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Totally agree with you Jah, I use buses every day too, and I hate it (especially when hungover) when some little git plays his/her music through some crappy tinny speaker, I'd generally rather them play it through a proper stereo!!! I makes me naucious, and I end up having to put my own headphones in just to block it all out! Also agree about the food! Also hate bus drivers who seem to enjoy making te bus lurch as much as posible!!!!!!!! And why must they put the heating on in summer?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Grrr :X Soz if that's all been said already, but can#t be bothered to read the whole thread.

Buggie I didn't meet you yesterday, but I am 100% with you about the 3 or 4 night long birthday celebrations!!!! I hurt :(

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Freaks! Exactly right!!!! Mrs Keef likes it, I think it is wrong in so so many ways! They do however make some good ads, like the one where the tramp throws the sandwich at the nice man who's ust given it to him >:D<

Agree about Izzard, his peak was Dress to kill, and it's been downhill since!

Cheers Piers, I don't think I could possibly move or carry a bat today!

I look at the forum as a cyber pub... You can argue, put the world to rights, talk nonsense, the list goes on

Cool, that's pay day >:D

I too posted from Australia once or twice back when the forum was a baby (December). Sad I know, but it wasn't many posts I promise :-S . Probably why I'm the first git to reach 2000 posts! I need to g cold turkey

Agree completely that a person with a second home should pay full amount for it!

Yes, I buy loads of rounds in the pub, and end up poorer than any other bastard!

DISCUSSED HERE It's definitely Golden City though, not Golden Fryer :-S

Sean, that's a bloody good point, there is far too much of an "I deserve a council house" mentality, and I know people that have told me proudly about how they plan to scam the council in to giving them a house... I tend to smile politely because I don't like getting my head kicked in, but I have to admit I do think to myself "why don't you just pay proper rent like the ret of us". "If someone is bitter about the lack of housing then I would understand that - but to then make the leap and claim "they are all going to immigrants" - well if it's not racist, it's neither factually correct nor suggestive of warm relations" Again, agree completely, and don't agree with this type of feeling, I just don't think it's racist as such.

See I disagree... I agree whole heatedly with Sean's post. However, I also believe that "timidity in the face of accusations of racism" is something that does exist... I guess it's a question of what you call racist. Areas like Peckham were traditionally inhabited by a lot of people that would live in council housing, and then move out of their family house in to a council place of their own. This isn't the case anymore because there aren't enough houses. Someone feeling bitter about that and commenting at all the houses go to immigrants... A racist? I'm not so sure. I work for a local authority, and have dealings with asylum teams, and housing teams, and there is a huge demand for housing from asylum seekers, and there is a great deal of bitterness about it (not just from white people I hasten to add). Now, I can see why Ghostlymaidens post would raise some eyebrows, but frankly, to assume that this person is the type to hang up and England flag and a swastika is the most inappropriate prejudiced generalisation I have seen in this thread! If they are that type, I take all that back, and would be the first to throw things at them!

Snobbery comment wasn't directed at you inparticular Mockney, at least you've read one of them, so have some prior knowledge on which to base your arguements. For the record, I can't stand J K Rowling, because she's ripped off The Worst Witch in a bad way, and that is a book I did like as a kid, and the author is probably not very well off!

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > After years of getting irked by people commuting > with kids books, but seeing no significant > increase in proper book reading I don't think HP will cause lots of people to read more, not when there are things like Wii's and XBoxes to play with as soon as they finish the book (could even buy the Harry Potter games!). However, most of the people you'd see reading HP on the bus are people who probably read on the bus all the time... Well I do anyway, and HP is the only "kids book" I've read... I will say that I thought the first couple were pretty poor, but my sister (a very big reader) convinced me to stick with them, and I think the 3rd, 4th and 6th books were very good (5th was a waste of far far too much paper!). However, I am sure that it is impossible to change opinions now, particularly where there is a certain amount of snobbery involved ;-)

Oh come on Jah / *Bob*, it's not like we spend our time reading "where the wild things are"... Well actually Mrs Keef does have it, but she is a primary teacher (with a masters in Literature), so that's fair. For my part, if I want to forget that I am on my way to my sh!tty job, and escape in to a book, I will, even if it makes someone on the bus blush ;-)

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am quite happy in my nice middle class flat in > middle class East Dulwich. I have no wish to live > in Peckham. Then your opinion is obviously going to differ slightly from that of someone from Peckham.

pk, I don't think that's fair to Ghostlymaiden. As far as I can see, she (?) has made no comment to suggest that she's a racist, or that she doesn't like anyone from other countries. For my part, I think Peckham has turned in to a complete sh!t hole, Rye Lane does stink, and North Peckham has always been somewhere you didn't want to be on a Friday night! This is a real shame, because I remember it being really nice when I was a kid.

Karter, as I stumbled out of my cab in Sydenham at about 2 this morning there was a huge queue outside the booksho here!!!!

RESULT... Just had a call from my mum who hasn't left yet, and the book is there waiting for me!! God we're sad :-S

Mine is being delivered to my parents house because the post here is rubbish... What I didn't reaise at the time was that my bloody parents are away today!!!!!!!

Good choice Anna, that would thwart the evil Mark and his xray vision ;-)

I'd have The Force ;-)

*Basically no one was drinking it... Particularly after Fear n' Boozin's former housemates moved away! :)-D

*Throws ipod in the bin, and puts on scratchy vinyl of Black Sabbath* *Leans against wall, but it's dripping with sweat* I like this place *Bumps in to someone, but what with this strobe, can't see who it was* *Makes way to bar and screams order to the fit barmaid above noise of 70's rock legends!!!*