SeanMacGabhann

I'm sorry cate but I have to ask ... why was my post smug?

good point well made simple typo I know, but really, was a comma ever more needed?

My music tastes chime regularly with Quids and I too was for many years in the "bruce?" camp But, of all things. The Ghost of Tom Joad album changed my perception and now he is definitely on my radar. I would LOVE to go tomorrow night But then again I'm already in for Bon Iver and Tindersticks on Tue and Wed next week at Hyde Park so best reign cash in.. Oh and Bruce's closing song at the end of The Wrestler? Come ON people, have you no HEART????

I lived on Friern Rd for 8 years and had the same experience - but Leagle-Eaglish says, you get used to it In fact, it would wake me up, and then I would realise the weekend proper had begun, smile, turn on the radio and go back to sleeep

very good show The Proposition - same guy is doing The Road, due out soon (based on the mega-bleak and tantastic Cormac McCarthy book)

no no - it wouldn't have been laughing at someone's death I'm imagining it would have been about the media circus and the many millions of people around the world who would, for some reason, be grieving and crying and all of that... Not laughing at someone dying - that was your assumption

That was my overriding thought when I got up this AM..

oooh I dunno about trouble - I sort of know what you mean quids. I went in to the old PeX (or however it went) a few times - I thought it was ok but no destination the thing is what counts as "funky"? To SOME people, pizza is the definitive statemet on people prentending to like something more than cheese on toast Generally I quite like places that try something different - and when that place opened that was a bit different. Now of course it's been corporatised to death by the breweries..

Walworth Rd was bad enough at 7:30ish for me to get off long before Elephant - it's only another 20-30 minute walk to London Bridge, stress free, calorie-burning,tune-listening bliss

When THAT woman died, back in the 90s still, it's another excuse for me to roll out my standard "careful people, don't get too got up in the emotion" standup routine As for Jackson himself - a shame no doubt, but I can't believe people are surprised, nay SHOCKED at his death. It has been coming a long time surely? And at least, as Keef says, hopefully he has found some kind of peace now

pretty much everytime I walk down the Lane I'll end up chatting to at least one or two proprieters...

and besides, is Se?n even Se?n really?

georgia had tongue firmly in cheek

skidmarks and anyone else worried about recognising people... I have often PMd peolpe my mobile number if I am going to be at a drinks or curry so that people can text/ring me when they get there and aren't keen on asking a group of randoms. I won't be there tonight but hopefully someone else will oblige If they don't - just go anyway... curry nights are always good craic

I haven't been in today but are you sure this hasn't been going on for a few weeks *Bob*?

From everything I have read it's subscription - "around a tenner"

Well, the EU stopped Sky having the monopoly to be fair. Setanta were the ones that stepped up when the EU opened the space I won't miss them. Primarily because as Matthew123 says - the picture quality was atrocious - sometimes worse than ITV and that is saying something. The pundits were ok, but No British broadcaster has nailed it's pundit selection anyway I won't miss the yellow and black colour- scheme either And their customer service was for the most part woeful But apart from THAT they were ok. ESPN taking over the games and showing them in HD will still keep competition going* and improve picture quality *Although I'm not sure how competition works in this case. Before sky = very little live football but free. Sky = more football than I can watch plus a fee. Competition = Sjy Fee plus another Tenner a month to watch more football than I can manage. If a third player comes along? That'll be another tenner a month. Of course I dont have to (and don't!) pay for them all but it does mean I never am sure who is showing what game

I think the bus stop alone will keep it in business - and it looks quite smart too

thebeard - any chance you can get your Return key under control? Then maybe you can point to a part of the world where stop and search works - becaus it didn't in Northern Ireland and it didn't in this country when it was used previously and to teh best of my knowledge it doesn't work across the US So.. why so keen?

I think they are different things Mick Mac Plastic Bags = a lot of production for not a lot of reusable value. Plastic bags haven't been banned but there is now a premium on not reusing them. This seems a small step but not unreasonable Wheely bins seem to be a solution to several problems (foxes and other vermin in urban areas for one big one) which some people seem to be inordinately upset about

or to use Mail-Speak "you couldn't make it up"

WTF is this campaign all about?? What do we want?? "Rubbish collection to take longer!" "Bin bags torn open and strewn all over Melbourne Grove - EVERY morning!!!" When do we want it? "NOW!!!" Wheely?

William Leith - Hungry Years Was never a fan when he wrote columns back in the 90s but he gets a lot right in this book (ie it ain't about just food)

That makes it sound like you consistently tread the path of "right" and studiously avoid that of "wrong" wombat? I'd be surprised if that was the case as very few of us manage it - many of us can't even agree on what's wrong and what's right half the time Which isn't to put stabbing people into "the right" category (it can be very hard discussing this for the very reason that people try and misrepresent.. aaanyway) but one's "right" and "wrong" can be violently challenged by circumstance. I have read many a poster on here say waht they would happily do to perpetrators of violence on their family. Which just goes to show.... given a circumstance anyone can flip and become the aggressor That doesn't make me an apologist at all - but merely calling people "scum" as some have done on here doesn't really... help. I am as against the people who commit violence as I am those who vote BNP. I can see the warped logic behind the rationale of the people in either case - I just don't accept any of the arguments. But where I do agree with the apologists (and not the people themselves) is that these people (be they black youths with knives or white poor people with racist views) don't come from nowhere. There are reasons..

No i get what you are saying. . Just that your take breaks down amongst anyone i have taken around Last year for example, whether friends from new york or younger family from ireland. . Palaces, castles and parliament were all met with "meh" at best despite them asking for specifically those things. Thats what they knew about and wanted to see without knowing why. Taking the same people to a more unusual (for them) place had them far more excited Maybe they had to do the first to enjoy the second. . I dunno