Jeremy

But there is no precedent. No other suburban areas have the bikes. If you look at the map of current docking points, your proposal would stick out like a sore thumb!

The cycle docks form an integrated network, you can't just stick one on it's own, several miles from the nearest dock. Generally speaking the plan hasn't been rolled out to the suburbs yet, so it seems strange to suggest that Dulwich has been specifically excluded. I also heard that Stratford is set to get the bikes, but I think we can all agree that Stratford is something of a special case.

East Dulwich on the overground... was this ever even on the cards? Why is it Boris' fault? As for Boris Bikes in Dulwich - frankly that's a bit of a daft suggestion!

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 60 hours a week for less than 10k. Haha, do you think jelly's "six figure salary" includes the pence?

I am almost certain that "jelly" is a troll of some kind.

So... after succesfully defending his belt against a nurse who boxes part-time, Cleverly has been matched against yet another second tier (to be generous) fighter. Even the WBO are refusing to sanction it this time. We all know that Warren likes to protect his fighters, but this has gone too far. How on earth can Cleverly consider himself to be a champion?

So the EDF has a new member who is a Daily Mail reading, Roman Catholic, anti-liberal, bank apologist. You couldn't make it up. Oh, hang on...

jelly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I put in the > effort and overcame all the trepidation that comes > with getting a degree Say wha?

Perhaps the word spread, and DMC became flooded with new customers.

I would suggest knocking on all of your neighbours' doors, or dropping leaflets through the doors (or better still, both). If you can get a group of several households together, then you will have a much better chance of stopping this.

Brendan, you planning on buying a ?2m house then? Flash git!

Jelly, it's certainly not my idea of "honour", that's just how it tends to be referred to in the media. Barbaric, stone-age culture? Yes, I would agree. But is it not also true that the catholic church is chauvinistic (albeit to a lesser extent)?

Yeah. The millenium worked out pretty well for retired cobol programmers though.

I don't think the English hate the French at all. They're our closest neighbour (not counting Scotland and Wales, we can't criticise them as they already struggle with paranoia and an inferiority complex), so there's an obvious rivalry. It's generally good-natured "frog"/"rosbif" banter, and sporting one-upmanship. Millions(?) of Brits travel to France each year, so clearly we do not hate them. As El Pibe says, the "surrender" reputation came back to the foreground recently when they refused to get involved in a war that they didn't feel was justified. Good for them.

Quids, how is it "prejudiced" to criticise the large-scale cover up of child abuse? I just don't get it. Would it make you happier if there were parallel threads criticising honour killings, forced marriages, genital mutilation, stoning of rape victims, etc?

East Dulwich is not particularly convenient for Stratford, I'd be surprised if it was attractive for Olympic visitors.

Sloaners Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > getting the bus from South London > across the Thames is like getting a sightseeing > tour for a quid or so. Stop-starting along Walworth Road for twenty minutes, while a bunch of youths play grime (or whatever it's called) music on their phones. Trying your best to stay on your feet as the driver slams the brakes on. Arriving 15 mins late because the bus suddenly terminates at Camberwell. Doesn't sound like any sightseeing tour I've been on.

If it will keep quids happy, I would be more than happy to speak up against the more extreme elements of Islam. Or the whole American Evangelical/creationism thing.

I ate in LM once, and it was actually OK-ish. But even my parents would find the decor and the menu hopelessly dated. People's tastes have changed in the last 30 years, and if a business can't grasp that simple fact then I'm afraid they are going to struggle. Being local/independent doesn't give you an automatic entitlement to a loyal customer base.

I'm also struggling to understand why a gay person would want anything to do with the christian church. Why would you want to be blessed by an institution which discriminates against you?

Well, yes... that's the point I was trying to make. Dulwich is one of the few nice bits in an otherwise shit side of London. But, importantly, it's relatively affordable compared with the the nice bits of the nicer side of London.

I would miss London a lot... history, culture, live music, restaurants, the melting pot of nationalities and cultures. I even like seeing tourists out and about. However, I honestly don't think that SE London has an awful lot going for it, there are only a couple of nice enclaves within it (including the Dulwich area).

You don't need planning permission for a loft conversion.

We have ginger beer here too! But interestingly it is rhyming slang for something else, which may (or may not) lead to confusion at some point.