BrandNewGuy

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 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, I didn't say they were as good as it gets. And saying you can go to Lidl or Aldi in Peckham, well, you'll still be able to go to Iceland in Peckham. The point is it's on our high street.

No reason why their milk, butter, onions, potatoes, carrots, tinned beans, etc are worse than other retailers. They're exactly the same, just cheaper. All you have to do is hold your nose while you walk past the beef and gravy pizza freezer...

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Palace of Peace? > > Nature's Grace, Blue Aquarius, incense, vegetarian > food, love & peace. Still sounds wonderful. > > If I'd lived in ED back then, I know where I'd > have been spending my time. As if we couldn't have guessed from your name ;-)

It wasn't - it was personal details about the owner.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi BNG, > The changes have been a big improvement for me > walking through the junction. No longer are we > getting right turing cars jumping the red lights > coming out of Townley road. But I suspect that > illegal manuevre being removed has reduced the > junction capacity a little. Yes, you mentioned this before without any evidence. Even if it were true, a car or at most two per phase not getting through cannot possibly account for huge queues on EDG. You seem not to accept that the signal timings have clearly changed.

AM, they're farmed exotic creatures. I'm a veggie too, but I'm no more outraged by farmed crocodiles than I am by farmed pigs.

Robbin, that's correct. The Belgians are much more civilised in this regard. Most kids' playgrounds in parks are plonked right next to a bar, so the adults can have a beer while keeping an eye on their offspring. And no howls of outrage...

FJDGoose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > army - bargy ? Yeah - bloke in the army, fought the Argies, now 'aving a bit of argy-bargy. Louisa's favourite pub would have a threatening looking meathead propping up the corner of the bar pretending he'd been 'in the Paras'.

But the response you got was clearly insufficient because it claimed that the traffic phases(s) hadn't been shortened, just rearranged. We need to clarify if that is the case, because frankly I don't believe it.

Degsy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A guy with a similar description knocked on my > door on Hindmans Road 20mins ago asking if I knew > a Delia, because his sister was visiting her and > he was looking to pick her up but couldn't find > her. That old chestnut - everyone has a mobile phone these days, so it's even less plausible than it used to be.

Can't make it, alas.

Just had an email from Southwark about a survey concerning planning consultations and how they are conducted. Worth a few minutes of your time to let them know your views. There have been a number of complaints on the forum about how Southwark go about publicising planning applications etc, so do take part - and there's just two weeks to respond. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1irv0eVt_jvWO7XbHjmjGd3Rse_bPA8JFf4fMgPgrhJ0/viewform

Shouldn't a tanning studio be a Ray Parlour? I'll get me coat...

Poodles have parlours, too. But probably no cream...

7/8 - curry king :-)

Dildos

Websites offering a PayPal option that still insist on you putting all your billing and delivery address details in. No, you'll get that info from PayPal, not from me. That's part of the attraction of PayPal from the lazy punter's point of view.

Get A Life - Lil Wayne Which could be sound advice for you lot still playing this b*oody game :-)

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is the response I've had - and as a > pedestrian it does feel an improvement: [snip] The signal timings have not been changed > from before the UTC infrastructure was installed & > commissioned however the signals stage order has > been revised for what they consider to be greater > capacity and efficiency. It is likely that this is > the change that has been observed, which includes > the pedestrian stage appearing after the East > Dulwich Grove eastbound right turn rather than > Townley & Green Dale. I can't see how that can be right. Changing the order of the lights (but not the timings) to have the pedestrian phase at a different point shouldn't affect the volume of traffic able to pass through from any one direction. Am I missing something? You say that it 'does feel an improvement'. In what sense? Safer? But it wasn't unsafe before. Every morning (some time between 7.45 and 8.15) I either walk to work, going up EDG and turning right down Green Dale, or get the train, walking the other way down EDG and turning left down Melbourne Grove. And I haven't noticed the lights at the junction be 'safer' in any way, but I have noticed the large queues of westbound traffic. This morning at about 8.10 I could see that the queue stretched back to the junction of Matham Grove and EDG. And, like jonl5, I too have noticed cars dipping left into Glengarry Road to get round to the Hillsborough road exit onto EDG just below the lights. Is this an acceptable knock-on effect of the changes?

And a shout out for Clarkshaws and Brockley for 'normal' strength beer too. I think ED is served pretty well for real ales, Foxy - and a greater range than I can think of twenty years ago, even excluding the strong IPAs, chocolate stouts etc etc.

Not exactly a break in at Dulwich Hospital, given the empty site is not accessible from the hospital. Surprised it's taken travellers so long to try this - absolute disgrace how long it's been 'empty'. I seed-bombed* the site a few weeks ago, just to add some colour and life to the place. Even if they do start building the new school / health centre next year, it's been a shocking waste of space for far too long and a huge administrative bureaucratic b*lls-up. * http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html

On social bloo*y media, numpties spreading stories about things that have been 'banned' and thus being outraged. "Apparently Facebook are removing this [some political quote or other] from people's timelines, so please make sure it goes viral. Please share.." No, it hasn't been banned. Some political type wants their crappy quote to go viral by suggesting it's been 'banned'. Gove 'banned' "Of Mice And Men". No he didn't, he suggested removing it from the list of recommended titles at GCSE. Stupid, maybe, but it's not book-banning. And do kids only read prescribed books these days? If so, we've got a lot more to worry about than Michael bloody Gove. And there's another annoying 'meme' about the ASA banning a Greenpeace anti-fracking ad "because David Cameron disagreed with it". It's b*llocks, but there's that 'nasty man banning something' nonsense again. Enough!

But for decent draught ale they're very good - often in towns or areas which are beer deserts. CAMRA get a lot of stick from some of their members for putting quite a number of Spoons into the Good Beer Guide, but they point out that nearly all Spoons are Cask Marque - and it's called the Good Beer Guide, not the Good Pub Guide :-)

"Kings on the Rye" bus stop only recently became "Peckham Rye / East Dulwich Road". And Kings on the Rye club must have shut at least fifteen years ago.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > > And you didn't notice me nick your poppadom ;-) > > No..but as you are well aware... I did notice you > trying to nick my ****ing beer :) > > Foxy Haha! Genuine mistake. Shame it ended in a punch-up ;-)