Alan Dale

Guess the administrator has got both...

We've got metal security grilles. Safe as 1982 Wates houses but ugly.

My mate has bought a period house in ED. He immediately took down the net curtains and replaced them with expensive wooden plantation shutters and yesterday I noticed that he had added the house number in frosting in the pane of glass above their front door. Are these additions compulsory now? Is it just a trend or do you think these additions will stand the test of time? It seems that you can track the gentrification of a street using the shutters:net curtains ratio.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Dale Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > Spare Keef's blushes... > > I do seem to hold the record for having my name in > the title of threads! At least they are usually complimentary. The only thread with my name in the title was about me begging outside the buckle to buy bottleg monster munch. Not pretty.

Now that the original is lounged can you close this and link it in to the original please? Spare Keef's blushes...

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think stag do's went downhill since people > stopped having them the night before the wedding. > Only one of my pals did it the old-fashioned way - > respec'! Agreed though I thought it was traditionally on the Thursday before a Saturday wedding. I do think that if people have to get married (there are still significant tax breaks) then they should have a stag NIGHT just before to mark the occasion but minimise the inconvenience.

Fair assessment. I think what girls like Claire want to know is whether they should be worried if their man goes to lapdancing bars. The answer to that is almost certainly not. He's not going to run off with a stripper. The only reason to worry would be that as Mockney mentioned they are incredibly expensive and he might waste your wedding fund on a girl who pretends to like him but actually thinks he's a dopey tw@t and only really likes cocaine and designer handbags...

Notice Keef hasn't posted on here... I think he might be sulking because Mockney implied that they were both into tiddy bars on the other thread.. I wasn't going to mention it but I saw his 'Camberwell *shudders*' comment on the West Dulwich Forum thread. Keef? What's the plan? Where's the invite?

Sacked after your first night?!

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm aware of your penchant for the Silver Buckle, > Alan. It fits the profile. Indeed it does. That's me. That's my local.

You should come for a pint in the Silver Buckle *Bob*. Get your confidence up a bit..

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd generally be the last person to stand-up for > them, but the anti-Foxtons bleat-fest is beginning > to grate just a little now. > There used to be a wall there. Worse than a wall. > It looked more like the back-end of a detention > centre. Foxtons were prepared to put their money > (our money, ha ha) where their mouth is and > cough-up for the building work. > If Foxtons manage to close-down five other greasy > estate agents along LL, I'll be happy with that. I > can always use to glass front to check my > comb-over on the way out for a night at the Tivoli > amusement arcade. Wise words indeed.

Don't be a wimp *Bob*. I don't fight when I'm out but I also don't sh:t myself. You can definitely go out in even the roughest towns without too much worry of getting smacked. Oxford is posh. I bet it's fine..

I think it is possible for a group of ten to fifteen blokes to go out for a meal and a few drinks and perhaps venture on to a lap dancing club without throwing pint glasses, being sick or even offending anyone but the most ardent feminist. I think weddings are crap, marriage is unnecessary and stag dos are an associated chore. That said I believe that it is up to the people getting married to decide about that and I chose to make the best of any invites I get including stag dos.

Seems we need a chitty chatt thread to protect the integrity of the ED Stag do thread... So what are you doing and where Keef? How come there was n't a mention of this in the forthcoming events section?

So there are basically no ideas for how one should host a stag do in East Dulwich? Sounds like I'll have to stick with the ED Hamlet plan... Or go to Tallin.

'that guy never would have thrown a glass at a car in London' - maybe not but me and a few mates had to flee for our lives in Brighton under a hail of flying pint glasses. I think the kind of guy who throws a glass on holiday also does it at home.

The plan is to make the Stag wear a Cath Kidston floral dress and croc shoes. He will be pushing a Phil and Ted buggy containing two blow up sex dolls. We may be hard to spot during the day but once all the shoppers have gone we'll be the last three wheeler on the Lane. Be sure to say Hi. I promise you won't get smacked...

I think they are pretty much geared up for stag dos... The behaviour we export is no worse than that observed every Saturday night in town centres up and down this fair Isle. Anyone good at web design? I'm thinking http://www.dulwichpissup.com/

Keef- I take your point about Stag dos making appallingly bad ambassadors and being a national embarrasment but I think this applies to the vast majoriy of BOTP* holidays. As for chatting up girls as a money saving tip then I think you should send that into Viz Top Tips. Dear Viz, Stag dos - save a fortune on expensive lap dancers by going to public houses and approaching girls with the offer of conversation, friendship and possibly more. Whilst you are unlikely to get a wet nose within ten minutes of making their aquaintance you will save ten pounds which you can put towards the Stag's wedding gift. Keef, Sydenham *Brits on the piss

Exactly *Bob*. Deficiencies such as the Stag's mates have never met the bride's brother before but their all men's men so they'll soon bond with a few all male bonding activities in a way that marching powder in a meadow just wouldn't facilitate.

There's definitely at least one on the Old Kent Road... What about other local Stag activities? Paintball? Gokarting? Midget hire?

The lads I was with were all coked up to the eyeballs and did loads of pills listening to roots and reggae on technics. I'm sure you'd have loved it. I prefer to get beered and leary and bump into hen dos. Newcastle is a firm favourite but I have also been to Prague, Edinburgh, Berlin, Vegas, etc, etc. Strokes and folks but it was definitely me and not the lads that were the problem in Wales. I'd rather watch MOTD than do pills with middle aged men in the middle of nowhere. I enjoyed the BBQ though. Lounge away!!

No way *Bob* I have been on two of those out of town Stag dos. At the second I fell asleep watching Match of The Day. Might as well take the wives and kids. I am more inclined to the second type that you outlined.

A friend is planning to have his stag do in East Dulwich. I think they should go to watch Dulwich Hamlet, have dinner in Cafe El Paso then do a bit of a bar crawl before heading off for a spot of gentlemen's entertainment. Where is the nearest lap dancing club to Lordship Lane? Anyone got a better idea for the quintessential ED stag do?