Important questions about local life

[indiepanda]

I know as a booklover I should support our local bookshop but it really sticks in my throat to buy books full price when I can get them on 3 for 2 in Waterstones or for at least 20% off on Amazon.

[Brendan]

Now they?re having a go at the Mancunians.

[dukesdenver]

citizenED Wrote:

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> Perhaps if Dukesdenver goes in more frequently to

> purchase full-price tomes from Chener the place

> will be able to un-mank itself.

No no no, that's not how it works. Chener should smarten itself up first in order to attract my custom. I am quite the book-buyer so it could be worth the effort....

[woofmarkthedog]

It does need a "make over" (yetch) I do buy books there & the staff are quite perfectly bookish BUT & it is a big but if you have used the bookshop in W.Dulwich then the LSL shop does seem a little "tired" in comparison

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*ok..........FIRE ONE.....P'tchwew.......*

[indiepanda]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Bollicks, North is up everyone knows that.

Exactly... always confuses the hell out of me when people talk about a pub being at the top of Lordship Lane when they actually mean it's the Plough... the EDT is at the top in my mind.

[Sherwick]

indiepanda Wrote:

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the EDT is at the top in my mind.

In my mind too. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?!

[charliecharlie]

I am getting really worried that Sat Nav has done something to your brians!!!!

"6... What is the northern end of LL, the top or the bottom?"

God forbid some of you ever have to find your way north of the river...

come on guys, it's not that hard, north is the direction that isn't where the sun is at mid day...

what on earth would happen if you had to find your way to Edinburgh, would you end up in Brighton???

"... always confuses the hell out of me when people talk about a pub being at the top of Lordship Lane when they actually mean it's the Plough... the EDT is at the top in my mind."

top = top of hill, bottom = bottom of hill

what is the world coming to???? did all that geography at school really fall on such stoney ground???

[charliecharlie]

[quote=....why does the man who works in Healthmatters seem so unfriendly?

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think you must be talking about a customer... can't be the staff...

I would say Helathmatters offers some of the best service in LL, friendly and knowledgeable... what more could you want?

[Huguenot]

Now now, charliecharlie it's not as simple as that.

My natural inclination would have north as top and south as bottom, but it's rarely so consistent.

For example where do they fall in east-west roads?

And where do they lie in culs-de-sac?

The LL situation is self-evidently a conundrum, because the compass solution is at odds with the elevation.

Likewise the 'top' of the elevation is at the 'middle' of the stretch of road: LL goes well beyond the Plough to the South Circular.

Pre. 21st century, local custom (and poor map reading skills in a blue-collar workforce) had it that the 'top' of the Lane was at the southern end. Post urban migration, unacclimatised blow-ins with a moderate grasp of global geography (of which I'm one) didn't find the answer naturally, and rarely traveling beyond the Mag concluded that the EDT was indeed the top.

There is an answer, but it requires cultural flexibility and class mobility. ;-)

Yes, I'm joking.

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Morning Lilliput - I always favour the narrow end of the egg

[woofmarkthedog]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Bollicks, North is up everyone knows that.

>

> Except in the very olden days when East was up.

Er I thought East was "out" & north was "Oop" West was definitely "Up" like "Going up the West end" South though is always "Daaan" though

Oh I'm all giddy now.

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