BrandNewGuy

Haha! I love it when you go all serious, Louisa. And if you read the Daily Mail, you'll think that just stepping out of your house is a deadly activity. Everyone knows there's a *risk* of food poisoning from oysters (they're raw, after all). But put it in perspective. There are nearly a million recorded cases of serious food poisoning a year in the UK and about 500 deaths. An insignificant number of those involve oysters.

It doesn't really 'say it all' though, does it. If you looked at who gets poisoned by chicken in this country, my hunch would be it's probably not exclusively toffs. Is champagne similarly more dangerous than cheap prosecco, I wonder...?

"The test used to detect the virus was very sensitive and most of the positive samples contained very low levels of the virus. The FSA says that its test cannot distinguish between infectious and non-infectious types of norovirus, and it is not known how much norovirus a person would need to consume before it made them ill." Nothing to see here, move along...

I like oysters but I also liked Iceland. I?m middle class but we?ve got the scruffiest house on our road. I moved here over 20 years ago ? too old to be a bl0w in, too young to be a bleedin? local. I like proper pubs but also good restaurants. I?m a 21st-century schizoid East Dulwich man.

Is a double decker wider than the current single decker 42s? Sunray Avenue has similar parking issues.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's that phrase, "first world problems"? > > Some kids both home and abroad are starving and > would be happy to just have a hot meal. I find it > difficult to sympathise, sorry! > > Louisa. Louisa, you could say that for a million topics that appear on the forum. It's a local forum, so we talk about local things. And we're in the first world. We can't spend 24 hours a day weeping over all the suffering in the world.

Deep-fried in breadcrumbs. Delicious.

Cruella... ;-)

Just received a letter from TFL about the proposed extension of the No. 42 bus route through Red Post Hill, East Dulwich Grove and Grove Vale as far as Sainsburys - currently it terminates on Sunray Avenue. It's a good addition to our local bus services. You can have your say here (consultation closes March 6th): https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/buses/bus-route-42?cid=route-42

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oysters used to be food for the poor.... They were > Cheap.. You could hardly give them away.. > > The 'Better Off' would not touch them with a > barge pole.. > > Now Coffin Bay King Oysters (Australia) cost > $100 each.. They are now the food of the rich.. > > > Some people will eat anything as long as it is > expensive enough to make them feel exclusive. > > DulwichFox. West Mersea, the Company Shed. Nine quid for a dozen native oysters. And they're fresher than anything you'll find in London. With the advantage that you don't need to be rich to buy them ;-)

A pereceptive look at Donald Trump (from a commentator who would not vote for him in a million years) and the unspoken class nature of his appeal: "He?s figured out that the most effective way to get the wage class to rally to his banner is to get himself attacked, with the usual sort of shrill mockery, by the salary class. The man?s worth several billion dollars ? do you really think he can?t afford to get the kind of hairstyle that the salary class finds acceptable? Of course he can; he?s deliberately chosen otherwise, because he knows that every time some privileged buffoon in the media or on the internet trots out another round of insults directed at his failure to conform to salary class ideas of fashion, another hundred thousand wage class voters recall the endless sneering putdowns they?ve experienced from the salary class and think, ?Trump?s one of us.? " http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/donald-trump-and-politics-of-resentment.html

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The Sun And Doves used to have a sign that > read, > > "We allow anyone of any age in the bar before > > 7.30. However if you scream, cry or run around, > we > > will ask you to leave." Pretty fair, I think. > > Very small children and babies do scream and cry > sometimes... it's just what they do. I would > expect parents to take the kids outside to calm > down if it persists. But you do need to show a > little bit of patience and understanding. I > wouldn't take a young child somewhere with a > notice like that on the door. We did - the Sun And Doves was a great pub and our kids loved it too. And I think we're talking about situations where there is no give and take, and no understanding. Kid plonks a crisp on our table once. Fine. Kid repeatedly does it without parents taking a blind bit of notice or not caring. Bloody nuisance.

Amanda1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > .... when we have been there > with our highly active son. Even when he has > stopped right in the way when the staff member had > their hands full of plates they were courteous! Hmmm... We took our lads into pubs from when they were quite young but they were never ever allowed to run around or get in people's way. If it even looked like that might happen, we were out of the door. Because we felt that was the right thing to do. The Sun And Doves used to have a sign that read, "We allow anyone of any age in the bar before 7.30. However if you scream, cry or run around, we will ask you to leave." Pretty fair, I think.

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, that is sad. > > You won't help save the woods and graves - > something you value - because you don't like the > people who are supporting it or the how those > people present the case? > > You are proud to admit that? Whoa... > > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You see it's comments like this that remove > your > > credibility. I'm involved in a local 'green' > > friends' group and we've deliberately avoided > > backing the "Save Southwark Woods" campaign > > because of the amount of hysteria, > disinformation > > and fiction involved. Which is a shame, because > I > > think there's a strong argument to be made for > > opposing Southwark's plans. > > Lewis Schaffer, > Nunheader, comedian (usually), father of two boys > in East Dulwich schools. > Who are you? I didn't say I don't like the people who are supporting the case ? I suggested that your methods are dreadful and counterproductive. My love of trees goes back to the time when I was a kid and my mother was a leading light in the wonderfully named "Birmingham Tree Lovers' League". But I don't really feel I have to justify myself to you.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...Peak Oil? Very much alive and well: http://ourfiniteworld.com/2015/12/21/we-are-at-peak-oil-now-we-need-very-low-cost-energy-to-fix-it/

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you don't give a damn about the future (global > warming, flooding, rotting dead juices flowing > down Forest Hill Road) You see it's comments like this that remove your credibility. I'm involved in a local 'green' friends' group and we've deliberately avoided backing the "Save Southwark Woods" campaign because of the amount of hysteria, disinformation and fiction involved. Which is a shame, because I think there's a strong argument to be made for opposing Southwark's plans.

I think she's suggesting that someone with a similar name to Mr Save Southwark Woods (though a different gender) has signed up to ask about local 'woods' etc. And whether or not that's a coincidence.

So because some people react angrily to any attempts to make cycling easier, those of us who question aspects of making cycling easier are tarred with the same brush?

James, I know that you personally are keen on an increase in car club spaces locally. Has there been any research on the comparative impacts on car use and traffic volumes between the provision of car club spaces and the provision of cycle hangars?

rabbitears Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > And for most people commuting from SE22 into > the > > city or West End, having cycle parking 'hubs' > at > > stations like Peckham Rye, Herne Hill and > Denmark > > Hill...makes far more sense than expecting > people to cycle the whole way > > 1) stopping bike theft Seems an odd one to me. The council don't supply me with a secure lock-up for my car. It's convenience, really ? people in poky flats don't want a bike in the hall, so the council is paying for a solution.

rabbitears Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2) those things already exist Not in significant numbers though.

But how much car commuting from SE22 is into the City or West End? The cycle superhighways system assumes that it's a lot, but I suspect that much SE22 car commuting is local and/or does not involve Zone 1. And it's those journeys which are really poorly served by public transport. The train to London Bridge is just a bit of a pain sometimes by comparison...

And for most people commuting from SE22 into the city or West End, having cycle parking 'hubs' at stations like Peckham Rye, Herne Hill and Denmark Hill ? and beefing up the local rail service ? makes far more sense than expecting everyone to cycle the whole route to work. And for East Dulwich staion it might help lessen the absurdity of very local cars picking up and dropping off at the station.

"Alcohol dependent" - weasel words used to harangue people. You're not alcoholic but you could be a "better person". I'm with Simon Jenkins: "... These limits are about a vague national self-image of puritanism, not health. In Spain the ?safe? level is 35 units for men and 21 for women. In America it is 22 for men and 12.3 for women; in Ireland 21.2 and 15; in New Zealand 19 and 15; and in Japan there is no recommended limit for women, who can apparently get plastered all they like. Hunt having identical limits for men and women is a cynical sop to gender politics... France has the best government guidance on alcohol consumption. It has none." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/08/state-drinking-habits-uk-guidelines-alcohol-health

Objections reported today in the South London Press: http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=115417&headline=%E2%80%98It%E2%80%99s%20an%20act%20of%20vandalism%E2%80%99&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2016