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-100 points for the Airplane joke
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.09.20 - 7:03 a.m. | #
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Don't call me Shirley...
DavidC | 06.09.20 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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The only question that ought to be on the British citizenship test is: demonstrate a classic British moan, preferably about the weather or today’s youth.
Toni | 06.09.20 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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It does yer good to get things off yer chest. No point in bottling it up.
And at least is wasn't raining.
IanD | 06.09.20 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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You are the Bow chapter of the Kingston Independent Residents’ Group and I claim my £5.
Andyl | 06.09.20 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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I don't know what you're moaning about Shirley. Mile End Travelodge would be very convenient for a visit to Salisbury and its famous cathedral.
Petras309 | 06.09.20 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Brilliant! As a professional moaner, usually to banks and retailers, with a little hint that a 'goodwill gesture' [cash] would not come amiss, I salute you. But you raise a serious point. Why is it that so many organisations simply don't apply common sense, especially when advised of errors?
J. | 06.09.20 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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The reopening of Stepney Green station was on Monday 31st August. Thanks to a masterstroke of planning, there were no trains that day and thus it was only served by Rail Replacement buses.
AlH | 06.09.20 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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I counted 20 "surelys'". This may be a DG record.
Southern Man | 06.09.20 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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Tower Hamlets was rather too enthusiastic with the E1 branding around here. The Grove Road street sign above Subway, at the junction with Mile End Road, also claims it’s in E1.
lollop | 06.09.20 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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Good moaning!
Officer Crabtree | 06.09.20 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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I believe the reason for the extended red pedestrian phase is because of the number of motorists making illegal turns over the last 5 years since TfL remodelled the junction.
The right turn cycle lane on nearside of ahead cycle lane is a unique design only at this site.
scrumpy | 06.09.20 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Working at a council in transport I have to deal with these kind of moans on a daily basis.
David | 06.09.20 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I shall say this surely only 20 times.
The Resistance | 06.09.20 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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I'm disappointed that none of your diatribes mentioned 'our taxpayers money'. You'll never get to Tunbridge Wells at this rate.
milliem | 06.09.20 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Perhaps someone got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.
popartist | 06.09.20 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Never risk a surely
Joe | 06.09.20 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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One of the things I find most noticeable when visiting London (from Hong Kong) is how few people wait for the green light at a pedestrian crossing. The planners must know that all the safety features (eg extended vehicle clearance times) are counterproductive if they make pedestrians less likely to wait for green.
Alan | 06.09.20 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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Feeling better now?
Cornish Cockney | 06.09.20 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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The Telegraph newspaper paywall is down this weekend.You should find plenty in there to moan about.
coffin dodger | 06.09.20 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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I think the Travel-lodge business model is more geared to local authority-funded stays for people in challenging circumstances than for the bright-eyed eager tourist.
Cau1khead | 06.09.20 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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I've noticed of late many crossings are becoming less pedestrian friendly in their timing. One near me used to allow you to cross diagonally in plenty of time whereas now no sooner has the light turned green than the countdown is on 10, which would give insufficient time for the less mobile. (The lights go green for the traffic immediately unlike the Mile End Road example.)
That and the fact that some island refuges are being removed, as mentioned in a previous DG blog.
Tim | 06.09.20 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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In our local reinvented shopping centre car park with 500 spaces, there is always 400 plus spaces free because of COVID. There are a couple of power charging points for cars and they are often in use. Just sayin'.
Andrew | Homepage | 06.09.20 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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According to Google, the typical electric car takes just under 8 hours to charge from empty to full. Imagine turning up in Andrew's reinvented shopping centre car park just after those couple of charging points have been occupied.
JohnC | 06.09.20 - 11:59 a.m. | #
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One interesting thing about the electric charge points, looking at Zap Map I can see that whilst one of the chargers there was last used 6 days ago, one has just been disconnected 4 minutes ago after a charge!
R | 06.09.20 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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This post can't be compatible with the usual dg style guide.
Anonanon... | 06.09.20 - 2:12 p.m. | #
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Somewhere along the "E.1" part of Mile End Road, perhaps there is a mis-placed sign declaring it to be in "E.3".
Shieldsman | 06.09.20 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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This is probably just comment-bait.
As I am sure you know, Covent Garden and Tufnell Park tube stations only have lift access (except for emergency stairs) so it isn't surprising that they haven't re-opened yet.
But actually, I think I have learnt something useful just by reading the first sentence because I have been told I was born at a hospital in the Mile End Road so presumably that is St Clements and I can at last put a name to it.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.09.20 - 3:00 p.m. | #
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Maybe not. I have now found a Wikipedia entry which describes it as a former mental health hospital but I am pretty sure it was an ordinary hospital with a maternity department where I was delivered.
Or maybe there is some dark secret in my family ...
Pedantic of Purley | 06.09.20 - 3:04 p.m. | #
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The pedestrian crossing countdown lies? Is there nothing left we can trust?
Sarah | Homepage | 06.09.20 - 3:06 p.m. | #
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Pedantic of Purley - I wonder if the hospital where you were born might be the Mile End Hospital, which is just off the Mile End Road in Bancroft Road. This is now part of the Barts Health NHS Trust and has its own Wikipedia entry with brief historical information.
Anonanon... | 06.09.20 - 4:38 p.m. | #
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Thanks for that. It does sound more plausible.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.09.20 - 5:55 p.m. | #
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I believe that your birth certificate should have your place of birth on it.
Ken F | 06.09.20 - 6:08 p.m. | #
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As someone who has my use of the word 'surely' edited out a couple of times DG, I consider myself suitably admonished.
Richard | 06.09.20 - 6:09 p.m. | #
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Surely your 7.03am post wasn't there at 7.21am...
DavidC | 06.09.20 - 8:45 p.m. | #
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Correct title is Queen Mary University of London.
H SE18 | 06.09.20 - 9:44 p.m. | #
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...and Whitechapel station isn't even on Mile End Road. The post is riddled with errors and misplaced certainties.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.09.20 - 9:48 p.m. | #
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I missed my daily dg dose yesterday so have just read this. Great post, but some of the comments make me feel like an uneducated crossword solver: I can't see an Airplane joke, and don't know who is/was Shirley.
Ian | 07.09.20 - 9:03 a.m. | #
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Queen Mary University of London may be correct but it also doesn't make sense. If it's part of the University of London it needs a comma (or they could reinstate the word "College"), if not then it doesn't need "of London" at all.
Andrew S | 07.09.20 - 12:29 p.m. | #
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I very much agree with you there, as an alumni of QMW as it was during my time, this change to Queen Mary irks me every bloody time I see it. It's part of the University of London so that should be reflected in the title. Harrumph.
E1W-er | 07.09.20 - 1:19 p.m. | #
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Brilliant, really made me laugh. Thank you!
Lorraine | 07.09.20 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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Maybe the re-assignment of parking spaces as charging points for electric vehicles isn't really about whether people would use them or not. Given the current thinking in London towards anything with an engine (as typified by TfL policies) perhaps a point to consider is that a parking space for an electric vehicles becomes a space that can't be used by anyone else
RogerW | 07.09.20 - 2:25 p.m. | #
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At first I thought this post was titled "Mooning down the Mile End Road"!
Kevin | 07.09.20 - 10:13 p.m. | #
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If you are interested I am slowly but surely documenting the '0181 shops' as I call them.. shop signs that predate 020, on my instagram page '0181shops'
Charlie | 15.09.20 - 3:53 p.m. | #
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