BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Probably will involve beards.
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SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
Squatted?
clandestino
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Someone on Facebook said a funeral director's.
clandestino
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I see the windows of the restaurant space next to Knowles have been decorated saying "coming soon..." But it doesn't look like it's going to be a pizza place any more - it says "seasonal food", whatever that means. Shame - I was looking forward to the Pizza Union.
clandestino
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Yes, that was always the idea. It was going to be Pizza Union. No idea what it'll be now, unless pizza is seasonal food.
editor
hiraethified
'Seasonal' is one of those on-trend words that gets bandied about as freely as 'artisan' these days, and often has the same loose association with what what you actually get on your plate.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Definitely the decade of "food" for our high streets. Areas seen as upmarket because of a deli, a few coffee bars, and any food upscale of a harvester. Gone are the days when the food places in high streets were seen as secondary to dozens of thriving businesses, chain and independents. If I look at pictures of high streets in London from my nan's time, i think how has it ended it like it has? Supermarkets and internet is why and it'll never ever get any better or be the same again.
good night.
good night.
clandestino
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Yeah, but on the plus side we get a restaurant. Not that many places to eat out in West Norwood - a few pubs, the Indian restaurant, The Garden gastro place which is tiny....everything else is take aways or they close early.
editor
hiraethified
I'd check out the prices before getting too excited
T & P
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You just made me think of comments I've heard many times now from friends in Spain who've been to London more than once, the first time being a reasonably long time ago, like 15-20 years, and the second fairly recently.
Invariably, everyone says how horrendously bad eating out offerings were in the UK back in the day, and how much it has improved in recent years. As a non-Brit I have to agree with that sentiment. Compared with most countries in the Continent, it was nigh on impossible to find decent quality food at affordable prices. It was either a myriad of shit fast food joints or expensive restaurants.
Nowadays, in London at least, there is an excellent choice of outlets offering decent grub. So perhaps it is just London catching up with Europe in an area were it lagged badly.
clandestino
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I'd check out the prices before getting too excited
Well Pizza Union was surprisingly cheap. That's why I was looking forward to it opening. £4.95 for a mushroom pizza. That's pretty good.
editor
hiraethified
That is good value - certainly miles compared to the hoity toity place opposite me.
discobastard
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It's quite difficult to judge value until you've actually been served up whatever it is you're paying for. The £4.95 pizza would have been cheap but it might have been shite.I'd check out the prices before getting too excited
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That is good value - certainly miles compared to the hoity toity place opposite me.
The £11 pizza you had at MD might have been worth it if you'd got some truffle shavings or whatever it might have been that you had in your mind. Or sometimes its just atmosphere/time and place. So price alone isn't always the yardstick.
Brazas was always good value and I really miss it - I used to eat there every week/fortnight. And the steak place on Tower Bridge road I like, Constancia, is really quite expensive. But I wouldn't want to go there every week - even once a month tbh, but it's nice for a treat every few months maybe. As long as you have a balance between the two types of places that's OK.
I had a pizza from Pellone a few months back. It wasn't exactly cheap, though at the same time it wasn't massively expensive. But I really didn't enjoy it - some kind of white calzone thing. Not what I expected at all. Ugh.
'Price is what you pay, Value is what you get'.
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clandestino
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Final green light for the library/cinema! Opens Sept 2017 in theory...
Library – Cinema gets the go-ahead!
Library – Cinema gets the go-ahead!
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Popped in Knowles on Saturday; full of yar yars...
T & P
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Would you rather they filled up The White Hart?
stethoscope
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This could be moved into the London and SE forum.
Jus' sayin
Jus' sayin
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Would you rather they filled up The White Hart?
I'd rather they were elsewhere altogether.
boohoo
No.
This could be moved into the London and SE forum.
Jus' sayin
it should - it's very suburban.
T & P
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Doesn't bother me at all. Live and let live and all that. There are very few people/ social groups I would consider so undesirable as to wish they didn't live in my neighbourhood at all.
boohoo
No.
wot about people who collect their dog poo in a plastic bag and then hang it from a bush or on a fence?
T & P
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Amongst the first ones against the wall come the revolution of course, but still second to those who simply let their dog's shit laying on the pavement.
It's weird how the turd-in-a-bag trick is far more commonplace in affluent neighbourhoods. Someone should write a paper on it.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Research has been carried out and papers written on not/picking up dog poo behaviours although I'm not sure the hanging in tree aspect has been covered.
Here's one, though not the one I was thinking of. http://news.chass.ncsu.edu/wp-conte...tudes-and-Behavior-in-Dog-Waste-Removal-2.pdf
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
T & P
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I can understand not bothering to pick up after your dog. Anti-social, fuckwit behaviour, but you know why some people won't do it- not an appealing task.
But when someone actually bothers to pick up a steaming turd from the ground and bag it, which is by far the most unpleasant part of the job, how much more of a stretch it is to put it in a bin?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
The one I edited in concludes that people claim they don't pick it up when they don't have a bag to hand but that they think others don't pick up because they can't be bothered.
The one I'm thinking of was saying how some people will bend down bag in hand pretending they are going to pick up then don't if the onlooker moves away. I suspect the people who only pick up when observed are the people who then tie the bag in a tree, possibly as a type of dirty protest.
The one I'm thinking of was saying how some people will bend down bag in hand pretending they are going to pick up then don't if the onlooker moves away. I suspect the people who only pick up when observed are the people who then tie the bag in a tree, possibly as a type of dirty protest.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
They prob only pick it up to look good amongst other park users but think this is going in the nearest bush\fench etc as soon as no one is around.I can understand not bothering to pick up after your dog. Anti-social, fuckwit behaviour, but you know why some people won't do it- not an appealing task.
But when someone actually bothers to pick up a steaming turd from the ground and bag it, which is by far the most unpleasant part of the job, how much more of a stretch it is to put it in a bin?
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