BrandNewGuy

I Forgot To Remember To Forget - Elvis

Singer's Hampstead Home - Microdisney

Who Loves The Sun? - Velvet Underground

Doing The Do - Betty Boo

Daddy Needs A Drink - Drive-By Truckers

Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young

[upbeat poppy tune] "Kebab and Wine, Kebab and Wine, Four stitches and a Nurofen and you'll feel fine..."

SMBS - 'So Much Brilliant Stuff'

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I get lots of sparrows in my garden (North Cross > Road area). > > I'll happily swap them for your goldfinches :) You're on, Sue :) Goldfinches were popular cage birds back when it was legal, but I find their song a bit insipid and wheezy. Much prefer the happy chatter of sparrows - even at five in the morning.

Lots of goldfinches and great tits tweeting (rather than Tweeting...) this morning. They seem to have replaced sparrows in the 'small birds' department. Except for a small but noisy colony by the junction of Glengarry Road and Trossachs Road, there don't seem to be any sparrows left in the Dulwich Hospital area.

.. oh, and Monty Python was very funny...

Recently, "The Trip". Utterly wonderful from beginning to end. "She was only 16 years old..."

Anyone not entirely enamoured of the impending nuptials might want to get in a supply of these...

BBC News - Teenager charged over London bus murder

zeban Wrote: > In regards to Jewish Mouse Wee Quinie, there is a > history of Jews being portrayed in a derogatory > way, but I'm sure if it was a unequivocally > positive portrayal then there wouldn't be any > objections. Well, there was the Spielberg-produced cartoon movie An American Tail in which the immigrants to America (the "Mouskewitzes") were portrayed as mice. And more sombrely, Art Spiegelman's graphic work Maus about the Holocaust portrayed the Jews as mice.

wheat

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My point was simply that we made assumptions about > who were culprits, and their motivation and > background, regarding the Islamic terrorists, that > turned out to be wrong. We could well be doing the > same here. I am not suggesting that the two types > of crime were similar in nature or motivation, my > comment was about us, not about the criminals. And I was saying that not everyone made those wrong assumptions and that many 'experts' in terrorism would have expected the perpetrators to be 'educated'. We can sociologise about the perpetrators of various sorts of crime, and criminologists do it all the time. Statistics will tell you everything about a population but nothing about an individual member of that poulation - which is one reason why this thread has become, er, problematic.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Er, irony alert. And I stick by my assertion that > speculation in advance of knowledge in this area > is silly. Remember how surprised we all were when > the Islamic bombers in Glasgow airport turned out > to be doctors from stable middle class British > born backgrounds, as were the London bombers > (British born at least). But this is 'cause-related' terrorism/violence, rather than the violence of the streets, which is very different. In fact, research into the sociology of 'terrorism' has for a long while suggested a significant link between political violence and higher than average levels of education. In that respect, many 'Muslim terrorists' are little different from the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Red Army Faction and a host of non-Muslim groups who've resorted to political violence to further their 'causes'.

There's a review in the Express of a book about Boris Karloff which namechecks East Dulwich. The book sounds pretty good...

Museum?! Good things don't end in '-eum' - they end in '-mania'... or '-teria' Homer Simpson

EDdownunder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love curry too, just finished one at my desk > actually but do we need to rival brick lane. I > personally find it cringeworthy that a visitor to > the area would refer to LL as the curry street, > I'm afraid I didn't see it as something to be > proud of. I similary find it a bit of an overkill > to have more estate agents on LL. > > Sue I would prefer to have a variety of > restaurants that reflects the diverse backgrounds > of our society and not have any one food-culture > dominate. > > If there was a post for another curry house would > you say "yes please"? I did say "Yes, please" when the South Indian veggie "Indian Mischief" was announced. Not all "curry houses" are the same. And anyone who calls Lordship Lane "curry street" is living in a different reality.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Today's South London Press newspaper have a free > offer for a Fusion weekend pass. > SLP costs 50p. > > Seems like brilliant value to get a weekend of > swimming etc at the new Dulwich leiscure centre > pool. And you can download it for free (legitimately) here, but it doesn't look like Dulwich is one of the eligible centres...

.. and it's a belated 'No' from me.

panda boy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > No thank you. Militaristic flag-waving is more > > offensive than the irritation of the Royal > Family. > > Not half as offensive as i find this statement > though BrandNewGuy. > Being able to separate politics from the bravery > of troops putting themselves in harms way, i feel, > (if we can actually afford a street party of any > kind,) that this is a fine idea... Well count me out. Warmongering politicians rely on people making that separation to continue their wars. Back to the point of the thread, I don't see why a street party has to have any other purpose than just getting neighbours together to enjoy each other's company and have a good time. I wouldn't expect people who come round for Christmas drinks to have to subscribe to the Christian faith, so why should a street party be any different?

julieju Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > would rather see a street party arranged for our > brave troops No thank you. Militaristic flag-waving is more offensive than the irritation of the Royal Family.