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  Best Fish and Chips

  by FL_Panthers in

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  so far i've had the pleasure of trying chips in victoria park village, falkners on kingsland rd, olley's in herne hill and that place in richmond which is full of oap (good sign?).

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  any other recommendations?

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  Sea Shell, Lisson Grove NW1

  Masters Superfish , Waterloo Road SE1
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  First trip to Europe this summer...only 20 years later than I planned :)

  by Gypsy Sam in

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  so, i'm quite excited but also slightly freaked out as i'm able to go this summer instead of next like i had counted on (my daughter graduates next year and i was planning to go then).

  this means i'm doing this last minute and i wanted to see if any of you have used https://www.go-today.com or gateone travel or go ahead travel?.

  i'm planning on london, paris and rome for two weeks, likely july at this point.

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  bit of advice when in London, if you plan on using the bus and tube buy an "Oyster" card (£5.00) , paper cash tickets are double in price ,and also use the tube after 0930 "off peak" far cheaper, a zone 1-2 top up where you can use unlimited bus and tube is only about £8.00/day,you can "top up" credit on the machines at Tube stations using card or cash, Black taxis are expensive but if there is a few of you to split the fare then they are more viable,also avoid at all costs The Angus Steak House chain there are loads of them in Central London and they are over priced tourist trap rubbish, there are thousands of great places to eat check out The Time Out Guide, Chinatown is worth a visit or for a curry head over to Brick Lane, take a look at the usual attractions The Tower of London, St Pauls, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, The London Eye,Buckingham Palace, The National Gallery, The Tate Gallery and The Tate Modern, also day trips to Bath and Stonehenge are well worth doing. Pubs in London are worth visiting for a few beers etc, the food isnt generally great. Hope you have a wonderful trip I've not even been to Rome!
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  Shepherd the Flock Book - Did Your Wife or Other Family Member Find It?

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  those of you who served as elders, did your wife or other family members / friends find your secret shepherd the flock book?

  how did they react?

  how did you react?.

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  my old man left it lying around in his study I'd regularly read it, meant far less when I was in though. I guess he used it when a friend in our cong was DF'ed , he told me my old man was sobbing like a baby at the JC!
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  Has your computer ever been hit by ransomware?

  by compound complex in

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  'you have broken the law and must pay a fine (to us).

  ' scam purports to be fbi.. computer is locked up totally.. any experience?

  what does it mean that a website (otherwise legit) has been compromised?.

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  twice its got me, first time I paid to get it removed , second time I banged the on/off button the second I saw it appear on the screen , left the laptop alone for a couple of hours and its was fine , plus updated my antivirus.
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  Flooding Disaster in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia

  by Jeannette in

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  orthodox churches are right on it to help, i wonder if gb will.

  they need clothes, food, and money.

  there is a fund started through the embassy, i can't tell you what it is, but they accept paypal.

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  dont these 3 nations have some of the lowest JW populations in Europe and possibly percentage wise world wide? 46% of Bosnias population is Muslim and 36% Croatian Orthadox, would the WTS be particularly bothered even about their own brethren? doubt it.
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  Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?

  by tim hooper in

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  when i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.

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  http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.

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  I always remember the "Randy" drama at Twickenham sometime during the late 80's , the hip/trendy and beautiful people would all sit on the first and second tier of the West Stand and when the "randy" scream bellowed out from the loud speaker system in that high pitched New York accent the first screams of laughter came form that stand, I was working field security at the time yards from that stand!
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  The CO visit this week he says" In August..."

  by James Jackson in

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  up until 5 years ago, the co used to work up their own parts for specfic congregations in their circuits.

  everything is up to script, in other words, every co in the country are givings the same talks in the local congregations they visit.

  what got me to cringe is when he said at the meeting, trying to encourage everyone to pioneer this august; he said :" you know this october it will be 100 years since gods kingdom began ruling, remember what happen when joshua told the israelites to march around jericho on the seventh day, and what happened when they let out a great war cry?

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  100 years in October ! how enlightening
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  The WT Isn't Going Away (sorry got long)

  by LostGeneration in

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  i've seen more threads and comments in the last week about the "demise of the wt" than in some time.

  several were on threads about the donation arrangement and how its going to backfire in some way on the wt.

  oh and the lone elder who was pissed in some sort of passive-aggresive manner about it when he presented the resolution.

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  its far from an "act of genius" cult leaders abuse, do what they like and the sheep let them, but as Kneehigh says apathy is their biggest danger, they still hemorrhage members and when we start fading the "contributions" are the first thing that get booted, the world is still recovering from the GFC of 2008, some of the figures I see mentioned on here of the amount congregations contirbute is very surprising in regards to the low level they donate many from the USA and Europe.
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  Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?

  by tim hooper in

  1. jw
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  when i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.

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  http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.

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  what year was that designs?
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  Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?

  by tim hooper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.

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  http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.

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  Wow , those exact water boilers were in use when I was a kid at Twickenham, just think the adults in attendence there are all most probably dead, or broke and dissapointed. No fun for kids though the exact opposite , what could be funny about being burnt to a crisp or pissed on for 4/5 days with bloody evening sessions as well?