Tony.London Suburbs

Keef Wrote: I always thought Corrie was some sort of manc thing. Isn't it filmed in Blackpool? ....Salford,schurely..... .

bigbadwolf Wrote: Tony whats all this about giving him a 'finger'.. if you stick your > finger up there you'll be in serious danger or > ringing his back door bell. Urrgghh! I have to say I've never been one to visit The Tradesmans Entrance(6)B) I'll be more careful where I stick my digit in future...:))

local1 Wrote:..."At least he will get a > cup of tea and a kit kat."... ..and if he turns up at mine he will also get a "finger" but he won't be of Kit KatB)

B)Rats! I can't come as my foxy old other half has badgered me to go elsewhere..:'(

Very abservient of you Cassius...

Following on from The "Yoof Club" thread. Croydon Greyhound(as mentioned on the other thread though this was much larger than yer normal boozer)-Various Famous and Semi-Famous Groups... The Cartoon at Croydon(Foster Brothers-"Count Me Out) Old Kent Road: Thomas A'Beckett:Blunderbuss(Laurie and Co.) The Green Man:Airship Apples and Pears-Rotherhithe:Stans Blues Band now known as Nine Below Zero with Dennis Greaves.... Half-Moon-Hene Hill:Steve Waller Band(with the hunchback Stevie Smith on Harmonica)..anyone know of or remember the legendary Stevie?.They had different Session Guys every week from Groups like Rory Gallagher Band.. ...Yours Guys?

Anyway,Global Village:Charing Cross...Robotic Formation Members-Of-The-Public Dancers...Men being walked round on leads...Dancers with half their face painted White with Black eyes and half vice versa.....and me like Serendipity stumbling upon this night with my "Simon Templar" polo neck jumper....Sundances(Various)...Orchid,Purley then Cinderella Rockerfellas...Scamps and Boobs(both Croydon)Zens(Dartford) but also very much into Large Pub/Rock Venues of which Croydon Greyhound was supreme..Genesis/Quo(5 times) Stray/Atomic Rooster/Edgar Broughton/MC Five/Wishbone Ash/Curved Air/Golden Earring/Focus/Roxy Music/Argent etc etc all for 70 pence...Blody liberty I once had to pay 75 pence to have a (naturally for 75 pence) good seat to watch Led Zeppelin at Wembley(Not a Club,I know but...)

Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yesterday I gave my favourite clubbing outfit from > the 80s to the vintage shop (Chi Chi Ra Ra). Gave > me a pang but ........ ....Sorry,I'm not used to the terminology.How much is a pang?(?) or maybe :))

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When you need to go, you need to go, give the poor > chap a break. > > Louisa. .....Tru Say Mi Sistren! Seen! p.s.Wa Gwarn? My Man is almost certainly a genuine salt-of-the-earth Working Class Geezer just keeping it real!

I'm in a mellow mood today.I agree with everything that everyone has said on this thread.

Quick Synopsis for Newcomers to this thread.. Geezer has gone in Somerfields,chanced his arm doing a lil teefing.Got collared in the act.Been given a smack or two for his trouble by Security who gave him an extra dig for the road.Poetic Justice,innit say some-others are crying "Foul!".... ....to be continued...

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tony.London Suburbs - if you look out the window > and find someone who looks like Mike Tyson's > bigger brother trying to break into you car. What > do you do first? a) punch him in the mouth or b) > kick him in the goolies?? ....NEITHER! I would say "Can I help you in any way,SIR?" and empthasize the "Sir"... > > Summary justice only 'works' (and I use the term > lightly) when you are a lot bigger and/or > outnumber the person in question, really, doesn't > it? When that doesn't apply, the bravado ain't so > strong. ....True but its good to fantasise though,innit?...innit?:))

Absolutely! If I'm ever burgled and apprehend the culprits,I shall ask them if they wouldn't mind awfully waiting for the local constabulory to arrive,while naturally apologising for any inconvenience caused all round.I shall then hand them over and wave them off with a cheery smile.Violence never solved anything.I'm sure a consoling arm round the shoulder will do the trick in this potentially awkward situation.

elipie Wrote: he still nicked my toys!....LOL..I might that might be the case!:))

elipie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My mum always told me that two wrongs don't make a > right. My brother would steal my toys, I'd hit > him, he'd go crying to Mum and we'd both get a > telling-off. ...and if you did hurt him,how many times did this re-occur?..Even if it did in your example,my long experience tells me that people are infinitely more likely to continue with something if they get away with it.Indeed they push the boundaries even more.A thief will steal,say ?25, then ?50 and will "up the ante" if there is little or no comeback....

capt_birdseye Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you know, if you catch a rat, it's illegal to > drown it? Quite Right Too! Rats ARE vicious but,at least,they are fair...

Mark! HELP! You are,obviously,a self-proclaimed expert on this Subject and yet you,the expert who has kindly,not once but twice,taken the time and trouble to correct me, spells "fullstop" like this and yet I have just read: "A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point, decimal point, or dot), is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and many other languages. A full stop consists of a small dot placed at the end of a line of text, such as at the end of this sentence" Confused,Bexley.(?)

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tony, after a fullstop or comma, please put a > space. Like that. ..Thanks for the education Mark.I never even realised that "fullstop" was one word!

Mark Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a shame some people didn't get punctuation > beaten into them as a child eh Tony? I did, in > fact, I was beaten into a comma for 6 months. ...Beaten into a comma,eh? Very Droll!.As it happens I was very punctual,never late for anything(tu)Touche(tu)

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh this is just bollocks now . Steady Old Chap!B) > > The quote from james pulled out by tony is so > wrong its untrue. Massive generalisation > masquerading as fact. And then tony piles in with > his generalisation. It is not invariable tony ok? > I have been burgled and attacked. People are using > this to do the usual trotting out of phrases like > politically correct and liberal when it has no > meaning. No one is defending the criminals > actions. No one. Why cant people like tony and > louisa accept that? Why oh why etc etc .......I accept that Sean! 'onest Guv'nor! Sean:There is no doubt that the possibility and likelihood of becoming innocently a victim of crime is MUCH greater in some areas than others.No guarantees,of course but I usually forget to lock my back door where I live now,for example, and never lock my car in my drive..I know from 25 years living here that,thus far,there has been no problem for me or anyone I know of(to my knowledge)..thats not to say that one can not be a victim here or in a pleasant part of our great City but the chances are much less.A guy I heard of moved into an Estate in Kidbrooke and has been burgled 5 times in under 7 months.As he replaces the items,in come the boys again.(6)...Where I used to live in Inner London now has Security Doors at the entrance and Grills on some windows by comparison.Listening to the Cognescenti from Hampstead/Highgate is always guaranteed to get my pecker up:))

James Wrote: I do think it's depressing how people seem to take > such self-righteous pleasure in finding a person > in authority who's abusing it. Never mind the > criminal (we feel guilty about condemning > him/her). Focus on the one in authority. It's a > distinctly middle-class indulgence. We do it and > feel oh so politically correct and smug. Like > we're defending the little guy. .....THAT IS EXACTLY what irritates me to be honest!...INVARIABLY the people with these views are NOT personally affected by Crime,particularly street crime.Visited my friend in his ?1,000,000 Property.All-Jewish Neighbourhood in East Finchley last week(they buy any outstanding vacant property in his Cul-De-Sac to keep "others" out-WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!) and to hear the Liberal Views of people who will,realistically,never be personally affected is LAUGHABLE,totally surrealistic to be honest.No concept of living on major Housing Estates and personally experiencing the "end product" .Then hear the viewpoint of almost everyone with many years experience of living in an area with a high crime rate! If you ask 95% of People in these(or formerly these) areas you would have a totally different perspective and these people EXPERIENCED living in a "relatively" unsafe/lawless area.How frustrated would these people feel if they heard the views here?

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's alright, don't apologise candj, I was being > facetious. .....????...I'm certain candj was,as well.She is,surely,jokingly adding to the fun by,obviously,saying "tongue-in-cheek" "Oh! No! Thats a teensy-weensy bit tooooo much!"...She's joking One THousand Million Per Cent!

MitchK Wrote: > What a bunch of lily-livered liberals. It's > probably the highlight of the security guard's job > to beat up some shoplifter. Do not deny him his > fun! ....Exactly! and even if the Guy was innocent it will make him think twice about even thinking about it in future so WIN! WIN!..>:D<

Advantage of being older is that we can say,like Max Boyce,"I was there"...London circa 1966-1970 onwards for a while. I could walk anywhere at any time day or night with little worry that I,as an innocent bystander would be caught up in crime(like that poor Guy in Walworth Costcutters last week).There were organised Gangs(well-documented) but the average Guy in the street was rarely involved.We DID pick up complete strangers in our cars in the street.That was widespread if people were going your way,some would not think twice.We could walk in and out of Council Blocks-now many are High-Security!..Newspaper vendors often simply left their papers in the street for anyone to buy and leave their money in a pile on the street.They would not have done that if there was a risk someone might nick the lot!.You knew your Milkman/Postman etc...Your Family DID live within the same Community.My Aunt lived next door.Another one's Gardens backed onto ours(I was passed over the fence!)All My Dads 7 Brothers/Sisters lived within 2 miles of Peckham etc...there was a real sense of Community.Now different Groups WILL look after other Members of that Groups(Read other Forums) but WILL NOT,usually,go beyond that!.If I broke down in the road (4 times in London) I KNEW strangers would help.Complete strangers in Lewisham,Deptford,Crayford and Walworth)..also picnickers in Brighton who changed our tyre for us(but thats another story)Can you imagine that now?...East Dulwich mmy be different but if anyone was in difficulties in the street there would be a host of people to intervene,Now?..Most are too scared to!..Marmora Man helped someone recently while,he said,2,000 others just watched.People are scared and there were NOT knives around,in general. It was very safe then and we would play out all hours without worry,you could not say that now,surely.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tony, I think you mean The Griffin (so named after > the old Midland Bank logo). Didn't know > Sainsbury's owned it, it was Midlands, and is now > Kings, but could have been otherwise in between. ....Thanks Keef..It was indeed The Griffin!...Funny thing I used to Captain The Sainsburys(Hate the apostrophe!) Table Tennis Team in Blackfriars though I did not work for them.Played some Team-mates at Tennis on their superb Grass Courts and for years played my Mates there(though none of us had a right to be there)..To add to the fun after I dropped out my best M8 carried on playing there with his other Mates!..so the connection was even more remote!..On the final day they arrived as usual only to be told that they were not allowed there anymore as it was now not Sainsburys but Kings ownership!...They then explained that for the previous x years they should not have been there anyway>:D<