barrymarshall

If only more people heeded that one, Jah.

Does anyone find themselves copying what Wire characters do? For instance, I will now order "a shot and a beer" at the pub.

Fantastic choice as ever, MP. Have you heard the new LP? What do you make of it?

Nero Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, well, well. Here's little old me, waxing > lyrical about how cute and wholesome I thought the > Drum was, with its great sarnies, good beer and > accommodating staff. Talk about innocent abroad. > All the while it was a steaming den of iniquity. > Nero I know - I was thinking the same, Nero!

^^^yeah ... I realised that, like, but thought it was too obvious to point out ... ^^^

MrBen - well, they'll need help gettign rid of all that old stock ... we couldn't let it go to waste!

yup - or snobs.

removed post - missed the point of the question! (Still I don't like the way that a marginalised group in society constantly gets picked on by people who should know better.)

90 mins for me ... (though the upside is that I rolled in near 10 o'clock this morning ...!)

Yup - would love to vanish and ordinarily I don't think anyone would notice, but my boss keeps asking me for a feature I've almost wirtten ... not quite there yet though ...

The bouncers at the Bish are quite proactive in making sure people are not making a nuisance, not taking drinks out after 10pm, etc. I don't think the Cherry have any door staff to keep things in order. It's a pity though as it might be nice to have a few quiet drinks out back in the summer.

I believe there's scope for an outside area at the back. The problem would be how to access it from the bar (there is the small matter of two toilets in the way!). I also believe that there was talk at one point of extending upstairs. However, the flat above is apparently occupied. I wasn't in this weekend to enquire what the situation is - has anyone else asked Bev and Steve yet? I am due to go in for a few drinks tomorrow night though ... If it is definitely the case that they are selling up, then mini-Forum drinks are surely in order to commiserate the (potential) closing of my (and others') fave bar in ED.

Yeah - I liked that one too!

Wiki entry on naff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naff

Aye, Keef, you did look like a guerilla when I saw you the other night >:D

there's no such thing as naff any more, not since irony made it cool ...

where are these photos? KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JJF have you not checked out the pics from past > forum drinking sessions? lol u mite b a teeny bit > disappointed in your guesstimations of wot/whom we > look like :)

You're never too old, Gerrard. Besides, looks like the place is selling up so go try it while you can. Gerrard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought I was alone in never having been to > Inside 72... I have been meaning to for years but > have never quite made it. I am probably too old > now in any case...

Gutted! Absolutely gutted that this is up for sale ... it's one of the best places in town, in London even. But, yup, the smoking ban has harmed its business. I talked to one of the owners a while back who said that takings had been down quite a bit. Balls to this Nazi anti-smoking government that is putting good pubs out of business!! Grrrr!

We're near Barry Rd and tried everything, signal boosters, the lot. I'm afraid you'll have to get either cable or satellite. It's actually not that expensive.

Dunno, never went to one. I was dragged up.

LMC? Lower middle class?

Sitting room ... ? Is that working class or middle clarse? Pah, to the lot of you, anyway. As if sociio-economic classification should be decided by whether you have curtains or not! As any fule kno, one's class is not defined by one's pattern of consumption, but by one's relationship to the means of production. Broadly speaking, if to live you have to sell your labour-power (ie your capacity to work) to an employer you are working class. The ruling class, er, rule. The middle class is made up of those who don't really fall into either category: lawyers, doctors, etc.

Oh, I know one ... it was cruelly axed by teh networks in the States, but Firefly, Joss Whedon's post-Buffy porject, was excellent. Still, at least he made a great film,, Serenity, afterwards.

^^ now this shows just how madly addictive this show is ^^