Ted Max

http://i50.tinypic.com/2e1suc3.jpg "On a corner of Hoxton st. two nights ago I encountered two young heavily bearded chaps each wearing tight, shiny, matching shorts and vests over their skinny frames and were sweating a lot"

+1 for India. Or Thailand.

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Is that part of the Grandage season, Mick? No, I haven't seen it, but I think giggirl was the one that brought that to all our attention on here - so she may have.

Looks like it might have some foot-tapping good tunes in it?

Where do festival-goers get those long flag poles from? Can you get them in Decathlon?

edhistory - I guess by investment the poster was referring to the money spent by a recent clutch of new businesses opening on the street: General Store, Begging Bowl, Flock & Herd, Threads, Bias, Worn Not Torn, Quaint & Belle.

Some numbers as at March 2005. http://i48.tinypic.com/r0797p.jpg Taken from http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=9467

?12.42 million over ten years.

11 years ago: "at least another half a dozen up-market shops are needed before the place becomes a destination rather than a diversion." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3307561/The-beautification-of-Bellenden.html "Nevertheless, the gentrification genie has been well and truly let out of the bottle, and there is no putting it back."

Suffering Moses. Well done, Clair. Good luck to you.

Oscar?

Oh Fox. It's so complicated, this artificial construct business. See, the more I call DF, the construct, a c*nt, the more I reinforce your other you, the Mick, your inner Mick-ness, as a regular stand-up guy. You said so yourself. **Disagreement with the views of The Fox are reinforcement of my own views...** So Mick, the Swiftian wielder of the keyboard, should be flattered that his creation, DF, comes over as such a miserable c*nt. As for my many posts: you're only 300 behind me in just over three fewer years on the boards. I think you'll have passed me in a month or so. Cheers, Dave.

**Disagreement with the views of The Fox are reinforcement of my own views...** Fox, you are an unmitigated c*nt.

Sang activity.

FUCKIT. Can I have the death-dance? I mean, that is literally what is going on there, isn't it?

Can you at least confirm for me I've nailed the etymology of municipal? .

I guess you will snarkily allude to your *special* knowledge, without ever going so far as to share any. Ted M

St John's church on Goose Green is a mis-proportioned mish-mash of psuedo-rural pseudo-antiquity, with its ludicrous over-sized spire jammed down onto its roof like a giants' upturned ice cream cone. Its dimensions, its honey stone walls, its trim-prim hedged facade mirror exactly the aspirations of its lower-middle class patrons - each of them aspiring to a rural style as false as that of the church they inhabit. The municipal, from muni (hideous) cipal (unwashed) library grimly squats on one corner of a petrified quadrangle of Victorian rapine: the gin palace, the bank, the church, the library. These sentries from a bygone age pass their customers one between the other in a square death-dance of mutual financial, intellectual and spiritual impoverishment. http://i46.tinypic.com/4h5zf6.jpg

All done here Admin. Pls make a sticky and lock.

Might as well. Just for completion's sake. How do you eat yours etc?

There's nothing glorifying about wearing a poppy. It's a simple mark of respect. FFS.

I like the smell of nail varnish. It's got that solvent thing going on.

Noted.

So...anyone seen any decent films lately?