Sue

I'm still fuming :( I went into the smaller hospice shop in Lordship Lane this afternoon, chose three books at ?1, ?1 and ?2 and took them to the counter, expecting to pay ?4 for the three. Assistant picks up the ?2 book and says "That's not in the sale, it will be ?2. But you can get another book for free.". I didn't even know there was a sale! Assistant: "It's a cookery book, cookery books aren't in the sale." Me: "But it's not a cookery book, it's a gardening book." (Carol Klein's "Grow Your Own Veg Journal".) Assistant: "No it's not, it's a cookery book." Me: "It's a gardening book, look inside." Asistant: "We have looked inside, it's a cookery book." Me: "It's a gardening book." Assistant looks inside, leafs through it a bit, and says nothing. Maybe she had seen the headings such as "Discouraging Pests", "Chitting Potatoes" and Watering Your Garden". I then turn round and look at a large notice above the bookshelf (which I hadn't previously seen) which says in large letters "Books three for a pound (I think it was) except cookery and art books". Me: "Look, your notice says only cookery and art books are excluded from the sale." Assistant: "Well, we've decided that book is excluded as well. We can't list all the books on the notice which are excluded." !!!!!!!!! So at this point she must have realised that the book was not in fact a cookery book. Me: Something along the lines of "Well that's bloody stupid, what's the point of having the notice at all then." I then get soundly attacked by two assistants plus a customer for: 1. Swearing. 2. Daring to question a price in a charity shop when said charity is for people dying in hospices. I was also told I was lucky to be alive when there were people dying !!!! !!!!!!!!!!! By this point I was really incensed. Not only did I hold my mum's hand as she died in a hospice, have given money to hospice charities and donated loads of stuff to the larger hospice shop, I also buy loads of stuff there as well. I would have told them to stuff their books and walked out, but unfortunately I really wanted the gardening one. In the end I paid the ?4 which I thought I was going to have to pay in the first place anyway, and left, followed by very bad vibes and no doubt left them all gossiping about what a mean and terrible person I am. When we got outside, I said to my partner I was sorry if I had embarrassed him, and he said no not at all, you were totally right. All I can think is that the original assistant did not want to admit that she had been wrong to say the book was a cookery book and not in the sale, had to find some way out of it, so turned it all round to put the blame on me for trying to rip the charity off by not paying more than, er, the price it should have been. Why the customer and other assistant got involved to back her up, I have no idea. I thought I would feel better for having a rant about it on here, but I don't, in fact I feel even more wound up. I'm off to have a nice cup of tea, then I think I will go and lie down in a darkened room .......

If you are actually serious, Grove allotments next to Camber Tennis Club near the entrance to the woods have a relatively short waiting list.

It seems to me that you are just being deliberately provocative, pop9770, so why don't you go and do it somewhere else and give us all a break? If you are not being deliberately provocative, then unfortunately it does seem to me that you are incapable of grasping quite simple concepts, as for example in BrandNewGuy's posts above. Which he helpfully posted twice as you didn't seem to understand the first time. Or else, for reasons best known to yourself, didn't properly read them.

pop9770 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks > Using your explanation. > I'd say calling a French person a Frog is equally > racist because it also a derogatory term > no different calling a Gypsy a Gyppo or Pikey > > > Why is it ok for a black person to use the n word > ? > > The laws make little sense and the guidelines are > decided by those who shout loudest not based on > any rules and that is where the problems are. > > http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/racist_and_reli > gious_crime/#a09 > > Same with religion clarity is required being anti > all religion some call that being religist is > technically a crime. > > I say we need the government to make a list of > what is and is not legal and that it should be > made public. I can't find one if anyone can please > point me towards it. NOT towards any non > government non legal web site which would call > every name based on their own "principles" racist. A little googling will bring up lists of unacceptable terms, with reasons, I'm sure. I don't know why you are posting on this thread about something which has nothing to do with the travellers on Peckham Rye. At root, this is nothing to do with legality or otherwise. It's about common human decency and sensitivity, of which judging by your posts on this thread you have little. "those who shout loudest"? Oh FFS.

"Is he/she for real?" informal ​ Used when you think someone is silly or very surprising http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/is-he-she-for-real A quite appropriate question in this case, I'd have thought. I can't believe you seriously think - in 2016 - that it's acceptable to use the terms you mention.

HelBel65 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > alt + print screen to grab the current window > on > > PC. > > It's windows logo + print screen on my Dell > laptop... It's just print screen on my Dell laptop!

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's easy to do pizza plus drink in Franco Manca > for a tenner. > And very delicious pizzas they are too! I took my daughter and son-in-law there for lunch in the Summer. My son-in-law said afterwards that his heart had sunk when we said we were going for a pizza, but he had been too polite to say anything, however they were both really impressed with the price and quality. One of my granddaughters is dairy free for health reasons, and they were really accommodating in using her "special cheese" (ie not really cheese) to make a pizza for her.

Willard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I drove through there on Tuesday morning, around > 7:30 am, on my motorbike. The water was insane, a > torrent coming up through the pavement which > looked completely blown apart. Nearly a foot of > water in places for about a 100m stretch. I really hope local residents and shopkeepers won't be as badly affected as the people and businesses in Herne Hill were. ETA: Oh, and thanks for the transport info, EDmummy and Applespider, very much appreciated.

There is also a large van, transporter and police van blocking the right hand turn on the South Circular by the entrance to the woods.

Duvaller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > This is a problem that Dulwich DIY have made for > themselves. It has hints of New Delhi where shop > building extensions encroach on the pavements so > much so that pedestrians have to walk in the > gutter. > OK I've not taken much notice of this thread for a while, but having revisited it I've properly seen the above. And putting in my twopennorth, I think it's racist too. "Hints of New Delhi"? WTF? Why on earth would anybody bring New Delhi into a thread about a shop in East Dulwich? And what have building extensions and pedestrians having to "walk in the gutter" got to do with the situation here? Oh, hang on ......

31 October? Surely they have to allow more time than that for responses?

Well I think some of us were interested in the discussion, even if you weren't!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue I don't know whether any of them do weekend > buffets day or night, I've only been to weekday > lunch time buffets in all 3x previously mentioned. Sorry KK, I'm totally confused, I think we may be talking at cross purposes :))

Very sorry to hear of your distressing experience at what must already have been a very emotional time for you. I'm wondering whether any of what you describe might be of interest to either the police or to Trading Standards (if that still exists). Or isn't there some professional body of auctioneers who may be able to help? At least they could strike this company off their list, assuming they are on it.

What was interesting for me was that the case showed up my own prejudices. Until I saw a picture of the bakers on Facebook, on hearing them described as anti-gay Christians I had assumed that they were grizzly old people. Just goes to show. But from a legal point of view, apart from anything else, it seems to me to have been the right decision.

I didn't know Ravi Shankar did a Sunday buffet, I have no idea when that started. We didn't go there for a buffet, we went there for a dosa! But they had mini dosas as part of the buffet, with the accompaniments and everything, plus loads of other stuff. Including desserts, but I was too full by then ..... Btw this was on Sunday evening.

Grok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, Sue does seem to like bemoaning Jaflong on > here. I have said - once - that their decor and buffet are both bland and that the service was inattentive. I don't think that equates to a "liking for bemoaning Jaflong on here." I have never commented on the food from their main menu as I haven't tried it, however a local paper is never going to give a local restaurant a bad review, is it, particularly a new one .... I criticised their flyer purely because it was the latest to come through my door and I glanced through it. I thought I made it clear that it was just one of many similar flyers whose mistakes also cause me irrational rage. Foxy, if printers made those kind of errors they would be quickly out of a job because nobody would use them! And I tend to notice things like that - I didn't spend hours scouring the flyer for mistakes, it was a quick read through, so I probably did miss some. But if it had been my flyer I would have proofread it with a fine tooth comb and then got at least one other person to do the same. ETA: Oh, and by the way, Grok, Jaflong did put us in a window seat the day we went. Because there was nobody else in there, and I guess they wanted the place to look full from the outside.

The Diwana Bhel Poori House does much the same food as the Ravi Shankar and I was once told it was owned by the same people, though I don't know if that is true. The Ravi Shankar's kulfi is wonderful, but I forgot to have any last night :( There is another Indian restaurant in the same street which does meat dishes, but I haven't been there for years. There used to be a shop selling Indian sweets and chutneys, but I didn't notice whether that was still there. There's a good little shop at the end of the road for things like spices. ETA: And the Bree Louise just round the corner has a huge selection of real ales .....

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > She is a professional Roma beggar. The money > you're giving her is being syphoned off back to > the Fagins back home. Where do you get this information from?

Phlox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here is a picture, sorry it's wonky, don't know > how to do screengrab. Cringe indeed. Thanks. Oh dear. BTW screengrab: If you are using a PC or laptop, there should be a key on your keyboard which says "print screen". Press it when you've got the screen up in front of you you want to grab. Then go into a new page/document in something like Word or Notepad (in landscape format probably) and just press control V which will paste the screengrab onto the page, and then you can save it. Don't know how to do it on a phone yet though, sorry.

Rosetta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noticed Vincent Ayre of Ayre'sBakery using the > term 'gypos' on his twitter account. Cringe. Oh dear. In what context?

Businesses who don't proofread their flyers before sending them to print, and/or (sometimes) don't get somebody to read them whose first language is English. Jaflong - I'm looking at you here. But it could be many many others ....... Bring your own Alchol We can prepare all these dishes stated on the menu with marinated tikka spices to cooked in clay oven which si cost an additional ?1.20 This traditional dish is prepared form specially imported ....... Chicken/Quron (I presume they mean Quorn. Googling Quron brings up not some exotic Asian delicacy but a weird urban dictionary definition of "a cool laid back person" - which definition also contains a typo, GRRRRR) Your selection cooked with cream and coconut to produce Two layers of bred deep fried Leftover container charger will apply ?2 Child under 5 is free (bargain, if you are looking for a child under 5) If you enjoy your meal, please tell other But I do love their description of Curry (Medium) - "For when you are feeling a little more adventurous" :)) And to be clear - I am not having a go at the fact that they have drafted a flyer containing mistakes, which is entirely understandable. I'm irrationally enraged at the fact that they haven't had it properly proofread before sending it to print ..... ETA: Oh, and BNG, my Topfield does that as well sometimes. It's very very annoying, particularly when you get a load of a different programme and/or ads at the begininng and then miss the end of the programme you want to watch.

Had an amazing Sunday buffet at the Ravi Shankar in Drummond Street last night. South Indian vegetarian for those who don't know it. Really tasty food.?7.95 each. Absolute bargain. Remembered we had Indian Mischief in Lordship Lane for a while, but it never did very well, not sure why. They never did a buffet though, if memory serves.

Thanks for the add. Thanks for looking. Share if you agree.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unusual that you saw it cycling ;-) Must have been a very small cycle :))