(ED Picturehouse now open)when is the cinema on LL opening?

[Ginster]

Yes just got an email from them saying 17th April - shame it's delayed!

[spanglysteve]

See attached email

[Zebedee Tring]

It would be better if PictureHouse refrained from sending us such patronising emails and stopped addressing us as if we were children. They should treat us as adults and just tell us why there is a further delay.

[Louisa]

I think the cinema is timing it just right for when Nandos opens.

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

First Films

:- Screen 1 .. Mystic Pizza (1988)

:- Screen 2 .. Fat Pizza (2003)

:- Screen 3 .. Pizza Maffia (2011)

[Louisa]

Now orange Wednesdays have been knocked on the head this is as close as the lovely folk of ED will get to a Pizza Express bogof deal on pizza and cinema tickets.

Louisa.

[worldwiser]

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]

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.

[MrBen]

It's the new register ZT. Over familiar and dumbed down but at least it's a friendly tone. It's not 1963 any more.

This thread could be handled in two posts max but such is the way on here...

[worldwiser]

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?

[Zebedee Tring]

That is way OTT, worldwiser. You're totally distorting what I said.

We will just have to differ on this. There's no point in continuing this discussion.

[Jeremy]

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.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I see nothing wrong with the email . Since when has ANY building work EVER been finished on time?

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

As long as its finished in time for the new Star Wars, I'm happy .

[Real_Louisa]

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.

[Jacqui5254]

Yawn.

0/10000

[titch juicy]

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!

[Hoopoedi]

What or who exactly constitutes a "blow in"? Or is this a subject for another thread? I'm curious...

[fonread]

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.

[Hoopoedi]

I get it! Thanks for that, fonread - I must be a "blow in" then since I've only been here since 1985. I've been firmly put in my place and will toe the line accordingly!

[solar]

The scaffolding is being taken down.

[Seabag]

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]

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]

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.

[Zebedee Tring]

I've lived in Sarf London for 35 years and in ED for nearly 30 years. But I made the major and unforgivable mistake of spending my first 30 years in North East London. Heaven forfend!