Domitianus

I have always liked MPC and think that the staff are very friendly. I am glad that they are expanding their offering a little. I think that the new Italian chef looks the biz and I would be delighted to hear him sing opera as he works.

Just out of curiosity, how exactly does one define the dread fate of Claphamisation and how does giving out leaflets, etc, prevent it?

Thanks for the vote of support Hugenot. I am glad that there are those who appreciate the message I am trying to get across. I suggest that if Beth read the whole chains of correspondence again the penny might drop. It can be simply stated - when you favour any group through 'positive discrimination' (an oxymoron if ever there was one) you automatically and necessarily discriminate against the other groups not so favoured.

Have a grteat SUnday. Anyway, I thought Ian Paisley was Mr Blobby. Have they ever been seen in the same room together? I think we should be told :))

Your comments are becoming increasingly divorced from the facts. If you read the ther posting you refer to (accurately, with reference to what is actually said, rather than what you think or wish was said) you will be well aware that I have been arguing for equality for all people regardless of gender, faith, sexual orientation etc etc. I have therefore objected to special provision for people on the grounds of gender, faith etc etc, when that provision directly discriminates against others of an alternative faith, gender, etc etc. The reference to Muslim women that I have made (and I also referred to men, women, straights, gay/lesbians etc) is not any sort of demonstration of intolerance for them - it is an objection to special provision being made at the expense of others who are necessarily then discriminated against. I must say it is a matter of mystery to me how someone who dismisses alternative lifestyles as "perverted", "filth" etc can have the affrontery to then accuse another of intolerance, particularly someone who then goes on to nail her flag to the mast as a member of a religious tradition that has a historic and contemporary reputation for extreme intolerance of alternative faiths, sexualities, lifestyles etc and which has a notoriously misogynistic view of women.

Your comments are becoming increasingly divorced from the facts. If you read the ther posting you refer to (accurately, with reference to what is actually said, rather than what you think or wish was said) you will be well aware that I have been arguing for equality for all people regardless of gender, faith, sexual orientation etc etc. I have therefore objected to special provision for people on the grounds of gender, faith etc etc, when that provision directly discriminates against others of an alternative faith, gender, etc etc. The reference to Muslim women that I have made (and I also referred to men, women, straights, gay/lesbians etc) is not any sort of demonstration of intolerance for them - it is an objection to special provision being made at the expense of others who are necessarily then discriminated against. I must say it is a matter of mystery to me how someone who dismisses alternative lifestyles as "perverted", "filth" etc can have the affrontery to then accuse another of intolerance, particularly someone who then goes on to nail her flag to the mast as a member of a religious tradition that has a historic and contemporary reputation for extreme tolerance of alternative faiths, sexualities, lifestyles etc and which has a notoriously misogynistic view of women.

I beg your pardon!!!! Your comments are offensive and totally baseless. For a start I have differed with your opinion on the activities of others which you inaugurated this discussion by describing in abusive terms such as "filth" and "perverts", I have not mentioned your religious beliefs. If such terms as "filth" and "pervert", used by you, did not introduce a tone of intolerance for others I don't know what could do so. Secondly, until you chose to raise it, I was completely unaware of your religious origin so could hardly be intolerant of it. If you believe that defending the right of other people to express their own sexual desires without being labelled "filth" and "perverts" by those unaffected by such desires represents intolerance of your religious beliefs, then that is the only manner in which my comments could be considered so. I doubt if anyone would subscribe to your definition however. I am perfectly prepared to tolerate your decision to express your religious/cultural/sexual identity as you see fit. I am sugesting that you afford others the same rights and that it is highly intolerant to use a public forum to describe those with different views to yourself as in the derogatory, insulting way you have. As for my intolerance of women which you mention????? I am completely unable to fathom where you have even dredged this idea up from so am unable to respond to this baseless assertion. Perhaps further elucidation on this point by you (such as the provision of the slightest shred of evidence) would enable me to respond.

Quite agree with Bob. This place sees more spawning than a termite colony. There is something horrendously grim about it all!

I had a burger there yesterday and the burger was fine but the chips were minging!

That may be a de facto inequality as an unanticipated and undesired consequence of circumstances but it is hardly of the same nature as a deliberately enacted, legally enshrined inequality such as the retirement age which directly and unambiguously discriminates against men and has done so for decades. Furthermore, like it or not, the decision to raise a child rather than work is just that - a decision! People do have that choice, it is not forced upon them, unlike the situation with retirement age about which no man or woman has a choice. I cannot choose to retire at 60 and claim a full state pension, whereas a woman is (or at least was until recently) entitled to retire at the age of 60 and claim a full state pension. Furthermore, a man who had made the choice to stay at home and look after children would find himself in exactly the same situation as a woman in that situation - there is no inherent bias against either gender.

So judgmental. Anyone who has tastes or interests beyond your own must be labelled in a derogatory manner in order for you to be able to dismiss something beyond the confines of your own prejudice? How limited a world view that is. How very ED as well, the hub of middle-class complacency.

Good idea Jamie. Will get back to you on that. Who brings the set?

Although I have never personally "dogged" I would certainly not condemn those who find excitement in such consensual activity. Always easy and rather evades discussion to be simply able to label people via terms such as "pervert" so I will avoid calling DM an "unimaginative and repressed prude". See how charitable I am for Easter?

Errrr.filth? DM? What exactly is 'filth' about them? I take it your own offspring arrived via the stork?

This "too posh" stuff about Waitrose does make me laugh. It IS a bloody supermarket, not Fortnum & Mason or the Savoy Grill. If you mean it is too expensive, then say too expensive, but too posh??????????

And, as previously mentioned, let's not forget the fact that blokes had (at least until recently)to work an extra five years before being able to retire on a state pension. Clearly evidence of a paternalisticaly biased society.

I thought I knew of a small Marquee but then I found out it was actually a Viscount who was kneeling down. Boom boom!

Now that really would be scary!!!!

Kinky behaviour in ED! There is a turn-up for the books. The whole place seems so dull and the people so boring. I guess it mwould take an outsider to cum oin and liven the place up a little.

She also has a turkey neck!

Perhaps if we put some nice hanging baskets up outside....?

Is there an actress involved in this story anywhere? I mean...Car tries to enter the Bishop????? C'mon.

Is this the incident when Stanley got his todger out for the doggers? Good for him, I thought, and all he has to do now is tell the tabloids to f**k off and mind their own business. What does he do next? Offers up some ridiculous grovelling public apology saying how terrible and regretful his behaviour was. Made me want to puke. If he thought it was a cool thing to do, why be a complete hypocrite and flaggelate himself in public a couple of days later just because he got caught out?

You learnt that worms are your friends? Except for the Green Worm of Lordship Lane of course!

Let's face it, anyone who goes on one of these reality tv shows, whether it is Big Brother, Castaway, The Apprentice, whatever, has a bit of a need!