SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
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Inittogether
You've been around long enough to know that VP responds post by post due to his disability. I don't know exactly why but a simple search should refresh the parts that other twattery doesn't reach !!!
shifting gears
Well-Known Member
Blithering twat.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
There's a reason I post like that. I have short-term memory problems that are bad enough that unless I reply to posts as I read them, I forget them.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Expropriating: taking all their wealth and goods from them in the public interest.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's vitally important that the world be shown that you're a sad fucker. Vitally important.
Happily, with about 80% of your posts you do indeed show that, so thanks!
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
That doesn't explain the reason you think people are interested in your crass opinion on every post made though.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I hadn't realised the amount of posts a person responds to required an explaination.
Not that any of this has anything at all to do with the subject of the thread.
Not that any of this has anything at all to do with the subject of the thread.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's only your own ignorance and antipathy that makes you believe that I think people are interested in my opinions, crass or not.
It's sad that you have to drag this ignorance and antipathy into every thread, shitting things up for everyone else.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The problem being that what does have something to do with the subject of the thread, is something that some posters don't like to be reminded of - the effect of landlordism and gentrification on the existing community. That effect is writ large on areas like Coldharbour - areas that'll apparently give thanks for regeneration at some unspecified time in the future (that claim having been made by Lambeth council's "cabinet member for housing").
SpamMisery
Pretty comfortable here right under your skin
brixtonblade
Well-Known Member
Fuck me, this is the new Pop thread
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Well, hopefully not, but the same tensions are always going to be present on any Brixton thread, I suppose.
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hiraethified
It's the same people doing the same shit every time in the Brixton forums. Always going for the personal digs rather than arguing the actual topic.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
It's the same people doing the same shit every time in the Brixton forums. Always going for the personal digs rather than arguing the actual topic.
I wonder what they benefit from the distraction.
I suspect they are just cowardly bullies and trolls.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
It's the same people doing the same shit every time in the Brixton forums. Always going for the personal digs rather than arguing the actual topic.
Yep. But which people? My list might be different to yours.
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hiraethified
Just look to the ones who are actually discussing topics related to Brixton and the ones talking about whether I have a job or not, or attacking the fact that a disabled poster chooses to post multiple times in a row etc etc.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
I was at a meeting about LJ on Thursday.
Said I was concerned the way "consultation" was used.
Specifically the consultation on the Brixton Central Masterplan. Where we are not told about NRs plans. That one officer had told me that we had signed up to this as people agreed that arches be improved.
My point I said was the danger of attending Council consultation events is the way that the Council could interpret results. I wanted clarity about wording of docs. Also the Council to be clear about its preferred options at the outset. Rather than trying to persuade people at consultation events that a certain option would be best whilst appearing to be just trying to get our views.
In LJ case I was concerned about the Adventure playground in LJ and the way that people were "consulted" about this.
My what I thought reasonably put comments did not go down at all well with officers or Cllr present.
The Cllr present actually said the arches in Atlantic road need doing up.
Like you I did not use emotive language. But the airing of concerns like this does not go down well.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
In particular Capitalism as the form of economics we live under.
One of the wonders of Capitalism is that its difficult to find out whose fault it is. Its not like the old one party communist states in Eastern Europe where one could put all blame on the State. Capitalism is normalised as the natural way of things. In this case the way that affordable small business gets pushed out of an area is unfortunate. But its not something one can do much about. Its just the ways things are.
What capitalism does do is , left to its own devices, create disparities on wealth. These disparities are seen both in income and spatially ( that is in areas becoming polarised) Its also unstable system prone to crises.
That is the bigger picture. Ur right behind the arguments about cocktail bars there is the serious reasons why this is happening.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think attending consultations is a bit of a Catch 22 situation.
The way consultations are done at the moment, the risk is that you will turn up, voice your opinion, and then in the consultant's write up (and they do normally seem to be conducted by consultancy firms acting on behalf of the council) your contribution is ignored or voided by a gloss in favour of what the council wanted in the first place (usually for financial reasons).
On the other had if you don't attend, there is no way your voice will be heard.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Let he who has not sinned ... and all that.
shifting gears
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Bollocks. It's a valid point - you just don't like it because you actively are on the side of the types of people who frequently (and justifiably) come under scrutiny for reducing the community of Brixton to a shell of its former self.
Harbourite
Eggnog
woke up this morning at 0400 and smelt very strong plastic burning smell - looked outside and couldn't see for smoke. heard sirens in distance as well as helicopter for ages. sounded like a major incident. i'm halfway along CHL. does anyone know what it was?
Ironically, this is of course a personal dig!It's the same people doing the same shit every time in the Brixton forums. Always going for the personal digs rather than arguing the actual topic.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
VP regularly has a lot of interesting viewpoints and experiences to share, and he's been here (and in Brixton) as long as anyone. Unlike the constant stream of vapid, tedious, snide, saying nothing shit that comes from you, alcopop, spammisery and elmpp.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Y'know, we have plenty of posters across urban who have different perspectives and politics than the predominant outlook, yet they're part of the community here and are able to have a proper discussion and respect for others even when disagreement can at times get quite heated.
The Brixton forum in the last couple of years though has really become victim to a handful of posters that aren't even this, but just cheap point score, attack long-time posters, wear down Ed with nasty bile, and derail threads which document a time of massive social and economic change for this part of London. Have some fucking respect for the place some of you.
The Brixton forum in the last couple of years though has really become victim to a handful of posters that aren't even this, but just cheap point score, attack long-time posters, wear down Ed with nasty bile, and derail threads which document a time of massive social and economic change for this part of London. Have some fucking respect for the place some of you.
bimble
floofy
So glad you at least tried to bring up the issue of the 'distortion' of consultation data. I'm looking forward to reading the minutes of the meeting even though of course, those will be written by someone who may omit bits by mistake..
The Grove Adventure Playground is so stark an example of this that to be honest I've been scared to fully engage with it because I think I'll just get so angry that all I end up achieving is messing up my own little life for a few months whilst changing nothing at all.
But really glad you at least raised the question of that claim they made that "many people" said they were in favour of bulldozing the playground and replacing it with a block of flats.
Transparency / honesty in how consultation is carried out and then how the results are presented would be a huge help but I suspect the culture of twisting the facts to fit the desired outcome is so deeply engrained that changing it would require some sort of massive overhaul of how things work.
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Cold Harbour
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Not the first post I was expecting to do but....yes- huge house fire on E side of Northlands Street. Many fire engines etc. People walked to ambulances so hopefully nobody hurt. One poor guy in bare feet and wrapped in a sheet. Helicopter was there to light the back gardens I think.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Hard to tell which was more predictable: the smear, or the invocation of 'community'.
