EDOldie

I used to say I lived in Dulwich Village (almost at the end of my road) but I now say I live in East Dulwich. Pure inverted snobbery on my part.

Well, it does all question our imperialist past. I mean what right do we (or any other country for that matter) have to hang on to the historic treasures of another state? If it were the Chinese, the French or any other number of countries we would have given them back ages ago. It's only because it's the Greeks that we feel powerful enough to say get stuffed. Lord Elgin might have done the world a great service years ago but things have moved on and we need to think about what the Greeks want. It's incredibly condecending to pretend that they are somehow less responsible or less able to look after the Marbles than us.

Didn't Peter have a personalised number plate on his Jag, PP 6725 or something odd like that? Tempus fugit.

Time you bought me a drink.

They do look fantastic in the British Museum but you can't help having a slightly uncomfortable feeling. The argument that we have looked after them is a bit thin. I heard a guy on the radio this morning likening it to you saving you neighbours possesions if their house is burnt down. You don't continue to 'look after' them afterwards that would be theft in most peoples book. As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. Plato ED 'intelectual' Oldie

Indeed Lush dear boy but how do you know when?

Sounds like he got quite a ticking off.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > EDOldie Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Time was they used to have a collection of > antique > > clocks in there, don't think any of them > worked. > > Don't they have those anymore? Er, I don't know, it's been some time since I've been in there. I'm sure they were second hand.

Time was they used to have a collection of antique clocks in there, don't think any of them worked.

Shoppings a social activity Mick Mac. You need to get out more.

Boom Boom Club Did I mention I saw Curved Air the other week at this place? They were very good. Sonja has just got her freedom pass. Make you feel your age I can tell you. Antonio Oldie

They've been looking for years. SE21 & SE22 are two of the most affluent areas in south London. The surprise is that they are not here already. I heard that other locally located supermarkets were so worried they might buy the Crystal Palace Morrisons site that it was bid way over the odds to keep Waitrose out, but who knows, eh? Wouldn't shed too many tears for the local traders, look how the Lane has changed since Sainsburys opened in Denmark Hill. There is a lot of retail evidence to suggest that far from destroying local shopping centres supermarkets can attract shopers from other areas who come and use the local shops. Also look how much better the produce and shopping experience (sorry) is with local shops than the supermarket. But the supermarket is relatively cheap and convenient. Like France and the massive hypermarkets with thriving shopping centres nearby. Rates and rents are the real enemy of small shopping centres. I'd welcome a Waitrose or M & S to give Sainsburys, Somerfield, and to a certain extent Tesco's, a run for their money and, not least of all, to save me the 20 min drive to Beckenham every weekend. Shopaholic Oldie

Could end up with another battle of Goose Green here if we're not careful

gallinello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > EDOldie, are you serious about the milk-snatcher > business ? i believe you're being deliberately > provocative. I loved that free, calcium and > mineral packed milk, and so did millions of my > little schoolmates, and their often hard-up > parents ( it was the seventies, remember.) Yes I am being provocative, it goes beyond the health issue. Which ought to be paramount but probably isn't. It's more a principle of the state telling you whats good for you and your children rather than letting you decide yourself. It's not only wrong it is incredibly condecending. Also in my experience as a recipient of the milk it was usually warm and often off. Along with school dinners it was close to bullying.

Tax, no ones mentioned tax. Or the right to buy, or her probably saving the health prospects of millions of children by getting rid of that ghastly (and very fatty) school milk. She wasn't all bad you know. None of them are perfect but at least she lived here. She can't have been that unpopular she was the longest serving post war PM until the Blair Witch Project. ED Tory Oldie

Can we concentrate on the crab at the Palmeston? I feel I'm a bit of an expert.

Lets do lunch. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

reggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I reckon its naive to be cynical OK I agree with you, and Ronnie.

Well on all the other ones I've been on they seem to continue drinking from evening to morning. Might make the September one at this rate.

Norman Bates?

I was thinking more of this forum.

Can you be cynically naive?

Democracy isn't very good for politicians it seems

LegalEagle-ish Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He's bloody good at his job. Thought i saw him > lining himself up to take over tho! Do you think > he'll do a Brutus? MP wtote: Cant see a member of the House of Lords being able to become PM in the 21st Century. Be wonderfully ironic if a peer became leader of the Labour don't you think?

Andystar Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bigbadwolf Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > For your next drinks can I suggest you pencil > in > > the Palmerston as it's receiving a lot of > > attention at the other side of the forum. > > I've heard that they do good crab.. > Could be a sideways move.