paulino

The 1980s

Don't feed the troll.

Maybe Yas is just a rather sophisticated troll...

This has the potential to be as entertaining as the Save Southward Woods thread...

I think it's been about 5+ years since I logged on to EDF, but I wanted to specifically go out of my way to just mention that fact that over the last few weeks I have been initially bemused but latterly flabbergasted by the campaign from Save Southwark Woods and Lewis Schaffer. It's an absolutely reprehensible campaign and some people posting on this forum ought to be ashamed of themselves. Part of me hopes that this thread is an elaborate parody or that most of the SSW supporters are in fact sock puppets operated by Lewis, as I find it scary that there could be so many locals with such a dearth of critical faculties. 'Funeral for the trees' indeed.

No, you are not. It is a one-off event ffs.

One of the things that makes it so hard is that if you are on the war memorial side of the road and want to cross to the harvester, i seem to remember that there is a big tree that blocks your view of the cars in the lane coming down from Forest Hill and turning left to continue on the S Circular.

Lynsabelle If you are using the 176 to get to Holbon, you can get off at the top of Waterloo Bridge and walk 5mins up Kingsway. If you have a bus pass then you can get off at Waterloo and take any number of buses that go towards Euston and get off at Holborn. Or if you don't have a bus pass maybe you can have a cheeky ride on the 'free' bus that goes from Waterloo to Holborn via the underpass (#521, former bendy bus, conductors don't check your ticket). Not that I have ever done the latter of course.;-)

we're not talking display samples here - we're talking about a person trying out the pen before they buy it. if the pen works, they will buy it and if the seal is destroyed and the ageing process starts, then that's the new pen owner's problem.

do you mean quite a large bloke? often going backwards? i have seen him many times over the last year or so, usually on his own, sometimes with a lady.

I think Penguin68 was actually trying to be really helpful. The current design is actually going to end up collecting a whole load of useless data that will be time consuming and unproductive for them to wade through. So in many ways it is worse than the recent Labour councillor's survey. They should re-do the questions to provide multiple choice answers. For example, just off the top of my head: - What do you think about your commute to work? - Expensive - Cheap - Time consuming - Pleasant - Overcrowded - Boring - etc - etc - etc - Other (please state) This will make it easier for them to take anything useful from this. It also makes it easier and quicker for the respondent. Just because they are students doesn't give them an excuse for not being able to design a semi-decent survey (unless they are Year 7's or something).

I am guessing that, given the sophistication of the survey design, there is not going to be an awful lot of robust analysis going on here anyway.

good grief, all of these leaflets from the lib dems anyone would think there was an election on or something!!

i think they said that they got in through an unsecured open window.

@Liberality10 or squatters Sorry, the more I read from you guys the more turned off I become. I consider myself 'liberal' and open-minded, I am in my 20s so hopefully not an old reactionary fogey, and I really want to support you and be 'on your side'. Maybe you're just not able to articulate yourselves very well, but there seems to be nothing really compelling or credible in your defence for what you are doing. It seems to boil down to 1) we saw an empty house 2) we want to live in it 3) we aren't displaying outward signs of antisocial behaviour to our neighbours and 4) so anyone who thinks we can't live in this house can piss off. That's nowhere near enough to convince me, and clearly not enough to convince many others here.

definitely one of the more fascinating threads on EDF in a long time, and some interesting and compelling arguments in favour of and against squatters more generally. in this instance, i've been confused by a) how the GG squatters identified the property as being vacant b) how the GG squatters realised that there was an open upstairs window that would allow them access at the start of the thread, there seemed to be a general amount of goodwill towards them given that they were not being particularly antisocial or intrusive towards their neighbours, but it's a shame that has dissipated in the light of their inability to put forward a coherent case for exactly *why* they are squatting. maybe there's more to it, and i've missed something, but it really does seem to come across as a bunch of students who spied an empty house belonging to someone else and moved in. i am sure that there's got to be more to the squatter movement than that, but it doesn't seem to come across from these people.

up to you i guess and how late you are running at the time - i am not sure where exactly the 484 goes to in lewisham and how far you would be walking the other end so maybe you'll just have to try both options and see which you prefer.

I got #176 bus all the way to Waterloo with no problems. Also got through Camberwell with no problems (was worried as there is another thread that mentions lots of delays and diversions on other routes near to Camberwell due to a fire).

i would agree with 185 - plus it seems to be more regular

thanks. guess i'll have to go to work after all (6)

any news on buses? i cant see any news on tfl site ... are things moving up and down lordship lane? i am in sydenham and wondering whether to try to get into central london.

chica1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > If you are in a customer facing work environment > there is no room for having sense of apathy, > boredom, or anything of negative attitude. > > And no, I've never worked in Supermarket, if > that's what you mean....but that's has nothing to > do with what's being discussed here. > > Anyway before I digress further... heroic job by > that lady, Niki, maybe Sainsburys could hire her! Ha ha! Trust me, if you had worked in a supermarket then you would know that it is the customers precisely who lead to one having a 'sense of apathy,boredom, or anything of negative attitude'. Anyway, back to topic, the point is that although various people may well have had training and instruction on what to do in emergency/first aid and similar situations, it is often by its nature just a tick-the-box exercise in which everybody is thankful for a couple of hours that break up the tedium. nothing is probably remembered or learned. i know this because i have been on countless first aid courses, playing with bandages and giving mouth-to-mouth to plastic dummies, and my name is proudly displayed in large letters all over the office as the designated first aider... ....but i suspect you wouldn't want me anywhere near you in an accident situation.

i got the 176 in to work this morning and everything seemed fine... (had to walk from Holborn to Sydenham last night though :'( )

for the love of god, maybe there is more to his life than the sodding EDF. i must say that i get a little tired of the constant little digs at the councillor that crop up all over this site. disclaimer: i have no connection to him, cannot even remember what party he represents and have no other involvement in local government etc.

so does he guarantee to respond within a specific timeframe? he's got one or more of the following family / kids / job - right? or maybe he has gone away for the week. i don't even get a response within 24 hrs from well-oiled machines like the banks and utilities, etc so it doesn't seem especially unreasonable for him to not have replied still.