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The youth can't all be living in despair of their futures. I heard tell of one poor ingenue who burst into the Hermit's Cave on Monday afternoon and demanded everybody's phones. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that anybody who thinks Weekday afternoon + Hermit's Cave = Cornucopia of apple's latest products is blessed with pathalogical optimism. Unfortunately for him, on this occasion he left empty-handed.

Joking aside, didn't the absence of contrails after 9/11 cause a temperature rise, or am I remembering that the wrong way round?

Surely the answer to this problem is obvious. We just need to break the golden rule of military history and march on Moscow. By we, I do of course mean the entire global population, all 6.8bn of us. If we do this Russia will still only have a population density somewhere around that of England and the Netherlands. I've been to Holland and didn't feel crushed or de-valued and the beer was cheap, England's not too bad either. This will mean that we only have to develop about 15% of Russia, leaving 85% as greenbelt and the whole of the rest of the world empty. The huge efficiency gains from only having one country will mean that The New Utopia could support any population increase, but this is unlikely to arise as the world's wealth would be far more equitably distributed, leading, apart from anything else, to better education for all, specifically women, so no population explosion. However, England may be fine to live in, but it is not self sufficient in food, so I recommend, China and India be earmarked for continued cultivation. After all you can't have a utopia without curries and building utopias is likely to be thirsty work, so we we're going to need all that tea. The rest of the world will be subject to strictly temporary mineral exploitation and tourism, except Australia, which will be allowed to return to its natural state as a penal colony.

As is so often the case when looking for the TRUTH you have to turn to Fox News to find it. Here's their take on why you lot are all being so unfair and positively beastly to poor old Rupe. Who could possibly argue he's been anything other than a benign influence on standards of journalism?

"The water is to add moisture to the oven and cook the meat, it evaporates as it smokes" Ah yes, that makes a lot more sense. I think I must have been thinking of bongs...or something. Next time I'm invited to a barbie at his place I must remember not to inhale.

Nette, where do you get your ribs from? A friend of mine who takes his BBQ ribs pretty seriously has tried a number of different vendors but always ends up back at W.Rose, do you know of anywhere better? Incidentally he uses one of these which if I remember rightly has a vat of water between the wood chips and the meat. The smoke rises around it rather than through it, but presumably the purpose is to cool the smoke further.

Same here Bobby P the furthest I've had to park from my house is about 75 yards.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was about to say there was an HSS in Camberwell > too, but it seems to have disappeared off the HSS > site. That branch has re-located to Clapham Rd SW9.

Dishonest but not inaccurate and as Mockney Piers has pointed out, more substantive charges have been laid at his door than that. It maybe Damian Thompson and the OP that are revelling in it (and why wouldn't they), but the original story came from the DSG blog. In their own words: Sound like splitters to me and a shade to the left of Marmora Man.

I was under the impression it was standard practice for journalists to re-write quotes in the name of coherency, whatever their political persuasion. Cutting and pasting from the interviewee's own work seems more honest to me than re-writing in your own words, at least he's done his research, which is presumably why no-one has complained. The incident is a great example of the left's enjoyment of stabbing each other in the back though. His real crime is that he's in the Popular Peoples Front of Judea rather than the Peoples Popular Front of Judea (or whatever they were).

NOTW could be holed below the water line now. The McCanns and 7/7 victims families now all apparently on the list, god knows how many others will be suing. The Independent's top story today will surely finish Brooks off.

Maxxi - Yes you're right in that it was a grammar school, but a state school none the less.

No I don't.

Quite possibly Alex. Back in my day Thursday was the regular CCF day, when the kids had to attend school in uniform. Particularly embarrassing for the naval cadets who wore bell bottoms. Oh and just for the record, yes we had a CCF and yes we had parachute displays on similar days, but it was a state school.

If nothing else, Glastonbury this year may have produced an iconic image to compare with the "Vancouver Kiss" picture. Reminiscent of some of Capa's work, the composition is similar to the Vancouver picture, but the themes identical. Both images capture an ephemeral intimacy faced with brutal indifference, set within a wider backdrop of chaos and confusion, the riots in Vancouver and the music festival at Glastonbury. Admittedly I can't quite put my finger on why, but for me, the Canadian picture just edges the British effort.

Yet more British gangster crap, at least Danny Dyer isn't in this one.

Supe, try the Flaxman in Camberwell, it has all the equipment you're looking for.

What bugs me is how everyone these days, particularly post Bourne, is supposed to be a bloody martial arts expert. Can you imagine Michael Caine, as Harry Palmer, attempting a roundhouse kick? Angelina Jolie, who can't be much more than 8st dripping wet, kicking huge blokes across the room in Salt, just looked daft.

Apologies in advance for the pedantry, but the type of jobs d_c was originally talking about would be civil service fast stream positions and you do need a degree to get on to that.

CitizenED I wouldn't throw away your tinfoil hat just yet, remember what happened to this man and that was 15 years ago. They've probably got the technology now to look up ex-directory numbers or even caller id withheld numbers. On the other hand anyone who has a Samsung mobile and has tried to update the firmware using the kies software, only to be left with a useless brick, as I just have for the second time, knows that all technology is complete bollocks.

I don't disagree with most of that Hackblade. I've even been known to press more than 20kg a side myself on the odd occasion and a maximum dumbbell weight of 20kg does seem a little light. However I think you are over egging the pudding a little to suggest you won't be able to derive much benefit from the gym when there are other options available in there which go much higher. I haven't seen the new equipment yet, but the old chest press went upto 100kg and if you need much more than that you are going to need a more specialist heavy weights gym, such as the one at the Flaxman, rather than general fitness centres such as this.

The heavy weights issue has nothing to do with class, but is about intimidation. For many years I used the Flaxman in Camberwell, which Lambeth had designated as their heavy weights gym, not because I was a heavy weights user I just happened to live around the corner. Very, very few women used it and not many smaller men, despite there being plenty of CV equipment and to my mind a friendly atmosphere. The 'grunters', as a previous poster referred to them, make up a small minority of the population, but successfully put off most others.

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you live here you just have to be street wise, > i try and take a nectar card and visa card to > sainsburys- if fact when i go out i try and stick > stuff in my front pocket instead- its really bad > for your back/ shoulder to carry all that stuff > and a bag everywhere.But hten maybe the ospeopath > is robbing me;-) I hope there were no euphemisms involved in this post. If there is might I suggest you find a new osteopath.

Your first point is a fair question. I am guessing here, but I would imagine one reason the driver wants to get back to work is because the rates he's getting paid are likely to be the minimum they can pay, stripped of overtime and all allowances etc. As this has been going on since Oct/Nov last year it's probably cost him thousands. That's the cynics answer, it's also quite possible that given his so far unblemished 29 year record as employee and union official, he might be quite committed to the job, heaven forbid. Maybe being wrongfully sacked after 29 years is something he finds a teensy bit stressful and he's quite keen to get back. After an employee has won interim relief the employer has in effect been told they will probably lose the tribunal and so should reinstate the employee until that decision. As far as I am aware they are not legally obliged to do so, but it does seem to me, to keep a man at home on full pay for months on end when he wants to work is perverse. Why are they insisting on doing this? Your second point is at best a disingenuous interpretation of the evidence. Nowhere is he trying to gain any 'exemptions' for being a unionist, or for any other reason.

It maybe potentially unfavourable, but that is unlikely. Attached is the summary of the application for interim relief. For this to be successful (and it was) you have to show the interim tribunal you have a good chance of success. Bad industrial relations are the result of bad management.