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By jump the ladder (Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 06:49:59 AM EST) unhealthy, pub, attention whoring, Dull Trev (all tags)

Went to a very trad pub last night and had some of the coronary inducing snacks for the first time in years. Mmm, very tasty. Had a few beers down Hammersmith way with meeja man. He's gone all Arthur Fowler-like and got himself an allotment. Expecting gifts of slug infested lettuce and the like from now on :)

Poll: unhealthiest foods you consume?

Sorry Dull Trev

Looked up how far Old Trafford is from Warrington and it's not particularly close. Anyway meeja man is thinking of coming along and I wouldn't want to double your chances of getting done in by an axe murderer. Probably try and get a hotel room nearer to Madchester.

SLD

Still telephone stalking me despite me semi-ignoring her. She's promised me a suprise for my birthday when she will be arriving back in London. Suggestions on what this suprise might be?

The slow death of British manufacturing part XXXIV

Despite being fairly profitable for BAe, they are thinking of selling off their wing manufacturing plant for Airbus to bloody foreigners. Another nail in the coffin etc...

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I'm crushed by DullTrev (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 06:57:21 AM EST

Last train back is about 11:10, takes about 40 minutes because it stops everywhere.

But it's a right pain in the arse, and besides, it turns out I am going to be in York that weekend, so tough anyway.

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DFJ?

: Yah by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 07:20:24 AM EST

I'm sure you are crushed :)

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Airbus... by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 07:43:32 AM EST

I really wonder what BAe's long term plans are.

The only way they are going to get more and bigger defence contracts in the US is if they become a US company. Surely they noticed the prevailing issues around Rolls Royce and the JSF?

Now it's their perfect right to become a US based company, but it's unlikely they will retain quite the same relationship with the MoD in that event.

I think the govt by jump the ladder (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 07:48:48 AM EST

Still has a golden share in BAe allowed under EU law because of it being in the defence secor. So I doubt that Govt would be very likely to allow their prime defence contractor to become a US company.

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Well, then BAe "management" by Metatone (4.00 / 1) #18 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 10:35:27 AM EST

either have an agreement with the government or are quite clearly stark raving bonkers.

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: They must have an agreement by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #19 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 10:38:24 AM EST

Wouldn't suprise as we know how much our govt worships America.

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SLD WIPO by hulver (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:06:30 AM EST

Boiling bunny on the hob when you get home...
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smart, pretty, sane. pick two - georgeha

Mmm by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #6 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:17:19 AM EST

Rabbit stew...

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Nah by Dr H0ffm4n (2.00 / 0) #13 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:55:09 AM EST

More like mini JtL/SLD.

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: I think by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #14 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:58:32 AM EST

I'd prefer her boiling bunnies rather than presenting me with that suprise...

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SLD by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #7 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:30:08 AM EST

IIRC you broke it off because she wanted you on the friends list, but you don't want to resume now she's changed her mind? Correct?

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL

Deep down I would by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #8 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:32:55 AM EST

Like very much to start shagging her again but semi-pretending I'm not really interested seems to be very sucessful in terms of acheiving that goal.

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Common problem by anonimouse (4.00 / 2) #9 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:38:05 AM EST

MG seems to respond to the same treatment.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Yeah by jump the ladder (4.00 / 1) #10 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:41:54 AM EST

Being nice and buying her stuff doesn't seem to get her hot in the same way as being selfish, unthoughtful bastard who never calls and admits he's after only one thing.

However maybe she just likes the honesty ie: the real me...

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: Women eh? by dmg (2.00 / 0) #23 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 03:19:34 PM EST

Can't live with them, can't shoot them...
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Hard work is morally wrong.
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allotment? by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #11 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:51:17 AM EST

What does that mean?

Well by jump the ladder (4.00 / 1) #12 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:54:47 AM EST

During the second world war us Brits were a bit short on food so the govt and local councils set aside public land in cities for people to hire out small plots and grow food on them.

They're still doing so today. I think my friend pays £43 a year for half an acre of land.

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Fourty Three Quid A Year? by priestess (4.00 / 1) #15 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 09:04:33 AM EST

And yet I can't get anyone to tend my garden, even if I offer to let them do it for free!

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: Yes by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #16 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 09:16:25 AM EST

Personally I find the one flower bed outside my flat a bit of a chore to manage as well.

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Lots older by Vulch (4.00 / 2) #17 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 09:45:05 AM EST

It's the last remnant of the pre-Enclosure Acts striped field system. Your typical feudal English [1] peasant was entitled to a certain amount of land provided by the local Lord of the Manor in exchange for a certain other amount of days service. The Enclosure Acts and increasing urbanisation of England saw the entitlements fade, but not get revoked. Councils frequently bought up Manorships to make their lives easier, and inherited the duties of the former Lords, and cash payments took the place of days service [2], but the right to a bit of land for growing food remains even today.

As long as you approach the right council they can't refuse you an allotment. They can put you on a waiting list for one to come free, they can make you move if they want to sell of that particular area for development, but they can't tell you no.

[1] Non-england bits of the United Kingdom worked differently. For that matter, assorted bits of England worked differently.

[2] See The Beiderbecke Affair for Big Al's description of allotments. Actually, see The Beiderbecke Affair and its successors anyway. Damn fine television.

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Garden by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #21 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 11:53:19 AM EST

Here, those are called a Victory Garden. [Aerial shot] But they're nowhere near ½ acre.
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Close friendships and a private room can offer most of the things love does.
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It's been how many months since SLD Left? by ks1178 (4.00 / 2) #20 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 11:23:25 AM EST

A brand new baby for your birthday.

SLDWIPO: A 10% discount voucher by Rogerborg (4.00 / 2) #22 Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 01:07:14 PM EST

Although if you want the fantasy answer, she'll buy you a dance from one of her coworkers, while she breaks the no touching rule in all sorts of ways.

If so, be a sport and take a camera, will you?

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

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