thebestnameshavegone

Let's have all of this on my desk for Monday, please.

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gosh, doesnt this make things a lot safer for us > lot in Peckham? You should be careful of criminals catching the 37 from Dulwich though.

"You are either a Daily Mail features writer or an escaped Viz character." hahahahaha!

5imon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > amusing idea: people 'commuting' to dulwich to > commit crimes - perhaps reading the telegraph, > with a latte on, complaining about the lateness of > trains etc. 'I was a mugger in Hampstead for 5 years - commute nearly killed me though. Now I'm concentrating on Dulwich I can be back home with the wife in time for Eastenders' etc

I often see my next-door neighbour putting a dark hoodie and running shoes on and slipping out into the night. Usually see him running around the Rye, probably sprinting away from his latest burglary. I'll be calling the boys in blue forthwith.

Horsebox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If your first post was serious (and I suspect that > it's not) then it's based mostly > on anecdotal evidence about the rise in muggings > in SE22, > committed by thugs from out of town,the claim that > people aren't reporting crime anymore plus advice > on how to be a vigilante. > > So forgive me if I didn't take it seriously, but > these things often pop up on tinternet are to be > taken with a pinch of salt. Agree completely.. Anecdote is not data, and so on.

No-one from Dulwich would ever even think of committing a crime, I agree with you completely.

Curlykaren do you? Serious question. Would love to know the figures. How many bin fires have resulted in serious house fires in say, the last 10 years? An estimate is fine.

Having pyromanic gangs of feral youths roaming the streets - like a Mad Max dystopian nightmare - is less than ideal, though a 'won't somebody please think of the children' tone of voice seems a little overly-targeted at my poor, delicate, defenseless heartstrings.

Oh no, it's someone posting 'in character'! When satire misses the mark it's like staring directly into the sun.

The very picture postcard village my mum used to live in full of thatched cottages and pubs with roaring fires in the Midlands has a problem with kids throwing fireworks at each other. I think it's a rite of passage.

If your bike is really important to you I'd suggest a Kryptonite Fahgeddaboutit combined with a chain-type lock - look for 'Sold Secure' ratings of either gold or silver. It would take a pretty determined thief a good half an hour or so using some pretty noisy tools to get through those. (The london bike postulate of 'if you leave your bike anywhere public overnight, regardless of what you locked it with it will be gone in the morning' over-rides this however. )

Blimey. I've only been past that around 15,000 times and never noticed it. :-S

4 pints in Hermits Cave followed by Silk Road - if there's a better night out in SE5, I'm yet to find it.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > thebestnameshavegone Wrote: > . > > > > There's a 'dulwichmum' who appears have a > > Telegraph column - I feel like it's an injoke > I'm > > not party to though - anyone know anything > about > > her? > > xxxxxxxx > > Eh?! Haven't been on the forum long have you? I eventually found myself on her blog, being kind I'd say it's not my thing. I think Neil Boorman did the 'isn't my area a cliche' thing a million times funnier 10 years ago - then again I'm not a Dulwich Mum.

I'm on there but sadly it's under my real name, and it would be like printing my name and address up here I guess. There's a 'dulwichmum' who appears have a Telegraph column - I feel like it's an injoke I'm not party to though - anyone know anything about her? I wouldn't say it was bleeding-edge humour, but it's obviously someone who lives round here judging by the references she makes. Twitter is a bit insane - last week I had Graham Linehan (the IT crowd bloke) DMing me 'SERIOUSLY WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING' regarding a blog post he'd half-understood regarding a relatively obscure miscarriage of justice - which, granted, seemed unjust - but the actual facts were still coming through and it was too soon to make any real judgement. It inspires a strange vigilantism whereby masses of people feel they are 'doing something' yet really are just angrily agreeing with the people they follow - and 99% of people on Twitter follow people with similar beliefs. Back on topic - an #ED hashtag would actually be sufficient (you're not going to cross streams with anything else I wouldn't have thought) - and it frees up 137 characters to actually Tweet something.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So tell me about SE5, I used to live there. What > were my politics and social attitues over that > way, I'm buggered if I can remeber...or do I have > to go and sit the Hermits Cave? Not a bad idea > actually. I think you were too busy sitting in traffic on the Walworth Road to think about politics. But you'd come home knowing the Hermits Cave did a nice cheap pint of Guiness and was one of the better pubs in South London, I'd imagine,

There's an ice cream shop?

A thriving polka scene.

I didn't mean to come across as agressive, 'my field ' is analysing such things as Twitter, and controlling what happens on there is one thing you can't do.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quite happy with SE22 and all its beardy lefties > and guardian readers. Is that the SE22 > Characteristic on your postcode socialmap thingy? Sit in The Greyhound for 20 mins and look around you.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it needs a global brand name for you to think "hey > if I had spent 3 years building up a name and a > presence on;y for it to have some control assumed > by someone who has been registered for 2 days! I'd > be a teeny bit cross"??? > > Why? > > If the name means so little to you, pick another > one I'm just saying that you just aren't able to 'control' Twitter like that - to think you can is missing its point entirely. I'm not suggesting someone set up another EDF full of hateful bile, I'm talking about Twitter hashtags specifically. Seems overly-precious. The 'tone' of this place is a melting pot of the useful and handy through to the irrelevant, mininformed and downright stupid - there's hardly a 'brand' to ruin is there, given that it is made up of about 8,000 different opinions.

we're not dealing with Coca Cola here Anyway, it was a genuine observation on a point up there. do you have a problem with that?

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have no intention of moving to Clapham...I would > move to Dulwich Village if I had the moolah So would you become slowly Tory in DV? (presuming you aren't currently) Criminals have no-one else to blame for their behaviour, etc?

You can use #eastdulwichforum as a hashtag on Twitter, and there's not much a megalomanic admin can do about it, fact fans, seeing as it's essentially as transient as a sand-painting / yesterday's chip papers. whilst there may be an intellectual property issue on something like Facebook (and good luck contesting that legally, anyway), hastagging doesn't actually create a 'destination' as such.