PeckhamRose

Should not the above be a reply to the goose for New Year posting, PeckhamGateCrasher? But yes, clubbing them is better than shooting. The shots will have Trident down on you before you can say GasMark5 for 90 mins.

Better now? I had this last year, Hospital Champagne* saved me. (* I LOVE Lucozade and those witty folk GOdley and Creme ex 10cc named it HospitalChampagne in a song.) Hope your health improves and you're not too exhausted as a result. It took me a good 2 weeks to feel strong again!

Soooo it's not a professional photographer. it's a neighbour with who films on his mobile so the faces may be can't be made out anyway BUT the ear twitching / touching thing happens and that's when people put two and two and the neighbour suspects the father/famousperson for who he is and and and and sells the film to the Sun (would the Sun buy something so odd if the famous person was not THAT clearly identifiable?) Ummmmmmm Before I go with eartugging any more ideas anyone? Ohhhhhhh Sean thanks!

Nice, nice. Nice. yeah. Now we're cooking. Thanks - I'll see how that fits. Anyone else?

I also go to Dawsons Heights. People set off fireworks up there and the views are the best, better than poncy Primrose Hill. Maybe we should all go up Dawsons Heights this year. An impromptu EDF meeting. However, I MAY go to the Bridges and see the fireworks. Being bikers we tend to park just south of the river on bike parks and have no probs with transport. :) ALSO may be in Broadstairs. Sometimes bike down there and stay for the night. People set off fireworks on the beach and or jetty which is rather stunning to see around the Bay.

Peckham Rye Park. Noisy buggers. ;)

By the way who ARE Gordon Smith and John Edwards?

Ohhh gawddd you lot are so nice for even considering this. I can NEVER guess plots. I need a synopsis for Tom and Jerry cartoons, me. I have just this one main thing to work out. The important thing is the Dad's face is not photographed. How can the son then stand in front of the press and PROVE and/or successfully persuade them that it was HIM the Son in the photo. Naturally the actors will be same build height and hair colour.

I just don't think the press would go for something so simple and easily identifiable/explainable. But I am so grateful you took the time to even think about it Keef! Thanks! Oh - also they don't live near one another so cars/coats ain't gonna work.

Yes, it's evolution. Darwin worked that out. Breeding. The best most useful mating with the best most useful (with useful opposable thumbs, strongest arms, best eyesight etc etc) Tho why our appendixes (appendices?) still exist I am not sure but maybe in another 3,000 years they won't. You only have to look at documentaries about penguins in the arctic or antarctic or wherever the hell it is they hang out to know there CAN'T be a God. I mean, WHY? Hahahahahahaha LostThePlot tell us about your experience of spirits. Would be interesting to read.

OK since there is a thread about people being bored at work perhaps you can help me with a plot problem I have in a script. I can't see the wood for the trees. The set up is - The lead male character - who is a GOOD MAN - and happens in the story to be quite famous- is estranged from his grown up son. This lead male is photographed coming out of a place he should not have been seen in, and the ensuing publicity is threatening his career and that of his wife. The photo is NOT of his FACE, but of some other identifiable thing, mark. During the course of the story he and his son become friends again and the son saves his father's career by persuading the press it was he, and not his father, in the photograph. So I had them share identifiable moles on their hands. Birthmarks are not hereditery, but sometimes moles are. But the idea of moles is just not good enough, and a weak idea. Someone suggested they both be ginger but casting that would be tough and if they wore ginger wigs it would just be laughable (well, I'd laugh if I saw it!) Someone suggested the father is photo'd coming out of a distinctive car which his son then says he was driving but that's pretty unbelievable. The press don't fall for that. Soooooo - what do you think? What can identify them both without seeing their faces? Get your imaginations going - and no, you can't have a co-writer's credit but if it were ever shown again and you remind me I'll try and get you a complimentary ticket! Thanks for any ideas though. :)

If we think it is a bad idea and we are trying to be helpful, and speaking on behalf of neighbours who may be mighty irritated by the noise and so on, I think we have a right to say so, and the Chav is a lawyer who knows as well as anyone else that such rights (to have a chicken shed and do what the hell she likes) come with responsibilities. Responsibilities in a modern civilised world include being neighbourly and helpful and kind and thoughtful. Yes you read lots of negativity in here to your idea, Chav, but go ahead, ignore it all and do what you want and go with your ideas and not the advice or wishes of those around you. After all, isn't that exactly what politicians do?

I don't think you're taking this seriously.... I wanted to read people's points of view about all this. Yah boo

Glad I don't live next to someone who keeps chickens. What a racket. In a town? What point are you trying to prove? Who / what are you trying to impress? Grow vegetables. Much quieter.

Back to Xanthe's original post. And my reply "Think about whether you like to be in charge in the relationship, or not, or equal as equal can be. Then make intentions and expectations clear from day one." I was serious. Treat us all as individuals but equally don't try and please all of us by being something you're not. Absolutely not suggesting you were doing that, but having spoken to a lot of women and men about this over the years (no, I am not a counsellor, I am a writer), I know that women and men very rarely make their case at the outset, being too eager to please. The leading man in the play I just wrote (where he played Dominant Alpha male) paid me the highest complement by saying he now realises why he thinks the way he does about himself and why he has made so many mistakes in the past with his choice of women. He is dominant but was attracted to dominant women, where as what he really wants is alpha submissive. (A woman who doesn't mind not being in charge but is not a pushover wimp type and does know what she wants.) Labels labels labels. It's all about sex innit and finding a suitable breeding partner. Cept for those of us who don't want kids. Then it's all about whether he likes riding motorcycles too. If we're biking we don't have to be talking! Happy New Year. I'll get me coat.

The spirits are in the DNA? DNA is a code. Is code code or is code a "medium" with spirits in? No, not drunk too many spirits. DNA needs a medium (excuse the confusing use of words) or there is no point in DNA. Thus it is illogical to think of DNA hosting spirits. If they're dead there is no point in them in living DNA. Where you say, Charlie, there is always life after death, can you explain that - how do you know, what logic are you basing the assumption on, what scientific evidence? It has been suggested that if the earth has been in existence for the equivalent of 24 hours, humans have been in existence for the equivalent of the last minute. What IS the point of life after death! Now, what did Santa get you all?

Well since you'as asking a woman's perspective, THIS woman simply responds thus: Wrong woman. Move on. Better luck next time. Think about whether you like to be in charge in the relationship, or not, or equal as equal can be. Then make intentions and expectations clear from day one. ;) Happy New Year!

Oh, excuse me, like this is A SERIOUS OPTION! I have just been watching Dr Who. It's realistic, is it not. East Dulwich Angst Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can only go one way PeckhamRose

Who's forcing you to? No-one. Exactly. Damn.

Why is there not a WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Page on this forum? There are on the few other forums I am a member of, like the motorcycle one THELONDONBIKERS :) Welcome by the way. Don't take ANY notice of the whiners and whingers on this site xanthe. Most of us are pretty positive happy folk!

Wow, I was expecting a long list of contributors to this one!

Hi - another option from a motorcyclist is go to motorcyclist shop (say Metropolist at South side of Vauxhall Bridge). Bikers know how to keep warm too, so you can get good gloves and boots and so on. I'd also recommend along with everyone else here - lots of layers are important - but also sheets of newspaper down your jacket are also a good idea. Don't know about where you're going but windproof materials are probably a good idea too (and newspaper helps!) Natural fibres above polyester plastic rubbish is important. [Comes out of garden shed...] [puts on ludicrous Birmingham accent...] Today I am wear-eeeng M&S thermal long sleeve vest - a silk long sleeve sweater, 100% cashmere sweater, a thick cotton sweater over that, a very thick and winter lined (and - unnecessary for your trip I hope) armoured and waterproof jacket. And 70denier thick woolly tights (Peter Jones and M&S do them) (and men bikers wear them too tho they may not admit it) Woolley leggings over them then thin socks and very thick socks Waterproof Motorcycle boots. Thin silk gloves Winter lined motorcycle gloves. For a long ride in the fog. Have a great trip though! What an experience!!

I did a psychic course years ago, and found my abilities to "read" people and pick up what they wanted me to tell them was uncanny. This skill can be used and abused and has done so throughout the ages. I saw a ghost, when I was a little girl in a boarding school. 20 years later the lady who was on night duty that night, who I had woken up when I started screaming, showed me some pictures and I identified the little boy ghost I had seen and she told me that little boy had died in my dormitory two years previous. Now, just because I have stated those facts, does not mean there is life after death. Before we had science people created Gods to explain thunder and rainbows. Science came along and explained them but we still believe in gods. I do not understand why we have religion. Oh wait, yes I do - it is so that we can be controlled by those who profess to be in charge of those religions.... Anyway, I think that one day science will explain my ghost story. Already science can recreate the "white light" people on the verge of death claim they see (and I can't remember the details), so it's just a matter of time when so much else will be explained. The danger in all this is the creationists! No, I do not "believe" in religion or Gods or anything else human beings made up. We are all we have. And when we die we are as meat, just like the animals many of us eat are. (Derren Brown obviously is God. Well anyway I'd fall to his feet the sweet little minx.) Hey, HAPPY CHRISTMAS!! ahahaahahahaahahaha

WHAT small pictures??? And how do you sort them? According to taste? Ummm who's taste? Sort them in piles? Explain! "and estate agents" AND actors.

EDification. Eating too much in East Dulwich. EDifuckation. Errr