Moos

Saw a wren this morning hopping about at ED station, which was a cheerful sight. Aren't they quite rare these days?

I love America, and have enjoyed a number of holidays there. In particular, I think the American tradition of hospitality is delightful, and we could learn from it. However, that doesn't mean that people can't express dismay when American-style culture is imported here, especially if it feels as though there is too much of it. I think there are an awful lot of gifty shops and curry restaurants on Lordship Lane, doesn't mean I don't like either gifty shops or curry restaurants per se. Edited for randomly included unnecessary extra words... like this sentence?

furry nuff.

BN5! That's splitter talk. Also, I am given to understand one does not bandy a woman's name...

Witheringly to denote incompetence: Couldn't run a bath

I live in Adys Road too (hello neighbours) and love living in this part of Peckham. Think all the (valid) nice things about the place have already been said, other than the lovely sound of the bells telling the time from St. Johns between 7 in the morning and 10 at night. Only thing I don't love is the traffic noise at night, but we've had our windows to the front bi-glassed and hey presto, problem solved. Lynxse, don't quite know what you mean by chaotic. And should poor EDhopeful just not buy a home at all because of property risk, or is it just ED which is in danger? Edited for duplication.

Oh yes please a toddy would just hit the spot. *glances at Aga* I'm sure that wasn't there last time I was here. Or is that what used to be Anfield?

*yawns, stretches, stands up and goes back over to bar again* Sorry, whisky for Citizen, anyone else?

BB, blowing you a kiss! Bang on about feeling that horrible frustrated but.. but.. but.. anger when up against immovable illogic. Buggie, that's the best report comment I've ever heard... I am now envisaging you floating elegantly but chastely around your school in Victorian attire... :) I was never in danger of boys looking at me at school but not because I was quaintly naive, more red-faced and spotty. Anna, I'm going to call you on that one; you're a doctor you must have been dead clever at school! And finally DC how dare you, underachiever indeed! Speak for yourself, young man.

hmm, that was weird

Hello BB! Your friend Andrew is a peach. Hope he does end up moving to ED, and I'm sure I know at least one nice chap to introduce him too. OK, now just because we're all in danger of agreeing with each other here (You're so right! No, you're righter!) I have to say that all this 'authority sucks' thing is quite true, but there are down sides to the general move away from respect for authority, aren't there? For eg, there was a thread on here recently about parents giving their kids better discipline and boundaries, teachers can barely control their classes, many people automatically distrust and dislike the police (who are supposed to be public servants)... anarchy is a beautiful thing but only if, er, everyone is terribly NICE. *awaits bullet*

oh well, if you're going to do the eyes thing... *glug glug glug*

Yeah, I think there's a 'too' in the original expression that eventually fell off the end.

Just don't write 'em on my report, Citizen, please?!

how about expressions that don't make sense? "Cheap at half the price" never got that one. It might well be cheap at half the price, but at the full price it's twice as much as it would be if it were cheap....

Got a few crumbs left from my peanut butter sandwich, does that help? Oh, sorry, this is the Quiet Room, isn't it, and I don't have to be the real Moos, thank fuck for that. Have a slug of this *gentle glugging as Laphroaig hits glass, passes to EDCit*

Coulddobetter Musttryharder Coulddosowellifsheonlytried pretty much standard on all my reports. Perhaps those of us that found our talents considered a bit upside down by the system in our formative years are more likely to turn out to feel as though we're looking at the system from the outside when grown up? Er, something about me... I can spread the toes on my right foot, but not my left. Not very useful.

what happened to the promising but lazy liberal?? Surely HE wouldn't be working on a Saturday? (but you have my sympathy, Mockers!)

*Rushes in full of enthusiasm* Hangover, anyone?! I've been up since 6, and I'm full of beans! (etc ad nauseam) *ducks fusillade of flying objects from the groaning heaps on the many and comfy sofas*

What Keef said. "Don't you think the world would be a much fluffier place if everyone loved each other more, and there weren't so many naughty irresponsible environment-destroying mega corporations"? "Do you think that people who are a bit different from you ought to be hanged?" Of course I'm exaggerating to make a point. I always thought I was a bit blue-tinged-with-red (like Marmora Man) - an elegant lavendar shade in fact. Turns out I'm more magenta...

God knows what I am Economic Left/Right: -2.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51 But I felt strongly guided by the questions towards a libertarian, left-leaning, atheist set of answers.

ORK-shn MONdee TYOOSdee (etc) Sconn I still say cmPACT not COMpact but that's probably ridiculously anachronistic. Am not going to tell you how I pronounce ***t.

Also like 'oxygen thief' Applicable for example to those would-be celebrities who are actually only the children of old celebrities. They tend to be happily talentless and functionless but are quite good at looking limp, and have an interesting almost-goodlookingness based on a formula of lots-of-cash-and-time-to-spend-on-appearance x spectacularly beautiful mother / talented but plug-ugly father.

The polishing a turd is poetically expressed in the North-east as 'you can't shine a shite'. I also like 'mad as a box of frogs'

Laughed publicly and like a donkey when I read capt_birdseye's confession. Last night I was idly flicking through the digichannels in search of something watchable (is there a crapness/no. of channels ratio?!) when I thought "Now, what's that programme 'Close' that I'm always seeing is on that UKTV History Channel, let's have a look at and see if it's any good..." :-$