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Louisa, I'm sorry (and I don't mean that sarcastically) if I may have offended you or anybody else out there. I do take it for granted sometimes how lucky I am to even have kids. I don't know anything about you or your reasons for this thread, so I'm bailing out. Will enjoy all your other comments in the morning though! Goodnight everyone.

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Grilled pork dumplings for two,


Don't take this amiss *Bob*, but posting this after my innocent bottom enquiry might be seen in dubious taste.

That's regarding the Louisa/YM arse thing, and nothing of course to do with the taste of the grilled pork dumplings supplied by no doubt hard working Chinese people.

I don't know who is behind Louisa but whoever you are, you are the best on here by fuckhen miles. Daff murderers (and non-existent signs), posh cheese on toast, the People's Paradise of North Devon, the philosophical impossibility of fresh fish - all masterful stuff.


This yummies guff is just a warm-up, isn't it? When are you bringing the good stuff out?

Goodness me I always appear to cause a stir and all I want from life is to achieve a better ED for everyone :-)


I complain about daffodil picking - damage to public property

I complain about lost business in a recession - snow day back in February

I complain about how bad it is that pubs sell pizza and how Pizza Hut is offocially the best selling take-away in Rome..


I provide a public debate about some hot contested issues locally and all I get is ridiculed and made to look like some sort of bad person :-(


I give up going on long distance breaks in future, clearly ED needs me here to raise the profile of issues which otherwise would not get a mention.


Back on topic, these yummies are a menace to cohesion in ED and they must be stopped from ghettoisation in the NCR district before it is too late. We need a McDonalds or similar to open up along that stretch to put a stop to this middle-class infiltration once and for all before it is too late. And to my critics thus far I say this.......YOU ARE TALKING SH*T!!!


Louisa.

Louisa Wrote:

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> Is it just me, or does there seem to be a steady

> concentration of yummyfication along North Cross

> Road? During the daytime especially, I have

> noticed that certain shops and cafe's along this

> stretch seem to be the exclusive haunt of yummys

> with prams, especially during weekdays. LL seems

> to be getting away quite lightly of late, but this

> gradual concentration in this area is driving away

> folk of a different shopping class, and what makes

> it worse is the fact that shops aimed at everyone

> else seem to be disappearing in favour of

> exclusively yummy based clientele.

>

> I do not wish to turn this into a yummyist rant

> exclusively, so I would welcome comments which are

> helpful in explaining why this sudden

> concentration of twenty to forty something

> middle-class house wife group have suddenly

> decided to colonise this small corner of sunny ED.

>

>

> Louisa.





apologies for not reading all of this thread- but what in sweet suffering f**k is a 'Yummy'?!!?

does drinking earl grey tea make you middle class then? blimey! So what if you drink earl grey* but also have a penchant for McDonalds? what class does that make you? I also like shoes from Russell & Bromley but I get my knickers from Primark..


* I do drink Earl Grey - Twinings only of course - but I do not stick my pinky finger out whilst holding my (china) cup

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