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  Thread: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road

I agree that it's not ideal, but Dartmouth Road really is looking bleak at the moment, with the closure of Oriental Fusion, Austin Harvey and a couple of other shops in the last few months not helping...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 16 19,902 28-11-2011, 05:23 PM
  Thread: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road
Post: Planning application: 33 Dartmouth Road

Notice through the door of a planning application to convert the old Adams hair and beauty place opposite the old post office on Dartmouth Road into a 'drinking establishment serving hot food', on the...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 16 19,902 26-11-2011, 11:25 PM
  Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade

Some with space, some without space. How odd. Thanks, rhsd, top tip. And I'm a YES!
Baboonery Wider Topics 163 202,571 18-11-2011, 05:23 PM
  Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade

Well the postcode of the flat I'm about to buy doesn't appear at all. Woo hoo.
Baboonery Wider Topics 163 202,571 18-11-2011, 10:57 AM
  Thread: The Shard in sunlight is a sight for sore eyes..
Post: RE: The Shard in sunlight is a sight for sore eyes...

Try working over the road from it.
Baboonery Wider Topics 11 10,695 10-11-2011, 05:44 PM
  Thread: Jumping the ticket barriers
Post: RE: Jumping the ticket barriers at HOP station

I had someone shove past me and tailgate the person in front through the s-l-o-w wide barrier on the Perry Vale side of FH station the other week. The member of staff carried on reading his paper. I a...
Baboonery Wider Topics 27 35,973 09-11-2011, 06:17 PM
  Thread: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Perry Vale side)
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Pe...

I'm with the council on this. Don't think it would improve matters at all. Ask me again in a month or so when I have moved over the other side of the tracks and am crossing that road every day, mind. ...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 57 64,363 25-10-2011, 06:31 PM
  Thread: Demolished House on Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: demolished house on Dartmouth Road

I know someone who lives in one of those houses, will inquire and report.
Baboonery SE23 Topics 9 10,275 24-10-2011, 10:49 AM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

Tinkerbell and Cheeky. Your repeated accusations that anyone who doesn't 100% agree with you must be in the pay of Domino's do your movement no favours. Please stop it. Differences of opinion are all...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 20-10-2011, 09:56 AM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

Can we please stop insisting that anyone who doesn't 100% agree with this campaign must not live in SE23? Or must have a financial interest (as one commenter on the News Shopper thread linked to above...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 19-10-2011, 10:59 AM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

If I was a planning officer, I'd be a lot more inclined to give weight to the FHS' considered and well-expressed objections than to other opinions expressed upthread. The frantic, overstated tone of m...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 14-10-2011, 03:16 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

[quote]I don't think John L has been to HOP for quite some time.[/quote] To be fair, I don't think most people on this thread have either :)
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 13-10-2011, 06:45 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

I'll miss the 1824. By far the most pleasant train home. Because there was never anyone on it. Couldn't last.
Baboonery SE23 Topics 1,398 1,250,392 05-10-2011, 12:35 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Domino's Pizza

"Eyesore" = thing slightly less beautiful than we might like.
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 25-09-2011, 06:25 PM
  Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Disaster The Old Bank to become a Dominoes piz...

Or perhaps a functioning business that looks after its premises and doesn't serve as a poster site?
Baboonery SE23 Topics 736 625,589 17-09-2011, 11:19 PM
  Thread: Internet connection in SE23 this weekend ?
Post: RE: Internet connection in SE23 this weekend ?

My landline and broadband (in Dartmouth Road) have been off for nearly two weeks. Repeated calls have solved nothing. Openreach were fiddling with the box outside Billy Hills as I left this morning, b...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 9 9,581 17-08-2011, 10:37 AM
  Thread: Help Finding a GP-Please!
Post: RE: Help Finding a GP-Please!

Got a letter yesterday informing me that the partnership at the Sydenham Road surgery is breaking up, and that one of the doctors is moving to Wells Park. Scandal! So, do I want to move away from crap...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 25 25,990 05-07-2011, 12:09 PM
  Thread: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted
Post: RE: High Paid Council Tennants should be evicted

Dear jgdoherty You appear to be motivated by things other than blind hatred and what you read in the Daily Mail. This simply won't d-BENEFIT SCROUNGERS! Sorry, slips out every now and again.
Baboonery Wider Topics 57 45,505 09-06-2011, 04:04 PM
  Thread: Strangest named station in London
Post: RE: Strangest named station in London

Google Maps is having a load of language/localisation issues at the moment. I've seen French tags all over the London map, and a few Dutch ones too. Not sure what the problem is.
Baboonery Wider Topics 17 17,490 01-06-2011, 05:34 PM
  Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area

I'm glad I live in a country where the police alone do not have the right to 'throw away the key'. Or, for that matter, decide whether someone is guilty.
Baboonery SE23 Topics 82 80,020 16-05-2011, 06:43 PM
  Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area

[quote=Brian] You should be able to feel safe on the Queen's Highway. This is a major road and the Police should be arresting these criminals and [i]throwing away the key[/i].[/quote] I think at t...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 82 80,020 16-05-2011, 05:09 PM
  Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.

And I've no time for Roz's views on the matter either. Just that she should not be afraid to offend Brian.
Baboonery Wider Topics 64 50,230 16-05-2011, 05:06 PM
  Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.

jon14 Did the man in the funny hat who took all your money not even bother to teach you to read? My whole point was that Brian's posts are invariably 'politically correct'. Just a different type of p...
Baboonery Wider Topics 64 50,230 16-05-2011, 05:05 PM
  Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.

What a shame that Roz's views aren't politically correct enough for you, eh, Brian?
Baboonery Wider Topics 64 50,230 15-05-2011, 09:00 PM
  Thread: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play
Post: RE: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play

Er, no, Brian. Go back to far-right fantasy land.
Baboonery Wider Topics 42 31,852 15-05-2011, 08:46 PM
  Thread: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play
Post: RE: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play

And how is that subsidising Lewisham?
Baboonery Wider Topics 42 31,852 15-05-2011, 07:11 PM
  Thread: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play
Post: RE: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play

[quote]You mention councils like Bromley. These Councils get a much lower grant and infact subsidise the likes of Lewisham [/quote] I know you don't believe in evidence, and generally disappear fro...
Baboonery Wider Topics 42 31,852 15-05-2011, 06:03 PM
  Thread: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play
Post: RE: Tory Wandsworth charging children to play

[quote]So Roz, Labour get us into the mess which promts drastic cuts so that councils have to start charging and it's everyone else's fault but labour??!![/quote] [quote]No problem with out of SE23...
Baboonery Wider Topics 42 31,852 15-05-2011, 06:01 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Would you? You sure about that? Anyway, so basically what you're saying is that you revert to FPTP. Nice.
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 14-05-2011, 01:32 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Why on earth would it not happen under AV? And how, realistically, is it worse than deciding it on the ninth preferences of BNP voters?
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 13-05-2011, 02:27 PM
  Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.

Don't come and bother us with actual facts, Cellar Door, tell us about the Chavs and Scroungers!!! That's all we care about on se23.com!
Baboonery Wider Topics 64 50,230 11-05-2011, 05:38 PM
  Thread: Help Finding a GP-Please!
Post: RE: Help Finding a GP-Please!

I bet the Sydenham station surgery will take you. They'll take anyone. They're the only one who'd take me (live on the 'Boots' row of shops) when I moved in. If it's an option, I'd advise against it. ...
Baboonery SE23 Topics 25 25,990 11-05-2011, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

I'll elaborate. Towards the end of the last parliament, there was an orgy of dimwitted hatred directed towards politicians. Not least on here. The LibDems, the most political of parties, were playing ...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 19-04-2011, 02:27 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Michael, They've been taken in by a partisan fraud. Next.
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 19-04-2011, 02:21 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

[quote] "The no campaign will probably not put it so indelicately themselves, but they are calculating that their best hope of preserving first past the post is to mobilise what you could crudely cal...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 17-04-2011, 04:39 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Michael, A vote for an unsuccessful candidate is not wasted. It's just a vote for an unsuccessful candidate. By the same logic, a vote for an unsuccessful candidate is still 'wasted' under AV if it i...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 17-04-2011, 03:06 PM
  Thread: Royal Wedding
Post: RE: Royal Wedding celebrations

Sorry, my last post should have had a couple of these in. :)
Baboonery Wider Topics 22 17,267 17-04-2011, 04:35 AM
  Thread: Royal Wedding
Post: RE: Royal Wedding celebrations

I do hope this party doesn't create a noise nuisance. Somehow I don't imagine the usual far-right busybody tendency will mind if it does, though. I don't imagine five people can make all that much noi...
Baboonery Wider Topics 22 17,267 17-04-2011, 03:51 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Personally I'd rather 'pretending' played no part in an electoral system. Particularly 'pretending' that eighth or ninth preferences should carry the same validity as first preferences.
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 17-04-2011, 03:38 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Michael, Indeed it isn't, it's just a shame that the system we're being offered is less democratic, being as it is a partisan fraud based on lies and smears. Robin I think your use of inverted co...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 15-04-2011, 02:46 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Robin. Why use inverted commas round my user name? If 50% isn't really that big a deal, why is it such a big deal? Why mention it incessantly if it's not true? Why bother with it at all if it's una...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 15-04-2011, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

I would argue that a system whose greatest proponents claim as one of its greatest benefits that it will prevent a party with x% support from ever gaining representation is quite plainly not democrati...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 15-04-2011, 10:27 AM
  Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.

Yet again, the religious person asks for evidence for everyone else's views but his own.
Baboonery Wider Topics 50 36,553 15-04-2011, 09:42 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Michael, the problem with your 'extremists are unlikely to win seats' argument is that they're also unlikely to win seats under FPTP. Not quite as unlikely, but still unlikely. Gerrymandering them out...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 15-04-2011, 09:38 AM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Robin, the 50% thing JUST ISN'T TRUE. It just isn't. That's the aim, but when there's no compunction on anyone to use any more than one preference, there is no way in which this specious holy grail of...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 15-04-2011, 09:31 AM
  Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.

jon14 - Foster parents are also not asked what they would do if the child demanded to be taken to a planetarium that insisted that the moon was made of cheese, or what they would do if the child deman...
Baboonery Wider Topics 50 36,553 14-04-2011, 01:19 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

...And then have a vote for their eighth preference counted anyway. Vote NO.
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 13-04-2011, 04:58 PM
  Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote

Robin. It's undemocratic and iniquitous because it gives fifth preferences equal weight to first preferences if we have that many counts. There is no way that someone's fifth preference (or for that m...
Baboonery Wider Topics 114 90,902 13-04-2011, 03:25 PM
  Thread: Congratulations to France.
Post: RE: Congratulations to France.

Which they already were.
Baboonery Wider Topics 50 36,553 12-04-2011, 12:49 PM
  Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?

Have you got a source for that, or is it just something else you 'heard on your travels'?
Baboonery Wider Topics 144 117,564 25-03-2011, 05:49 PM
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