charlesfare

I believe the word you're searching for is "refined"

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most bar staff will be on minimum wage, how is > selling some tickets and a bit of popcorn any more > of a skilled job deserving of higher wages? Yeah, I guess you're right. Why even pay the buggers at all? It's quite nice being able to earn enough money to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head. Regardless of skill, minimum wage is a pittance in this day and age. most people I know working in bars have to work several other jobs and pull double shifts just to keep their heads above water. Though, more fool them and the bloody cinema staff to boot, should have chosen a job that required more skill and thus paid more eh? Bloody lay abouts.

You deserve to be ridiculed. If you had any sense of self awareness you'd realize how snooty and precious you sound. At any rate, I'll make sure that the next time I'm on the train, hungry from a hard day's work or not having enough time to make breakfast, not to eat anything that'd offend the quaint commuters of the EDF's delicate constitutions and to only read my hand bound copy of henry david thoreau's Walden.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe we're being honest. Why should everyone like > what you like? Especially when it's muck. > > Your punctuation is cr*p, by the way. Have a nice > day. Who gives a crap about my punctuation? this is a rinky-dink web forum not a PHD thesis. If you're genuinely offended and upset by people eating and drinking coffee on public transport and turn your nose up at people reading smart phones and reading ebooks, then maybe you should get a life.

All places of work should pay a living wage or more. If any of the staff working at places in East Dulwich that don't pay it wish to strike, I support their right and decision to do so. Currently this discussion is about the Picture House chain of cinemas, so it's not unfair or singling them out to talk about their business practices.

To take your TV metaphor a bit further...doesn't matter what's on tv if it's all showing in black and white.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > charlesfare Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > It's functional but looks like it was made in > the > > days of Netscape. > > > Don't think CSS 3 was around in the days of > Netscape. What Browser are you using. ? > What resolution are you viewing at. ? > > Certainly on my machine everything is working > fine. > > Will need to view on some other machines to see > where adjustments are needed. > > Foxy. I just meant that it looks like a website from the very early days of the internet. Not very modern or inviting.

hahaha imagine being the kind of human being who genuinely felt like wretching at the sight of seeing someone eat a maccie d's or felt ill at the smell of someone else's latte. I think some of you are being very very precious. Espescially the old codger complaining about people tweeting and reading (shock horror) e-books. Grow up.

Guess we should ban all street art then!

I can see how staff would be unwilling to wait a year and a half for a payrise. 7.24 an hour is kind of a pittance when you consider how much rents and the general cost of living in South London are rising year on year. The fact that many people are being paid less is of no consolation to anyone when they're on a take home wage of 13,194.98 a year from a 40 hour week, which really is not very much at all. I get paid a lot more than that at my 9 - 5 but still struggle financially. Ultimately workers have the right to strike if they find the conditions they're in unsuitable.

It's functional but looks like it was made in the days of Netscape.

They put it on there so people think they're getting something they'd ordinarily have to pay for. You can read the whole thing online for free. It's just adverts for estate agents, loft conversions and independent school open days, scattered with soppy bollocks stuff about people's weddings and GCSE level "fashion shoots".

Selfish in what sense?

Yeah, I mean, I walk past a lot of street art in ED and never see any grafiti near it. Think it's a myth really.

IS there any conclusive evidcence that street art attracts other grafiti?

More about the way the poster snootily parodies the "sarf london" accent than anything else. MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > charlesfare Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Seabag Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > I was in crystal Palace park, there were two > > > ladies together, the tattooed Fred Perry > > wearing > > > skin headed one of the pair bellowed (in the > > very > > > finest sarf london tambre) toward a golden > > haired > > > angel of a child > > > > > > "CHARDONNAAAAAAAAY WE'RE GOIN' NAW" > > > > > > It was exquisite > > > > Is this a joke or are you Katie Hopkins or > > something? > > > It's pretty clear from above that silly names > aren't just confined to one social class (whatever > that means nowadays)...they can be found anywhere. > Surely the challenge for parents must be to strike > that delicate balance between tacky and boring, > reference any significant relatives and be "cool" > at the same time. Not easy. > > There's been a spate of Dylans recently but if I > ever drop a boy I shall be calling him "Hendrix > II". Is that acceptable?

Is it not as simple as getting a liscense and being fined if you don't have one? I don't see the problem personally.

Moving out of one of the flats on this estate today. Absoloutely fine place to live.

Wow that magazine is horrendous.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Calling the OP a racist because, in this single > case, it happened to be someone of a certain > age/gender/race doing something unexpected is, > frankly, a bit out of order. All those threads you're mentioning had people engaging in explicitly suspicious behaviour. There is a huge difference between pouring glue in someone's door/crowding their doorway/going through their trash and knocking on their door before walking away and realizing it was a mistake. No one has really explained exactly why that is suspicious other than it just is. Odd that you can all sit here assuming someone doing something completely innocous is up to no good, but that the implication his race has something to do with how suspicious he appeared is "completely absurd" as if people only think like that in Kafka novels. Fair enough, you're all nice people and this guy was clearly up to no good. Sorry for rocking the boat like that.

Completely unrelated situations brought up by completely unrelated posters really count as context for this particular thread.

I'm looking at one thread because we're discussing one particular instance involving one poster and one alleged scoundrel. Those are all also excplicitly more suspicious situations, someone fidling with a door, someone rifling through bins etc - not someone knocking on the door, leaving and announcing they've gotten the wrong house. That could have easily have been me or someone I know, wrongly regarded with suspicion because of prejudices no one here is willing to acknowlege exist.

I wonder if you would have been so scared if it was an old white man or a young white lady who knocked at your door and then walked off when they'd realized it was the wrong one. We can back and forth about it all day, but we all know there is nothing inherently suspicious or unseemly about knocking on someone's door. We can also put our blinkers on and pretend that the whole guilty until proven innocent thing re: black men doesn't exist and like black men aren't disproportionately stop and searched by police on a daily basis. Fair enough if you were scared at that point in time, but have enough self awareness to consider the reasons why.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was in crystal Palace park, there were two > ladies together, the tattooed Fred Perry wearing > skin headed one of the pair bellowed (in the very > finest sarf london tambre) toward a golden haired > angel of a child > > "CHARDONNAAAAAAAAY WE'RE GOIN' NAW" > > It was exquisite Is this a joke or are you Katie Hopkins or something?