louisiana

The correct term is vipers (as in nest of) B)

Can you drive *and* smirk? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-police-officer-mark-jacobs?intcmp=239 If so, you're probably in. This is rapidly turning into The Man Who Was Thursday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday

In our very midst, to boot: "By February 2000, Laura says, the pair moved into a flat in East Dulwich, which they adorned with Celtic and African patterned throws. Laura says she became aware Boyling was "under-developed ideologically". "The thing about Jim is that he never really says much. He seemed to be bright but there seemed to be holes in his political development," she says." http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/19/wife-fourth-police-spy-children?intcmp=239

They infiltrate your organisation, promote law-breaking, have sex with your activists, marry your women, procreate with activists to create more little activists... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-policeman-married-activist-spy

The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love and Dancing Martin Rushent's (almost) instrumental remix of Seconds

What kind of lock?

'bout now Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was a horrific programme to watch. However the > true horror was diluted by having to watch the > narcissistic, egomaniac Gordon Ramsay with his > pitch perfect whine. Any sympathy I had was > negated by my wanting to punch his craggy little > lights out. Well you might be able to, as he does live locally :-/

Microsoft Outlook for the Web, which puts every flippin' piece of text on a single thread, whoever from, on the same vertical, with no indentation or symbol to distinguish who wrote what.... I mean, how much do Microsoft spend on usability? Millions? Why do I use it? Only if a client requires (and then the client complains that they can't tell what I wrote from what they wrote... or claims I wrote nothin'). Sigh.

I do love to see the record companies abiding by the law and regulations on copyright. Not. 'Major Record Labels Forced to Pay $45M USD for Pirating Music' http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=20632

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The bankls pretend not to be interested but I > think a separate police team investigates. > A 'police team'? The police is already on record as saying it's a bank issue, not a police issue.

Loz, public holidays don't exist for the self employed.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This!!! Brilliant mashed with celeriac! :) [burps] But good for chips, for roasting, for boiling... A really well-behaved potato with lovely colour and great flavour. Good keeper too.

coopsy76 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That far down the lane even qualify as East > Dulwich? WTF +1. We are SE22 mate, unlike some at the north end of ED. And LL continues some way beyond us, going southbound.

Yes, but... I refuse to give these oafs my money. If they want to stick a claw hammer in my head AND expect me to pay, they have to be kidding.

emc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was on my Christmas list but unfortunately > didn't get it. Unlikely Dulwich Library will have > it so will soon be forking out for my own copy. Several copies available across the borough libraries, including Dulwich, but all the Dulwich copies are out (though two more are on order): http://prism.talis.com/southwark/items/762260?query=Franzen&resultsUri=items%3Fquery%3DFranzen

There's a hotel in West Dulwich with 13 rooms and an appalling website. Or the Queen's Hotel in CP which seems to be doing roaring trade at the moment.

Alternatively, download from any of the peer-to-peer sites. Yes, this is 'unlawful'. But you have paid for the damned unusable disc already! Which you should take back to the retailer and demand your money back. Unless more people do this, such daft protection (DRM) will continue. Write to his fan club. He (and his record company) ought to be ashamed. I bet he has all kinds of stuff on his iPod, ripped from wherever! Write to him. Write to his agent. Write to everybody! Make them uncomfortable in their stupidity. I confess: I gave evidence about CD copy protection to the All Party Parliamentary Committee on the Internet (APIG) FIVE YEARS ago almost to the week, in writing and in person (with red eye off the New York plane). About just such issues: DRM, user-unfriendliness of same, complete lack of info on the product about DRM. And we are still getting this crap. It has to stop. But it only will if consumers rebel. Please rebel! Me? I absolutely refuse to buy anything from any label employing DRM. All my music is streamed wirelessly via hi-quality FLAC lossless, ripped from my thousands of CDs, and DRM CDs are about as much use to me as cardboard coasters. I almost exclusively buy from small/indie labels these days (most of them UK).

And some of us Dulwichites pop up to the Hill for the Overground connection :-) Thanks for the post HerLordship. I wonder whether this linking of Highbury & Islington with the depths of south London will heal the great North South Divide....

Many, many years ago - when I still had a car - this happened to my Citroen BX three times in the space of a few weeks. All they got away with was my best ever mix tape :-/ (under the seat). Shows how much manufacturers really care about their customers, eh?

It's almost beer o'clock and tonight I'm cooking for a forumite from another forum. Well actually, I started the cooking malarky last night. Just wondering whether to make some lemon curd for the left-over pastry. Still have another meeting, tho', before I can put down my work tools.

Twirly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The Co-op is truely abysmal. > > > > With it's empty shelves It resembles images of > Eastern-Bloc supermarkets during the Cold War. > > > > It is much over priced. > > > > Many of the Perishable goods are reduced > because they have reached their Use-by date. > > Vegetables are sparse and those that are > > available look 'tired' > > > > Gateways, Somerfields and now The Co-op have > failed to make the site work. > > > > Probally because of Sainsburys at Dog Kennel > Hill > > > > and now with the opening of the Sainsbury Local > up by the Plough, things will not get any better > for any store in Lordship Lane. > > > > Not sure what the answer is. > > > I?m sorry, but I don?t think that we?re shopping > in the same branch of the Co-op! It isn?t the best > around by a long way, but this is total > exaggeration. > > I went in last night between 5.30 and 6 to get > some salmon, a red pepper, broccoli, pitta bread, > some taramasalata and skimmed milk. The only thing > I couldn?t get, oddly, was the skimmed milk though > they were well stocked with full fat and > semi-skimmed. > > I do wonder if it?s a bit chicken and egg though ? > no-one shops there, so they don?t keep their stock > levels up, particularly on perishable items, so > no-one shops there. > > I agree that sometimes it can be a bit hit and > miss, but I find that?s the same with Sainsbury?s, > as they don?t always have what I want despite > being several times the size. You should try the > Co-op where my in-laws live, which is half the > size, the only supermarket in the town and where > they think that broccoli is supposed to be yellow! Too right. I popped in to Sainbury's Local at the Plough this afternoon, and they had neither swede nor beansprouts (I'd already checked at Val's.) Though there was half an aisle devoted to half-a-dozen bad varieties of potato. (I only buy my spuds from Franklin's, who sell the fantastic Yukon Gold variety which is good for everything.) I then popped down to Moxon's, where there was a chunky queue and several of us fought over the last of the (undyed) smoked haddock. Few supermarkets, including those with a fish counter, seem to stock undyed smoked haddock. Co-op stock management seems to be an issue more generally. The Co-op pharmacy on the other side of LL sometimes seems to have acres of empty shelf space. They could probably stock the same stuff in a shop 25% of the size. Lovely people though.

"Plenty of substantial evidence against the McCann?s" Juandan, have you joined this forum just to spread more rumour and innuendo? Surely a better place to do that would be the EDT or similar...

Exactly, indiepanda. Further, there are local people in ED and around also making stuff for local outlets.

Totally agree, KestonKid, about encouraging the Co-op to raise its game. While I'm not entirely hopeful that national juggernauts can be influenced, there's nothing to be lost by giving it a go.

silverfox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bravo legalbeagle! > > Love the snobbery about "... We don't sell the > same wine as a supermarket..." They don't. I've bought wine regularly from Waitrose over the last 30+ years (and more recently Waitrose wines via Ocado), and regularly from G&B since it opened. While I'm no expert, I have been an amateur follower of wines from certain countries for 25+ years (having lived and worked in those countries for 15+ years), and have written about a number of wine producers and wine outlets for the national and specialist press, so perhaps know slightly more than average about the subject. In terms of price/quality, Waitrose does not come out ahead: it's often G&B that comes out with more interesting wines in the ?6.50-?10 range, for example, and considering the movement of the euro against the pound in recent times that's no mean feat. G&B does not have supermarket buying power, but given what I've seen in terms of the compromises supermarkets force wine producers to make, I think supermarket buying power is very much over-rated. It's G&B, not Waitrose, that always has someone on hand to advise on particular purchases (e.g. a gift of something you don't normally buy). Sadly, not even Waitrose employs anyone on the shop floor that knows one iota about wine, and you'd be hard-pressed to find any supermarket shop-floor worker that has actually tried anything that they sell and can talk about it. G&B has plenty of theoretical competition in ED (Nicholas etc.) but in practice it's not competition: all those other outlets sell, to varying degrees, wine that doesn't deserve the name. For me, the USP of G&B is that I can be pretty sure that I won't walk out with a bottle of rubbish, even when it's something I wouldn't normally buy and know nothing about. The fact that I can also drink the same on the premises for a mark-up far more reasonable than any restaurant is a bonus definitely worth having. If your main concern about a specialist wine shop is the bags they do or don't offer... A little odd, to say the least. You can get rubbish 'wine' in plastic bags anywhere at all.