ED featured in Time Out this week

[TheCat]

for those that are finding this discussion too highly strung, please check out my new forum...

www.easyDforum.co.uk

[Jenny1]

I've got to agree with treehugger and Otta. This is gold dust (mind you any opinion I express at the moment has to be filtered through the understanding that I'm currently on quite strong painkillers).

The challenge now is to run with the concept.

I wonder how many remember the hypnotic opening sequence of the classic 1987 movie set in our (newly) twinned city of New Orleans starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin?

I think similar could be achieved using local musical talent and footage obtained by waving a mobile phone around on a balcony of the top floor of the Ladlands Estate. (Did I mention that the painkillers were strong?)

[thebestnameshavegone]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> I'm not sure we are more precious. No-one in or

> out regards Dulwich Village as East Dulwich. And

> Thatcher's house in Hambledon Place, SE21, was

> most definitely not East Dulwich.

Maybe people were less obsessed with this kind of stuff in the 80s. Bits of New Cross used to be called Deptford *shrugs*

[Dopamine1979]

TheCat Wrote:

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> for those that are finding this discussion too

> highly strung, please check out my new forum...

>

> www.easyDforum.co.uk

:)

[Too Good To Be True]

Last time I saw Easy D in Time Out it said this:

"Somehow, since the millennium, East Dulwich has gone from being a relaxed, vaguely bohemian secret to a caricature of middle-class urban living. The online East Dulwich Forum is one of the most active local area forums in the country, where people get hot under the collar about unsightly advertising hoardings, noise after 10pm, and whether chain shops are welcome (Waitrose only, it seems)"

Seemed to split opinion as I recall.

I wonder what they say about Claps J Town?

[Sue]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Easy D looks like the result of a typo

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Ah, don't spoil it!

Just because y is next to t on the keyboard doesn't mean it's a typo plus an incompetent editor ...... :))

[sammy97c]

Maybe I am missing something but isn't the review largely positive?

I'm fairly sure that TimeOut don't have a hidden agenda against East Dulwich...

[Jeremy]

Too Good To Be True Wrote:

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> "Somehow, since the millennium, East Dulwich has

> gone from being a relaxed, vaguely bohemian secret

> to a caricature of middle-class urban living. The

> online East Dulwich Forum is one of the most

> active local area forums in the country, where

> people get hot under the collar about unsightly

> advertising hoardings, noise after 10pm, and

> whether chain shops are welcome (Waitrose only, it seems)"

Sounds like a fair write-up TBH

[Jah Lush]

I'd say that's pretty much spot on.

[????]

I think vaguely Bohemian is really stretching it.......not as posh as now doesn't=vaguely bohemian

[Sue]

???? Wrote:

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> I think vaguely Bohemian is really stretching

> it.......not as posh as now doesn't=vaguely

> bohemian

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I think it used to be vaguely Bohemian :)

[Jeremy]

At the turn of the millenium, it was a cheap(ish) neighbourhood which seemed to have a higher than average concentration of actors, artists, musicians, etc so "vaguely bohemian" isn't exactly the worst description I can think of. But by 2002, it already felt like an area in the grips of gentrification.

[newboots]

This just makes me nostalgic for the days when Time Out was my most-looked-forward-to publication of the week :(

[edcam]

newboots Wrote:

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> This just makes me nostalgic for the days when

> Time Out was my most-looked-forward-to publication

> of the week :(

Me too. Time Out was once thrilling to read. Pre-Internet it was the only way to find out what was going on in London.

[Seabag]

I read somewhere a while back that Notting Hill, was for people who were Bohemian on the outside, but dead on the inside

Easy D got of lightly, I reckon

If ANYONE is in the Craft Brewing business, please can you make an 'Easy D' craft ale

[BrandNewGuy]

newboots Wrote:

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> This just makes me nostalgic for the days when

> Time Out was my most-looked-forward-to publication

> of the week :(

Or City Limits if you were a donkey-jacket-wearing leftie with a penchant for grim East European cinema...

[BrandNewGuy]

It was no spelling mistake ? Time Out have repeated the 'Easy D' tag on their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/TimeOutLondon?fref=nf

So Easy D it is. T-shirts and baseball caps are in production as I write.

[Zebedee Tring]

Easy D isn't for Bohemians. It's for beautiful people with flowers in their hair who sit on beanbags proclaiming how working class they are and how we should all support the workers' co-operative run Iceland, before rushing off to Franklins or the like.

Easy D? To be followed by The Camber W and Honor O.

[Dopamine1979]

We can have our own anthem.

'Easy D! Easy D!.....we live in Easy D!'

To the tune of 'Ebeneezer Goode' by The Shamen

[xsjx]

I spoke to someone form Time Out last night and they confirmed it is not a typo and I think the writer has been alerted to the ED Forum and our thoughts on being called 'Easy D'

[MissKing]

Or, in the tune of the spice girls' wannabe: "Easy D doesn't come for free, she's a real lady"!