I had a walk around my old neighbourhood in Palmers Green yesterday evening

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09-04-2018, 09:50 AM
Peter

I had a walk around my old neighbourhood in Palmers Green yesterday evening

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(
09-04-2018, 09:55 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Peter

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(

73 years of socialism, see?

Ban it or tax it, that's the extent of second half 20th / early part 21st century political thought.
09-04-2018, 10:02 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Peter

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.
09-04-2018, 10:07 AM
Peter

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Originally Posted by Burney

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

THis feels almost the opposite. It feels sanitised, stripped of its character. Bland....

Camden is a tourist trap. Nothing is sacred. I am bloody glad I'm old. I feel sorry for the youngsters growing up with this dull ****e.
09-04-2018, 10:10 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Burney

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

Strange innit. You'd happily hang around the streets at night back then.

Nowadays I'd be reluctant to go back to my old stomping ground in a cab, after dark, in case it stopped at some traffic lights.
09-04-2018, 10:10 AM
Peter

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Originally Posted by Sir C

73 years of socialism, see?

Ban it or tax it, that's the extent of second half 20th / early part 21st century political thought.

It's PC gone mad. Cycle paths on a pavement FFS. How are you supposed to stumble along the pavement pissed out of your face?

Ridiculous.
09-04-2018, 10:12 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.
09-04-2018, 10:19 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Sir C

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.

Really? Whereabouts? Was it near Selhurst Park?

Must admit, I thought it a veritable idyll as a kid..
09-04-2018, 10:21 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by IUFG

Strange innit. You'd happily hang around the streets at night back then.

Nowadays I'd be reluctant to go back to my old stomping ground in a cab, after dark, in case it stopped at some traffic lights.

It's odd, because in terms of casual violence at least, those were actually much more violent times. However, we're much more sensitised to the threat of violence these days and thus perceive it everywhere in a way we didn't then.
09-04-2018, 10:22 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

Really? Whereabouts? Was it near Selhurst Park?

Must admit, I thought it a veritable idyll as a kid..

Down my auntie's road. Damned if I can remember the name of it. Sandringham Road?
09-04-2018, 10:28 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Down my auntie's road. Damned if I can remember the name of it. Sandringham Road?

Up near the cemetery, Unigate Dairy way? I lived the other side of the Brigstock Road, but my sisters went to Ecclesbourne infants.
09-04-2018, 10:34 AM
7sisters

It's a fair point. I wonder how any of us would have faired walking about

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Originally Posted by Burney

It's odd, because in terms of casual violence at least, those were actually much more violent times. However, we're much more sensitised to the threat of violence these days and thus perceive it everywhere in a way we didn't then.

St Georges in the East, near wapping, back in the mid 1800's ?
09-04-2018, 10:38 AM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Sir C

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.

Mugged! Who on earth dared to mug a great ugly brute like you c?

I know a fella who was so hard, when two scums tried to mug him he told them "Yeah.. I got a fair bit of cash in my wallet. If you can get it you can have it". I trust you did similar c?
09-04-2018, 10:42 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

Mugged! Who on earth dared to mug a great ugly brute like you c?

I know a fella who was so hard, when two scums tried to mug him he told them "Yeah.. I got a fair bit of cash in my wallet. If you can get it you can have it". I trust you did similar c?

Ha. I was 13, and there were several large fellows involved. To my credit, I didn't cry.
09-04-2018, 10:54 AM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Ha. I was 13, and there were several large fellows involved. To my credit, I didn't cry.

"Several large fellows" ya lyin' cont. One scruffy chav and his sister and you gave it up without a fight like a trembly lipped little toff.
09-04-2018, 11:05 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

St Georges in the East, near wapping, back in the mid 1800's ?

Hawksmoor :bow:

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