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James and Bob. I seemed to have touched a bit of a raw nerve with you two yesterday. If you feel I have in someway offended you then I apologise sincerely it's just that I've never felt the need to wear "perfume" as you put it (I'm fragrant enough as it is, thanks) and moisturiser just doesn't enter my vocabulary. And, I'm confused too, why does your face hurt Bob?

It was the sports ground pavillion on the right hand side along Gallery Road before Belair Park. Coghlan went to Kingsdale I believe. They also had some early gigs in the Uplands apparently. Rossi's dad lived on Barry Road and indeed one of my friends once owned one of Rossi's old flats, which was above the co-op funeral parlour on Lordship Lane, where he lived for a while in the late 60s/early 70s. I once saw Rick Parfitt drinking down the Dog about ten years ago. Also the Stones and the Who played at the old cinema/theatre which is now a Weatherspoons in Forest Hill in the early 60s.

With you there Polly, thanks for sticking up for us straights. I'm fortunate in having lots of "girlfriends". I'm in touch with my feminine side and I'm always there if a friend needs to talk as I'm a good listener but I'm definitely not a metro or a gay, although I can camp it up with the best of them. I'm a man, I'm clean shaven, don't wear aftershave unless someone buys it for me, which is rare, and I certainly don't moisteurise. I'll leave that to the vain and narcissistic amongst us.

Alas, you're probably right on the money there Ted.

I used to love popping in there now and then for a late four or five and skanking to the reggae and tucking into some jerk chicken. I'd not been there for some time and had no idea it had even shut down. What a shame.

Come on Snorky, out with it, you've got us all in suspense.

snorky Wrote: > The landlord looks them up and down and asks " Who > the f*ck are you lot ?" Sounds like Reg who owns the Magala and the Palmerston.

Try rubbing the dog owner's face in it. That usually does the trick.

You know what? I just knew I'd get stick for saying that. I really am not the neanderthal you may think I am.

All this metrosexual stuff is nonsense dreamed up by someone working in PR on some glossy magazine. They are either incredibly vain, somewhat effeminate men or not quite out of the closet yet as far as I'm concerned.

An ED Arts Club at the Police Station would be perfectly situated, you could also add some rehearsal space and recording studios in there too.(tu)

What pub's that then?

Agree with you there Mockney. They are so overrated. I really liked the first LCD Soundsystem album, but even that was a bit patchy but the second one starts off OK even though it totally rips off Krafwerk and Bowie, especially on the first track. I only like about three or four tracks on the new one after that it really is insipid, uninspired, ordinary and dare I it say rather boring.

Yeah me too. I'm off for a pint.

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Opium Dens ? not that I know of, but they did bust > and close down a crack house a couple of months > back nr Goose Green. Crack house doesnt conjur up > the same romantic images as an opium den does it ? No it doesn't Snorky. Besides I wouldn't take any drug that was named after a piece of my arse.

I agree with you there to a certain extent on the pub front Spadetownboy but I speak as someone who has lived in and around Dulwich all my life. It was a half decent pub once but it also has the potential of being a very good one and surely that would be better than a Harvester?

I agree that a lot of men have some pretty damned filthy habits. You don't have to be "gay or metrosexual" to be clean and tidy and I speak as an unabashed heterosexual. What gets my goat is men leaving the toilet, even after they've had a dump and then not washing their hands afterwards. That is absolutely disgusting. Perhaps they weren't potty trained as kids. I blame the parents myself.

How about a brothel and an opium den? I'm kidding of course, no really I am.

Dear Bleep, there's another thread on that elsewhere if you want to check it out.

georgia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A late-night bar yes. Playing 80s music. And a > KAROKE pub!! Go on let's see how many replies I > get saying 'karaoke - no way'... Actually Georgia, it's the 80s music part of your post that disturbs me most. Yuk!

I'm not looking to take the kids anywhere Ant because I haven't got any but what I would enjoy at this end of LL is a decent pub to have a drink in or half decent meal that is within staggering distance of home otherwise I have to get on a bus down to the other end of the Lane or take a stroll down to the Dog or the CPT.

Ant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It's dead naff > and the food's meh, but it's also very easy to > take kids to. Excuse me Ant but what's meh? Do you really want to take your kids to a Harvester? With all the space there is there it could be made into a really fabulous boozer, like the Dog in the Village, and it's got an even bigger garden. It won Pub of the Year apparently back in the early 70s and I remember hearing that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor occasionally dined in the restaurant part back in the 60s when it was called the Grove Tavern. I'm sure that sort of place would be far more preferable to the "new breed" of Dulwichites, don't you?

A couple of decent restaurants would be great up this end of Lordship Lane - other than La Moulin of course - and maybe a gentleman's outfitters/clothes shop and further up again close down that awful Harvester and return it to being a proper pub again please and while I'm at it a brewery or someone with a bit of money, flair and imagination could take on The Plough pub too - Goose & Granite! my arse - it's a dump!

LOL. If you say so Mark.

Just to add my ha'porth worth here. I've only been into the EDD a couple of times and on each occasion a girl behind the counter looked at me as if I was some piece of excrement that she'd stepped in on the street. I thought: you can drop the attitude love, you're only a f*****g shop assistant. So I "voted with my feet" and walked out without buying anything.