DovertheRoad

Plus add the next 36 years for Jim Davidson.

Jim Davidson - a white comedian who made jokes about black culture to a predominantly white audience. Lenny Henry - a black comedian who made jokes about black culture to a predominantly white audience. Both had 1980's output that made me feel uncomfortable tbh.

I would like EDF users to guess the first ten threads on the Beckenham Forum. I'll start with the first two: - Waitrose - Prince Albert...yes or no? :-)

I've longwondered who these annoying f$%**rs are who let off rockets all night from their back garden. And now I've realised - it's people like me. People newly flush with kids. People for whom Dulwich sports ground with the crowds, mud and a buggy is a no go nightmare. This year I've shifted from finding garden fireworks annoying and deeply anti-social to....an adventure. And with apologies to all of my neighbours .....this year, for one night only, at a civilised hour, I plan to become Back Garden Firework Twat. Specifically I would like to recreate a childhood watching my dad nail a damp and uneventful catherine wheel to our back fence whilst eating economy sausages and waving a mini-sparkler. If you want to rant/moan about fireworks - use the search to find all those old threads and go there. For this thread I'd just like some advice...where can I get some decent fireworks for some amateur pyrotechnics? How much should I budget? Any tips to avoid injuring anyone?

Fly across and strap any surplus over $10000 around your midriff with duct tape.

I think Bob B was just joking EDC....

I think Bob B was just joking EDC....

"Out to get wasted"...how I miss those days :-)

Yamma Momo...two visits and a deliveroo.One visit was very average -their dynamite beef was unremarkable - the other better and good tempura. But a weird blue smoking cocktail with a "don't drink the dry ice" warning was a bit Stringfellows. Chintz. Takeaway was great and the lamb chops travelled surprisingly well but it was eighty f$#@$% quid all in. It's ok but that's all and baffled as to why it's rammed most nights like it's Mayfair Hakkasan or something.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KidKruger Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I've heard Wuli Wuli highly recommended by > several people on here too. > > Wuli is good, but you really need to stick in and > around the Sichuan section of the menu (which is > fairly small). People sometimes see the > recommendations on here, then order crispy duck, > sweet & sour, etc, then report back that it's not > as good as their regular takeaway... Nail on head. We made this mistake and were unimpressed. Perhaps another chance is required for Sichuan. Having not been to Crooked W since its early opening days it was great to see it still so busy last week and they knocked up some fine drinks. Good guys behind the bar there. I wish Silk Road delivered. I don't mind LL getting blander. It's better for family friendly needs than surrounding areas and Peckham / Cambers are still only bus hop or ?5 Uber away.

I can't think of anything worse than retirement. I suspect I'll always want to do some project or another. But if I was working in some soulless job for somebody else I'd be wanting out sharpish.

When it comes to eating/drinking Camberwell and Peckham have been more interesting than East Dulwich for a good while now. Was surprised to see Angel's & Gypsies has gone under but we tried new eatery Queens on Church St the other night and food was amazing. I also love Theos which has been around for less than a year but does a great cocktail/diff pizza thing that came long before the daftly named Beautiful Pizza Boy on Bellenden. LL just feels a bit twee / bloated these days? Any more Camberwell tips appreciated.

Just reflecting...this is surely now the most successful social / meet up group in forum history?

I'm paying over ?100 per month for the XL package and access to some Sky channels. It works but generally not happy with: - The horrible latency on the user interface. It can take 5 seconds between pushing a button on the remote and selecting a menu option and it's annoying. Anyone else suffer this? - The promised broadband....is never at the bandwidth advertised to the extent they're almost breaching the trade descriptions act. - The call centre experience is awful. Long waits and strong accents at speed that make their staff hard to understand. They also lack empathy....rather like talking to a droid. - I don't need nor want a landline. Why am I still forced to pay for one?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cured yet DTR ? > Did the mannequins help ? I did lots of yoga / breathing techniques then listened for 4 hours to my spotify Discover Weekly playlist and seeing massive improvements. Thanks for your concern.

Massive Lolz at the posts above. Onto more practical matters - are they on Deliveroo yet? Having another burger place to add to the five already on it would be wonderful.

I guess I should just take it easy for a bit.

Hi. I keep hearing "Take it to the limit" by the Eagles in my head when I'm not doing anything/speaking. Sometimes the original but other times it's a lightweight jazz / sax arrangement. This is the worst....it feels like I'm stuck in a lift in Florida. Any tips as to how I can rid myself of this southern rock ballad?

I've been to a few of the other ones...and it was fun, great burgers obv but the experience is a bit like eating in a half lit nightclub...with a similar demographic and volume level. I'm not "old" but probably fall outside their target group by a good decade. "can you turn the music down please?" etc

And in my "now" life so would I. But y'know being a student, young and happy go lucky...

No. 2 When I was a student and lamenting that I couldn't afford a Fender valve amp, my mate came across a cash machine in one evening in Scotland that gave out ?20 when you asked for ?10 and vice versa. We emptied it up to our ?350 limit (?700 back) and then went searching for other cards /phoning friends and there was soon a long queue until it ran out. It made the local paper the next day with the bank saying that they wouldn't prosecute anyone but requested people hand it back. Which didn't happen. Anyways that one got me my amplifier.

Last week I got a letter from Lloyd's Bank advising that they'd made a mistake with my account back in 2012 and to apologise they were compensating me a four figure sum. Aside from it being unheard of for a bank to do this, especially for a minor mistake almost 5 years ago it was totally unexpected and much needed. I call this Lucky Money. When occasionally money comes to you out of the blue via unusual circumstances. And it has happened a few times to me now for some reason! Please share your lucky money tales here...doesn't have to be big sums either. Finding a valid travel card used to do it for me....

"And this is why the relationship between mankind, buildings and LIFE is so intrinsically linked. This is not just a terrace. It's a triumph of contrast, light and materials. A space that becomes more than the sum of its parts. And Steve and Doris should be proud. For at the end of the day isn't this sense of self and the connection with our micro surrounds all we live for??"