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And the thread wanders off down memory lane... Louisa / Fox - show us you're not broken record, re-hash, one trick ponies? As this thread shows, everyone is bored senseless. At least Jesus was an innovator.

I will give Louisa and Foxy ?50 each for a charity of their choice if they can avoid rehashing the same tired gentrification related topics or rehashing their last 500 posts going forward. Not content with referring to himself in the third person, the Fox has just compared himself to Jesus. What a total cunt.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would love to find out what quids definition of > a "decent poster" is? It seems to me if you can't > stand the heat you get out of the kitchen. > > Louisa. Well here's mine? People who have opinions but also open minds and who can provide some balance and depth to the debate and discussion. A modicum of intelligence to give some new angles is a plus....and a willingness to start some new and interesting threads that aren't just a multiple rehash of the same old crap...what quidsy says makes sense to anyone with brain and some optimism /joy in their lives.

ps. For an example of an alternative "long standing resident" experience of the current area, please see Exhibit A, Jah Lush - a man who has lived and can reflect on the past but who enjoys and participates in old and new worlds equally enjoyably.... *tips hat to Jah*

Fox - you say it's light hearted banter -my sides have split btw - but lets be honest. The only chip you have is a massive class one on your shoulder i.e that it's "not for the likes of you". From the Olivelli thread: Dulwich Fox: "Looked in today.. Looks very Smart. Far too posh for likes of me" Get over it Foxy. It's great if you prefer your Ayres/K&W/EDT combo. Nobody is knocking you. It's where you feel comfortable. But there is no kind of exclusion policy for these "poncey" places. Who gives a shit? You've lived in up and coming ED. Feel sad and reflect on the changes by all means ...but ounce you've lifted yourself from that malaise/analysis why not embrace some of it and try it out? You might just experience the tiniest fleck of joy old chap. :-)

And what KK said

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This one carries a watching brief... > > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?3 > 0,1520110 Turning up on time....the first test for any tradesman....any forum points that guy now had are reduced to zero.

When the Fox is on a sticky wicket...diversionary tactics are often deployed. In this instance we've just moved from graffiti to soft porn with Sophie Dahl.

johnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > There have been many road accidents where > > drivers were distracted by Graffiti. > > > > > I've looked quite hard on the web for evidence to > support this statement, but can't find any. Can > you point me towards the statistics? Thanks. Johnie, sadly even if Sir Lord Fox does bother to google...he often still gets it wrong. None of us really know where it all comes from...just take it as part of the entertainment round here..

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We were at the Horniman yesterday afternoon (with > a baby-slash-toddler). Not too busy at all. What time? I hit it 1.30-3pm ish and the 30 mins queue for the toilet/baby changing, 20 min wait for a drink and 600 buggies circling the over stuffed walrus were enough for me....

#3. Avoid Westfield Stratford AT ALL COSTS on a Bank holiday Monday....even if it has the only Apple Store in London that can fix your problem. Actually buying a new Mac will be less painful.

#2. Never attempt to drive London to Cornwall on the Friday of the August bank holiday...or try to return on the Monday at about 3pm.

#1. Avoid the Horniman Museum....especially if you have two babies in tow...it pains me to say anymore. Edit: Even a cat pickled in brine would have failed to cheer the likes of KeeyBreeks yesterday

Just 12 posts to a fight on this thread. Not quite an EDF record but close. If anyone can find a thread where a fight breaks out in posts 2-3 let me know.

Hilarious. Even a thread about nothing descends into an argument in the wacky cyber world of the East dulwich forum.

Cabbies would like to lynch the guy who basically drove an old de-commissioned black cab and committed that assault or the "I've won the lottery" rhohypnol guy. But they are the high profile exceptions to a trade that prides itself on safety and reliability....and pale compared to the number of incidents of various types reported from mini cabs... I use Uber, Hailo, and flag cabs down on the street...Addison Lee...sometimes Keen Group...the airport guy who does dulwich in that oversized silver Merc...they all have a place...but London would be a poorer city without its famous black cabs.

As well as entirely missing the point that big cities have ever been thus.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well for what it's worth I think Louisa is spot > on. This isn't her talking about East Dulwich, > this is London and if you show her thread to any > long standing Soho resident I think they'd say > it's bang on. I'm not saying she doesn't have a point. Just suggesting that 35 threads and 500 plus career poats on the subject are just tiresome broken record wailings and unlikely to change anything.

Looks like the hare is off and running nicely again with this one Lou. Well done.

Louisa, Is it possible that you've posted about this topic before? Possibly about 20 odd threads on the subject? What's the fresh perspective not covered in those many hundred posts and discussions that you're going to give us this time round? Even old time semi fans of yours like me are yawning...

Malambu...what are you smoking old chap? There are almost four times as many minicabs in London than there are black cabs. The last lot of TX4s had catalytic standards enforced to reduce emissions and no cabbie will keep his engine running to waste fuel on a slow moving rank. The future probably involves constantly circulating, electric, driverless cars and cycling....until then...

Arf! I suspect KB has had a career punting whatever the latest fad is to the consuming public masses and having seen it from the other side he's suitably sceptical if not a tad jaded. On the subject of burgers, it's not news but I tried Burger Bear at Old Nunhead last night but home delivered via Deliveroo and it was top notch. Deliveroo is proving life changing.

I'm assuming that because your experience amd description of black cab drivers doesn't tally with the 150 odd rides I did in the last year or so so..and sorry but 3 years of hard training and thorough vetting of drivers can't be compared with the cornflake packet minicab licences handed out by TFL.

Jeremy Wrote: --------------------------------------------------- > > Minicab (so Uber/Addisson Lee) drivers are > licensed, right? And there is a record of who's > car you've been in and when. They have sat navs so > know where they're going (unlike black cab > drivers, anywhere out of central London). > > I would suggest that they are safer, more > convenient, and more efficient than black cabs. > > Traditional black cabs are for tourists as far as > I'm concerned. Spot the non cab user. :-) The skill most central black cabbies have to find alternative routes, know the rhythmn of traffic patterns throughout the day and help a whole load of people from tourists to wheelchair users to drunk single females can't be knocked. And you think sat navs are always right on the best route? There's lots cabbies need to do to run with the times but the test for me is which would I rather my missus took home late at night.