rendelharris

I stand corrected, I thought I'd seen bits of platform when coming through there on the train - maybe just the roofs of the Camberwell Station Road buildings. Still, the station building's definitely there.

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > where is "Camberwell Station"? On Camberwell Station Road, about halfway up on the right hand side coming from Camberwell New Road - opposite the open bus park. It's a garage but the building's still intact, as are the two platforms up above.

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rendelharris Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > To sum up the general tone here, as ever when > it > > comes to the bit of the streets between the > kerbs, > > "everyone's sh!te except for me." > > > Oh rendel lighten up > > It's a bit of fun using the concept of fake news Thought the first post was quite funny - just bored with how quickly it degenerated into let's have a pop at cyclists.

To sum up the general tone here, as ever when it comes to the bit of the streets between the kerbs, "everyone's sh!te except for me."

Genuine question, would Clive Lewis be a good leader? He seems to tick a lot of boxes - particularly having served in Afghanistan, which would really confuse the Daily Mail when they tried to attack him as unpatriotic.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You Gov have published their approval ratings. > Jezza is now polling negative in: > > Every Demographic - class, age, gender > Every Region > > AND > > among Labour voters > > That's absolutely unprecedented "Anthony Wells, Research Director at YouGov told The Huffington Post UK: ?In short, looking at any measure of polling Jeremy Corbyn is doing badly as Labour leader, but it?s by no means unprecedented.... Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg were both perceived far more negatively than Corbyn."" I want him to go but let's keep it real.

I'd second Dulwich Dental Clinic but my vote goes for Nicola Hendy in that practice - I was a total odontophobe before she started looking after me, now the prospect of a visit doesn't bother me at all.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Where's the toast rack? Over there, behind the cornflakes...or the series of long straight roads running off Peckham Road - Bushey Hill, Crofton, Shenley, Talfourd - also the ones running off Shenley, Linell, Oswyth etc. Estate agent coinage I believe - there's a very trendy area next to Wandsworth Common known as the toastrack, so I guess they thought they'd import it.

Good point RRR - obviously there are times when it suits parties of all hues to have a "game changing anti-establishment" figure leading the charge, then once they're in to carry on business as usual. ETA kind of what, it pains me to admit, they managed under Obama...

I agree with most of what you say there ???? - certainly the people who voted for Trumpage (my new compound proper noun) are perfectly aware of their status and, as you say, don't care. I think the question which arises is are they genuinely anti-establishment? Farage, possibly, but much of what Trump is doing is helping his own kind - opening up oil pipelines etc. It will be dressed up as helping the working man, and it may create some jobs, but the main beneficiaries will be the CEOs and major shareholders. 'Twas ever thus, of course, but I suspect people are going to find that when push comes to shove "anti-establishment" Trump is not going to pass laws which favour the working person over the billionaire. We shall see. He's already said he favours the US having a low minimum wage and refused calls to set a federal minimum wage, similarly his nominee for Secretary of Labor, Robert Pudzer (a multimillionaire CEO), has said he will not raise the minimum wage and opposes legislating to improve working conditions. Trump's supreme court has several judges noted for their opposition to union rights and collective bargaining. His own record as a businessman is not notable for a regard for workers' rights and fair wages...as with everything at the moment, we shall just have to see, but I suspect the rust belt voters aren't going to find his promises as solid as they were during the campaign (when he was careful to keep it to vague generalisations).

There was a great caption to the celebratory photograph of the two doing the rounds: "A millionaire and a billionaire standing in a gold-plated lift in a tower named after the billionaire claiming they've taken on the elite and won."

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would say scrap the badly-signed path and widen > the road a short width with an aim to stopping the > plenty of cyclists who cut the corner and then > ride over the pedestrian crossing into the > (pedestrian) piazza at the library. Shared spaces > can work, but not here. The piazza outside the library is not a pedestrian area, it's a shared space where cycling is permitted. Similarly cyclists are not "riding over the pedestrian crossing": it's a shared cycle/pedestrian crossing (ETA so, apparently, a "puffin" not a "pelican"), as can be seen from the fact that when crossing is permitted there's not only a green man but a green bicycle as well. I agree there is a problem with cyclists cutting the corner from the cycle path to the crossing rather than following the path round to the crossing (there have been CPOs there in the past to monitor this) but neither the crossing nor the piazza are banned to mounted cyclists.

I wouldn't support any closure of local facilities and appreciate the problems this will cause, but it's worth noting that it's free to book a redelivery either to one's own address or to an alternative address in one's postcode area.

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's funny how there is't a similar problem using > the shared space from the north end of Rye Lane > across Peckham Road and past the library Not funny at all: a) that space is a massive plaza, not a street, which has separate entrances for cyclists and pedestrians, b) there are no shop entrances which have people walking out of them, c) there are no buses driving across the plaza. So somewhat different.

As it says in that article, "Shared space is not for every road." It works well on two way residential streets, on a one way bus and cycle only street it wouldn't work so well, particularly for those pedestrians with poor vision. This is proved by the current situation of confusion at the end of Rye Lane, where the cycle lane is so poorly marked it may as well not be there.

Interesting article about the ethics of free range eggs in The Guardian the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/free-range-eggs-con-ethical N.B. Posted for the information of anyone interested, not to get into a massive debate!

Best thing ever written about VD: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/11/charliebrooker.relationships

Ridiculous, there seems no rhyme or reason to it - one would have thought in cases like that the court should make an order that the drunk driver should pay for any losses incurred by their victim in terms of increased premiums.

Yes good idea, well let's close all restaurants and only eat food in its country of origin - even a couple of pizzas will get you an Easyjet to Italy. Silly thing to say. The food in Ganapati is exceptionally good and it's not necessary to push the boat out as we do on our (very occasional, alas) special occasion blowouts there. Main courses are ?7.50 - ?14.50, like anywhere else, you can pretty much spend as much or as little as you like. I have no connection at all with Ganapati by the way, apart from being a very satisfied customer.

Have you been to Ganapati on Holly Grove? Pricey (budget about ?120 plus tip for two for three courses with a bottle of wine and an aperitif and digestif each) but worth every penny.

Mugglesworth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sure this must have been covered elsewhere but > some of the problem is down to poor design. The > cycle path is a slightly darker grey than the > adjacent pavement and there is nothing else to > distinguish it; many pedestrians are unaware that > cycles have priority over that stretch. Absolutely - there may not be money for major works but a couple of cans of blue paint or a few yellow stencils would avoid a world of confusion-related conflict.

Yes, he's asked them to confirm that if he goes he'll still have his NCB, we shall see! Thanks again for all the advice everyone.

Only Rye Lane is neither a shopping precinct (because it's not pedestrianised, however much many treat it as though it is), nor is it a bus terminal. There is plenty of room for sharing and some cyclists do need to slow down, but equally some pedestrians need to accept that there is one very thin cycle lane and try not to walk in it, nor down the middle of the road. If they really can't bear that, there are alternatives on both sides, they're called pavements. Thanks Renata for raising the subject even though the answer is hardly satisfactory.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Japanese had agreed to surrender, but the > Americans insisted the emperor had to stand-down > as well. > They knew the Japanese would never be agree to > their emperor being stood down (him being a > god-like figure for the Japanese). > But no, the Americans, had to crush the the > Japanese culturally by deposing the emperor and > made that an additional condition besides the > surrender. > There lay the excuse to experiment on a foreign > population with nuclear bombs. > > If the bombs had to be used due to unstable cores, > they could have been dropped somewhere with a > minimal civilian population toll - there's no > valid reason for what happened. I agree that there were alternatives to the use of the bombs - stopping Russia swooping through Manchuria and demonstrating the power of the bomb to Stalin were huge motivators - but I've never heard that about the Americans insisting on Hirohito stepping down. The Potsdam Declaration was left deliberately vague - it said that those who had misled the Japanese people would have to go, but avoided specifically identifying the Emperor as one of those people - and as we know, post-war the Americans insisted on keeping Hirohito as Emperor and avoided any punitive actions for war crimes against him.

0/10 for observation for me then!