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elmpp said:
When 90% of your posts involve comparisons of prices i'd say the fact you choose to not work [paid] is very much allowed
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OK. Bye now. I've had enough of your pathetic attempts to dredge up off-topic personal shit which you can't even get right.
 
By coincidence, this is the second time in 48 hours I've been accused of being a workshy/benefit scrounging/lazy/Broken Britain/unemployed type. The other time was by a well known property developer. I guess that's how the selfish Tory mindset works. Because I take time to stand up for what I believe in, then I must be loafing around with nothing to do all day.
 
editor said:
By coincidence, this is the second time in 48 hours I've been accused of being a workshy/benefit scrounging/lazy/Broken Britain/unemployed type. The other time was by a well known property developer. I guess that's how the selfish Tory mindset works. Because I take time to stand up for what I believe in, then I must be loafing around with nothing to do all day.
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You could've got a proper job with all your local knowledge you'd make a great estate agent for instance. Foxtons would lap you up.
 
bimble said:
We've been here before but maybe bears repeating: There is no other thing I can think of (apart from maybe hairdressing?) that yields the profit (ie markup from goods bought to goods sold) as cocktails & wine by the glass. So when rents are rising very fast, cocktails / winebars are a far more viable option for a retail space than anything else. I personally don't want to live in a sea of cocktail bars and boutique salons but if that's what's happening then it's not anybody in particular's fault it's just economics.
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strictly speaking its the prevailing economic system, which makes everybody who accepts without question at fault.
 
CH1 said:
Extremes of wealth and poverty - with the money attached to hedonistic tourists.
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ok. That makes sense now, cos last time I tried to bargain hard on the price of a pair of slippers down the road they just looked at me funny and asked me to go away.

But tourist-wise, here's a thing:
I had food in the villaaage last week and at the next table were a bunch of very young tourists from America. So I overheard a bit of their conversation and it was apparent that they were only here for a few days: They'd seen Windsor castle, and The Tower, and were now doing Brixton. So maybe that's on the list now, of 'if you have 3 days in England' or whatever?
 
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bimble said:
ok. That makes sense now, cos last time I tried to bargain hard on the price of a pair of slippers down the road they just looked at me funny and asked me to go away.

But tourist-wise, here's a thing:
I had food in the villaaage last week and at the next table were a bunch of very young tourists from America. So I overheard a bit of their conversation and it was apparent that they were only here for a few days: They'd seen Windsor castle, and The Tower, and were now doing Brixton. So maybe that's on the list now, of 'if you have 3 days in England' or whatever?
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Wow, we beat stone henge.

Take that you shit old rocks!
 
bimble said:
ok. That makes sense now, cos last time I tried to bargain hard on the price of a pair of slippers down the road they just looked at me funny and asked me to go away.

But tourist-wise, here's a thing:
I had food in the villaaage last week and at the next table were a bunch of very young tourists from America. So I overheard a bit of their conversation and it was apparent that they were only here for a few days: They'd seen Windsor castle, and The Tower, and were now doing Brixton. So maybe that's on the list now, of 'if you have 3 days in England' or whatever?
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That's pretty much what I hear a lot of too. And if we follow what happened at Camden, the shops slowly change to reflect this new lucrative tourist trade. And then we end up like Camden.

:(
 
editor said:
That's pretty much what I hear a lot of too. And if we follow what happened at Camden, the shops slowly change to reflect this new lucrative tourist trade. And then we end up like Camden.

:(
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Yep. Selling those hats with the dreadlocks attached to the bottom for a laugh. I know, have similar imaginings.
 
elmpp said:
I honestly don't get the attitude of some people. There's no symmetry.

Camp 1. Posters who do not work (through choice or otherwise). Therefore reduced income = little disposable income
Camp 2. Posters who work. Therefore higher income = more disposable income

That's all well and good. However, it seems fair game for Camp 1 to criticise Camp 2 for spending their disposable income. This includes cocktail bars.

If Camp 2 were to criticise Camp 1 for not doing the same there'd be uproar
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What a no-mark two-bob cunt you're forever showing yourself up as.
Also, it's interesting/pathetically-cuntish the assumptions you make, and the way you always miss the point in favour of being a no-mark two-bob cunt.
 
Nanker Phelge said:
I think the division between rich and poor in London existed long before any conversations on here began....and if the divisive derision is from anywhere it is from the rich looking down.

I find it hard to defend, and not be angry about, one of the most unequal cities in the western world becoming even more unequal.
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Absolutely. History, be it local, regional, national or supra-national, is and always will be a history of class friction as well as a history of "great events and great men".
I got sneered at yesterday by a senior council officer and a council "cabinet member" (the member bit being apt) because I was a local council estate pov daring to voice my opinion on what they plan to do to my home. Both got flustered and found something else to be doing when I distilled matters down to social/demographic engineering and the desire of officers and councillors to "raise the calibre" of Lambeth residents. I didn't even use the emotive term "social cleansing".
 
editor said:
Not sure what my employment status has got to do with this thread, but allow me to put you straight on this one: I work fucking hard in several jobs, and almost certainly work longer hours than you. The main difference is that a fair bit of the work I do is unpaid and a lot of that involves supporting the community in different ways. That's why I can't afford to swan around new restaurants every night or sup jolly £10 cocktails until my gizzards explode.
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Gizzard. Singular.
Unless you're some kind of mutant? :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:
 
editor said:
By coincidence, this is the second time in 48 hours I've been accused of being a workshy/benefit scrounging/lazy/Broken Britain/unemployed type. The other time was by a well known property developer. I guess that's how the selfish Tory mindset works. Because I take time to stand up for what I believe in, then I must be loafing around with nothing to do all day.
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So perhaps elmpp is the wanker himself, or one of the wanker's mates?
(Yes, Jerry. I called you a wanker. Deny it and every bloke reading this will know that you're lying)
 
editor said:
I think I might develop an aggressive and uniquely focused form of Tourettes if I had to hang around with Foxtons people.
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"And here we have the lounge, with double bay windows...Foxtons eat shit...and a high ceiling with original Victorian plaster rose" sort of thing?
 
bimble said:
ok. That makes sense now, cos last time I tried to bargain hard on the price of a pair of slippers down the road they just looked at me funny and asked me to go away.

But tourist-wise, here's a thing:
I had food in the villaaage last week and at the next table were a bunch of very young tourists from America. So I overheard a bit of their conversation and it was apparent that they were only here for a few days: They'd seen Windsor castle, and The Tower, and were now doing Brixton. So maybe that's on the list now, of 'if you have 3 days in England' or whatever?
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Could be that someone has let American tourists know that Brixton is so tolerant of difference, that we even accept Americans. :)
 
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