mockney piers

Like Sean I can't see myself leaving the area for other parts UK. There's an inevitability about spending a few years in Ireland at some point (the fewer the better hopefully, nice place to visit and all). In my seventies I hope to be in a white painted house in the andalucian hills with a fig tree in my garden.

Big no no.

You're looking for a point in a thread called "My missus thinks 'KEEF' is a numpty"?! Good luck ;)

Tim uses bummer in quite an affectionate way in Spaced. "Get off me you bummer"

Yeah, that Nick-O-Teen (or was it O'Teen?) is horrible too, I hate him...and home made soap.

*mops up donkey bloodm donkey milk and mucky bear prints* *generally dusts cobwebs, old traces of owl, tequila empties, and opens window to allow oceanio-alpine air to blow away the musty smells of sadness and madness* *squeezes juicy oranges into jusg, places in chiller, marinates chicken and pork chops with ginger, garlic and chilli marinade with just a hint of dragon's blood* *pops some beers in chiller for good measure* *hmm, shall return later*

I hate Spaniards. ... Doh!!

*bump* tee hee.

Glad you enjoyed. It was a lovely evening, and like everyone it was just a pity i couldn't talk to everyone (too much time poking my camera in people's faces). ps, AllyCat, just checked out that thread, it must have dropped off my radar. How did you get on with the new telly? Did the stress of it cause biscuit overload?

1) The Village ("Chelsea Flower Show") 2) West Dulwich ("water features and weeping willow") 3) North Dulwich ("small lawn and vegetable patch") 4) East Dulwich ("2 sq ft of decking") ?

I don't mind the odd ros? (ctrl+alt e) though i've yet to find one that truly excites. In the right circumstances, like in a nice piazza in Verona, they really do hit the spot. G&B do one that is almost orange in hue and has quite a citrussy flavour that's a cut above your usual duff blush styles out there. For something different ask in G&B (or any good wine merchant) for some reds that are great drunk chilled. Concept is a bit weird at first, but they're more common than you'd think. In fact we tend to drink red wines too warm in this country, and tbh we tend to drink whites too cold. err... burgers, or summink

A couple of snaps. Sorry I didn't manage everyone, I was late and pickled.

How surreal. Is a numpty like a big cuddly toy? If so then not far off. I suspect it's being used in some sort of pejorative sense. Do big words numptify me too? I do hope so.

* slaps forhead and thinks Doh! * * keeps an eye out for the inevitable appearance of batdog complete with one-man band regalia due to current 'punishment' on offer *

Yo (that was meant to be me in spanish rather than how Bush greets Blair) If you see this man you're probably getting close

Come on kids, lets tidy up and be friends... There once was the sound of sobbing

Ok, the Mockney Hamlets are there. Pink and yellow in honour of wexford, a team every bit as rubbish as mine.

Ooh, I saw him in Brighton once. He was excellent!!

Actually I'm finding myself agreeing with Ratty on this. I do believe that every effort has to be made to battle the underlying causes of gun/gang culture and youth crime. Social deprivation, inequalities of education and opportunity, sink estates, general hopelessness, plus the self-defeating, resentful, ugly machismo of gang culture. Once a gun has been picked up however, and especially if actually used, 'you forfeit all rights that society may or may not have granted you. You take yourself outside of the rights that everyone else enjoys.' Nicely put.

Brendan you've reminded me of an article I read last year about how the US army is so desperate for recruits that they're turning a blind eye to gang membership which was once a big no no. These gang members get military training, often explosives know how, even ship AKs back the states,and then return to train up their buddies on their return. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/01/ING42LCIGK1.DTL So Brendan's probably spot on in suggesting that actively using this as a policy for scaring a bit of sense into kids isn't exactly the way forward.

We nicknamed him stooge. Mark and I will now splurge our new found wealth on one and a half tickets for one of saturday's premiership games.

I bet you they're avid followers of the forum and after reading the many class war threads they've realised "My god, these people are right, East Dulwich has become gentrified and we are essentially victims of economic cleansing. Let's reassert our right to control our destiny, I know, let's hang around outside the Tav and beat up posh people with no accents"

I do love the irony of someone getting a gun in order to be a man and get some respeck, and then go and hold up a video store for 70 quid, for which he could (but probably won't) go down for about 25 years. Big AND clever I think you'll agree.

Estuary is escaping the river and has pushed back the Pam Ayres accent out of it's native Berkshire. But alot of that is to do with the movement of londoners out of London to the new towns (stevenage was always alot more london than letchworth's yokel twang, but now young Letchwothians are pretty indistinguishable from their counterparts five miles away). But it's not nearly as all conquering as some scaremongers posited a couple of years back (talk of Jockney etc) and most recent studies have shown regional accents and expressions to be resiliently healthy. Funnily enough in London, estuary is disappearing and amongst the young of all classes a weird hybrid between a traditional cockney, west indian and punjabi is becoming quite prevalent. I saw some cute school-kids interviewed on London tonight the other day, mummy's adorable little timmy speaking in an accent that could quite conceivably be saying "is it cos I is black?"

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