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Dexter Deadwood said:
I've been up for 38 hours.
I'm drunk.
I did Critical Mass yesterday evening.
I'm not looking for a PB.
I had no intention of running today until i READ this shit.
I can't even walk straight.

I walk away from here and within a few days I'm better.
I'm gonna run today.
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Hahahahahaha
 
Actually I'd like to apologise for my behaviour on the boards last night. I was a bit pissed and pretty angry due to some personal shit I was trying to deal with.

So to anyone I was abusive to, I'm sorry. I will never go along with some of the hand-wringing liberal views I perceive here and I also think anger has it's place in the world, but taking it out on a few random interneters ain't exactly constructive.
 
friendofdorothy said:
No its no at all acceptable. Mentally ill people are really easy targets for the govt to get at. Is this the first instance of health services moving to DWP property, are they testing it in Lambeth first? Let me know if you hear of more actions around this.
Haven't heard of Mosaic Clubhouse - where/what is it
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Don't know if this is the only example of Health Services or Mental Heath Services moving into DWP property. The comments on the run-up to this launch suggest it is.
Funnily moving health services into DWP property seems like the opposite of the Thatcher/Major era "community care" where services were moved out of hospitals into the community - allegedly to de-institutionalise them (though often in reality to enable the government to close hosptals and sell the sites - Tooting Bec and the old Lambeth Hospital in Kennington spring to mind).

Mosaic Clubhouse is at 65 Effra Road quite near central Brixton and the Effra Social. It is explicitly a resource for people with mental health issues, but operates on a self-referral basis. It has quite a strong bias towards tasks and work-related activities, courses etc covering clerical and manual work.

The Clubhouse model originates from New York in 1948, but this one in Brixton has only been operating since 1995 and was actually at 126 Atkins Road until about 5 years ago when it was given the 65 Effra Road premises. It seems that the original use of 65 Effra Road - the Effra Road Day Centre was considered by SLAM and Lambeth Council to be "failing".

There you are - brief potted history. If you want to see what they concern themselves with their Tweets can be found here: https://twitter.com/mosaicclubhouse
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shifting gears said:
Actually I'd like to apologise for my behaviour on the boards last night. I was a bit pissed and pretty angry due to some personal shit I was trying to deal with.

So to anyone I was abusive to, I'm sorry. I will never go along with some of the hand-wringing liberal views I perceive here and I also think anger has it's place in the world, but taking it out on a few random interneters ain't exactly constructive.
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No need to apologise. Everyone could see you were acting completely out of character so it was obvious you didn't mean it. Hope you have a nice weekend.
 
shifting gears said:
Laughing at man's misfortunes. Would expect that from you.
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What they want to do is undermine, to subjugate, to marginalise any kind of voice that might offer some content delivered with volume and they do so because these cunts are fundamentally weak; they are as weak as their political/economic mindset.

They get slapped down so easily by a working class drunk like me.
They can fuck right off.
At least some of them put up a fight, it's the passive aggressive fuckers that are the real cravens.
The wannabe peacemakers that love stirring shit but smell so clean, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I want peace; fuck off.
 
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to everyone of every gender, sexuality and lifestyle, have a good Pride day.
 
I'm going to wear out the 'warning' button. The kind of personal abuse that's being thrown around is over the top. Will all guilty parties kindly stop. That also applies to the more subtle - but equally provocative and disruptive - digs and personal slurs.
 
For anyone interested there are a couple of architects at a stall on Station Road outside Craft consulting over masterplan changes to the markets.

Not a local firm and not a lot of local knowledge but very enthusiastic and looking for opinion of locals and those who shop in the market.
 
shifting gears said:
Actually I'd like to apologise for my behaviour on the boards last night. I was a bit pissed and pretty angry due to some personal shit I was trying to deal with.

So to anyone I was abusive to, I'm sorry. I will never go along with some of the hand-wringing liberal views I perceive here and I also think anger has it's place in the world, but taking it out on a few random interneters ain't exactly constructive.
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Accepted. It's very easy to get angry on the internet, words without faces are easy to misconstrue. I quite enjoyed our ding dong and was able to get a few things of my chest - because I'm full of anger too but I'm trying to direct it elsewhere, which is very frustrating. I feel like I did in 1980 when the future looked so bleak and hopeless and all the left fell out with each other. I hope you weren't banned just because of this spat.
 
friendofdorothy said:
Accepted. It's very easy to get angry on the internet, words without faces are easy to misconstrue. I quite enjoyed our ding dong and was able to get a few things of my chest - because I'm full of anger too but I'm trying to direct it elsewhere, which is very frustrating. I feel like I did in 1980 when the future looked so bleak and hopeless and all the left fell out with each other. I hope you weren't banned just because of this spat.
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He responded to my warning by apologising and asking for a ban for a week. Which seems entirely reasonable.
 
I've had a couple of drinks at the Granville Market the last few weekends and up close Nuclear Dawn is looking knackered. Anyone know if there's any plans to restore it? I'm guessing BooHoo will know.
 
boohoo said:
:( The government's attitude is if you can't survive, it's not their problem. We are going back to the Victorian times.
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We've been forced into social regression for at least the last 10 years, and arguably since the risible "Back to Basics" policies of the Major years.
I'd describe Cameron's shit-shower as being more "neo-Victorian" than Victorian, as they're not too fussed about 3rd sector involvement, whereas the government were a bit more involved back in Vicky's day. This lot wouldn't even agree to the paltry safety net of a "Poor Law".
 
friendofdorothy said:
I think the govt likes it when we direct our anger at each other instead of at them. I think they are actively promoting it as official policy. They like us fighting in the streets, then the Mail can call us scum and call britain 'broken'.



Sadly true. They don't want us to survive. They want us to fuck off and die quietly. Its so much worse than thatcherism now. The more we divide and fight each other the easier we are to rule.

Personally I think we should fuck the govt by showing RESPECT to each other. Respect and tolence are the very basics of the diversity. Lets support each other. Small acts of kindness and curtesy all round. I find it all over Urban forums, the kindness of unknown strangers on the net, but it seems to be scoffed at on this chit chat thread.
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Tolerance is fine. Respect should be earned though, or it has no value.
 
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