*Bob*

Everything has its price. How cheap would they need to be to outweigh the catastrophic design and general repugnancy?

What about people who text you, with a question that can't possibly be answered without straying into SMS2, thus leaving you considerably out of pocket, and mildly irritated? They deserve a call. Right up the ass.

ha ha It's your thread! Enjoy it.

daizie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > have it for life? depends how long you intend to > live.. No, that depends on how much you like it and how well it's made (and how well you look after it). But assuming (1) and (2) are sorted, (3) will probably fall into place. And asset's right, it's nothing to do with being snobby. And ?300 is a lot to pay for a small table so Jeremy can't play the 'richer than yow' card.

Is it better to spend more time and money buying cheap furniture you barely like - twenty times over during the course of your life.. or is it better to buy something you actually like in the first place - for a little bit more - and have it for life? Jeremy.. think carefully.. YOU decide.

I've got some 1950s flat-pack which I'm quite fond of, still going strong 60 years on. They don't even make flat-pack like they used to.

HellNoHellYeah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jez, I happen to like modern furniture. I hate > pre-owned furniture. I like modern modern modern. > I don't consider ?300 a huge amount to spend on a > desk at all. Do you mean 'new', rather than 'modern'? The Wozza Ezzer table you're rooting for is about as 'modern' as my Grandad's coffin.

As in something worth ?300 when you buy it and worth at least ?300 if you want to sell it. As opposed to costing ?300 when you buy it but worth five pence as soon as you take it out of the shop. ?300 is a lot of money to spend on something which is only one-up from Ikea, destined to end-up being fished out of a skip by a student in 2013. Only my opinion, of course.

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My point is that while this is an extreme example, > many hundreds of thousands of other people have > left London or feel isolated now in "parts" of > London as they feel the Culture that they enjoyed > throughout their life has been diluted and in some > cases, virtually, disappearred altogether > "bob".... I wouldn't entirely disagree with that, Tony. But at the same time, many more hundred of thousands haven't left London and don't feel isolated in such 'parts'. I appreciate it's different for older people to accept change to the demographics of their neighbourhood, but this is why, as Whitney Houston so beautifully put it, the children are our future. Similarly, poverty is a breeding-ground for 'them' and 'us' attitudes. I'm told that even in America, in affluent neighbourhoods, black and white live side by and side 'on the piano' and chat about their gardens over the white picket fences.

For the record, the areas I lived in before I moved here were Tooting, Streatham and Brixton. Not once did it ever cross my mind that I somehow living in an alien world where I was increasingly in a minority. I like it here best because it's the nicest area I've lived in, and I have a nice house in it. As Sherwick has said.

Someone killed themselves last week because they didn't think they'd do well in their exams, Tony. It doesn't mean 'exams killed them', it just mean that for a range of reasons, that can't possibly be simplified into one sentence to prove some sort of point, that person wasn't capable of dealing with exams. Similarly the sad case you cite. As usual, Tony, you make some salient points (even some points others don't want to make perhaps) but, as usual, there is a total incoherency and contradiction as to what you're actually trying to 'say'. I certainly haven't got a clue what your point is.

If you've got ?300 to blow, which not buy a nice piece of proper old furniture with a bit of character to it..? Skip the mass-produced Sunday-supplement stuff which comes in a range of faux-wood-washes - guaranteed to look crap after five years? Worth thinking about.

One of them is completely hideous. 'Pine' and 'Solutions' should never appear in the same sentence.

Yeah, that was one of the better ones. I saw Barley for the first time last week and (likewise) found the award of the PDor a bit of a headscratcher.

Good film or bad film.. the one thing you can always rely on is that by the end of any film Ken makes you'll be absolutely bloody miserable. So here's to you, Ken, you miserable sod.

Have you joined the Nunhead Forum yet? Or is it a case of 'all for Nun but Nun for the Nunhead Forum'?

Tut, tut.. Will you ever learn, ?????

Gassing's too good for 'em.. oops.. wrong thread.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good work *Bob*. Only the "Alternatives to an Aga" > promo button gives it away as an obvious spoof. Of course, Ted. Every good East Dullite worth their salt knows that there is no alternative to an Aga.

Great news for the profile of ED..

STRING THEM UP, I SAY (whoever they are)

I recommend Dunstans Road.

Who was it on Dunstans Road? And when? And why?

Well said, Kid. Shu, don't be bullied by all these people telling you where their favourite Sushi restaurants are. Remember that yours is better - and cooler - and for God's sake keep it to yourself. But thanks for letting us know that you know about it (wherever it is).

Well I hope you're all pleased with yourselves, now you've revealed all these little gems to the Hoi Polloi. When the riff-raff get in they'll all be ruined.