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and when you'd removed yr shoe from his backside?Justin said:
"Young professionals" to infest flats above Iceland
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Donna Ferentes
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I was actually removing my jaw from the floor.
Donna Ferentes
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Jesus, give it a rest...
FridgeMagnet
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Yeah, you get a badge:editor said:
Orang Utan
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I am 31 and moved here about 4 years ago.
Does that make me a gentrifier?
Does that make me a gentrifier?
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it makes you a long-term resident.Orang Utan said:
you don't do anything posh enough to be a yuppie, do you?
Donna Ferentes
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GIVE IT A REST!Orang Utan said:
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yr posts have not been without their yammering.newbie said:
Orang Utan
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I work in mediaPickman's model said:
Donna Ferentes
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No it hasn't. It has been a discussion about home ownership, the state of the housing market and its social and demographic effects on a given locality, largely ignored by people who want to have a spat about terminology.newbie said:
Donna Ferentes
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Not a wholly helpful clarification, since the same could be said both of an unpaid work experience PA in a publishing house, and Rupert Murdoch.Orang Utan said:
Where is oldslapper?
Has oldslapper in fact been banned for being so wude to the poor, oppressed yuppies?
Has oldslapper in fact been banned for being so wude to the poor, oppressed yuppies?
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yr not one of the urban library mafia then?Orang Utan said:I work in media
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i don't think s/he's been banned - have a look at her/his profile.IntoStella said:
Orang Utan
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I am a librarian who works in telly.
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yr in the library AND the media mafia?Orang Utan said:
. . . .Donna Ferentes
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There's more. He's looking for property "on the other side of the river".Justin said:
"Controversial!" said his mate.
"In trendy Barnes", he went on.
Donna Ferentes
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Actually, for a couple of dozen pages it's been an attempt to get away from the yuppie question, largely sabotaged by people wishing to harp on about it.newbie said:
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Giles said:
Dear oh dear, you've extrapolated a right old bag of bollocks from what I wrote, haven't you?
You fall back on the "seaside/holiday cottage" argument, which is inaccurate and irrational. "Weekend" homes don't have to be cottages, they don't have to be located anywhere near the sea. Oddly enough, inavariably they're neither, they're what used to be called "family homes" that originally housed (you guessed it!) families all year round, not for 2 nights out of 7.
You tie the ownership of homes to the "lump of labour" argument, implyng that there's equivalence. Do more than imply please, give me some data that supports your argument. Personally I think your implication of equivalence is entirely fatuous, but I'm prepared to have you prove otherwise.
You then introduce a spurious "exercising one's right to own as much property as one wants" argument. Spurious because you're arguing from a position of claiming property rights without accepting that there are concomitant moral rights and responsibilities, you're asking for freedom to own as much property as you wish without the burdensome knowledge that you acquisitive instincts might cause families to fracture, or whole social groups to be riven.
Would I ban "buy to let"? Not outright, but I'd establish limits to holdings of developed property and put bureaucratic brakes (taxes and duties) on the amount of money people could expect from their property portfolio. Why? Because I'm a callous cunt riven by class-envy, obviously.
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newbie said:
Like for instance...Justin said:
Pie 1 said:
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pm said:
Do you ever come to Brixton? Really? Where once were useful shops and daytime businesses are now bars and clubs, nailbars and sportswear outlets. Where once was a thriving market is now a pale shadow. Does it matter whether the new business are catering for the higher disposable income of some young people or to the willingness of the less well off to spend what little disposable money they have on partying and preening? They're catering for young people. That's the outward, the most visible sign. But you only have to look at who is using the market during the day to realise who is not visible in the evening.
Brixton has never been a quiet and respectable place at night. But it's only relatively recently that it's turned into a commercially important entertainment zone with pubs, clubs, restaurants and bars aimed very largely at different parts of the same agegroup.
Pickman's model said:why d'you think professional people can't be cool or buzzing?[/i]perhaps if you looked you might see.
Of course they can. And some squatters can be deeply conservative. No-one need be a charicature. But if you look at the graph I've posted twice now you might recognise that those superficial differences mask their essential similarity.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Pie 1 said:
Oh, I don't know. I reckon you could happily trim the "4x4 driving tory" from that sentence!
(sometimes people just leave themselves open to this sort of thing!
)
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can we see if we can get another 280 posts together to get this thread to the magick 1,000 post mark?
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