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mattham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where did M&S acquire its reputation for great > food? All it sells is ready meals. What fresh > stuff they have is always overpackaged, > overprepared and overpriced. To say there's > NOWHERE on LL to to buy decent grub to cook at > home is a nonsense. Get a recipe book, buy your > ingredients at the butcher, fishmonger, SMBS and > the greengrocer (Northcross Rd admittedly), et > voila ? dinner. There aren't many high streets > with such a good selection. > > We could however, do with a really good baker: > fresh bread of every description, and loads of > cakes. That would complete the selection pretty > well. Also "overpackaged and over-prepared" fresh food? You mean like the salads that are nothing more than the raw ingredients (with perhaps a small sachet of sauce or dressing), in one layer of packaging? Just wondering what excess packaging there is on those and what extravagant over-preparation has gone into them?

mattham Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where did M&S acquire its reputation for great > food? All it sells is ready meals. What fresh > stuff they have is always overpackaged, > overprepared and overpriced. To say there's > NOWHERE on LL to to buy decent grub to cook at > home is a nonsense. Get a recipe book, buy your > ingredients at the butcher, fishmonger, SMBS and > the greengrocer (Northcross Rd admittedly), et > voila ? dinner. There aren't many high streets > with such a good selection. > > We could however, do with a really good baker: > fresh bread of every description, and loads of > cakes. That would complete the selection pretty > well. Some of us don't have the time or perhaps the facilities to make a round trip to the grocer, butcher etc like mama used to do in order to then go home, look out our little recipe book and cook something special. For such as those the availability of tasty, fairly nutritious and varied pre-packed meals is extremely useful. M&S are extremely good at doing them. Nowhere else on LL or in the general locale offers anything that comes close. That is the point I was making. The ability to pop in somewhere, grab something that requires minimal preparation, is tasty, fairly fresh and doesn't completely clog up the arteries is invaluable. I imagine that many people in ED would welcome that speed and convenience without having to sacrifice their taste-buds or health.

rob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We need: > a proper, wood-fired pizza place > a record shop > a big old pub that's still quite pub-like > a vietnamese place > an M&S Food Hall What, then, constitutes a "pub-like" pub as opposed to a non-pub-like pub?

I think we should have an aquatic, tropical and exotic species shop. They could sell all manner of tropical fish and also large spider and various species of lizards. That way we could all stand gazing at the fish in their aquariums when we get stressed or, if we are in a homicidal mood, we could watch live crickets being fed to the lizards and get things of our chest that way.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Er, can I have a bag please, even though I live in > Sydenham... As long as you promise not to sniff glue out of it!

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ahem. . He seems like a nice guy but as the > original sean can we refer to sean2 by his full > name? > > i thank you > > as for m and s. Reasonable prices? I presume you > are referring to the meat and being able to buy on > school nights ? Everything else is readily > available I am referring to the fact that they do ready meals for example that actually taste reasonably nice and appear to have the real ingredients in them that they should have. The selection in so many other places in dire - absolutely dire. When I pop into a M&S I at least know that I can walk out with something tasty, appealing, quick to prepare and not too lethal. Many a time I have gone into Somerfield or Sainsbury's, spent half an hour wandering around and still come out empty handed as there was just nothing that seemed to grab me. Maybe it's just personal taste but there you go.

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "?????????????" > > It'll make you fat. Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Indeed, perhaps, but it is a risk I am willing to take.

Frisco Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "It is hard for me to actually think of a better > fit." > > Although it won't necessarily make you a better > fit. ?????????????

I think everyone should pop into Target Arms and get tooled up. One of those old German WW1 spiked helmets would be ideal. Not only would it protect your napper but you could bend down and run at them wearing it. Hey, it works for rhinoceroses! Alternatively, walking around carting a water-cooled Maxim gun may have a deterrent effect on the grounds that anyone content to carry one in public must be so deranged as to worth avoiding!

seanmlow Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not an M&S PLEASE! Why not an M&S? There is simply NOWHERE in ED that does decent grub to cook at home. Somerfield is a joke and trudging through the labarynthine aisles of Sainsbury's is enough to deter anyone. M&S provides the type of goods that we want, decent quality and fair enough prices. It is hard for me to actually think of a better fit.

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dom - but the Green Party like to promote > localism, so all that travelling to and from the > field would have to be a no no. > > Downsouth - Thank you for your gallant rescue, but > I did accuse Mr Mo of having Asperger's, so I > suppose he has some excuse to get personal. > I think he's just like one of those shy little > boys in the playground who can't tell you that > they have a crush on you, so they run up and pull > your hair or push you or something. Only problem > with that though, is that girls like me lacked the > sensitivity to suss this out and beat the crap out > of them instead. Hyde Parke? St James's? Dulwich Park? When I said 'field' I meant green space generally so am happy to accept the above locations. I mean, there is a city-farm at Vauxhall within spitting distance of the MI6 building (it's true - I used to go there at lunch when I worked locally and would speak to the horses, pigs and wildfowl). Anyway CWALD, I have a crush on you too, but don't want to pull your pigtails as that would be crewell!!!

And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda (should appeal to the men being shot to s**t brigade), Thousands Are Sailing and Lullaby of London - all by the Pogues. Perfect Day by Lou Reed. Spancil Hill (Irish traditional). Orangefield by Van the Man, also his In the Garden, When Will I Learn to Live in God and The Mystery.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A good friend of mine is a cop and from what he > has said to me you are a lot less likely to get > done for defending yourself than we tend to think. > You can also use a weapon as long as you weren?t > carrying it with intent. So an umbrella, walking > stick or set of keys are fine but you can?t carry > a taser around. What if your Taser doubles as a key-ring? I used to carry a chainsaw round for the same purpose a number of years ago. I was stopped by the Plod for carrying an offensive weapon. I said I simply used it as a key-ring. They said "Bo**ocks!" I pointed out that since I attached them to my chainsaw I had never lost my keys. They scratched their heads (getting a number of splinters in their fingers in the process), said "Hadn't thought of that" then waved me on my way with a cheery "Mind how you go, sir." Give it a try. If this cunning ruse fails, ask the custody sergeant to contact Delmar Glazer solicitors for you - I believe they are a sponsor of this forum so they might do you a deal. (For the purposes of full disclosure, I have no association with or commercial interest in Delmar Glazer).

And if we find that our consultants are not up to scratch do we have to hire further consultants to find out how to inspire/motivate/dismiss our consultants of first choice?

AnotherPaul Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, I've heard that crack addiction tends to > cause lapses in church choir attendance. > Didn't the CIA try something like that in the > 80's? Probably. I know that they experimented extensively in the 1950s and 1960s with hallucinogenics (often on unsuspecting victims).

Ko Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blue10, I hope you are okay - you poor thing. > Thanks for sharing the information. About what > time did it happen? That could help jog people's > minds if they were around at the time (coming home > from the station perhaps) and saw the girls > hanging around. > > Also, if you can/don't mind saying, did they want > to steal anything? I'm surprised no one came out - > you're right, we must all look out for each other. Unfortunately, psychology research tells us that the prospects of people going to the aid of others in such situations is far from guaranteed. I recall a famous case in America many years ago when (the details are a little fuzzy) a woman was attacked and brutally murdered in the street at night and despite the prolonged attack being heard by a large number of people no-one intervened or even, until the last moments, even called the police. The case, particularly the lack of reaction, was so notorious that it attracted researchers to conduct a range of experiments into bystander apathy and the results were not at all encouraging. If folk are interested I will try and dig out further references.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Innit, lets get vigilate on their asses! ;-) I'm > also happy you're okay blue! You could vigilante them all you like but they wouldn't be bovvered!!

We need to ensure they will take an inordinate amount of time, use lots of jargon, produce a report that runs to at least three thousand pages (twenty pages of actual content and the rest footnotes), charge ridiculous fees and...ultimately...produce recommendations and findings that are so bleeding obvious a five year old could have arrived at them before morning break! If it don't tick those boxes it ain't consulting.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's called le chandelier. > Not "EcoUnFriendlyCheapoLightbulb". > Isn't that a clue? A clue that Rose has been at the sherry again?

What about the dodgy speak-easy in the kebab shop? It has to win due to its fantastically flexible opening hours.

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Green Party are almost as impoverished as me, > and their HQ is overcrowded, draughty and > generally crap. They definately need to move to a > better space, but seeing as we don't take > donations from corporate policy makers, we have to > make do with subscriptions, and they don't stretch > to rent for swanky HQ buildings. What about a large marquee - in a field - in the countryside - with wind-up telephones and holes in the ground to poo in? That would be quite environmentally friendly, I do believe.

I think before we proceed further we should appoint a firm of obscenely over-paid consultants to advise us on this consultancy process.

AnotherPaul Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry, going back a bit, It's not always Elton > John. > > Sometimes it has been Whitney Houston which I can > tell you was not funny. > > "and i-e-i will always love youeargh" at 4am in > hackney. things get no worse than that, surely. I believe Ms Houston started off her singing career in Gospel and, by the state of her now, we can perhaps take some grim satisfaction in the knowledge that it will catch up with them all in the end. I assume they will be a lot less noisy once their religious twitterings have been reduced to the plaintiff bleatings of a crack-house whore!

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently not! That's the beauty of Osbourne > Stewart - you could never wish for a friendlier, > more honest local estate agent. I love them. I spent three hours in Osbourne Stewart the other day playing video games online. Eventually their patience began to wear thin and they asked me if they could help. I told them I wanted to buy three houses worth at least a million quid each and while they were trawling through their data-base to find properties to match, I racked up a High Score and bu**ered off sharpish!

Harry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had a great meal there apart from the chips Why did you not have the chips? Were you a bit skint?