JohnL

The only pub I've ever walked into and been the only person there - no bar staff even. There was some demolition going on in the garden bit yesterday - thought the whole place was going.

Chupacabra ?

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was there yesterday playing in a concert - it > didn't inspire me to go back. I can see there's > been a lot of regeneration (I was at Carrs Lane > church, quite near the Bullring), but it looks to > be a city full of derelict buildings and empty > shops. Canal area used to be OK - haven't been for a few years but Broad street was dying then.

Medusa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Come on, people, be fair. Tarot is absolutely > right. > Take Eastenders: there's Phil and Sharon, Roxy and > Aleks, Charlie and Ronnie, Mick and Linda, Ian and > Jane, Buster and Shirley,Shabnam and Kush...all > the heterosexual singletons...oh, and there's Tina > and Sonia. > > Yup. Absolutely SWARMING with gay characters. Last time I watched Eastenders i think Phil got buried alive Has this happened to anyone on the forum ?

Preferred Phil O from the Human League. Liked the hair :)

Gave up watching Soaps a long time ago - and watch things via Sky+ or Netflix usually - so watershed is no more. I have watched more US based programs recently - but they all have a mix of characters too. I almost feel it's Russel T Davies - Tarot doesn't like he does have a load of exposure ;) I don't watch loads of his shows - but then I'm not into relationship stuff - more horror, history and SciFi. http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/pushing-boundaries-russell-t-davies-shows/

Ooh - don't watch Game of Thrones then :)

Otta Wrote: > I totally agree with keekybreeks on this. I am not > saying that any plans are bad (I don't really have > an opinion), but it's a white middle class group > trying to build a new Peckham in their own image. But that's how England was built since the Anglo Saxons (or their culture) displaced the Britons. I'm sure every group is capable of being heard - maybe the people in authority are not listening ?

indiepanda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am a big fan of art deco buildings - but it > looks to me as if to restore these to their former > glory would cost a fortune. > > I don't know what the ownership status is of them > at present, but if they are owned by the > occupiers, I somehow doubt they could afford it, > and if the current businesses in those spaces > don't own them, I doubt many would be able to > afford the increased rents post restoration. But > perhaps I've missed something and there is a way > of having both. There's no point in restoring them unless they are kept restored and maintained. Otherwise might as well get rid.

My mother would say a man with a beard is a man hiding something. She really stuck to that too (kept away from bearded men)

Always Euston to New Street for me too. Marylebone might be the slow train :)

Good - they're quieter when not on them Bad - Aircon, Claustrophobic

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When was that actually demolished? It stood unused > for years! 1987 I think. I'm surprised it didn't become a skateboard area :) - the area is a unused bit of the park now

A lot of people still feel Blair did promote equality and deliver - whatever his other failings. Brown/Cameron followed through with things such as gay marriage - that were really instigated by Blair's government. I know a few people who even still support Liberal Interventionism as the morally right thing to do (it actually worked in Sierra Leone against the West Side Boys - maybe that was what confirmed Blair on that course).

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Many social housing tenants who work are on > minimum/low wages Alice. That's why they are in > social housing (and why we need it). They are > never going to earn enough or be in stable enough > employment to keep a mortgage on a private market > property going. > > And how about we stop artificially inflating the > housing market and let it return to normal market > forces. I.e. when first time buyers can no long > afford to buy, the price comes down, instead of > bringing out yet more products designed to give > people part ownership etc. I'd say that Shared Ownership isn't social housing any more - it's a mechanism to buy when you can't afford it. Apparently you need 65K+ income min for the shared ownership blocks in Elephant & Castle lend lease.

Chancery Lane - I here they switched back something that failed during the fire

Local to us (fire related) - so not ED :) sorry. Be nice if they warned us.

effecting holborn again (anything happening in east dulwich ?) people stuck in lifts in my workplace - what is happening

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh well, cheer yourself up by reading the Green's > manifesto. There's a set of policies dreamt up by > a group of people in full knowledge that they will > be nowhere near any form of power come May. It > almost makes the Labour "free owls" policy look > relatively sane and practical. I think the Tory policies are drawn up assuming a hung parliament - so they won't implement them in any coalition. At least EdM tried.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's Eton not Eaton, JohnL. So you know I didn't go there :) I edited it though (don't want to annoy)

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JohnL Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Plato also believed in slavery and rule by an > > > elite of philosopher kings. I'm choosing not > to > > > follow his political beliefs. > > > > > > The "Go back to Eton" guy maybe thinks the > Tories > > do too :) > > He himself looked a right posh bastard. I reckon > he went to Harrow. Would explain him hating Eaton

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plato also believed in slavery and rule by an > elite of philosopher kings. I'm choosing not to > follow his political beliefs. The "Go back to Eton" guy maybe thinks the Tories do too :)

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Residents of East Dulwich complaining about estate > agent boards - conscientious pillars of the > community > Residents of Peckham complaining about buildings > in a state of disrepair - fascists hell-bent on > ethnic cleansing I don't mind the Chrysler building (which is Art Deco) - but I can't appreciate the Art Deco in Peckham I think of 1930s austerity rather than 1920s fun. Maybe that's me - or maybe they need to be cleared of signage. I can't believe that what they are now is how they were designed ?.

and now Homes for Votes (no link to Dame Shirley meant) :)

No doubt the Hatton Garden robbers wore hipster gear and Beards underneath the hard hats and Hi Vis jackets. I say set this guy on them with his huge spanner. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/garage-boss-im-being-driven-out-of-hackney-by-hipsters-10132319.html