The gardens police cordon

[steveo]

What's the point of points on knives?

What if the manufacturers made the tips of them round?

[Jah Lush]

What, like this.

http://www.craftcompany.co.uk/palette-knife-by-pme-4-5-rounded-angled-blade.html

[steveo]

That shape but with the ability to cut bread

But not heads off

Well, maybe small heads

[uncleglen]

I know that young people feel that they cannot venture into certain areas in South London for fear of gang reprisals, they have spoken to me openly about it.

[dimples]

I just wondered how the person was who got stabbed , I really hope ok

[stevie23b]

i have lived in dulwich all my life nearly 45 years stabbings and gangs is nothing new . no one really wants to hear a youth has been killed or hurt but face facts its life inner city life . da silva good post !

[Sue]

stevie23b Wrote:

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da silva good post !

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This was DaSilva's post, for those who have forgotten:

"Daily Mail, Mumsnet - I think you might be onto something Pinecone. If I were you, I'd just ignore the EDF's pitchfork-wielding yokels. They just don?t want to have to imagine their cosy, bucolic domain could potentially be disrupted by an icy blast of urban reality - especially when they?re having to fork out so much money to live in this little corner of God?s earthly paradise".

I really can't understand why either of you are posting on here, since you both seem to have such a low opinion of other forum members.

[DaSilva]

That's a novel perspective to take, Sue. If you look a little more closely at the previous posts on this thread (including your own execrable efforts), I think you'll find it's other posters - not me - who exhibit 'a low opinion of other forum members' by subjecting them to a deeply unpleasant campaign of playground bullying.

Hence, to paraphrase one of your juicier quotes, 'perhaps you should engage your brain before posting - if you have one'.

[Mick Mac]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Always a pleasure, never a chore.

Haha. Nice one Jah.

[dimples]

This is awful to read . Someone has been stabbed boy or girl woman or man good citizen or awful drug dealer and as always the subject has to change into a different subject and personal bickering and attack . Why don't the people on here who feel they have to hijack each subject or question just meet up and go to a pub and sort it out or start your own forum !

[Sue]

So dimples, do you think we should just let the sort of comments made by some of the people on here pass without, er, comment?

Thus implying that we agree with them?

[dimples]

No sue not at all but I agree with the last message OTTA left , a lot of the messages on here do tend to become a slagging match don't you think !

[Sue]

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> No sue not at all but I agree with the last

> message OTTA left , a lot of the messages on here

> do tend to become a slagging match don't you think

> !

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Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on forums!

[EPB]

Sue Wrote:

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> Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on forums!

Not necessarily. I know of at least one that is always good humoured and well mannered - and very informative and entertaining.

It can be done, honestly.

[Dopamine1979]

The slagging matches are often very entertaining though.

http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/popcorn.gif

[Sue]

EPB Wrote:

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> > Well, it's a forum. That's what happens on

> forums!

>

> Not necessarily. I know of at least one that is

> always good humoured and well mannered - and very

> informative and entertaining.

> It can be done, honestly.

xxxxxx

I'm sure it can be done!

But I'd be willing to bet that the forum of which you speak does not consist of members whose main if only thing in common (grammar?) is that they live in roughly the same geographical location - am I right?

And I bet it's very heavily moderated so that trolls and unpleasant people are kicked off it at the first sign of not being good-humoured and well-mannered?

This forum, because of its nature, is bound to have members with a wide cross-section of views and personalities, and therefore disputes are bound to arise.

I think it generally has a good balance - really vile people are banned, but otherwise posters are able to state their opinions freely on the whole. I think that's a healthy thing. It would be worrying if they couldn't.

[stevie23b]

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