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I would never have wood in the same way that I don't use wooden chopping boards. Once upon a time I worked in the food industry and had to do a food safety/hygiene course and it was stressed that wood is the most unhygienic medium out there

With the greatest respect, that is rubbish. Wood is no less 'hygienic' than any other kind of surface, in fact it has natural antiseptic properties which are far better for the human race than Microban and similar OTT antibacterials. It is also hardwearing, aesthetically pleasing and easily reparable if scratched or burnt.

If you are chopping raw meat or poultry on any surface (even one impregnated with Microban), you need to wash it immediately afterwards with dilute bleach. Otherwise no kitchen surface or chopping board is going to kill you, or even make you ill.

Get over yourself!

Harveys are excellent value, also (surprisingly) DFS. We bought two leather sofas from them, only to find that one had an inadequately filled cushion. They sent someone out within a few days to inspect it/repair it and he was able to correct the problem on the spot.

Tommo, I agree with much of what you say (parents have to be more responsible here), but I have to admit I gave up on reading your introductory post. Have you any idea how impossible it is to make coherent sense of so many one-line paragraphs?

Has nobody pointed out to the oleaginous Call Me Dave that his pledge to keep minimum wage earners out of paying income tax is utterly meaningless...since they are already.

His 'pledge' only extends to the first 30 hours per week...so if you earn the min. wage at £6.85 per hour, for 30 hours, that makes just over £10,600...which is exactly what the current tax threshold is anyway.

Duh.

Did anyone see this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05r86yg/millionaire-basement-wars

The world's gone mad.

There are people in Westminster and Chelsea who are having two or even three storey basements dug out under their homes, at huge expense, significant structural risk and to the endless misery of their neighbours (some streets have six such hellishly noisy and disruptive excavation projects going on for up to 12 months at a time), so they can add a couple of million to the value of their properties, or not have to be 'so squashed up...the children can't live like this'. ('This' being a 4 bedroom Georgian terrace with a footprint of twice or three times the average family home in the UK. Of course they could live like that, spoilt brats!).

For the same money, they could buy another, larger home elsewhere, but no...the children would 'never forgive them' if they moved out of London.

Then there are people with disabilities living in council flats being stung for a bedroom tax, which means their carers cost them even more each week.

Great Britain, eh.

I think what the last three pages aptly demonstrate is that it is wrong of a government to force vaccinations upon a population with mixed opinions, I assume that is a safe conclusion to the discussion.

I'm not sure that your declaring that we have reached 'a safe conclusion' proves anything, really!

First, all governments impose all sorts of laws/restrictions on populations 'with mixed opinions' - it's inevitable, given that in a democracy you are never going to get 65 million people to agree with each other about anything. If governments only passed laws about which the whole population agreed, Parliament would grind to a halt. Look at the 'healthy eating in schools' legislation. If they had cowtowed to parents' wishes in that area, burgers and chips would have been on the menu for ever. We elect MPs to represent us and make informed decisions on our behalf. It doesn't mean they have to agree with all of us all the time - how on earth could they?

Second, they are not 'forcing' vaccinations on anyone, but making life financially more difficult for those parents who fail to have their children immunised - there's an important difference. It is arguably an incentive scheme.

Well, in the interests of balance...there has been a Beko dishwasher in our 6 bed student property for the last 5 years. It has been in very regular use and has never broken down, despite not being 'looked after' particularly well (they don't clean the filter often enough, load it badly, use washing powder in it when they run out of dishwasher tablets, etc).

We only got that model because it was one of the few which we could take away that day from Currys or wherever...cheap, but reliable.

Smithy and I go back a long way.

 

I suspect that Poldark wasn't holding his attention, so he decided to play a while.

 

I'm always polite BTW:)

I know you are.

But feeding trolls just encourages them...and arguing for arguing's sake, in the face of all reason, starts to look very much like trolling!

Don't need to, there is very little solid scientific evidence that suggests that non-vaccination in the numbers as it occurs here and, I would imagine, Australia, significantly increases the risk of children catching one of these diseases.

If that is the case, it is surely because those unvaccinated individuals are benefiting from 'herd immunity' - riding on the backs of the majority, as some would have it.

Are you bored Smithy?

That's a polite word for it!

(I was thinking more along the lines of 'delusional').

If you want to gauge how pathetic the storylines are, look no further than Micheal has OHS then bouncing about like a jumping bean.

Well, yes, but prolonged prostrate feebleness doesn't really make for gripping TV, does it?!

It is breathtaking, though, the liberties they take with their representation of medical situations - apparently even Holby City is just as bad - drips set up but unconnected to anything useful, ridiculous dosages of drugs, professional protocols ignored on a monumental scale...

It was the same with 'educational scenes' though, whenever they showed life inside 'Weatherfield Comp' (no school is ever called XY or Z Comp/rehensive', for crying out loud! Any references to the curriculum or assessment were about 15 years out of date, and classroom practice was totally unrealistic.

The other thing they always get wrong is references to people being threatened with eviction. Some poor character is a day late with their rent, and they are told they must leave by Friday. It just doesn't work like that.

Why don't they get someone to check the script who knows something about the topic in question?!

Australia seems set to implement such a policy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-32274107

Difficult one! What do you think?

Learning to think of them as attractive obviates the need for a cure.

They could get a different actress to play her, like they did with Nick Tilsley or Tracey Barlow

I suppose...but with Kirkbride's sheer length of service in the role (her entire adult life), I think it would be very difficult for anyone else to play the part convincingly.

The storyline itself (surrounding Deidre's prolonged absence) is pants, isn't it? And nobody even mentions her any more. Old Goat Ken's making overtures to Audrey, Tracey appears to have forgotten her mother exists...they've dug themselves a big hole.

anyone else feel completely washed out?

cant concentrate today, tired, headache, feel a bit sick...

 

does anyone think the changing seasons have something to do with it?

Distract yourself.

Who decides what constitutes good works?!

And do people whose normal daily work directly benefits society, like teachers, police, firefighters, social workers, street cleaners and frontline health staff, get three days extra paid leave?

Indeed:D

 

This is excellent legislation that allows individual choice. There is no danger of anybody impoverishing themselves, because we already have the state pension as a safety net.

 

It will set a lot of people free from the clutches of the financial services industry. Well done Tories:)

There is every danger of some people impoverishing themselves, but that doesn't make the legislation wrong.

Do you find missing the point (not to mention irony) comes to you (or more accurately, your invented internet personae) naturally, or do you have to practise a lot?

Also, has your daughter moved in yet - or is this a room she has signed up for for the next academic year?

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Excellent warning advice, that; L cannot be forced into accepting a replacement T.

Or the other tenants, for that matter, if it's a joint AST.

 

Not always. Sometimes in the large supermarkets late

At night its virtually self service only.

By all accounts thats the best time to shoplift.

Rubbish poem, if you don't mind my saying.

Wouldnt even know where a foodbank is. Hardly well advertised.

 

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Well they have a heroin habit to support. No money for food.

Your point is still obscure.

What exactly are you moaning about?

Yes, and then they charge you for a non-standard house insurance cover.

I would guess that most people refurbishing a house with no contents in it will not be thinking about properly insuring their bathroom fittings.

To the OP, were the tradesmen contacted by a building company? If so have you talked to them to find out if their insurance might cover the theft?

Were they doing 55 kph in a 40 mph zone? Or trying to book a Saga coach tour perhaps?

Doing 55kph in a 40 mph zone is not illegal.

So tell the staff at the food bank, if you suspect someone is abusing it.

Not everyone is eligible for food bank handouts - you have to be registered with Social Services and your application to use the food bank be validated. You cannot just turn up and demand food. The 'heroin addicts' you've been observing so closely may well be bona fide claimants. You do not know their circumstances.

And I suppose that in the end, the food bank staff cannot control what the recipients of the food do with it after leaving the premises.

Which is why standard house insurance cover does not normally pay out if you leave the property empty for more than 30 days a year.

They do - you just have to keep them informed.

In a word, no.

Next question?

(It's 'pedals', by the way).