EDF in today's Guardian

[civilservant]

erm, I can't believe I'm the first to post about this entry in today's Guardian diary http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/15/esther-addley-diary-david-cameron.

ED and the EDF have achieved undying fame nationwide. Let's all fiddle to celebrate the imminent arrival of Waitrose on LL while the rest of London burns.

? No community is rejoicing more in the return to relative peace following the riots than the residents of East Dulwich in south-east London. Like frightened citizens across the nation, they took to the internet at the height of the disturbances to exchange potentially lifesaving information. On the East Dulwich Forum website, one can still follow the frantic messages of last Tuesday evening. From user thebestnameshavegone at 6.18pm: "I'm expecting Ocado literally any minute ? does anyone know if they've been able to get through Rye Lane." Just over an hour later, Alex K posted. "This sort of thing just pushes further and further into the future any decision by Waitrose to open on Lordship Lane." Thank God it's over!

[Laddy Muck]

*pissing myself*

Alex, you are famous. At last!

[Frankito]

Brilliant.... Whatever it takes eh..!

[red devil]

Guardian expos?...Quids goes missing...you do the maths

[Marmora Man]

CLearly, like so many left wingers, the Guardian doesn't do irony & humour.

[Asset]

Quick dig at the left at any opportunity alert.

[Alex K]

"Not by me but through me" -- praise the Lord!

[Mick Mac]

red devil Wrote:

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> Guardian expos?...Quids goes missing...you do the

> maths

He has gone to the dark side. Shame.

[Jeremy]

Asset Wrote:

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> Quick dig at the left at any opportunity alert.

Perhaps you failed to see the irony in Marmora Man's post? If so, that would also be rather ironic.

Or perhaps there wasn't any. In which case, that would probably make my post ironic.

Is there such a thing as meta-irony?

[DJKillaQueen]

Oh that is just too funny......the nation now thinks that EDF is obsessed with Ocado and Waitrose!.....yup they may have got that right ha ha...............:D

[karter]

This is nothing (sorry alex) ladymuck made the bbc news last year, or was it the year before.:-))

[katie1997]

karter Wrote:

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> This is nothing (sorry alex) ladymuck made the bbc

> news last year, or was it the year before.:-))

What did Ladymuck (RIP) do to make it on BBC News? Dare I ask?

[thebestnameshavegone]

that was too easy.

[PeckhamRose]

Isn't East Dulwich obsessed with Waitrose and Ocado?

[katie1997]

No, we're all 'locavores' here in ED. The Waitrose/Ocado thing is oh so ironic.

Edited: to add ironic font and smiley face, lest anyone take me seriously. (I do think the Waitrose thing is mostly a running joke around these parts though)

[PipD]

Did it make into print or just the website? Very funny either way :D I think, due to the amount of "truth" (or perceived truth), in the posts they are more sacastic than ironic.

[apples]

The Grauniad makes 'our' riot 24 hours later than the rest of London

[Frankito]

I am a locavore alright but I still hanker after a bit of Waitrose! We all use supermarkets so, rather than another crummy Tesco metro, why not a mini Waitrose. We wouldn't be worse off for it and I promise to buy the whole hog roast at NCR market every Sat for a month!!

Surely another epetition????

[thebestnameshavegone]

Amazing

[Thomas Micklewright]

ha ha I was there for that piece of golden history

[karter]

Thomas Micklewright Wrote:

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> ha ha I was there for that piece of golden history

Thomas, did you start the riots off in order to sink your thread on Fois gras? Joking aside, what do you mean by you were there? :-s

[maxxi]

Do we even 'ave Ocado?

[Loz]

That wasn't a brick that hit the Palmeston - it was a slab of frozen fois gras.

[maxxi]

Ah, foie glass.

[Ouvert3.20mercredi]

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