nutty Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I always hear that ED is full of artists etc but I suspect the balance has swung much more back to the professionals. In fact after discovering the Mockney Piers is a technologist in the financial sector (just call me Sherlock) I started to wonder just what the balance was.Could we use the voting mechanism on the forum to "vote" for our job area (obviously will require some generic job types being options) and get a straw poll what people who live in ED do....Will obviously be grossly swung by the fact it's carried out on an online forum.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 How do you define "professional"? I'm a qualified worker, and I'm classed as professional within the social care world. However, I don't wear a suit and work in the city ;-)Also, I have an arty (well musical) side, and if I was a pretentious gob sh!te, I might call myself an artist, even though it's not my job....I know one very good artist in the area who sells her work, but is a secondary teacher by day :-SI agree that it would be interesting, but we need definitions..... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Is Arty/Media to be defined as "insipid, affected, pretentious, self-centred, anemic minded, insular, left-wing, politically-correct w**kers"? If so, there are indeed many in ED. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorky Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I am a wage slave like nearly everyone else on the board.A tiny cog in the wheels of global capital, but a cog dedicated to subtly sabotaging the machine at every opportunity. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Indeed we can be many-faceted, I am a technologist who has worked in the financial sector (and plans to again sadly) but I'm also an insipid, affected, pretentious, self-centred, anemic minded, insular, left-wing, politically-correct w**ker, so it's a bit tricky.But I'm quite curious too nutty. Keef, I suggest we go with our breadwinning professions rather than our inclinations. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 May I apologise profusely? I spelt "anaemic" in my earlier posting in the American fashion! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Good heavens Domitianus, was that a copy and paste job then? I always thought the words were your own ;-)I guess I'm media, but I've left plenty of examples on this site of that smack of polarised, politically incorrect, proto-fascist tendencies with a discinclination to redistribute the wealth... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 It was a simple typo! I have no intention of redistributing a single penny of my own. After all, other parties didn't redistribute the energy or effort required to make my wad. I am reminded of the excellent story of the Little Red Hen. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 mockney piers Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> But I'm quite curious too nutty. Keef, I suggest> we go with our breadwinning professions rather> than our inclinations.Still not sure where that leaves my job, guess I'm professional (although I'm sure my boss would argue against that ;-) )... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly D Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Maybe 'the Guardian' circulation figures would tell us all we need to know ... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutty Posted April 4, 2007 Author Share Posted April 4, 2007 I guess there's two areasThe company you work for's business (e.g. Financial, Government)Your job - e.g. Analyst, Support, Salesman etcI'm sure there's some generic list somewhere that insurance companies etc use... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Who gives a shit anyway. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Quite Right!!!!Don't live to work, work to live :)-D Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Here are a couple of pictures taken in Budgens and Somerfield on a Saturday morning that may have some reflection of the type of people round these parts. Can you tell which is the most popular paper bought on Lordship Lane?http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/446043133_d122cef8b8.jpg?v=0http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/446047211_00101d3031.jpg?v=0 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Cheers Keef, quite right too. I'll drink to that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I am worried that Jah Lush may be an arty type. Quoting from Oscar Wilde, no less. BTW the most commonly read paper in ED is the 'Yes, I Do Property Deals' Gazette! it is read mostly by w**kers! Love and peace to the world! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Good grief! Is that really what the good people of ED are reading? That must account for all the estate agents clogging up Lordship Lane then. Also, I may well be an arty type that is also a wage slave Domitianus. I just happen to be well read that's all. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 wrong, it's the Guardian Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorky Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Im sorry people, at the risk of being viewed as obtuse for the sake of being different, I really dont get off on The Guardian on Saturdays - too much needy bleating from non event writers.Too much Tom Stoppard.Too much middle class tutting.THe Gide is the best thing about it - unfort. the vermin Guardian publichers have ralsied this and now seal the Guide in a plastic bag to stop me from pocketing the guide gratis and leaving the rest of the smug waste of space to lie unwanted on the floor of the 7-11. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Actually it's more than likely to be Harry Potter depressingly. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisiana Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Mark Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Here are a couple of pictures taken in Budgens and> Somerfield on a Saturday morning that may have> some reflection of the type of people round these> parts. Can you tell which is the most popular> paper bought on Lordship Lane?Ha ha, hoist by our own petard.Mr L is actually based in rural Berkshire, and whenever I go to the - only - newsagent's there, it's Daily Wail wall to wall, and the single copy of the Grauniad has gone by 8.15am.Louisiana Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadWorld74 Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Dear Keef,I am an actor and I live in ED and I am not...insert quote from yourself 'a pretentious gob sh!te'.......so there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domitianus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 You say you are not a 'pretentious gob-shite'? Prove it! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorky Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 MadWorld74 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Dear Keef,> > I am an actor and I live in ED and I am> not...insert quote from yourself 'a pretentious> gob sh!te'.......so there.are you curently " resting" ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 And despite being a LL resident, I don't read The Guardian....!:) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/427-artymedia-types-majority-in-ed/#findComment-9144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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