Brendan

Right. I'm off to practice laying on the floor and headbutting people's boots. :X

Right you are DPF. If my private school and university education did one thing for me it was instill the good old working class notion that a bit of violence can do a lot of good.

Now now. I think DD and Mr Dale have a fair point. If the lower income populace (you know teachers, policemen, civil servants etc) just learnt their place and accepted that they should spend their lives renting from people who own 2, 3 ,4 or however many properties all would be good with the world. Bloody peasants getting uppity if you ask me.

You know I only found out what crocs are now when I asked someone at work. Aren't they nurses shoes? :-S

I agree with you marcban. I found this DiscoDex character?s post particularly offensive and I am what one could describe as a middleclass blow-in.

wha hey! Just drink East Dulwich prerdy. >:D

I'm with you there James. I have recently started shopping at morrisons and find they are cheaper and the quality is the same as Sainsburys except fot their meat but I try to buy my meat from the LL butcher these days.

You're probably correct there. The scary things is that the resulting migration will be of people like nurses, policemen, social workers, midwives, teachers etc etc. We need these people. Society can?t function without them and from what I?ve heard from friends I have who do these jobs the key worker schemes are pretty much useless.

Fair point Mr Dale but in response (from someone who is currently making the transition from renter to owner but is trying to be objective) If renting was properly regulated and the rights of the renter were protected it would be a viable option but in the UK they are not. Who the hell would want to raise a family in a home where the landlord has the right to turf you out at a whim with 3 months notice or change the rent at his own discretion? The old landlords and tenants act was amended about 15 years ago to favour landlords because people were being encouraged to buy their homes rather than rent. Now things have changed but those who rent are not afforded any security. Anyway the only way you are going to make money out of your property is by either moving out of London/or the UK, downsizing or buying a second property. Banks and estate agents do make money out of property prices going up. This is not necessarily a bad thing. In some ways it is good for the economy but at the moment it is causing a social issue with the balance of wealth being divided unequally and along different lines to what it used to be. It is leaving a large section of society (especially in London) who earn too much to be eligible for any kind of government assistance or housing but earn too little to be afforded the security of owning their own home. What the consequences of this will be in the long run remains to be seen but I?m pretty sure it is going to leave some kind of mark on our society.

I actually did see someone famouse in Sainsburys a few weeks back. It was her out of Corry who went to jail for killing her boyfriend (don't know her name in real life or in TV world).

I don?t know about you lot but I?m gorgeous me.

Most definitely the CPT as it is from there that I shall run my Court when I become Supreme Overlord of this puny planet.

Ahh beer goggles. The most attractive accessory a woman can wear.

You raise a good point there Bell. Someone opening up a coffee shop and specifically designing it to be buggy/toddler friendly would guarantee themselves a steady flow of customers. It wouldn?t be a place I would frequent (well not until my loins burst forth anyway) but it would definitely be a worthwhile addition to the area.

Don?t you wish that you could deal with people driving into your car in the time honoured tradition of employing a stout stick? Unfortunately what has to be done is you do nothing for fear of prosecution (what is this bollocks about carrying a weapon with intent anyway?) and then lump for the price of fixing it yourself in order to protect your ?no claims bonus? under motor insurance legislation which is just state sanctioned extortion. Grrr! Rant rant!!! (6) My car is almost continually being bashed when it is parked in the street. (6)

Yeah I never trust a builder unless he has at least 4 pints of stella in him. >:D

"Fish factory?" Fish come from the ocean and sometimes the rivers. Dam city kids these days.

hmm... cleaver, very cleaver. ;-)

So there is a dichotomy in the statement but the statement itself was a double entendre. On topic though. Isn't the unit next to white stuff that everyone has been talking about likely to be a coffee shop? This may take some of the pressure off Nero.

Firtile is a kind of low carbon, sustainable building material surely?

~I see what you mean MP. I'm sure it was just a typo and they meant to use the correct form of the word that would have been newed.

what company is the coffee stall in Denmark Hill station? IMO their coffe is much better than cafe Nero or Starbucks

Enid Blighton and Bon Scott

No no. In american it would be "pants" instead of "trousers". Keep up here man.

If something can be forgotten surely it stands to reason that it can also be gotten? As in, ?I have gotten drunk and forgotten my trousers.?