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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Carole, according to the website the 'general swim' times are intended for people who prefer not to do lane swimming. I'm not a particularly fast swimmer so I always go then and there are usually adul... |
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09-12-2012, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I am equally puzzled, Cellar Door, by the illogic of having women-only sessions which can be viewed from the fitness centre and indeed from the reception area, where sofas and coffee tables are provid... |
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19-09-2013, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Mondays at 9pm. I'll go along next week and find out. Probably best that you are not seen taking a head count from behind a potted plant or a treadmill. |
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19-09-2013, 09:56 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| You make it sound rather exciting, MightyMouse, all those unpredictable men leaping out. Though I'll be sorry to miss the six-foot-two peripatetic potplant... |
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19-09-2013, 09:20 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Women Only Swim update: there were 8 fair swimmers moving gracefully up and down the lanes at 9.15. It looked very relaxing.
Though I was actually upstairs at the time, gripping that bar with the t... |
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23-09-2013, 09:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| It would be useful to know why some people think it's OK to leave rubbish, including disgusting things like used nappies, lying around in public places. That conversation NottinghillBilly had with th... |
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19-02-2014, 06:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Good idea. Or maybe FHP could just have a News section on their website and update that as soon as they know about cancellations? |
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15-06-2014, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I think 'wishes for' is correct when followed by a noun, isn't it? Eg 'I wish for a good outcome' or 'I wish for a new car'?
Maybe 'wishes for' so often gets used in sentences when the 'for' is red... |
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01-05-2011, 07:04 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Interesting. I would say
'The teachers were on strike that day'
or possibly even
'The teachers were striking that day'
but never 'That was the day the teachers struck'.
Maybe because ... |
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01-07-2011, 04:16 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I'm rather a fan 'poo', myself, Robin. Inoffensive in comparison to many other terms and rather expressive - almost onomatopoeic. |
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12-07-2011, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| My opponent on online Scrabble has just said 'nice one' to congratulate me on a 7 letter word. I think it just means generic approval or pleasure, so could easily include 'thanks'. |
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14-07-2011, 10:27 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| I am quite sad about the way the Archers is going. Used to love the carefully crafted, slowly-developing plot lines and the convincing way the feasibly-numbered tragedies and dramas resonated through ... |
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28-06-2012, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| On a new subject, I'm feeling a bit sad about 'regularly' changing its meaning to 'frequently'. Eg, 'you have to change the filters more regularly as the appliance gets older'.
How would you indic... |
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05-03-2013, 12:40 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Thanks Robin, nice article. Perhaps this is a change of usage in progress, and eventually the OED will define 'regularly' and 'frequently' as synonyms. |
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08-03-2013, 07:29 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Yes isn't it interesting about 'so' suddenly appearing. It comes up in writing as well, at the beginning of the paragraph: 'So I was walking down the road...' Wonder where it came from. |
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11-03-2013, 12:34 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Or 'No problem' maybe = 'ah yes here you are in the diary, thank God nothing's gone wrong this time'? |
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13-09-2013, 07:00 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Shame about 'empathic' being replaced with 'empathetic'. It was even used on Newsnight Review the other day. I always feel 'empathic' has more gravitas somehow. |
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11-10-2013, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Thanks Robin. That is interesting that 'empathetic' has been around so long and is not, as I thought, a new-fangled expression. I must have picked up 'empathic' through psychology reading. |
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11-10-2013, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| And why 'Seek Assistance' when your Oyster card doesn't work? What's wrong with 'Get Help'? |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close
| Could someone clarify please: is there evidence to suggest the Capitol is turning into a cinema, or just a general hope that it will? Thanks. |
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08-07-2014, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Excellent that that cyclist survived without serious injuries.
On another note, I was in Oxford Street this lunchtime and astonished to see a cyclist riding up the middle of the jam-packed pavemen... |
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19-10-2011, 09:40 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!
| Woodland burial sound like a good option. You have a biodegradable coffin, buried in a plot with either a wooden marker or no marker, but they keep a record of who is buried where so relatives can fin... |
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17-02-2011, 01:48 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| I had a visit from him yesterday. He wanted to make an appointment to do a survey, and said that 'most of my neighbours' had already arranged one. I said I didn't have time to talk but accepted his pi... |
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30-12-2010, 10:29 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Maybe Trading Standards would be interested in Scambuster's findings. I wouldn't have anything to report really as he just handed me a card and went away when asked. Trading Standards might be more in... |
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09-02-2011, 11:48 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| I agree that knocking from door to door must be a very frustrating and often unpleasant job, much like telesales, and that it is unfair for householders to attack people who are just doing their job, ... |
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14-04-2011, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Nobody on this thread has given the Red Ball people any money, Stuart, so nobody has lost any.
Various posters have expressed irritation at the sales tecniques used, and suspicions based on the fa... |
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15-04-2011, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
| Doris, that contract doesn't sound like a good deal for you at all. If you only sign up 30 appointments, will Red Ball pay you nothing for all, even if takes days of your time?
It may not be a sca... |
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19-04-2011, 06:39 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| Hi Doris, did you actually work for Red Ball (or whatever they are called now) or did you just go for the interview and decide to leave it there? |
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25-07-2011, 10:42 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| Sounds like a sensible decision. Thanks for the update. |
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27-07-2011, 04:05 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| We had a visit yesterday from a young guy who 'just' wanted our phone number even though we said we definitely weren't interested in the services the company offered. He said he would get his commissi... |
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24-12-2011, 05:26 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Shops
Post: RE: From the Forest closed
| I saw an unsubstantiated message on another website saying that the owner says he is closing it for a while for renovations. Doesn't seem likely though; how could he afford to keep it going all this t... |
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23-10-2014, 08:18 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Shops
Post: RE: From the Forest closed
| Hope something happens soon, for the sake of people in the surrounding buildings. The squatters, gas leaks and fly tipping can't be fun to live with. And Pedder with their swanky new offices! |
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19-03-2015, 08:57 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I got knocked over on the pavement a couple of years by a young cyclist shooting down a steep hill and round a blind corner straight into me. It hurt! I wouldn't mind cyclists on the pavement too much... |
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30-05-2011, 10:17 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| The spoke-stick is an interesting suggestion, but might require a certain dexterity on the part of the user that could be equally well be used in leaping out of the way.
Maybe a pithy television c... |
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30-05-2011, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Coming back to the original point, proper cycle lanes would obviously give a great incentive to stay off the pavements. But I guess the argument against them is that there's too much other traffic to ... |
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30-05-2011, 11:16 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Nork1, thanks for your post. How did those other countries get so many citizens so firmly supportive of the rules of the road? That would really make a difference; much more reliable and sociable than... |
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06-06-2011, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I've found this thread extremely thought provoking too. I was mulling it over as I walked down a quiet street in the City yesterday evening, until started by a frantic ringing of bells from an approac... |
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08-06-2011, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| No clicking or wheezing occurred this time. Phew. |
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08-06-2011, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!
| Hmm. The third bedroom is tiny, there's only one bathroom and the fourth 'bedroom' is a ground floor reception room. Surely nobody will make an offer anything like 700K. It will be interesting to see ... |
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16-03-2014, 05:13 PM |
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Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!
| No intention of disparaging anyone's home, but it looks as though a pleasant but smallish 3-bed house is being marketed as a 4-bed house, just by describing the dining the room as a bedroom. Actual 4-... |
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17-03-2014, 10:16 PM |
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Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!
| About the house in Chelsfield Gardens that was mentioned earlier in the thread (small 3-bed house posing as a 4-bed by calling the dining room a bedroom, and on at an astounding 700K) - that house has... |
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07-06-2014, 10:16 AM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| But nobody can take our away our trees, our gardens, the Horniman, the hills, the views… or (I think) our better air quality. Or our convenient station, in the middle of town rather than the edge, wit... |
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24-07-2014, 08:55 PM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| Hours of fun still to had debating your original question, Robin.
I would say in this case:
Person's name
Company Name
House number and street name
Postcode
is plenty. Especially if corr... |
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26-07-2014, 08:02 PM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
| WUM = 'Wind Up Merchant', China Girl.
Funny, I was also just thinking that I missed Cellar Door's wit and charm. I think he said he was moving away, at least for a while. |
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28-07-2014, 08:59 PM |
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Thread: Why i moved to SE23
Post: RE: Why i moved to SE23
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Thread: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
Post: RE: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
| I've had so many experiences of buying 'off' meat from Sainsburies, well before its use-by date, that I don't buy it there any more. I took organic chicken back several times and the staff seemed abso... |
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12-11-2011, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: ADT security consultants cold calling
Post: RE: Bogus ADT security consultants cold calling?
| I always say 'thanks, we know an excellent local builder and we're not interested in quotes from anyone else.' Then keep repeating 'definitely not interested, bye,' if they persist.
I find it hard... |
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05-03-2014, 11:22 PM |
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Thread: ADT security consultants cold calling
Post: RE: Bogus ADT security consultants cold calling?
| I rather admire the 'kick the customer's house and tell them its falling apart' technique. It may work. I once had a knock on a door from a jobbing gardener who berated me for the frightful state of m... |
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07-03-2014, 12:25 AM |
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Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner
| I have to say, Madasahat, I think that 'window cleaner' guy is unusually persuasive. I fell for his patter a few years ago, only for about five minutes, but it was long enough for me to hand him some... |
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Thread: Crime and Punishment
Post: RE: Crime and Punishment
| This online Texas newspaper suggests that crime is unusally high in Texas, despite being the state being the biggest user of the death penalty and generally 'tough on crime':
http://www.statesman.... |
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