Urban Exploration

[Vicanna]

Says the loser with just under 8000 mesaage board posts to their name.

[Vicanna]

Says the loser with just under 8000 bulletin board posts to their name.

[*Bob*]

You're welcome to join our group, the SuperCrazyGang - if you like. We do it all: hide in wheeliebins; see how long we can hold our breath - the lot. It's all about the buzz. We're BLOODY MAD, us.

[Vicanna]

Bloody sad, more like.

[*Bob*]

Have you tried the Sainsburys car park in Sydenham? It's not trespassing as such, but if you stay longer than two hours it's definitely an infringement. Go after midnight, if you can. You can take it in turns punching the ticket machine and howling at the moon.

[Vicanna]

I'll pass, thanks. But perhaps you should give it a go, seeing as you clearly need to get out the house more often.

[*Bob*]

There's a hole up on one tree hill you could try. It's only neck-deep but but I reckon you could fit two or three in it.

Quite the rush.

[edcam]

There are also thrills to be had by going on to the platform at ED station without touching in with your Oystercard.

[Vicanna]

There's a whole world out there, too, for when you tire of wasting your life away glued to the internet.

Might want to change out of last year's clothes, though.

[edcam]

Tried it, didn't like it.

[JohnL]

You do know that this is how most movies on the horror

Channel start out.

maxxi Wrote:

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> Mid 90s some friends and I went on a midnight

> semi-drunken 'explore' around the old Tooting Bec

> Mental Hospital - all abandoned bedframes,

> trolleys and old phones and some very @#$%& weird

> murals on the walls. This activity didn't have a

> name then unless it was called "wandering around

> with torches seeing if there was anything still

> worth nicking".

[Huguenot]

Vestry Road nuclear shelter http://www.flickr.com/photos/91281132@N00/sets/72157626826934654/with/5769204572/

The idea of surviving a nuclear war whilst surrounded by that abysmal shade of blue makes me want to kill myself.

What is it about public bodies and terrible colour schemes?

[Annette Curtain]

On a serious note:

What is left of the Claybury Asylum, as it was a massive site & once inside what was left ?

I quite easily got into one once (yes it was closed) years ago (80's) and it was strewn with patient records & such like.

Oh and shite smeared walls.

[edcam]

It was turned into luxury apartments Annette - I went to a friend's engagement party there last year at her parents' place. Very nice too. Much smarter than when you were an inpatient...I mean last there.

[Annette Curtain]

Oh you slag.

I was never an inpatient (out-maybe)

Where is Essex ?

[edcam]

I don't know exactly - they had to drug me to get me there and my recollection is hazy to say the least.

[david_carnell]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> The idea of surviving a nuclear war whilst

> surrounded by that abysmal shade of blue makes me

> want to kill myself.

Most East Dulwich thing ever.

[Huguenot]

It speaks to the very core of what make us human d_c

If anything good could ever come from an apocalypse it could only be a rebirth, to learn our lessons and start chastened but more committed to the great sum of human existence...

... and then we'd be surrounded by that horrible shade of blue - that desperate, committee born celebration of human inadequacy, of convergence on mediocrity, of our pathetic averageness in the face of soaring spiritual ambition.

If that weren't bad enough, imagine having to die, and the last sparking of your synapses highlighting that soul crushing cyan.

[*Bob*]

I can't read the word 'Cyan' without thinking of a ZX Spectrum.

It's a Pavlovian response.

[StraferJack]

snap

[david_carnell]

I don't know, something about a council painting a nuclear shelter in their corporate colour smacks of 1970s British values. The "that'll do" mentality. Made our nation great.

[*Bob*]

I expect there was a study done - and it was thought at the time that such a colour would be the equivalent of 'cool wet grass' for the inmates.

Of course, today it would be Elephants Breath.

[Huguenot]

:))

[El Pibe]

Snap too

[Top Banana]

Vicanna, have you considered the Paris Catacombs at all? I'm considering it at the end of the summer.

Plus I really, really want to go here.

My own interest is photography. I'm a Paul Jaspers wannabe!

http://www.pauljaspers.com/