The View from far far away

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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Colin.Steadman » Sun May 11, 2008 9:26 am

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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Toks » Sun May 11, 2008 7:17 pm

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"][quote]A teenager has died after being attacked by a customer in a bakery shop in south-east London.

Jimmy Mizen, who was 16 on Friday, was fatally injured in the shop on Burnt Ash Hill, Hither Green, after being assaulted on Saturday.

Police said the teenager, who lived in the area, was involved in an argument with a youth who then attacked him.

London Ambulance Service were also called to the incident but the youngster died at the scene.


It's funny when you live outside London, let alone the UK for a while its things like that jolt you back into life. Teenagers die in Taiwan as anywhere else, yet I'm prtetty sure they don't willfully kill each other as a result of an argument getting out of control. The biggest killer here is probably the scooter. Kids here are as unthreatening as you can get. They don't force you to listen to crappy R 'n' bleeting from the tinny speaker or their mobile. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen people old and young just being kind to each other. Civility is taken as a big thing here and as a form of social cohesion you could add that it at times stifles inviduality. I miss alot of things about life in London, but not the nascent threat that alot of 'hoodies' seem to pose. After over two months here I'm pretty sure that in a few years time I'd want to move the family here. Stories like the unfortnuate one above hardly make me want to stay.

Now, it's a glorious day outside..Hope the CR was good yesterday. Though I'll be way off the pace I'm looking forward to me July 5th or 12th reappearance depending on when I can get the bike serviced and my long stored DA bling added.

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Hey Sean, I wasn't gonna reply to your post... But then leaving for work this morning a friend texted to say that her friends brother had been stabbed. It was over complete bullshit as most of these "stabbings/killings are. Some pond life, scum bag, no brain having sshit decided to stab him just cause he wouldn't give them his mobile phone and bike. Luckily perhaps cause he's quite a chunky chap the knife didn't penerate his vital organ - heart. All those involved in the attempted mugging/stabbing were around eighteen years old.

Its so fcuking depressing when you think about it. A minority of kids in london are now literally operating on a different moral code from the rest of us. Interestingly my 12 year old son who as you may know lives in a small town outside Sheffield asked whether his 15 year old cousin in Brixton has a gun. I told him that his cousins life would't be worth living if his Mum or Dad even heard him mention the word gun and we laughed it off. I love London but increasingly when people diss the England's capital city its really hard to defend it :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Marky Mark » Sun May 11, 2008 7:39 pm

Toks. I'm listening to what you are saying.

I have lived in London all my life, born in the centre of Our beautiful capital. lived in Wandsworth, Batersea, Peckham, Croydon and now Purley.

Londoner's including me spend our lives wearing blinkers. I have the benefit of traveling ALOT for my job. I love my country BUT it's not until you go away and come back home again that you can take off the rose tinted specticals and see the crap we all live in.

I am going to bite my tongue now before I say what i'm thinking. :evil: :evil: :evil:

All the best for your friends brother. Marky Mark
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby George » Sun May 11, 2008 9:01 pm

[quote]lived in Wandsworth, Batersea, Peckham, Croydon and now Purley.
Slowly moving away from the chavs then Mark :wink:
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby -Adam- » Sun May 11, 2008 10:20 pm

Don't know about that, keep going at that rate and you'll end up in Redhill :shock:

Try to hook a right at some point and you'll be sorted :wink: :lol:
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Mon May 12, 2008 8:10 am

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]LOL, we were talking about that in Chinese class this morning. It happened off the East coats far from here. I didn't feel a thing and slept right through it. :shock: :D :twisted:


So the earth didn't move for you then..... :lol:
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby adrian » Mon May 12, 2008 4:48 pm

I don't know - this sort of thing has always been with us, in this country at least. I grew up in the late '70s and early '80s and things were a lot worse then. Violence was absolutely everywhere, and on a huge scale - every day at school, every time you went to football (before, during and after) every weekend in town centres - even in places like leafy Leatherhead, Reigate and Banstead. And does anyone else remember what happened when Sham69 played in Kingston and Epsom? Bleedin' Nora.

Clearly, pointless, motiveless violence was nothing new and had been going on for decades/ever before that - [url=http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/forsyth_harris.htm]here's[/url] an example (off the top of my head) from what people now imagine to have been some sort of golden age in this country. Then you go back to the bloody awful treatment the first West Indians and Asians to come here got. Before that, the rise of fascism all over western Europe between the wars. It's easy to think of it in abstract terms now, as History with a capital H, but on the street people experienced it as someone coming up to them and giving them a kicking for no reason - then as now.

I think that after a while, society (rightly) gets fed up with and more intolerant of it, and with a 24-hour news eye scrutinising every single incident, it can appear that it's getting worse. But, depressing as these incidents are, the reality is that it's never been safer on the streets - in London or anywhere else.
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Andrew G » Mon May 12, 2008 5:07 pm

[quote="Adrian"] from what people now imagine to have been some sort of golden age in this country.

Once you reach 30 then it's a rule that there was definitely a Golden Age, and it was the one you grew up in a decade or so earlier. This remains the Golden Age for that person throughout their life. Doesn't matter when this was which is why there is a Golden Age that covers just about every era.
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Toks » Mon May 12, 2008 5:22 pm

Yeah fair points Adrian. In contrast today I went to open a mini bottle of coke on the tube and it fizzed up and I got soaked in the stuff. Two seperate young people got out tissues to help me wipe my hands and trousers. A friend fell off her bike last weekend in a park near me and these guys playing basketball all went over to help her and put the chain back on her bike. But of course thats not news :D . Anyway no more moaning from me, its lovely and sunny in London. The place looks great and the people look happy :D :D :D
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Brian Nolan » Mon May 12, 2008 9:38 pm

good post Sean - and the replies from Adrian and Toks..

for me it's not the violence that gets me down because I rarely see it first hand as I am on the bike or in the car. If you are using public transport though I can imagine it must be pretty scary at times..
I am just getting so tired of all the other crap though.. We can't move for cctv cameras and yet we are no safer - but if you step out or over the line of some petty byelaw the coucil or others want to fine you .. And then this government and the Daily Hate Mail want to give you a criminal record for using a harmless ( for the v vast majority ), herb that they do not agree with ...
I have lived in London all my life but I feel if i was elsewhere it would seem slightly better - except I would be missing the country's best cycling club ! Beyond that though I do feel that the country is broken and a bit sick ...
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Brian Nolan » Mon May 12, 2008 9:40 pm

ps - glad you are having fun out there Sean - enjoy all your posts from afar - nice one mate :D
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby -Adam- » Tue May 13, 2008 12:11 am

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]already sourced a special jersey for my Grand Retour ;-)


Is that because you can't get hold of an ACC jersey :wink:
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Toks » Tue May 13, 2008 6:57 am

is that a girl behind you sean
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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Andrew G » Tue May 13, 2008 9:19 am

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]Cheers Brian,

I'm looking forward to coming back and have already sourced a special jersey for my Grand Retour ;-) It's fruity, that's all I'm saying.

Adrian, I hear ya!

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Re: The View from far far away

Postby Andrew G » Tue May 13, 2008 9:27 am

You know you're a star Sean.
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