OliviaDee

no.

i like not knowing. life should have a few mysteries and surprises.

maybe a little bit

virgin are rubbish. i'm back on line after two days. given the 'fault on the line/cheque in the post' line. catch up TV is crap, the BB is hit and miss, the customer service a joke and the bills impossible to read. hate them. and stuck with a horrible break contract clause. if anyone is thinking about going to them DON'T!

well what i did in the end was just ignore it after i applied all the wonderful remedies supplied here, and it was still giving me a new symptom a day. today it seems to have swanned back to life. didn't like being ignored i suppose. ignoring situations that require action often works for me i find. X

Mum's your man.

and a really nice person on the forum just stopped me from calling myself a t wat. now there's an ED good deed.

not an ED incident but a fine example of humanity all the same and one i will NEVER forget. a couple of years ago i stupendously stupidly left my carry-on bag sitting on a bench in LAX airport - containing 3 passports and 3 greencards and 3 credit cards (my friends quite mistakenly believing i was the most the sensible and so put me in charge of everything) - about 3 grand in CASH - more in travelers cheques, medicine, jewellery etc... - the works. i only discovered what i'd done about two hours later when we hit our destination. never felt so sick in my life. back to the airport. and someone had handed it in! all intact. and when i asked for contact details to thank the person they had signed themselves (or perhaps the airport had) 'Unknown Citizen.' i tell ya - that unknown citizen still gets a glass raised every now and again. and i always pay it forward. (though i've never had the chance to do it on such a grand scale - guess there's not that many twats like me out there)... good thread

thanks boys! well i think you're boys - at least i always assumed huguenot and jah lush were boys - but now i'm having problems with my mental imagery. how does either gender drop their phone down the loo from their top pocket? or perhaps that is just something that shouldn't be answered... and i just happen to have some of those salt thingies left over from a christmas present. going to put my brain, phone i mean, phone, in a zip lock bag right away and see if i can't dry it out. and if that doesn't work it's down The Dog the morra

i know narnia - i really wish they'd stop doing it to me. and believe me, three days later and the phone is recovering much better than i am. thanks horsebox and computershorty - will apply advice - though it seems the prognosis is not good. oh all the things i SHOULD have done...

on New Years Eve. Having been over-served in the pub. anyway, it's working! Except the screen keeps fogging up. anyone got any tips on how to dry it out properly? the only bits i can detach seem to be the back, sim and battery. It's a Samsung E1120. and Rye Lane's finest so i'm not ready to give up on it yet. Cheers Ollie X

where do you live natalious?

I heard that too. wasn't snow. brought me right back to growing up in NI!

owner found

yesterday morning on Crystal Palace Road. Please PM me if you think it might be yours. Ollie

i just left them out in the cold instead and have ear plugs in so i can't hear them knocking on the window. nice peaceful afternoon...

panic over. one of the kids flipped a lever whilst playing under the stairs. Cos they're off school cos their boiler's broken. really couldn't have handled no water, no heating, no cooking AND a houseful of weans...

Anyone else cut off around Ulverscroft Road?

thanks peckham native - going to give the buses a go then...

i have to get into west end as fast as i can - any recommendations over 176 or train? help appreciated!

if people were asked to allocate within broad services rather than specifics i'm sure people could allocate wisely and send a resounding message to Westminster without the need to bash in any windows and which would be impossible to ignore.

david_carnell Wrote: > Olivia - an interesting idea. The trouble is that > I barely trust vast swathes of the population to > leave the house in the morning with their pants on > the right way round. > > I have enough trouble allowing these people to > vote let alone have direct control of fiscal > allocation. All the money would be spent on > Facebook causes and the Richard & Judy book club. i know david - of course this is true. the only problem is that i don't actually trust the government much more.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > But isn't that what "we" do when we elect a > government - without that premise there is no > unified "we" yes, but unfortunately no-one ever seems happy with how any government allocates the budget. i didn't vote for this government but even if i did - allocating taxes this way seems appealingly democratic and gives the individual and the 'we' a much stronger voice. (all this said knowing the idea itself is not sustainable). BUT lets say i thought students were a load of tossers and didn't deserve my tax pound i might soon find myself forced into a higher argument with myself - do i really want to live a society with badly qualified doctors, nurses, teachers etc... and then, as i hear so many people say, also on this thread, i would start to properly understand the value of funding as a society something that at first glance does not seem to pertain directly to me. i bet under a system like this (makey-up) one, education and health would do better than under any government. the banks probably wouldn't fare so well though... * edited because i spelt education wrong.

one of the students interviewed spoke well, i thought, about his appreciation of the current tax-payers supporting his education, and went on to say he hopes this education secures him a better paid job than the one he would likely get without it, and that then in turn, he would be in a position to pay higher taxes and do the same for another young person down the line. now i know this is really silly, for a million obvious reasons, but he made me think how interesting it would be if, when we pay our taxes, we got to allocate what percentage of it we wanted to go where. just an idle thought... but so stuck in my head...

good. they were so lovely.