maxxi

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > First the bins and now the tumblers. > > It's a slippery slope - give it another couple of > years and there'll be rotting corpses in the > street and no-one will bat an eyelid - mark my > words. Too late...Haven't you seen the 'East Dulwich at the Weekend' thread? http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSuD6ScdQbm61nSJGNpnjj-h_lIYsHi2ddVbNhXP3rNiwZaB0hr

Smugness. The problem is in thinking it's a bad thing to feel when it's only a bad thing to express. Never heard anyone say they hated feeling smug. There's a reason it's so close to snug. And perhaps it explains why smugglers always look so pleased with themselves.

There is always a compromise to be reached... http://www.artisanwines.com/images/WG20050.JPG

Willard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Virus, been downloading too much grot... Oooh, can you get that online now?

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the problem is truly one of people with buggies > and small children cluttering up Lordship Lane, > all this will pass. Children only occupy a small > proportion of one's adult life Yes but the good citizens of ED seem to be forever popping them out like trainers from a Korean sweatshop - and popping them straight onto scooters designed to cause widespread knee-scrapage and handlebar-to-groin injury as they whiz along LL. @Mr Ben - personally I don't mind the smugness, the sourdough or the Wm. Rose shopping bags - it's the dithering that's all. My plea wasn't for the good and newly-washed folk of ED to abandon any selectivity (or even affectation) in their shopping habits, just... well just don't dither.

15 - Dammit I knew I should have kept tabs on exactly how many people up to the age of 19 there are in this country - and how many hours we can make the little feckers work! And I agree with peterstorm - hiding behind the sofa in the dark is a perfectly acceptable answer to "How might you stop young people playing tricks on you at Halloween?"

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bit of confusion here, Maxxi - guys are relics of > anti-Catholic sentiment and are burnt on Bonfire > Night, presumably as a 17th century update of some > pagan end-of-summer ritual. > > Hallowe'en occurs on the night of 31 October but > is probably a Christianised survival of a similar > pagan end-of-summer beano. > 1 Nov and 2 Nov are All Saints Day and All Souls > Day respectively - both major days in the Catholic > calendar. All Saints Day is also known as All > Hallows Day. > Hallowe'en is a > secularized/Scottish/Proddy/Yankee-fied (take your > pick) version of the "eve of All Hallows Day", > when ghosts and ghouls and witches are supposed to > roam free. > > Trick or treating is an American updating of old > Scottish Hallowe'en customs. > It is effectively a kind of blackmail i.e. if you > don't treat me, I'll 'trick' you by soaping up > your windows or letting down your tyres or some > other wickedness. > Treats don't have to be restricted to sweets of > course, they could also be cash, but fortunately > tots these days are amateurs. Yes I know that - sorry, what I meant to say was that we would be out extorting money from the last week of October through to Bonfire Night and so any time spent egging front doors or soaping windows in pursuit of an elusive Aztec Bar was a waste of 'extortion time'. An early exercise in time management and efficiency or 'time equals money'. ;-)

Atticus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > don't get this, I like drinking wine out of a wine > glass. thus, in according, I'm either pretentious > or, not with the kids. Ultimately, give people a > choice. all other thought is lazy. Do you eat > cereal out of a coffee cup in Blue Mountain? > Middle-class gone crazeeee Like suburbanites who visited France in the 70s then came home and drank coffee with chicory out of cereal bowls. C'est chic!

That would be Freesat (a satellite version of freeview operated by BBC and ITV) for which you need a satellite dish and a freesat digital box (like the freeview box) - if you have these there's no need for a digital tv.

better looking perhaps - but much more annoying. Men who are in 'weekend-casual-dress' (usually chosen by their partner) and are leading children or pushing buggies and meandering along the lane pretending to look like they know these shops and their mysteries but really wishing to be anywhere else. They are the ones who fake jollity with - and interest in - their off-spring whilst the Mrs chats (at length) with other Mrss (often around a clutch of buggies). The same that peer with feigned fascination at the garbage in Mrs Robinson or the slowly rotting overpriced veg in Franklins when the only shop they want to visit (thanks to Hugh FW's meat bible) is Wm Rose so they can 'hum' knowledgeably over the offal. The women tend to be 'scowlers'. They have been abandoned by their job for a couple of days and left marooned with spoiled and overdemanding children and a sulking man who - despite listening to Jenny Murray and buying the Guardian - still really doesn't 'get' the 'she-has-a-job-too' thing and expects to be freed of domestic duties so as to carbonise meat and bang nails into wood - or at least discuss these possibilities over the latest guest ale. Why annoying? Because they move too slowly, meander too much and too spasmodically, block the arteries and take aaaaages to pay for everything. Do us a favour loves... do it all online and spend the weekend in the country.

Has BilBob gone already? Seems to have taken my post with him (I had a flatmate like that once).

Andrew1011 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't "old trout" itself rather sexist? Especially > if a man is saying it about a woman. Quite - I think "Hatchet faced old bag" is the correct nomenclature. That or Taco Donkey.

It's their servants crowding out the public bar and their ladies sneaking into snug and distracting the potman that annoys me. That and the shopkeepers bowing all the time.

Trick or Treat? We innocent tots were always too busy trying to mug those exiting the local pub with boozy beatific smiles by shoving our 'guy' under their noses. "Gimme some money so I can blow stuff up!" http://www.teenagerockopera.com/imgs/aug08/bonf2.jpg So todays tots collect sweets not cash?! Amateurs!

See if you can become a 'member' of the club you want to go to (a lot of clubs have these schemes which are designed to give members priority when it comes to tickets). Payment of an annual fee usually means you get the right to buy tickets for any game in the season - the fact that the tickets for December aren't on sale yet only appplies to the general public and not club members.

property and of course there are huge differences - much easier to get cheap rental in Barking & Dagenham for example but harder to get reasonable mortgage in Kensington & Chelsea but that's a given (and a pointless point). Until very recently the main reason for buy-to-let was to have someone else pay your mortgage and if rents never matched mortgages no one would ever buy-to-rent. The fact is they still do. Let's put it to the test - what's the average mortgage payment for people in ED (based on a 2 bed flat)? ?1000? ?1200? ?1500? and then compare with the average rent asked for same by local estate agents.

Spain (like Barcelona) play some beautiful football - almost redefining the game... but at 3-1 ahead against Scotland they still, when suffering a minor foul, go down and roll as though savaged by a rabid dog (like Barcelona). This means I am constantly struggling between admiration and repugnance. Admirugnance?

just for ???? Beltones

I know averages don't always tell the whole story and that comparisons are odious but in the interests of stirring it up even more showing the current discrepancies and providing some figures The average monthly mortgage in London is ?1240/month The average monthly rent paid in London is ?1979/month

HAL9000 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > According to the BBC: 'He was once forced to make > a public apology after describing The Spice Girls > as "three dogs and a blackbird".' Quite right... it was four dogs and...

and gets in something brand new for the wine drinkers... http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRa6JU9kZxRgcjRsX6lGNgCU_9GVL-qV4d1_3XsKFKKyf4dRp6-1w

Nette, doc and friend practise saying "off of off" ten times... http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/10/dec/min7.jpg

ETA: - in response to red devil True but tenants who intend to stiff their landlords that way can always leave whenever they like - with no notice at all if they don't care about getting their deposit back or getting references. Plus I think getting a tenant is easier (especially in current climate) than getting a landlord and whether either they/he/she/it is/are good or not is in the lap of the gods. What I want to know is where this cellar pole-dancing club was, if the pole was left behind and did the goldfish survive? *waits on tenterhooks*

Braving The Actress for a second time jumpingjackflash is once again given the wrong kind of glass... "A Zinfandel in this?! You're having a fucking laugh!" http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/images/miller.jpg

A confused and dyslexic RedDevil enters the debate on Guarantors... http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTdzeM6onrahPR1rG9DcJYpDegcuf8RLsUIQzm7WQAV-bykTLoMA