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James

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  1. Would Alan Partridge be welcome?
  2. Oooh yes, very good thanks! What sort of shoe shop? Something cool & for blokes too please (not overpriced baby booties!!!) Ludlow - ugh Coffee shop - yaay, as long as it's a cool one Police station - not more flats, surely!?
  3. James

    Religion.....

    If the Bible really is true, would God not have had the foresight to load it with truths that transcend time and society? Instead the Bible is as dated and rooted in its historical context as a bad Carry On film (I exclude Carry on Camping, which is of course a classic);-)
  4. Karter, can you please enlighten us on the following? Mystery shoe shop replacing one of the Walsh units Bombay Bicycle Club Indian takeaway & White Stuff... have they changed their minds? The Plough refurb Police station - what's gonna replace it? Any gossip gratefully received and devoured like a pig at a cabbage :))
  5. I know it's not local exactly but the Spa in Beckenham won an award from the Independent newspaper. I take my son there & it's fantastic, light years ahead of anything we have around here.
  6. James

    Religion.....

    Totally agree. I am a vegetarian, gay and agnostic so can I have my grant to start a school for vegetarian gay agnostics please? I want to keep my son away from bad influences (anyone who is not vegetarian, gay or agnostic, who I frown upon). It is a matter of "conscience"...
  7. James

    Religion.....

    The more you think about it, the more all religions seem to be a load of rot. That bloke Richard Dorkins speaks a lot of sense. The issues with gay priests are the latest in a long line of failures of religion to engage with modern, egalitarian society. So once again it has to be dragged along, screaming and kicking until it is gradually cajoled into accepting difference, fairness and tolerance. Let's face it, the Bible (like most religious books) is sexist, racist, mysogenistic, homophobic.... the list goes on. When will people learn to think for themselves and outgrow this childish need to feel like part of a tribe with a book of rules?
  8. Well said Huguenot, I think you've hit the nail on the head there - so eloquently too. The thing that fascinates me is that many of the well-wishers and people who seem to need some kind of masturbatory "collective outpouring" are exactly the sort who lead totally insular, individualistic lifestyles. They would probably never say hello to a neighbour or put anything back into society. I think events like these (like the whole Diana thing) provide a means of doing so. Effectively the gap created by the lack of community/society (thanks Margaret Thatcher et al) has been filled by the ever-present tabloid media. Heaven help us all.
  9. James

    gay girlies

    No offence intended GG, I was just being silly! Think the idea of a gay night somewhere is a good one though.
  10. James

    gay girlies

    You silver-tongued fox, Giddygecko ;-)
  11. Touch my bum!
  12. Xfm and radio 4. But the bloke who does the morning show on Xfm at the moment is terrible. Who is he? Lauren Laverne was better and just as good as Christian O'C in my opinion. My one gripe with Xfm is the way they seem to play the same 3 records in rotation all day e.g. Killers, Razorlight, then some awful emo nonsense, then Killers again. You have to wait for the late night shows to hear the good stuff. Radio 4 is good apart from when they are talking about antiques or Ranulph Fiennes or something.
  13. Aha, I've got a good one here! Bloke off ITV Play - you know, that late night thing when you come home drunk, switch on the TV and there's some bloke with spiky hair gurning at you saying "Can you guess what the word is? Do you fancy a grand? Come on, pick up the phone. Imagine what you'd do with the money. If you don't pick up the phone you can't win. But if you do, you could win. So what are you gonna do..." etc etc. ad nauseam. I think he looked a bit pleased when I clocked him. Perhaps he doean't get recognised that much?
  14. Oh dear, I have to say I find Nunhead a bit grotty and depressing. The transport sucks there. However if the house/flat is nice enough, who cares? On the bright side, the cemetery is great for Sunday walks.
  15. Is anyone else finding the media circuses around Madeleine and that BBC reporter a bit odd? I think both cases are truly horrifying and my sympathies go out to the families. And yet the blanket media coverage is a bit mystifying when there is no real news in either case. Meanwhile how many are dying in Zimbabwe and Iraq every day?
  16. Admiring the tupperware (which line Nero?)
  17. James

    gay girlies

    As an SE22 gayboy myself I like The Rye the most. Some nights it seems mostly gay, some nights not at all - you never know really. Inside 72 is cool as well - clientele seems mixed. Am really upset about the Chocolate Lounge - Me and lezzie friends really liked that place :'( Would be nice to have somewhere gay in ED. Not some awful cruisey Soho bar - maybe a laid-back pub with a good jukebox and nice food.
  18. God i remember hyper hyper too! And Red or Dead! Kensington Market was wicked, I used to go there for vintage 60s shirts. Could we have a recreation of that instead of White Stuff?
  19. My mouth is watering now!
  20. James

    gay girlies

    Hey Badger, I have gay girlie friends and they like Bar Story in Peckham (mixed) and The Chocolate Lounge in Elephant & Castle (mostly gay women only). The later is really nice, more sophisticated & chilled out than places in Soho. Rye Bar & Grill next to Peckham Rye is also FULL of lesbians sometimes - and the food is lovely.
  21. Fraid not, I am a proper veggie (so no Mars bars now either:(
  22. I'm sorry, it reminds me of the Eurovision song contest i.e. BEYOND A JOKE. It is the Fawlty Towers of Mexican restaurants. On my one and only visit I was seated next to a decaying crocodile skin held together with masking tape. The service was bad and the food was proper 1970s awful. The place was filthy too. You would have to have a lot of those cocktails to want to go there again. Is the fact that it's often empty really so surprising?
  23. What's the food like? Anything for vegetarians?
  24. Yes, the squash game was horrendous. I thought Saturday had none of the universality and immediacy that made Atonement so moving - it just seemed like a smug posh man from West London writing for other smug posh men from West London, kind of revelling in its own insularity. I found it cynical and detached, not involving at all. I hope I am not disappearing up my own arse.
  25. what is "Green Thing" next to SMBS? And is the Vietnamese definitely happening? Also, whatever happened to Bombay Bicycle Club, I thought they were supposed to be coming too?
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