Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 20 of 26
  1. #1
    Senior Member Country: England faginsgirl's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Posts
    7,562
    Liked
    416 times
    Someone will be coming to YOUR door soon!

    Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436

  2. #2
    Senior Member Country: UK CaptainWaggett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Posts
    25,718
    Liked
    492 times
    Quote Originally Posted by faginsgirl View Post
    Someone will be coming to YOUR door soon!

    Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436
    If someone asks me to volunteer at my local library, I won't be answerable for my actions

  3. #3
    Senior Member Country: UK
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Posts
    5,878
    Liked
    150 times
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett View Post
    If someone asks me to volunteer at my local library, I won't be answerable for my actions...
    It won't come to that - the face of the future is already becoming very popular:



  4. #4
    Senior Member Country: UK CaptainWaggett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Posts
    25,718
    Liked
    492 times
    Quote Originally Posted by Dame Starry View Post
    It won't come to that - the face of the future is already becoming very popular:

    I thought of you, Dame Starry when I read this article. You're probably the only person I 'know' who would whole-heartedly agree with it. As you so often tell us, in a democracy, ALL opinions are welcome including this one

    Liberal whingers are wrong – we should shut our libraries - Telegraph

  5. #5
    Administrator Country: Wales Steve Crook's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Posts
    29,732
    Liked
    418 times
    Quote Originally Posted by faginsgirl View Post
    Someone will be coming to YOUR door soon!

    Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436
    Oh good, someone else that I can tell to bugger off when they knock on the door, ignoring the Neighbourhood Watch notice saying that I don't see anyone without an appointment

    Steve

  6. #6
    Administrator Country: Wales Steve Crook's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Posts
    29,732
    Liked
    418 times
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett View Post
    I thought of you, Dame Starry when I read this article. You're probably the only person I 'know' who would whole-heartedly agree with it. As you so often tell us, in a democracy, ALL opinions are welcome including this one

    Liberal whingers are wrong – we should shut our libraries - Telegraph
    I must admit to being one who wants to see them kept open for others more than for myself. I don't use them so much now that I can afford to buy the books I want and I'm now a lot busier than I was in my student days so I don't read for leisure as much as I used to.

    The article says:
    Take reference services, once the core of the public library’s educational role. Access to information has been transformed by the internet. Google a subject and you can become ridiculously well-informed ridiculously quickly. Engrossing lectures from the planet’s best minds are freely available on university websites, from the TED conference series, or on BBC iPlayer. Channels such as BBC Four or Sky Arts provide a wide range of high-quality documentaries across a multitude of subjects. We live in an information-rich society – so we should celebrate its availability, not yearn for a time when you had to go to the central library for it.
    Yes, but where does someone get those internet services if they can't afford to have an internet connection at home? At the library.

    The article doesn't mention the lending services, not just books but my local libraries lend music, video games and many other things. The library in neighbouring Sutton even lends pictures to decorate your home for the fancy dinner party

    Then there is all the useful advice that you can get from trained librarians (if you ask them nicely). I would much rather rely on a librarian's opinion rather then having to dig through the opinions of the weird and wonderful people who will be found with a Google search. Google or Wikipedia rarely give a decent answer to anything. They can give you a starting point for further research - which is best carried out at the library

    Steve

  7. #7
    Senior Member Country: England faginsgirl's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Posts
    7,562
    Liked
    416 times
    Re: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham?`

    A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
    Last edited by faginsgirl; 20-11-11 at 05:18 PM.

  8. #8
    Senior Member Country: Ireland jimw1's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Posts
    5,642
    Liked
    396 times
    I visit my local library with my 3 year old granddaughter (3 This Thursday Actually) they run a Small group for under 5's Stories and Rhymes with Bookstart...

    Wonderful and informative for toddlers....

    you cant Replace that with the wonderful World Wide Web

  9. #9
    Senior Member Country: UK CaptainWaggett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Posts
    25,718
    Liked
    492 times
    Quote Originally Posted by faginsgirl View Post
    Re: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham`

    A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
    Though in fairness to Peckham, they have got a library that has won awards and stuff and whose users don't yet seem to want to be replaced by a pile of Kindles

    The story of Peckham library - Peckham library - Southwark Council

  10. #10
    Senior Member Country: Ireland jimw1's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Posts
    5,642
    Liked
    396 times
    Quote Originally Posted by Dame Starry View Post
    It won't come to that - the face of the future is already becoming very popular:
    Reading a Book on one of those things Feels really Alien to me.....lets curl up with a Good kindle.....
    Last edited by batman; 23-11-11 at 10:36 PM.

  11. #11
    Administrator Country: Wales Steve Crook's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Posts
    29,732
    Liked
    418 times
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett View Post
    Though in fairness to Peckham, they have got a library that has won awards and stuff and whose users don't yet seem to want to be replaced by a pile of Kindles
    Yes, but then you leave the library - and you're still in Peckham

    Steve

  12. #12
    Senior Member Country: UK CaptainWaggett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Posts
    25,718
    Liked
    492 times
    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Crook View Post
    Yes, but then you leave the library - and you're still in Peckham

    Steve

    It's OK - it's only a bus-ride from Streatham

  13. #13
    Administrator Country: Wales Steve Crook's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    Posts
    29,732
    Liked
    418 times
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett View Post
    It's OK - it's only a bus-ride from Streatham
    Is that anything like being 24 hours from Tulsa?

    Steve

  14. #14
    Super Moderator Country: Great Britain
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Posts
    3,771
    Liked
    86 times
    Do you still need a Passport to Pimlico?

    Nick

  15. #15
    Senior Member Country: Great Britain Mark O's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Posts
    7,898
    Liked
    202 times
    Quote Originally Posted by faginsgirl View Post
    Re: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham?`

    A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
    Lol, then there's Harriet Harman of course, MP for Peckham, she's a good thing to be associated with the area.

    I recall in my younger days the Bus route no.37 when it was crew operated that ran from Peckham to Brixton, Clapham, Wandsworth, etc; was known as the 'suicide' route because the numerous schoolchildren that traveled on it were so unruly.

  16. #16
    Senior Member Country: UK CaptainWaggett's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Posts
    25,718
    Liked
    492 times
    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Crook View Post
    Is that anything like being 24 hours from Tulsa?

    Steve

    Just down the road from glamorous Tulse Hill - they're easily confused

  17. #17
    Senior Member moonfleet's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Posts
    6,659
    Liked
    144 times
    Quote Originally Posted by jimw1 View Post
    Reading a Book on one of those things Feels really Alien to me.....lets curl up with a Good kindle.....
    I just can't read a book on a screen ...and don't want to
    It's Ok for short texts or comments, but nothing more
    Last edited by moonfleet; 21-11-11 at 10:53 PM.

  18. #18
    Senior Member moonfleet's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Posts
    6,659
    Liked
    144 times
    And what about a beautiful art book, with paints or pictures, handling it, turn the pages, on a nice paper (which might have been made with "chlore" and have poluated a lot, air ground and rivers, with its wastes, that's for the ecological part )
    ...the virtual quality on a screen has nothing to do with this

    Last edited by moonfleet; 22-11-11 at 10:49 AM.

  19. #19
    Senior Member Country: Great Britain Mark O's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
    Posts
    7,898
    Liked
    202 times
    Quote Originally Posted by moonfleet View Post
    And what about a beautiful art book, with paints or pictures, handling it, turn the pages, on a nice paper (which might have been made with "chlore" and have poluated a lot, air ground and rivers, with its wastes, that's for the ecological part )
    ...the virtual quality on a screen has nothing to do with this
    Yes, I enjoy books with pictures of cities, cathedrals, landscapes etc; in them, wouldn't be the same on kindle, something I will never have, then there's guide books at tourist attractions, I can hardly see people expected download a guide to a museum etc; onto a kindle before they walk around it.

  20. #20
    Senior Member Country: UK
    Join Date
    Dec 2003
    Posts
    8,865
    Liked
    69 times
    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett View Post
    Just down the road from glamorous Tulse Hill - they're easily confused
    I have fond memories of Tulse Hill.
    Ta Ta
    Marky B

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Similar Threads

  1. Citizen James
    By DocRobertPepper in forum Latest DVD Releases
    Replies: 15
    Last Post: 08-12-12, 10:26 PM
  2. Citizen James
    By phil in forum Latest DVD Releases
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 14-07-11, 05:44 PM
  3. Deleted PayPal account still active.
    By darrenburnfan in forum Off-Topic Discussion
    Replies: 17
    Last Post: 22-07-09, 12:19 PM
  4. citizen smith
    By davidb in forum Looking for a Video/DVD (TV)
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 29-07-08, 11:53 AM
  5. Citizen Smith - No! Not that one......
    By Moor Larkin in forum British Television
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 23-01-08, 05:09 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts