just a query not a thread

[davidh]

I can';t e bothered reading the appalling 10-mile m&s thread. I just want to know - yes or no - if the proposal is alive or dead. indeed was it ever alive outside the forum?

[Lowlander]

In short: M&S is coming, and Iceland is on a month-to-month rolling contract, I expect M&S within 12 months.

From my understanding:

Iceland lease coming up for renewal. M&S put in a pitch for taking it over but invest little in this pitch.

Pitch rejected for technical reasons (conversion of offices above into flats or somesuch).

New pitch being deliberated by Southwark as this is being typed. No idea of timescales.

This could be completely wrong and this may be the start of another 10 mile trhead...

[DulwichFox]

Why are so many people so 'Obsessed' with the M&S issue. ?

Have they nothing more important to worry about. ?

Please get a life...

Fox

[Hickory]

This is a community forum. People are going to ask questions about the community and amenities...

[lane lover]

I prefer M&S to conversations about dog poo or bottles of wee ... :-)

[Lowlander]

A bit harsh Fox! Better to ask a simple binary question than wade into the quicksand that is the other thread.

[edcam]

A reasonable question from the OP and a useful answer from Lowlander - thanks.

[Chillaxed]

I'd guess a large number of the particpants and readers are just in it for sh*ts and giggles.

Others like near neighbours are directly affected.

A few like or loathe M&S for what it is percieved to stand for.

But most probably have a genuine interest in which supermarket is on their high street, and their interest in the EDF is limited to these sorts of issues (i.e. they don't log in to debate the meaning of life, just to find out what's going on in their 'hood).

In short they've got a life, but outside the EDF.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Why are so many people so 'Obsessed' with the M&S

> issue. ?

>

> Have they nothing more important to worry about.

> ?

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> Please get a life...

>

> Fox

[DulwichFox]

Original thread has 76,309 Views and 1,225 Posts

That is obsession...

It is not something that is remotely important...

No one will die if it does not happen.

Fox.

[Chillaxed]

OK, you're right.

[KidKruger]

Most things we do / want to do won't cause our death if they don't happen !!

Hardly the basis for deciding whether something is worth doing / thinking about !!

[Lowlander]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Original thread has 76,309 Views and 1,225 Posts

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> That is obsession...

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> It is not something that is remotely

> important...

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> No one will die if it does not happen.

>

> Fox.

pff, having read the other thread, it appears that when M&S displace Iceland the local population will halve within a week as financially challenged individuals starve to death, withering away under the misapprehension that there is no-where else within ED to purchase affordable food.

[northlondoner]

Aaarggh . Make it stop. Make it stop ...

[fishbiscuits]

M&S is good, because I can take back all the horrid stuff my Mum buys me for christmas, and exchange it for cakes.

[nimby]

Its a Thread

[davidh]

I am truly sorry I started this. I did NOT want to start another ghastly crapulous thread on the sociological aspects of retail. I just wanted to know if m&s would happen. I am still none the wiser and seriously want you all to stop

[Lowlander]

davidh, read the second post on this thread for the information i have to hand. No-one has challenged it. M&S is replacing Iceland at some point during 2013.

[davidh]

thanks lowlander. I am now going to ignore this thread that is not a thread!

[Zebedee Tring]

It seems that the standard way to put someone down with whom you disagree or who has shown an interest in something in which you aren't interested is to adopt the massive overused put down "Get a life" - this suggests that you have a more interesting life than a person whom you consider to be a poor sad barsteward and that somehow you are morally superior to him/her.

To which I say "If the thread is so boring, why are you wasting time reading it?" - or "How about not reading the thread and spending the day spending your valuable time doing else more productive?"

In short DF, many people *are* interested in the M&S saga. You aren't being forced to contribute to this discussion.

[Lowlander]

I knew this would happen! This thread should be trimmed to the first two posts and locked as a sticky! Then we can take the pointless bickering back to the old thread where it belongs...

[LondonMix]

Agree, Admin?

[Jeremy]

It should be marked as a duplicate thread. The original question could have easily be asked at the end of the original thread.

David, you should have seen this coming. People love to argue, even if it's on the subject of the merits of another thread.

[????]

Anyone fancy starting a Waitrose yes or no binary thread? that'll be fun....

*goes and looks for revolver*

[LondonLogCo]

This is the best "non thread" in ages.

[davidh]

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