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Well, in response to the comment "the food at Souvlaki Street is great" you said "I completely disagree" and went on to say it "is about as authentic Greek style souvlaki as chicken tikka masala is in India. On top of that it's overpriced..." So you sort of implied both (that you don't like non-'authentic' food and that it wasn't nice)? Anyway, I see you felt strongly enough about the subject to register on the EDF and make that your first ever post - so fair enough.

Sorry, just read Otta's post - my last post was a bit repetitive of that!

Each to their own Aidan, but if you refuse to eat chicken tikka masala (just about the most popular food in the UK) because it is not 'authentic' Indian, you are going to find yourself being disappointed at most Spanish tapas restaurants, not to mention most Italian, Chinese or Turkish restaurants in the UK. Most I've been to are not 'authentic' but they can still be very tasty. I agree the prices are not bargain basement, but if you don't want to part with your 5 quid you don't have to. That said, taking account of overheads and ingredients and the fact that these people are trying to make a living, I can't see how they could sell for anything much less than that.

I don't understand why something has to be 'authentic' to be nice? I didn't say it was authentic - but I do think it is delicious. The only gripe I have is the wait - that's because it is always so busy with other people who seem to like it.

The food at Souvlaki Street is great. The joke was also very funny, I thought.

Thanks Mike - I am enjoying my life. You seem a bit resentful and angry? Hope that works out for you and/or things look up soon.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Think it's pretty obvious that it's not > representative. It's comprised mainly of people > with cushy office jobs. Or cushy "work-from-home" > jobs. > > Anyone who actually has to work hard for a living > (including the much maligned "yummy mummies") > don't have time to spend on here. Also, people who have retired, as well as those who just don't get out much, preferring (or needing, for whatever reason) to spend their time in front of a computer screen in a virtual world.

Interesting! I'm guessing the researchers omitted to read the EDF Lounge postings of some of the regular moaners, complainers and nay-sayers! Out in the real world though, this doesn't surprise me - ED/SE22 is a great place to live. I love it.

Dulwich Fox wrote: "I urge others here to also give our Lou. another chance." Ok - fair enough. Louisa then wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- "...or if you don't want to get banned, just repeat the above process but just point out every so often that you're a blow in from somewhere posh. Admin won't touch you with a barge-pole." Oh.

Sounds like they switched the gas off!

You can also participate in cycling, while F1 is comparatively inaccessible. I accept that if you don't follow cycling he may not be well known. But, you would be hard-pressed to find a cycling fan who doesn't know about Alex Dowsett. Aside from being a CW games gold medal winner and British Champion time trialist etc, he was a member of Team Sky, now he's on the Movistar pro team. He's the only elite athlete to have haemophilia (God knows how he can/has the nerve to perform as a pro cyclist at all!).

That said, if you are not at all into cycling or sports endurance feats generally, I can see that watching a bloke riding round in circles might not be the most riveting way of spending an hour of your life.

Tickets to watch Dowsett's world record attempt at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester were also sold out.

What, you mean the famous Alex Dowsett who beat Bradley Wiggins in the 2013 Giro D'Italia time trial in 2013, and who last year set a new British 10 mile time trial record (again beating Wiggo), later in the year winning the British National Time Trial Championship for the third time in a row, then taking the gold medal for Team GB in the Commonwealth Games individual time trial? That Alex Dowsett? Are you suggesting he is just 'some bloke on a bike' or 'Fred Nobody'? If so, I stand impressed by what you must have achieved in life to make him look so anonymous in your mind. Fair enough that cycling might not be your 'thang', but that doesn't mean the hour world record attempt was a load of boring guff. For some it was quite the opposite. It is actually an incredible physical challenge beyond almost any other sporting event you are likely to see. No, I didn't watch Alex Dowsett - he set his record (1.5 km less than Wiggins did last night) in Manchester. Btw - and this is a serious suggestion - I'm not being funny - there's a superb film about Graeme Obree and the one hour cycling record, called 'The Flying Scotsman'. Even if you are not a fan of cycling, or this particular event, it is well worth watching.

Because it was a WORLD RECORD attempt (involving one of the most extreme physical challenges that exists). You would hardly get 'some bloke'/'Fred Nobody' performing such a feat!

That is great news.

So, it seems based on those reports it's about 50/50 as to whether you will be received with rudeness and a complete lack of any empathy or ordinary standards of customer service, or whether you will get a good job done with a smile (or at least a grimace). Not great odds really!

Yawn.

Ha, JL - you are so wrong. Disliking a crap supermarket chain hardly makes you a snob. Disliking all the reverse snobbery spouted by a few on here doesn't either.

Next to a butchers? I won't be going there! Imagine sitting outside on a nice warm day having a coffee with the stench of death wafting over you. Mmmm lovely. I suspect it won't be a coffee shop - or at least not for long.

More abject chip-on-the-shoulder, chippy, reverse snobbery nonsense DF.

BHG - sounds like you have never bought veg from SMBS or Prettys if you think Iceland's onions, potatoes and carrots are as good as is gets.

No they are not. You should try Lidl in Peckham, or Aldi, or(although I wouldn't recommend it) that Asda on the OKR.

Unhelpfully.

So much old guff spoken about Iceland by the usual suspects (one in particular). Complaints that its "community spirit" will be lost to ED. Complaints about how awful it would be for it to be replaced by a big soul-less chain store. Both are manifestly ridiculous. Iceland has a turnover in the BILLIONS (?2,700,000,000 last year to be more precise) and is a massive retail chain with more than 850 stores in the UK. So let's drop all the guff about community spirit being lost. I quite accept that the staff in Iceland might be friendly and well trained in customer service but it's not Iceland that carried the community spirit - it's a retail behemoth like so many others. Why suppose the staff in a different chain store would be any less friendly and engender any less 'community spirit' by being chatty with the punters? Or is there yet more reverse snobbery at play here?