RosieH

The trouble with everywhere is that there isn't enough Philip Larkin

CamberwellOz, when are you off? I have a TimeOut guide to eating and drinking in Paris that you'd be very welcome to borrow (if you don't have enough ideas already from this post). There's an amazing old school restaurant that I went to where the food is delicious and the menu limited to about 3 dishes, tres authentique, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it right now, which is utterly unhelpful

Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was ME who mentioned it in top 10 complaints - > the thread asked for the top 10 complaints IN E > Dulwich so I thought it was worth a mention. > > I'd flounce out myself but obviously given the > size of it I'd only lose balance and fall over. Hey Ms B, didn't mean to steal your thunder - the size of women's arses was the one topic that almost caused me to flounce off on an earlier thread about Harriet Harman

really? brilliant, thanks

for god's sake, what's wrong with you people? is it not enough that we have to deal with periods and childbirth and where to buy the organic sorrel and pandering to man-flu without having to worry about the size of our arses as well??? I don't see what the size of a woman's arse has to do with anything - women aren't men - their brains aren't in their trousers. I'm out of here and not coming back - you can shove it up your @rse... and f*ck off while you're at it (not sure I quoted that correctly) *flounces with a swish of a particularly flouncy multi-layered chiffon skirt" s'no good, I just haven't got the vitriol in me today, but I thank you fish, I really do for your kind efforts on my behalf

that's where I am at the moment, having been unable to answer the question - "where do people with dogs get together?"

Bellenden Belle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My favourite trick - and this will probably make > some people's blood boil - is that if I am running > for a bus and pass a crossing I will reach out and > press the button mid-run just to slow down traffic > and give me a chance to get to the bus stop in > time. > > Makes my day when it works! I love doing that too. although the lights on Lordship Lane don't work fast enough for it to make a difference, I'll always give it a go

don't disagree at all - fawning also an excellent word incidentally. I sometimes wish there were more contentious topics that I could get wound up about so that I could have a good flounce, usually when I'm having a really bad day, but I find that the forum's too friendly a place by and large. it just wouldn't feel right (though that said, next time there's a debate on the size of women's arses I might give it a go)

quite so - Sean I don't mean that it IS cliquey, more that it can be perceived that way because there are people who have actually bothered to get to know each other, who clearly like each other and enjoy each other's company and share jokes (often about drinking too much at forum get togethers which is all to the good). That's a nice thing, but to people who haven't been to forum drinks / curry night / book club etc it can seem that there's a gang they're not a part of - through their own choice of course by not attending any of the aforementioned evenings - but I do think that flouncing is more acceptable within your own gang and wonder how that plays out on here

ace thanks - do you bother reading anything about dogs (I don't mean handbooks so much as websites, DogWorld magazine etc)? i think most people don't

I think flouncing's brilliant (although only really works if someone loves you enough to forgive you and not to remind you constantly of your shameful behaviour - I once flounced out of a game of ludo aged about 30 - my friends have forgiven though not yet forgotten) I think it is possible to think that this forum is a bit cliquey in that respect, because it's really the people who bother to turn up to forum drinks and get to know and like each other who are most likely to say, "no wait, we love you, come back". So for me, not much flouncing opportunity to date, but I'm working my way up to drinks, after which I will look forward to flouncing and then creeping back in apologetic shame

in a shameless bit of research for something I'm doing at work, I'm wondering do people with dogs hang out together? obviously you guys go to the park - I've seen you throwing sticks and tennis balls with those brilliant throwing things - but do you hang out in pub beer gardens and appreciate each other's dogs? do you go on dog forums? or are you in fact not a dog nutter and just a normal person who happens to have a dog and read the usual media and go on this forum? trying to work out how best to talk to dog owners about their dogs (in a work capacity you understand). anyone who can help me out is very welcome to some dog treats for their faithful friend...

but Sean, isn't the bread at a fixed price in Paris? it was when I lived there - 3F / baguette - fixed government price so they don't have to eat cake but your point stands nonetheless - we're used to spending the lowest proportion of our income ever on food - and feel cheated that everything isn't at Iceland prices (even though we don't like Iceland). For all the gastroporn on tv, and the fantastic restaurants that now grace the country, we're still not a nation of food lovers.

I need it too. Can I sell my colleagues on Ebay?

no I categorically can't have this. Coloured tights are great, and the knee socks are fine worn with attitude. (wear them with bunches and it's just a bit pervy) BB, I haven't seen you in the flesh, but if the earlier comment about your great sense of personal style is anything to go by, then I think you'll carry them off with aplomb. Fake tan in Liverpool just runs the risk of looking a little, well, WAGish. I went for a night out in Manchester recently and there was so much fake tan and over-straightened hair that I thought I'd wandered onto the set of Hollyoaks

you're quite right and I'm sorry, in a really foul mood this morning and took it out on the shoe boutique. had a look through the site before commenting and they're very much not my kind of shoes (not just the bad ones posted on here), but hey, horses for courses and all I'll keep shopping up west and wish them well with their venture

actually I think I take back my earlier comment - while I don't consider these shoes expensive, I do think them overpriced - they're fugly in the extreme and I propose that even ?5 would be too much what for, why, why, why they coming?

yes sugaring is essentially the same as waxing - only meant to be less painful - I haven't found it so. used by the ancient egyptians I believe, they were a smooth skinned bunch, way ahead of their time (got to be a better than a strigil for avoiding ingrowing hairs) essentially it's like caramel, only I wouldn't recommend eating it - especially not after it's been used once

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan, you must be pregnant, sounds like you're > eating for two. or a tapeworm..? And Asset, I'm inclined to agree with you. Partly because I'm likely to have been one of the ones who thought it was all misogynistic. Women in the workplace - it's a thorny issue

not sure I'd call this den of monstrous shoes overpriced

we're going to need pictures you know - BB sparkling in the north - yay!

jrussel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As regards the comments about the free dog waste > bags: as a practical solution, I suppose it works, > to subsidise dog owners from the public purse in > this way, if it will stop them from leaving the > mess on the pavements which will be even more > costly to clean up. The point is, though, that > they should not be leaving the mess in the first > place, and the same applies to anyone else whether > they are dropping cigarette butts, broken glass, > childrens' sweets wrappers or anything else. Quite right. The same applies to many things - we subsidise smokers when they're in hospital with lung cancer, and they shouldn't be smoking in the first place.

wrong, but so wrong it's right. channel the Japanese schoolgirl look - yay for frivolous hosiery - and I think SJP may have been sporting the look in SATC film so you'd be in good company now what might also be wrong, but with a purple dress, have you considered turquoise tights? it's quite full on, but I sometimes sport with my purple dress (mine's a plummy purple - if yours is brighter it could be slightly assaulting on the eye). grey's a safer winner I think. ooh, ooh, when i was little, I used to have a purple dress that I wore with mustard tights - looked fabulous (my god I was fashion forward) but definitely need amazing legs to wear mustard tights (sadly I can no longer get away with them)

BB that's a brilliant idea on the drinks front - thanks - will implement with gusto hurrah for El Tel and the singing turkey

Is anyone else planning to celebrate this spectacle of high camp with a Eurovision party or is it just me? I need advice on Eastern European treats (I like to have representative food and drink from every country in the competition but am at a loss for ukraine for instance) am I actually the world's biggest loser?