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Thread: Busy Weekend
Post: RE: Busy Weekend
| All this and a normal train service too! |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: Future FH Inhabitant & Transport Links
Post: RE: Future FH Inhabitant & Transport Links
| [quote=nevermodern]
I have to say I find the 176 really useful to get straight into central london if I've got a bit of time on my hands. However, after the pubs close on the weekend it's extremely b... |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 04:07 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| [quote=nickyj]
Does FH has ticket barriers? I am considering moving to FH and have a Zone 1-2 season ticket, will I need to get the Zone 3 upgrade?
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Yes, because we don't appreciate thef... |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| [quote=seeformiles]
Blimey how did asking for a bit of consideration translate into hating children?
Previous discussions on here inevitably produce the same reaction. I think there is a problem w... |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 01:01 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=Toffeejim]
[quote=Perryman]
Perhaps people's birth certificates should be stamped with team they are allowed to support.
Send the details on a couple of CDs to all clubs, so they can turn ... |
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05-12-2007, 12:35 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| [quote=robwinton]
THERE IS, AND SHOULD NEVER BE, A PLACE WHERE YOU GET AWAY FROM FAMILY LIFE. [/quote]
Incredibly arrogant, I have to say. It's fine for you not to escape your family life. When yo... |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Temp
| [quote=shzl400]
As ever the clue is in the title - this thread was about Sunday roast which would tend to attract family types. If there was no food, I don't think you would get the children in the ... |
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Baboonery |
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05-12-2007, 11:16 AM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| Oh spare me your pity and your patronising sentimentalist tosh, RobW! What a load of nonsense.
I suppose the next time you get on a bus and there's a youth behind playing music out on his phone, it... |
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05-12-2007, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Future FH Inhabitant & Transport Links
Post: RE: Future FH Inhabitant & Transport Links
| [quote=nevermodern]
I think the one before that is something like an hour earlier, isn't it? Both usually come from Charing Cross, through London Bridge, which is handy if you're out in Soho :)
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Baboonery |
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04-12-2007, 06:42 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=Perryman]
Perhaps people's birth certificates should be stamped with team they are allowed to support.
Send the details on a couple of CDs to all clubs, so they can turn away any plastic fa... |
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Baboonery |
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04-12-2007, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
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[quote=AMFM]
Londonrz - you're missing the point that people are trying to make. The presence of kids is not the issue, it's the presence of kids treating pubs like and restaurant... |
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04-12-2007, 05:32 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
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[quote=Baboonery]
[quote=Les]
I wonder what can realistically be done, about the standard of behaviour of kids in pubs. The mentality from parents in some cases appears to be to t... |
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04-12-2007, 05:29 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
| [quote=Elizabeth25]
I have given up on this debate, which eventually comes up in any thread that talks about pubs. There are some people that just hate kids. No matter what the behaviour. You know wh... |
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04-12-2007, 05:28 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
| [quote=Les]
I wonder what can realistically be done, about the standard of behaviour of kids in pubs. The mentality from parents in some cases appears to be to treat the whole pub as a play area, whe... |
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Baboonery |
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04-12-2007, 11:37 AM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| BD, your posts have filled me with such guilt at continuing to support the team with which I was brought up and which played less than a mile from my parental home that I have made a decision. I will ... |
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Baboonery |
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03-12-2007, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: Bubbles Apostrophe
Post: RE: Bubbles Apostrophe
| Not local, but there is or was a place on Wandsworth Road called [b]Stockers Tapa's Bar.[/b] |
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Baboonery |
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30-11-2007, 11:11 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Apologies for the inconvenience
| The coffee-stand gate on the main side has been closed the last two mornings as well. Though there are a couple of loose flags there. |
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Baboonery |
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29-11-2007, 06:40 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| And to every sneery sky-pixie-believer who says "Ah, but atheism's just another religion, you see", then retires with a smug smile on their face, I say "Yes. In the same way that 'not playing golf' is... |
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29-11-2007, 05:20 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water on Honor Oak Road
| [quote=roz]
We call it 'You Elm ' or 'ewe elm' - its named after a Cotswolds village - but you would never imagine the trouble we have - we have to spell it out clearly every time we do a transactio... |
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29-11-2007, 11:04 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| The killing or ostracization of non-believers is a pretty strong argument for 'natural' selection, religion-wise. |
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29-11-2007, 11:02 AM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water on Honor Oak Road
| [quote=roz]
We call it 'You Elm ' or 'ewe elm' - its named after a Cotswolds village - but you would never imagine the trouble we have - we have to spell it out clearly every time we do a transactio... |
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Baboonery |
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28-11-2007, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water on Honor Oak Road
| [quote=roz]
Yes, I have reported this however it is not the source of what happened a week or so when we woke up to find a river running outside- that leak was in [b]Ewelme Road [/b]itself. The leak ... |
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Baboonery |
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28-11-2007, 01:19 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| [quote=Toffeejim]
[quote=roz]
The more churches converted to housing the better for us all.......
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Alternatively you could leave churchgoers to follow their beliefs in peace, as the overwh... |
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28-11-2007, 10:48 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| Did anyone get nabbed outside WH Smith the other night? Black man, white woman, asking if you'd heard of Jesus Christ?
I took my usual tack of extreme yet quiet rudeness, suggesting politely that t... |
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Baboonery |
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27-11-2007, 03:14 PM |
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Thread: Best Sunday roast?
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
| I know it's out of area, but anyway: avoid The Mansion by the Gipsy Hill roundabout. Awful, overpriced, children-running-about-screaming hell, with slightly intrusive jazz. |
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Baboonery |
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27-11-2007, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: RE: Gambling
| I agree with you that FBOTs are awful, though. I'd happily see them banned. |
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Baboonery |
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14-11-2007, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: RE: Gambling
| [quote=frosty]
What do you need more bookies for? Why argue so vehemently for their expansion in FH? If you are so desperate to get rid of your cash, I can point you in the direction of a certain BI ... |
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14-11-2007, 05:12 PM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: RE: Gambling
| [quote=frosty]
I'm impressed Baboonery, are you aiming to misquote everyone on this forum before you are finished? You're hilarious!!
I am giving you gambling figures such as 'we lose nine-and-a-h... |
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14-11-2007, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: RE: Gambling
| Frosty's gambling beliefs in full, here:
# The number of betting shops may have nearly halved, but I don't believe it, on the basis that one opened in my town two years ago, taking the number from ... |
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14-11-2007, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside AND Sainsbury's
| [quote=frosty]
Do I really need to explain my aversion to bookies opening in FH Baboonery? With the 'recent' arguments for and against super-casino's in the news, the argument that gambling aids in t... |
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13-11-2007, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| [quote=nevermodern]
The Hob, The Honor Oak, Yune, Lemon Grove, Bunka, Mayo Maker, Laurel's Flowers, Provender, Cafe La, Thai Orchard. As I said, I'm not sure what's gained by saying, "Forest Hill is ... |
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Baboonery |
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13-11-2007, 04:44 PM |
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Thread: Gambling
Post: x
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[quote=frosty]
I apologise for going a little overboard here, and if I have upset anyone. There is such a state of ros... |
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13-11-2007, 04:28 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| [quote=Toffeejim]
There's plenty of passing trade on foot as well as scope for car owners to stop outside for the 5 or 10 minutes they'd need to buy a few delicacies. The free and immediately acces... |
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13-11-2007, 04:15 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| [quote=nevermodern]
I come back to the Dartmouth Arms example. And there really is no reason why a decent deli couldn't thrive in FH.
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Perhaps, perhaps not. I'd favour the not, personally... |
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Baboonery |
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13-11-2007, 01:42 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| But that's actually my point: change in this regard is incremental, and a jump to something like Green and Blue (particularly in such an unpromising site) at this stage is not really going anywhere. I... |
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Baboonery |
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13-11-2007, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| [quote=nevermodern]
Shops do change, baboonery. Demographics change, populations move, types of shop come and go. Under your argument, shopping areas would never change, improve or grow because 'if t... |
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Baboonery |
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13-11-2007, 12:08 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| Why the persistent fantasy that there is a market in FH for the sort of thing you see in ED? There isn't, otherwise they'd be here already. |
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Baboonery |
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13-11-2007, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
Post: RE: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
| [quote=hilltopgeneral]
As for why the trains can't be routed differently, sending trains from East Dulwich / Peckham Rye / South Bermondsey (which come from the southernmost approach tracks) or For... |
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Baboonery |
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12-11-2007, 06:50 PM |
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Thread: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
Post: RE: 8:24 to London Bridge from HOP
| The 0835 from FH to LB, which doesn't stop at HOP, annoys me more. It's ALWAYS trundling behind the 0829. Average journey time is about 20 minutes. Always. If six minutes is an insufficient gap, timet... |
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Baboonery |
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12-11-2007, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Bis Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| I saw her get on a Victoria-bound train last Tuesday evening with another woman and a younger man, who spoke to her in what sounded like Romanian (I have a bit of knowledge of Romanian, not just a ste... |
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Baboonery |
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11-11-2007, 07:04 PM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line Closure
| The 1725, 1755 and 1825 services from LB are the best thing about FH. One stop, no messing. Losing them, and their morning counterparts (as crap as the 0835 is) will be a real shame. |
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08-11-2007, 03:01 PM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line Closure
| [quote=pvp]
P4 from UDB is a good option - either up to Brixton and tube or to Lewisham and DLR.
For those on the other side of the tracks, the 122 can be quicker to Lewisham if traffic is screwi... |
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30-10-2007, 07:46 PM |
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Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line Closure
| [quote=davidl]
To get from FH to Docklands I would think that least stressful and unpleasant way to travel will be the bus to Lewisham and then DLR to the Isle of Dogs (unless you want to go by bike.... |
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30-10-2007, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: All things Spanish
Post: RE: The Honor Oak
| [quote=Mrjamon]
A friend of mine has recommended Rebato's in Vauxhall, sounds great.
http://www.rebatos.com/
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I used to live near here, and it is indeed great. It's not as 'fino' as the ... |
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29-10-2007, 03:37 PM |
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