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Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I just wish they'd give them a lick of colour. I > like the buildings quite a lot, but all that grey > is a bit miserable. It's the grey I like - and the way it weathers and how it looks when different parts are wet and drying - a lick of paint would ruin it.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well well, Defoe back in the PL on a 3.5 year deal > with Sunderland! So how many months, weeks or days do you think it'll be before Stevie G is "loaned" out to Liverpool next season? (I give him just long enough to unpack)

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > isn't hating quinoa because it's faddish amongst > rather tedious middle class types like hating rice > because, you know, wops...or chinks or > something....? > > It's a grain, or a pulse, or something, a > traditional object of ire, fecking wheat, > splitters...or was that the Bulgars (baddam tish)? > anyway it's small and round, like hundreds and > thousands but less pink. Ah yes, hatred would be 'irrational' if I had said I hated it - but this is about things one "doesn't get" - thas all. I don't get it like I don't get the whole superfoods argument (aren't we all still supposed to be eating some Gigi berry or other or drinking liquidised grass?) only got irritated when I first saw it written and got smug-smile-corrected in its pronunciation after asking in Peckham's H&B what kwinohwer was. Rice I get. Wheat I get (even when it's cracked). Oats ditto and Barley and I have a long standing understanding. But I think Quinoa can fuck off.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > :) > I had it on 'ting' innit.

What do you mean 'wasn't worth the wait'?

I didn't say it was relevant - just that when I heard about the WD40 they seemed a slippery bunch.

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You do know that this is the East Dulwich Forum > don't you? There are only forty members of the West Dulwich Forum...

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Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > MrBen what on earth is acid? Back in my day we > were happy sniffing petrol. > > Louisa. Petrol?! Oooh we used to dream of petrol! We had to make do with Paraffin; or snort the crumbs from the bottom of a box of firelighters.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What exactly IS quinoa? A seed whose popularity is guaranteed by its high price - superfoods my arse. Doubly annoying for it to be pronounced keenwah.

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StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Re French reaction v British after 7/7 > > Isn?t the difference that the London bombings were > arbitrary attacks on the public and the response > sort of had to be ?stuff upper lip? "After the Salmon of Doubt comes the Trout (Pout) of Defiance"* *not a red herring

What a cup tie - wot a game. Adrian - top boy. Feels like 1980.....

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Selfies. I did grind down a couple of mm of tooth enamel over xmas with all the hilarious "I'm taking an Elfie" puns....

What KK said, except that if we finally could dispel the fantasy of religion there would (without getting too Marxist about it) possibly be millions of people all over the world waking up; snapping out of it as though coming out of a stage-hypnotist's trance and thinking, "If there's no God and ergo no afterlife/reincarnation/etc... what the fuck am I putting up with this shit for?" Might they be a little pissed off? As most of them manage to refrain from being muderous lunatics, should they still keep (or should we hope they continue) drinking the Kool Aid? Or will people believe in "The Force" by then? Yes I know it's bonkers but I recently spent some time with a friend from Calif. (I know) who kept banging on about The Singularity and it leading to a kind of 'not-dying-immortality-second-life' bollocks. No, you're right. Not the thread for that.

Yes quids - that Isle of Wight ferry's a bastard.

If it's just a trim you can get a pedicure locally (few threads in businesses section) If it's got to the point of being a problem (medically) ask your GP to refer you to the Gaumont House clinic on Peckham High Street - had a few trotter problems sorted there and they do look at bunions, ingrowing toenails etc.

Otta Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > If there was no religion humans would undoubtedly > find something else to kill each other over,... But without the fantasy of life-after-death/paradise/heaven the gullible might not do so - in this kind of incident at least - with such lack of regard for the consequences. The problem is that The West relies on, and even cherishes, it's own make-believe and so cannot condemn other religions but rather criticise their interpretation and hope the majority of adherents of said religion agree; and if history teaches us anything it's that the arguments over interpretation of individual religions cause destruction and death as surely as wars between rival philosophies.

If we accept the principle of presumed innocent until proven guilty then we must equally accept found guilty as charged until shown otherwise. Everything else is opinion.

Camberwell Old Cemetery - lots of old plots overgrown by wild woodland and views over the city

I also remember the street from the early 90s when the Bishop Brewery was still up at Borough and bermondsey antiques market was very popular because a bye-law meant that if you 'accidentally' bought stolen goods there they were yours for keeps - not sure if that's still the case but it made the place a right den of duckers and divers on a Friday morning.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > . > > sorry, serious thread. maybe but I have a feeling some of those who were attacked may have appreciated the sentiment even as they criticised the topicality.

Just because politicians have decided to change what poppies stand for doesn't mean everyone has to buy into it. For many the poppies represent those lost in 2 world wars and not later conflicts whether Korea, The Falklands, Iraq, etc etc. I remember similar arguments in the early 80s from those who had been vehemently opposed to the Falklands conflict but still wanted to honour the dead of the two World Wars. I was against the Falklands and Iraq and Afghan but wear a poppy for my Grandfather and no politician is going to decide for me what a poppy stands for. At the same time I feel the automatic almost compulsory wearing of them by newsreaders and MPs and, as the article highlighted says, printed on footballers' shirts so CHOOSING to wear one is not an option, rather oppressive.

I think Iceland is profitable enough if not being asked for silly rent - Callows is still a fine locksmith and presumably still profitable now they have escaped the massive rents being asked on LL. Now that there are more and more new breweries springing up I hope some of the Tesco Metros are turned (back) into Pubs :)