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Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blimey - is there an election pending? Michael, you wag B) Perhaps... :)) I'm only an observer, leading our Excel delegation at the e-count on Friday (we've got observers at the three count centres, as well as at some polling stations the day before). Merry voting! Louise (Chair, Open Rights Group)

Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree with Louisiana on sports, especially > participation as a spectator - yawn. Other > overrated things: > > Parties Agree with Ms B on this one. Over-rated. I only forgive parties if good food is provided. > Dulwich Park and that cafe in it where you have to > queue for an hour > Hairdressers - more hairdressers have made me cry > than boyfriends > Most TV > Those smock tops that seem so promising but make > you look like a spacehopper ... particularly when > teamed with - > Skinny jeans Yukee! And the smock tops are particularly bad with big tits. > Low rise jeans > MBTs - I'm only wearing them because I was stupid > enough to fall for the hype and I can't bear to > throw the money away MBTs? > G-strings - very unhygienic and make your trousers > sit badly at the back Dreadful things

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The forum has received a notice that discussion of > the drainage issue may result in legal action > being taken against the forum. No one has said > that the current issue is a secret. I should also > however make it clear that a notice such as that > on the door does not necessarily mean that a > business it is going under. Of course it does not. We are - I believe on the whole - supporters of G&B who would like to see the business come out of the other side of difficulties that were not of its making. Whatever the present notices may mean, I believe that the owners of G&B *will* emerge on the other side, if not unscathed, at least with a relationship with customers that is sustainable. Because they have a huge fan club and also some business nous. They have also been unlucky (and despite what some may say, luck does play a large part in whatever, unfortunately.) > > And you are free to comment on the issue, I was > just asking politely that people don't rush into > saying anything that may be harmful to any parties > as it may not help in their matter. louisiana, I > apologise if it was not up to the standard of your > somewhat more significant legal issues. There was some gentle speculation as to who the server of the notice might be, but I think it's all third conditional stuff: if it's 'blah', then it's 'dah'.

Ant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps someone doesn't want the gutter press to > get hold of the story. Ho ho Very good Ant

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Neither Nicholas nor Boss Man wines I'm sorry, but Boss Man is a complete joke. I would like someone to point out to me the 'organic' wines in its collection (featuring in the sign) (or indeed, anything else of value there). It is opportunistic. have anything > like the selection that Green & Blue have > (although there are some good offerings at the > East Dulwich Deli). Neither Nicholas nor Boss Man > gave you the opportunity to drink wines by the > glass that are seldom on offer except for a rare > wine bar, nor did they, nor anyone else that I > know of on LL offer wine tasting classes. > These aspects make me hope that they stay open for > those of us who enjoyed it to continue to enjoy > it.

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please can people not mention the drains issue. > The forum has previously had a formal request that > the drains issue is not mentioned and should it be > mentioned it should be curtailed as soon as > possible. If a business looks like it's going under, with such clear third-party signs, and with the history of it being close for such a period, owing to the drains issue it's not exactly a secret, for crissake > > Also please respect that this thread is about a > legal issue and therefore care should be taken as > to what is said. Sure it's about a legal issue. Signs have gone up. We are commenting on them. They are on public view. And we are saying it is a great loss, in terms of the business. Get over yourself, Administrator. (I have somewhat more significant legal issues to deal with on a day-to-day basis)

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Without knowing the full detail its hard to > comment but seems ridiculous to close the place, > surely they are more likely to get their money > back if they allow it to continue > running......unless of course it was running at a > loss. > > The whole drains problem cant have helped matters, > and may even be the cause. I was thinking the same. This is clearly a business that was very popular and I imagine making a good return. The drains thing may well have precipitated this development, but the business would appear to have a sound long-term future. Which would make the latest development quite shortsighted if the people involved are landlord etc (which we don't yet know).

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fish seems to be the memorable meal of choice -is > this why Moxon's is always so busy? Yeh but no but... Traditionally, the British fish experience has not been good. My own family is Basque, so fish has been a big tradition in our diets (lots of sailors in the family going back generations, living near the sea, fish is something you can catch yourself, especially useful under the starvation conditions in parts of post-civil war Spain etc etc. The Basque fleet fishing all over still supplies even Catalunya's best restaurants, which some find surprising as Catalunya has its own sea, the Med.) My mum (who for many years was a professional/personal chef) was horrified by the generally appalling fish situation when she arrived in England in the 50s. Fish is something few people do, and hardly anyone does well. Fish is delicate but is often overcooked. Freshness is important - and it's often been difficult to get good fresh fish across the UK. So fish is something we have generally had to go somewhere else to find. Fish is also very regional. Names and fishes change from location to location. It's quite exciting to be presented with something for the first time (sea urchin?), or to have something you can't have in many places. There is an absolutely fab fish restaurant in the port of Algorta, near Bilbao (N coast of Spain). I was introduced by a distant cousin who is a regular and lives around the corner. It only has about eight tables. It doesn't even have a restaurant sign outside. You eat what they have, what was good for the chef to buy at the fish market that day. It's food, food, food, and none of the performance. That is I think what a good restaurant should be. I find it so difficult to cook for people here, though it used to be worse in Brighton: 'I don't eat this', 'I *can't* eat that'... I mean, how do you cook when three people won't eat fish, another won't eat any meat, another will only eat white meat, one won't eat 'anything green except edamame', one won't eat vegetables, one won't each root vegetables, one won't eat nuts, two won't eat milk products, three won't eat 'anything hot', one won't eat pulses/legumes, most won't eat wheat, and one will only eat cheese if it's made from potatoes and wants to bring their entire dinner to yours in a set of tupperware! One tradition that is very strong in the Basque Country - well, at least since the 19th century - is dinner clubs, where everyone takes turn to cook. I think it would be great fun. Any takers?

LuvPeckham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > louisiana Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I have just seen my Amazon shopping basket is > up > > to 231 items. This is crazy. > > > > Does anyone else have a similar personal > problem? > > > Yes > It is crazy and a sign that you are infected with > "Affluenza" - the need to keep up with the Jones > which ultimatly makes us twice as prone to > depression, Anxiety and addition then people in > developing nations..... > > Personally I would recommend reading Affluenza by > Oliver Jame (ISBN : 9780091900113) - currently > available at Amazon (Doh - 232 items !!!) (6) Nah, LuvPeckham - it's already on the list!

Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Coffee > Bacon > Being young - much happier now I'm older thank > you > Going to the gym Sport Football Team sports Competitive sports Winter sports Skiing Jogging Marathons (but cycling is great) > Live music in restaurants Live music in any location that is not a live music venue. > Holidays abroad Package holidays in increasingly bizarre locations. Holidays where the sole purpose seems to be to travel across the world just to be surrounded by people from your home town. Including overseas hen parties, stag parties etc. And on that subject: weddings, white weddings, expensive weddings, wedding dresses

There was some amazing footage on last night's Crimewatch: two guys in a BP petrol station in Bristol, setting up all the cloning equipment. One of them was a BP employee.

seanmlow Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have heard that - and that is the one i use on a > regular basis. > > > Scary. > > So much for the slogans by Maestro everywhere, > that 'card is the new cash'. Your card is their new cash, perhaps?

This is a tragedy!

I have just seen my Amazon shopping basket is up to 231 items. This is crazy. Does anyone else have a similar personal problem?

You may want to enquire in your immediate area whether anyone else has experienced an incident involving this dog. It may be only a series of incidents that pushes the authorities into taking action, and it's only after you are attacked that you often become aware of other attacks that have occurred with same dog (people start coming out of the woodwork, talk to people they don't normally talk to). So speak to everyone including traffic wardens, shop-keepers etc. *Often* people go to the hospital to get treatment but don't go to the police to report the attack, and I don't think the health services ever tell the police, which means the police have an incomplete record of the dog's 'record'. And the police don't generally have any interest in pursuing things that don't come to them (as with your point about witness statements), so it's left to members of the public to make sure the police have the whole picture. It's just another case of 'if you want it done properly, do it yourself', I'm afraid. You say the dog's owner has not demonstrated any concern or remorse. I'm afraid that was my experience too: in one case, it was the owner that was egging the dog on. There are some not nice people out there; they may even be mentally unbalanced. But it's never good finding out you have them in your immediate vicinity. For your child, time will heal, and children do forget quite major things fairly quickly (though it can be the strong negative ones that tend to remain in memories).

I've had a neighbour do this to my bin (filled his bin with it, then around 2/3 of mine). Some neighbour. Grr

Mellors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a parent of an under school age child and > another on the way, I moved to the area > specifically because it had good state primary > schools (as did a number of my friends with > children of the same age). > > I don't really see the point of paying over the > odds for a house in SE22 which is in the catchment > area for Goodrich/Heber etc and then sending them > to private school anyway - you are already paying > for a "better" education through your increased > mortgage every month. > Yes, people like me are paying for the 'better' education of certain people's kids, when we don't even have any kids! Or do you think that catchment areas should become ghettos free of childless people?

L' Esguard in Saint Andreu de Llavaneres (north of Barcelona), run by part-time neurologist Miguel Sanchez Romera, for a proper feast. Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, again near Barcelona.

For anyone who doesn't know about necrotising (or necrotizing) fasciitis, here's a short medical report on a case of NF caused by a dog bite to the calf, exactly what I had. Elsewhere there are quite a few reports of quite healthy people dying from NF within 24hrs-3 days, and mortality rates of 30-70+% once diagnosed. It has many similarities to toxic shock syndrome, but without any kind of lifesaving equivalent of the Epipen. (I feel I was lucky - though perhaps benefited also from being young and healthy at the time, plus it was spotted quickly by a senior registrar at St Thomas's who pulled all the stops out in the middle of the night to get me to theatre immediately they realised what was happening.)

As I've mentioned before here, I've been seriously attacked by dogs twice, both times hospitalised (and once nearly losing my leg). Both dogs were eventually put down. Neither dog was a banned breed or even a 'vaguely scary' breed. Both were very much 'surprise attacks'. For example, in one case I was walking down the street and the dog came up from behind me and sank its teeth into me. I did not know the dog was even there until the pain of the bite hit me. On the other occasion, I had just opened and walked through a door, had no idea what was waiting for me. In my experience, dogs are not put down until they have made many attacks. The first time I was hospitalised, the dog had already attacked twelve others (adults and children). It went on to attack 13-yr-old child after me. The authorities then decided to do something, finally, and it attacked both the RSPCA officer and police officer that went into the house, to remove it. Their legs were saved by their wearing chains around their legs (legs wrapped in newspaper up to the thigh, then heavy duty chain-linked metal wrapped around and around). They had obviously done this kind of thing before and knew what to expect. On civil proceedings, check if your union (yes, they are still around, and useful in cases such as this), if you have one, gives free legal services to members. (I benefited from my union membership in a separate case, when British Rail crashed my train. I bought a ticket and all I got was a lousy train crash - Canon Street disaster.) You'll get a top-flight lawyer on the case, for free. Also check the situation with the criminal injuries compensation board. They don't give much, but it's something. Take all dog bites seriously. I was rushed to hospital in an ambulance immediately and got extensive treatment, but rapidly developed necrotising fascitis (not uncommon with dog attacks, I was told) and had to undergo emergency surgery in the middle of the night to remove acres of tissue, then was pumped full of lots of intramuscular antibiotics for weeks. I nearly lost my leg and was very very ill indeed. Apparently, there's a very high probability of dying once you've got NF. And please, please, pursue the dog being put down, as hard as you can.

Pam Grier for PM! Then she could push a law through to make Across 110th Street into the national anthem. Such a classy tune. Now we have an anti demo exclusion zone around parliament, perhaps we could demo outside Jacqi's house instead. So much more convenient. I have such a list of things to demonstrate about: PTA and so called anti terror laws, RIPA, control orders, ID cards, preposterous databases... Oh and dogs and daft drugs laws.

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Radiohead Like the woman said. I wasn't in the British Isles during the 90s (came back in Jan 00), so there wasn't any overshadowing to be done. For me, Kim Deal was hyper important to the Pixies, and she came into her own with The Last Splash. Tomboyish not macho. Saw them in the Basque Country in the 90s - nothing like it! (even though the floor almost collapsed) None of Britpop measured up to that (and I saw everyone from Suede to Stone Roses to Elastica to Oasis to....). Radiohead, of course, surpasses anything that Britpop ever did. They live alongside Slowdive and Ride (OX4 anyone?) in my collection. Yes, the shoe-gazers have something to be proud of!

You folks have time to read??? I started trying to read Cocaine Nights last night at 2am, but I drifted off. (Mr Smith's book on Cuba - Land of Miracles - is very good, which is why I've started this one.)

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pixies had some good tunes, but I hate the way > people talk about them like they were something > amazing... They're also one of those bands that a > lot of people (and I don't mean you MP) like > because they're the band to like, same as Stoned > Roses, and that makes me like them less! The Breeders are/were much better. Check out their old and new albums.

If I think of the things that are putting me off the Labour Party right now, TJ comes high up that list. In fact, she's number one. For me, she represents everything that's wrong with Labour right now (and I've voted Labour a number of times in my life).