ED is becoming less diverse as a result of recent Demog. changes (Lounged)

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

The toff baiting: muggings, anti-social behaviour, demands for free housing, etc were further proof of a sustained policy by central government to bring about the mental distruction of this group and deliberate infliction of conditions calculated to bring about their destruction.

Don't forget them calculatingly turning the Waitrose into an Iceland, that was the final nail for a lot the chattering classes at the time.

[macroban]

Seems to be a fair amount of ignorance here.

You will find this "Post Office London County Suburbs Directory, 1908. [Part 1: Street, Commercial, & Trades Directories]" here (but you will need to use the drop down menu) useful in determining the retail make-up of East Dulwich at before the First World War.

[Maurice]

1908? Surely we're talking a century prior?

[Tipperary]

I'm Irish and have just moved to ED - If you go by the movie The Commitments we were once called "The blacks of Europe", not sure if that helps out in the diversity quest.

[rob]

I'm a middle class white person who's lived in ED for nearly 10 years. Do I win a prize?

[Maurice]

10 years of displacing Chavs from the birthright deserves something Rob. Lidl loyalty card?

[rob]

Lidl? That's that place in Peckham where old people and the unwaged buy broken German biscuits, right?

[Keef]

Mark Wrote:

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> as Mockney pointed out, please can we leave out the "ethnic cleansing" bit from this argument, I too believe it's not something to be bandied around lightly

What do you mean, surely a few people selling their houses is exactly the same sort of thing as christ knows how many people being gassed to death because they were jewish.... No?

[*Bob*]

I thought it was something to do with having a Polish cleaner.

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

What do you mean, surely a few people selling their houses is exactly the same sort of thing as christ knows how many people being gassed to death because they were jewish.... No?

Having to move to Croydon is arguably worse.

[AnotherPaul]

Lead balloon anyone?

[AnotherPaul]

Really, all this talk of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' is offensive.

And moving to Croydon would be shit but it would not be like being gassed.

ap

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

They have non-broken biscuits in Lidl as it goes and very nice biscuits they are too.

[Administrator]

Verging on being Lounged

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

But Lidl in Ed would definately change the demographic, cos house prices would plummet!!

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

Really, all this talk of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide' is offensive.

And moving to Croydon would be shit but it would not be like being gassed.

Ok Paul, here's the deal. A few of us are taking the piss out of the ludicrous assertations made earlier in the thread comparing migration due to rising housing costs with ethnic cleansing. I thought that was fairly obvious. For the record I do not think that moving to Croydon would be worse than being gassed, not even Sth Croydon, but my comment was never meant to be taken seriously, it was meant (in a jokey way) to highlight how silly the original comment was.

Its quite a hard forum to joke around on isn't it, you literally have to explain every post..

[Administrator]

Lounged

[snorky]

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[macroban]

Usual suspects.

[Maurice]

Unusual suspects.

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

Shame, the forum almost produced a funny thread::o

[Mark]

there is a joke thread

[mockney piers]

I don't think it was offensive. I hold my hands up as it was my morning rant that took the thread off track.

I wasn't being precious and PC. If someone can tell me a hilarious "A Bosnian, a Croat and a Serb walk into a bar.." joke I'll find it funny, and there's bound to be some pun value in 'Hutu'.

It was ibo's earnest and insistent misappropriation of the word that riled.

I have to say I was quite chuffed that some levity was brought back into the thread, as I was feeling a bit guilty; but yes DPF, like your 'terrible English neighbours' comment yesterday, tone is desperately hard to get across in a written post (hence the smileys everywhere I guess) and it's easy to miss the tongue in the cheek.

I know I've bitten at posts in the past that weren't meant that way.

Aah well, I've lounged another :-$

[AnotherPaul]

Sorry for being so serious but I didn't back track through the whole thread to see where the comment first appeared. Mark's right, there is a joke thread and I'm up for poking fun pretty much anything. Weirdly enough if anyone makes a joke involvin 'ethnic cleansing' or 'genocide' it doesn't make me roar with laughter whatever the context. It's such a shame some us in here have to rely on actual humour to make people laugh.

Yawn.

Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy Wrote:

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> Really, all this talk of 'ethnic cleansing' and

> 'genocide' is offensive.

>

> And moving to Croydon would be shit but it would

> not be like being gassed.

>

> Ok Paul, here's the deal. A few of us are taking

> the piss out of the ludicrous assertations made

> earlier in the thread comparing migration due to

> rising housing costs with ethnic cleansing. I

> thought that was fairly obvious. For the record I

> do not think that moving to Croydon would be worse

> than being gassed, not even Sth Croydon, but my

> comment was never meant to be taken seriously, it

> was meant (in a jokey way) to highlight how silly

> the original comment was.

> Its quite a hard forum to joke around on isn't it,

> you literally have to explain every post..

[SeanMacGabhann]

I thought mockney s rant was spot on this morning. In my early post on this thread i had already gently pointed not how inappropriate the term was but people blundered on anyway. . So well done mp

i understand where you are coming from paul but have to disagree that any mention is unfunny. Local python resident terry jones recalls not being let in to auswitch and saying "but you must let me in. . . Im jewish!!" and i find that funny

excuse spelling. . Phone pad.