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People are often (not always) quite different in person to how they come across online. If you don't take the opportunity to meet them in real life, you will never find out! If you still don't like them, you will have hopefully met some other people who post on here who you do like! If you hate all of them, that would be very sad, but you can always leave and never go to another forum meet up? Happy to meet up with you for a cup of tea somewhere!

The drinks aren't supposed to be to debate or to continue "difficult" conversations started on the forum! They are supposed to be an opportunity to get to know people who live near you and who you might not otherwise have met! No sorry, I don't remember. I meet lots of people, but I rarely sell things on here. I don't remember meeting anybody with your forum name or selling anything to you. I am face blind, so probably I wouldn't recognise you if I met you again. That's good you have been able to make friends from the forum in other ways.

I am actually quite busy. I just like to keep up with what's happening on our local forum. It would take less time for you to find the Facebook post than to post about it on here. All you have to do is scroll back. I don't think you understood Malumbu's post. Why should I agree not to comment on your posts? You can say what you like to whoever you like, as indeed you do. So can I. It's a forum. Why don't you come to the forum drinks, and I'm sure we will both find that we are very nice people, but we both have an unfortunate propensity to get into arguments online 🤣

You can scroll back through your Facebook feed to find it, surely? Ask your mate? Do you mean Google? Why are you posting something when you don't even know if it's true? You are very quick to criticise other people making what you call "trivial" posts! FYI I just googled, and various countries are offering incentives for various reasons and with various different conditions, but most are not particularly new.

What do you do to upset them?! 🤣

Yes, it might be if it takes magnets. How large is it?

Yes, thanks, I may have to do that! Was hoping not to have to 🤣

Good for him! I admire his initiative!

That hasn't been my experience, but admittedly it was a long time ago. For example, I had an excellent cutter at one of the central London Charles Worthington salons, I think it was in Covent Garden. I would be highly surprised if anyone who worked there was allowed to keep their own book of clients' details, because the salon itself obviously wants to keep their clients. I can't remember the exact details, but if memory serves she left, and when I asked where she had gone I was told she had "gone travelling", which may or may not have been true (I am not someone who keeps up a constant conversation with whoever is cutting my hair, which may be a surprise to those who know me 😂). The next person I had there made an absolute dog's breakfast of my cut, to such an extent that I had to have several (free) cuts from somebody else at that salon to bring it back to some semblance of what it was supposed to look like.

Still looking!

Still looking!

Does anybody have a wall hanger which they no longer need? It's for an acoustic guitar. Thanks!

I can't be a***d to read all this, and it isn't worth starting a separate thread, but I would just like to say that around 7.15pm this evening I came out of M&S on Lordship Lane. I pressed the crossing button, the green man came on, a car stopped. I was halfway across the crossing when a blue car coming from the Goose Green direction suddenly shot across in front of me. My reactions were too slow to get the reg number. The light on that car's side must have been red for some time before the car reached it. I sincerely hope that car drivers' disregard for red lights and the safety of pedestrians isn't going to go the same way as that of some cyclists. Not sure that last sentence is grammatical, but you hopefully get the gist.

No. No idea. The forum drinks are supposed to be a friendly get together for people to meet and chat, which so far they have been. That wasn't a helpful post, Cancerian. Perhaps you could explain it?

Oh FFS.

To be fair, it depends on the style you want, what texture of hair you have and how much of a precision cut the style needs. I have very thin fine hair (or did have, before it started going grey) and it needs a really excellent cut to make it look good. I'm on a pension, but I don't mind paying more for a cut which I know will make me feel good. Shingo at Kuki works wonders (though I'm presently growing my hair in preparation for a particular style, so if anyone knows me please don't judge his talents by my present "halfway" cut!) **Edited to add, Shingo worked his usual wonders yesterday and I now have the style I was working towards 👍 ** I think it's a matter of trying people out until you find someone who suits you and your hair. If that person is also relatively cheap, then that's great! I've had some truly awful cuts over the decades, and in the past whenever I found someone good, they at some point moved on, and (a bit like dentists) you could never find out where they had gone. At least Shingo owns the salon, so is unlikely to leave! That sounds extremely expensive! Where was it? Why did they not wash the hair? Was that the advertised price, for a trim (not a restyle?) with no wash?

I had to google Mobo, then felt stupid because I thought I should have known what it was. If anyone else doesn't know, it's Music Of Black Origin.

Hey you lot, let's try to keep on topic 🤣

Not everyone has a passport. Not everyone has a driving licence. If you have nothing to hide, I can't see the problem. And hypothetical assumptions about what a future government might do could apply to many things. That is not a good reason not to do them (imo). If Farage forms a government we will have plenty to worry about apart from digital ID.

My understanding is that those living near The Horniman buy the drinks 🤣

We arranged it specially for your birthday. We are psychic. Just sayin' 😂 PS That was a lie. Sorry.

The next Forum Drinks will be upstairs at the EDT (East Dulwich Tavern, on the corner by Goose Green roundabout) on Wednesday 15 October from 7pm onwards. Come any time at or after 7! We have a space reserved in the area to the right as you come into the upstairs room from the stairs (the end of the room where the windows are) . The upstairs bar won't be open, so please buy a drink before you come up! Do come and chat to other forum members in real life. There is no need to divulge your forum name if you would rather not. This is a social event, and not intended to be for publicising your business - there are other ways to do this on the forum. If you have mobility or other problems which make stairs difficult for you, please message me on here beforehand, and we can make arrangements to help you up (and down) the stairs. ETA: Oops! I double posted but deleted the wrong post! Sorry if you had responded to the other one!

I'm wondering if bins aren't possible due to storage issues (if there is nowhere to put them apart from blocking up the pavement)? Because I would have thought they would have been used otherwise? But I can't think of another solution, unless it's possible to get some kind of vermin proof bags, possibly reusable? Alternatively, to get the rubbish collected earlier, which might help to some extent?

I think that was some kind of franchise (?) within John Lewis?