mockney piers

It is a non academic forum *bob*, I can point you in the direction of some very dry and boring published papers if you prefer. They're not very entertaining, but their conclusions are far starker than the twaddle you're seeing here.

The real revelation there is the reasonable snorky stating that things are better than they used to be!

Agree with PD as per usual. George is an absolutely lovely chap, will give you good advice, and mairead and i go there simply for his life affirming hugs alone. (god i'm sounding metrosexual this morning, seeing as i yesterday finished up supressing a rant that namechecked al qaeda, bader meinhoff, jackboots and splintered wood, (as huguenot will testify to) I must be in a better mood)

I'm going to drink and post, but just to say that, yes, I'm passionate about how wrong our mindset is, and disgusted about the simple way we can actauly achieve this. And laugh because it's out luxury, and shutup go to bed piers. Huguenot has the evidence of how angry I get, never let him show my rants, not pretty, not pretty.

Maybe we should have a curry house as well as a lounge, where all these threads end up. "you've been Rubied"

Ednerd's post in the main room has just reminded me that I once saw an extremely drunk Daniel Bedingfield staggering down LL with a couple of embarrassed mates in tow, singing naf "R&B" into a brown bottle in a proper 'Craaaaig Daaavid' stylee. I couldn't stop chuckling for days.

The extension going via Denmark Hill received approval almost 2 years ago when my girlfriend worked at TfL surface and for the commissioners office. It was then planned for 2010 which as we all know, means your estimated completion date is pretty much spot on.

* motions towards card table for game of gin rummy * * places bottles of gin and rum on table should the urge take anyone *

Hello Solo, no need to apologise and a big hello to you. Is the k a silent k on Knapoleon? I do hope so. I went to the Dulwich Hamlets on Saturday and can confirm that Mark came dressed in nothing but a smile. Highly disturbing it was too ;)

I'm only poking fun Nutty. Most sites have perfectly useful applications. I only got into flickr to show a couple of holiday snaps to family and put stag do/wedding photos up for mates to enjoy. Then you get sucked into the community, and the views and the explore hits and everything else. Somewhere it's taken me a good year to control and retreat slowly from. Likewise there's no reason myspace can't be a genuine way to showcase music etc, but really for most it's a popularity contest, people logging on every half an hour to watch their hit counters etc. I've not gone on to facebook but I gather it functions in much the same way, potentially useful, potential solipsism trap. After all a hammer's great for banging nails in a wall, or you can kill people with it. Regardless, I'm going to have to come to terms with forum addiction at some point and slowly slip away from it, not to mention yet another new outlet for my penchant for online gaming that's recently come by, so i have to limit these things. Hence i didn't register.

Indeed. Does this mean i'll have to stop posting here and do some work?

Haha, love it Polly. I was shown a bathroom in a flat by one once. It was the size of a shoebox with stand up shower, toilet and sink apparently defying the laws of physics by occupying the same quantum space. His description? "Perfect for a professional couple" I never even bothered to ask.

Seeing as every Homepage actually just posts to a myspace page, full of photos from flickr and events from upcoming.org, with delicious links, technorati tags and blogger blog entries, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. Does it have an upmystreet link for lordship lane?

She is obsessed with the sea. songs on this album include Ocean Night Song, Drink deep, Cast A Hook In Me and Wrecking. She seems to sweet to splinter someone's fingers. Also loving The Bird and the Bee btw http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=70295310 very chilled, perfect for the lounge as it goes NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/arts/music/01bird.html?ex=1330405200&en=e6715a1bada0374f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I've no idea, facebook is yet another way for the sub-20s generation Y or whatever they're called, to itch yet another solipsistic scratch. The last couple of Roasteds (the little cartoon at the beginning of the observer magazine, and along with Barbara Ellen the only reasons to pick it up) have been spot on. Woman panicking as her IM, email, myspace mail, facebook poke, mobile phone and SMS all go off at once, but still no neighbour has ever knocked on her door! Iraqis are apparently all dating and communicating on IM and email and chat sites, they have an excuse, we don't. So who's up for the next Forum meet, or RL (real Life) interfacing session? *quietly pulls down '12,000 views screenshot' from flickr photostream, coughs into hand, ahem ahem*

and does the EDF have a login to save me having to register to yet another site?

*laughs out loud -quietly- * * I'd never have believed it of Batdog (though it would explain something to do with the name), tsk tsk *

Ooh, had a bit of a spree in Fopp today: The Bees - Octpous The Bird and the Bee - Eponymous Laura Veirs - Saltbreaker THe last is just terrific, love it, loads of influences Echobelly, Lush, Joanna Newsome a bit of Curesque guitar som eHowling Bells as well as the usual Joni Mitchelly bits thrown in http://www.myspace.com/lauraveirs enjoy Crystal, apparently she's done a couple of guest spots on the Decemberists if she sounds familiar

* gestures to Ana to sit next to me and enjoy the antipodean alpine view and enjoy latte in her own imaginary quiet space * * thanks DM for coffee and relentless shakes and heebie-jeebies that will follow imbibition of delicious drink *

No way Jos?. I think I even left my Musical Fidelity A3.2 amplifier on much of yesterday, thus being personally responsible for the death of at least 4 families of meerkats.

*bob*, I understand what you're saying, but I never let that get in the way of a good rant. It's somewhat hypocritical of us to sit here and condemn president Bush for not signing up to Kyoto protocols, claiming technology will save us (it won't) and then in our own small way do exactly the same "I understand the technology is there, but it's not quite good enough for me and my gomer bolstrood/dimmer switch". If you put a single bacteria culture in a petri dish, a large but limited supply of resources, and a population with no competitors for said resources, the population will expand relentlessly until the waste products poison it's environment so much that the population plunges into steep decline, then recovers etc, resulting in a sine wave of diminishing amplitude headed towards a happy median. Humanity is simply headed towards the crest of the first incline. Amusingly 500 million years of evolutionary progress has not given us the means to overcome the same imperatives as our bacterial cousins. We make the same decisions "consume consume consume" but all that progress has allowed is that we intellectualise it as a nice looking bulb or Tarquin's 'must have' nintendo wii. If there was but one tree left in the entire planet the question is not whether mankind would work to save it, it's how many people would die in the war for the right to cut it down. ps do as I say, not as i do ;)

* tiptoes in, quietly places toys back in pram * * makes nice strong cup of tea, puts some Debussy quietly on the stereoa ... and relax *

** grrr, monday mornings **

Funny, it's the whole idea of I consume therefore I am that's been putting this world in the sorry state it's already in, let alone how bad things might be in another 20 or 30 years. For the sake of all our futures we are going to have to make changes in our lifestyles and yes, make sacrifices. And here we have educated, aware and hopefully conscientious people unable even to make the tiny lifestyle change of energy saving lights because they poke up over lampshades, and then we stick our heads in the sand and say what's the point of our making changes if India, China and the US don't. I've said all along that as long as society is modelled along current lines, we are, basically f***ed. It'll be a very different world in just three or four generations and they assuredly will not have the luxury of choosing a nice incandescent bulb that doesn't poke over the Gomer Bolstrood lampshade.

Come on CC, finger out son.