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No ladyM it's the "Ive just had a fantastic lunch and drink in the Dog & Duck great service and ambience and very good value too...far better than the posinous rubbish that the staff spit into that you get at the Kings Head" from a first time poster.

Declan, were you bothered about it when that bloke with the Spurious science on Diabetes or whatever it was posted up a cut and paste of a standard sales spiels with links to his book/website...and claimed he'd "just moved into the area" here? Many on here defended his blatant sales pitch (let alone his rubbish), I can't remember where you were on this? I'm cynical but on the whole find them quite a laugh. I think there should be a gallery of the best.

That's not that difficult

1) The Germans. I've worked for a german company and with lots of germans. I like them a lot. They've a great and dry sense of humour, like a beer and have many similar traits as us brits only with better english. They get a bad press -I like them. 2) Pipe smokers - magnificent. The ritual, the aeshetic quality of the pipe - the smell of a decent shag...not a whif of your dog on a string Old Holborn. Sitting there using deduction to solve crimes/creating the NHS?designing stuff......I can even forgive Tony Benn some of his idiocy with that pipe. Magnificent and rarely seen. An enobled and diminishing beast. Piper smokers I salute you. 3) Busty barmaids of a certain age who call you 'darlin' at old school pubs...most of us blokes are just a sucker for this.

What is it with you and electric devices Daizie?

I thought it looked odd as that was a great and well known creative team.....never won a World Cup though ;-)

Wetherspoons are chain pub hell that serve crap food and put many decent small independent pubs out of business. One of the saddest things of the last 20 odd years has been the destruction of much of a very unique british institution and its replacement with dull managed chains or 'bars' in old shoe shops.

That's when Spurs won the Double....it was soooooooooo long ago even Jah was a mere nipper

I think it's intersting and does reflect some unique social change in the borough - for instance Lambeth and Lewisham (both next door) fair much worse. The Social change is that an area - the whole Southbank,Bermondsey Street and surround and borough - that were basically empty, abandoned wharfs 20-30 years ago is now chocker with very expensive flats/conversions and shops and restaurants and businesses. This regeneration has been unique to Southwark (in the south) as Lewisham has less nice riverside wharfs and Lambeth's Riverside is less extensive and mainly road. The south of Southwark has always been reasonably rich but the gentrificatin of SE22 for instance has also helped these figures, but they are after all just averages, the central bit of Southwark has some of the worse poverty in the country.

..still Wigan and West Ham will be out by next year :'(

and them ...there's loads! Watford, Wimbledon, West Brom and West Ham probably in the early 80s?

Nope. Just making up for being absent whilst my posts were twisted.

I can't think that I've made any other dig at you ever, so don't start playing the victim.

Personal digs - when? You know nothing about my politics, have accused me of voting for a party i did not vote for, completley misinterpreted what I wrote and tried to act like I was saying I'm worst affected than people losing their jobs? And you act like I'm being unreasonable for being annoyed for being so unplasantly misinterpreted?

Well your response was even worse then. Maybe you shouldn't make assumptions about people you know nothing about, as you clearly have me on a couple of occasions before too...as I said someone whose job was certainly was uneder threat at one point as a direct result of the cuts, could see you completley missed the point of what I said, but self appointe defender of the poor and weak on her white stallion piles in. Poor.

or.... There's only Wycombe, Wolves, West Ham, West Brom and Wigan and given that Wycombe have never been there and Wigan only did in the last few years then NO. Wednesday don't count and Wrexham haven't been any where near it.

I'd just like to say thanks to keef for actually reading what I wrote and sticking up for me - especially given that I believe Keef's position is/was? generally under threat from the cuts. And add that others - yes you DJKQ - should actually try reading what people write before opining and unpleasant posturing....no surprise though.

besides, as a middleclass (there, I said it) family with kids in state school and nursery. I suspect the cuts will affect me more than a fair few in actual net terms as it happens....

er, "Scores"....a deliberate use rather than say "millions" or "most" or even "1000s"....anyway, biting.....

Still they're back where they want to be now, fighting "Tory Cuts"...Maggie, Maggie, Maggie OUT OUT OUT

Tony Blair's biggest crime was Iraq BUT for scores of the left his biggest crime was winning the Labour Party 3 elections in a row

"shoes are the last refuge of a foot"

Coco-Collapsing car- spinnng bow Tie- Crusty-Comedy plank incident is what my snout says. Once you're used to big city life, yoo'll learn not to listen in wonderment to these 'new-fangled' helicopter thangs.

Hope the golf went alright....wot with the racing

I also pretended I was shaking with mirth when in reality it was withdrawal