
Moos
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1) Can't think of a better response than Michael Deuteronymous's. 2) For much the same reason as people violently quarrel as to whether ED is or isn't a nice place to be, while actually living in the same streets. People go out looking for what they expect to see, and lo and behold!
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Thank God society is so far ahead now with regards to gender equality ";-)"
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Great idea, I would love to come with Mr. Moos and the wee Moosling, who may be a walking dustbin by then. At the moment, he's just a crawling dustbin, particularly fond of cat food. :-S
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Gowlett? Cheeky vote for a short walk from me.
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I'm constantly being invited to update my penis, which I find tedious. Judging by my grasp of all the other technical gadgets I own (phone, BlackBerry, DVD player etc.) if I had a penis, I'd still be using it in the most basic way possible, would be unaware of its more advanced features and would certainly not be wanting to upgrade to some better version which I wouldn't even be able to turn on.* *any double meaning discernable in any of the choices of word, phrase or syntax is intentional.
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Last night was a great laugh, so much fun to see lots of familiar and a couple of smiley new faces. I may have been in a slightly bumptious mood, so apologies if I was irritating in any way! :-$ Also, soooooo busted on the new jeans. Damn you all for being observent.
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Harris Academy for boys on Peckham Rye approved
Moos replied to Dr De Soto's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Taper, I don't think anyone has an issue with a large school as such. Those that are against it say that the school, though desperately needed, is too large for the site that it's on. -
Sadly, many people use "morality" (I added the speech marks with care) to justify homophobia, and this ranges from the extremist Bible-bashing nutcases such as the ones quoted on here recently to more middle-of-the-road churchgoers who know that racism is wrong but are troubled by a single line in the Bible, and by the teachings of the Church. (actually, this also affects the status of women vs men, but not to derail the thread) The Church of England is making some progress. But I wish more people would understand that their 'hesitations' and 'wouldn't wish anyone any harm, but not quite sure-isms' provide a legitimate cloak and cover for darker, wider, uglier prejudice.
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Only in the sense that we're all related. Except for those of us that aren't. But I don't really mind if someone mixes me up with one of the Forum's best. Unless that someone is either Mr. Moos or Hannah, of course...
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Isn't it just a symptom of the time of year? Don't worry, Forumites, dark mornings and dark evenings will be upon us before we know it.. and then the seasons will wheel around again... Moos - Annoying Bird.
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I thoroughly object to that comment, BN5, I've never backed up anything I've said on this Forum with anything so sordid as a fact in my life, and I'm not going to start now. Take it back at once, at once I tell you. You're mixing me up with david_carnell again, and I wish you wouldn't, we aren't related. I'm the tall handsome one with the penchant for tweed.
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Oh! I've just come back from lunch, what a lovely surprise. Thank you so much. I'm embarrassed but really pleased.
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I'm well in favour of national service. But before you shout at me, in the community service model. In Germany where they still have national service (for young men only), you can opt out of the joining-the-army bit and do community service. Someone I know was an assistant teacher at a school for disabled children for 18 months (you have to go longer if you don't pick up a rifle) and said he learned more doing that than he had in any other 18 months of his life. Community based national service for young men and young women would be a huge learning opportunity for all, and a useful provision of cheap labour for the State.
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Thank you, boys, that's very kind.
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"WHO's That Trip-Trapping Over My Bridge? It's only me, the littlest Billy-goat Gruff..." Ah, happy thought. You'll hear those words ringing from the Moos household often and often, it's one of Moosling's favourites. I think he likes the troll more than the billygoats though, he loses interest after the troll Falls Off The Bridge and Into the Deep Water. "There was a mighty splash! and he did not come up again. So that was the end of the ugly troll. From that time on, people went over the bridge without fear..." Sorry, I'll stop now. (for the sake of niceness, I'll confirm that I really was happily quoting a children's story I often read to my son, and am not comparing any poster with the ugly drowned troll)
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Edited to correct stupidities and to say since I cross-posted with about a billion people, this is a reply to Natasha. Oh God. I have a friend who is a health visitor and nurse, who lives in Kingskerswell in Devon - an absolutely beautiful little place, but she says the local towns are rife with drinking-related violence and teenage pregnancy. Of course there's lots of both here too (sorry no stats to back it up, so this will have to stand as just an 'opinion post') but at least there are things for young people to do here, public transport to take them around, and places to go. That said, our kids will almost certainly hang around in bus shelters just to annoy us. There's a gang of very young adults who hang out at the end of Goose Green next to Locale on fine evenings handing round bottles of wine and flirting ineptly.
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Agree with NatashaD's last point. Lots of people I know talk about moving out of London when their children are older (school age) in order to be able to afford more indoor and outdoor space. I'd be very sad to go, myself, I love living here, and I hope our family can make the necessary adjustments to stay.
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I don't think of myself as a much of woolly liberal, let alone a radical revolutionary, just don't fancy engaging in debate with a stranger who aggressively pigeon-holed me before I'd so much as stated a view. I use this forum to have discussions or chats with my neighbours, and to be part of a community. That said, there are plenty of members of the community whose bottoms aren't parked in SE London!
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Inspired by Benjaminty's roaring success, I'd like to ask a similar qu about good drinkeries - I guess not necessarily pubs, actually - somewhere near Victoria station. I'm meeting a friend there for a post-work drink, and have never previously gone there except immediately to go somewhere else so have only a vague impression of crap hotels. Surely there must be something decent nearby; can anyone enlighten me as to the hidden gems?
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Quite so, Mockers, quite so. Although I have been interested to discover (as I learn more of the German language) how many of what we think of as American idioms of English seem in fact to have derived from German instead. For example, saying 'vest' for 'waistcoat'.
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Heh heh heh. If I had one I should feel obliged to inscribe it with "Visitor From Peckham, Have Visa". So I probably won't get one, as it would be rather obnoxious of me.
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According to Richard Dawkins (River Out of Eden), most British people only have to go back a century or two to find out they're related. So probably not as far back as Orgrid the Great, although he did marry my great-great-great-greatgreat-great-great-grate-cheesegrater-firegrate-ungrateful-unintegrated-grandmother McMoos The Presumptuous, who invented the propelling pencil and died shortly afterwards of unlikeliness. Disclaimer: I am in no way related to david_carnell. Views expressed by Moos may not be those of david_carnell. Prices on the Moosdex may fall as well as rise.
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Oooh, PGC, STEALING you were, STEALING from proper East Dulwich types. You shameless hussy.
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Simon, you are so right. What a very obvious lure, yawn.
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Mockers, the Spanish term was widely used in America in the slave trade (although spelt differently), so may not translate well to modern-day people of mixed race here. Almost all 'English' people are mongrels - I certainly am - if they poke around in their history. I'm quite a bit English, quite a bit Scottish, a small bit Welsh and a smaller bit French. And the English bit of me.. well, God knows what Celtic/Danish/Norman combo that might be! VBC - back atcha with some truly inane chatter, and thank God for some relaxed attitudes...
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