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I enjoyed going to the Roxy in mid noughties for some film documentaries - a great shout the Royal Oak in tabard st would be my London pick

"I'm not surprised the culture warriors have showed up with their usual "facts"." what does this even mean?

I'm having a read of their website now - it's an absolute hoot* - talk about a reality gap * by hoot I mean they should be furiously taken to court

"The Wood House is a sad apology for a pub" - sad to hear that hasn't changed. Youngs strike again

Yep, it's not all dog owners (and some of my best friends are.. etc etc) But there is no way of knowing when you leave your front door - how are the good and who are the bad dog owners and how will that play out arbitrarily as I go about my day

I think dog ownership has gotten out of control both in raw numbers and in behaviour Seems to be waaaay more dogs and owners around compared with 10-20 years ago. And I've been bitten in the last 6 months with a completely clueless owner who saw no problem

where I've got to with left politics is very much not defined by labels - when anyone suggests (for example and without judgement) "a reformist socialist government" - my response now is: "like where? Which country is closest to this ideal and what challenges to they face?"

a - you said you were done interacting with me, remember b - " police, judge, jury, prosecution and executioner" - the not very bright person's response on any public forum when someone point out the idiocy of anything. I haven't prosecuted anyone, executed anyone, or taken part in any trial or jury. I have judged tho but then so do you and so did the OP - so what?

"don't get me wrong.." is always a red flag. It always comes just after something unhinged - in this case " under the spell of Sadiq Khan's innumerate gnomes" and just before the opposite of what the "don't get me wrong" is meant to deflect from Nothing in the post describes any problem - it describes things they don't LIKE - but no actual problems

Well we can wait or we can cut to the chase Corbyn will fail again, attract a lot of “purists” (but people happy to overlook his failings) , attract enough votes to prevent another Labour govt and allow farage/Badenoch in well done Jeremy! now - if you have fault with Labour and starmer then I can agree with you. Extremely sub par. But in the real world, the least bad option. I’m not going to cut off my nose to spite my face if we didn’t have FPTP as a voting system then fair enough. But we do (partly because Jez voted against getting rid of it regardless of what he says now) starmer is not very good But anyone who says he is the same as/as bad as the tories is not a serious person

I know if I wanted a left wing party, I would go to the one led by the guy who lost two general elections, barely participated in the Brexit referendum and has spent his whole life agitating rather than actually achieving anything i know purity counts for something but Jesus this guy

you may not have met them - but you've seen them on the streets protesting outside hostels. You've seen them in the 30% support for Reform. You may not have met them, but they sure do exist

I know - quite the surprise from someone with Jazzer's illustrious track-record "ah - did I touch a raw nerve"? you see the GLEE with which some people can view horrors in the world and how others empathise? I don't think jazzer is a troll. But I do think yer average person underestimates quite how many genuinely bitter and twisted people exist in the wider population. A troll is someone who pretends to adopt a position to wind others up. Other people genuinely hold grim beliefs and enjoy watching people recoil from them

I would say Franco Manca had a few branches long before the East Dulwich one - that one took ages to open because of all the interior work they had to do to the old Black Cherry/Draft House layout When I walk past Bill's in Lewes now it still looks like the original Bill's - but I would never go in there as it is in no way "local" now - just the same overpriced, under flavoured stodge they have rolled out across the country (that being said, the East Dulwich one has been there 10 years now - blimey. Time, eh?) Looking at random FM locations on streeview, 2015 seems to be the year they exploded everywhere (ED included)

In restaurant terms I would say a chain manifests when the motivation is no longer “we are a couple/small group who have an idea and love food” who open a restaurant, them another and then a few more BUT THEN PIVOT to “we need capital to rollout out new restaurants so we have leveraged the help of the following investors” that is the moment it stops being about the chef/food on the plate and becomes about the spreadsheet so it is POSSIBLE for a restaurant to have 50 branches and not be a chain - but I can’t think of any I don’t know chango - by based on the number of outlets they appear to have just crossed/or are about to cross that line

Not sure what you mean by that ive heard your arguments many many times and the numbers are the numbers and the voting system is the voting system and corbyn voted to keep it and lost massively in the election so where are we differing? Where are we at cross-purposes?

Sue. You really don’t have to keep saying about the electoral system a) we all know about it b) it doesn’t matter FPTP is the system we have always had and hopefully we will get rid of it someday but it is what it is when anyone suggests changing the system Corbyn is right there at the front of the queue to prevent it so its pointless him or any of supporters complaining about it the evidence you want is the result of the elections. You can’t have clearer evidence.

"Sep, you don't even live here." ???

"You have no idea why" To be fair Sue, it's blindingly obvious to anyone who has a conversation with anyone who isn't a Corbyn supporter. And even some who liked Corbyn (like me initially) found him somewhat flaky even at his most popular But let's say you are right and I have NO idea why anybody might not vote for him. They still didn't vote for him. He lost two elections. The second one badly (and strongly predicted but the stubborn old goat wouldn't budge so we we were stuck with Johnson and another 3 million PMs in the 5 years that followed) So even with ZERO evidence, we have our eyes and ears and brains But we do have evidence https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/27022-their-own-words-why-voters-abandoned-labour

I’m basing it on the fact that Jeremy Corbyn had repeatedly and on record said he is against mandatory vaccinations in any situation, and he wouldn’t disclose wether he had the Covid vaccine himself as I said. Not as bad as his brother but very definitely a bit weird about the whole thing. Just say you had the vaccination Jeremy, say that everyone should and stop being weird in the middle of a global pandemic it’s the same slippery evasive nonsense about Brexit and him. About Putin poisonings and him. if you are happy with his evasiveness then you do you. But there is a reason the country wouldn’t get behind him

ok - Jeremy himself is against mandatory vaccines. Is he as extreme as his brother? No? Is it fair to discuss how the overall view of that family would inform Jeremy's response to the pandemic? I would argue very much so

if I think of Corbyn dealing with a global pandemic (a lot of his supporters and some of his family come from the woo end of the spectrum - his brother is a proper anti-vax nut), then the invasion of Ukraine (Corbyn long record of not exactly condemning Putin even as he killed people on British soil and many other matters, I really do shudder

You literally just edited your earlier reply to remove the point you made about it being “politicians”. Then you call me pathetic. I’m not trying to say you approve any of the ugly right wing nonsense. But I AM Saying your earlier post suggesting violent rhetoric being “left wing” was one-sided and incorrect

You don’t think there are right-wing politicians fanning this with rhetoric? Really?

latest unhelpful far left energy oh no, wait… https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/20/police-warn-inflammatory-online-posts-clashes-essex-asylum-hotel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other