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the knife are brilliant. the album deep cuts and the other one is silent shout, both are fab. I have downloaded another of theirs but have yet to listen to it, its called we share our mothers health. fischerspooner are also worth a listen. ladytron

Have to admit I opened your thread to see if you were having one of your crazy rants at chav, but I have to say I agree with you on this sitting on the wall thing. Instead of the next forum drinks we could all go to that wall and sit there for an hour together. A forum outing. We could even make it a yearly thing and have some sort of "protest" for things like this that are annoying (although not relatively important). We could get that guy Mark Thomas to come along.

ive usedit a few times, it works

"wind your neck in", is one I like. If someone is giving out for no good reason then say that to them I also like " ye can't beat it with a big stick" which is an extrapolation of you can't beat it, but us norn irish do like to add a bit of violence to any expression heheh

The woman in this case makes me a bit ashamed to be female. She should most definetly be the one to move out and take some responsibility for her own life and get a job! I despair, in this day and age. If they had kids then whoever has the main responsibility for care of the kids should be in the family home but in this case with no kids and her being a sponge then why should the guy move out? If she stays I would like to think he wouldnt carry on covering the mortgage but would charge her rent. How do guys find these unscrupulous women and be willing to pay out for them like that. I didnt think it happened anymore. I'm obviously naive (but also got morals and am proud to be independant).

so who do we vote for then? I want to vote but there are no real options. Green party could be a good option but as someone mentioned having someone whose every move has to be agreed by a commitee as the Green party does, it kind of dilutes decision making. Also there is the fear that if I vote Green, Boris will get in. I do find Boris funny but also agree his bumbling loveability is an act and I certainly dont want him to be in a position of any power or influence. Someone smart and reasonable tell me who to vote for! (I think that pretty much means you Sean eheheh)

avoid clapham like the plague on a night out. During they day it is fine but it is full of awful people at night.

The mother of a mate had a way to deal with dog poo outside her house. If she witnessed anyone lettng their dog poo in front of her house and not using eg a poop a scoop,she would wait until they walked up the road a bit, scoop it up and follow them, wait until they went in doors and then "post" it through their letter box. Gave her a lot of satisfaction. I think its hilarious but also a little crazy. So those of you ho complain of dog poo, here is a perfect solution if you have the time to sit in vigilance. You could start a rota with your neighbours.

what are you doing up at 7.31 on a sunday? you gone mad? or are you just home?

fab night thank you all folks. all my friends are jealous that their part of london has nothing like this. they are well impressed that so many people want to meet up regularly for drinks with neighbours. group hug! heheh

today, we went out to build a snowman and I left the keys in the flat and had to get a locksmith out. Very expensive snowman!

sorry hit on wrong thread

we ran out and built a huge snowman, classic style, hat scarf carrot. Then we went into dulwich park and someone built a dalek snowman, it was fab. any of you do it? there was also a cute snowdog on a table outside the cafe in the park. It was pretty impressive too.

ive been going to festivals since I was 17 (loooong time ago) and excitedly went to glast a few years back and I found it to be a very mixed bag. Lots of fab stuff but a helluva lot of bad stuff too. I like to run between stages to catch a mixture of bands but with glasto never mind that you cant run or indeed get anywhere fast in mud up to your knees, but the distances are so huge that I saw the least bands ever in my festival going years and that includes the ones that I spent a helluva lot of time smoking grass in a tent. I also find that everyone just goes to bed at 1am at glasto, I was wandering around looking for people up and partying in the campsite as I couldnt face the 2mile walk to lost vagueness in the mud and it was all quiet and boring. I am glad I've been but I give it a big cannot be arsed ever again. I like festivals around the 30,000 people mark as you can bump into the same people again and they tend to be friendlier. Electric picnic although expensive is fab as had lots of random chats and everyone stays up drinking, singing, taking drugs in the campsite all night and you can happily join random groups of people sitting around. zero sleep to be had though.

lager is very expensive here I agree, but spirits are even worse. When I moved over here I had to take up lager drinking instead of vodka and hence the beerbelly, as I was sick paying through the nose for tiny measures of water. (I find a lot of cental london bars water their vodka down). I love it when I go to visit a relative who lives in deep dark co derry and I buy a round and get change from a tenner. Has lock ins too. Although lock ins are a seriously bad idea.

ear plugs for them

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > If there are issues that their faith affects I > would hope they have enough conviction to follow > it, thats all. I kind of disagree with you on that one. I expect political leaders to keep their own personal faith away from politics and shouldnt let their religious beliefs effect political judgements. I would expect eg a catholic politician to themselves disagree with abortion and therefore never have one but I definetly dont want them to vote in that manner, they need to vote for issues in a modern and logical manner, in a way that doesnt look to force personal views on others. I for one wouldnt have an abortion but I totally think every woman should be free to choose for themselves and I certainly wouldnt want some politician with religious views to vote to make them illegal again.

I once got to about 3pm before realising I had spend the day with odd boots on(and yes I had been in public places). Obviously still sleeping when I got dressed.

i tried to move. baaaaaad idea azul is smarter, he is still in bed

dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I blame the nannies. If you ask me they are not > trained properly. Honestly, it is just so very > difficult to get good help. you may have hit on something dm. hehehe

when I was growing up there was defintely a community parenting thing going on. It meant my mum knew verything I got up to in places I knew she couldnt have seen me. As a consequence I thought she was more all seeing and powerful than god and I was less likely to re-offend. In those days people didnt get all uppity and defensive when someone came and told them on the quiet what their kids got up to, instead they thanked them for telling them as it meant they could deal with it. Now adays parents seem to think that their kids wouldnt possibly do anything wrong so tell the person to mind their own business or be very rude. Saying, "I am going to go and tell your mum if you dont stop that" no longer holds any threat to kids as they know their mum will bawl you out for daring to imply the kid is anything less than an angel. Kids can and are darlings but they can be right little sh%ts who can manipulate their parents very skillfully and play the perfect angel, however there is no perfect child, we need to remember that so we can help the kids realise when they are out of order, so that they dont turn into the most horrible adults imaginable. Does anyone read that column in the guardian in the family section about living with teenagers? Those kids are gonna be horrible adults. Wouldnt want to be their employer in the future. That mum is a classic example of a parent trying to be her kids mate rather than a parent. I cant read it without feeling the urge to strangle her.

devandra barnhart yesterday, found him quite lovely

I have to meet this guy!

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Rolling Stones Jah, In their hey days I would agree but I find I cannot bear to look at them now without feeling a weird shudder down my back. Seeing mick prancing around as an anorexic geriatric uuuuuuurrrrgh. sorry am now mesmerised by the awful thought! wont be rushing to see the new scorcese film on them then!

there is actually loads to do in london with kids as long as you are fully loaded with cash! I had a 13 and 14 year old with me for 4 days and entertaining them cost me 250 quid! Me thinks I can only afford kids once a year! heheh