Nigel wrote:
5-"Nigel wrote:
I was born and bred in London, consider myself a Londoner in every conceivable respect.
And so I'm not? Is my breeding not up to your standards?"
Tim I don't don't if you are now breeding pigeons but I have no idea what you are trying to say here , even if you do .
You really need to try harder when trying to be facetious. You claim that because you were born and bred in London, that gives your opinions some greater weight. That is what I mean by breeding. If we are to take you seriously, we'd need to set up a system of assessing everyone's breeding, in this sense, and the consideration accrdingly due them.
Tim
What an earth are you saying . You mentioned breeding - I made it clear that I had no idea what you meant and still don't .
Very telling that you think a basic " this is where I come from " from equates to a claim that my opinion carries more weight . I think that's very "out there " now and won't surprise many.
Finally , if you think I am going to work hard at being facetious then think on .
Some of your replies have frankly a bit silly and I choose to poke fun at them rather than try to take take them down using calculus then that's just me being the plain speaking plain ordinary bloke that I am .
A very good evening
Nigel
Nigel wrote:Tim
What an earth are you saying . You mentioned breeding - I made it clear that I had no idea what you meant and still don't .
Very telling that you think a basic " this is where I come from " from equates to a claim that my opinion carries more weight . I think that's very "out there " now and won't surprise many.
Finally , if you think I am going to work hard at being facetious then think on .
Some of your replies have frankly a bit silly and I choose to poke fun at them rather than try to take take them down using calculus then that's just me being the plain speaking plain ordinary bloke that I am .
A very good evening
Nigel
A plain speaking plain ordinary bloke doesn't get involved in meaningless would-be subtle distinctions between rights and "rights".
A habitual manipulator of language, however, likes to drag in words such as "calculus", with an implicit sneer, to imply that the readily understood arguments of his counterpart are somehow difficult and technical, so inviting others to join him in a false stupidity.
KENTISH TOWN ROAD is a humdrum high street in north London. It contains pawnbrokers, pound shops, hairdressers and some long-in-the-tooth hardware stores. Unlike Camden Town to the south, full of bars and tattoo parlours, or Hampstead to the west, with its bistros and boutique clothing shops, little seems to have changed on the street for the past three decades
I immediately thought of the contrasts between Sydenham Road, Forest Hill and Crystal Palace, although the comparisons are far from exact; Sydenham Road doesn't appear to be anything like as stuck in a time warp as Kentish Town. Various explanatory factors are suggested, some discounted, such as inward migration of the better off, the amount of social housing and the strength of amenity and business groups. There's no clear conclusion, but still worth reading. It concludes:
London is a global city, but it is also a collection of villages, cranky and resistant to change.