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Just wanted to say you modern football types are a load of softies. Now whilst I don't condone of trouble at footy matches it was pretty common in all my early days and I first witnessed a brawl when I was 11. It was all exciting and nobody got hurt. Obviously there was less savory stuff Last night's events were so predictable but seemed to be one group trying to have a go at another and vice versa. If you were surprised at that go and watch a posher sport.

Good. Customer service is vital in my opinon. My preference is not to go to LL. You are quite content so that is fine. Horses for courses.

Wow, what stereotyping and some nastiness thrown in too. There is some nonsense on another thread about Beckenham. Probably similar in social status and education to around here. Yet more rabid when it comes to politics. I occasionally go to Liddle and always come out with far more than I expected because it is a treasure trpve. Main issue is that it takes so long to get served. Please all keep your patronising stereotypes to yourselves. But as I can't help but comment, I spent some time with some professional people on the coast yesterday to a special work project. All blokes, all educated, but the casual xenophobic, sexist and homophobic banter took me back to the 80s and 90s. Bet most of them voted out.

NickT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seabag there is a very good carpet shop in > Beckenham, we just had our stairs done in a nice > stripey number. > But there's a good one on Lordship Lane or has it > gone? I've used Hayes Carpets a number of times. The first one was when the staff in LL Carpets snubbed me (this is a true story). I would have used them again recently but they didn't stock the stair carpet (stripy by coincidence) so we went to EJ carpets in Forest Hill. But this is starting to sound like a where to buy, or not as the case may be, carpets thread (parcularly where the old ones are thread bare) rather than some pointless twaddle.

Don't pick on our Lenny. If you want to pick on someone make it David Jason who was miles off a Peckham accent - which in any case was filmed in Bristol. Or the classic John Nettles where they decided that he should have a SW accent even though they sound nothing like that in Jersey (Begerac). Or Dick Van Dyke. Or some of the mish mash in East Enders where they can't even get the ethnicity right (oh you have brown skin, you can be a generic South Asian).

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Why have you hijacked my thread. This thread is how Ryanair try to extract money by pretty devious means. So the couter-argument is buyer beware, they've have managed to open up the market, we can now fly to many more places and they put pressure on the traditional cariers. Both Brussels and our own Office of Fair Trading tried to take them to taks about transparency to mixed results. And then hey presto, they worked out that it wasn't nice to be unpopular, improved their web site, were more honest about prices and even allowed you to have normal sized hang baggage. But now they are trying to frighten you about seat allocation, reducing the advanced check in time for people like me who don't want to pay ?16 for allocated seats for an hour flight. Please try to stick to the point my dear readers.

Just go away. I think you all know my views.

Wow In my youth we freely used mong (downs) and spas (spastic) as insults. Thanks God we've moved on. If that is too politically correct for you then it is a sad day. Now I don't car about chalkboard vs blackboard, and brainstorm vs brainshower. It just seems to be a shallow insult/argument quoting PC. Whilst funny tubby comics such as Jo Brand used their size to good comic effect, and perhaps as she lives just down the road she would sit on you. In a crushing rather than other sense. Go and think about your words and write a 500 word essay.

Quite peed off with reductions in the London Bridge to Croydon (West and East) lines which will be fast (ie ignore much of Sarf East London) and my fast route to Gatwick.

No it aint, certainly Easyjet is much easier as I use both

I was going to just mention infiltration (by West Wickham and Beckenham) and with the migration of the hipsters from Shoreditch to Peckham, maybe we are seeing the same for older professionals from Bromley to SE22. Just look at the voting in the last general election and the referendum to understand there is a massive difference in demographics if not necessarily educuation/class

Its a no brainer. Sadly there are a lot of people with no brain. It wastes fuel and adds to pollution. Sadly the cops wont take action (in fact many of them have no brains too) but some local authorities do get their enforcement officers to do so. FPN. If you ask a no-brain to carry out a no-brainer action and turn it off, you are likely to get abuse. Cars are being progressively fitted with stop start which will switch the engine off. You no longer need to let cars warm up. Many leave them idling whilst tbey make a call or on one recent occasion smoke a joint. For once I would have been happy to grass (ha ha) on them if a bizzy had come by.

Salsaboy - why do you seem to have to revert to the language of the street? Gervais is in deed over rated and not funny. Do insult him for that but not his size. You should organise a one to one with aforementioned Nick Helm (a fat and bearded fcuk to use your terminology) where you can fcuk and cant at each other to your hearts content. Preferably in a sealed room without any connection to the outside world where nobody can hear you or read about it. The last one alive wins. Now that is what I call funny.

I don't usually join in beyond telling your lot to support your local team but that was so poor tonight.

Some great reminiscing (Sea Monster is of course Jo Brand) and similarly not a fan of Jimmy Carr. Remember being fortunate to have conversations with the likes of Arthur Smith. Two favourite stories at EDC were once when a scream went up due to a spider and the act said that this was the first time he'd been heckled by an aracnid. And another time when some act was getting grief so my mate turns on the member of the audience. "great the heckler is being heckled". You had to be there of course. But was the poo that I saw on Friday night dreadful or do I not understand 2010s comedy? I reckon it was dreadful but surprised that people just didn't walk out but seemed to thing ranting expletives was hilarious.

I have just checked in with Ryanair for a flight on Sunday. I remember a few years ago talking to a friend where he said "booking with Ryanair" - yes "did it take you a long time" - yes, as you were so paranoid that you would get one thing wrong for example not unchecking a box. And then Michael O'Leary woke up to how so many people hated them, irrespective of their competitive prices. And suddenly their Website was so much easier (not as easier as others) and you dropped your guard. Even when it said "are you friggin stupid for not getting insurance, only idiots dont check this box". But now the dark powers are back and checking in leads to a return of paranoia. They are also now restricting checking in to four days rather than the seven they had sensibly adopted. I think/hope that I didn't get conned into paying ?8 per seat. But I am not 100% sure. OK so they are a no frills airline and have to make their money somehow. Buyer beware of course but I do feel rather violated.

Both computers in red dwarf - Norman Lovett and Harry Hayridge were/are comedians. Great to hear all of the above but am I an old git to say it was better then? And yes, watch some of the editions of the Young Ones, some haven't stood the teat so well.

I should have said I would have had a better night listening to the Archers (I wont spoil the plot but a Ken and Deidrie moment) then going to the comedy at the Ivy (as suggested above) and watching the Last Leg on Channel 4 +1. Think there are two points - the 'stadium' comedy gigs - not to say they aren't talented but just not my scene and this stuff I saw on Friday night which is anything but safe but I thought was dreadful. I suppose it it like seeing art painted in excretia. Trying to shock but not entertaining. Stewart Lee can do it (ie be rude and insulting) and in the past I'd see people like the Sea Monster (I'm being clever here) and Mark Thomas, both rude but a bit more subtle in their insults. Loooking at the Edinburgh reviews of Nick Helm it seemed like pseuds corner. But as for Sarah Pascoe who is most desirable on the TV and radio circuit? Daniel Kitson comparing was the only redeeming thing.

I've been going to small comedy shows since a late teen. I was a regular at the East Dulwich Cabaret and other venues into the 80s and 90s. I saw many of the established acts in their early days, and saw some fall by the way side and others blossom. I've seen bawdy, blunt, rude and more subtle comedy. On Friday I went to Kings Place for a comedy benefit gig. Probably the worst comedy night I've had (with maybe the exception of Sydenham Twilights nightclub, and seeing Jim Bowen at a funeral directors conference). Stuart Lee was originally billed as headlining, but didn't attend. Sarah Pascoe's set featured a highly unamusing story about her inability to give hand jobs. Nick Helm (BBC 3 comedy Uncle) overan by what seemed like half an hour shouting chuffing and bunting at the audience. The headliner gave a totally unoriginal sketch about Brexit in a Jackanory/Ladybird books style. The Grauniad reading audience guffawed throughout. Was it Emporer's new clothes or just as I think total shite. So dear audience, theres is a fine line between comedy and just ranting profanities. I have no interest in the 'Live at the Apollo' where 3000 people laugh at every word. But was it just a bad night or is 'alternative' comedy no longer funny? I should have stayed in, just donated the entrance fee, and enjoyed Adam Hills on Channel 4.

However the cost of the Australian toilet will have rocketted since I bought mine due to the week pound, perhaps I should have bouught a job lot. Sorry for digressing. wc/sink not we/sink which sounds like a combined urinal sink.

Hmmm boom-bust. Yes in deed. Blair's government was going to rid us of this, noting we were coming out of an economic low at the time. But then we had low interest rates and low inflation, with low unemployment and lots of other factors to encouage us to borrow. This one is totally self inflicted. I am now liking it to the inflation post middle East crisis in the early 70s which my dad, probably rightly said, screwed up his pension. Which will be the same for me I expect. Perhaps if the leavers had campaigned with a "panic buy pot noodles" slogan we wouldn't be where we are. Interestingly it is difficult to stop panic buying which could be seen as a rational decision rather than selfish hoarding (or worse still profiteering). Government say don't panic, but we do as government can't be telling the truth. Media savvy experts say the same, still to the same effect. Usually it is bread, bottled water, fuel and toilet rolls that go first. Looks like we could be heading back before the 60s, even before the 50s, to the winter of '48 where people had to burn furniture to say warm. But they were good old days of course...... Fack I am unhappy about all of this.

I'll be a rebel, buck the trend, and answer the question. Yep got a bog under the stairs. Fortunately there is room for a proper waste pipe rather than one of those turd grinding things. To save space we got an intgegrated we/sink where you wash with clean water that then fills the cistern. Only cold mind you. Special model from Australia which fitted myself (there was a lovely pink more trad loo there before. When Mr Bennison did our central heating boiler his workers thought it most wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6qZMF9I70 Now find they are all the rage and much cheaper in price than our more top of the range http://www.diy.com/departments/cooke-lewis-duetto-close-coupled-toilet-with-integrated-basin-with-soft-close-seat/160720_BQ.prd

I'd bring back retail price control, prevent the supermarkets from selling fags and fresh bread, and return to the 1960s (along with grammer schools and hopefully hanging). To be serious price controls work in France hence they still have village shops and tabacs with about ten customers a day. Opening hours aren't so great though...

Yep