Sue

dulwichmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If feel so at home on Lordship lane now, I am > quite simply, no longer that unusual. Am I? xxxxxx Sadly, no :))

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue I think it contravenes the contract you have > with your bank if you share the passwords for your > accounts' access. xxxxxx Oh dear, really? Ooops :))

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lucky sod. > > Make sure you give them your full name and home > address so they know where to send the 1,000 cans. > > > :) xxxxxx Yeh, and I threw in my bank details and passwords too, just in case they needed them :)) ETA: And I've cleared out all my cupboards, so I have somewhere to store the cans :))

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue. You're disproving your own point > > Things that could once have been considered > supernatural (television etc) aren't supernatural. > They are scientific. There is zero supernatural > about them. So the people who might once have > thought them supernatural would have been wrong xxxxxx What is "my own point" which am I disproving? What I was attempting to say, albeit possibly very badly (blame the fact that I'm ill), was that things are only considered "supernatural" (which is a stupid word anyway) by some people when they can't be explained. Once they are explained they are no longer considered "supernatural". So psychic phenomena which some people presently call "supernatural" may be capable of explanation in the future and therefore will no longer be considered to be "supernatural". I'm in no state for a philosophical/linguistic/scientific discussion, however. Am starting 2014 in a droopy sorry-for-myself heap :( So probably none of the above makes sense either :))

Kailyn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It always amazes me the things people post. They > seem to go straight to facebook as soon as someone > dies, that's just awful. xxxxxx I recently found out about a tragic (51 year old) Christmas Eve death via Facebook. My initial reaction too was to find it strange that someone would choose to let people know about it in that way, but then on reflection I thought that everybody deals with things differently. In this case the bereaved person apparently gained a lot of comfort from people's posts of condolences. And Facebook is probably the easiest way to let friends know, especially if you have a lot of friends (real friends I mean, not "Facebook only friends"). Though half past one in the morning on Boxing Day wouldn't have been my personal chosen time to do it ......

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On Jools Holland, Over foamed with The > Proclaimers. Now Ray Davies...wee nod to Strafer, > me in a wig eh!.. xxxxxxx Ray Davies was embarrassingly bad. Not even nostalgia could make it better. All Day and All of the Night was bad enough, but I had to go out of the room when Lola started. Made a miserable NYE stuck at home feeling ill worse :( If you can't sing any more, then you shouldn't sing in public :(

Is that the DIY shop on Lordship Lane near Goose Green? I agree their service is good, but it makes me laugh that whatever small item I buy there always seems to cost exactly the same amount! And I've been behind other customers also being charged that amount! Not complaining as their pricing is not excessive, maybe it just makes it easier for them!

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > If you hear funny noises, or things go missing, or > writing appears on a steamed up window, or there > are cold spots in a room... there are of course > rational explanations to all of these, xxxxxxx Does anybody have the link to the thread that KidKruger (I think) started some time ago? Can't remember when, so it may have been zapped in one of the forum clean-ups. There were several incidents on there that I think you'd be hard put to find "rational" explanations for using our present knowledge of "science". Including some of mine. Many things could be considered "supernatural" before they were explained. Television, telephones, man-made flight, electricity. Or, thunder, lightning, eclipses of the sun and moon, etc etc.. Edinburgh University certainly considers parapsychology a subject worthy of serious study: http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.ed.ac.uk/index.html I knew John Beloff (now sadly dead), one of the original lecturers in the unit, because he was married to Halla Beloff, who supervised my undergraduate thesis. He certainly was no fool.

Hey, it's not Twelfth Night yet!

There is a notice pinned to a front door in Goodrich Road. At a strange angle, despite being pinned top and bottom. After the usual "No circulars, no takeaway leaflets, no breathing within a mile of my front door", it says "No doorstop sellers." Doorstop sellers? Anybody spotted people with very strong arms knocking on doors round here, laden with doorstops? :)) Oh, and I found this in my inbox this morning: "Dear Sue , Congratulations! You are our possible winner of 1,000 cans of your favourite soda! confirm here" Unmissable opportunity, eh? I particularly like the "possible".

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena > > which others can't perceive. Telling them that > > they are talking bollocks just because you are > not > > so sensitive is closed-minded. > > Maybe, but does a mad man always know he is > mad?... xxxxxx I'm not talking about psychosis .... ETA: Anyway, I'm not feeling well and I'm going to bed, so feel free to return to slagging off things you don't understand :)

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...er, and a big scientific paradigm shift was > when people started believing in science not > fairies/ghosts/goblins etc xxxxxxx "Believing" in science??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Popper and Kuhn must be cheering from on high at > the standard of scientific debate on the EDF xxxxxx Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Kuhn who wrote about paradigm shifts? Quite relevant to the discussion if so, I would say.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The burden of evidence is on you and yours. V > difficult to prove a negative. xxxxxx Indeed. So better not to make statements which you can't prove :) Some people are unable to distinguish between certain colours. Other people (I knew one) can only see things in shades of black and white. No amount of others telling them they were "wrong" could convince them that colour "existed", if they had a mind to doubt it. Some people are sensitive to psychic phenomena which others can't perceive. Telling them that they are talking bollocks just because you are not so sensitive is closed-minded.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am very happy to give the OP the assurance that > there is no such thing as paranormal activity. xxxxxx Evidence for your statement, please?

Yes Dulwich Hospital still doing blood tests, according to my GP (memo to self: stop putting it off ....)

Kathleen Olander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have heard this many times regarding the > haunting of the Kings Arms PH and ghosts singing > WW2 songs in the bar. > > Only a little research is needed to find that > no-one died in this pub during the second world > war. xxxxxxx Not sure you necessarily need to have had a death there for people to experience things like that?

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Kind of depends what you think the purpose of a > charity shop is - raising maximum funds vs > providing a cheap place to shop for those with > less money, or how far either way you lean on > that. See this piece from the Guardian on exactly > that point from this week > > http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/29/cha > rity-shops-pricing-items-bargains xxxxxxx I saw that article, and this bit is interesting: 'One explanation for the rise in prices is that there is an increase in the number of dealers making excessive profits out of charity shops. One manager of a charity shop said: "We are trying to do what is best for everyone. We don't get it right every time, but we get it far more right than wrong. It has to be fair for the customer, for the donor and for the charity." ' I have in the past bought things myself from charity shops which were well underpriced, and if I had had the inclination I could have sold them on for a profit. I think it is reasonable that certain things eg second hand designer clothes or on trend furniture are sold at the going rate to raise money for the charity, rather than to raise money for dealers. More run-of-the-mill clothing, though, should be sold at lower prices. I too have seen (in the Mind shop, for example) clothes from cheap shops like Primark being sold at prices which were the same - or even more - than you could buy them new, which is just taking the piss.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having recently been visited by a local psychic > due to some unexplained activity in my home, xxxxxxx Hey come on, you can't leave it there! What "unexplained activity" ?! And what did the psychic say ?!

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is more expensive than most charity shops, but > so what? No-one's forcing anyone to go there. > After buying for everyone else I decided to treat > myself and bought a new item marked at ?50.00 on > the old label for ?18.00 > I don't think that's too bad. > And yes, I know I'll get a lecture from all the > self-righteous of ED of which there seems to be a > large number > Lynne xxxxxx That sounds like a bargain! Good for you. What makes you think anybody is going to "lecture" you? People are free to state their own opinion on here - that's what a forum is for, surely? It would be awfully dull if everybody had the same viewpoint ..... If you choose to label somebody's opinion as "self-righteous" because it happens to differ from yours, that's up to you :) Or is my saying that "self-righteous" too?!

There were no noises last night - or at least I didn't hear any. I am so hoping that it was something to do with Larry the tabby cat stuck on a roof in Crystal Palace Road in a house quite near mine, who was rescued yesterday morning, particularly as his owner told me that he had a very distinctive yowl (though I don't know what the thudding noises could have been, in that case). fl0wer, if I had been able to pinpoint even vaguely the location of the noise, then yes I would have contacted the RSPCA or police, however I had no idea at all even whether it was coming from the direction of the back or the front of my house. Sound travels in strange ways and bounces off buildings etc. Also I'm not sure they would have welcomed a call in the middle of the night. The RSPCA are not always the most helpful of organisations and I'm pretty sure the police would not consider it a priority :( Anyway, let's hope that either the cat was the cause, or else that the animal is now out of its misery :(

Spyragyra Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Goldfinches are the most common birds in our > garden, they love sunflowers hearts. As do > nuthatches, parakeets and the black and white > woodpeckers. xxxxxx You are very lucky, where do you live? The most common birds in my garden are sparrows :)) ETA: Despite hopefully putting out niger/nigella seed, I have never seen a goldfinch in my garden .... where there is lots of cover for the birds ..... I recently hung up some ham rind/fat for the birds from a joint my sister brought over, and it has been quite amusing to watch cats looking at it longingly from below and making ill-advised (and unsuccessful) attempts to reach it :))

The missing/yowling cat has been found stuck on a roof and taken home, so that's one possibility eliminated should the sounds happen again .....

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If that's so then I stand corrected on the "second > hand" comment. However, I still stand by the > rest. xxxxxx I think it's a different sort of charity shop to the usual kind, and the emphasis is on raising money for the charity rather than providing affordable things for the less well off. That is why these Save the Children/Mary Portas shops are situated in relatively affluent areas. The Waitrose/M&S of the charity shop world :) I won't be able to afford to shop there, but hey I can't afford to shop in many of the shops round here any more, so it won't make much difference to me :)) Better this than another estate agent or run-of-the-mill Indian restaurant, surely?

louisemurray Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Long tailed tits in Peckham rye park Xmas day in > big trees near the outdoor exercise machines, > going back today to look for them. xxxxxx Hooray, they are my favourite birds! Never seen them round here, but when I lived in Oundle they came down to my bird feeder.