snorky

SMB Jones, can you do anything about the loud w@nkers broadcasting the grim detials of their facile one dimensional lives via mobile telophony & loud voices to all & sundry on the LB=>ED train each evening ?

monyvibescu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having said that, the one thing I will not > tolerate is youths who say `innit' all the time. > Don't they realise it just means we elderly folk > can't understand what they mean? Slovenly, I call > it. I am sure your elders and better were appalled when you talked about "far out" & "fab" when you were a nipper. Bludz

monyvibescu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, I saw this poster and thought it was very > touching. > > A lot of kids work very hard getting through their > exams (while facing a lot of peer pressure telling > them it's not cool to be clever) and the only > messages they ever get from the adult world are > (i) a load of advertising/TV/music telling them to > buy cruddy products and see themselves entirely in > terms of personal appearance and (ii) > officialdom/the papers/adults generally telling > them they are a bunch of frightening yobs who > ought to be swept off the streets. Maybe I'm being > a bit sentimental about the average teen, but I'd > have thought looking out of the window of a bus > and seeing an advert saying "Good luck in your > exams. We're proud of your hard work. Aim high!" > might make you feel a bit better about yourself > and more inclined to think it's worth putting > effort into brainwork. > > Sorry to sound pious but well done to whoever at > the council thought of it. I bet if it had been a > picture of a hoodie carrying a knife and a warning > to keep your phone hidden when you're walking the > streets, no-one would have complained it was a > waste of money... innit

withj margins being so rubbish on beer, soft drinks are the only profitable item for many I think

PS how long til the SLP takes this tale onboard and conducts a vox pop on charidee shop theivery ,on the mean streets of ED ?

ha Not sure who I want to go for this one ? Not a great manure supporter and Barca do seem to attract the johnny come lately bandwagon jumpers of football ( this season anyway, seeing as Real bottled the title / beckham left/ there is no world cup for these facile fans to hang their out Brazil & Italy flags/ etc ) I just want football to win

Domitianus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can I also add (and I think I posted about it here > a couple of years ago) that a similar incident > happened outside the St Christopher's charity shop > and I did challenge the thief. She looked very > embarrassed and told me to mind my own business. > I believe I told her I would be sure to mind my > own business if I ever saw her being mugged in the > street or saw someone breaking into her car! Had the same experience and was asked " is it yours ? " I wish I could say I came out with an urbane Wildean response , but just came out with a Haddockian tirade of propa abuse that ensured they scuttled back into their wheels and scarpered. probabaly to come back 5 mins later when I has passed of course.

It was one of thhose instances where about 5 minutes later you realise what you have just seen and think ...wait there!.......the pretty much new family car with kids seats in the back/ the JAGS sticker , all fooled me . I intially though she was was leaving stuff as I approached, then realised the was stripping the piles and loading her wheels up.I have verbally assailed a couple of people in the past I musts admit and used language that if far far too fruity for a family site like like this

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes they laid the stones to build this country using other nations labour anywhere that allows the Nazi pope to live in LUXURY is nver going to rank highly in my book but...relicas and ruins aside, its a terrible place to spend any time, only Venice & the truly apalling Naples keep it at #3 in the most rubbish places to go list

I applaud any campaign that may help highlight the importance of exams and use the the brain for once - anything that tries a different tack from the constant media & marketing onslaught of images that seem to tell the inner city poor can only be consideredm a suiccess if they are Sporting success, cant be a bad thing

Rome is a dump

Snorky went o the College of hard knocks etc

was it paradise on earth before Bugaboos & ? Did you buy any ostentatious Gold jewellery form the shop that is now G&B ? did anyone ever eat in that resturant that was always empty and offered 8 courses for 9.99 in the old G&B block? was Raylon a happy stationary emporium before fear set in & the clapham masses decamped to this solidly proletarian enclave ?Did you experience the joy of an appointment at the DHSS, or did you have a designated stool of your own & free tea all day so called amusements tell Snorky

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Bueller. Bueller ? haha Does anyone else get this?

I would like to say that LL is a car crash, but it would be unoriginal and unbefitting to the proud upstanding retailers that may my every trip out be such a joy of consumer goods accumulation