Comments on: Sans point

By: Peter

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:05:37 +0000

Incidents like the stabbings and shootings always seem to happen in clusters, and at certain times of year. Here’s an interesting post which is mainly about the recent school shootings in North America, but applies here too:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/school_shootings_mal.html

By: copeywolf

copeywolf — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:45:58 +0000

Mark, the Southwark Community Fund (which I was unaware of until getting the E&C Regen newsletter just now) will grant between £100-£1000 for spending by March on community projects. Spending on “publicity to promote a local community group” is given as an example of what’s eligible. How about a Forum PR drive that will help increase membership?
http://www.southwark.gov.uk/YourCouncil/CommunityCouncilsSection1/Communityfundfolder/

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:27:23 +0000

Oh dear. What’s going on? Shootings anywhere is very bad. For everyone and everything. Being in McDonald’s is as public as being in a bus queue. Imagine what it feels like to work there when this kind of thing can kick off at any moment.

The Forum will SHOUT when it can… it needs a bit of time. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes but it’s not in a position to really hammer tables yet. It needs momentum, a bigger mebership, at least a half time administrator before it can get stroppy. Even though I believe it should have happened years ago it will not happen overnight.

We’ve been too polite for too long around here.

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:25:42 +0000

Uncharitable as this sounds, if there was going to be a shooting, what better a place than McDonalds for it to happen in. If we all go out and get guns and then go brandishing them in all the local branches, people will be too frightened to go in them, business will suffer, they will all close and, hey — we have our high streets back!
I shouldn’t really post this, I know.

By: copeywolf

copeywolf — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:51:22 +0000

We need the Forum to shout about this, as well as bugging the powers that be individually. We’re good at putting up with a lot here, and this doesn’t do us any favours sometimes.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:12:21 +0000

Everything is going putrid in South London lately — Brixton Shootings,Peckham Gang Fights In Schools — and I thought we’d turned the corner but it looks like the morons are back in town and worst than ever — What chances that the annual slaying/violent incident outside Camberwell Green McDonalds will be next…surely it’s due around this time?

By: Lord Henry

Lord Henry — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:27:43 +0000

You see, Dagmar, when you said “bicycle mugging gang”, I had images of cyclists being hauled off their bikes, and the bikes then skedaddled with. Which sounds like a scene out of MAD MAX II. These are the dangers of ambiguous syntax.

Is the alleyway by the BRB really notorious for muggings? I’ve never been bothered, and I’ve lived here for 25 years. Even when I’ve been off my head on 10 Kirins and numerous quantities of cocaine.

But then again, in the interests of full disclosure, I am built like a brick shithouse and I brandish a molucca cane at every opportunity.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:12:19 +0000

“Ou sont les neiges d’antan?” Ubi sunt? Ubi? Many fellows, I believe, were rather taken by Virginia Wade. Billie-Jean was tough. Still is.

I wish I were tougher sometimes. I should have called the police, Copeywolf. I had no phone on me. The boys on bikes were swirling towards a black woman walking up Grove Lane, not the Grove as I mistakenly said, looking, my prejudices suggested to me, like a careworker, maybe in on old people’s home, on a small wage, which the boys were about to relieve her of. I didn’t know what the outcome was — she was probably OK. Grove Lane, especially the alleyway past the BRB, is notorious for young boy gang muggings. It really made my blood boil. I thought, sharia law — maybe it’s not such a bad thing.

Old Rio Ferdinand may not be the coolest role model, but “something must be done” about getting the boys to feel more like men rather than rats in packs.

By: Lord Henry

Lord Henry — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:43:54 +0000

Rumours that Lee Bowyer is to present a documentary about the murder of Stephen Lawrence are, as yet, unsubstantiated.

On a lighter note, I perambulated through Myatt’s Fields today and was delighted to find that two of the three tennis courts have been refurbished, and they’ve even constructed a practice area on one of the new courts.

My predilection for the game of course began in earnest with the arrival onto the scene of the fragrant Billie-Jean King, and has grown, tumescently, ever since. In fact I was once a member of Wimbledon Tennis Club until they decided to let all the riff-raff in.

I burned my membership card one wintry autumn afternoon, along with incriminating photographs of myself and June Whitfield, and various papers relating to the Third Secret of Fatima.

Ah, where are the snows of yesteryear, hey?

By: copeywolf

copeywolf — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:28:17 +0000

Did you tell the police about the muggers Dagmar? Hope so. It’s one thing for girls on their own to avoid our streets after closing time, but early evening? On Camberwell Grove??

I look forward to Rio’s sensitive documentary on Damilola. Can’t think of a more suitable person. Ahem. Maybe it will start with the words “I f***ing legged it from the hood as soon as I could…”