Sympathy for the Dibble.

• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,397
  19 April 2018     20:43342713
  #1      
  It's reading articles like this, and visiting my four children who all now live in Greater London (daughter No 2, who lives on a narrowboat had a stabbing within 50 yards of her boat on the towpath last weekend - yet Snowflake Daughter No3 was wittering about an 'aggressive' stop and search she'd witnessed outside her flat in Hackney FFS - idiot child!) that make me realise that down here in Sleepy Hollow we have little idea of what we have allowed our capital city to become while we were the grown-ups supposedly in charge.
  
  Perhaps stab-proof vests might make London Fashion Week this year?
  
  And it's NOT just knives!
  
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/an-odd-new-feeling-has-crept-up-on-me-sympathy-for-the-police/
  
  

  
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  19 April 2018     21:50342714
  #2      
  Not sure why this is in the politics forum but sad to see many of my old stamping grounds playing host to such behaviour, a sharpened lolly stick was the weapon of choice in those halcyon times.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,931
  20 April 2018     11:02342717
  #3      
  Mine seems to be ok still even nearby Brixton must have improved from when I lived in SW London all those years ago.
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• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 7 Jun 2017
  • Posts: 3,095
  20 April 2018     12:09342721
  #4      
  My beloved New Cross seems to be fine, and the in-laws in Hither Green (aside from the odd knife-wielding pensioner, that is). But the most revealing bit of information is that at least one of the Haddock clan seems to have triumphed despite tough odds.
  
  

   Captain Haddock wrote:

  Snowflake Daughter No3 was wittering about an 'aggressive' stop and search she'd witnessed outside her flat in Hackney FFS - idiot child!
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  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
• Guest 1713

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2016
  • Posts: 110
  20 April 2018     13:20342722
  #5      
  Haha love it when the reality of living in a crime infested cesspit .. wakes the snowflakes up. My old home Deptford is virtually unrecognizable now.
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