SeanMacGabhann

Caro Like, your post is SOOOOO 2009 ? Grumpy Young Men totally exists http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/grouchy_young_men/ And people have wondered exactly where eater81 would be happy for some time now

What's with, like, all of the, like, pauses? I haven't often taken the 484 but like any single-decker non-bendy service (I used the 78 and 42 regularly) I find them less well-run than the main double-decker routes. The 37 route is regularly attacked and the scars from a few years back obviously haven't healed but I use it a lot these days and it's mostly fine. If a long wait happens it's usually because of a traffic incident or roadworks in Herne Hill rather than any bus schedule problems

The new curry house that is replacing Pistachio club? I saw the sign on Monday - new owners or just a revamp/rebrand? It needs something more.. Even allowing for the formulaic dishes mostly served on LL, PC has been lagging for some time.

what Brendan said All we need now is a Bernard Manning appreciation thread and I'm off (cue obvious arrival of a new Bernard Manning thread) I know people like tweaking the nose of the chattering-classes and because he appears to be doing just that he has fans, and that any criticism of him is quickly deflected as the critic having no sense of humour but man if there IS a joke (and I believe there isn't - he means all of it) then it was one-dimensional when it arrived years ago and it has long out-stayed it's welcome. And women who say they love him would run a mile in real-life from the constant boorishness

Anyone worried about anti-Catholocism in this country should rest assured the picture is MUCH better than it was 20-30 years ago. Back then one of the main characters on Corrie being a Catholic was an an entire story-line. These days Catholics are everywhere and no-one bats an eyelid by comparison I?m sure the anti is well ingrained culturally as well, and that many protestors are just using the occasion as an excuse to vent but I don?t think catholics are cowering in their beds.

Marmora Man started a similar thread a couple of years ago and it?s worth rereading as technology has moved on I now have several books in ereader/kindle formats and they come in handy at a pinch. But I still buy/borrow real books when I?m going away just because of all the reasons I state in the original thread. I?m less dismissive these days, I think the two formats will co-exist but paper and a real book is too tactile and flexible to go away here

Anyone who thinks there aren't people putting the boot into Islam in the "liberal" press isn't reading it properly But if you are wondering why there isn't as much of it as you might like, from a comedy angle Stewart Lee explaining possible reasons I feel I can (and will) berate the Catholic church as much as like, because that's what I was brough up in - I know the codes, the vocabulary and the hypocricy intimately. All that said I wouldn't stop the pope from coming here - let him come and generate debate

Harvester. It has pretensions JDW doesn't. And it's pricey beyond belief

Oh I dunno - plenty of people sneer at people in expensive bars as well This thread tho... sheesh Silly points like: "funny how people on here for chains like Waitrose are against chains when it's JDW" - which is just rubbish. People against chains tend to be fairly consistent - but flinging a bit of mud like that just makes it harder to cut through the crud Not every decision a poor/skint/ person makes is on price alone. If a pub (aaaaaaany pub) is full of deadbeats/idiots then that makes it a pub full of deadbeats/idiots. Levels of affluence don't come into it. I grew up in a small town (6000 pop) with 30+ pubs. Most people in the town were unemployed or on low wages. Some of those pubs were good and some were shiteholes. Price wasn't the only factor but it did give a good indicator - ie people with little or no money paid extra NOT to be in a shitehole Many people have mentioned the Wetherspoons in the City and Canary Wharf. Cost is not an issue to most of these people. Still manages to be a pub full of tossers tho. It's not that it's CHEAP, it's that it appeals to lowest common denominator The Balham pub mentioned is singularly the most depressing place I have ever been in. And I used to live near the Wetherspoons in East Ham. Simply saying "it's cheap" isn't good enough Poor people across Europe, esp in Mediterannean countries, would not tolerate the muck served by these pubs. TO be poor and accept the slop they dish up is simply being a fool to yourself. Are you saying the food is fine or are you saying that OBVIOUSLY you want better food but can't afford it. The latter is an admirable (if arguably inaccurate) statement bit the former is just plain wrong Another point to make (and it won't go down well AT ALL) is that I grew up in a country where a lot of the poverty in families was BECAUSE Dad was down the pub drinking the house wages away. It's POSSIBLE to say to poor people "drink less" (not the same thing as "you are poor, you can't drink") There definitely are people on good money who have no idea what it's like to be broke on here, and they do make crass judgements sometimes. But equally there are people (some with money some not) who are far too eager to play the poverty/class card

I have both given and received cardboard boxed for moving in the Wanted section so you should be sorted easily Have a look around the forum - you'll find loads of info you wanted (and a heck of a lot you didn't)

When in that area I like the traditional comforts of this place with a lovely cat and possibility of being so old-school English as to wow your US chum But for bars, you have the Big Chill Bar, 93 feet east and Vibe Bar in the old Truman Brewery Tayaabs is the best food but possibly too informal for guest-wowing - the identikit curry houses along the lane itself are just that IME. If you are used to LL curry houses you probably won't get anything too different to that

true dat

I would argue that if a lesbian WANTS to start a thread about lesbians that is potentially going to attract puerile nonsense, then they should be allowed to . My objection initially was to the hijacking of an original, simple thread about socialising by and for lesbians into the puerile nonsense you descibe. IF people want puerile nonsense let them start their own thread Most of us (and I'm including you in this Jah) are wont to be puerile from time to time as well, so even tho' I know what you are talking about and share your basic opinion, there isn't a lot you can do about it. DJKQ isn't being offensive in starting another thread - she just runs the risk of attracting wrong 'uns In the end it boils down to some lesbians saying "the existence of this thread is offensive" and other lesbians saying "censoring my posts is offensive", at which point you start losing the will to live

You make several points which aren't correct Dj Among them is the fact, which I told you yesterday, that people who complained have also posted To also state that new people don't "get" the forum is ironic. In the old days people took notice of what admin said and didn't get quite so het up

Clare balding was LIVID An gill did a bit more than that (along with the editor anyway)

Oh goth generally and Wayne hussy in particular ... Dreadful business But eldritch knows his onions.

with slightly LESS respect (not really, just a cheap Alan Partridge gag) "- Postings that are totally irrelevant to threads/discussion maybe edited or removed because they spoil the flow of the forum. - We also reserve the right to edit or delete postings (including signatures) for various reasons, usually the title to make it more relevant." " both cover non-offensive posts, including in the Lounge The Lounge is not carte-blanche to do anything you want in any thread If I start a thread about a bereavement, it would probably be in the Lounge ? I?m well within my rights to expect people to behave with due respect in that thread. If people want to do the usual witter-fest there are enough other threads for them to do that It clearly doesn?t bother several people that there were multiple complaints made to Admin about that thread ? so some of those posts HAVE upset people and Admin took a balanced view

Damn *Bob* just how often do you lurk nearby?

whoah whoah whoah - back up here Any girl who called SoM "dodgy" would get the heave ho from me

Have a look at the terms of use again ladyM " The forum is administered by the Administrator who may have to step in every now and then, usually if postings are fraudulent or spam or just out of order and offensive. - Postings that are totally irrelevant to threads/discussion maybe edited or removed because they spoil the flow of the forum. - We also reserve the right to edit or delete postings (including signatures) for various reasons, usually the title to make it more relevant." Most if us have had posts hidden several times. No need to get grumpy.

Ok ? more messages have been hidden, not because they were ?offensive? but because there is a specific request to keep this one on-topic

Being in the Lounge doesn?t mean you HAVE to go off topic Several complaints were received (not necessarily to do with ALL of the posts removed) so Admin tidied the thread up a bit, included the off-topic-but-not-offensive ones You?ll live

people LOVE a tube strike There, I said it? They love a good moan about the loony left in the weeks leading up (in between complaining about how THEIR managers don?t understand the job and can?t believe X isn?t being replaced) Then they love detailing just how they managed to use their map/app/brain to get all the way from Victoria to fekkin Picadilly There is more self-congratulation going on than there will be at the next Tory conference

yes yes but in a good way!! Not enough freakiness in the world. rather than belonging to a previous time, it's a rare and wonderful link to the past But if you want to go down the "had it's time" route, have a look at ITV weekday mornings after 6am

Time was when knowing that was a pre-requisite to attending Curry Club. * sniffs *