Comments on: I’ve got good news and bad news

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:40:12 +0000

*stretches, arm extends*

‘Where’s my Morning Star dammit?’

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:34:24 +0000

Lumme, bukowski333, you ran into that fair and square! “I do not like politics — the more local, the more anal it gets. By the way, my traditional Camberwell swimming pool/verruca culture has been turned into an African church. Why doesn’t someone do something about it?” [Sound of localists groaning under their pith helmets, using copy of Morning Star as fly swat.]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:10:45 +0000

And after all that Alan:

Who got your vote and how much do you bring in? Or do you play your cards close to your chest.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:30:49 +0000

Did anyone notice the cracks in the patio jokes?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:31:04 +0000

@ Alan. I’m broke. My accountant can’t change that.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:24:24 +0000

bukowski333

SE5 Forum’s not very uptight really. And it’s apolitical except from the rality that you can’t engage in change without getting political. The Forum itself aims to bring together all the bits and pieces of Camberwell and the people that aren’t currently (and haven’t been for decades) working together so Camberwell at last can begin to work for most of us. If WE — like you and me I mean — don’t get involved then nothing will ever change. YOU are already involved more than a lot of people just because you take time to contribute here.

As for your days of swimming every so often at the ‘Leisure Centre’. If you like the idea of a swimming pool on your doorstep so to speak — then you ought to be involved because if you’e not. Who should be making the decisions about our futures?

By: bukowski333

bukowski333 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:07:05 +0000

Mushtimushta — I’m glad we’re tight again.

I don’t look at the SE5 forum that often as it seems a bit uptight and I’ve got little interest in politics (I really don’t believe that we can make a difference in the grand scheme of things).

Is it likely that my days of swimming every so often in Camberwell’s ramshackle old pool are coming to an end? One Sunday afternoon I was there, a minister was carrying out baptism’s in the kids pool.

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:25:07 +0000

@Bukowski333 — apology accepted. I don’t so much type as tap dance on the keyboard!

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:15:50 +0000

No need to apologise– I agree with you. I wouldn’t gamble in the way you mention.

Saying that I am going to Vegas for a stag weekend at the end of April and I will probably gamble and lose that weekend but I blame that on peer pressure rather than idiocy.

If only there was a Vegas style resort a bit closer then we could save on carbon…

Patio– love the crack jokes keep ‘em coming…

By: Richie

Richie — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:46:29 +0000

I think it’s bizarre that Manchester got the supercasino. I would have thought Blackpool was the better choice in terms of the regeneration the casino would bring to the area. And let’s face it, Blackpool is that kinda town already.

Manchester — already had a hack of a lot of investment from all kinds of bodies.

The Dome — surely the whole area is going to be pimped out for the Olympics anyway.

Having siad all that I don’t have all the facts so I’m making a top line sort of observation.

As far as the wider debate on gambling goes — it’s obviously a social evil in some respects, addictive, takes money from those least able to avoid it etc etc. But. If you’re idiot enough to gamble in the first place (sorry Alan) then you gotta face the consequences. It’s not like drugs where lots of pressures (peer pressure for instance) can get people into the scene. There is no real pressure to gamble. Is there?