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clockworkorange Wrote:

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> Good on these guys. Not going to mug myself and

> pay those prices but they've started their own

> business and enough people have bought into the

> idea to make it a success. More than most the

> bores on this forum have achieved. Good tats too!

>

> Louisa and all those that jump on the same narrow

> minded grey bandwagon with the slogan "I hate

> change" I feel it's time you understood what

> london is. Since the dawn of time it's been a

> melting pot of people, cultures and ideas. The

> london you're thinking of didn't,doesn't and never

> will exist.

>

> That is all. Off to buy thick cut toast (granary

> of course) from an artisan cafe and then spend the

> morning picking crumbs from my beard and reading

> poetry.


Sorry I guess you're an expert on London? You must have been here since the dawn of time and know everything about the place. Or maybe you're a Home Counties blow in who's lived here for 5 seconds who thinks that qualifies you to put everyone else down who disagrees with you. The jury is out.


Louisa.

  • 1 month later...

Burns Night ticks all the boxes for hipster appropriation. Heritage, quirky and always slightly off the mainstream....unless you're Scottish of course. If you're a hipster such traditions are so important but need to be celebrated with suitable irony. Until it goes back our fashion again.


There is a man with a huge beard somewhere in Hackney Wick no doubt plotting a Haggis Cafe.

MrBen Wrote:

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> StraferJack. You'll wind up Rosie if you're not

> careful.


Nah, I just find it kind of sad that people of a similar age have turned into my dad back when I was a teenager.


"Call that bloody music? what do you think you look like? Look at his hair! garlic? on bread?"


I'm hoping that I manage not to turn into MrBen for just a little while longer.

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