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Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mick Mac Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > As an active, card-carrying child-hater, this > is > > terrible news. > > > > Why so lenk? > > Why is it terrible news or why are you an active > card-carrying child-hater? the post about "South East London has the highest density of children per head of population across Europe " Surely there's villages in the Home Counties for things like bringing kids up?

I feel no less safe than I ever did on Barry Road, or indeed in the whole of the safe, increasingly middle-class, family-overrun borough of East Dulwich. How utterly ridiculous. This has been discussed at length in another thread - Joe Average is no more at risk of being a victim of crime than ever - both murders were not indescriminate - if they had been, that might alter things. As it is both victims were known to the perpetrators. If you're going to be murdered it's more likely to be your own husband than a random stranger. I agree that the lighting is adequate on Barry Road. There's other locations in the area that would benefit far more from having money spent on them besides a road that has the unfortunate coincidence of having had 2 murders on it within a highly-mobilised, technically savvy demographic.

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this a record, Mrs Bob S was waiting for some > inportant documents to do with pensions back in > Feb, after many heated exchanges with said pension > head office,they sent some duplicates which we got > at the end of Feb, to day recived a letter franked > 13/2/09 THATS 53 DAYS,and yes, we have informed > the pension office and the post office. > Bob S were you waiting for these documents from a public sector office? When I worked briefly in the public sector a letter would easily sit on someone's desk for 6 weeks before someone might exclaim 'ooh, how did this get here?' and post it. I doubt this is anything more than a one-off.

The one on the left in Nunhead on Nunhead Lane just past 'The Restaurant' has never disappointed. MASSIVE portions too..

The Nappy Lady Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In certain circles it has been "Nappy Valley" for > a long time...although the term originally > regerred to Clapham it has slowly spread ino ED. > South East London has the highest density of > children per head of population across Europe > apparently...hence my bizarre profession/job > title. As an active, card-carrying child-hater, this is terrible news.

I was told on this very forum almost a year ago that Foxton's would be closing and replaced with a Sainsbury's / Somerfield / another branch of Foxton's I'm still waiting... : (

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/01 > /michele-hanson-spring > > 'The daffodils are out, and so are the daffodil > murderers' > Michelle Hanson : The Guardian's answer to Private Eye's 'Polly Filla'. A one-woman banality engine.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think this thread should probably go down as EDF > Gold...... I've screengrabbed it and put in the internet vault. What concerns me is one day I'm likely to become a subject of a thread on here if this is all it takes, as I'm far worse than the bloke mentioned. In fact, maybe I already have.. :(

+1 Villager POTD..

This sounds more like a dispute with a member of the public that happened to take place in an HSBC. London is full of rude people, it's a city. I hate to say it but I would have probably completely exploded if someone had dawdled in front of me at a cash machine. I regularly sneer at people buying lottery tickets in newsagents for holding me up.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > lenk Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > These people are only doing their jobs - > writing > > to the chairman is pointless - there's at least > 3 > > layers of 'gatekeeper' behind anyone like that > > (having been one of those people before at a > > government agency most are filed under 'B' for > bin > > if they look like they might be anything more > than > > routine) - you're best off putting in a formal > > complaint and moving your account elsewhere if > you > > want to make a point. > > Can't agree with lenk. We had a terrible process > of trying to set up broadband with BT, which > involved over a couple of weeks many hours of > phone calls with people in the customer service > centre who would not listen and apparently could > not help us. Eventually gave up and wrote a > blistering letter to the CEO of BT, and the next > day had a call from an extremely polite and > efficient woman who sorted the whole thing out in > 24 hours. It's definitely worth it. True - corporate is probably a bit different to government. Corporations DO check the internet for bad feeling towards them, hence why I suggested seeing if there's anywhere online you can complain / repost your original gripe - certainly go through as many channels as you can. Though a lot of what Heugnot says rings true - I give someone around 5 seconds of dawdling in those situations before my seething misanthropy comes rushing to the surface. you were in a London branch, after all.

These people are only doing their jobs - writing to the chairman is pointless - there's at least 3 layers of 'gatekeeper' behind anyone like that (having been one of those people before at a government agency most are filed under 'B' for bin if they look like they might be anything more than routine) - you're best off putting in a formal complaint and moving your account elsewhere if you want to make a point. I'd find a forum full of disgruntled HSBC-ites to repost what you posted here to as well, someone might empathise and advise as to how better do something with more potency.

Claire29 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was in one of the local pubs here a few months > back with my husband, and he asked for a pint of > guiness, the barmaid went to the beer fridge and > took out a ready served pint of guiness. My > husband looked at her as if she were mad and said > he wanted a fresh pint, so she said ok, put the > pint back in the fridge. He spoke to someone at > the bar and she had tried several times before my > hubby to give this pint away, not long after an > old guy came in, and he was given it and he > actually took it!! It put us off going in there > again for sure! What a crap thing to do! Again, just sounds like a useless barmaid thinking she's doing the right thing - speak up or be served an old beer..

It can be down to the barman being a jobsworth. I used to give free beer away someone who'd accidentally dropped their drink, had any kind of minor complaint, to girls I liked, friends, people I'd met once at parties... probably why I never embarked on that career as a barman ; )

Ditto The Bishop

> AS I say - I'm not going to name and shame unless > others have seen same. I won't be going there > again, but I didn't liek it much anyway so no > great loss. Wouldn't want to put others off if > it's not a common experience. Just don't drink there again - you can tell quite quickly if a pub's the kind of place that cares about keeping clean lines etc by all the other details around the place like clean toilets / tables, whether they stock a range of beers or just the usual major brewery lagers / nitrokeg bitters etc. If they care about that kind of thing it usually follows on that they're the kind of place that can't be arsed to do weekly line cleaning. Without naming whatever pub you're talking about (it could be one of several in ED, vote with your feet) - The Gowlett most definitely cares about such things and are very CAMRA-friendly.

nutty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't want to be accused of moaning about a > local establishment so let me ask forumites a > question.... > > Has anyone been to a local pub and been served a > bad pint of bitter? Then on taking it back and > pointing out it's cloudyness and general awful > flavour be told that the manager of the pub says > it's okay and you can't have another one? > > This has happened a couple of times to myself and > friend in one local establishment and both times > has taken a lot of argument to get it changed. > Maybe it was just a one-off (twice) but if anyone > else would like to name a local establishment this > has happened to them in we might see a pattern.... But... you say yourself you got it changed. So the establishment in question has done all they can to help you. Maybe you didn't make yourself clear enough - I have no qualms about saying 'can you swap this please mate - it tastes of eggs' and standing there until they do so.

The GG daffs are nearly dead anyway - they looked wisened when I walked past earlier.

Planners - who are public servants paid by taxpayers are usually alright and do a decent enough job. Planning committees - who make the ultimate decisions- are made up of elected members, aren't public servants, aren't paid and are generally half-wits. I don't think people realise this when ranting about 'planners'. When it goes to committee you can pull heart strings and get involved with hardcore NIMBYism rather than deal with the rational judgement of the planners who, in any case, work within the confines of the Town and Country Planning Act and any policy statements and local development frameworks to make their decisions. It worries me that there are ED residents who have decided this is a 'family' area - whereby in reality there's several different types of inhabitants with as much right to live here as families. Unfortunately there seems to a belief from some that families over-ride all other groups in terms of what happens to an area - they don't.

Lidl's bike gear is really cheap - worth popping in for that. They do multi-tools, lights and reflective stuff for about a third of the price it would be elsewhere. You won't usually get everything you need in one swoop but for veg, cheese and booze you won't find anywhere cheaper - and it's v good quality.

> not too long ago at the start of bellenden Road next to the nasty Lidl shop a woman > was killed. 2 on Barry road in the past few months. What's your point, caller?

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I quite like the Bellenden Village metal bollards > and think they would suit Lordship Lane very > well. > > As Bellenden Village has now had its ten years of > public subsidy perhaps we could now ask Southwark > Council to move the bollards from SE15 to SE22. (!) I think the London Eye is a fabulous attraction and don't see why the South Bank should get all the attention - if this could be moved to Goose Green I think the area would really benefit. I don't really agree with pillaging neighbouring boroughs in order to make LL 'look nicer'.

I regularly see ?well to do? folk sifting through bags left outside Charity Shops in ED, presumably filtering out anything of value to stick on eBay before the charity shops get hold of it ? there?s probably some inverse graph you could draw of affluence versus likelihood of taking things left out in public. I?m not going to have an aneurysm over people picking flowers though, there seems to be plenty.

The only people who call an inner-city area a 'village' are a)estate agents and b)new arrivals from the Home Counties who've just parted with the best part of ?400,000 to live in the newly-designated 'village' area of an inner-city.

The daffodils will have died back in a few weeks anyway.