Dogkennelhillbilly

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Penguin68 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > the Southwark Labour > Party's avowed objective to drive (sic) private > car ownership out of Southwark? Another idea you've invented.

The Fox and even the one in Forest Hill have fairly okay punters (except when I am in), but the Spoons opposite Sainsbury's at the top of Gipsy Hill is a classic Spoons hellhole. The price of my objection to the owner's politics is speedy service and low cost. If they can't do that, my principals surface again!

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The idea that we all > become locked into our own locales, traveling no > more than we can walk or cycle...which 70 years and more of real > life have told me is not something to be wished > for. You are criticising an idea that you yourself have invented and that no-one (Swedish or otherwise) is proposing.

hammerman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > any crime > activity on the Denmark Hill Estate should be made > known to people living in the area surely? They did - they issued a press release that was picked up by the Standard and other local papers. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-men-charged-with-firearms-offence-437741 https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/19722569.woolwich-man-charged-submachine-gun-seized-police/

> The Wetherspoons in Denmark Hill and Forest Hill > are the cheapest pubs round here, also the Bird In > Hand in Forest Hill is pretty cheap. Fox on the Hill had huge problems with service in summer - you couldn't get to the bar to be served and you couldn't get served through the app. People were leaving after 45 min waits. It was a shambles. The garden is nice but the owner is awful. Alleyns Head is pretty reasonable and homely without being scabby. Dulwich Brewing Co never really hit ita stride somehow...

A softly-spoken, velvet-clad Russ Abbot buying a nice bottle of Spanish red in Dulwich Wines.

And obviously you're taking your life into your hands if you skip the queue at the polenta and hummus bar of the Palmerston...

holloway Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pool table in the Castle is unlikely to come back, > was the source of a lot of trouble apparently. I read a criminological study 20 years ago that identifies that bars with pool tables have 60% more fights, and 60% of those fights statt within 2 feet of the pool table. (I'm making up the figures but that was the general idea). I think they're also quite expensive to fix.

Mystic Meg buying Wensleydale in Mons cheesemonger. I did not see her runes.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Castle is the last > unreconstructed pub, and whist not a usual > Guinness drinker it seems right (and reasonable > value) there. > I used to go in the Castle quite a bit but stopped because of the terrible smell from the toilets. Has that been fixed now?

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > didn't spoil views of Dulwich > Park for residents. I'm not a resident on the estate so feel free to discount this as YIYBYism, but surely we can't refuse to build housing just because it partially obstructs a view of the park for some residents...? Doesn't everyone's house spoil someone else's view to some extent?

Well that's next term's Design & Technology syllabus sorted...

redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ab29 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > How about a six storey block on Court Lane > > instead? Or several? > > > Why the fixation on court lane? It's part of the "Southwark is being ruined by a cabal of Court Lane-residing plutocrats and Bolshevik civil servants" conspiracy theory.

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I paid ?5 for a glass of coke in the pub in > Dulwich Village - which is enough to make you turn > to alcohol and buy a pint instead Luckily the Crown and Greyhound has procedures in place to discourage alcoholism eg ensuring that no-one gets served within half an hour of approaching the bar

It's all getting a bit personal on here. Let's discuss the issues, not each other.

Where's the cheapest pint [of lager, on draft] on Lordship Lane, then?

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mmmmh that's the point the nursery has a 'no drive > policy' in the same way JAGs and Alleyn's has a > 'no drive policy' - in that neither has Pretty vapid point when JAGS and Alleyns don't have "no drive policies", and neither does the new nursery. Reading the document would clear up your (evident) confusion.

I'll interpret that as a "no", then. Since when do JAGS and Alleyns have a no drive policy? Do you have a link? I looked online but couldn't find one.

It'll be a perfectly silent, emission free column of cars going nowhere... It's not just tailpipe emissions that's our problem: it's congestion, brake and tyre dust, heat Islands and road deaths too.

...[citation needed] Did you read the data in the planning document about how customers accessed the developer's other locations?

OP wants to get a whole bunch of motorists together to bring traffic to a halt and take contol of the streets. Isn't that already happening twice a day and called "rush hour"?

Yes, to be fair, it looks like about 8 years out of the last 22 have had coalitions in Welsh government (with Labour as the dominant partner), with the whole rest as Labour single party government.

Problem with STV is you end up with novelty parties like Australian Motorists Party, Hunters and Shooters Party, Animal Lovers Party getting elected because people "throw away" their second preferences to the fringes, and the preference votes can be traded. Most people only really have one preference when it comes to politics. The effect is probably compounded by mandatory voting in Australia. But no system is perfect.

Not sure the "PR is magic" argument holds much water. We have PR on the UK already: it's led to long term single party government in Wales and Scotland, and a total failure to form government in Norn Iron!

Don't think we can afford to spend much more money on cycle parking because it's nice to have. Don't you know we've got endless wars in the Middle East to pay for?