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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| [quote="Adolf Loos"]But a modern man who tattooes himself is either a criminal or a degenerate. Why, there are prisons where eighty per cent of the convicts are tattooed, and tattooed men who are not ... |
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14-07-2008, 07:46 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Thanks for posting that - a timely reminder of how the building is SUPPOSED to look (and would still, had it been looked after). |
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04-07-2008, 12:16 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| It is - in that the pool could have remained open while long-term options were considered, had they looked after it - but we should remember that it was going to need more significant sums of money sp... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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02-07-2008, 10:20 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| [quote=]Buildings are not designed these days to have a long life. Buildings are most often designed with a 50 year life, although the architects are well aware that the building will last much longer... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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02-07-2008, 10:09 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The bigger picture I can foresee has a big empty site with weeds growing on it and no pool.
Also, your picture is quite silly and no more relevant than someone uploading an image of a random ugly m... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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30-06-2008, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: Conservation area, planning and ... the pools?
Post: RE: Conservation area, planning and ... the pools?
| Sounds like a good time to redraw the boundary so that it excludes the pool site, given the council's curious way of discharging its "duty to preserve or enhance" the area by knocking most of the old ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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17-06-2008, 12:51 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| [quote='nevermodern']It's also true, I think, that those who say they're not racist often talk of the difference in 'culture' being the issue, not the fact they're from a different 'race'. Not sure we... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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17-06-2008, 12:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day
Post: RE: F Hill Society not allowed at Forest Hill Day
| I believe this happened last year (and possibly the year before if they were going then) too.
It might lend the event some relevance, rather than Guess The Weight Of The Cat or whatever. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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12-06-2008, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=banshee]And [b]hilltopgeneral [/b] can't seriously argue that there is absolutely no relationship between the attractiveness of the job and the affordability of the pay system. The market for ... |
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10-06-2008, 03:32 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=nevermodern]
To those who feel public sector pensions are so fantastic, why not get a job in the public sector?
No. I didn't think so.
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Whether or not the pension is sufficientl... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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09-06-2008, 07:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Let's not get sidetracked. We could do with a gym too, but that's not directly relevant to concerns over a demolition of the pool on spurious grounds without proper plans for its replacement. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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06-06-2008, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| This always looked like a foregone conclusion.
I'm still taken aback by their shamelessness.
As a quick recap:
1. Neglect the building; then
2. Close it when it becomes so dilapidated it is un... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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05-06-2008, 01:25 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=Dotcom]HTG - please explain 'significant minority.'
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Significant minority? Rather more than the odd isolated case, unusual individual or group but by no means half or more of the wo... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-05-2008, 04:49 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=michael]But would Network Rail operate any better in the private sector? I think we tried that and found that less work gets done in the private sector.[/quote]
I think that's more to do wit... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-05-2008, 02:03 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=Baboonery]
No, I'm not. I just don't think you should so arrogantly belittle people just because of who their employer is, straight from the Littlejohn songbook.
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That's fair enoug... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-05-2008, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=Sherwood]
I don't think anyone in the public sector gets a ?700,000 bonus.
Correct me if I am wrong with a specific example.
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I think you're probably correct. Why would they? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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18-05-2008, 11:07 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=Baboonery]
Glib, arrogant, condescending posts suggesting that public sector jobs are 'not proper' (with the obligatory 'oh it was only a joke' comeback) don't really compare with those rather... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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18-05-2008, 11:05 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| [quote=Sherwood]
brian,
The pensions are part of the remuneration package. Just as The British Airways Chief Executive's bonus of ?700,000 is.
One person I know always says to people "If you th... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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18-05-2008, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Public sector
Post: RE: Public sector
| Hmm, but the binmen are now private sector workers. Draw your own inferences.
Come on folks... people on this site are sometimes so anxious to avoid causing offence it gets silly. Public sector ind... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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17-05-2008, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: Sexist comment?
Post: RE: Sexist comment?
| [quote=sandy]
On reflection it's more of a sexual comment and my main irritation that it was gratuitous in a generally supportive thread about a new business in the area with people who seem to be fr... |
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09-05-2008, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: Sexist comment?
Post: RE: Sexist comment?
| No, that's why the always democratic Urban Dictionary has this listed as the last (therefore least favoured) meaning, whereas the first is "what is said to someone who takes themselves a bit too serio... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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08-05-2008, 06:50 PM |
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Thread: Sexist comment?
Post: RE: Touareg
| [quote=sandy]
Have to say it - Found the gratuitous sexist comment irritating on the last message
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Get over yourself |
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07-05-2008, 10:37 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...
| No, but other people satirise your earnestness more skilfully than I could. |
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10-04-2008, 09:59 AM |
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Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...
| Suggest you have a good read of the blog above, and make a mental translation to the UK. |
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09-04-2008, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 6 Church Rise
Post: RE: 6 Church Rise
| [quote=blushingsnail]
And I also found this, an artist?s impression of their proposal for 6 Church Rise - ?Twelve Luxury Eco-Friendly Apartments? (Snazy: you?d better be sitting down when you see thi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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09-04-2008, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...
| You just don't get it, do you? |
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hilltopgeneral |
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09-04-2008, 10:43 AM |
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Thread: Forest Croft
Post: RE: Forest Croft repairs
| [quote=brian]
Which is Forest Croft Mansion Block.??
Not sure which mansion block it is but beware of service and other charges
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Brian, how long have you lived in Forest Hill?! |
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hilltopgeneral |
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06-04-2008, 10:41 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| And so the disaster unfolds... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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02-04-2008, 03:20 PM |
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Thread: Am I Mr SE London?
Post: RE: Am I Mr SE London?
| [quote=brian]
that is amazing. If you do not mind me asking over how many years. Let face it you can only go up from SE 20.
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Unless to 2, 5 (parts), 6 (possibly), 8 (back in the day), 9 (... |
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31-03-2008, 03:31 PM |
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Thread: Looking back at Forest Hill's future
Post: RE: Looking back at Forest Hill's future
| Well, that's what you get when it's run from the Catford Big Top. |
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28-03-2008, 12:51 PM |
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Thread: Nice roads on the east side of the tracks?
Post: RE: nice roads on the east side of the tracks?
| Before the canal, no houses I think. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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27-03-2008, 02:07 PM |
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Thread: Nice roads on the east side of the tracks?
Post: RE: nice roads on the east side of the tracks?
| [quote=brian]
Yes the east is cheaper but mostly OK. I am moving back east after 23 years in the more up market west.
I wonder why the railway makes so much difference.
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It's not the ra... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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26-03-2008, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: South East London Pub of the Year 2008..
Post: RE: South East London Pub of the Year 2008..
| [quote=Baboonery]The one I would be most likely to take there would be far more offended by your characterisation of CAMRA and its adherents.
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She is sensitive about her beard and spectacl... |
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25-03-2008, 12:25 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| All these views were expressed by Roz after her Damascene conversion on Tyson Road, when the Angel Steve appeared to her from behind a bin with his beard a-flame. Asking to see her Party card, He remi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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23-03-2008, 07:47 PM |
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Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools
| I also wonder if anyone has put 2 and 2 together and ascertained whether the water loss is attributable to the arrangement at Forest Hill whereby overspill into the scum channels (the slots you find a... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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22-03-2008, 12:06 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| Good work FHB.
Nice to live in a democracy isn't it.
Looks like Bullock is a prime practitioner of the classic Leftist 'we know what know what's best for you'. Amazing how the misinformation cam... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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21-03-2008, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools
| [quote=steveb]
Can't see why a new building has to be bad. SE london developments have twice been voted building of the year recently - Peckham Library and the Laban Dance studio in Deptford.
Re-d... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-03-2008, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools
| Having just re-read the information on Lewisham's site, this really does stink.
Text pasted below:
[quote]Latest
Recommendations to demolish Forest Hill Pools and replace the building with a n... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-03-2008, 12:06 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| [quote=thenutfield]
nice try Roz, but I fear the professional arguers of SE23 dont have pragmatism very high on thier agendas.
I think they must all be scared of water. Personally, I would rather... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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20-03-2008, 11:31 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| You might not think the same way after researching how decisions are made at Lewisham now that we have a Mayor, and the percentage of the electorate who actually voted for him. |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| [quote=Baboonery]
But of course the suggestion that any new pool will most certainly be 'a featureless/anodyne box' isn't arrogantly dismissive in any way at all, oh no no no.
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Are you wi... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 06:33 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Pool pragmatism
| I think it's interesting how it now appears to be a foregone conclusion that the pools should be demolished. Rather than 'discuss what's on the table", many people probably wonder whether that should ... |
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hilltopgeneral |
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19-03-2008, 04:55 PM |
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Thread: Nearby facilities
Post: RE: Nearby facilities
| I wouldn't get too carried away. Whilst the area certainly has many positives, there are also plenty of aspects in which SE London is considerably ****er than North London. |
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13-03-2008, 06:04 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it's official
Post: RE: Lewisham borough a vibrant place to live - it'...
| Dave,
Some reading for you:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
Ta-ra for now |
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13-03-2008, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: Obese
Post: RE: Obese
| No. Do you not see them all waddling around? |
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11-03-2008, 05:27 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
Post: RE: Lewisham hospital v Kings College hospital
| Why not save yourself the bother and stay at home? Register with a group practice and have the midwife come to you.
Probably cleaner and I would hope the food is better... |
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11-03-2008, 04:26 PM |
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Thread: Dacres Road parking problems
Post: RE: Dacres Road parking problems
| Or perhaps if that unless they take the line that 'everywhere that is not forbidden is permitted', there won't actually be anywhere to park? |
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07-03-2008, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
Post: RE: More than ten reasons not to move to Bromley
| [quote=baggydave]Continuing on the same subject was in Downham today (a place that appears to have been stripped of its pubs, mainly the large roadside ones from the 30s 40s when posh people drove out... |
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25-02-2008, 01:40 PM |
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Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23
| Some time ago I suggested you all chip in for a barrage balloon, to be tethered on Horniman Drive. It seemed like a more cost effective, not to say civil, option than working some contacts with cousin... |
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25-02-2008, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Perystreete
Post: RE: Perystreete
| Deliberate errors and what you migth call 'quirks' have long been included on maps by the cartographers and publishers to prevent others copying them.
If you think that's bad, have a look at this m... |
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