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malumbu

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  1. I'd never heard of BDSM either. I've heard of M&S though, that is quite popular. Back to the point porn is boring. And sometimes quite nasty. Where will I find decent erotica? And what happened to all the funny soft porn from the 1970s or even the gratuitous semi nudity we could expect from sit coms from the same era. When the busty women chases after the bus in one of the On the Buses films and her top pops open, that is classic. As is the Harry and Paul take on On the Buses.
  2. I haven't had time to wade through the decent discussion on the site about the threatened closure of at least parts of Lewisham. I was at the march on Saturday and my instinct is that it is all wrong. I also had the pleasure of working for DH (in another field) and there has been no example in recent history of a whole ministerial team being sacked. Burstowe for letting the cock up of public health and NHS reform happening on his Lib Dem patch, and Lansley for the "no top down reorganisation of the NHS" about turn. So then they get the evil enforcer in Hunt. Anyway rant over. Back to instinct. We had child number one at a relatively new Lewisham maternity ward. The NCT told us that the NHS would tie the mother into some archaic birthing position and fill her full of drugs before relenting to the scapel. They were actually pleased we had a birthing plan. Sadly the radio wasn't working so the father could not listen to TMS. The public maternity ward was madness with TVs blaring and even a church service at one point. But we have erased this from the collective memories. Fast forward three years and a move of house and Kings was now the selected maternity ward. No thanks we will have him/her at home. Southwark NHS were fine, and there were no complications (or we would have been down to the hospital liek a flash before we debate the risks of home births). Just didn's seem as nice at Kings as at Lewisham (and we use the former as our usual hospital for a number of relatively routine appointments). Maybe it was the difficult parking that put us off rather than the chaos of numerous wards crammed into a small space.
  3. Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was terribly confused for a while. I thought it > was some arcane football song that I didn't know > (like Chelsea and celery) until I read the next > thread. He's got a pineapple on his head Greatest football song ever Second greatest is "Where's your wife gone (repeat twice) Kenny Burns, she's gone and left you (repeat twice) coz your a bastard Kenny Burns" when it was sung years after he had no doubt got back with her.
  4. Loads of David Lloyd type places as you go into Bromley Thornton Heath Leisure Centre and other Fusion places Park Langley close to Beckenham Also played at Harris in Crystal Palace and Bacons And St Dunstans in Catford Not sure if they hire out. They will also have courts at the posh school in Central Hill and Dulwich College.
  5. Great question on questiontime, paraphrasing and selectively quoting from a health minister.
  6. As in the argument is shite, rather than the hospital I hasten to add.
  7. It's shite. There is my business reason against the closure.
  8. I am quite theatrical but straight. Can I come? And what is the age range?
  9. Is this SE23.com? Their local Big Issue seller is one of only about three topics of conversation on that site. So years ago I am cycling across the wonderfully smooth surfact at the front of Westminster Catherdral and I clock the winos sitting on the bench. Sad people I think. Then crash I fall off due to the slippiness of marble tiles. And they came to my rescue. Different view then.
  10. malumbu

    Snow go

    I went to the pub in 1982 when the site was shut, but mind you that was real tough outside London snow And in 1990, when they closed public transport down (damm me for cycling) and we all got sent home after lunch (well the 15% of us who were in). Home = the pub And again in 2009 when exactly the same thing happened. But that was a bloody good dump if you get my drift. It was a shame I used the mountain bike as I shouldn'tt have bothered getting in as I could have gone sledging with the kids Going to work by road bike tomorrow as it is not bad enough to get old tractor tyres bike out of the shed. Only bad thing is all the crap off the road makes you filthy. Very pretty though.
  11. Really? Good heavens, I hadn't realised after all these years. Well you do learn something new every day! Thanks you oh so much for correcting me. I always wondered why I had that restraining order. Any other useful advice about relationships please? It would be oh so useful. What an absolutely fabulous forum this is. I'll leave my story about Meatloaft and Bat Out of Hell for another day. (did anyone see that episode of Father Ted?)
  12. I looked round N London and SE London for flats in 1987. I sold a house in quite a nice part of Cheshire, and needed an extra ?10k to get a flat in London (funnily enough the part of Cheshire is now very desirable, if you want Manchester of Liverpool footballers for your neighbours). So I ignored suggestions to move to Gillingham, or the East End (which then was a place to avoid). In N London (the A10 if I recall right), I'd get a bedroom less, and there was less green space. Many of my viewings took me to S Norwood, and I got to know the roads around the Selhurst Park (one of our two league football teams). It wasn't very special, but Thornton Heath and West Croydon were worse, with the exception of the excellent curry houses and ethnic food shops. South Norwood did have some lovely pubs, one of which (The Goat House) was demolished for flats - shame - and still has intersting restaurants. I didn't look around East Dulwich as this was rough as hell at the time, and I still recall fundraising once and the 'Hardship Lane' comment - this was less than 15 years ago. In the gentrification that has happened since (aks Dulwich ripples) I think it has lost some of its cutting edge, and is still overpriced. If the new Overground has not pushed up prices too much then worth checking out SE23 and SE26. For some reason the high streets there cannot mirror Hardship Lane, sorry Lordship Lane, but it has good (if not better) transport links, and the starting up of a bar culture. Honor Oak trys to be a village, although methinks they are mad wanting a Tesco's convenience store. No pubs due to the temperance movement but some nice bars and restaurants.
  13. I also bought Silver Lady by David Soul for my first girlfriend. She didn't give it me back when she dumped me. Still quite like the song though.
  14. Try Rob Green at QPR, he's generally pretty useless at that level and will no doubt soon be looking for a job when the moneybag hoover up some more players willing to be overpaid.
  15. What are you lot like First question is it cast iron. If yes, then is it worth something (either cash or for free) then e-bay it or freecycle it. If it is cast iron and not worth anything smack it with a lump hammer and it will break into pieces which you can then put in your recycling bin. If Southwark don't recycle steel then sneak into Lewisham and put it in a green bin outside someone's house. How to tell if it is cast iron? Thick and heavy. And a nice ring when you hit it. The street people will also probably take it away for you whatever. Also the vans that roam looking for scrap some of them will also take a fiver to take less valuable stuff away - they tend to have trucks that are cages with a sign up about licensed waste collectors or something like that.
  16. malumbu

    Snow go

    This is soft Southern snow, and you lot a load of soft Southern Jessies When I was a kid North of Watford Juntion we had proper hard snow. And no one batted an eyelid. Nice cycle ride home tonight, a little earlier than normal (everyone else buggered off), as there was so little traffic on the road at 6pm.
  17. Now I am worried, as I used to drink with the Beat at the Compton Arms in Handsworth
  18. Vinyl - Abba Arrival (first single was Monster Mash, then followed by Bohemian Rhapsody) CD - Pulp Different Class Burned CD - can't remember, maybe Air Moon Safari, or Johny Cash American IV Download - that's for my kids Legal tape - Madness, Madness. (cheap Spanish version) Illegal tape - maybe Armed Forces by Costello and the Attractions Bootleg tape - Magazine live at Oxford New Theatre, 1977 (sound so poor unlistenable) To broaden the discussion I can, but rarely do, play vinyl I have a pile of tapes somewhere but never play them I don't buy CDs of my vinyls I lost Abba Arrival, but found a very similar copy in Greenwich Market.
  19. No I was making an obtuse comment on nationality tests, whilst having a dig at a right wing 'black top' tabloid, and trying to bring what I see as ignorance and bigotry in Northern Ireland. Clearly three threads in one. I liked the good old days when the national anthem was booed at Wembley matches, and fans paraded union flags rather than the flag of St George. Non of this nonsense Sheffield Wednesday brass band playing rule Britannia and God Save the Queen. And then Billy Bragg really confused me. Now that is five subjects on one thread. I need to get myself a bottle of good English Ale. Oh my word my local supermarkets don't sell any. That's another two subjects related to being English, which is way down the list of how I would describe myself. Two more subjects. But I did know how many red crosses there was in the flag of the Union.
  20. Never heard of a butterfly roof, so Googled it. Tell us more about your wants and desires. Most loft extensions round my way (1930s) are ugly, with owners maximising their space. There are even ones in semi's done at similar times and probably by the same company (Econolofts) where they have used different designs for what looks like the same outcome. From my understanding loft extensions are done (a) because they are cheaper than other extensions (b) easier planning (mind you this lot would happily pave over paradise and put up a parking lot) © because there isn't no room for another extension. Anyway I've digressed and probably upset half of the readership. Tell us more about your situation.
  21. Looking for some interesting discussion and banter, but all I see in the posts above were predictions. My son's primarly school run a fantasy football league if anyone is interested. Right, I am now bored of taking the p out of your predictions competition, so wont mention it again, so back to proper football talk. Interesting in the pricing structure and the talk of free coaches to away matches. A certain non London prem team do that as an occasional treat and have bused 2000+ with a fanfare that creates a nice carnival atmosphere. The same non London team has dropped ticket prices to a sensible ?15 for the FA Cup replay (compared to the ?26 at the first match, at the pride of West London (he says quoting the recent advertising, and stiffling a laugh)). And to bring discussion to more local matters, Arsenal dropped the away fans tickets to ?26 for the recent match. OK there was still 5000 empty seats in the home areas, but hats off to them for more sensible charging. And to Fulham for the kids for a quid (and hang on for unpopular matches as you can buy tickets for ?15 from ticket master).
  22. Cry "havoc"! and let slip.. Pray tell.
  23. Who is UDT prey tell?
  24. Blythe Hill Tavern, trad Irish on a Thursday night. Best pub in SE London. www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/29/2991/Blythe_Hill_Tavern/Forest_Hill
  25. The contestents were Greg Rutherford, British long jump Gold medal and an older bloke. I am not having a poke at Rutherford, as half the audience got it wrong as well. I just thought that it was something that we all learnt at school - the three crosses of the countries that make up the UK (Wales doesn't count at of course it is a principality). I thought it was ironic on day that they actually flew the Union flag in Belfast, that so many people in England didn't know what it was all about. Discuss..... If the Daily Mail had their way they would of course deport all those that got the question wrong. Good think too!
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