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Not footless tights - leggings are officially over (you wouldn't know it from the high street, but that's the word from Vogue) also with a strappy shoe they'll crop you at the ankle, which unless you have the slimmest of shapely calf/ankle combos isn't a good look tights with strappies is fine, as long as you look like you mean it. under no circumstances wear sheer tights (particularly ones with a seamless toe, giving you bizarrely webbed feet). have you considered coloured tights - they look decidedly deliberate (try Tabio on Neal Street)

Nicki Graeme wears a lot of cheap shoes. was she the mental screamer from Big Brother?

Ant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And even fewer people can ever experience the joy > of curling their tongues while doing - and > smelling - an asparagus wee. would you want to? doesn't the fact that you can smell something mean there are teeny tiny particles of that something in the air? why would you want to stick your tongue in it?

Aagh, KPIs - I'm in KPI hell at the moment - with brand synergies nowhere to be seen but by golly we're talking them up in full bullshit mode. Did anyone else read the piece in the Guardian Work supplement on Saturday about the need to feel fulfilled at work being a modern malaise? Brand synergy KPIs are my motherf*cking malaise. I think I may have had one can of coke too many

oh no, I sometimes catch myself saying "can I get" and am immediately filled with self-loathing and sideshow bob shivers. it's so insidious "meet with". no one in my company ever meets anyone anymore. they must meet WITH them. I get cross. amongst - "among" surely? utilise - sweet baby jesus, what's wrong with "use"?

Agree wholeheartedly with Sam (not about the personal ad, although that said I have seen some cuties in ESPH...) I'm not a massive lover of gyms - used to be a member of Fusion - I could never get on the resistance machines for the muscle marys grunting away. I joined a wanky gym in town - Ministry of Sound DJs, climbing wall, glass walkways, wheatgrass juice - and it was run by people who ignored everything I told them about what I needed and devised an entirely unsuitable programme, and offered no help subsequently. I've also been a member of places somewhere in between - Cannons and Holmes Place - and remained uninspired. At ESPH the staff are the friendliest and most helpful I have ever encountered. My programme suits me, and I actually enjoy it (which is a near-miracle in itself). I'm thrilled not to have to wait for men in low cut vests to get off the machines before I can use them. I thought that ESPH was expensive for a place that doesn't have a pool or sauna, but the fact is that the atmosphere, the staff and my excellent programme keep me going back. And I've already had better value for money than I did when I was paying less at Fusion.

and I'd add to that, that sometimes you want thick (but dear god, never wedges), twice fried as Simon says in beef dripping, crispy on the outside, light and fluffy within, but sometimes you want matchstick. for me a steak-frites is always skinny chips, but then that's probably because i think of it as steak-frites and not "and chips" am excited - will be checking it out as soon as possible

Gilly, do you own an independent shop / make fairly traded stuff? just asking... sad fact is most of us (even in organic east dulwich) are only fairweather fairtraders at the best of times - we buy ethically when we can, but when all that's open is Tesco, we'll sacrifice our scruples and pop in to give The Man our money for a box of tetleys and not that many people give enough of a stuff - they'd like to if they didn't have to pay more for it. which is why the good news is that the high street has cottoned on to the fact and as a consequence there's more ethically traded stuff out there. I think that's a good thing. I don't need all my things to be knitted from hemp (on that score, the ethical clothing stall in the Warehouse has beautiful things, and not woven from hemp) the more we stop seeing ethical as the preserve of the hemp-people, the more the big companies will get involved, and the better that will be for everyone the world over

i know a terrifically nice fellow from Eton - best looking bloke I've ever seen in real life - so I won't hear a word against it. And if it's good enough for McNulty... (Keef, can this really be true?)

don't think anyone was blaming the woman concerned, merely suggesting that the safest course of action under those circumstances is not to let whoever's following you know where you live. I certainly didn't pick up any hint of enthusiastic blaming. Like you say, it's not always that easy to recognise you're being followed, but it's a good thing to be aware of should it happen to anyone else

and which end of Bellenden Road

I wondered if they just got it wrong and meant it to be " lickin' " instead of " lick'n " which is frankly preposterous, but they didn't know how to spell it it does however inspire me to say it out loud in an equally preposterous voice every time I walk past does Charybdis lurk in Kebab and Wine would you say, or perhaps if you were navigating the tricky line between the dangers of chavdom (Lick'n Chick'n) and clamphamdom, she may be found in the White Stuff. Have I stretched this analogy too far?

we're doomed

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you got a croissant??? i didn't get a bloody croissant. clearly yours is the posh pastry-eating end of LL. bah. I'm going to get my own croissant

excellent - as I said neo-nazi do I get a gold star?

c**t - I overuse it, I'm not calling you names jjf dealing with an awful lot of personnel issues at the moment and I say "the one thing I would say to you is..." there's never one thing. I hate myself as I say it and nod and pretend that I care about their incessant moaning. clearly I am the c**t

cripes, I'm hoping it was Prince Harry up to high jinks. or perhaps it was a double bluff by Ken's supporters, setting the cat among the pigeons that there's a neo-nazi movement in leafy east dulwich and we'd darn well better vote him back in with his Rock Against Racism 'n' that... I walked past 5 swastikas painted on bins, the bus shelter and ticket machine, seemingly there's at least one more on a shopfront. I'm not about to get all "First they came for..." on you - clearly this is not a fascist crimewave: but the horrors of Nazi Germany are still in living memory, and Jewish cemetaries have been desecrated recently enough for the swastika still to retain its potency and potential to disturb.

Do they have sub-100 IQs? Environmental cards??? HOW DID NOBODY SPOT THE FATAL FLAW? sorry but haven't been watching this much and was staggered at the number of simpletons they seem to have recruited this year. who's that w@nker who was harassing Sara when she got back to the house? he wants a good kicking

Also voted at 7.15 - only not where they said it was - which was East Dulwich Baths. Maybe it sort of was, round the corner on Crystal Palace Road, but no signs and by god I'm boring myself. Going to be writing to the Mail as Disgruntled of East Dulwich next. But I thought rather badly organised. And it did occur to me how very easy it would be to steal someone else's vote, but your point is well made Sean, would anyone even bother? Slightly appalled by the number of my friends who aren't going to be voting.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The Swastika isnt just a symbol of > 1930s political unrest in Germany.. when we have crime taxation and > transport worries then god help us. > political unrest? Really? Yep, those overcrowded train journeys can be a bitch.

It's an ancient religious symbol???? Noooo, I don't believe it. You know what, I did religious studies gcse too, but am inclined to think we don't have a bunch of fundamentalist hindus hell bent on converting east dulwich.

On my way into work this morning I noticed that the bus ticket machine and a number of bins along Peckham Rye (ED side) had been daubed with swastikas. Did this happen overnight? Have they been spotted anywhere else in the area? Don't know whether it's just some d*ck trying to be controversial, or is there some kind of far right movement in ED that I don't know about?

the guy in the chip shop is categorically NOT Elvis - he's a liar, and I'm not sure about you lot

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I need to play catch-up. Would anyone loan me > series 2? i'll happily start you off on Series 2, but it was a faulty box set - two copies of disc 3 (I think it was 3) but at least it would get you going while you were waiting for keef's