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Tsk tsk tsk does it matter what pub it is ? the point is......Oh Im not going to explain it! its a fantastic short story tho'

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or why not another week during which we all ask > ourselves "do I really need to buy it". Maybe we > could all do something to invest in the local > community that doesn't involve spending money - > I'm sure there are plenty of community resources > that could do with a lick of paint, bloody good > tidy up, guerilla gardening? Maybe the good > traders of SE22 would like to support such an > initiative? Agreed. lets not get caught up in this facile greedy spending circus that seems to dominate peoples lives . Do you really need that Alessi corkscrew for ?35 ? Buy a bush paint a wall plant some insect attracting plants Use that ?35 in a more useful way even be selfish A designer corkscrew , contrary to popular opinion, does not make you a more rounded and likeable person - its just means you have fallen for the hype and the marketing. go to Lidl. Buy a ?3.99 corkscrew and with the spare ?31, buy a case of acceptable Chilan red to go with it. a far better investment .

A Local-ish pub an its hidden but deceptively spacious workshop area went on the commericial market a while ago. Numbers in excess of ?1.2M were bandied about when the owner got some kind of outline permission for the workshop area to be converted into flats. The interesting thing about this pub is thats it huge.Massive in fact. Its been revamped.Its had money spent on it .Its been relaunched.Its had resturants started in it and these have not survived - the owner - quite rightly IMHO - knows that the days of neighourhood pubs and old men nursing a half for 3 days dont pay the bills. The average non trendy pub grosses about ?60K a year - not much in the big scheme of things.The Freeholder has lashed out money and world all the horus to make a living, but its a losing battle and reality has to kick in at some point, as much as he loves his pub. The same crowd go to the pub every day, its too far off the main drag to attarct new punters in any great numbers and TBH, its only the regulars who make up the customers nowadays. So the place was put up for sale. One day, the freeholder/ owner is sitting in his pretty much deserted pub , mid afternoon, when a gaggle of middle class female busybodies march throuh the door and demand to see the owner. When he confesses that he is indeed the owner, they thust a sheaf of papers under his nose and announce that they have x hundred signatures from "locals" and demand that the pub be withdrawn from the market and the valuable local asset be kept.It seems that thwere has been some local campaign going , unknown to the actual pub owner. The landlord looks them up and down and asks " Who the f*ck are you lot ?" He did not recognise any of them. Not one of these concerned local citizens had ever stepped foot inside that pub in their entire lives.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ha ha > > If we clamped-down on riff-raff vehicles, this > might not be necessary. We could form an > 'exclusion zone' around SE22 to keep-out vehicles > over a certain age. Any offending car found within > the zone to be destroyed: Belgrano-stylee. Im assuming the pre-emptive shock and awe attacks on Iceland delivery vans would be the norm ?

The Cherry tree pub. Gawd Bless its memory Guv'nor. Propa sarf London No Nonsense traditional pub.Could be a bit rough, but you could leave your doors open in them days. the Great Train robbers had their celebratory drink in the pub after the job.gentlemen the lot of them.Tough but fair they was.

My Ocado fellow was complaining this morninmg about how difficult it is to get parked close to the delivery address and suddenly an apt East Dulwich Idea came to me. Designated Ocado Delivery parking bays in All streets Policed by the traffic wardens as part of their remit, only Ocado delivery vans can park there between 6AM & 12PM. seeing as EVERYONE in ED seems to use the mighty Ocado Waitrose, wouldnt this be a FANTASTCI idea that would benefit all members of the community as well as supprot out most popular local business ?

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about a brothel and an opium den? I'm kidding > of course, no really I am. Brothels - there a few. Opium Dens ? not that I know of, but they did bust and close down a crack house a couple of months back nr Goose Green. Crack house doesnt conjur up the same romantic images as an opium den does it ?

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On Good Friday I popped into EDD near closing time > to buy a piece of cheese. I was alarmed to be > witness to a very ugly "discussion". A customer, > who seemed to be spending a truly ludicrous amount > of money on chocolate based egg-style tat, was > being faced down by the Napoleon in charge. > Apparently she'd knocked over some bunny/egg > confection in the pile it high sell it even higher > room of precarious display and damaged it. The > squat wee fella in charge was insisting she pay > for it. She insisted she wasn't to blame, rather > the over ambitious display. Teeny tiny Tim > pointed, stony faced, to the large bag of > similarly damaged goods citing the "good" > customers who'd paid up without complaint or even > the desire to take away the broken goods. > > Our determined lady insisted she wouldn't pay and > they haggled, humourlessly, until they reached an > agreement of sorts. > > Meanwhile I'd persuaded someone to serve me my > cheese. I tried to leave only to find he'd locked > the door! > > He took her 70 quid and told her she was "out of > order" she took her bag of fancy easter fayre. > > I secured the help of a lowly wiping assistant and > legged it. > > Commerce won in the end, presumably because all > other available chocolate egg outlets were closed > and this woman had some serious confectionery > promises to fulfil. > > I've found the man grumpy before but this was very > very strange and possibly the worst and most > ungracious exchange i've witnessed in a ED shop. > > Am I safe to return to EDD? Did anyone think to advise the lady in question to gt the filth involved and get the sour faced arrogant owner nicked for false imprisonment ? As much as I opposed to the compensation culture, a nice little civil action for distress/anguish/et al against the EDD may help wipe the self satisfied smirk of the less than genial host.

Ive Been to hanoi and I existed for a fortnight on DDR made biscuits and once had what seemed to be a sparrow, fried in grey pork fat with some green beans garniedh on top and eaten woth a second hand plastic fork - washed down with a can of Thai made Cocoa cola. I hope any vietmanese resturant wont replicate that grim experience. ( it was about 18 years ago tho' )

I had crabs once, does that count ?

Ive amended it to apply to either gender now.

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > so where exactly do the uptown Boyz hang out? Is > it Eastside Dulwich or WestSide Dulwich (or North > or Village)? Its the ghetto fool. Dont you know where the Dulwich ghetto is ? I have a good mind to pop a cap in yo ass for showing such disrespekt to the kidz

TW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have to say as the owner of the shop I really am > disappointed by all your negative remarks I will > speak to my team re charging customers for stock > they damage, but sometimes it is un-avoidable; > when people just don't care. However we do > appreciate that accidents happen! As I am sure > most of you are aware, we moved to east dulwich > more than five years and put every penny we had > into that business and worked hard 7 days a week > with just one other member of staff, a few > robberies and shop lifters to boot ... Then great > things happened on Lordship lane and lots of other > fine shops moved into the area and with that house > prices increased of watch I am sure most of you > have benefited, unless of course the reason you > are so bitter is that your still renting!!! I > designed the shop myself that door on the right is > actually a flat, we did not anticpate the success > and I probably have made design errors, of which > we will address as and when we can.. My staff of > 10 including my Manager Jay are a great bunch and > work extremely hard and truly are offended by your > comments, what bitter people you must be to > verbally attack someone in this way. You know you > can always vote with your feet and we don't make > you come into the shop.. Not that I want to drive > customers away I don't I do feel that you are > unjust in saying mean things about people you > don't know IE my staff.. why can't you be proud of > the fact the we have a thriving community and a > great local high street rather than spending you > time slagging it off; and for those of you that do > like our shop and mention this and I will give you > 10% off and a free loaf of bread.. excluding the > marked down table all at ?2.00.. xx How dare WE the punters critisise you shop ? after all , WHAT would we know about the blood sweat ansd tears that you have put into your shop for OUR benefit, the SACRIFICES you have made to enrich our sad little lives. we should thankful that you are rude to us - where would we be without your overpriced little luxuries ? We would still be buying frozen chicken and tins of spam from Iceland. we should be so thankful. Other EDF readers - check out this posters retort objectively and ask yourself - do you want to give this person any more of your hard earned cash ? Do they seem like a likeable agreeable well rounded charachter or something else ? Use your initiative and shop elsewhere.You can still support the community and keep clear of this place.

What about the UPtown girlz ? For some reason they seem to ring a bell......................

Shops thats seem to exist, yet religiously avoid selling anything of any practical use to anyone whatsoever - celestial/ Moo2 / that roullier place etc etc etc The scum who raid the bags left outside the charidee shops and take the whole lot en masse in their cars and vans the vermin who post leaflets through your door, seemingly representing a charidee, but actually rep;resenting a scummy lithuanina rag merchant playing on our sense of cricket and fair play for his profit. "Yummy mummys" - their like to think they are scrumptious represenatives of the gender, but just come across as pushy, thusting and narrow minded boors who are searching for a role in life to replace their truncated careers - thats why your City lawyer husband is putting it about with some your trainee in the office dearie Coffee thats costs in excess of ?2 Jazz lite background music Shoe shops thats charge an arm and a leg for something with a "label" but actually originates in a plastics factory outside Hanoi Ohh!!!! I have to stop now, otherwise I will get carried away.....I have some work to do the removal of flock wallpaper on curry houses ( sorry, resturants)

"Richard E Grant " What is the bloke for ? Why isnt he "resting" more ? I would turn around and march home should I have to misfortune to arrive at the cinema and find that Richard E Grant was starring in a film I had tickets for . What a one duinemsional waste of space - he seems to crop up once a bleeding month on some minor chat show or other and invariably bleat on about his lastest straight to DVD rubbish project and then invariably regale us with tales of his childhood in African and amuse us with some Swahili speech.Very droll Mr Grant. Just like Tony parsons whines on about what a great time he had in the '70s when he was at ( what he reckons was ) the cutting edge of journalism and that his dad was a paratrooper, Richard E Grant can be relied upon for a few minutes plug and filler somewhere or other. Even Withnail & I - maybe the best thing hes ever done - is now about 45 years old - actually, can you think of anything else hes done since then ? no, me neither. bah. This will be a rubbish filum. mark my words

Its a brothel/ Special branch Office / Witches Coven/ Skunk factory / etc

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And... > > It's built on the site of the old East Dulwich, > Camberwell Borough Council, municipal urinal. YOu can smell the history of the location

This is scarey - boxy concrete flats on the site of an old leccy sub station, sandwiched between a bookies ona urine reeking back alley and a busy railway line. The DKH side of the railway line seems to be sued a dumping ground by some of the residents of the estate for their unwanted wee stained matresses and sainsurys shopping trolleys. There is a constant leak of raw sewerage from the pavement outside the squalid pair of shops on the other side of the bridge, and this sometimes pools under the railway bridge itself- should be nice on the summer. I pity the poor fools who buy in this sordid little spot.The rats that scamper freely on the tracks and the bankside undrgrowth will at least be happy for some nice warm accomodation in the coming winter. The DKH estate has its fair share of caps being popped in disrespectful asses, block parties with a 10K watt Ragga soundsystem and all night firework extravaganzas on a regular basis between about Mid october and Mid january for various reasons.The knockabout devil may care japes of the cabal of feral kids in the estate is also guaranteed to produce hours of side splitting mirth for the inmates of GV15, especially when the kids realise that the smartly groomed metrosexual inhabitants of the block are merely victims in waiting. Longer term ED resident may well remember the legendary Great flood of about 2003 or 2004 , when a Tsunami of greyed rainwater exploded from the drains outside the station and sat malevolently for several hours, effectively blocking the road to what seemed waist height and eventually depositing a fine mulch of gag inducing ooze over the entire area. And to to top it all, it seems that you will have a heinous starbucks in your block. The smell of coffee is one irritant for some I suppose, but the seeping production line , easy listening jazz lite is likely to produce a Virginia tech response at some point in the not so distant future I am afraid to say. Im not going to be rushing to buy anything in GV15

Its a big expensive for nothing particularly fancy or unusual in my experience - a safe dining experience, but thats about it

ben Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The DIY shop is handy - super selection of tiles > as well. Not too sure how either the Chinese > medicine or the electrical shop survive as they > always seem empty. The gas shop have done a couple > of jobs for us and I found them reasonably priced > and really friendly. Agree with Sean - that > clothing / shoe shop is odd Psst....theres More to the Chinese medicine shop that you may think.

The oddest food I have ever eaten was at the newly opened Bilberry or Whatever the Belair is called now. French Sushi German Fusion ? it didnt work ( rather like me for most of the day )

Parker's Folly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > fractionater Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > there is a Thai place down in Herne Hill > opposite > > the Lloyds (or Barclays?) cash machine - been > > there a couple of times not bad at all. > > > Are you thinking of Lombok? If so, I ate there > once and it was very good indeed. Not cheap > though, but sometimes you get what you pay for. Careful tho' - the raw lumps of chili casually scattered throuighout their menu - althought fantastic at the time- made me weep with pain the next morning

tess is looking OLD

bah! foiled again.