BrandNewGuy

Oi!

There is one other person on Facebook with my name. And he lives in London. We are 'Friends', though we've never met. He sells ad space and seems like a bit of a tosser.

The French spend on average 13.4% of their dispoable income on food. In Italy it's 14.4%, while in the UK it's 8.9%. http://wsm.wsu.edu/researcher/wsmaug11_billions.pdf

Well, that may be because in Italy, for instance, and to lesser extent France, good food is ingrained in the culture in a way that it isn't in most other countries, so people spend a higher proportion of their dispoable income on it that in the UK. And the poor in France are going to have problems buying premium stuff, given the level of unemployment and the fact that wealth inequality in France is greater than it is in the UK: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/dw.jpg

I was confused by your deli argument, which implied that Italian salami, say, is cheaper in delis in Italy than it is in delis in the UK. Which is undeniable but not very interesting. I don't know about French premium cheeses ? we just have Laughing Cow and Mini Babybel when we're there ;-)

That's Tenerife, which isn't on the continent. Now try a supermarket in France, Holland, Italy...

Have you seen what baked beans cost on 'the continent'. Bloody extortionate. Tofffee-nosed Europeans!

In France, wine is cheap, extortionate and everything in between. Let's not wheel the tumbrels out just yet...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Christmas Jumper Friday....do feck off Even more so as it's in aid of Save The Children, an organisation so out of touch it gave Tony Blair a humanitarian award last month. http://stopwar.org.uk/news/how-tony-blair-crony-organised-the-award-that-discredited-save-the-children

I didn't think the Garden Bridge was designed for cyclists, but there you go... Rather than worry about 'too many' special interest groups, I'm glad the consultation has been thrown open. Southwark Council have shown that one or two 'special interest' groups (in this case cyclists) can sway them into action before all other relevant parties have been consulted. Then it becomes a bun fight. This was exactly the same with the proposed CPZ, where a few residents on a few roads managed to get the whole thing in motion. I don't blame the cycling groups, but I do question Southwark's ability to seek all views and do some basic groundwork before launching a scheme and then asking for comments.

How? By forcing school staff not to use their cars? I wish far fewer of them drove, but I don't see how a CPZ would do anything aother than move the parking problem nearby ? which was the chief objection to a CPZ locally in the first place.

TFL's 'coundown' is OK, but a number of buses have dodgy transponders and can appear as 'ghost buses' when you don't expect them. http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/#/

Bunching is not the issue ? it might result in staggered gaps, but not in the total number of buses making the journey. I';m with you, Sue. Taking longer to make the journey does not directly affect frequency. As I mentioned, that's why no-one looks at a tube timetable (apart from first and last). If trains are every five minutes, it doesn't matter if they're all twenty minutes late ? you just jump on the next one.

Not really. If six buses an hour take two hours to complete the route rather than one hour, they still pass your stop about every ten minutes, right? So waiting 35 minutes is a frequency problem not a congestion one.

DadOf4 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ed_pete Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > but *you* don't live in East Dulwich, you live in > Dulwich Village ward . Mr Barber isn't your > councilor either :-) ed_pete does live in East Dulwich. Check your ward boundaries. East Dulwich ward is only a part of East Dulwich.

@Woodwarde Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > -Simon Phillips, acting transport policy manager, > said that he thought there probably was some > background information to the proposal that could > be put online, but that it was very hard to model > the predicted consequences of junction changes. So we've listened to some cyclists (who've roped the schools in to make general noises about 'safety') but we don't have a cycling strategy quite yet ? but we want to go ahead with the changes anyway, despite the fact we also have no idea what the consequences might be. Quite brilliant.

Call me thick, but why do diversions matter (apart from the effect on length of journey) if the bus frequency is unaltered? It's rather like the reason why no-one looks at the Tube timetable during the day ? I don't care if every train is 40 minutes late as long as they're every five minutes.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Antic is a 'chain' of 37 pubs with different > names > > Walkabout has 32 Walkabouts... > > ...you see the difference? No? But a 'chain' is still a chain, right? I was merely pointing out in reply to you that some decent poubs are chain pubs.

But a Wetherspoons breakfast is a joy to behold. And their beer festivals (?2.75 a pint) are worth a trip or two. As mentioned, I've hardly ever been into the Cherry Tree, so I'm not losing something I never had. And Antic is a chain of 37 pubs (including EDT, The Tiger, The Sun of Camberwell, The Effra Social, Catford Constitutional, Westow House, Sylvan Post etc), while thw Walkabout has 32. So being a chain is not necessarily a mark of evil.

Walkabout has been sold and 'refinanced' pending expansion. They're likely to be more sports bars than Aussie drinking holes. I don;t go into the Cherry Tree now, so I don't really care... Though a Wetherspoons would be welcome :-)

Ladygooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It would if the trains and the buses ran properly > on a Sunday! Well, the buses do run 'properly' on a Sunday in my experience and would be a breeze if there's little other traffic.

Stuart Road, off the top end of Peckham Rye. Great pub! Easy journey on the 484 if you don't fancy the walk.

Masters Super Fish on Waterloo Road. Top fish n chips.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because Sales frenzy and rampant consumerism is > suuuuuuiuuch a new thing. Oh yes. There's better > things to get angry about than this surely? Ps > it's finished you can come out now Why can't we be angry about lots of things? I'm middle-aged, for goodness' sake.

Thank you @Woodwarde for your contributions. To the point and indicative of how interest groups can railroad us into change if the rest of us do nothing. Get involved, people, find out the facts and let the Council know what *you* think.