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If, geobz, you think that the service from ED to London Bridge is "reliable and awesome", you clearly haven't travelled on it during the last couple of years.

I first read the thread title as "Peasant spotted on Peckham Rye Road" and thought that this was a rude comment by someone who had recently moved into the area from somewhere like Chelsea. Then I put my glasses on ...

I said this on purpose with tongue firmly in my cheek, Artful Dogger, because I knew that someone would react like this! Of course I should have added the words "IRONY ALERT" because it was supposed to be a satire of the typical non sequitur that appears so often on this MB.

When I read the thread title "Serial poo-er in ED area", I thought that it was another thread about unsocial people who don't clear up after their dogs. Amazed to see that it's about a bloke. Brexit has a lot to answer for!

Satellite, how do you feel about breakfasting moving backwards? Could this enhance your breakfasting experience? It's worth a try. In the words of Sir Arnold Bax, you should try everything once except Morris dancing and incest.

Personally I prefer to breakfast moving backwards. It makes life so much interesting.

I'm waiting for news that Sainsbury's in Dog Kennel Hill is closing because it can't cope with a 20% increase in business during the last year. This would be just as illogical.

Yo, geobz dude. You sound like a person who has never made a mistake in your life. You are a credit to all of us less perfect mortals.

The 50s and 60s, when I was growing up, were not exactly a risk free period for kids - abductions and murders were scarcely less common than today. Remember that the Moors Murders, arguably the worst case within living memory. took place in the early to mid 60s

When he isn't busy in his allotment or making jam.

The supine behaviour of supposedly pro Remain Labour, whose Leader is basically pro Brexit, has been miserable. Just when an effective opposition is needed, with a nominally pro Remain PM running scared and afraid not to indulge the extreme right of her party, we have the chaos that is Corbyn Labour and the almost literally decimated Lib Dems with only 8/9 MPs left.

And what happened to the Tory 2015 manifesto commitment which was worded something along the lines of "We say yes to the Single Market"?

Of course I have an irony detector,????. I knew damn well that you were being ironic about Abbott's "migraine". I can't stand her, hence my mini rant about her.

There are pictures of Abbott in the pub with colleagues and other Labour MPs the night before missing Brexit vote because of her "migraine". She then gave an animated speech in Westminster Hall just before heading home at 5pm complaining of the migraine. However, at 6pm she was apparently well enough tweet about her column in the Morning Star. In the meantime Labour MPs who were suffering from cancer obeyed the three line whip to vote in favour of triggering Article 50. Arguably if Abbott had been on the premises in her office, she could have been ?nodded through?, a point which other Labour MPs have made. This is the same "principled" politician who criticised both Tony Blair and Harriet Harman over their choice of state schools for children before it was revealed that she was sending her son to the private City of London school.

The 2015 Tory manifesto not only promised an EU referendum by 2017, it also contained the words "We are clear about what we want from Europe. We say: yes to the Single Market ...". So much for "respecting democracy"!

"Virtue signalling". One of the constantly used insulting Californian pyschobabble clich?s trotted out these days, like "check your privilege". If supporting my MP who votes according to the wishes of her strongly pro Remain constituency and wants to stop her country being totally ruined (unlike her pro Brexit leader) is "virtue signalling", then I'm happy to be described in this way. As derwentgrove is fond of clich?s, then why not add "get a life!", "whatever" and "I wish!"?

While Labour was in government, Corbyn was consistently the most rebellious Labour MP, rebelling a total of 428 times. In opposition, he was a little less rebellious, in both absolute and relative terms, but still consistently in the top 10 most rebellious Labour MPs. So his hypocrisy in imposing a three line whip on a vitally important issue that really called for a free vote is breathtaking. http://revolts.co.uk/?p=932

In New York car and coach drivers can be fined if they leave their engines running while parked. I witnessed a coach driver being warned about this by a traffic cop even though he had parked his vehicle only seconds earlier.

If the vehicle was left unattended with the engine running, someone could have climbed in and half inched it. The insurers would not have looked kindly on this.

Amazing in what sense? Brilliant?

Virtue signalling? Is that an example of Californian pyschobabble like "check your privilege"? For your information I fractured my upper shoulder three months ago and haven't been upstairs in a bus since then. Furthermore I am finding it more difficult to negotiate bus stairs because of worsening arthritis in my left knee. So I'm not "virtue signalling", I'm speaking from personal experience.

I may be wrong but I would have thought that if people have had their lives disrupted to the extent that they have had to move out of their home, they could take some form of legal action against this selfish owner and possibly get an injunction preventing him continuing to cause such chaos (using the Human Rights Act?). The fact that someone has planning permission for a development doesn't mean that they can do what they like with impunity I wouldn't rely on the Southwark Planning Department and Planning Committee who are as useless as a chocolate teapot.

Some people aren't physically capable of going upstairs in a bus, either because they are disabled, suffer from arthritis or are elderly. Nigello, you may be lucky enough not to be in any of these categories but spare a thought for those people who are. And your time will come ....

Sorry Lynne, I missed the irony in your earlier post. If I had seen the expression on your face when you typed it, I might have realised!

I learn something new every day even at my great age, Lynne. However, I am always eager to increase my vocabulary. Are I right in saying that it is no longer politically correct to refer to somebody as an "ugly fat bastard", as you could in the good old days before all them hipsters first moved into ED and you could smoke all day to your hearts content in one of the old fashioned boozers that ain't there no more?