Looks like next Easter is good for canny holiday taking.
Good friday 22\4,
Easter Monday 24\4,
Wills wedding 29\4,
may day bh 2\5.
Bloody hell, I need to get a job to take advantage of that!
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:40, 131 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I thought I read it was business as usual for that wedding?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:45, Reply)

Nah bank holiday (Easter Monday is 25th tho)
As someone on another board put it, get in quick and book the 26th, 27th and 28th off work if you can and enjoy eleven days off. Could go on holiday.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:49, Reply)

My dad won't be happy.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:50, Reply)

We'll all be nuked by then.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:48, Reply)

*sings*
Yes we'll all go together when we go
Yes we'll all go together when we go
Universal bereavement
An inspiring achievement
Yes we'll all go together when we go
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:49, Reply)

Father tries to secure son's throne
via plunging the world into WW3.

Somebody seriously needs to put that mental old codger out of our misery.
( Kroney, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:50, Reply)

Wouldn't make any difference,
the North Koreans are now all but brainwashed, he'll go and another will take his place.
The only way North Korea could become a "safe" country is if there is a popular rebellion that doesn't get absolutely trampled by the Military.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:53, Reply)

Good luck
with a military of 2 million men under arms.
( Kroney, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:54, Reply)

They might be kept busy soon enough.
China need to stop apologising for them as well.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:56, Reply)

China has to be getting embarrassed by them.
They only look out for them because they're communist, too.

Edit: Nominally communist, on both counts.
( Kroney, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Couldn't we just introduce a virus that would kill all the dogs and then they would starve to death.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:57, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:00, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Famine_Solution
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:17, Reply)

I knew there was a reason my computer is constantly muted at work.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

Oooh, you little shit
I nearly clicked that!
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

That's a no then.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Why would you say such a thing?
Dogs need loving, not killing.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

Not your kind of loving Jeff.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

Brings a whole new meaning
to 'stuffing', doesn't it?
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

heh heh heh
I got asked to put a dog down once. I was awful. I did the best I could, but all I could manage was 'You smell really bad when you're damp and you have a pathetic bark'

The dog didn't seem to take any offense.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:23, Reply)

It was probably too busy trying to escape

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

No bones to me
I'll be revising. Sort of
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:53, Reply)

^ Likewise
I'll either be frantically trying to finish a thesis or find a job. Or both. In any case, I will also not have been paid for a month. So, pending better turns of events, Easter can fuck right off.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:12, Reply)

thesis + finals revision here
I feel your pain.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Oh bloody hell
I didn't realise it was your final year. In that case best of luck to you, and if I can proffer any advice: remember to leave your flat every so often and have contact with the outside world in between bursts of revision.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

thanks
that won't be my worry I reckon. I'm worried about revision because I don't seem to feel the same urgency as everyone else
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

The only reason I got revision fear
was through almost flunking everything in first year. I revised my arse off the following two years. If you've never had to work particularly hard to pass I think it's quite hard to feel that urgency (unless, unlike me, you have a good work ethic)
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

I think the very real liklihood is
that I've never failed anything, even with the absolute minimum of work. Intellectually I know it won't hold true for my finals which require far more work, but I'm finding it hard to generate the required fear when I've never felt it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)

I didn't start enjoying bank holidays until I was 30 because of exams
now I don't know what to do with them. Is it too late to take up drugs?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:13, Reply)

you should probably not have gone for the 19th resit of the 11+, then.
...and it's never too late to take up drugs.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:16, Reply)

11+??!! I'm not that old you cheeky wotsit
not that I would have passed it anyway
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

eh?
I can hardly be much older than you and I did the 11+
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

I did the 11+
and I'm younger than him
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Me too

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

Really?
I thought the 11+ determined if you went to grammar school
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I did go to grammar school...

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

But...but...but...
I didn't think they existed anymore...

Goes to show what I know, FUCK NUFFIN
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

They don't, in mainstream education
the 11+ is a voluntary entrance exam for grammar schools. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11%2B
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)

yeah they only exist in about five counties now
a lot of schools known as grammars are now fee-paying
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

I did go to grammar school for a bit
12 or 13 different schools in total. Couple of them were grammars
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

That's a lot of schools
I bet it was fun being the new girl lots of times...
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:34, Reply)

Not so much
but you get used to it, and it taught me handy skills
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:37, Reply)

yeah, it did
and I went to Grammar school.

I think some education authorites dropped it in the early eighties but as long as there was still a grammar school around, and there were plenty until grant-maintained status kicked it, you could take it if you asked.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:34, Reply)

I see
I could have gone to any school I liked, as long as it was the local comp.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)

I went to grammar school because the local comp wouldn't let me in.
I was only 10 when I went to secondary school, and the comp made an arbitrary decision (without speaking to me or my parents) that I wouldn't be mature enough. My primary school flat refused to teach me for another year, said they didn't have the resources and I'd done everything they had, so I took the 11+ as a last resort and basically got 100%, more or less.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

I'm 33

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

OK, I'm 35 but Berk and Amberl are definitely younger than both of us.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:35, Reply)

And better educated it would seem

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

I thought you did more or less the same degree as me?
and then went and became an accountant? Doesn't exactly qualify as undereducated...
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:39, Reply)

But I didn't make friends with Lord Huffington-Smythe at rugger practise
(I really have no idea what i'm talking about)
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Yes, but what difference does that make to one's education?
[it was a fee paying grammar but it wasn't that posh]
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:45, Reply)

Grammar's really aren't posh!
The whole point of being selective is that you take across the ability range, rather than the economic, so you generally get a wide range of people. It tends to be middle classish usually- the pushy parents, but upper class send their children to private schools anyway.

Edit: as berk points out, whether they're feepaying or not makes a difference but not a huge one. It's pretty much like being in a school in a really good economic catchment area
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:45, Reply)

This
Alright, so my school has pretty good results because it's selective about whom it lets in - but equally, there are other schools in the area whose results are better and the parents richer, simply because of the catchment areas they serve.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:49, Reply)

A fair number of Grammar schools were free when I went
including mine. Just intellectually selective. Luckily successive governments have sorted that out in the public education system, god forbid we allow intelligent children to use their intelligence, after all.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Ugh, don't get me started on this
I firmly believe that above average intelligence children are just as entitled to the extra support that below average intelligence children get. After all, it's the bright ones that are likely to make a difference, but if you don't challenge them at school they just get bored and disillusioned and then they don't achieve anything like what they're capable of.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

It doesn't even make sense
to focus all your support on dragging up below average children just so they can pass a standardized test and prove to the government your results are going up. It's not fair and it's not right to value any child over another, but that's what happens when you abandon the average and better than average.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

I know
even if you spend all the possible time in the world nurturing the below average, the most they're ever likely to be is...average.
Why not spend that time nurturing the above average ones who could be brilliant, instead of abandoning them?
*belms hard*
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I suspect a lot of people on here
found this during their school days. The one thing I can tell you is I never won anything during school, because most places had switched to giving prizes for 'effort' rather than achievement, which meant the thickest kids got stuff for scribbling with a crayon.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:08, Reply)

What? What?!
That is utterly STUPID.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Absolutely
happened all the time.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:16, Reply)

If I'd have gone to comp
I genuinely think I'd have struggled. My parents were brilliant, but I just think it would have been to easy to succumb to the social stigma of being clever in a shit school. And jesus, my local comp was shit.

I really, completely, don't see the problem in streaming. But the people in charge of education policy need a fucking good kicking. They are so petrified of seeing one stupid child fail that they will willingly let hundreds of bright ones fail to fulfill their potential.

Mind you, it's no better here. I'm actively discouraged from marking ... sorry, "giving feedback" using red pen because of "negative connotations" and I can't be negatively critical. This is to, allegedly, adults. and intelligent adults at that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

Easter Monday isn't a bank holiday up here, sadly
Still, at least they had the decency to not get married on the same day as me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:59, Reply)

You're getting married?

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

*looks round suspiciously*
yeah ....
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

But I promised you to Amberl.
You could have told me.
( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

It's OK
it is to Amberl.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I still like to be kept in the loop.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:32, Reply)

the moron at salad factory
has warmed up my pasta salad. this is not what i asked him to do when i asked for it to be served cold. and he has put the wrong dressing on it. for a £10 salad, this is UNacceptable.

and our fire alarm is broken. you cannot imagine a more annoying or intrusive or repetitive announcement. over and over and over again, "attention please. attention please." ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

don't get a job. you'll have to deal with this sort of shite.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:11, Reply)

Never mind the competence or otherwise of the staff,
I'd have said £10 for a salad was unacceptable.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

costly saladpiss.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

charging a tenner for a salad is unacceptable, full stop
unless it's sterlet caviar and truffle oil on foie gras shavings.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

Frugal minds...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

ah well, you pay per ingredient
so it's my own fault for chucking in: peppers, onions, mushrooms, cucumber, sweetcorn, mixed beans, cucumber, chilli and feta cheese as well as the pasta! thought i'd try and hit the 5 a day in one go...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

All the same
For that much money I'd expect a large enough mass of salad that it could be used as an effective cosh.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

fucking hell.
the only ingredient in that is feta cheese (and I suppose pasta)

the rest falls solidly under the heading of what I would call "the fucking salad in the first place"

I suppose they charge you £1.50 for the bowl if you refuse to carry it back in your hands, too?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

He might be able to afford a £10 fucking salad though.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

sweary saladpiss. the best kind.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:15, Reply)

I'm now quite intrigued to see what proportion of b3tans
are more concerned by the actions of this moron at Salad Factory, compared to the proportion that are flabbergasted that swipey has just paid £10 for a salad...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:16, Reply)

i've just realised that included a diet coke
so technically it was more like a £9 salad.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

They charged £1 for a diet coke?
*narrows eyes*
Bottle or can?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

it's a can...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

*facepalms*

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

what??
that's pretty average, surely?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

Yes
If you live on the bloody moon.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

I object to paying more than 60p for a can
so, no. Some places charge more than this, however I simply refuse to buy from there.
Cans should be 50p and chocolate bars should be 40p or less. FOREVER.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

For a bottle, perhaps, but not a can!
I guess it depends where you buy it from - I think there is even substantial regional variation across London. Even in South Ken I know I could get a can of diet coke for a little over half that.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

i've never really thought about it
just hand over the cash!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Having spent my first four years in Central London as a skint undergraduate
I've kept a very watchful eye on prices - taking the price of a pint, naturally, as my reference point - and even though I've noticed things increase, I think £1 is a disgusting price for a can of coke, even in this day and age.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

You can probably buy a 6-pack in your local supermarket
for about £2.50. Carry a can to work every day - simple.

Oh, and maybe make your own salad and save yourself 50 sheets a week.

Holy shit.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

i can't do this for two reasons
(i) i never ever know in the morning what i am going to want for lunch; and

(ii) that would require organisation, it's as much as i can do to get myself into work in a co-ordinating outfit each day. it would also mean i needed to keep food in the fridge and i don't because i am out most nights and forget to eat it and it goes off. my fridges are just full of evian, diet coke and booze (which i never forget to consume for some reason)!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

That's a very defeatist attitude
Though I shall hazard a guess that you're earning enough that it needn't worry you.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

well the more serious answer is that
i often don't finish work til gone midnight when the shops are shut, and yeah, i do get paid for working those sort of hours, which is the quid pro quo!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:39, Reply)

quo can!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Haha!

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:43, Reply)

me too
in 1996 i saw a coke machine at st pauls that was £1 a can, and i nearly fainted - they were about £0.30p at home.

that same machine is about £2.50 now i think.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

Just spotted this
looks like the divide is pretty clear
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

you'd have to pay more than a tenner for that

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

[something about an overpriced salad]

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:17, Reply)

£10 for some bloody pasta salad?!
It's not like it can even be unicorn and panda flavour, as you don't eat meat!
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

i think i have been working in the city too long
as £10 for a salad/soup/sandwich lunch (inc a drink) seems v normal to me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

It's utterly bloody absurd is what it is.

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

Agreed
the salad ingredients must be about a pounds-worth at most.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

hmmmmm
on fri, i had a falafel wrap which comes with 2 deli salads, that was £9.95. POD does boxes of stuff that are about £7 each - nope, it is pretty usual around here!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

Usual does not exclude bonkers barking mad

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

've just never given this any thought before
the only alternative would be sainsburys up on holborn, but then i can't choose what i want in my salad!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Do you remember a thread from a few weeks ago
Where for whatever reason we discussed the idea of opening a pub in the city where we could make a mint charging normally unjustifiable prices of alpha-male-city-boy types for crap lager? Sounds like we wouldn't have been the first...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I think there is a market for a proper London cider house.
Get all the City boys leathered on pints of rough and charge them a fortune for the privilege.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Holy cow, batman!
Maybe we still should - we could charge an astronomical amount by my reckoning and it would still be less than these wankers swipe buys her lunch from...
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

You know, I reckon
we could even go out of our way to make it the most expensive pub in the area, and eventually they'd start drinking there because of its overpriced reputation just to prove to their colleagues that their credit cards could handle it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Also
salad isn't food. Salad is what food eats.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

not if you skived the gym last night
a mountain of vegetables with a few pieces of fusilli and a few lumps of feta cheese is as good as it gets!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I can smash out your teeth and jaw if you like?
that's currently yielding me 5lbs a week loss. And I don't even have much more spare.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:32, Reply)

Well you shouldn't have skived going to the gym.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

i know
i lay awake worrying about that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

You'll have to do twice as much work there this evening.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:45, Reply)

You shouldn't tease
you'll give her a complex make her complex worse
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:46, Reply)

Do you reckon?
I secretly think that Swipe enjoyes going to the gym.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

I like this ^^
And also

Glasgow Salad = Chips
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

Did you not point it out to him?
Or only notice later? If it's on your way it'd be worth pointing it out, making a salad can hardly be difficult, even I can do it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

i only noticed when i got the lid off
and it was covered in condensation. this is not normal for pasta salads in my book.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:23, Reply)

eugh definitely not

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

You should put in the staff suggestion box
'I suggest we move offices so we are within walking distance of a Harvester pub, it'll save me upwards of fifty quid a week'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

Or "just buy your food from a place that isn't so mired in ponce it actually has people convinced that a tenner for some lettuce is acceptable"
Admittedly I haven't lived in london for nearly 5 years now, but it used to amuse me that there was a Benjys and a Pret next door to each other on Goodge St. You paid twice as much for the same sandwich in Pret and the only single thing you got extra was a smug sense of Guardian-reading superiority. That wasn't worth the £1500 difference in the course of my PhD, in my book
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

now here i do have to disagree
i loathe benjys, and its successor after it went under and rebranded (BJ's or PJ's or something?) because i find the bread is dry and there is too much bread and not enough filling.

i did use the uxbridge one for breakfast toast sometimes though when i worked out there. it's haute-cuisine in uxbridge, is that place.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

I haven't actually eaten in Benjys since my PhD
which was 15 years ago, more or less. It was fine when it started, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

they were the first company to give their leftovers to the homeless
i liked that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

yeah .... then Pret started banging on about it much louder
that rather annoyed me, when Benjys had been quietly doing it and not making a big scene about it. Because then they all had to stop after Pret made such a big thing about it that Environmental Health started questioning about whether it was "safe"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

Loloololo, look at everyone having a go cus you spent a tenner on lunch.
Don't you know you can grow all the seeds and uquipment for like £9.99 and in 2 seasons time you could make your own?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Gonz
it's more that you can buy the same thing in a supermarket for £1.99.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Now much is rent on a kitchen and staff is it now days in central London?
I'm not saying that isn't silly money to spend on a salad, just that she is a big girl and can spend it on what she wants.

I bet my weekly £25-30 sushi meal costs them not much more than a fiver, but I like it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:39, Reply)

I'm booking 26th-28th off as we speak

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)