Sue

Well I don't recall the Drum ever having live music - I remember the lock-ins though :))

LukeyFoxtrot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I terribly miss the Dream Machine xxxxx Yeh so do I

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is the landlord the booker? If so, he's annoyingly > difficult to nail down. xxxxxx No idea. I was there as a punter, not a promoter. Wouldn't want to deal with him if I was trying to put on a gig there, though :))

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my tiny garden there were three robins. Two > were doing a little dance and the third looked > like it felt left out. xxxxx That's weird, because robins are territorial, and it's rare to see more than one at a time in Winter .... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/robin/territory.aspx As regards the foxes, I heard one squealing tonight ....

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We'll have the Reiki practitioners complaining > about hippies next. :))

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is a great venue - because of the bands they've > had on, not because of the place itself. Which has > improved in recent years, but is still a bit > 'rustic' with an awkward layout. > > I've seen some really memorable gigs there... > Boards of Canada, Shonen Knife (set of Ramones > covers), J Church, Frank Turner.. even played > there a few times myself over the years. There > really are surprisingly few established venues in > London for underground or up-and-coming bands. > > Heard some stories about the landlord, but never > met him or experienced his moodiness first hand. xxxxx Ah, OK, if because of the bands that makes sense - though depends what you like of course. Very small stage, though, IIRC? Though it's a few years since I've been there. Glad it wasn't just me the landlord had a go at :))

Neil/Dani Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Windmill Brixton, hands down the best venue in > these parts. Voted 3rd best venue in London 2012 xxxxxx Grumpy landlord though, unless he's recently changed :)) Who voted it 3rd best venue, and why? I've been there a few times and didn't think it was that great.

Please read my post above. As soon as I have time I will look things up. And yes, take it as an insult if you like, it was also a true statement of my position. Anybody reading through this thread can see how many times you insulted me, but maybe that doesn't count. Anyway post away now, because I have other rather more rewarding things to do today :)

I am getting ready for a gig tonight, and I'm also trying to put together our new website. If you have more time than me, then I expect you can google and find some results online, or reference to them. Parapsychology is about more than "psychic dogs" and "haunted buildings", but hey feel free to spread disinformation. Once I have some free time, I will have a look. And clearly intelligent people think they are likely to find positive results, or they would hardly spend time doing research. And funding bodies would not pay for it. You don't embark on research expecting to disprove a hypothesis, at least not in my experience.

We've got Reg Meuross coming to The Old Nun's Head tonight, in the room upstairs. He's a fantastic singer-songwriter, and he's just won a FATEA award for Best Male Vocalist 2013. Details in the "What's On" section. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,1245415 ETA: Was a great night! Sold out! We hope to book him for The Ivy House in the future - larger venue :)

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What we have on offer > on North Cross is a very small start up market, > and it seems to have been that way for some years > now without any signs of expansion. Like > everything in ED, it's a half hearted attempt. Why > can't we go for it properly if we want a market, > close the road off and invite local trades people > to setup stalls along the whole road? xxxxxx Yes, I don't understand this really, though I can see there would be difficulties for vehicles if the whole road was closed. A while ago there was supposedly a push by the council to get more stalls into the NCR market, wasn't there, but it doesn't really seem to have expanded that much. And if I recall some people who wanted stalls were not allowed them on the basis that "there is already a shop selling that in Lordship Lane" - yet there is a cheese stall, despite being a specialist cheese shop just round the corner. And a bread stall, despite there being many LL shops selling bread. So how does the council decide who can have a stall and who can't? Does anybody else remember that thread?

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread is great. > > I particularly love the Passive Aggressive > exchange of terms of endearment between Sue and El > Pibe. (Sweetie, Dear, Poppet etc) > > :) xxxxxx I hoped that El Pibe was attempting to be funny by calling me "love", but I did fear that he was just continuing to be patronising, hence my response. Serious academic research has been done and probably still is being done into various aspects of parapsychology, including by controlled experimental methods. I really find it hard to understand why some people on here who clearly have no knowledge whatsoever of research methodology, and are unable to understand why their logic in attempting to present an argument is flawed, have to mock any aspect of the so-called paranormal. Nobody would ever have found out anything about the world if everybody took that kind of approach. There are many aspects of quantum physics which could be mocked on exactly the same sort of basis - being quite unbelievable from a "normal" world view - yet I don't see that happening. Strange, eh.

Where is the angel picture from, purplebreeze? It's very sweet.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Its a street with a few stalls. xxxxx I agree. Hardly even a mini-market.

I think those photos are really touching and beautiful. It was a different time. People didn't have cameras etc to constantly be recording the lives of their children, relatives and friends, as we do now. A photo like that might be the only thing somebody had to remember their dead child or other loved one by, apart from their own memory, and was probably very comforting.

LadyNorwood Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > > > On a completely separate issue: > > > > I hung up for the birds a large lump of fat from > a > > ham my sister had cooked and brought. It was > hung > > securely (I thought!) from a string high up on > a > > pole away from anywhere cats etc could reach > it. > > In fact I saw several cats attempting and > failing > > to get anywhere near it. > > > > Then one morning the ham had completely > > disappeared - nowhere in the garden. Must have > > been a fox, but how ON EARTH could it have > reached > > it? Can they jump that high? > xxxxxxx > Probably squirrels..... xxxxxxx They must have been extremely strong squirrels :)) It was all the fat from a whole joint of ham!

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Muslim scholars, theosophists, hell, even > scientologists discuss stuff rationally. That > doesn't lend it any credibility, it's all based on > faith. > > And I'm still waiting for the evidence pumpkin. > Without that it's just a faith based position, and > more power to you for your quaint beliefs, who am > I to belittle them ;-) xxxxxx You don't actually know what you're talking about, do you? Never mind :)

FJDGoose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Surrey Quays is great - ive lived here for years , > really near the river , southwark park and the > Angel ( lovely pub with views of tower bridge etc) xxxxxxxx And don't forget the Wibbly Wobbly :)

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No love. I've made my arguments quite clear. xxxxxx No you haven't, sweetie. Or at least, they may be clearly stated, but they are not logical. But what is clear to me is that there is no point discussing them with you :)) As a postgrad I was a tutor to first and second year psychology undergraduates, and parapsychology was the subject of one of the tutorials. They were all intelligent people and - strangely enough - not only did none of them call the subject "barking", but they were very well able to discuss the issues rationally, including research methods.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw Wild Willy Barrett playing in the back room > of a bar a couple of years back. He played for six > hours and then at two in the morning apologised > because he'd run out of songs. > > It was brilliant > > He said he was off abroad for a while. xxxxxxx I believe he's living in France. Otherwise we'd have had him as well. Next time, eh (it won't be a six hour set, though :)) )

a) Some academic research into the subject has (and possibly still is) looking for evidence other than anecdotal. b) El Pibe's argument: Event x was thought by a person who experienced it to be paranormal. It was subsequently shown not to be. Therefore events y and z, also thought by those who experienced them to be paranormal, WILL ALSO subsequently be shown not to be. Fatal logical flaw. ETA: And I'm sick of being patronised on here.I have done postgrad research and I'm not stupid.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Personal insults? xxxxx Yes. As opposed to the use of facts.

Oh yes. And still leaping off ladders and drawing blood. Manic as ever. He came to the Ivy House a couple of years ago, sold out then, great night, that's why we asked him back :)

yummers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here ( if link works!) > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5 > ,336529,1244137#msg-1244137 > > Otherwise its under the James barber "local > councillor: how can I help" thread in this part of > the forum. xxxxxx The attachment is just coming out as two blank pages for me :( Maybe my ancient laptop doesn't support php files?

Oh FFS. You can't employ a logical argument, so you resort to personal insults. Same old, same old.