Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[jean]

An excellent resume of all the factors at play!

I think it's far too complacent in its assumption that the locals don't really want to live there and are only too happy for incomers to buy up all the properties.

There's ample evidence that people wouldn't move away if there was housing there they could afford.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think it's far too complacent in its assumption that the locals don't really want to live there and are only too happy for incomers to buy up all the properties.

There's ample evidence that people wouldn't move away if there was housing there they could afford.

My impression was that the landed gentry were the band's target - but otherwise, yes.

[ahinton]

An excellent resume of all the factors at play!

Many thanks - although I suspect that there may well be yet others, at least one tht immediately occurs to me being (from my own experience) the absence of roadsweepers in such areas which can be especialy irritating and indeed at times potentially dangerous when one considers the damage caused to the unclassified roads and detritus deposited on them as a consequence variously of poor drainage and use by all those sheep, cattle, horses and the rest, none of whom pay road tax...

[teamsaint]

Terrific stuff teamy - hadn't heard of them before.

Probably the biggest name in contemporary British Folk music SA, and deservedly so.
Well worth youtubing some more of their music, and even more worth trying to catch them live, where they are absolutely brilliant.

[Serial_Apologist]

Many thanks - although I suspect that there may well be yet others, at least one tht immediately occurs to me being (from my own experience) the absence of roadsweepers in such areas which can be especialy irritating and indeed at times potentially dangerous when one considers the damage caused to the unclassified roads and detritus deposited on them as a consequence variously of poor drainage and use by all those sheep, cattle, horses and the rest, none of whom pay road tax...

Fly tippers are yet another problem in that regard.

Were it not for the fact that it (ours and other's) provides for the food needs of the majorities that use supermarkets, and that supermarkets have their dependent farmers by the jugular, the countryside would probably offer the best starting point for the revolution that's needed to reorganise the way in which everything is run, as the Greens seem to think.

[Serial_Apologist]

Probably the biggest name in contemporary British Folk music SA, and deservedly so.
Well worth youtubing some more of their music, and even more worth trying to catch them live, where they are absolutely brilliant.

My best friend's wife is into folk music. Hates jazz though. Folkies should improvise a bit more, or a bit more interestingly - jazzers take on a few radical lyrics deliverers, the way Henry Cow did in the 1970s. Another firned of mine was in Happy End - aas their title says they did Weill (and Eisler) "covers". Robert Wyatt points part of the way, but he's too niche in other respects - not his fault.

[ahinton]

Fly tippers are yet another problem in that regard.

Around here where at times it can be infested with cluster flies, I'd be only too happy of people did some fly tipping (provided that the flies had been exterminated first)...

Were it not for the fact that it (ours and other's) provides for the food needs of the majorities that use supermarkets, and that supermarkets have their dependent farmers by the jugular, the countryside would probably offer the best starting point for the revolution that's needed to reorganise the way in which everything is run, as the Greens seem to think.

Maybe; the trouble is that there's so few permanent residents there (as we've discussed) and so many weekenders have taken their places that, as such revolution would accordingly depend upon the influex of further outsiders, it might actually compound the problem, however unwittingly!

[Nick Armstrong]

"Catherine Tate"

... especially in the context of presentation / reading on this 'Shakespeare Live' TV programme on BBC2.

Her Seven Ages speech was a squirm-inducingly bad way to start the thing....

[jean]

Why is it considered relevant to mention that people have been murdered in a terraced house?

[teamsaint]

Why is it considered relevant to mention that people have been murdered in a terraced house?

there are a number of such issues around reporting of murders, tragic deaths, and so on.

[P. G. Tipps]

Why is it considered relevant to mention that people have been murdered in a terraced house?

I very much suspect because it is considered as relevant as mentioning people having being murdered in mansions, luxury villas, semi-detached houses, detached bungalows and mobile homes ... ?

[ahinton]

there are a number

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[teamsaint]

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IMO, but I'm not going there.....

[Beef Oven!]

Migrants. Don't know if they're comin' or goin'

[Pulcinella]

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I presume that you are raising eyebrows at ts's 'grammar' here.
This may be better suited to Pedants' Paradise, but would you really say:
There is a number of ways to get from A to B?

If so, what is that number?
(OK, you could be smart and say that it's infinity!)

'There is a number' (a specific number) and 'There are a number' serve different purposes.