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1 DeanN 16

Come on, this simple post is hardly worth the vitriol, is it, folks? It's a short update for people who might not have heard. It sticks to the facts. It's less insensitive than it is concise and to th...

On May 13, 2008 11:03 AM in Oxford Street Rush Hour Stabbing
2 tikichris 11

Yeah, supplement their Clerkenwell pubs w/ a few others nearby and you'd have a great night out. I think someone (SIANY perhaps?) should investigate all the pubs on these FAP? lists and report back t...

On May 13, 2008 9:10 AM in Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs
3 London_Sian 11

well that depends....picnic are a very Londoney thing... were they consumed in a lovely london park?...

On May 13, 2008 12:09 AM in Gourmet Grazing with Tio Pepe
4 London_Lindsey 10

Thanks for the comments, people. This was intended as an informative early morning post as we were unable to pick up the story last night. As we get more info, other than the basic what happened facts...

On May 13, 2008 10:54 AM in Oxford Street Rush Hour Stabbing
5 Amanda Farah 9

Yeah, it's definitely the teachers. Totally not the parents or peer pressure or bad examples from their every day lives....

On May 9, 2008 7:07 PM in New Deputy Mayor Points Finger At Teachers
6 SallyB2 7

Cheers, TikiChris! But I'm sure the readers can do better!...

On May 12, 2008 8:59 PM in Extra, Extra Nonsensical
7 eas_e 7

I agree with Polo. We don't need yet another law. Enforcement of drunk and disorderly should suffice. However, I have to admit that seeing someone drink alcohol on the tube or bus makes me really a...

On May 8, 2008 1:48 PM in Boris Bans Bus (and Tube) Drinking
8 dePfeffel 6

I like the strapline on the poster: "Making everyone's journey more pleasant". Nice and old-fashioned. I hope this is a sign of things to come from our lovely new Mayor - next up we need a serious ...

On May 8, 2008 4:35 PM in Boris Bans Bus (and Tube) Drinking
9 esotericbadger 6

But hang on... you say that it's the 'decision to fire an employee for biased reporting in the run-up to an election could set a new precedent' - and there's no question the Guardian was doing the sa...

On May 7, 2008 3:32 PM in Whale Whacked Following Boris Booster
10 anniemole 5

I saw Iron Man last night with a group of fellow geeks. It wasn't the sort of film I would normally have wanted to see but sizemore's post made me keen to see it. Downey Jr was great. He looks sexy...

On May 3, 2008 11:49 AM in Saturday Cinema Summary
11 chichard41 5

Further to that comment it says that the gig is in June?...

On May 9, 2008 5:52 PM in Free Coldplay Gig Announced
12 Cord 5

If this person was in America he would have been tarred and feathered and sent packing. I feel like everyone should speak out on this. Some people don't even like the taste of chocolate. http://satir...

13 London_Duncan 4

Hear, hear. Desperately sad to learn of the great man's passing. According to Barry Cryer on the radio this morning Rob Brydon deputised for him in a performance of ISIHAC a few nights ago, but Humph ...

On April 26, 2008 7:43 PM in Here’s to Chairman Humph!
14 Talia 4

Sorry I was obviously writing completely made up facts! Corrected!...

On May 10, 2008 2:49 AM in Free Coldplay Gig Announced
15 London_Dave 4

Ha – I knew that mention of the Greenwich Union would elicit a comment by Siany! Otherwise... so many Clerkenwell/Smithfield/Farringdon-based pubs! ...

On May 9, 2008 8:34 AM in Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs
16 Working Class Hero 4

So, Boris is banning the booze eh? If he can actually find a way to police this, then he may as well just ban anti-social behaviour, which is surely the actual problem anyway....

On May 7, 2008 6:03 PM in Boris Round The Blogosphere
17 Kira 3

it IS lovely, isn't it?? mr. blackburn kept it real....

On May 12, 2008 1:13 PM in London On The Cheap
18 chigady 3

I don't want to be too critical either but honestly, the way that this murder is treated in this piece as an inconvenience for those who seeking to get a bus from Oxford Street to Tottenham Court Road...

On May 13, 2008 9:51 AM in Oxford Street Rush Hour Stabbing
19 Barry Binty 2

Bizarre: My quip against Ken seems to have been removed. All I said was lovely as he is, he chose to stand as the Labour candidate. He cant, thereafter, claim to be 'independent'. Its great to give th...

On May 2, 2008 10:04 PM in London Votes!
20 sulin 2

Can't believe I didn't see this earlier - Petra was at the Acton Farmers' Market for a few weeks and she's such a sweetie! BTW, I also recommend Oriol Balaguer in Barcelona....

On May 12, 2008 3:50 PM in Londonist Interviews…Petra from Chocstar
21 colinio 2

I've been in London as a student since I was 18 and didn't feel the need to drink on a tube or bus journey. Most journeys are under 30 minutes, if you really need to imbibe during that time whilst you...

On May 8, 2008 2:22 PM in Boris Bans Bus (and Tube) Drinking
22 SM 2

Yes, more murder clues please. And where, oh where is the irony in this piece, the lashings of sarcasm? Lame sideswipe aside, dobby has a point. News of a traffic jam on the North Circular is London,...

On May 13, 2008 9:28 AM in Oxford Street Rush Hour Stabbing
23 anamisnomer 2

BNP also won a seat, breaching the 5% mark for the first time. As for Boris... I don't understand why anyone would vote for him. If there was another conservative candidate then that's understandable...

On May 3, 2008 3:13 AM in Boris Wins!
24 lady kinkling 2

But ... Then I'll get in line with the mourning. ...

On April 20, 2008 1:29 PM in Prepare the polka dotted armband of mourning
25 TimmyD 2

I was whinging today about the whole public-drinking/little-crimes/NYC model thing, and whether it holds any water at all....

On May 7, 2008 5:29 PM in Boris Round The Blogosphere
26 xerode 2

Reposted as I forgot to complete a sentence! Will this achieve anything? Like a lot of legislation it'll bother the otherwise law abiding, while those who don't care about the law will continue to dr...

On May 8, 2008 4:18 PM in Boris Bans Bus (and Tube) Drinking
27 macaonghus 2

I don't want to be a predictable middle-class capitalist but ... where are they being listed for sale?...

On May 8, 2008 8:28 PM in Locked Out
28 CarsmileSteve 2

(i only knew because i've just finished reading "Tor! The History of Greman Football" ;)) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tor-German-Football-Ulrich-Hesse-Lichtenberger/dp/095401345X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&...

On April 17, 2008 11:26 AM in Football: Say Howdy to the EFL!
29 mokuska 2

That would absolutely make my decade....

30 JoJo 2

Wait, what? So in a 45-minute Maths class that is disrupted by one naughty child, a teacher is supposed to ignore the other 30 children in the class and sit down and have an earnest chat about Proper ...

On May 9, 2008 6:12 PM in New Deputy Mayor Points Finger At Teachers
31 benradley 1

'little attention has been paid towards the need for Londoners to make three choices tomorrow, electing both a candidate and party for the London Assembly in addition to their first and second choices...

32 diamond geezer 1

I'd like to vote for this as the most blatant shameless context-free plug that Londonist has ever posted....

On May 12, 2008 5:40 PM in Gourmet Grazing with Tio Pepe
33 dobbyhorse 1

I wondered when this was going to go up. This happened yesterday evening and you had something about national limerick day at the top of the page! I don't want to be too critical but I've come to exp...

On May 13, 2008 8:53 AM in Oxford Street Rush Hour Stabbing
34 LizzyNice 1

I agree, Working Class Hero and dePfeffel - in the irritability test of crappy earphones versus kids playing their phones there is no competition. But playing music through a phone is being deliberat...

On April 20, 2008 12:19 AM in The Nice Movement
35 RowanL 1

As with the recent competition for the fourth plinth, the winner is obvious, if a little too obvious: the horse. It's like the others weren't even trying....

On May 8, 2008 12:12 PM in Angel Of The South Shortlist Announced
36 nuttyxander 1

It's not irresponsible to provide functionality. After all happy slapping isn't an argument for banning cameras from phones either. I personally use the speaker on my phone quite a lot, either when co...

On April 20, 2008 2:49 PM in The Nice Movement
37 sissa 1

I will now have visions of an Artoo/Dalek union dancing in my head....

On April 21, 2008 6:47 PM in Londonist In Second Life
38 polo_o 1

I don't see why drinking has been banned, if drunk people are the problem, there's already laws for drunk and disorderly conduct, why not just enforce them instead if bringing out another law. Way to...

On May 8, 2008 1:37 PM in Boris Bans Bus (and Tube) Drinking
39 purljamber 1

Just FYI, this picture is of a town/pit stop in South Carolina called South of the Border....

On April 15, 2008 9:52 PM in International Football @ Arsenal and Fulham
40 Mr Thant 1

Both you and the Standard have got this wrong. There'll be a few changes in May but all the new names don't happen until September. And it is mostly just a renaming - "saver"/"cheap day" becomes offp...

On April 25, 2008 12:36 PM in Rail Tickets Simplified... Allegedly
41 London_DaveK 1

This reminds me of the beginning of the 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead". I'm staying well away!...

On April 18, 2008 12:40 PM in Food-ography: Mine, All Mine by Alex @ Faraway
42 JMH 1

Speaking as a North American who lives visiting London: I wish I could do so more often, but it really is awfully expensive these days, what with the general crappiness of the US economy right now (n...

On May 12, 2008 10:10 PM in Tourists Stay Home
43 Rabbler 1

Not much to choose from by the pics, as you say. but I'd go for the middle one, simply for the laser display....

On May 7, 2008 9:46 PM in Angel Of The South Shortlist Announced
44 DiedInSuburbia 1

Rock on, Muse! Wish I could've traveled from Atlanta to see this gig.. reminds me of a younger, more daring Muse!...

On April 14, 2008 12:02 AM in Review: Muse at the Royal Albert Hall
45 kmara 1

> I will buy better earphones and test the volume of them, and I should have a hearing test too… I don't think it is your ears...the stock iPod earphones are absolutely dreadful in terms of sound los...

On April 13, 2008 9:59 PM in The Nice Movement
46 Peter Chadburn 1

It may appear trivial to some but we have a conservation area and the council in March said that a mixture of our lamps should be maintained. Then less than a month later they come along to take them ...

On April 16, 2008 11:31 AM in Lamppost Row Riles Hanwell Residents
47 rhan 1

nice review of the show...i must admit that i do not listen to Four tet but on of my best friends says he can't get enough of it...so now i must reload the one Four tet album i have and pay a little m...

48 CatherineB 1

The Natural Cafe in Richmond has folded - I don't know if any of the other branches are still going but they don't have a Richmond one any more. As far as I know this means there's now no free wi-f...

On May 5, 2008 2:59 PM in Free Wifi in London...Mapped
49 May555 1

It sounds great - although it all depends on the price of a night's stay I suppose! I think London needs a cool arts club - whats the catch though? ...

On May 7, 2008 10:02 AM in Art Hotels to Open This Summer
50 tmtn 1

They look like great pubs in a great area, but it's a shame that the chap who came up with this list couldn't have made at least some effort to make it a London top 10 as opposed to a Clerkenwell/Smit...

On May 9, 2008 7:40 PM in Fancy a Pint? Try One of These Top 10 Pubs

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