
SimonM
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>>Can we see that one where Catherine Deneuve plays a bored housewife (read ED yummy mummy) who goes on the game to >>>see how the other half lives? Belle de Jour I think it was... >:D< I have that and several other of Ms Deneuve's works on DVD but would certainly welcome the chance to see her on the big screen yet again!
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>Huguenot it's quite remarkable the number of people who have these badges. I've seen 6ft plus tattooed gentlemen wearing >shorts jumping out of vauxhall vectras with darkened windows with these so called disabled badges. It's shocking. I >could tell you of at least four locations along Peckham High Street where these things are sold on the streets If you want to argue against the abuses of the Blue Badge system then noone will disagree with you, certainly not the overwhelmingly majority of the people who possess these badges, use them correctly and are equally livid with the widespread abuse. However the law has recently been tightened up and the penalties for abuse increased. But yes, we all know of people using their dead mother-in-law's badge years after she has kicked the bucket. That hardly justifies dismantling the whole system though... And you should not always automatically assume that because a person is not instantly, obviously disabled then they must be abusing the system. But with parking spaces for badge users you are on much less firm ground. The various bays dotted seemingly haphardly around ED are there for the most part because a resident will have requested one in or close to that particular spot, having no doubt got weary of bumper to bumper parking on their own road and being unable to park within streets of his/her flat or house. Even then he/she cannot request such a bay exclusive to their use. Sainsbury's like all large supermarkets, has in the past suffered from systemic abuse of the bays by lazy shoppers (in this connection it is of course much harder to enforce proper use of these bays on what is effectively private land compared to those on the public highway). The ED Sainsbury's has an enormous car park, and the number of disabled bays in any such car park will always be a certain proportion of the whole (I forget what the recommended figure is) Reserving the bays closest to the entrance for disabled users and/or parents of young children - both categories needing proximity to the store as well as extra wide access between bays - seems only sensible and equitable. If you don't want to walk from the outer fringes of the car park you can of course always catch the bus which stops at the front door...
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The correspondence pages of "Private Eye" used to be headed with an editorial warning - "Long boring messages will be cut". I suppose, if carried out, this would count as censorship but, even so, I think it did tend to encourage succinctness and concision...
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>>Legit ticket. I parked in a disabled bay (being that it was 9pm at night and apart from the fact it was the only >>parking space anywhere). I was ten minutes in Somerfield and rest assured that there were no fake or real disabled >>people anywhere. How do you know a driver with a blue badge did not arrive 5 minutes after you parked? And what has it being 9pm at night got to do with anything? As the effective choice is between a fine and a tow-away I think you got off fairly lightly all things considered :))
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Check out http://www.southwark.gov.uk/SouthwarkDiscussion/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1356 for one possiblity. :))
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>>I did have to read the title of this thread twice to get its true meaning. I blush to think of it..<< And me. I thought at first it was a piece about shoplifting in Ann Summers...B)
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>>On a different note - wardens have been operating in the Therapia / Mundania / Marmora road area, ticketing cars parked >>alongside the pavement ramps for wheelchairs / prams etc. No signs as yet to make this an illegal parking event but >>could be the start of traffic warden hell and charges for on street parking in the future. It has always been "illegal" to park too close to a road junction - and all dropped curbs are postioned in these places precisely because vehicles have no business parking there. The fact that wardens are at last clamping down on this deeply selfish and anti-social behaviour is cause for celebration and not, I think, any sort of straw in the wind presaging the other developments you fear >:D<
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>>It is just the way American Vogue constantly refers to the French as effortlessly stylish,> I think the ladies of London are far more stylish. ...back to the window of Caffe Nero again are we? (sorry) :)). I am sure you are right as I know nothing at all about "style" in this context. > We spent several holidays driving around Europe before we were married, and I always hated driving over the border from >Germany to France. My husband loved the autobahn as there were no speed restrictions and he could appreciate the speeds >that some cars are built to achieve (sigh). Yes, say what you like about Hitler, but he knew how to build roads!>:D< But we are all environmentalists now...
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>>So people are taking Cowhide seriously???:D
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>I never understand why Americans have such respect for the French. Their roads are the pits (drive over the border from >Germany to France and you notice immediately) but their toilet paper is completely barbaric, no better than baking >parchment - and even today, a proportion of their conveniences consist of a porcelain hole in the ground - a dreadful >place France. They smoke in your face in their filthy restaurants, and the women in Paris all seem to drag small doglets >along on strings through the streets - in an effort to trip you on your nose. I confess I am mystified by this cri de coeur :))! For one thing I don't think Americans respect the French at all - an awful lot of the former loathe them because they refused to be drawn into the Iraq war. Their roads are certainly better than UK roads - a lot less congested for one thing - and if you drive from Strasbourg into Germany the quality deteriorates immediately. The "hole in the ground" loos are surely now of almost mythological status - I cannot recall when I last saw one, although I believe there were some at Glastonbury? B) You may be right about the smokers but, as for small dogs, try the Lincoln Mall in Miami Beach sometimes: it is simply awash with the little blighters :))
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>Let us consider this arguement that breastfeeding is 'natural' and therefore can be done anywhere the mother wishes. >Here is a list of a number of other 'natural' processes - urination, defecation, sex, childbirth, masturbation. As these >are also 'natural' processes (some of them indeed probably much more universal than breastfeeding) I take it you would >be happy to see anyone engage in such behaviours in 'the dog'.< Clearly it is not enough to justify breastfeeding in public places simply on the grounds that it is "natural", as your list demonstrates. But I think what used to happen in the (happily) fairly distant past was that various pompous asses would seek to criticise women who refused to hide themselves away in public loos (or wherever) by declaring that they were "disgusting" and it was "unnatural" to inflict their exposed breast(s) on deeply sensitive men such as themselves who thought Page 3 of the "Sun" or mediterranenan beaches were the only socially-acceptable venues for such exhibitionism/harlotry/etc etc. Eating in public is socially ok, and personally I find a woman feeding a baby a food deal less alarming than some obese citizen stuffing his mouth with a big mac in the street: pissing, shitting, self-abuse etc etc are not really within the parameters of what is currently deemed socially acceptable. I cannot help but marvel that this neanderthal attitude to breast-feeding still apparently refuses to die a long-overdue death :))
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>>Beckenham is a bizarre place, it has a Waitrose M&S and sainsburys all within less than half a mile of each other, along with an Odeon cinema a lidls food shop :D< And David Bowie cut his teeth in one of those chain pubs too...
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>>I never actually saw Jekyll and Hyde:D
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>>I am lying in my sick bed with the flu - please tell me some news of the spanking new Starbucks... Is it real? Is it >>open? Did it have arm chairs and Vente Latte???:D< So sorry you are taken to your bed with the vapours...
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>>>I am currently married to a Welsh man :D
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A jar of Sainsbury's own brand Raita....
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>>>I've read that post three times now and don't know where to start<<< I only read it twice to sniff a troll....:))
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>>When's it re-opening? I had a peek through the window last night and it looked nearly finished<< Next Tuesday at noon, according to the blackboard outside today
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>>is out of a job now - wonder if she'll take a white stuff unit?:D
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Been there today. Much bigger, gratifyingly wider aisles, and what looked like an wider range of food goods, as well as clothes and electricals. expanded DVD/CD sections etc. The meat counter is attractively laid out but the beef - all cuts -is more expensive than William Rose and my guess still inferior quality. Bakery/cakes also a lot more spacious. The self-service check-out is amrvellous if you only have a basket-full (as I did), although you do need to remember to feed in yoru Nectar card first (as I failed to do) Also (strictly in the interests of consumer research :))) gave the Starbucks a whirl. It is about twice the size of before - more tables and chairs but they are mostly too close together, given that so many customers want to negotiate a full shoppin trolley in with them. They still serve espresso in a paper cup and the blueberry cheesecake was expensive and inferior in every way to the version sold on Northcross Road market....
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Robson Green is the geordie one who has been in lots of TV series since "Soldier, Soldier", of varying quality. Jerome Flynn is the one who lives locally and is somewhat less ubiquitous on TV. Don't really see much of Daniel Craig in either of them, to be honest, but I suppose Mr Flynn probably shades it, resemblance-wise. :))
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>>I've said it before and I'll say it again. "Class Shmarse!":D
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>>When I went to the seacow, I noticed they did not sell battered sausages, peters pies or fishcakes, is this wrong? << I bet these arriviste fancy-dans don't do saveloys or curry sauce either? "Gourmet Fish And Chips" indeed! :))
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This being LL, I see the "Tea Shop" is naturally applying for a liquor and late-opening licence... "More tea vicar? and a nice drop of amaretto too?" :))
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