RosieH

I went to the Liberty Christmas shop yesterday. It's fucking awesome. I nearly cried with delight. I may have a disease.

They queued because they are paid to. Bog standard PR stunt at the launch of every new must-have video-game / Harry Potter book / Virgin holiday sale / pretty Apple whatnot. Gets them in the papers, dunnit.

Nope. You avoid the relatives for the duration so you can buy them half price in the boxing day sales.

Yes, I was going to mention the British Heart Foundation - there's a big one on the Old Kent Road too. Soes the St Christopher's Hospice shop pick up? I know they sell furniture.

How are people still surprised / outraged by this? Happens every year. The logic is pretty simple. Some people like to budget and so, to spread the cost of Christmas, start stocking up week by week once autumn hits, taking advantage of any special offers as they go. Supermarkets respond to this with an array of special offers, particularly on stuff like tins of chocolates, in the hope that whoever bought them in October will have eaten them by the time Christmas comes round, and they'll have to buy a second tin. I'm going to the Liberty Christmas shop today. Rosie, getting all the best baubles since 1995

If it's very useful source, have you maybe posted more than once about your business (removed posts not included)? That's against the rules.

indiepanda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > However, I think you might need the eye sight of a > pensioner to confuse you. (And I don't mean that > in the insulting way it could be read) Yeah MrBen, you're a handsome chap and all, but blimey, David Tennant? You wish. I have loved that man since he was an irascible singing cop with bad teeth in Blackpool (they all have bad teeth in Blackpool), and even now he has fallen from grace and is doing that terrible comedy quiz show thing, I STILL LOVE HIM, and I am here to tell you that he is a bona fide heart throb, and I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE.

Lummy, if people want to get botoxed, they should go right ahead. I've seen people look waxy and sweaty with it, and I've seen people look fresh and lovely. But emc, looking healthy - eating right, taking exercise - doesn't really tally with injecting your face with botulism, so you might want to lay off the smug a little. No one really knows the long term effects of paralysing your muscles with poison - I'd think, if anything, that a straightforward face lift, while it might seem more extreme, is less likely to result in an exploding breasts type scandal a few years down the line.

That wasn't your question. This guy clearly isn't stealing because he needs to feed himself. However, your question was "Show me why people have to steal food because it's "got so bad"." I've done that. Food banks don't have enough food to meet demand. People are going hungry, in modern Britain. What would you propose?

BrandNewGuy, where have you been? Chris Mould, director of the Trussell Trust, said: "Every day we meet parents who are skipping meals to feed their children or even considering stealing to stop their children going to bed hungry. It is shocking that there is such a great need for food banks in 21st-century Britain, but the need is growing." http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-growth-food-parcels "There has been rapid expansion in food banks over the past two years in response to growing numbers of people unable to feed themselves or their families as a result of rising living costs, shrinking incomes and welfare benefit cuts. The vast majority of food banks do not currently receive direct state funding, and are regarded by ministers as exemplars of the "big society" approach to social problems. They are volunteer-run and exist on public food donations sourced through churches, companies, schools and public "bin collections" organised outside supermarkets." http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts Bin collections!

What Jeremy said, with knobs on. If I'm going to try to get something banned, I generally try to base it on something factual rather than just my own, poorly-informed, indignation. And why on earth should meat eaters want to start a butcher day? We can't just go about our business, shopping at the butcher's as normal? We should only do it on a given day?

Like the Olympics! More Boris voters in South West London than over here I reckon.* *supposition based on a deep political enmity for Bojo and anecdotal experience of the idiots of my acquaintance who voted for him.

Gee, you married-with-kids types...

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > "Cool" places tend to be really shit > > Dalston being a prime example... I was on a bus in Dalston last night. Hairy-faced hipster sharing his ?70 bottle of whisky with teenage dub-steppers, who reciprocated with their Disaronno, Smirnoff and Captain Morgan. Genuinely great moment - and I learned what twerkers are. Then I went for an awesome Mexican, complete with Mariachi band. Dalston's not shit. And Shoreditch isn't shit. And New Cross isn't shit. And Peckham isn't shit. There are tw@ts everywhere (hey, anyone read this forum?) But I can't think of a single place where the lunatics have genuinely taken over the asylum.

Oh for the love of god. etc.

Oh for the love of god. "not sure why he isnt using the wording foie gras" - well because if it's liver pate then it's not the same bloody thing. And you wonder people don't want to be involved in your butcher day..? Tom, if you're going to protest something, at least learn what the hell it is. It lends a stealth cloak of credibility to the venture. Do you know, I haven't eaten foie gras in a really really long time, years, but this thread is making me want to stuff my face with it in a protest against abject stupidity. And then I'm going to KFC and eating wall to wall battery chicken.

It may be chilly up Mt Teide, but I luxuriated in 30 degrees of sunshine and a fug of honey rum when I spent a new year there a few years ago. Unusually high temperature perhaps, but chilly it is not, unless you're 3000 feet above sea level. Playa de las Americas is hell on earth, but only 15 minutes along the coast are lovely fishing villages, the people are lovely, Teide is awesome. It's a fabulous place.

This thread actually made me crave Wagamama gyoza. I was working in Victoria this week, and in the absence of anything more exciting, went to Wagamama for the first time in years. I can confirm that it was irredeemably shit. I have been disabused. Actually, I'm lying - I went to Wagamama at the airport a few weeks ago for breakfast. The "your food comes when it's ready" ethos extends also to breakfast. I ordered pancakes and bacon (I think) with extra grilled tomatoes. They brought a plate with half a grilled tomato on it about 15 minutes before my pancakes. What on earth was I thinking? Tartiflette, that's what we need.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Camberwell's always been cooler. ED is cool lite > at best. There are and have been some decent > bars/pubs but hipster behave, most of its > residents are just not that cool its just 30 > something middle class Londoners. Nothing wrong > with that but it!s all thoroughly straight and > predictable. The cool label for SE22 has me > chortling muchly. I used to be cool. I realised I no longer was when I moved from Camberwell to ED. Also when I started fondly reminiscing about once being "with it" while settling down to a takeaway and a bit of Poirot on ITV3.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RosieH Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Ditto > > Yeah, who you trying to kid. How very dare you sir. I refuse to acknowledge even the existence of "40", and will continue to do so until next summer, when I will be having a nervous breakdown. Seemingly, not unlike Ms Principal.

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi > > It's because its title is 'What's happened to > Nicolas?' and when I scan the ED issues list I > think "No way is that an ED issue, it's about > someone called Nicolas" so I move it somewhere > relevant, and based on that title I move it to the > Lounge. And because of the amount of incorrect > postings we just can't inform everyone about their > mistake and the message being moved. So it's not because you're inherently evil?

It's because Admin are (for they are Legion) inherently evil. It's in the Lounge but should be in the ED Businesses section. Someone probably moved it thinking it was about the inimitable Nicholas Parsons.

I like Tessa Jowell. But as for not voting the wishes of her constituents - even if that's true (and we have no evidence to prove that to be the case), if 51% of my neighbours wanted to bring back hanging, I would hope that my MP would have good sense to tell them to do one.

I don't know KK - is that what you're implying has happened, in which case, details please. Otherwise pure speculation, no?

Ditto