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    Been there yesterday and today and it was DEAD - no-one outside at all.

    Has something happened I should know about?
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008
     
    This will sound really sad but I was the only courier in the Duke last night.Had one pint then buggered off.
    Oi Matt were you the bloke I saw there briefly then saw again at the foundry?
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    No, sorry.

    I was more interested in the guys who are normally outside to be honest, first time in 3 years+, I've been there twice and not seen anyone.

    Unsettling!
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008
     
    New licensing laws mean it is illegal to drink on the streets in Camden, this means you can't take your drink out with you if want to step outside for a smoke. The change is in local by-laws so doesn't apply in Hackney (The Foundry) or Westminster (The John Snow)
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    very interesting, that's gertie
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008
     
    it's also a "dispersal zone" where the council and police have decided that there are problem loiterers so we get the old bill turning up regularly and telling anyone wearing a courier bag and having a ciggy in the street to fuck off or be arrested. lovely.

    i'll still drink there though cos i wanna stick it to the man, i'm a rebel, oh yes.
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      CommentAuthorcaspar
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2008
     
    Wot a l0ad of old bollocks Jesus, you drink there 'cos it's got table footy and you're addicted.
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    oh sh*t. Let's face it there were problem loiters, that's why I want to go there, to meet with them.

    Where are the problem loiters loitering now - does anyone know?
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      CommentAuthornanu
    • CommentTimeJun 12th 2008
     
    know how you feel, I haven't had a decent smoke for three years either.
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    Sleepy, you still drink there because you miss the glory days of pedaling your womanly backside for cash.

    Admit it.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2008
     
    it's true :-/

    i'm a delusional nostaligist.

    me = busted
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2008
     
    Oh for those days!!! Im sitting in the CW office in Croydon. Right now it feels like a long way from the Duke! Love you all.
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    There was a very small, eensy-weensy, itsy-bitsy problem with Joe Public's attitude to the alleged sale/distribution of recreational narcotics at the Duke. (Other than the government-approved recreational narcotics sold from behind the bar - they're OK because they're harmless.)
    Well over ten years since I used to go in there regularly. Like everything else in this country, the place has gone to the dogs. Now when I were a lad.....
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    Oi wingnut what you doing these days? Anyone remember the hair farmers ie the 2 saffas neil and jason selling kilos of green out of their shopfront at the duke.
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    Wingnut: Stop posting on this forum and get back to work!
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2008
     
    CW in Croydon? I do hope they are going to have more articles on fitness and pics of their staff writers on their bikes, much more interesting than that continental racing stuff
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    CW stands for Crochet Weekly dosen't it.
    I know Nut is a devil with a knitting needle. I can picture him and Nelly chatting about the recent trends in cross stitch at the water cooler.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    so many things begin with the letter "C"
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    couch.
    hows it going winston?
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    good...where are you, whatcha doing?
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    mmm.... like catty, cock, and coinin it!
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    catty? wingnut?
    god how i wish the expression 'coinin it' fell more truthfully into my conversations.
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    ha, just noticed the 'online list'.
    winston, wingnut, me.
    lordy. hands up office boy.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    home office for me......not THE home office obviously.
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    wardour street for me. god will i ever get to leave soho? even bloody creative have managed that.
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    ...corny, cabbage...
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    Have Creative moved ?!!! (I nearly fell off my seat)
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    crazy isnt it?
    amazing what happens when you look away for a second.
    i think they just wanted to be nearer cyclone.
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    Where are they now, Scott? Fitzrovia?
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    yea yea, windmill st i think.
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    Yeah! Noho, I think they are trying to call it. Boy, I have a hangover.
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    don't try making it cooler than it actually is.
    your nearest shop is now Habitat fer christs sake.
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    Errr, I think Curry's is closer.
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      CommentAuthorWingnut
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    They 'shoulda moved to Croydon. Its lovely down here!
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2008
     
    At least the CW staff are probably allowed to stand outside their own office, not like the poor Creative boys who have now started colonizing Cyclone park. And a very nice bunch they are too even if they do use too much cologne.
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      CommentAuthorJ-P
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    Someone told me it aint Cyclone park these days... Aparantly they're not allowed to standby in there any more...
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    in other news i've just figured out who tomorrowisclosed is. hey scott!

    as you were.
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    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    J-P, i think it's just they're not allowed to smoke weed in livery. due to cyclone's bonus scheme and the rider's propensity for the stuff it adds up to the same thing. there was a similar case involving creative employees, berwick st toilets and cottaging but the less said about that the better. kind of explains the move :wink:
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    Wot Sleepy said.:rolling:
    • CommentAuthorhello you
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    yea, i remember falling foul of that creative rule. what a pain in the arse that was.
    sleepy, hi, go on, give me a clue.
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    ok, here, in all it's glory is the situation at cyclone. We are allowed to stand by in the park, in fact it's encouraged. We are allowed to stand by just outside the park, but not north of the most northerly tree (no, really) because one of our neighbours has complained that that is too near his front door. Thanks to the same neighbour we are not allowed to lock our bikes to the office railings or any of the park railings or any of the railings round the trees (including the most northerly one). There is some controversy about using the lamp posts. We could use the cycle stands but they are full of commuters' bikes. Cyclone no longer has a bonus scheme but we do have lovely PAC bags. As far as I know there is no policy on drugs or cottaging though, if there were, it would be made up on the spot, enforced for a week and then forgotten about in the finest Cyclone tradition.

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