The laid-back locale to chill and chat about anything of a non-Nunhead nature. Feel free to post on the price of fish (so not Sopers then) or fame, music or media, games or even gardening » http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/list.php?5 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:32 +0100 Phorum 5.2.15a http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2283,2283#msg-2283 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2283,2283#msg-2283
A girl friend and I are interested in starting up a book club local to the Nunhead/Brockley/Telegraph Hill area, with an aim to meet in local pubs once or twice a month to make new friends who like to discuss new lit and old classics.

Is anyone interested in joining? We thought we'd start off by reading The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, as it just won the Orange Award for 2010.

Please get in touch if you'd like to join!

Thanks]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:35:27 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2152,2152#msg-2152 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2152,2152#msg-2152
London is vibrant. People everywhere enjoying their lives and the sunshine. Bliss!

....and then I hear yet another horror story, this time direct from Highbury, Islington.

Walking my dog in the Park on Wednesday chatted to a pleasant woman walking her lovely dog and she remarked how the dog had lost confidence. The reason ? Two months ago she went to take the dog with her to a Chip Shop and found her way barred by a Gang of Highbury Grove Schoolboys, who formed a circle around her and they had a Pit-Bull type dog. On the command of its 15-year-old Owner ( average age )_ he lunged at the other dogs ear while the ensemble all took videos of their "blud" I mean "Blood" Sport..

Luckily the Lady had long nails and put them into the roof of the dogs mouth, while the owner held the Pit-Bull up for maximum lunge effect and the dog let go of her dog.

Not having their fix the Owner then picked up the dog and it lunged at her face!!.....she narrowly avoided it.

If the equivalent of this type of thing happened years ago, then I never heard of it and suffice to say she wikk not return to Islington even though she acknowledges that there are some nice parts there.

Yet another decent person these savages have frightened away and these Guys were all only 15 years old in School uniform.

How sick can some kids get and can you imagine the horrors in store from this group as they enter manhood.

A terrifying prospect.

What can be done?]]> orioles The Lounge Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:36:45 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2112,2112#msg-2112 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2112,2112#msg-2112 www.youtube.com]


Possibly my favourite track of all time]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:27:48 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2093,2093#msg-2093 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2093,2093#msg-2093
You would think after the atrocities they suffered at the hands of the third reich they'd know better wouldn't you?]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:33:05 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2024,2024#msg-2024 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,2024,2024#msg-2024
I suppose I work for one of those ‘over priced consultants’ you hear branded about in the tabloids. Probably 80% of our work is public sector while the remaining 20% comes from private property developers.

As there is such a backlash against ‘consultants’ at the moment, do people think councils would get better value for money if say I directly worked for a local council as an employee in an engineering department, considering they would not be able to give me sustained work load and would be stuck with me…forever… (and my gold plated pension)….or would they be better off offering work competitively as and when it was available to private suppliers/consultants ensuring they get the cheapest fixed price and best most up-to-date expertise available?]]> skidmarks The Lounge Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:00:33 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1939,1939#msg-1939 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1939,1939#msg-1939 Anonymous User The Lounge Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:44:04 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1697,1697#msg-1697 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1697,1697#msg-1697
In honour of HM Queen Elizbeth II.


Why not?]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Wed, 19 May 2010 13:35:12 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1686,1686#msg-1686 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1686,1686#msg-1686
l name a song title and artist. The next person has to do one of the following:

1) Post another song by the same artist OR
2) Post a different song and artist, however, the new song title must contain one of the words from the song title before it. Not from the artist, from the SONG TITLE.

Oh, and admiring glances and extra points may be awarded from fellow Nunheeds are guaranteed when the song titles are lovingly London-centric.]]> Kleinhond The Lounge Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:57:28 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1646,1646#msg-1646 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1646,1646#msg-1646 And what did you think?

Get it off your chest and share with us.]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Thu, 20 May 2010 15:37:32 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1605,1605#msg-1605 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1605,1605#msg-1605
Frank's]]> Flannery The Lounge Thu, 20 May 2010 14:58:16 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1574,1574#msg-1574 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1574,1574#msg-1574
Congratulations to the conservative party I am watching with much excitement.

We're in very interesting times indeed.]]> mikecg The Lounge Tue, 11 May 2010 21:43:09 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1565,1565#msg-1565 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1565,1565#msg-1565
Lord Tebbit - who last year was telling Tories to vote UKIP in the EU elections - has declared that he'd rather see the Conservatives in opposition than power-sharing with the Lib Dems, something which has been echoed by backbenchers like Daniel Kawczynski MP, chairman of a Tory group opposing electoral reform.

But if Cameron does fail to negotiate a deal with the Lib Dems and ends up in opposition, he will be seen as a complete failure by his party. After all The Observer already reports today that the knives are out for him.

The irony is that these criticism have a great deal of truth in them. But what Cameron's critics in his own party fail to see is that they are far more culpable than he.

I agree with Chris that the TV debates gave Nick Clegg a moment to shine, and made it clear to many voters that if they want a Blair-clone, it makes more sense to favour Clegg than Cameron. Because the Lib Dem leader genuinely is a sort of Blair, whereas Cameron's entire purpose has been to pretend that's what he is, so as to distract attention from his party.

Cameron has run the party via a tiny clique, and he has ignored backbenchers. And the Big Society idea was a load of "crap", and no doubt it was completely unsellable on the doorsteps. But what's amazing about these Tory discontents is their sheer myopia.

They cannot see that Cameron had to run the party like that so as to distract attention away from the unreconstructed Thatcherite, homophobic, xenophobic, intensely Euro-sceptic, callous, Christian-fundamentalist loon contingents that make up huge chunks of the Tory grass-roots and Parliamentary party.

Although it's true that Cameron is a failure relative to his poll-highs of 20+ points 18 months ago, from another angle he's also a remarkable success. Like he keeps saying, he's overseen the biggest transfer of seats in 80 years, and made the Tories the biggest party in Parliament with the biggest share of the vote. The irony of all these Tory back-stabbers is that they cannot see that it wasn't Dave wot lost it, it was them.

For despite Cameron's best efforts he simply could not conceal from the electorate the true nature of his party. Whether it was Chris Grayling and Co's homophobia, George Osborne's stench of sneering privilege, Not-Lord Aschroft's unapologetic non-domism, or simply being unable to offer any meaningful big-picture policy for fear of setting off an internal revolt, Cameron lost it because of his party and he's actually done well in spite of them.

Cameron is cool in a crisis, is an impressive public speaker, and has approval ratings way above the Conservative Party itself. That, we might recall, is largely why the Tories ditched David Davis and backed D-Cam in 2005; he was seen as the best possibility for decontaminating the brand.

Yet rather than seeing that the contamination problem remains at their end, knife-wielding Tories are exhibiting classic ressentiment and blaming it all on Dave.

The sheer self-deluded ingratitude of their behaviour, combined with the arrogant sense of entitlement that it was their turn to govern therefore Dave must be to blame if they're not in power, is astounding.

And, frankly, hilarious. Get me some popcorn.

Liberalconspiracy.org]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Tue, 11 May 2010 19:57:00 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,765,765#msg-765 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,765,765#msg-765

Philip Emeagwali Father of the Internetttp://emeagwali.com/



In 1989, Emeagwali created the knowledge that
thousands of electronic brains, called processors,
could outperform a supercomputer. His discovery was
against the prevailing dogma: the president of the
leading supercomputer company told The New York
Times [11/29/89]:

•Born: 23 August 1954
•Birthplace: Akure, Nigeria
•Best Known As: Nigerian-born supercomputing pioneer

Philip Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell supercomputing prize in 1989 for applying the power of networked computers to analysis of oil field reserves. The child of a poor Nigerian family, Emeagwali was largely self-taught in the sciences until 1974, when he won a scholarship to Oregon State University. During the 1970s and '80s he furthered his education at George Washington University and the University of Maryland, studying mathematics and environmental engineering. In the 1980s he worked on advanced formulas in networked computers, leading to the Gordon Bell prize. Emeagwali has won several other awards, including a 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award from the World Bank.]]> We Love Nunhead Grove The Lounge Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:53:55 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,675,675#msg-675 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,675,675#msg-675 I am compiling my list in my head as I type. To Kill a Mocking Bird and 12 Angry Men are most definitely in there!]]> Nunhead Belle The Lounge Thu, 20 May 2010 14:42:09 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,592,592#msg-592 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,592,592#msg-592
[splicemailart.wordpress.com]]]> Anonymous User The Lounge Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:08:01 +0000 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,487,487#msg-487 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,487,487#msg-487 Nunhead Belle The Lounge Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:49:12 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,129,129#msg-129 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,129,129#msg-129 owen The Lounge Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:14 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,79,79#msg-79 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,79,79#msg-79 you when you heard that Jacko died? I was on the #12 bus, on my way back from town, reading the news on my phone.. so somewhere in deepest Peckham, I think..]]> owen The Lounge Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:15:26 +0100 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,45,45#msg-45 http://nunheadforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,45,45#msg-45 mikecg The Lounge Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:23:31 +0100