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Seabag Wrote:

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> I raise your Bread Ahead with a St John bakery,

> custard side filled


Just seen this... Bread Ahead is the guy who was head baker at St John until last year (Justin Gellatly). The doughnuts are basically the same, but with a wider variety of fillings.



The trouble is that the fewer young people who vote (partly as a result of Brand's rantings) and the more older people vote, Governments will feel that they need to pander far more to older voters and keep on giving various benefits to old gits like me. That can be seen quite clearly in the policies of Osborne who is desperately trying to persuade people like me to vote for him. But sorry George, I won't.

StraferJack Wrote:

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> butcher/newsagent combo would be on east Dulwich

> Grove I would guess

>

> Newsagent still there, Butcher not


As it's a while ago I was trying not to name names, but yes, that's the one.

steveo Wrote:

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> and he runs rings around all those airhead American presenters who are

> totally in thrall to him.



Yeah I'll give him that.



> Not keen on the ubiquitous 'I'm an ex junkie' schtick.



That annoys me. He's done some drugs in his youth and enjoys shagging good looking women. Wow, big shocker, I think we're all junkies by his definitiotn.



> However he's an eccentric Englishman which is a very good thing and I prefer him to just about every politician.



Well yeah, but that's like saying I prefer flea bites to cancer.

This is brilliant, nearly in tears laughing!


I think my top annoyance is that I always try and make space for people walking the opposite way on the pavement but it seems very few people do the same. Makes me mad and so I have started to play chicken with people to see how close they'll get before moving an inch and really want to drop my shoulder for a dump tackle (not very ladylike!).


Although interestingly I have found that many more people in East Dulwich give way (both walking and driving) than in other parts of London - and I've lived in quite a few different parts of London.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> What's wrong with that? Doesn't that show the

> system works and they're not screening out the bad

> ratings?


Then my rage towards this tiny thing is indeed irrational.

> stress_head Wrote:

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> > Halloween


Salsaboy Wrote:

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> The version of it we have now, not the version we

> had when I was a child.

>




Agreed. LOVED Halloween as a kid. These days it seems we've taken all the shit aspects of the American version without all the stuff that makes the American version good. So now it's just all about trick or feckin treat.

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