Brendan

You now out of all the ?famous? people mentioned here she is the only one whose name I recognized. Still had to google it to find out who she was though.

Yeah I can?t see the idyllic description of The Moon Underwater being applied to any of the Weatherspoon?s pubs I?ve been into.

I agree scor49. The ideal would be to be able to approach things from no frame of reference at all so as not to let it influence what you find out. The problem is that it is fundamentally impossible for the human brain to do this without imploding, as if you don?t have a point of view, where are you then? So you need some parameters, hence the scientific process. But is the scientific process infallible? In the eyes of Dawkins it is. There is nothing wrong with this. For practical intents and purposes it is the best thing we have ever come up with as it gets results from which we can draw ?truth?. But what if there are things outside of our understanding of a universe that holds up to scientific experimentation. (I?m not talking about spirits and religion as they are just things that have not yet been scientifically explained.) What if science itself has to be a more fluid concept? Thing is people like Dawkins get results and that?s what it is all about. Or you can make your brains leak out your ears by theorising about how to grasp the ungraspable and then trying to shut the voices up with booze. Jeez I should really get back to work.

Wasn?t JD Weatherspoon?s original model based on George Orwell?s ?Moon Under Water? article?

Precisely. If there is a market for it why not. Plenty of places in ED are in some way aimed at a specific group in the community.

Oh I?m not against sausages at all! I was just illustrating a point to prove my own prejudice. Rib-less ribs you say? Sound a bit GM to me.

Oh I?m not against sausages at all! I was just illustrating a point to prove my own prejudice. Rib-less ribs you say? Sound a bit GM to me.

scor46 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ED Paranormal Society... i remain an agnostic. > Howerver, Richerd Dawkins ( God Delusion ) new TV > show, where he casts his critical eye over new age > healing, paranormal etc says: I say to doctors who > use homepathy: if you can identify this you'd have > discovered a whole new force in physics. either > there is no effect, in which case you shouldnt be > charging people money, or there is an effect, in > which case you should prove it and win the Nobel > Prize. Dawkins is intelligent but he frustrates me. If you want to search for truth a rigid belief structure of classic atheism such as his can only be self defeating. You can?t do away with old, limiting belief structures simply to replace them with new ones. He is also exceedingly self-important which annoys me.

Their folks will probably have a few words to say if they find out what they?re up to.

A lot of what makes a pub "good" is the clientele and is therefore very subjective according to your age and kind of person you are.

I must apologise for any colonial disdain for British bbqing ability I may have displayed in this thread. We went to friends for one on Saturday night and our Croydon born and bred host put on a very impressive spread indeed. Not a sausage or burger in sight and no flames to cremate them over.

Have to disagree with you on the Clipper Loz. I went there twice about 18 months ago and felt I was being overcharged for a very bad haircut (not properly cleaned up and shaved, sideburns uneven, still long bits on my fringe, hairline behind my ears uneven, left covered in my hair). I don?t think you should pay more than ?10 for a mens cut and the barber should be good at their craft not just someone who is an ace with a tub of gel.

Is the Lido open all year round?

I think apart from the here and now issue of how to stop bad behavior by regulation (more staff etc) there is also the inherent social problem of having a large part of the population feeling disenfranchised and therefore not feeling any ownership over and responsibility towards their environment.

Now Jeremy I think the last 50 years have made it abundantly clear that aliens have no interest in announcing their presence to the world. They are only here to entertain themselves buy blowing up cattle, writing graffiti on wheat fields (which when translated normally says something like ?I?ve a big?un?) and every now and again having some country folk around for a spot of light bumfoolery with the old anal probe.

there's a geek inside me screaming to out for me to join you in this.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wot a South African that knows sod all about > rugby? Are you sure? That's like an eskimo that > cant sledge! ?fraid so lozzyloz. As far as I can make out it involves 30 guys fighting over a ball. They used to do that on Friday nights in my hometown but without the ball. Think someone must have stolen it. So we're going to see the CPT on the telly then?

Sorry. Oeuf with a capital obviously after the Oeuf region.

Don't be doing any we's in here Jah. Royal or otherwise.

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- what the hell is an Oeuf shirt? Is > it covered in oeufs? I think it is made out of oeuf.

Shockingly compulsory sterilization programs have taken place in a number of western countries. Sometimes for people with disabilities but even more disgustingly for political reasons. The Americans for example forcibly or unconsensually sterilized Native American woman during the last century.

Not sure James but from the look of the posts on this thread I think it was a rugby match.

Listen here if you'e dressed exactly the same as me again there's going to be trouble!

I think I?m the only South African on the planet who knows sod all about rugby. People hear my accent and just start spurting forth this and that about the game. Normally I just smile and nod not wanting to let the side down by admitting my ignorance. I can talk your ear off about cricket though. And on review that appears to have precisely nothing to do with filming at the CPT. Sorry.

None in East Dulwich I'm afraid Jah. They are all in Peckham, Nunhead and Herne Hill. I've also often wondered about the Hermit's Cave but never been in.