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by Footloose
6 Sep 2006 14:23
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Hand bag snatch @ Newlands Park
Replies: 24
Views: 26145

my post was in response to an attack on me by another poster. You have reproduced it out of context and without the accompanying text. It was made very clear, by suggestion, in the post to which I responded the nature of the poster concerned. If the poster did not mean to imply that then perhaps tha...
by Footloose
5 Sep 2006 19:13
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Have my builders done a rubbish plastering job?
Replies: 11
Views: 14450

Harder than it sounds admin. If you try to contact Trading Standards you are diverted to a government agency, claiming to be regional, which insists it must have details of your complaint and then it will decide whether your complaint should be referred to your local Trading Standards office (despit...
by Footloose
4 Sep 2006 15:17
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Central Heating experts
Replies: 16
Views: 16498

I simply made an enquiry. They were very quick to make it clear they were not interested in anything small-scale. I am sure they will attend if they have first carried out a major installation at your property. Most people are in the position of requiring a simple repair to an existing one, probably...
by Footloose
3 Sep 2006 23:00
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Central Heating experts
Replies: 16
Views: 16498

That firm refuses to attend for anything less than a full installation (from my own experience).
by Footloose
3 Sep 2006 22:58
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

and there we have it.... It is clear there is a concensus. There is need of places for people who prefer not to be deafed or gassed by the toxic fumes from cigarettes and other noxious devices (whose names we dare not mention) and who prefer not to soil their clothes on the furniture. I reckon a pia...
by Footloose
1 Sep 2006 19:52
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Problems with O2?
Replies: 8
Views: 7354

Sydenham is full of nulls when it comes to mobile phones. All the companies have been promising to sort the problems out for decades.... I rather fancy the problems have more to do with the 400 MegaWatt transmitter at the top of the hill.... although I would not rule out incompetence on the part of ...
by Footloose
1 Sep 2006 19:48
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

SNAP!!!
by Footloose
1 Sep 2006 19:46
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

Surely, if we are to accept the economists' version of class then middle class should be middle income earners. i.e. (say) average earnings +/- 15% or thereabouts. Class has nothing to do with income. It is about taste and style. It is not about education (private or state) but a good education help...
by Footloose
31 Aug 2006 21:06
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

walking past the Golden Lion is enough. The smell of the place would put off anyone looking for a pleasant, clean environment.
by Footloose
28 Aug 2006 12:20
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Fly tipping - what is WRONG with these people??
Replies: 29
Views: 27564

This just demonstrates how pointless it is to impose charges for collecting refuse. People simply dump the stuff or burn it and pollute the atmosphere. That is why refuse collection is treated as a "good". It is a service for which there is no viable means of collecting payment . Some clow...
by Footloose
27 Aug 2006 12:18
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Hand bag snatch @ Newlands Park
Replies: 24
Views: 26145

Nasaroc I have not laid into the police. I realise, now, you clearly are a Police Officer and seek to defend your beleaguered service on here. I simply stated some facts as I had witnessed them. I did so without comment. Since you attacked me here goes then: I was burgled. £28,000 worth of damage wa...
by Footloose
24 Aug 2006 19:08
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Hand bag snatch @ Newlands Park
Replies: 24
Views: 26145

Well I saw one four foot tall community whatsernames wandering up and down Sydenham Road today. Later an "unmarked" but oh so obvious car with three untidy looking individuals passed me going towards Cobbs Corner. It seems they were probably lost. They reappeared shortly afterwards going i...
by Footloose
24 Aug 2006 09:27
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

Like I tried to say. It is not an issue of class. It is a matter of a gap in the market which the "market" has not identified or attempted to fill. Let those who prefer scruffy down at heel places have them. Let's see something else to cater for people who simply do not like such environme...
by Footloose
23 Aug 2006 13:14
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

Well there are plenty of pubs playing "music" I would not wish to listen to and at a volume I would not subject myself to. How about an alternative? I never mentioned class. However clean is most definitely a requirement of customers if the establishment is going to be held to a similar one.
by Footloose
23 Aug 2006 10:04
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Noise
Replies: 59
Views: 57402

When my house was burgled I knew who had done it. The evidence was all there, despite the half-soaked incompetence of the investigating officers.

At the police station they made a mess of their procedures and so the villains walked.
by Footloose
23 Aug 2006 10:02
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Middle Class Pubs
Replies: 143
Views: 168141

I am not sure "middle class" is the correct definition. Surely there is a place for a clean , pleasantly designed, welcoming environment that serves drinks, coffees etc. but insists on a standard of dress and behaviour? Perhaps some softly playing music in the background rather than the he...
by Footloose
23 Aug 2006 09:59
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Hand bag snatch @ Newlands Park
Replies: 24
Views: 26145

I see loads of police.... speeding up and down Sydenham Road!

On the night of the Station robbery the place was crawling with them.
by Footloose
21 Aug 2006 16:26
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: News: More Long trains from the 12th of June
Replies: 14
Views: 17086

The last time I checked the trains stopped running early evening. On checking I find they have extended the service but the last train from Victoria is still early (23:05) I do feel, however, we would be better served by the more direct route via Tulse Hill, Clapham, Battersea rather than the detour...
by Footloose
20 Aug 2006 00:14
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: News: More Long trains from the 12th of June
Replies: 14
Views: 17086

Hello. I registered because this thread interests me and I have a question for Lenduvall. He says the reason the new ELL cannot be extended to Victoria is a matter of capacity. The BR service between Sydenham and Victoria runs only during the busiest times of day. It stops when there is minimal cong...