Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I'm actually Russian arististocracy* downwardly mobile, serf
*drinking vodka with lemon tea from my samovar
*drinking vodka with lemon tea from my samovar
Brixton chitter chatter, part 2
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I fess up that this is the transtion I'm going through.
However I think that the really weird thing is how age segregated the UK is generally - pensioners are barely seen a lot of the time, and people with kids often voluntarily opt out of a lot of activities that kids would be brought to in other countries (e.g. parties).
clandestino
no llevar papel
I haven't been to the Florence so have no idea how overbearingly smug the clientele may or may not be, but the surliness of the staff sounds like the thing that would put me off the most I think. Also something like that tends to set the tone for a pub.
I think the Prince Regent have it just about right. The staff are always very friendly IME, and the clientele is a good mixture of families and adults without children. I haven't seen any evidence of the 'pushchair brigade' showing off to their peers in there at all but I have seen families enjoying Saturday lunch who don't treat the pub as if its a creche.
I think if you're the kind of person that thinks pubs should be for adults only, then you're going to find the presence of children, even if they're just quietly sitting at a table tucking into their lunch - or being walked around the pub by their parents afterwards - annoying. But then it seems to be that this notion of a pub being an adult-only zone, preferably with football being screened 24/7, is a particularly modern one. In them olden days, weren't pubs places for the entire family?
I think the Prince Regent have it just about right. The staff are always very friendly IME, and the clientele is a good mixture of families and adults without children. I haven't seen any evidence of the 'pushchair brigade' showing off to their peers in there at all but I have seen families enjoying Saturday lunch who don't treat the pub as if its a creche.
I think if you're the kind of person that thinks pubs should be for adults only, then you're going to find the presence of children, even if they're just quietly sitting at a table tucking into their lunch - or being walked around the pub by their parents afterwards - annoying. But then it seems to be that this notion of a pub being an adult-only zone, preferably with football being screened 24/7, is a particularly modern one. In them olden days, weren't pubs places for the entire family?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Tell me all about your days down pit?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Missez
Britisher Abroad
Yeah. It looked like there was an incident earlier this morning on Tulse Hill near the entrance to the park. Lots of police and ambulance and the helicopter arrived around that time.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I guess the air ambulance wasn't needed in the end then. Perhaps they just sit where they are until their next callout, instead of going back to base and waiting there.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
King of Prussia
Very scared of Mrs Magpie
Do you have a lawn?
ajdown
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Yes, it hasn't been stolen yet. It's new though, I don't think the front garden had been touched since 1967, and over the early may Bank Holiday weekend I completely cleared it all, laid down some turf and planted a few bushes, and it's actually looking like a garden where I might even be able to sit out and enjoy a warm summer evening.
It's just the grass is a bit straggly now and needs a trim - and obviously will do regularly from now on - hence buying a lawnmower now. It's only a very small lawn, hence buying a cheap lawnmower at Argos, but it should be fine for the job.
It's just the grass is a bit straggly now and needs a trim - and obviously will do regularly from now on - hence buying a lawnmower now. It's only a very small lawn, hence buying a cheap lawnmower at Argos, but it should be fine for the job.
I asked the pilots what they were up to. They said they were waiting to hear from the paramedics whether there was a patient from the road accident coming on board. Then the medics came back without a patient and they all buzzed off in an easterly direction.
Amazingly quiet helicopter - if only the police ones were like that. And a bit Tardis-like too. It looks really tiny, but it carries two pilots, three medics, sackloads of gubbins and presumably has room for a stretcher.
gaijingirl
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Well today has been wierd - like everyone's gone a bit nuts... had an odd day with lots of incidents - capped off by just now leaving the Tesco Express where a young lad narrowly missed being stabbed by 3 (I think) others... they all ran off leaving the knife on the garage forecourt. 
Well today has been wierd - like everyone's gone a bit nuts... had an odd day with lots of incidents - capped off by just now leaving the Tesco Express where a young lad narrowly missed being stabbed by 3 (I think) others... they all ran off leaving the knife on the garage forecourt.
awful.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Well today has been wierd - like everyone's gone a bit nuts... had an odd day with lots of incidents - capped off by just now leaving the Tesco Express where a young lad narrowly missed being stabbed by 3 (I think) others... they all ran off leaving the knife on the garage forecourt.
the one on tulse hill?
gaijingirl
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the one on tulse hill?
Yep - I've seen quite a lot in there - the last big one involved some women trying to smash bottles of wine over the head of some man (they just got them out of the chilled cabinet). That really was scary 'cos I was right in the queue in front of them when they started to swing the bottles about and we all had to duck. The tesco staff shuttered up the front so none of us could get out, retreated to behind their locked office door and left us to it!
I do always feel really sorry for staff in there - they put up with so much shit!
clandestino
no llevar papel
I was in there twice yesterday with the boys. Didn't see any trouble, thankfully.
Well today has been wierd - like everyone's gone a bit nuts... had an odd day with lots of incidents - capped off by just now leaving the Tesco Express where a young lad narrowly missed being stabbed by 3 (I think) others... they all ran off leaving the knife on the garage forecourt.
animals
saw a pack of them jumping on a few lads between the estate and tulse hill (rd) the other day. the only dodgy thing ive seen since being here
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
jesus the one by me seems tame in comparison
God - that must have been pretty scary. I wonder what would happen if an innocent bystander in a situation like that got hurt. Surely they should give you a chance to get out of the way?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It was like Assault on Precinct 13.
The Notorious T-Block attack Tesco for sweets and chocolate...
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