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Thread: Insulation in 30's houses!
Post: RE: Insulation in 30's houses!
| Thanks very much for everyone's helpful advice. I'm going to try out some of the above, and some thermal lining paper I was just reading about, and report back. |
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Thread: Planning: Old Post Office on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Old Post Office on Devonshire Road - Planning ...
| Brian, the conversion of the old Print Works at 118 Stanstead Road to artists' studios has just been completed, and most studios have already been rented by local artists. I think it is a great additi... |
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Thread: Planning: Old Post Office on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Old Post Office on Devonshire Road - Planning ...
| No need for apologies, Brian - but yes it is really good news for the area! |
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09-01-2010, 10:00 PM |
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Thread: Yet another form of theft on buses
Post: Yet another form of theft on buses
| I was nearly the victim of a (to me) new and quite ingenious form of pickpocketing yesterday evening. I was waiting to get off the bus in Camberwell. A man with what seemed to be a nearly empty but la... |
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18-04-2010, 11:08 PM |
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Thread: Yet another form of theft on buses
Post: RE: Yet another form of theft on buses
| Thanks, Snazy. Keeping broken glass in one's handbag just in case of future incidents is a creative idea, but could have it's downside...
I was lucky because I moved away before this guy had actua... |
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19-04-2010, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner
| I have to say, Madasahat, I think that 'window cleaner' guy is unusually persuasive. I fell for his patter a few years ago, only for about five minutes, but it was long enough for me to hand him some... |
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09-05-2010, 10:01 PM |
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Thread: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
Post: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
| This is a very long shot, but I wondered if anyone knows anything about an organisation called Arc Agencies. A friend of mine is thinking of working for them; they appear to be offering commission-onl... |
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10-08-2010, 05:02 PM |
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Thread: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
Post: RE: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
| Thank you very much, Blushingsnail. The work is to do with selling fashion clothing on commission, so it probably is the agency you found, which has decided not to have a website for some very strange... |
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10-08-2010, 05:30 PM |
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Thread: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
Post: RE: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
| Maybe it is just very small and new. Thanks so much again Blushingsnail for taking the trouble. Streetview was a good though.
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10-08-2010, 07:04 PM |
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Thread: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
Post: RE: Arc Agencies - has anyone heard of it?
| Thanks AMFM. I am feeling concerned. I just can't imagine why a company who has a product to sell should make a point of not being represented on the internet, when this is how most companies advertis... |
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11-08-2010, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| I had a visit from him yesterday. He wanted to make an appointment to do a survey, and said that 'most of my neighbours' had already arranged one. I said I didn't have time to talk but accepted his pi... |
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30-12-2010, 10:29 PM |
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Thread: dogs and public transport
Post: RE: dogs and public transport
| Not meaning to attack you, Mio, and that does sound like an annoying incident on the bus, but your second comment made me want to chip in that I really don't like to hear the word 'fat' included in a ... |
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03-01-2011, 02:57 PM |
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Thread: dogs and public transport
Post: RE: dogs and public transport
| ... and of course, you didn't actually use the word 'fat', you said 'overweight', but I think the principle is the same... |
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03-01-2011, 03:06 PM |
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Thread: dogs and public transport
Post: RE: dogs and public transport
| Well - I can only say that it does seem a significant issue to me, in the same way that racist and sexist language matters.
Nothing wrong with saying in a neutral way that someone is fat, or a wom... |
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03-01-2011, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: dogs and public transport
Post: RE: dogs and public transport
| Mio, I wasn't intending to attack you for your very mild, throwaway remark. The use of language seems an important issue to me - that's all I'm saying. |
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03-01-2011, 06:15 PM |
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Thread: Thinking of moving to Forest Hill
Post: RE: Thinking of moving to Forest Hill
| I've lived here 7 years and know a couple of people whose houses have been burgled while they were out, but nobody who has been attacked in the street. I always feel pretty safe walking at night and t... |
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05-01-2011, 09:58 PM |
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Thread: Thinking of moving to Forest Hill
Post: RE: Thinking of moving to Forest Hill
| About neighbours: ours behave in a very neighbourly way. The week we moved in, some workmen came round to measure our windows while we were out, and two neighbours we hadn't even met shot out to chall... |
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06-01-2011, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: A Turkish Delight
Post: RE: A Turkish Delight
| Oh, yes, I remember that. There was something so exotic about that shape of the box and the waxed paper and the fork and all that icing sugar, it made the actual sweets taste even better. |
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30-01-2011, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Police crime zones on Dartmouth road today
| Thank goodness those days are over, at any rate. |
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01-02-2011, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Police crime zones on Dartmouth road today
| It's bad enough having the crime to contend with, without seeing people being hurt and humiliated in the streets. Seriously, would you really like it? |
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01-02-2011, 10:22 PM |
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Thread: Knock-out music
Post: RE: Knock-out music
| Anything on Radio Four, except the pips. I've slept peacefully through many a good 11pm comedy. |
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01-02-2011, 11:24 PM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Criminal punishment
| I haven't ever lived in a country where state-led violent punishments like floggings or executions were regularly performed in public, or televised. Does anyone else have direct experience of this? I ... |
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02-02-2011, 05:35 PM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Criminal punishment
| Thanks for responding to my question, DerbyHillTop. Very interesting. The necessity for people to steal just to stay alive also recalls the middle ages. Talk about a rock and a hard place. |
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03-02-2011, 10:27 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Maybe Trading Standards would be interested in Scambuster's findings. I wouldn't have anything to report really as he just handed me a card and went away when asked. Trading Standards might be more in... |
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09-02-2011, 11:48 PM |
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Thread: Scamming in the City
Post: Scamming in the City
| Not a local scam this time, but ingenious. Walking along City Road this week I was stopped by a young man brandishing a gaping wound on his arm and saying that he had just been knocked off his bike an... |
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16-02-2011, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: Scamming in the City
Post: RE: Scamming in the City
| Lets hope he got the job! |
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16-02-2011, 12:52 PM |
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Thread: Scamming in the City
Post: RE: Scamming in the City
| Interesting to hear of someone else who met the same man, Dommy. I don't really like being suspicious either, but I can't help rolling my eyes now every time someone stops me in the street and says 'I... |
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16-02-2011, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!
| Woodland burial sound like a good option. You have a biodegradable coffin, buried in a plot with either a wooden marker or no marker, but they keep a record of who is buried where so relatives can fin... |
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17-02-2011, 01:48 PM |
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Thread: I will one day!
Post: RE: I will one day!
| Hi Ryan
I'm PM-ing you to avoid hijacking Z's thread. I was most impressed by you getting your bookon Amazon. I'm in the process of finishhing a novel myself - wonderful experience and most unlikely ... |
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17-02-2011, 07:06 PM |
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Thread: I will one day!
Post: RE: I will one day!
| Sorry, I thought I'd hit private message there. My attempt not to hijack has failed, sorry Zimmerman! |
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17-02-2011, 10:46 PM |
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Thread: Feed me to the sharks!
Post: RE: Feed me to the sharks!
| Burial at sea does sound rather wonderful, and as you say, any ocean scene, or picture even, would be a memorial of the loved one.
Not so tempted by sky burial in a built-up area though. |
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20-02-2011, 10:29 PM |
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Thread: Sales call about 'free' burglar alarm systems
Post: Sales call about 'free' burglar alarm systems
| I've just had a called from 'Crime Prevention UK', claiming to be an organisation set up by the government (or something like that) and working together with the local police to improve home security.... |
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01-03-2011, 10:13 PM |
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Thread: Attempted Mugging
Post: RE: Attempted Mugging (Honor Oak)
| Great that the SNT are taking note and patrolling the areas more often, though. |
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06-03-2011, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: Dog fouling
Post: RE: Dog fouling
| Could there possibly be some radical solution to this? Why do dogs poo on the pavement? Is there some less anti-social pooing place that they would prefer, and if so what would it be like? Have 'dog t... |
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09-03-2011, 09:37 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| I agree that knocking from door to door must be a very frustrating and often unpleasant job, much like telesales, and that it is unfair for householders to attack people who are just doing their job, ... |
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14-04-2011, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Nobody on this thread has given the Red Ball people any money, Stuart, so nobody has lost any.
Various posters have expressed irritation at the sales tecniques used, and suspicions based on the fa... |
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15-04-2011, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Doris, that contract doesn't sound like a good deal for you at all. If you only sign up 30 appointments, will Red Ball pay you nothing for all, even if takes days of your time?
It may not be a sca... |
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19-04-2011, 06:39 PM |
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Thread: The Life of Brian
Post: RE: The Life of Brian
| Interesting about BBW's reference to Brian not drinking coffee. I see him as more of a tea drinker, but can imagine him making the odd cup of instant, whilst deploring the modern habit of spending an ... |
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23-04-2011, 12:47 PM |
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Thread: The Life of Brian
Post: RE: The Life of Brian
| Thanks Brian. Happy Easter to you too. |
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23-04-2011, 02:34 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I think 'wishes for' is correct when followed by a noun, isn't it? Eg 'I wish for a good outcome' or 'I wish for a new car'?
Maybe 'wishes for' so often gets used in sentences when the 'for' is red... |
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01-05-2011, 07:04 PM |
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Thread: Woodvale Estate
Post: RE: Woodvale Estate
| I used to live five minutes' walk from there a few years ago, and was never particularly aware of the estate, which as Michael said, counts as good news rather than the opposite. The only thing we had... |
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09-05-2011, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I got knocked over on the pavement a couple of years by a young cyclist shooting down a steep hill and round a blind corner straight into me. It hurt! I wouldn't mind cyclists on the pavement too much... |
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30-05-2011, 10:17 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| The spoke-stick is an interesting suggestion, but might require a certain dexterity on the part of the user that could be equally well be used in leaping out of the way.
Maybe a pithy television c... |
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30-05-2011, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Coming back to the original point, proper cycle lanes would obviously give a great incentive to stay off the pavements. But I guess the argument against them is that there's too much other traffic to ... |
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30-05-2011, 11:16 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Nork1, thanks for your post. How did those other countries get so many citizens so firmly supportive of the rules of the road? That would really make a difference; much more reliable and sociable than... |
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06-06-2011, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I've found this thread extremely thought provoking too. I was mulling it over as I walked down a quiet street in the City yesterday evening, until started by a frantic ringing of bells from an approac... |
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08-06-2011, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| No clicking or wheezing occurred this time. Phew. |
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08-06-2011, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: People With Choldren Suffer The Most Under The Coalition
Post: RE: People With Choldren Suffer The Most Under The...
| ForestHillier and Ex FH Pat look more like the same person than connected people because they have an identical writing style, including never using punctuation marks at the end of sentences (as far a... |
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24-06-2011, 04:59 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Interesting. I would say
'The teachers were on strike that day'
or possibly even
'The teachers were striking that day'
but never 'That was the day the teachers struck'.
Maybe because ... |
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01-07-2011, 04:16 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I'm rather a fan 'poo', myself, Robin. Inoffensive in comparison to many other terms and rather expressive - almost onomatopoeic. |
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