Michael Palaeologus

Otherwise recycle as bin bags.

So am I. I am also 5'6 and come with my own ginger nuts in a number of different ways. I grown veg on my balcony and have a fine collection of the bee's wings. Left wings only.

'fess up Orbital. Is there an agenda here? Who are you really? Ronald MacDonald has been off our screens for some time after all.

I think that it is easy to romanticise the street food phenomena. New ventures are keen and hungry (ho ho), they price to sell and gain a loyal customer base. It is then all too easy for this too slip as success brings growth, more people, more outlets, standards can slip as the entrepreneur loses focus on the quality of the product. There are many people wanting to get into this growth area. Serve low cost to produce at high margin prices to comfortable middle class folks who buy into the street-food vibe. The smart ones listen to the negative messages and re-focus on the core values. Customers will quickly move on if the quality declines. I have eaten fine burgers off the old Meatwagon on a rainy evening in an industrial estate in Peckham. I managed to get into the last night of the Meateasy - the burgers were great, the mac and cheese and the fries less so. I had good burgers and Phili-steak off the new Meatwagon at The Rye. I think stick to the beef based products referably cooked on the Meatwagon. They are not cheap burgers, but I can only eat 1 of them at a sitting. So, cheap meal. The negativity could be a reflection of slipping standards, it could be that the whole enterprise was over-hyped and some less influenced folk have spotted this, it could be that some people want to have a pop at a successful enterprise (oh so British). It is probably a combination of all.

Oh Great. I have tried squeezing lemon juice on my keyboard and now it is b*ggered. Thanks a Bunch.

Well done Kel, you spotted my deliberate mistake. I wish others were that attentive. *Cough*

Ok, down to the serious business of the August meet. Tuesday 23 August. How about Curry Cabin? Not been there for a while.

Neither. They are from friends and these are part of a discussion about the next drinks (I think). Its just a blank page. The first PM was from Jaws to a group of us and then the responses. Odd. Still blank, all of them.

I have had a bunch of PMs over the last few days concerning the next drinks. All of them are blank - no content or anything. Any ideas?

Making friends. Influencing people. Good.

Great evening, 8 of us including the lovely Mick Mac. Alan you should have come, there would have been tears but then hugs and kisses.

Oh it will happen, just with fewer of us. I was going to give it a rest during the summer, but there was a ground swell. Its just there was such a surge of interest a few weeks ago and now people are shuffling away. More to the point ...... How? and ..... Who? and ....... Oh.

Sadly I cant - will be in Prison.

It would be fine as long as there is a creche. Also, offering pole dancing exercise sessions for the ED Mums in the mornings would be good PR.

Hmmm - quite a few people seem to be dropping out. Who is coming tonight?

Ah. I knew that if I waited long enough you would resort to petty sniping and insults. My weapon of choice is the word. In this case, victorious.

How wrong? Or are you yet again attempting to divert attention?

Again an attempt to shift attention from the main thrust of our disagreement. This is post rationalisation. The fact that the mugging was with a sword was mentioned immediatly before your "sweeties" comment. You knew the circumstances of the mugging. However, this is irrelevant to the non-fact of the people's alleged prioritisation of their stolen goods. Whether the mugging was with or without a sword, people were not pre-occupied with their stolen goods. This did not exist.

"I'm amazed all you appear to be concerned about is what was stolen" = that bit did not exist. The "all you appear to be concerned about is what was stolen" bit. That people's concern was only about what was stolen rather than the trauma that their children had experienced, did not exist.

Righto Katie, clandestine message received. The usual pigeon will be in the usual place.

Oh I see. "Smarties" .... "Sweeties" - it was a joke. How appropriate.

There's loads of people coming to this one!

Feel free to come along. See you tomorrow.

Alan - kids were mugged by men with swords and you ask if this was for sweeties? This is insensitive. The fact that your own children have suffered a similar crime make it doubly so, you should know better as you know how the children and their parents feel. To then rub salt into those wounds by belittling their distress by suggesting that they are overly concerned with their lost goods, just repeats your bullying tone. That I think is the response you asked me for in a PM.

Alan a rather clumsy attempt to divert attention from your own insensitivity by pointing people's attention at something that doesnt exist. If somebody gets mugged and something is stolen, then the item that is stolen is mentioned. Clearly everbody's anxiety (except yours) is the emotional impact that this has on their children. Bullying, whether in a Park or on a website is distateful.