uberdude

Is it a true mental illness or is it more of a personality disorder?

Cannaries are great as long as you rent up in the hills and hire a car. The playas are full of "los frey bentos" sunning their all day full english breakfast beer bellies. Most of the costal resorts are awful, a complete contrast with the interior. Tenerife and Gran Can have glorious forest and mountains to explore. The winter weather is good in Tenerife, but be warned, don't stay on the north coast unless you love cold fog! Cheap petrol and tax free shopping on electricals and cameras. Madeira is very small, twee and full of old golfing farts and has an excessive number of (single lane) road tunnels. Nice drives up in the mountains but beware of local drivers who are utterly leathal. There are no beaches at all, just wild breakers and razor sharp rocks The upside is that there is great food to be had in old funchal. I also think it may be the hub of the world bobble-hat industry! Winter sun no where near as good as Canaries

I am sick of getting on to the 63 bus and finding it filled with evil fag smoke. Drivers it seems are immune from prosecution, unlike the public. If we smoke we can expect a hefty fine but not your 63 bus driver. When he's parked up at the headstop on forest hill road he is a law unto him self. Some time back, I got so sick of it I took photos of them doing it and sent them to TFL, the bus Co and the local bus garage. Action taken... nada! I'm not the sort to put up with any kind of antisocial activity on the buses. I'm the man who asks you to keep your hideous MP3 noise down and to not play music out loud on your silly phone. Recently though, I had a spot of bother on a P12. I asked some brat to stop playing the sounds of self hatred from his phone and he told me to FO. In his view it is ok not least because the driver of the P12 had a portable radio playing in the cab. Touche! I asked the driver if he didn't think he was setting a bad example to kids on buses. He was even more aggressive and obnoxious than the kid.

Vile aren't they? I'm working on a bacterial pox that will rid the earth of estate agents once and for all!

There's definitely been an increase in traffic in the early evenings particularly bad on fridays. I know an ATC and he says that he takes planes off the biggin hill stack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Biggin_Hill_Airport) and turns them on to approach for heathrow. I have asked him not to but he declined (I Have considered abducting his first born)... The turn often requires an altitude correction climb (more engine noise) as the bulge of forest hills looms up (check the view from Honor Oak Road towards Bromley). Then the planes have to lose velocity to get on the glide path to Hrow, this generates a lot of whiney "airframe noise" . These noisy turns are made even louder by compression effects as they come over the local hills, this does seem to project more noise than average down onto ED. Similar exacerbations have been noted near Hilly Fields SE4. As ever CAA responses to my complaints over the past 12 years have met with the same lame response ie no worse than average &c.