibly more space available.

Tank Girl ? The Odyssey I?m being highly intellectual at the moment.

Will have to be something ending in 'io

Isn't there a vegitarian and vegan restaurant in Tulse Hills? Not SE22 but a short drive away.

Growing up in Africa I got stung twice by the horrible things. doesn's kill you, just stings like hellfire. Worse than a wasp. The worst thing is their creepy crawlyness. all those little segments freak me out!