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Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plagarised? How very dare you. > Work is the curse of the drinking classes. > Haddock stretcher. Que? :-S

Now, now Jah. Stop fobbing us off with plagarised college applications off the net and own up. What's your game guv'nor?

Political lobbyist [runs for cover]

Talking of blasphemy, may I introduce Monty Python: Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word fuck. Of all the English words beginning with f, fuck is the single one referred to as the "f-word". It's the one magical word. Just by it's sound it can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as most of the other words in English, has arrived from Germany. Fuck from German's "fliechen" which mean to strike. In English, fuck folds into many grammatical categories. As a transital verb for instance, "John fucked Shirley". As an intransitive verb; "Shirley fucks". It's meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as an adjective such as; John's doing all the fucking work. As part of an adverb; "Shirley talks too fucking much", as an adverb enhancing an adjective; Shirley is fucking beautiful. As a noun; "I don't give a fuck". As part of a word: "abso-fucking-lutely" or "in-fucking-credible". Or as almost every word in a sentence: "fuck the fucking fuckers!". As you must realize, there aren't many words with the versitility such as the word fuck,as in these examples used as the following words; - fraud: "I got fucked" - trouble: "I guess I'm really fucked now" - dismay: "Oh, fuck it!" - aggresion: "don't fuck with me, buddy!" - difficulty: "I don't understand this fucking question" - inquery: "who the fuck was that?" - dissatisfaction: "I don't like what the fuck is going on here" - incompetence: "he's a fuck-off!" - dismissal: "why don't you go outside and fuck yourself?" I'm sure you can think of many more examples. With all these multipurpoused applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word? Use this unique, flexibel word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately. Say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU! :))

How about one of these bad boys: http://www.gocoffee.co.uk/coffee-machines/images/100104.jpg Anything involving levers and dials has to be good, right?

I am currently readin Mimi and Toutou Go Forth by Giles Fodden (who also wrote the Last King of Scotland which became the film by the same name). It describes the ludicrously jaw-dropping expedition during the First World War to haul two warships hundreds of miles overland through Southern Africa to Lake Tanganyika and engage the Germans who were controlling it at the time. The man leading the party was Lt. Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simpson - a man court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inverterate liar and a wearer of skirts! Makes you wonder how we ever won anything in the field of combat. More recently I have finished: Ranulph Fiennes' autobiography which is compelling but makes one feel that you haven't achieved very much in your life by comparison. War of the World by Niall Ferguson - an erudite investigation into the bloody 20th Century and its winners and losers And next up I'm reading Exploration Fawcett - an account of early 20th century exploration in South America. Percy Fawcett never returned from his travels but the book is written by his son from is diary accounts. Great pic below: http://www.don-mcduck.de/bilder/charaktere/fawcett01.jpg

I've got some soul food. Pork ribs with bbq sauce and sweet potatoes. Soul in a bowl! :))

For me Will Oldham has that sort of haunting voice that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck. The late, great Johnny Cash did a cover which is perhaps instilled with more gravitas, but if we have to admit crying to a song, then I'll go for the original. I suspect many of these choices hold personal meaning, however, and don't often resonate with many others. Bonny Prince Bill (aka WIll Oldham) - I See A Darkness

The Gowlett are showing it too, on their big screen. Think I might be going there.

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Health Food shop staff are (again > in my opinion) like most staff in health food > shops - in need of a decent meal/fag/drink. >:D<

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is however someone on LL that does deserve > title of miserble offensive little man with a bad > attitude and expensive produce and its not mr. C. > Block. Ooooh....go on, do tell. Jam-man on Northcross Rd? Furniture man on Northcross Rd? Oh, wait, you said LL. I give up.

Can't say I have no. Not exactly bubbly but his wife and daughter are always extremely helpful. As for the high prices....show me the same cheese in London at lower prices and I'll eat a truckle. Sorry Spangles, think you might have caught him on an off day. Never been in the Health Shop....purveyors of snake oil and all that.

So, let get this right, the people we dislike are either poshos who aren't local enough or haven't lived here long enough to deserve the right to spend their money where they please OR they are gutter snipe scum who should be viewed with utter suspicion and blockades established to keep them from arriving at a decent destination for a night out? What age-range/demographic/socio-economic indicators are acceptable? Should I speak as with a home counties, public school, university educated accent or an estuary-English working class accent to try and fit and be made to feel welcome as I invest my wages into local businesses on a Saturday night?

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah let them off. They might be hypocrites but > their hearts are in the right place. > > Let's let Simon Hughes off too. Can't have be easy > going home to your boyfriend after a hard day's > gay bashing. Meow. ;-)

This pretty much turns me, David Banner like, into a raging monster:

I think the previous comments about the socail mix are interesting. Anecdotally, when I was a student in Leeds a few years ago a odd state of affairs prevailed. With exceptions it was notable that during the week when student nights were ten-a-penny in the city centre there was much less trouble than at a weekend when local Leeds guys and gals would be out and about as well. The tension between the two groups was palpable. I'm not sure if this exists in the same form in East Dulwich. An economically diverse clientele is not a recipe for trouble in certain pubs (the Gowlett springs to mind) and yet it clearly has become one in some places on LL. I think publicans/bar owners have to take some responsibility. Serving clearly drunk people who are barely standing is not clever and allowing in so many people into one venue to the extent you can barely get past people to the bar with knocking over drinks etc is a recipie for trouble. Less people, a bit more space = less stress = less trouble. Somehow I can't see that taking off though.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 36-0 > > ? Not this time mate. Ancient Chinese proverb say: Key to victory is learning from past mistakes. Ancient Andrew Sheridan proverb say: Key to victory is trampling all over Schalk Burghers face.

You won't get me I'm part on the union You won't get me I'm part of the union You won't get me I'm part of the union Til the day I die Til the day I die Up the proletariat workers! Down with the bourgeosie bosses! Do people on picket lines still have braziers?

Gowlett on Monday CPT on Wednesday Add some more people.

I'll have to come in a disguise this time. Maybe a stripy jumber, beret and a baguette. Nutty, I would certainly recommend it as a venue. Turn up a bit early to be sure of a good spot.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Er, I was at the bar the second half at the door > end with a Tall Australian girl friend. You > weren't the bloke next to me were you that I saw > outside having a smoke? Please tell me you wern't > the pink topped rugger bugger with the blonde > locks????? Errrr.....can I plead the fifth so as not to incriminate myself? And any awful behaviour may have been down to vast quantities of alcohol consumed rather than my general personality. Do you not like pink on a man?;-)

I tried to get into the EDT for the rugby but gave up and went to the CPT instead. Stood for the first half tbut then actually got a seat at the bar for the second half so I'm definitely going there again. Strange how Brendan and Keef were there to...we'll have to put little signs round our necks to identify ourselves! The CPT had a good atmosphere and the Aussie bar staff took the stick we gave them in good spirits.

I write without a moniker but alas I am neither good looking/funny/interesting enough to seek fame, nor outrageous enough with my comments to seek notoriety. I have no idea why I registered as myself to be honest. Probably because I couldn't think of a witty pseudonym. If you're on Facebook you could probably find even more info about me, or MySpace, or my previous post about my own blog. In the words of Catherine Tate, am I bovvered? Er, no.

Ditto. Now I/we have to eat humble pie. He (Wise) even seems to know what he's doing tactically which is amazing. We'd be nine points clear at the top if we had them re-instated. But somehow, I don't think we will need them. Marching on Together.

I thought it was possible to avoid paying the TV license if you actively de-tuned your TV so that it was unable to receive the BBC channels. I may be wrong. It is certainly better to put out content that seeks to educate and inform rather than entertain. That is what ITV is for. As a public service provider it does have to sometimes mitigate all its good work with cack like the aforemention Come Dancing, Fame Academy etc etc. Whislt I would be happy to watch Olivier-narrated documentaries or Attenborough wildlife films all day I appreciate that the unemployed and students have to be catered for...eg Neighbours and Ready Steady Cook. I think post 7pm the BBCs content is of a fairly high standard on average.