Robert Poste's Child

I have a no junk mail sticker but they (and all the other local mags) just ignore it. Not sure I'd call it offensive but I agree it doesn't reflect my experience of the area. But fair to say I'm not a fan of 'aspirational' (ie 90% advertising) magazines anyway - rooted in envy and tend to make you unhappy with what you've got!

Thank you for your concern. I never thought of Rescue Remedy. It's much better this morning, thanks, though still swollen and you know how once you've bitten it you keep catching it in the same place. I wish I had a more glamorous reason for it, one involving Ray Winstone, a bottle of wine and another place entirely, but I'm afraid it was a straightforward case of eating toast without due care and attention while distracted by a big change that's going on at work.

Yes, it is mine, including the bit I seem to have swallowed.

Thank you. Now stopped bleeding and I've finished all the ice cream in the fridge, but it doesn't look very nice. Let's see if I can get through the last hour of the day without another accident. This would never happen to Flora.

I can see there's a need to be able to control public nuisance but this doesn't seem like the right solution. Couldn't the police just move them on?

I don't know if there's a thread for the worried well already but if there's anyone with medical experience reading I'm wondering what to do for a badly bitten tongue. Do you put it in cold water (how?), suck an ice cube, gargle with salt water? A plaster seems out of the question. ..

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Which group in particular, RPC? The one that > pictures women eating, men sitting with their legs > "too far apart" or the one where women and gay men > post pictures of men they find sexually > attractive? I was responding to the OP but all of them really. I admit I find the constant dripfeed of trivial self-publicity by social media pretty boring anyway, but the women-eating-on-tube thing is barely veiled voyeurism with an underlying sadism towards women, tarted up as art-wnak. The message is 'my passing opinion about you is more important than you'. Which is fine, I guess, if you're just chatting with your mates and the object doesn't get to hear about it, but in my view it's not OK to publish it without their agreement. If you happened to pick on someone who was feeling less than great it could do much more damage than you realise, and in my view the fact you had some arty intention doesn't absolve you of all responsibility for that. I'm sure there'll be people who disagree with me but that's how I see it right now.

Not sure if the perpetrator (guessed which side of the fence I'm on yet?) genuinely believes this is art but it looks bordering on psychopathic behaviour to me. Vile.

Weren't some of those linked to last year's Dulwich Festival? Maybe they're just cleaning some of the canvases for this year's programme.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Going off the kids name subject a little (I blame > LN), but when working in Berlin there was a Herr > Titz working in the office. > > This was not helped by the fact that Germans tend > to answer the phone with just their surname. I worked for a German company and had a colleague whose surname was Kuntz (true).

Attach to a hair tie and use to tie hair back (appreciate this may not work for everyone).

Cycle. Takes 10 mins.

O2. Stop calling me. It's never going to happen.

A couple of years ago I passed two women in the street, very overweight, scraped-back hair, tracksuits, with a gaggle of about ten kids of various sizes between them. As they went into McDonald's one of them bellowed at her daughter, 'SHANIA!'

Funny but then the picture of the picture of the dog made me want to cry.

Happy birthday, lovely Doris Day. Fabulous figure too. Who actually believes personal happiness necessarily equals being in a long-term relationship anyway?

Kale is the worst. Makes me feel like a donkey eating thistles.

Herne Hill has been trying to claim village status for years. Probably worth 25% on house prices.

Have you thought about joining Companions2Travel? Mind you, when I did I only got emails from married men whose wives didn't like travelling and who didn't know they'd joined the site. My own plan is to take the Caledonian Sleeper to Fort William in May or June, go on the Jacobite steam railway to Mallaig, then visit a few islands for some walking.

When websites change to tablet-friendly format and dumb down in the process, in this case TFL. I don't need a picture of a little bus driving along to show me that it's finding the results, thanks, I'm a grown-up.

Looks like it.

monkeylite Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A leaflet from a greasy chicken shop is far more > useful than a political leaflet dropped by a > person who obviously spends far too much time > trying to sound clever, with a help of a > thesaurus. How spiteful you sound.

I think Alex K has a point though it may be that standards in this area have shifted culturally in the last fifty years and people channel that attention into other areas of life. If you compare ED to Dulwich Village, for example, you can see what he (?) means, perhaps due partly to the work of the Dulwich Estate.

Lamp

And another thing: when people stand in the doorway of the bus when it's not their stop so everyone has to get off in single file. Someone has probably said this already. May even have been me.