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Louisa Wrote:

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> If it's open by Christmas I'll personally make and

> distribute homemade mince pies to every forumite

> and distribute them dressed as a yummy mummy with

> matching bugaboo accessory from the corner of

> North cross and Lordship.

>

> In other words, January.

>

> Louisa.


Don't go over reaching yourself there Louisa


How do you propose to "dress as a Yummy Mummy" I wonder ?


I'll be first in the queue


Or buy you a drink in Jan

:)

???? Wrote:

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> Yup Nice one Foxy. Paul Gascoigne is famously

> proud he's never read a book.


Two in five Britons never read a book so he is not alone.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-117098/Two-Britons-read-book.html


I've read many books in the past but simply do not have the time these days.

With digital cine-photography I'm don't know if they still dim the lights.

But as soon as they do, I'm fast asleep within 5-10 mins.

Same if I try and watch a film at home.


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Landy10 Wrote:

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> I was at the ritzy buying membership the other day

> and when the lady who served me said official

> opening is in March (she did tell me the date but

> I've forgotten it).


Can you ask her again then please.

ED Picturehouse have just posted the following on FB


Wonderful people of East Dulwich!


You may have noticed that progress on the building work has been slower than expected. But we have all been working as hard as we can, and we are now pleased to announce that we will be opening our doors on ? drumroll please ? Friday 20 March. We promise it will be worth the wait!

More news soon...

So have I. But I don't like being patronised - nor indeed spoken to as if I was a small child. By way of example the previous FB item on the Picturehouse blamed the building work delay on Santa! I haven't believed in Santa since about 1957.

Zebedee Tring Wrote:

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> I have signed up for Picturehouse membership.

> However, I don't very much like being patronised

> by Picturehouse on Facebook as one of the

> "Wonderful people of East Dulwich".


It's social media. Social media marketing is done by people under the age of 25. They believe that everyone else in the world is under the age of 25 too ? except for their parents and a few dribbling old people who watch "Countryfile". Even my bank talks like an excitable teenager on Facebook.

"ED Picturehouse have just posted the following on FB


Wonderful people of East Dulwich!


You may have noticed that progress on the building work has been slower than expected"



Err. No surprise . You posted a wildly optimistic opening schedule and some of us said so. There was never a change of a 2014 opening. Why pretend otherwise.

Why be so mean about it? You think they duped us all into joining by telling us it would open a mere 3 months earlier than they knew it would? What a pointless conspiracy! The building is old and being converted to a use never before imagined - I'm happy to accept they encountered unforseen obstacles and take the delay in good faith. Anyway, it's their cinema, not yours. Let them open it whenever they want. When it does, we'll go. What's the problem?

What he said, and I'm totally guilty of referring to my social media followers (I run a small biz) as 'lovely people' or whatever. It's better than 'utter w**kers of East Dulwich', although on reflection perhaps that would be more appropriate


worldwiser Wrote:

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> Why be so mean about it? You think they duped us

> all into joining by telling us it would open a

> mere 3 months earlier than they knew it would?

> What a pointless conspiracy! The building is old

> and being converted to a use never before imagined

> - I'm happy to accept they encountered unforseen

> obstacles and take the delay in good faith.

> Anyway, it's their cinema, not yours. Let them

> open it whenever they want. When it does, we'll

> go. What's the problem?

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