Dulwich Born And Bred

By the way Bodsier, you can see the comment I left on that thread and draw your own conclusions to how you perceived me to be . Asking if I'm comfortable there is a very weird term to use ... Comfortable as in what ? Bashing the OP? As I didn't partake in that . As in drawing attention to the man's colour etc? As I didn't partake in that either . So no idea what you mean .

I have no idea what you mean Bodsier.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I found all the chatter about appearance/race and > culture on that thread somehow rather offensive, > in the light of the fact that we were discussing a > young child being hit around the head and face by > her father and pleading with him to let her go to > school! THAT was the main point of the thread. I > sincerely hope someone reading knew who he was and > that the poor girl has not been suffering more > physical abuse while the EDF was fretting about > the niceties of how to describe a violent thuggish > criminal. Hear ! Hear ! But to be honest, it's the EDF and most threads do get ruined by the PC police who have to be 'extra'.

I have friends from Vietnam who gets mistaken for Chinese , I have Russian friends who are asked if they are Polish and so on ... It's just so easy and innocent to do . It's not a crime .

Personally I think people should stop trying to be 'TOO' PC. I took no offence to the original post at all . The world is huge and it's very difficult to be accurate as to someone's ethnicity so the majority of us will take a guess . It might not be accurate but it does narrow it down . I get asked if I'm from Brazil etc , do I take offence ? No as I don't expect people to know and no way would I take offence if someone said I'm black/Brazilian/Cuban/mixed/ Mexican etc with a London accent .

And no, the black people I know don't think black means African, they see themselves different to Africans since they have their own culture . I'm half black by the way . The Black being West Indies.

In that case we are all African since we all originated from Africa.

Noel Clarke? It's subjective who we would think are 'greats' though ?

I just had this today , someone saying they will collect a unit this afternoon , we dismantled it and now they can't get it . It annoys the hell out of me !

What a Good Samaritan !

Oh wow ! Poor postman . No excuse for that . Thanks for the update .

What is the reason ?

I have always wanted to go to midnight mass just so that I can say I have been but once I start on the wine at home , mince pies , tin of celebrations , the Bailey's , the Christmas tree chocolate whilst singing 'Last Christmas' I usually crash out fast asleep around 11pm. Is there a big turn out at Midnight Masses?

How awfully sad . I really hope the police manage to track them down .

Didn't their Head who turned the school around leave ? If so maybe this is why ? laire17 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's going on at goose green? Their results are > terrible and well below the floor level (minimum > level set by Government). > I bet OFSTED will be knocking ASAP but have they > had a tough year?

I definitely agree that dog licensing would help and fining the offenders . Nothing wrong with wanting to keep our streets poo free and litter free .

I just find it bonkers that there is nothing we can do and we have to tolerate it . Why ?!

I noticed lots of poo today as well but to be honest , we play dodge the poo every single day because there is always poo somewhere around here ! Never used to be as bad as this though .

This post is hilarious . As sixth generation of Dulwich , it has changed massively. I have a love/hate relationship with Dulwich at the moment , I'm not sure which side is winning though .

St John's church this Saturday is having a grotto.

Sometimes children do not connect with an adult , it's personalities clashes . As someone who has worked in childcare I had an instant rapport with all my children from the off as we just took to each other , it's the reason why I think it's important when interviewing that the childcarer and child interacts with each other at the interview face to face to see if there is a rapport but obviously with au pairs being interviewed via Skype etc it works differently so I cannot really offer advice on that count except to try and get them to go to fun places and do fun things together and see if that helps in bonding .

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Thanks for the update .

Everyone is a comedian on here !

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