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Ole

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worldwiser

worldwiser

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ZT this isn't a delayed commuter train, it's a cinema. In a really old building that likely presented huge challenges along the way. I fail to see how their email treated anyone like children. Why do we need to know the ins and outs of the delays? It's not a public service, it's a privately operated cinema. When it opens we'll all go. You think they have any interest in not opening at the very first opportunity?
Zebedee Tring

Zebedee Tring

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It's the tone of the email that I find patronising. Possibly not as patronising as the previous email when they "blamed" Santa Claus for the fact that they missed their Xmas deadline! If you're happy with that style of email, fine, but personally I think that it's an example of the tone of so much communication these days.
worldwiser

worldwiser

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Fun, slightly irreverent, reassuring.. a light-hearted, mild Alice in Wonderland reference? Definitely fire their Comms team immediately. They're not issuing a white paper, they're handling an unfortunate and unintentional delay with good humour and communicating with a modern audience. This is how all successful companies handle problems these days. What were you hoping for, the CEO kneeling in the street and begging for forgiveness?
Jeremy

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You can bet that behind the scenes, management will be furious at the delay. But I guess they thought it best to keep communication informal/casual in line with brand image. But I don't think they have anything to apologise for, they don't owe us anything.
Real_Louisa

Real_Louisa

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More time for the Blow ins to start forming a 'look at me' queue. Maybe it'll merge with the one for the Butchers and the posh cheese on toast place - Lordship lane gridlocked with ironic hair, push chairs and discarded Guardian media supplements.
titch juicy

titch juicy

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Real_Louisa Wrote:

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> More time for the Blow ins to start forming a

> 'look at me' queue. Maybe it'll merge with the one

> for the Butchers and the posh cheese on toast

> place - Lordship lane gridlocked with ironic hair,

> push chairs and discarded Guardian media

> supplements



Haha!

fonread

fonread

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Hoopoedi Wrote:

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> What or who exactly constitutes a "blow in"? Or

> is this a subject for another thread? I'm

> curious...


Basically anyone who wasn't born in the postcode where they now live. People who've had the temerity to do something with their lives, move around a bit, experience stuff, gain a bit of outlook. They're MASSIVELY annoying.

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Seabag

Seabag

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It's a friggin cinema in an old building


Wow it's taken longer than the abstract calculation anticipated


Lighten up, no one's died


I suggest reading the email outloud using a Darth Vader voice modulator device


Or try impersonating Steven Hawkins or Arsene Wenger

maxxi

maxxi

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In other news - while we're waiting - a clutch of the new Conrad Shawcross sculptures have landed in Dulwich Park.


I quite like the rusty look of them but earlier photos suggest they'll be 'finished' in some way.


That should keep us busy until the flicks opens.


ETA: started a separate thread for this - don't want to get our visual arts in a muddle.

Jennys

Jennys

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fonread Wrote:

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> Hoopoedi Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > What or who exactly constitutes a "blow in"?

> Or

> > is this a subject for another thread? I'm

> > curious...

>

> Basically anyone who wasn't born in the postcode

> where they now live. People who've had the

> temerity to do something with their lives, move

> around a bit, experience stuff, gain a bit of

> outlook. They're MASSIVELY annoying.


So despite the fact that I was born and raised in South London and have spent a very large part of my life in South London, that I worked in South London and also did voluntary work in Dulwich and that I have actually been living in East Dulwich since early 1987, I am a blow in.

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