Robert Poste's Child

Who are they targeting - six-year-old girls? I cannot, cannot believe how patronising this is. Well done for alienating existing female voters. Poor old Harperson. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31376622

I can't agree about Russell Brand. None of the people you mention has a messiah complex and constantly issues rambling tirades from an invisible moral high ground despite a track record of using a presenting job to inflict hard-core porn and bullying personal abuse on their listeners. You'd have to go back to the late sixties for a comparable figure, though right now I can't think of any who were quite so openly their own biggest admirer.

I remember TVGoHome, similar experience to El Pibe. There was a Valentine's Day issue that was particularly poignant. I realise I've unconsciously used a Shoreditch narrative to explain the mess that is my my so-called career. Hope no one notices.

Come back Waitrose, all is forgiven? Actually even I'm quite shocked by that one.

In Herne Hill there's that poppy-uppy installationy gallery thing on Railton Rd within stumbling distance of the Commercial and the Florence that looks quite interesting. There used to be a bar called Escape opposite the station that did art as well but that has sadly gone.

Thanks, Miga.

I'm having problems posting on a number of threads. When I press submit it goes to another window showing only my message and preview, post message and cancel buttons below. Pressing post message just repeats the cycle. Can you advise please? I appear to be logged in as usual and this has happened on my laptop and smartphone and on two different wifi networks. Thanks. ETA - that one worked! Sod's law.

You're conflating different things there. Magazines like that aren't delivered by the Post Office. Now that you mention it, though, the postperson often sticks a wodge of flyers through the door with the post and it does irritate me that they do this to raise PO revenue with no thought for the downstream cost in recycling. It's as though Southwark has to pick up the cost of bolstering the PO. Crazy really. To me any printed stuff that's not addressed to me personally, or which is addressed to me but is the result of someone passing on my details (though clearly outside the power of the deliverer to judge this one) is junk mail.

Today I saw a flyer for a protest that was due to be held outside the gallery yesterday. Did anyone see it? I was surprised to see it was worded in a way that sounded like the action was being led by demand from the public, I have to say.

Explanation accepted. I saw another meaning but hey ho.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe think of it like this. Someone who needs to > make a few bob* is being paid to deliver them. > > *Explanation available on request if required. Don't take your bad temper out on me, you patronising so-and-so. Shouldn't you be counting posts somewhere?

Roll on the warmer weather and a return to the Lido...

I'm interested in joining the beginner class. On your website it says you work on pairs of dances for three weeks so please could you tell me when you'll be starting the next ones? Thanks.

Fatuous self-important superficial boring faux-local faux-informative ad-bloated lazy press-release-rehash Absolutely Dulwich magazine. Despite the 'no junk mail' sign, shoved, but only part-way, through my door each month. This causes five things to happen: 1. Potential burglars are immediately alerted to the fact that no one's at home. 2. The cold air goes in and the warm air goes out. 3. When I get home I have to go straight out again to put it in the recycling. 4. I feel intensely irritated. 5. Every time I see the letter box brushes still bent out of shape due to the rolled-up magazine being jammed there for hours I relive the irritation.

More than once I reported seeing tiny scraps of poo in the water and the same discarded plasters underwater for days on end. One day I asked about a strong disinfectant smell and was told a child had pooed in the water just before I arrived. I got the impression they fished the poo out, sloshed in some disinfectant and carried on. I've also seen a younger guy openly blow his nose into the water and the person on duty didn't say anything. Another thing I've complained about regularly is that they don't enforce the rule about showering before you get in so you're often ingesting other people's stale sweat, deodorant, body lotion, perfume etc. Can't understand how the environmental health allow this to continue.

I know it can be a bit annoying if it's a thread that's important to you but is it such a big issue? I don't find it particularly off-putting. In fact I can imagine that if it were to stop, in a few years' time someone will say it was one of the things they miss from back when the forum was good.

There was another thread on this a few months back. I gave up going in the end after repeatedly giving feedback, including online when they asked me to, but nothing ever changed. Place is always dirty and the water is slightly viscous. Yuck. I guess if you wanted to escalate it you could contact Fusion head office and/or raise it with Southwark?

Dulwich College sports club apparently does.

This one was too small and light for fox. Didn't smell like fox poo either. I'm giving dark looks to the terrier a few doors up.

Still confused. Do they do a diazepam tikka masala?

Hence my Q... Please enlighten. Brain full after a difficult couple of weeks I afraid.

Can I ask what the issue is with it, Alan Medic? I thought you did a few yourself over Xmas but maybe I've misremembered.

There has been a lot of discussion about this on talk radio the last couple of days. I tend to agree it's poor manners on the part of the mothers involved - I have a sister-in-law who does that kind of controlling/entitled thing and my family find it pretty rude - but what's more revolting is seeing someone using their celebrity status to humiliate other people in this way. She compounded it when another mother asked her in the playground what she thought she was doing and she told them to come and talk to her in private if they had a problem, which seems a bit rich. Also likely to rebound on her poor daughter.

Recently I found a runny one in the middle of my front doormat so someone actually allowed their pet to go into someone else's porch. That was fun. I generally say something if I see a dog owner turning a blind eye, but agree it can be intimidating and some reinforcement in the forum might make a few people think twice.

I would agree about openness, but I'm uneasy about the extremely judgemental venting and that it may be increasing the suffering of others, both in the congregation and in his family. Whipping up hatred and distrust will make it even harder for the church to work through this and a lot of good may be lost in the process.