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and of course Steve Frost, who we used to wind up by childishlyy shouting "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label"...eveytime he compered...he was (is?) a bit sensitive about that. Good man though. *waves at Mr Frost

Seen upstairs at the EDT Norton Lammaar Izzard Jupitas Brand Saw some right old shite too but still a fine venue when downstairs was Irish on one side and Milllwall the other...and was, of course, The East Dulwich Tavern.

When I was 18 I flew Laker to LA with ?100 ( a bit more in those days) got a job in a boatyard in San Diego and then criss-crossed accross the US on Greyhounds to New York. 7 months when the US was different, wild and still full of real inner city decay I loved it. Nowadays it's like East Dulwich but safer 5 years ago the missus and me did a RTW trip over 6 months - the SE Asia bit we were surrounded by pampered middle class students, reading The Da Vinci Code and on the internet their mobiles to mummy and daddy every night staying in 'resort hostels' and dancing to Kylie at the laughably 18-30 Full Moon party at Hat Rin...it really is travelling lite, no different than going down to Brighton nowadays, but probbaly safer. Pah, Gap years.....

blooody women

...actually, you can take the 'rich trendy' away and it still makes sense

I was in Liquorish last night, which shows how drunk I was as it's still an overpriced shoebox like last time I went. I'm ok, my other half is not well this morning :)-D

rich trendy liberal in massive hypocrite shocker

For the want of a shoe :X

EDF Drinks, early party

Foook me they are all getting old

I think Redknapp was behind Bond's sucecss to be honest

Bunch of moaning fucks

Laddy Muck is slow at road dashes ;-)

In general, I reckon Flats going down - little realistic demand or finance availability from FTB Decent houses holding their own (for now) trickle down from foreighn buyers at higher end pushing price ripples out to suburbs and gentrification and terrible commutes pushing families back into inner London suburbs.

The bottomline is Commercial Way compared to Bellenden and ED is not nearly as affluent area and is surrounded by lots of council/Social housing and is a fair way from any of the more 'upmarket' shops/bars and restaurants in these here parts. That's the reality, if you're cool with that you'll pick up far far better value in terms of property size for money. Personally I'd rather not live there.

Snorky touches obn some truths Heresey as it seems, I'm going to give Big Sam the benefit of the doubt Nice guy - no, but look where nice guys Zola and Grant got us Route 1 football - not utterly convinced that's fair, and the "I'd arther go down playing with flair" is a bit overstated. To be honest I'd rather go down with some spirit, hich with the exception of Parker and Noble (neither who can be described as flair) wasn't much the case this year. I think Big Sam's one dimension is a cliche of the Arsenal loving media...we will soon find out. Big Sam has absolutely got a good record and is CRUCIALLY enough of his own man to not take shite from Sullivan & Gold ....Houghton and/or Keen been able to do that? He also says that southern and London based media never report on his teams with anything other than cliches, I suspect there's a kernel of truth in that. Firs time we've been down and appointed a proven at all levels manager - Macari had just had seuccess at Swindon and Pardew at Reading. Billic has no form whatsoever managing Croatia...mmmmm I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt for now....I think he's more to him than Curbishley for instance (and we'd have still been in the Premiership with Curbishley) and to a degree our future, where we deserve to be, as a well suported mid-ranking premiership club depends on us getting back up there asap. Let's face it our supposed purism an/or need to appoint 'west Ham' People has seen us yoyo fsince the Premiership started - the two decent managers we've had, Pardew and Redknapp have had to leave for, ahem, non football reasons. COYI and, with some reservations, BIG FAT SAM'S CLARET & BLUE ARMY PS Pity he played for the Scum tho

Bit ME ME ME Huge.......Good for buyers/sellers? Nope. The Lounge & drawing room is just one part of the Forum...You can put up with Huge, it's not like it's global poverty or anything is it

Frankito....you seem to be rather fond of corporate chains. Are you also a Chino wearer? Support your local independents with (in many cases) better coffee

Sorry, seen it now. Still not completley convinced by M40 for NW though :-S

Still 4...for 90 minutes tho....but I had a bite

I'm looking now, that's value without a doubt.

I'm with MM, football in the pub is less and less appealing - can't hear anything on the commentary or the atmosphere. Cold beer on hand, clean toilet and Mr Ben's best scotch will do it for me for this one :)) I like England games in the pub....but on the whole NO

Anyone but that lot at the Lane, please

Did you put your safety glasses on when you lit that fuse Strafer?