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Then of course there is the classic Rainham Sheds:

http://www.rainhamsheds.co.uk/

Ensure you have the volume right up for the full experience!

And the M.I.A. website:

MIA

WARNING: this site may actually burn your retinas

Is Yvette's web designer the same as the dreaded Havenworks?

HavenWorks.com ;-) NEWS HAVEN INFORMATION REFERENCE SOURCES FACTS

W3C's Validation service shows that the page has 2304 errors!

[invalid] Markup Validation of http://havenworks.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

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Or even:

Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to heaven!

"Jesus" is about all I can say to that!

Still, the "Devils Music" page is quite fun.

My understanding of contract law is that when you take a product up to the cash desk, you are making an offer. A contract is not complete until there is offer and acceptance. It is up to the person at the cash desk to "accept" and complete the contract.

I also have a vague memory of the law on implied contracts applying as well?

That went back to the early days of the Yuppies, when there was brief fad where a few shops/shopping centres in England tried to charge potential customers for entry - Or more likely, tried to keep-out the riff-raff? One of them tried to open a branch in Edinburgh and the charge was a non-starter, ruled inappropriate. Anyway, it quickly died a death.

I also wonder how the right to refuse service sits now that a good number of services/utillities are only payable in certain shops? eg, Pay Points, electricity/gas keys etc. Can a customer be refused service for them without a very good and clear reason? That did not complicate matters back then.

You're telling me that if I walk into a shop and try to buy a Mars bar for 50p or whatever, and hand over a 50p coin, the shop owner can't turn round and say, sorry I'm not serving you (for any reason he chooses)?

Now, I accept they won't be entitled to discriminate on basis of race/sex etc etc. But surely it's up to them who buys their products. No?

Yes, they can refuse you for any reason but once they give one, they are answerable for it.

Its been a long time since I did a course in sales law (and my ex nicked the books!) but IIRC, once you have offered a valid form of payment, the shopkeeper has little room to refuse you. Indeed, like a restaurant dispute, you could probably bang down a reasonable offer on the counter and walk-off with the goods. The chance of the shopkeeper getting any further redress is slim.

Unfortunately, the only time I had a chance to try this in practice, the shopkeeper backed-down fast and accepted my payment.

I don't think any retailer is legally obliged to accept any form of money whatsoever. They can tell you they won't accept your money if they like, it's their shop.

Only required to accept coins, up to the value of one pound.

They do have the right to refuse sale altogether for any legal reason but lose that if they own-up to why.

technincally speaking they do not have to accept scottish notes, only english notes are covered by the bank of england

Yup, they are, technically, promissory notes. As are Northern Irish and Manx notes - The only thing that is full legal tender both sides of the border is the pound coin.

Saying that, there is absolutely no reason for them to refuse them as the status of non-BOE notes in the banking system is all the same.

Mind you, trying to spend a couple of these once was fun:

And Manx folk don't get it easy on the mainland with this:

But thank fuck we don't live in Totnes or Lewes, where these chats complicate matters further:

Travelex in airports in England charge 3 for every 100 that they change (mental!) and there's no way I'm doing that. I'd rather stand in the street and see if folk will swap with me.

Is that even legal?

Otherwise, any bank/post office should do it.

Wirelessly posted (Vodafone/1.0/SEX1i/R1AA Opera/9.5 (Microsoft Windows; PPC; Opera Mobi/2141; U; UK) UP.Link/6.3.1.20.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

The Banchory butcher is a branch of Laidlaws but I think the guy in charge knows their meat better - I've never had anything not excellent from there.

Oh just to air it again - A steaming hot Laidlaw's macaroni pie, from Banchory:

That looks burnt!

Oh not again!

I like my macaroni& cheese with a nice crunchy crust. OK?

The Banchory butcher is a branch of Laidlaws but I think the guy in charge knows their meat better - I've never had anything not excellent from there.

Oh just to air it again - A steaming hot Laidlaw's macaroni pie, from Banchory:

Chris Edit: Once a month there's a farmers market on Belmont Street.

Aberdeen Country Fair - Market Dates

That is more of an upmarket shopping event, run by a commercial entertainment company. Not what I'd call a farmers market in the OP's sense.

Besides, you need very deep pockets & probably a stomach of iron if you planned to live of stuff bought there. For the occasional luxury, it would be fine though.

Dundee has a good weekly one & there is an excellent one in Edinburgh somewhere but the round trip is a bit much.

Actually, it may well be that someone has not properly thought about how their URL rewriting works, so you could put more or less anything after Gordon Brown - So go-on, get creative!

Gordon Brown should say 'sorry' over economy, minister says - Telegraph

You should have mash with that instead of pasta. Pasta and sausages...

Tasted just fine to me!

Check out the URL

Gordon Brown should say 'sorry' over economy, minister says - Telegraph

Even at the torygraph universal truth wins through

Nice one. Due a lineup announcement any time soon?

Last year they were clearly using the same agents & had virtually the same main acts as Solfest, on alternate nights.

Solfest have started to put theirs up:

The Charlatans

The Blockheads

Nerina Pallot.

The Buzzcocks

Music at Solfest

So maybe?

Don't know if I can go to either of them this year - Considering an offer for Berlin & a festival near Hamburg instead!

Yes, the place is a barn with shite acoustics & no atmosphere.

Functional yes, pleasant, no IME.

But for this one gig, fine!

Plus, they look hoorin black and burnt.

I like them well done & venison is pretty dark to begin with - they were fine for me!

Some black pepper and that'd be tasty!

Went-on just after the photo was taken.

M&S special-offer venison sausages 12 for 4, (80% deer), pasta, onions in veg stock, chutney and cranberry jelly - yum!

I see some titles are punting her for membership of the "27 Club"

27 Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which is surprising as I don't think I've heard about her developing a musical side?

Unless of course, they are saving the remix album for after the funeral?

Otherwise, I still have to find that I give a fuck about this story - Other than that far too many women suffer & die from cervical cancer.

But I wonder how long the airline industry can sustain things such as elite status on one airline getting you into alliance partner lounges.

Possibly - Recently my bank were plugging a new card that included access to these lounges & other facillities as one of its "benifits." So it looks like they are offsetting costs by widening access via other organisations?

Didn't fancy paying about 20 times my current annual costs for the privilege though, so I'll stick to cattle class.

Any info on time then Biz?

Fucking hell - That lot gets more depressing as you go down - Especially when you come to the bit about them approving the adoption of the aalborg commitments.

Whatever the rights and wrongs, this was a completely futile and pointless geture - it was approved by the council in 2006.

Which one? A quick scan suggests there could be several candidates.

I think cats are for girls and poofs.

Dogs are for men. Real men.

I have five dogs in close proximity - All of them are shit scared of one of my cats!

My last cat scared my then neighbour's Dobermans so much that they never dared enter my garden again, even when the fence was down for a prolonged period. Mind you, he was a bit of a bruiser of a cat, A yard from nose to tail & weighed two stone - Of solid muscle!

Hey - Don't fuck cats,

Pet head? American fined for smoking bong containing cat

Man tried to calm pet down with cannabis smoke

'Lots of people do this, I'm just the first to get caught'

Smoke em...!

Man fined for smoking bong containing cat | Society | guardian.co.uk

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