West Norwood news, chitter chatter and gossip

[MillwallShoes]

book blurb -

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radical 1960's; bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980's. Now the 'bo's' are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an expresso sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. In attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time and work, it is hard to separate the renegade from the company man. The new establishment has combined the countercultural sixties and the achieving eighties into one social ethos. These Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe, their status codes govern social life and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Our hybrid Bobo culture is going to be dominating society for a long time to come. Read all about it in this serious and witty essay on how we live now

 

[leanderman]

book blurb -

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radical 1960's; bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980's. Now the 'bo's' are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an expresso sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. In attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time and work, it is hard to separate the renegade from the company man. The new establishment has combined the countercultural sixties and the achieving eighties into one social ethos. These Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe, their status codes govern social life and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Our hybrid Bobo culture is going to be dominating society for a long time to come. Read all about it in this serious and witty essay on how we live now

Yes. Loads of Bo-bos round here.

 

[pissflaps]

book blurb -

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radical 1960's; bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980's. Now the 'bo's' are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an expresso sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. In attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time and work, it is hard to separate the renegade from the company man. The new establishment has combined the countercultural sixties and the achieving eighties into one social ethos. These Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe, their status codes govern social life and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Our hybrid Bobo culture is going to be dominating society for a long time to come. Read all about it in this serious and witty essay on how we live now

reading that gave me cancer.

thanks.

 

[MillwallShoes]

reading that gave me cancer.

thanks.

best of luck with your recovery.

 

[MineBar2013]

You'd have to leave the gaijinnippers at home too judging by their facebook page:

Hi there it's Mine Bar here. The comment i left on our facebook page was an ill judged attempt at humour in response to an old friend! We will be very child friendly & will be opening in the day time hopefullly very soon!

 

[MineBar2013]

The Elmira has shut down and this place is going up - passed it today on my way to the library but couldn't really work out what it's going to be..

https://www.facebook.com/minebar2013

their twitter site describes it as "shabbypopgrungechic"​

whatever that means? I take it to mean I'm probably a bit too old and definitely not chic enough. Still - be interesting to see what they're going to be like. Good luck to 'em.​

Hi there we are a bar/cafe serving 'gourmet' burgers

 

[MineBar2013]

They just lost my custom before they've opened. Revolting colour scheme too.

Hi there it's Mine Bar here. The comment i left on our facebook page was an ill judged attempt at humour in response to an old friend! Didn't mean to cause offence!

 

[gaijingirl]

Hi there we are a bar/cafe serving 'gourmet' burgers

do a veggie one please!! (a really nice one)

fwiw.. I quite like the colour scheme - love the scrabble letters!

 

[MineBar2013]

do a veggie one please!! (a really nice one)

we will!

 

[pissflaps]

Hi there we are a bar/cafe serving 'gourmet' burgers

just what the world needs.

 

[Winot]

just what the world needs.

Are 'gourmet' burgers better or worse than gourmet burgers?

 

[Yelkcub]

Are 'gourmet' burgers better or worse than gourmet burgers?

Normal the '' would denote that the 'thing' isn't really a thing. So are they not really gourmet?

 

[pissflaps]

to be honest, those quotation marks make me question said burger's gourmetosity...

 

[tommers]

They're not really burgers.

You lot are a tough crowd. Give the new business a break.

 

[pissflaps]

They're not really burgers.

You lot are a tough crowd. Give the new business a 'break'.

ftfy.

 

[MillwallShoes]

why has the natwest been closed?

 

[pissflaps]

for tax reasons.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Hi there we are a bar/cafe serving 'gourmet' burgers

best of luck.

 

[MillwallShoes]

for tax reasons.

real reason or sarky response? how's your cancer?

 

[pissflaps]

i don't really know why the natwest has been closed. sorry.

cancer's going ok... tho my AIDS does keep flaring up in this weather.

 

[MillwallShoes]

i don't really know why the natwest has been closed. sorry.

cancer's going ok... tho my AIDS does keep flaring up in this weather.

good AIDS or bad AIDS?

 

[pissflaps]

proper "Robert Kilroy-Silk" AIDS.

 

[MillwallShoes]

favourite west norwood cafe. sorrento, surely?

 

[Mosscha]

why has the natwest been closed?

Their press release said because it got robbed too often, but probably the building was in a poor location and too expensive for them to maintain.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Their press release said because it got robbed too often, but probably the building was in a poor location and too expensive for them to maintain.

cheers. them cash machines were handy.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

favourite west norwood cafe. sorrento, surely?

o girasol

 

[MillwallShoes]

o girasol

very friendly in there

 

[ringo]

Mrs R favours Sorrento 'cos they do the best coffee, very friendly, though they're fry ups are a bit small for me
We went to O Girasol on Saturday, was OK.
I prefer the blue and white one by B&Q, Delicious Cafe or something similar - huge portions, proper dinners like pork chops & mash or chicken roasts.
Electric cafe fry ups don't fill me up.

 

[clandestino]

Can anyone recommend a dentist in West Norwood?

I love the new sign for the Electric Cafe - the Dining Rooms (plural) bit makes me laugh, as it's just one room, but I like their style.

 

[Me76]

Can anyone recommend a dentist in West Norwood?

I love the new sign for the Electric Cafe - the Dining Rooms (plural) bit makes me laugh, as it's just one room, but I like their style.

The knights hill practice on knights hill opposite the Big Yellow Storage is great. Brilliant with nervous patients and ones with a low pain threshold.