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..before the beard

100!!! Yup, I actually remembered but was pretty doubtful before the forum shut...my new one's due on the 6th but will try and make any session before or near to that. Mick Mack also expressed an interest and he's got another one due on the 6th or 7th too

Me and my missue where in NZ for two weeks only on our global tour. We flew from Auckland to Christchurch and hired the campervan thing. Now I detest camping/caravanning and my missus was 6 months pregnat and does too but it was great (although we had been travelling for 4 months so cooking your own food was a luxury in itself!). Freedom to go where you want and flexibility and transport - however although relatively small the South Island is a big place to drive round in a week but I'd certainly recomend considering doing this for some of it. We then got the train from Christchurch up to the ferry a lovely journey, hired a car in Wellington and drove back up to Auckland via Rotura

I'm in a sinus infected anti-biotic fog so won't be there

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He is. I apologise, I'm sure Hugenot has been warned about stuff. My vitriol was largely in response to Hugenot's but contains some truths too - spoilt by my spleen. I do think it's poor form to hint at PMs of those that can't reply.

Fair point on Admin Sean - Hugenots got my goat up this morning and I've got a shitty cold

I don't defend racism and I never saw any - just a different and less 'liberal' (hahaha) view than the pious, hideously white, Guardian views put out by smug, affluent bourgeois who would whisk their families away from any school that became 'too diverse' quicker than you can say "How about Kent darling?". I'm not sure that insulting people and quotings PMs of people who can no longer post is good form on any level...but it's Hugenot so it'll be ok.

Hugenot being outrageously offensive again and its ok? No evidence of cliqueness here then.

You can't beat an Essex combo like that ;-)

Wikpedia? British Nazi who broadcasted propoganda from Germany during the war and was hung afterwards

Who do you believe, true supporters of a club or the media? It's not rocket science is it. I don't watch Liverpool day in day out and on the face of it (the media) it looks like Rafa's crap and got lucky, which would be my view however the support he gets from proper Liverpool supporters suggests otherwise and is far nearer the truth I'm sure.

So a lay on Zenyatta, maybe! Not checked the Odds on Rip yet but I presume they'll be far poorer than the ones you got MM with STS out of the picture..it's looking a good bet for you.

...and my driving is appalling as it happens

As it happens, personally, I miss both of them but that doesn?t mean they shouldn?t necessarily be banned. As others have pointed out the EDF isn?t a democracy or mine, or TLS? or BBW?s. It was set up by admin and its day to day moderation is done by him and a group of mod lizards ? this is I suspect far more hassle and a commitment than most of us average posters realise. Admin is rightly and if you meet him genuinely proud of the EDF (and incidentally subsidises it) as a resource for people from ED and nearby environs. The EDF is a great local resource, it?s popular, used widely by many people outside of the slightly ?zooish? lounge and it works well and is a pretty fair minded and decent place, cliques and all. So given all that, I?m happy to give admin and his team the benefit of the doubt on their ?editorial policy? even if it?s not what I?d do and occasionally I disagree with tham. So, with that as a position, there?s not really much point in standing up or not for individual posters but, hey, it?s a forum and I?m allowed to post so. I like BBW. As others said he?s sometimes funny and livens up the place and personally I liked him when I met him at a couple of the drinks. I?m a poster that?s up for banter with him ? which isn?t a badge of honour, it?s just that I?m that sort of poster BUT many aren?t and a criticism of BBW from me, is that he either just doesn?t ?get? that or worse doesn?t care that there are 100s of posters and lurkers who don?t want to do that and a ?take it or leave it? stance isn?t justification. Some of his post have even made me wince and he?s had plenty of chances from admin and every time he eventually blows the house down eats the little piggies and sprays wolf wee everywhere. I?d like it if he comes back so hopes he gets another chance but in truth he doesn?t really deserve one and I?m not posting his bail for sure. So BBW, cos sure as hell he?s looking, ?WHY did you go and get yourself banned again you arse?? Funnily enough I?m actually more uncomfortable about TLS which probably puts me in a small minority. To Keef?s point I do feel TLS isn?t here because his face doesn?t fit ? I?d never defend racism but I never saw anything explicitly racist from Tony and given I looked pretty hard as I was going to go against the grain by supporting him on this I do feel the ?prejudice? was that TLS was racist because he posted about changes in London, how he preferred Kent etc rather than much proof ? a prejudice view I?d call that. Now he did bang this drum a lot and maybe had an agenda, who knows, but I never saw the evidence for accusations of ?racist? that were often laid at his door in fact it felt very much like he got this cos he wasn?t ?one of us?; maybe he reads the Daily Mail and was certainly a conservative?I don?t think he was BNP as I know many others on here do/did. To be honest, I?d have banned him for overuse of emocions and being Millwall if I was Admin. I felt a bit uncomfortable when I heard he?d got the boot. Anyway, all academic ?cos my key point is the first one.

..and last week it was a bourgoeis trying to break out of a proleterian exterior ;-)

Why don't you come too PGC? You can keep an eye on him and I may even be sober enough to converse

er...anyone else in the communist, in league with the devil Nerf Herder clique? B) Bad luck tho mockers. I'm gonna add my twopenniesworth to this thread shortly too when I've had me tea

Christmas/thankyou card - problem solved and possibly people won't recognise your ill mannered tardyness which would be an undeserved bonus

Jrusell is my favourite occasional poster although I feel his work peaked at the hatred of trees thing

I think I'll be up for this

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I heard through the East Dulwich Mum's grapevine > that there was an East Dulwich Dad's drink during > the forum rest period. > > I hate missing drinks. Mick - it's 'cos you never venture out the lounge...I nearly copied you in on the original EDD drinks night (CPT Thursday a month or so ago!). ALL SET UP IN THE FAMILY DISCUSSION ROOM. :)-D

Bollox to Europe - Hines last minute and a saved penalty from Green on one of my now occasional visits to the Academy - IRONS

It would be nice for a Labour party canvasser of any description to come and knock on my door for the first time since...oooh...let me think..mmm 1997. I guess suddenly they care about the electorate again, I've got plenty to ask them although they lost my vote locally and nationally at the same time the government lost those weapons of mass distruction...have they been found yet BTW?

Don't forget the lucky win in 2006 too :(