david_carnell

Don't give the game away Jaws! I'll have Ted Max on my tail. Remember, I'm the short brunette feminine one with the small nose.

The Castle have sky. So do the EDT. And there's nowt else on to watch.

Someone gets popbitch on a Thursday afternoon!

It does it for all of us.... ....it's always the quiet ones, Kel!

Great new footie website

Oh for the love of Pieterson!! Cook as well, for 60. Good innnings but did he have to get himself out right at this moment?

Cock! True grit lasts all of two runs. Cock!

Dag nammit, Strauss falls to Mindy's alien lodger, Morkel, for 44. Nice knock but would have liked to see him reach his 50. Now, some true English grit. Vaughan-y! Vaughan-y!

Steyn, the best pace bowler in the world? >:D< He just got clattered for nine off the last over.

I hate to admit this but.... Magic Johnson!

Except the rain has turned the pitch into plasticine and the feared pacemen of the Safas have turned into something as docile as a petting zoo.

Last night I went to a great gig at, what is rapidly becoming my favourite venue in London, the Luminaire (in Kilburn) to see Lucky Soul. They play lovely, cheery soulful, tender pop music and their keyboard player, Malcolm, is from East Dulwich. We bought the album on the way out and a new one is out shortly. Here are a couple of standout tracks:

Weather looks decent. Bring 'em on!

JRussel I'm intrigued. Perhaps we could build one of these in East Dulwich: http://popularchitecture.com/supertower/ It even has trees inside it (I think) - thus solving both our problems.

I'm in. We need to be armed. But with something that would be representative of the forum and East Dulwich as a whole. Does laconic wit and a dislike of children in pubs ward off knife attacks? I reckon a stale Kentish flute from the deli might do some damage. This is much better than Neighbourhood Watch.

As you're such a fan you'll be pleased to know she is answering at Prime Minister's Questions today as the Great Clunking Fist is away eating 8-courses of sushi as solving the world food problem. BBC2 @ 12pm. Or online.

Like these fellas?

Hurrah for *Bob* - someone who probably has much sympathy for our documentary star as a fellow lie-about-all-day-in-my pyjamas-sort-of-fella who composes amusing ditties about Strongbow! In fact, where was this documentary filmed again?

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Come off it d_carnell, that's just the kind of > cr@p that Cameron is talking about. Are you > seriously suggesting that if you are not a > > "well educated, nutritionally aware, middle-class > male with a stable, well paid job and a support > network consisting of similar" > > then you don't know that eating pies makes you > fat? Yeah, I suppose you could be a woman. ;-) With an entirely straight-face (so you don't mistake this for irony) - yeah, a bit. I think there are degrees of ignorance but no doubt this fella was pretty close to the bottom of the spectrum. And ignorance breeds. > As for the neighbour/hood point, if by paying > benefits and providing housing centrally you > effectively remove interdependence from > communities then you also remove a powerful > incentive for people to respect and look out for > each other. You mentioned rental properties - go > look at some and compare them with owner-occupied > places. It's all about responsibility, decisions > and consequences - exactly Cameron's point. How do I know which are rental and which owner-occupied? How do you? Would you replace council housing and incapacity benefit with some form of community support network? From the looks of things on this thread, god help anyone who findsd themselves unemployed or with a booze prblem in East Dulwich. But, not for the first time, Mr McG does says it rather better than I did and in fewer words.

Why should I give a t@ss about my neighbours(hood) when I only rent a property? Err, maybe because I'm a decent member of society, much like many of those living in council accomodation. Edited for poor spelling suggesting people living in conical houses (?) don't care for their neighbourhoods.

Yes...to an extent. Whilst I appreciate, that I, as a well educated, nutritionally aware, middle-class male with a stable, well paid job and a support network consisting of similar would merely be being greedy if I continually stuffed my face with cream pies, I do not agree that others are as fortunate as I am and can be pointed at and mocked like those chimps in zoos who smoke cigarettes. And his argument is illogical: Social problems do have a huge influence in some situations ---> These social problems are caused by individuals -----> These inidividuals suffer from social problems ------> These social problems are caused by individuals ad infinitum

The almond croissants are worth the pilgrimage. Even at ?2 each (I think). Amazing. Otherwise it's a shame it's sooo limited in scope. You can bring a horse to water....

I guess this coincides nicely with David Cameron's assertion today/yesterday that those who are alcoholics/drug addicts/obese/poor etc only have themselves to blame. Personally of course, I think he's a sanctimonious toss-pot who wouldn't know economic hardship and community disintegration if it bit him on his aristocratic arse. And as a member of a political party who did it's best to destroy industries & communities that for decades had supported the working-classes he should probably refrain from highlighting the problems this has caused for future societies. Of course once we have these fat/poor/brutish people castrated Britain shall once again return to its glorious past. In the meantime if we could all point, laugh and sneer at the feckless it would be much appreciated.

None of us is actually eating this stuff though Moos! And it wasn't so much the cookies or the red wine, merely the intriguing combo. Could I perhaps offer you some stilton and a pint of milk?