What is normal? (for East Dulwich)

[lozzyloz]

People who throw stones . . . well anyway, I suppose if we're reading and posting here then we're in the ED minority and statistically abnormal.

[SimonM]

>>The only thing wrong with ED from where i'm sitting, are the people who think they are better than the rest of us. Who >>seem more interested in what everyone else is doing and looking down their noses at them, than getting on with their >>own lives.

You make us sound just like the French really then.....:))

[blinder999]

> By the way am decorating bathroom today

> and am covered in paint - is that green, brown or

> in the middle?

if it's your own bathroom it's brown, if it's someone else's bathroom, it's green

[PeckhamRose]

Tooo funny.

Really enjoyed reading that lot.

What about the out-of-working class section?

I am determined to try and be normal, it sounds so much fun.

spc, read this link again. It's hysterical.

[dulwichmum]

I want to be on your special picture... but I am IT illiterate! I think that my circle would be baby blue (my fav colour), and it would be studded with The Cheese Block, Hope and Greenwood, Dr Boo, Stella B and Ed. Also in there would be - annual bonus greater than the GDP of an average South American Country, selection of un-environmentally friendly vehicles, children at independent schools, violin lessons and home the size of Tate Modern in WEST DULWICH. Clearly it would hover above all of the other circles...(sigh)

[Marmora Man]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> I want to be on your special picture... but I am

> IT illiterate! I think that my circle would be

> baby blue (my fav colour), and it would be studded

> with The Cheese Block, Hope and Greenwood, Dr Boo,

> Stella B and Ed. Also in there would be - annual

> bonus greater than the GDP of an average South

> American Country, selection of un-environmentally

> friendly vehicles, children at independent

> schools, violin lessons and home the size of Tate

> Modern in WEST DULWICH. Clearly it would hover

> above all of the other circles...(sigh)

This picture could become so big we could only show it on one of DM's walls.

[macroban]

Unfortunately(?) dulwichmum is outside the UoD.

[dulwichmum]

Ah go on, let me in. I am a minority - or something. You see me all the time on Lordship Lane. You know it would not be the same in Ed if it were not for me in my Audi Q7!

[Sue]

Has anybody else noticed the guy behind the bar at the CPT has a wonderful tee-shirt with "Everybody pretend to be normal" on the back??

(from Little Miss Sunshine, but hey, appropriate to the thread - erm, maybe :)))

[blinder999]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> Ah go on, let me in. I am a minority - or

> something. You see me all the time on Lordship

> Lane.

[dulwichmum]

Thank you Blinder999, although I think that you will find that any buggy worth pushing up the lane costs at least ?600, and what is a hachoir?

Er... actually, I think that you will find that we would never give birth to more than two children - one must consider one's pelvic floor sweetie!

[blinder999]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> Thank you Blinder999, although I think that you

> will find that any buggy worth pushing up the lane

> costs at least ?600, and what is a hachoir?

haha ask Oliver Bonas

[*Bob*]

For just a fraction of a second, looking next to 'Sainsburys' (right in the middle), I misread 'walking' as 'wanking' - and thought its placement to be perfectly reasonable.

[blinder999]

blinder999 Wrote:

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> dulwichmum Wrote:

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> > Thank you Blinder999, although I think that you

> > will find that any buggy worth pushing up the

> lane

> > costs at least ?600, and what is a hachoir?

actually, ask Snorky - he coined a most excellent word for what a hachoir is - 'cookwank'

[Mark]

actually that honour goes to Jamma in this post

[blinder999]

Mark Wrote:

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> actually that honour goes to Jamma in this post

nice one Jamma - should be in the OED

[macroban]

Let's do it.

[Louisa]

Normal for ED - 1996

- Working class people going about their working class lives in a working class area of SE London.

Normal for ED 2008

- Middle class people going about their middle class lives in a middle class area of SE London.

Louisa.

[KalamityKel]

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[KalamityKel]

speak for yourself louisa!

[Mark]

She always does

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

> Neat analysis - not sure why Little Dorrit is

> poncey?

Blackwood, June 1855

"Despite their descents into the lowest class, and their occasional flights into the less familiar ground of fashion, it is the air and breadth of middle-class respectability which fills the books of Mr. Dickens."

Need a stewards on this;I was reading Lark Rise to Candleford this morning, which is a semi-autobiographical novel about the 1880/90s childhood & youthhood (?) of a poor, working class girl who says:

"Laura took out the [library] ticket and, within a year, she had read and laughed and cried over the works of Charles Dickens, ... Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions; there were always books to borrow."

So, does Mamoraman own his copy, or did he borrow it from the library?

[Cassius]

I don't want to be normal! for ED or for anywhere else!

[Alan Dale]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> macker Wrote:

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> > Shouldn't that graph say Underclass ('chav') ?

>

> Surely 'Camberwell' would suffice?

But surely ED is a poor relation of Camberwell with only ten one million pound properties compared to Camberwell's twelve?

[blinder999]

> "Laura took out the ticket and, within a year,

> she had read and laughed and cried over the works

> of Charles Dickens,

typical pretentious arriviste middle-class - forgets where she comes from in the blink of an eye LOL shut yer cakehole etc