Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Glenda Slag
not referring to morals, just seemed more appropriate. Rebekah Brooks was never a journalist.
Jaw-dropping Brixton description in blog
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not referring to morals, just seemed more appropriate. Rebekah Brooks was never a journalist.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
What? That's not how GCSEs are scored, though. She might as well claim to have been awarded a distinction in her driving test.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
possibly ten taken at c or above award
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Because sub-letting often requires a collusive relationship between landlord and tenant.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I know, I've been here a while.
The one thing I've noticed from reading about Brixton is the sense of community and of pride. Not everywhere can claim that, and it's heart-warming to see.
You have to realise though, that little over 10 years ago, people thought Brixton was a shithole and nobody (of that ilk) wanted to live here, and were horrified when you said you lived in Brixton. These same types of people all now want to live here, so it's a bit annoying when they come out with crap like that. Did you know that years ago, it was nigh impossible to get a black cab to take you home to Brixton?
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
I don't think it does, but am happy to be proved wrong.
Edit: to violentpanda
Edit: to violentpanda
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I used to say "Small town on the A23"
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
...and if it is a sub-let, Lambeth won't know about it.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
editor
hiraethified
I can testify to that. As soon as you mentioned the word 'Brixton' they were off. The fuckers.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
The only ones that would normally come were old guys who'd lived through the war and wasn't scared of Brixton
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
This is good point Belushi.
Part of the reason for this is that the mainstream press don't want the stories. I had a journo friend who , some time ago, suggested to her paper that she write about Brixton. They told her that they didn't want anything that might upset the advertisers.
This is a form of indirect censorship. Sophies taken down her review know but I suggest her style of writing is influenced by what the mainstream press want.
Treacle Toes
Time
Or perhaps by her own perspective/values etc...Which are of course easy to disagree with, but they say something about who she is and how she reads the world around her. We may not like that some people still think/feel in these ways but they do, it's the world we live in, unfortunately, still.
I can see why people were annoyed by what she wrote but I don't however think she should have taken the posts down. If they have been misinterpreted, having them up still leaves space for debate about how and why they have upset others...taking them down just pretends that these kind of 'thoughts/feelings' don't exist and therefore can not be misinterpreted. That is very frustrating and gets none of us anywhere. None of us can reason/educate or debate with pretence.
There is a threatening tone to this thread however and a little too much personal info about SA too IMO....may not have been the intention but that's the way I see it.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
pretty standard reaction - not saying it's right - but it's at the shallow end of what was done to Max Gogarty, and i didn't see too many people criticising then.
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
She doesn't owe you an apology for your perceived slights. She hasn't threatened you.She still never actually said "Sorry"
You have threatened her and I think you owe the apology.
Deeply disappointed in you as a person and as a moderator tbh.
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
100% agree miss Minnie, a way ott reaction from many here that is distinctly unpleasant.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
This is a point taken up by Owen Jones in his recently published book "The Demonisation of the Working Class".
Its become acceptable to refer to working class people as Chavs. Also to make jokes about the "poor" as Sophie did in relation to those who use Iceland. This is all supposed to be taken in good humour as jokes about Race used to be.
See his blog:
http://owenjones.org/2011/07/08/chavs-and-the-working-class/#more-1279
For the first time, I saw the “working class” tag used as a slur, equated with other class-based insults such as “chav”. I asked focus group members to make collages using newspaper and magazine clippings to show what the working class was. Many chose deeply unattractive images: flashy excess, cosmetic surgery gone wrong, tacky designer clothes, booze, drugs and overeating. By contrast, being middle class is about being, well, a bit classy.
The ‘working-class’ label was no longer something people felt that they could be proud of. Far from it: it had become effectively synonymous with ‘chav’. For that reason, many who most of us would describe as clearly working-class rejected the label because they felt it was a pejorative. The demonisation of working-class identity has had an impact on the attitudes of both and working-class and middle-class people. With a political consensus that we should aspire to become middle-class, and with few positive representations of working-class people, this is as unsurprising and it is depressing.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
FFS: None of these "threats" were real or supposed to be taken seriously
As for the personal information, you's old enough to know better about what personal information she puts up about herself or are you saying she's still too young to know that various people have screwed up big time by doing such? There's enough stories in the paper about it
As for the personal information, you's old enough to know better about what personal information she puts up about herself or are you saying she's still too young to know that various people have screwed up big time by doing such? There's enough stories in the paper about it
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
There is a Stockport School, which seems to be a regular comp.
trashpony
Hag
I put her name into the facebook search engine. Does that make me a stalker? Don't think so.
If you blog under your real name, expect people to take exception to it and want to find out if you are who you claim you are. <shrug>
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
It is really pathetic! And reflects badly on U75.
Space for debate! With a bunch of hysterics?
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Where does Mrs M say that her threat was not to be taken seriously?
Think about it. Sophie's picture is easily obtainable. She has registered here and her email address and IP number are available to the moderators. One moderator says that if she ever sees Sophie in Brixton she will publicly humiliate her. If I were Sophie and did not know Mrs Magpie I would be scared.
Besides which IMO it simply isn't on for moderators here to be using threats, even in a jokey manner.
Treacle Toes
Time
I don't think folk have been hysterical, pissed off/offended by some of SA's blog posts, yes.. My point was that I prefer contraversial stuff to stay put...when it's taken down, there is no space for debate or response.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
This is accurate of the Mrs Magpie I know. She has helped a lot of people over time.
Its not often she gets this angry.
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
Was it a jokey manner? I think Mrs Magpie needs to sort out a few issues.
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
No it wasn't in a jokey manner in this instance.
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
I'm very angry too. I've never seen a moderator over-step the mark so badly and I don't think I want to be part of a forum where it is excused.
Sweet old pussycat grannies get away with a lot tbh. I don't buy it.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I don't want her to apologise to me, I wanted her to say sorry about her sneering attitude to the poor and sorry for what she had thoughtlessly written before she deleted it. She's clearly using Brixton as being somewhere cool to live and play for her cool blog and furthering her cool career. Which isn't cool at all. She didn't come on here to do anything other than say she counted herself as poor and basically wriggling and self-justification. Saying I'd have a right verbal go isn't a threat. A threat is (and I'm thinking of a specific example of someone who's posted here for ages) is saying they know where someone works and will come in with a baseball bat. That's a threat and just one example of that poster's posturing.
I love Brixton passionately and I'm totally fed up of people who run it and it's residents down while using it to further their image and career. Also when I was asked to be a mod I said no initially because I'd have to self-censor and I was specifically told no, don't change anything about the way you post, so I haven't. Right now the market and a lot of places that make it a great place to be are dying on their feet because people who see it purely as a night-time pleasure ground want it to fit their idea of what's good and sod the rest of us. She's made me bloody furious and I'm not apologising for that.
I love Brixton passionately and I'm totally fed up of people who run it and it's residents down while using it to further their image and career. Also when I was asked to be a mod I said no initially because I'd have to self-censor and I was specifically told no, don't change anything about the way you post, so I haven't. Right now the market and a lot of places that make it a great place to be are dying on their feet because people who see it purely as a night-time pleasure ground want it to fit their idea of what's good and sod the rest of us. She's made me bloody furious and I'm not apologising for that.
