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As it happens I was there today, I only spent ?34 but the chap I dealt with was the soul of helpfulness. However, he was unable to provide one item because, he said, (in a rather downbeat tone) that the man in the warehouse had had to go home, so perhaps the horrible behaviour you experienced was noted after all.

That sounds a horrible experience, Ms Asset. Seems to happen a lot more often than I'd ever realised, given the reaction from so many people I have mentioned it to. Maybe we can get a few more govt ministers round here, at the mo I am looking quite favourably at the idea of an armed policeman on every corner!

Leon are rumoured to be looking to expand to the suburbs, SE22 would make sense for them?

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > in the US there is ... a prevalent culture of > philanthropy. > > Here, the left (even the New Labour centre-left) > are instinctively disapproving of profitable > companies and wealthy individuals - see, on > another thread here, a description of > international corporations as "vicious thugs". > [quote=Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger] from article by Geoffrey Lean, The Independent, currently to read on their website. If vastly wealthy corporations and financiers set out to force 100 million to severe hunger, sweetie, what do we call them? "Vicious thugs" is perhaps too charitable. We are seeing the world at this moment as the lowest it can go. Tell me, what is the difference between Stalin causing mass starvation by enforcing collective farms, and your shiny city chums? You know, our neighbours, the people who sit next to us on the tube and dine next to us in our favourite places and sit next to us in the theatre tonight, and who go to work tomorrow in their respectable offices setting out to buy up agricultural land across the globe to make themselves vast profit from others' starvation? I am neither of the left nor right, but I know wicked and evil when I see it.

The other week in Nunhead it was impossible for anyone to get off the little P12 bus due to: two women with buggies two women with shopping trollies a chap using a wheelchair. The bus simply couldn't cope with the needs of the people who actually needed to use it. So however annoying bendy buses may be when you are trying to drive or cycle past one, it does seem that whoever came up with them was looking at the reality of bus users, which I guess is what they were supposed to do.

If we are going to hand ourselves back to the aristocracy, wouldn't we be better off just going with the monarchy and not bothering with parliament at all? On the whole I'd rather have Lizzie and then Charles, at least neither is vulgar, they have some feeling for the UK, some of the British countryside might survive without being sold off to Donald Trump and assorted rootless spivs and gangsters, and Charlie would be having none of the GM foods monster. I see that Gordon Brown is occupying himself today with asking some of the most vicious and lawless thugs on the planet (aka our greatest international corporations) if they could please be nice to the ordinary people when they have finished buying up what's left of the UK. How it makes me long for them to bring back those spikes at Tower Hill back into use.

Should we be surprised at how enthusiastically these ladies want to blame a woman who was followed, for being followed? Does it say that the person realised they were being followed before the man was found trying to open their door? Or was the victim unaware of what was happening? It is true that Ivydale Road has historically been a very quiet and relatively crime free area. However the council has been pursuing a policy of placing as many mental health, bail, "rehabilitation", "domestic violence" etc hostels here as it can get away with. Which appears to be as many as can be crammed in. If there has been a man wandering about the Ivydale area knocking on women's doors for some months, then one would hope this has been reported to the police before. If this is the same man, it makes me wonder if he is afflicted by schizophrenia, and the "drugged" appearance is due to medication or medication plus whatever "recreational" drug. His behaviour may not be entirely predictable by anyone and he could get dangerous, but if the behaviour hasn't been reported, the psychiatrist and social worker responsible for the person's "care in the community" aren't even going to know. Perhaps it would be a good idea if all such instances were reported so that there is an accurate picture of what is happening, and if there is an increase in such incidents, perhaps it would be a good idea if other areas could take their fair share of the vulnerable and the dangerous (and I don't mean bung them all in Camberwell again.

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mr Churchill's selective memory. He was good at > this sort of thing. On the whole though as he did save the world, do you think we should let him off his various mistakes? I think he still comes out ahead of the present lot, all told. Can't read the book as I see it's ?35 plus seoond handbut I would do you swapsies for: Armed Madhouse (Greg Palast); Cowboy Republic (Marjorie what's her name) and Le Monde Selon Monsanto (Marie Monique Robin), all of which are very educational.

Okay, it's not SE22 but to advise that a young black male of about 5ft 7" to 5ft 8" followed a woman home from a polling station in the Ivydale Road area 30 mins ago, then hung around the house front door and when challenged was obviously up to no good. He appeared to be in a drugged state and was wearing a grey sweatshirt (hood up) and jeans. If you see him wandering around the Ivydale area or following anyone pls telephone the police on 020 7378 1212.

In memoriam, Robin Cook. Spoke sanely, accurately and truthfully against the war. Spoke sanely about where the pathological hysterical never-never economy would lead. Raised a voice for an ethical foreign policy. Couldn't be leader, because he had red hair. Vince Cable. Always speaks sense, always has, excellent judgement. Can't be leader, because he doesn't fit the media's mould of a Stepford Politician (the Blair, Cameron, Clegg robot). Who was it that said people get the government they deserve?

You see, the natives weren't being unfriendly, but were a-feared of what your sophisticated entertainments might bring in their wake. And so it turns out - week 2, John Hegley, week 5, the Home Secretary and the poor policepersons who have to stand about on Ivydale Road weilding machine guns.

Aha! Finalmente, portug?es.

The two out today were a bit much. I am a female of a certain age and not ever so likely to donate when accosted with "Well, hairllooow, would you like to have a chat with me" in a very sub-Leslie Phillips tone. Good grief.

macker Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > So just her, four armed officers, and stab vests > all round when she pops out to buy milk then? Couldn't they at least wear big furry hats and red jackets and have a little sentry box, then we could boost the local economy by attracting tourists and selling touristy knick-knacks?

xmotownx Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- the council > have > put an SE22 on our stree sign for Sartor Road, > which is right in the middle of SE15 3BB... so > does this mean that we didnt escape ED after all? Perhaps it's to confuse anyone who comes looking for the Home Secretary. Although it seems no-one has anyone actually seen her so it could be just a red herring. She probably lives in W11 along with the rest of the ruling classes. Advantages of having Home Secretary as neighbour: we will always know where to find a policeman; there will be improvements at Nunhead Station; it would be possible to tailgate her car into town, thus cutting 15 mins from journey? Disadvantages of having Home Secretary as neighbour: the policemen will always know where to find you, when they have finished with all their databases, "passport interview centres" etc; she is planning to lock up anyone she doesn't like the look of for 42 days, incommunicado, thus killing 1000 years of English liberty (start taking the leylandii down right now); more than a bit worrying for the couple of Brazilian families that live locally, in case any of the chaps with the machine guns are of a nervous disposition and weren't that keen on geography at school.

Azul Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > things will never be the same again e um perdigueiro? ou um pele-vermelha? ou uma ruiva?

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't worry, it's all in hand. Oh that's so reassuring, thanks. Suppose a generation of adults that is so daft it can't carry or use hankies is bound to be culled by something. It's a wonder we got this far.

Please tell if she is really here, and which end, then I can angle my "No to 42 day detention" poster so she will see it when she opens her curtains.

Are you sure they weren't just there for the mice? Some people are getting a bit desperate. Do tell which number Ivydale had all the excitement - at least which end. (Have you noticed how "south Nunhead" is gradually being absorbed into SE22, courtesy of this Forum. One day they will just change the postcode and no one will notice).

Azul Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Asset Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > blue in spanish innit > > > Don't you dare call me spanish again, Perhaps you could post bilingually, this would help to educate a lot of wastrels. I cannot even think of the best Portuguese word for "wastrel" although there must be many fine examples from Brazil and Mozambique (for a start)

I suppose political comment is exempt. Worked recently with people planning for service provision in pandemic. Govt estimates min 30%, max 60% population "taken out" (lovely phrase) but I never asked if that was based on a handkerchief-using sample or not. If not, house prices would certainly be coming down, to about 13th century levels I would guess. Would be quite peaceful down Lordship Lane.

Thank you for your kind thoughts. Snot that serious. (Although have official bronchitis and what hurts most, not just missed work, missed the money too. Ouch).

Har! har! and I do need a larf. Cough, splutter, fume, seethe.

Very loathe to blame mothers for this as well as everything else, but, I just wonder if anyone can remember exactly when it became The Norm to sally out without a hankie and spray snot and germs over everyone within snot-projectile distance? And to teach your kiddies that this is what we do. Okay, this is specificaly for the Dulwich mummy lady who was in Maceys chemist last Thurs with the sweet little blonde moppet who was so poorly he was howling - you know, the one with the terrible cough. The one who was spreading that cough to everyone else in the chemists. The expensively-dressed one with an expensively-dressed mother, who, however, was apparently too strapped to buy a packet of paper hankies. How comes it, that people are obsessed beyond reason with the make of their kitchen, their pots and pans, shoes and their holiday destinations, yet they are quite willing to spray plaguey germy snot over everyone around them? Does it not occur that this detracts a little from the glow? Can they not form the faintest idea that some of the people they snot-spray might be recovering or trying to recover from cancer, or leukemia, and could be sent back into hospital? Or an average healthy person could miss a week off work or getting a freelance contact that could affect their whole year? Community snot wardens I will approve of.