TheCat

Because it was a left wing columnist. It's has to be 'right wing' motivated? Why politicise it? Why can't they just be d!ckheads.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I actually read the guff on the link. > > Chefwank of the highest order. What? You don't look beyond today's realities, To re-imagine a better, brighter way of dining, in a 'subtle, organic way'....??

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Separately I've heard a branch of the Le Manoir > aux Quat?Saisons chain is coming to Dulwich - > perhaps Belair? For those not in the know it's a > Michelin starred restaurant in Oxfordshire with a > good write up on Tripadvisor > https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g1 > 096521-d752551-Reviews-Belmond_Le_Manoir_aux_Quat_ > Saisons- Great_Milton_Oxfordshire_England.html#REVI > EWS This seems remarkably unlikely to me (happy to be proven wrong)....perhaps this is what you've heard about.... https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/pavilion/2019/july/pavilion-supper-club-the-gathered-table-by-ollie-dabbous/

V511 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > if they can find a solution to limiting Smith Perhaps they could try booing him....im sure that'll work...

Ollies in herne hill

Now, cards on the table, I have serious concerns over our new prime minister...I think he's self-serving and untrustworthy. He believes in nothing, but will promise you everything.... But.....here's an idea for labour and the lib dems: stop behaving as though Boris is Hitler with blonde hair. You're making the same mistake the Tories did when they relentlessly went after Corbyn during the early days of his leadership. When the public finally got a proper look at him, during the 2017 election campaign, they were expecting Corbyn to be a gibbering communist lunatic, it quickly emerged that he was nothing of the sort, and from that moment onward it was impossible to make any dirt stick to him - the public had been lied to and misled, clearly this was an establishment plot to slander Jeremy and they weren't having it. The same thing will happen if you keep banging the "He's a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic hatemonger who wants to kill the poor" line of attack. It's at best a gross exaggeration and is largely based on comments he made a decade ago, most of which have been taken wildly out of context. Don't dream that Boris won't be expecting the leftish media and Corbyistas to come at him with their clippings from articles he wrote in the noughties, and don't dream he won't have well-rehearsed rebuttals up his sleeve. Focus on policy and you might do well, focus on Johnson's character and you're f@cked. Learn the lesson of 2017, and learn the lessons of Trump.....all the mass protests and moaning before he?d actually done anything just served to turn any potentially more liberal supporters off listening when there was something more tangible to protest about.... Rant over.

Apols but sounds to me like these people have no idea what they want...but I guess it's cool to just be 'anti-whatever' right? Seems like it's mostly about brexit. Fine. Why not just say that. Instead reading 'why are we marching' is like playing left wing bingo....with extra points for mentioning climate change, the NHS, schooling and affordable housing....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/13/an-unelected-prime-minister-and-bullied-mps-can-we-still-call-this-a-democracy An excellent article (rare for the op-ed section of the Graun these days)..... Rather than the voting population at large being the main influencers for MPs's, it's increasingly niche cabals of party members that dictate the political agenda in this country....on both sides of the aisle... How do we reassert the primacy of representative democracy over party democracy?

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The truth is that impressive as it may be to > memorise every street in London, this is no longer > a relevant skill. I totally get what you're saying. But for me I still generally prefer a driver who can improvise when needed (and use the bus lanes). I know Waze has been mentioned above - but I still find that most Uber drivers will just sit in traffic for ever and ever amen if thats the way the sat nav is telling them. So I still think there is a market for people with the knowledge - especially when compared to the lottery of an uber driver, who may have been driving in london for 2 days and genuinely have no idea - I prefer the consistency that ordering a black cab brings (in general, there are always exceptions). Althoug its fair to say that this market (i.e. people like me me) is generally shrinking.

a littel googling seems to indicate that Kingsdale school is now one of the best performing schools around.....as compared to how it was described in this article....

peckham_ryu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > . And yes, it > probably is easy to mishear Kennington as > 'Kensington' on a mobile with lots of background > noise, as I often sympathise ;) I like it! Could we also get away with..."just near Hyde Park?...no, I said 'Rye park'..."

Im someone who gets a lot of black cabs. 2-3 a week on average to and from east dulwich to various locations in central london. When we first moved to the area (about 9-10 years ago) you would occasionally get a cabbie that would refuse; and plenty of them would talk about how they hadnt been down this way since they did the knowledge. But in the last few years (im guessing as the area has further gentrified) they seem to come down here more regularly, so tend to know the area better, and I haven't had anyone refuse in years. OF course my cabs are mostly in business hours, or early evening. Cabs in the small hours may be a bit less willing I guess as they think they'll miss out on the drunk people rush home if they have to go 'all the way' to ED. In anycase, I very rarely ask them politely from outside the window if they will take me where I want to go. I walk up to the cab, jump in the back and say "i'm going to Dulwich please", some of them might be a little bit grumbly, but its a lot easier for them to fob you off if you're just standing outside the window. The cabbie's got to be a pretty committed to not going to ED to actively tell you to get out of his cab....

Loutwo... You have made reference a number of times to the 'diversity' of the Wetherspoons clientele. How are they are more 'diverse' than the clientele in existing local pubs? I'll concede that the two crowds may be different from each other - so the overall diversity of local pub goers, in aggregate, may be improved with a spoons in the area - but how specifically is a spoons more diverse in itself? I reckon many pubs would be hard pushed to match the diversity of the EDT to be honest....

Disney is a key culprit - go and google their list of movie releases in 2018 I dont think you'll find anything that's not a sequal/remake/Comic book adaption......

Perhaps they could call it BoHo Bar?

Sicky, Mcsick....oooh I've already pooed

"this was a group of young men, so it was malicious" How wonderfully open-minded of you.... Would a group of young women be so easily be characterised as 'malicious'?...or how many women have to be in the group for it not to be malicious? 10%? 50% I'm that the OP's description of the group suggest they were not a pleasant group, so Im hoping this was just unfortunate choice of wording in a hasty post.

Frankito Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Imagine if someone opened something really > controversial..... like a sex shop! Mamma Mia...!! Yep, what Lordship Lane needs is a good Crack Den. Independently owned of course....

Ahh man....they really havent had a great time of it have they. I went past yesterday (as I wanted to pop my head in to have a look at the menu), and assumed that they just decided to close on Sundays (which I did think was odd)...now it makes sense. 2nd false start for Saucy. I empathize. Hopefully they get a committed and enthusiastic head chef sooner rather than later!

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Not yet spotted....but read an article this morning saying that Lena Headey (aka Cersie Lannister) has moved to East Dulwich....along with Iain Glenn, gives us a decent base of GoT actors....

I like that link DR. Will check it out. Thanks for the thoughts

I've often commented on this forum about the lack of balance in most political discussion these days, and the rise of tribalism which hampers rational debate. Anyway, can the forum recommend any publications which don't overtly lean one political way or the other, and either contain balanced contributions, or at least opposing points of view from both sides of the aisle? Reason being I'm sick of reading the holier than thou Graun, the right wing tabloids aren't an option, the Telegraph I don't mind but again suffers from the same disease as the Guardian but with a different viewpoint. I know nothing about the various current affairs magazines on offer in the UK...spectator, private eye, new statesman....are any of these of any quality /balanced? Finally I like reading opinion pieces hence while the BBC is balanced for the most part it doesn't really make me think. Possibly the economist, but that can be a tad dull..I work in finance, so don't need to read a bout it on the weekend! Genuine question, so genuine responses please (wishful thinking perhaps!) Any suggestions welcome...

This thread has clearly gone well off the original topic, and arguably on some rather extreme/bizarre tangents at points!. But stepping back, surely most people would agree that being made aware of local crime is one of the key purposes of this forum. So in principle, its a good thing that such a post was made. And in an ideal world, the thread would have stayed on that topic, but when the OP comments that (for example) all the 'men' in this area are gormless idiots standing idly by while drama kicks off - then the thread does indeed cease to be about the crime and has been opened up (by the OP) for comment on that fact that a sweeping, somewhat nasty judgement call has been made on 50% of the residents in the area. Sure, some might say 'let it go', But perhaps lessons can be learnt on both sides of this 'debate' (TheCat included) on how to improve 'messaging' and treat other posters with dignity....

Humdinger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because she came across as an attention seeking do > gooder, trying to get admiration for doing > something so heroic as to film a few teenagers > nicking a beer or two from Tesco. Whoopy do! you said it better and more succinctly than I did:)