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Hurrah. And Otta, I'll save your alley any time, baby! Thanks Seabag - we're quite late in the day, 30 days to save it, so the more noise we can generate the better. This morning, we had an army of Lady Gagas protesting outside parliament (you'd have to be Gaga to tear down Smithfield, geddit? bonkers, but trying to get media attention needs a little bonkers) and we have a roaming apple cart around Farringdon, alerting the public to it and asking them to get involved.

Hi all, I'm involved in a campaign to try to save Smithfield General Market from being knocked down and replaced with a multi-storey office complex, and it would be great to get as many people to sign up to it as possible. The scenario: - Smithfield General Market is the one next door to the meat market, currently boarded up. There's planning permission to knock down 75% of this unique, and gorgeous, Victorian market hall and build an office block slap bang in the middle of it. - The plans are currently under review and with Eric Pickles, as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to decide whether or not they should go ahead - We want to show him that there's a viable alternative, that would restore the buildings, return a market to the site, create office and event spaces - that would make the building a thriving hub for the community once again (there's been a market there since the 10th century) - Crucially, this alternative scheme is PROFITABLE - so it doesn't have to be a choice between the emotional and rational - it makes financial sense to restore the buildings in a way that benefit everyone, not just one multinational who might fancy shifting their office to somewhere a bit edgier. And it would preserve a unique part of Britain's heritage, that once lost, can never be got back You can read more about the campaign here: www.savesmithfieldmarket.com If you'd like to lend your support, you can do any of the following: 1) Like the Facebook page - www.facebook.com/SaveSmithfieldMarket 2) Tweet Eric Pickles - @EricPickles and ask him to Please #SaveSmithfield 3) Share this with as many people as you can And if you happen to round Farringdon today, you might spot our apple cart - come say hello and get yourself a free apple! Thanks

NewWave, am curious. You say there was nothing that appealed and yet a few posts earlier you ask whether they do poached eggs and smoked salmon. Were you checking whether they did those things because you specifically DIDN'T want them?

Yep, there's plenty of gluten free out there - it's a $10.5 billion industry, and, according to Mintel, "Three quarters (75%) of consumers who do not have celiac disease or sensitivity to gluten eat these foods because they believe they are healthier, despite the lack of any scientific research confirming the validity of this theory." If you're gluten intolerant, or just looking to profit from fad dieters, that's cool. But there's plenty out there - not sure why you're not able to find it.

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just returned from the Hipster Mecca, Primavera > Sound in Barcelona. Where people go to listen to > great music and look good doing it. > LOOKING GOOD! F*CK YEAH! more people should try it. I wore my Phoenix bomber jacket to the gym on Saturday in honour of this thread. Tomorrow, I'm taking three hipster Swede clients out for dinner - might wear my Olivia Newton John t-shirt and a vintage kimono.

Exactly Otta - when they're playing / selling it in Top Shop, it stopped being hipster some time since and is decidedly mainstream. Incidentally, I saw NMH the day after you, they were awesome and the crowd was going mad (myself included). Next weekend I will be going to a mate's band on Friday night, Arcade Fire on Saturday and Shonen Knife on Sunday and I'll be dancing all the while. And I'll still be dancing when I see Conor Oberst next month (Conor tout seul, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos - all bloody marvellous). I don't know what gigs people are going to where no one moves, but it's not something I've ever seen. Choosing the wrong gigs, or standing right at the back maybe..? This slating of hipsters nonsense bugs the shit out of me. "Hipster" seems to have become a generic term for "anyone more fashionable than me". Frankly, while occasionally the outfits are preposterous, I would take that every day of the week over a sea of self-righteous greige and finger wagging. The joy of wearing something bonkers is not to be underestimated. Nor is the pleasure of having fun, being daft and watching Adventure Time. You don't need to thank the hipsters for rooftop campari bars, pop up restaurants and secret cinema, but try to be a little less hackneyed and find a more worthy target for your ire. Incidentally, beards - the hipsters gift to middle aged men - covering, as they do, both a distinct lack AND an overabundance of chin.

Sneery sneery sneery. First hipster I ever knew - massive Steely Dan fan. Hipsterism is in the eye of the embittered, joyless beholder.

Gore Vidal wrote in 1953 of the "Young men with beards wearing blue jeans and open red-checked shirts contrived to look more Iowa than Murger..." I suspect it's the contrivance that gets people's goats, but I can't help feeling it's kind of pathetic to rail against people half your age (or a third your age...!) on account of what they wear. You sound like my dad when I was 14 and he ridiculed my latest outfit from Afflecks Palace or when I put the Smiths on my record player. Get with it, daddy-o. Why are espadrilles more offensive to you than box fresh white trainers or nasty short sleeved shirts? There are tribes aplenty in London, and I find it utterly bemusing that art students raise more ire from the impeccably dressed style mavens of the forum than any other fashion gang. As I thought when I was 14, so I think now - if someone who clearly couldn't give a stuff about their own clothes thinks you're getting dressed wrong, (and what manner of projection is that?) you must be doing something right. And Otta - "apparently they...", "some people..."? For shame, man!

Hipsters Must haves: so much fun and getting all the girls (or boys) that it makes lonely trolls angry If you're going to give in to projecting your lack of self-esteem onto others, please make the effort to get your facts straight: 1) Beards are no longer hipster. They've passed the tipping point by some margin (Jesus, it was even on the Today programme that they ceased to be cool when all the non-cool kids started sporting them) 2) Not wearing a fleece doesn't make you a hipster. It makes you an individual with a modicum of self-respect (There is never any excuse for wearing a fleece unless polar exploring)

Shanie, have you read the rules at the top of this section? You're breaking several of them, and I'd suggest that's why your posts are getting deleted. ALSO, STOP SHOUTING, IT'S RUDE! For reference: - Businesses must be based in East Dulwich and they must state their (trading) address. Failure to do this results in a deleted post. Multiple failures and/or lying results in a ban and possible public humiliation. - Do not repetitively post about you services offered, this includes continuously offering your services to people with "I've PM'd you mate", "thanks for the recommendation" and "I can do that for you" messages.* - Businesses can post about themselves once for free. I recommend reading the terms of use before posting. - False recommendations are illegal and action will be taken against those who try it on. - Suspicious / multiple recommendations about a tradesmen will be removed. - Do not type the subject title in capital letters. - Advertising / business signatures are not allowed.

Incredibly passive-aggressive to swig from the bottle, when, as you say, there were glasses on every other table and the place was empty, so you could simply have grabbed yourselves a couple. Seems to me your friend was set on making a rather ostentatious, and rather boorish point, looking to get a rise. In which you joined him. So you got one. And then took to every social media platform you could find to complain about it. Bravo.

I didn't know such things existed. I can't help (sorry), but this sounds fascinating. Good luck.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ..and she's still local as I saw her on the bus > this week! You saw me on the bus you fucker, and didn't say hello?? (oh wait, did you mean Annasfield?) I been up east hanging with the hipsters, but still around and about. Saw that Otta one in EDT the other night.

Are there any plans for a second entrance on Windsor Walk does anyone know? Was trying to work out what the activity on that side was today.

Yeah, it's an absolute bitch - had a very similar issue to the *bobulator* (sorry, I don't know why). I got by with the help of ebay and family, but it does feel like the system deliberately sets out to make you defraud it if the only alternative is starve / lose the roof over your head. Do they still do crisis loans? Edited for idiot fingers.

Thanks MissP76 - really helpful. And Strafer, yes, you'd think someone might have done something before now. Unfortunately my company, until recently, has been run very much like a small family business, with no real adherence to proper processes. We're now part of a fancy dan organisation who should have all of this stuff in place, so I'm hoping someone's going to know more than me. I just seem to be met with resistance and a "she should just pull her socks up" attitude.

Jeremy, just because you're sensible, doesn't mean everyone else is. If it didn't happen, there'd be no need for this, now would there? http://www.webmd.boots.com/cold-and-flu/news/20121116/antibiotic-awareness

Thanks Mike. The reason I was thinking of bringing it up in the appraisal was that the quality of her work is so poor, it has to be a subject for discussion in the appraisal (the poor work, not the dyslexia). Only when I mentioned this to my own boss this week did he say that he thought she was dyslexic - but at the same time he was talking about performance management measures as though it was just that she's rubbish at her job (there are other aspects of her work that are seriously under par). So really, unless she chooses to tell me, I need to take some steps to address the (often very) poor performance, but if it is caused by dyslexia, I want to do what I can to support her. But if she doesn't volunteer the information, does that mean I can never bring it up? In which case, she's potentially going to be unfairly penalised... I feel a bit chicken and egg.

It's fairly straightforward, so I'm not sure why so many question marks. I'm wondering, Sue, how many people on this thread complaining about raw milk potentially killing us all routinely take unnecessary antibiotics, thereby hastening mankind's ultimate demise.

I've recently found out one of my reports at work has dyslexia - at least I understand anecdotally that she does. Her work involves writing a lot of documents, and it's eating horribly into my time constantly having to correct typos before an email can be sent to a client. I've only been managing her for a couple of months, and am pretty appalled that if she is genuinely dyslexic, nothing has been done to support her - she's been an employee for about 6 years. But equally, I'm struggling to manage my own workload because of how much time checking her work takes me. HR not much help so far, and looking on the British Dyslexia Association's website, there's advice that's nigh on impossible to follow (open plan desk situation's not negotiable, our job's pretty stressful at times, it involves lots of writing etc). Her appraisal's coming up - given that she hasn't told me herself she's dyslexic - it's just been suggested by other senior staff - can I bring it up? And any ideas on how I can help her achieve a better standard of work without just taking it all on myself?

david_carnell, coming round here, shitting in our mouths with his TB and his tweedy milk. W@nker. How many of these moaners are fecking us all forever with their insistence on antibiotics for the common cold? Tw@ts.

The Boss is super-awesome, don't listen to them MrBen, they know not what they do.

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