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What? I think it was a retarded argument in the first place. You seem to be suggesting that unless you look at everything from the position of the impoverished minority then you're 'out of touch' which I just can't agree with. But we covered this completely before. What value is there in going over the same points over and over?
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: outside of your life, 30 pounds is a lot of money to a lot of people and thinking that it isn't certainly marks a person as out of touch. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news
This has obviously upset you quite alot judging by the piles of sanctimonious rhetoric you're heaping up. I know it's 'wormy' and 'kovacian' of me to suggest that you apply context and maybe some thought to the original comment, but if you look back at the thread you it's surely obvious that it was a response to you absurdly comparing a £30 fine to having your legs sawn off. Naming something quite disposable that people commonly exchange for £30 without really thinking about it, was simply a way of accentuating how fucking stupid the comment was in the first place. It doesn't mean I don't understand that £30 holds different value to different people, just that it's clearly not comparable to what you were comparing it. I'd rather swap my entire monthly salary of 56.5 dvd box sets than have my legs sawn off.
Also: WTF is up with trying to paint Croydon as some kind of urban battleground I could never understand? I lived there for five fucking years. And here's what I discovered in that time: The people there go fucking nuts for DVD boxsets.
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oh dear. well, you know, all i was saying was that i mistrust dinner parties because I am crap at them, and so i can see it's natural to be wary of things associated with them, and that ringo is an hispanic car jacker living in tokyo, making a career from illegal racing by day and being a drum and bass dj by night.
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What is this? National Bring-Up-Old-Arguments Day?
Edit - talk about what you like. Seriously. But if you come to any deeper conclusions than you did last time you had this pointless argument with Thorn, I'll eat my own arms.
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i wasn't trying to be mean to cherry re: food, just saying that while I can appreciate the fetishism of food preparation and presentation, I also have an inbuilt desire to not feed that, and i was trying to work out why.
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I suppose it's related to whatever causes you to resent snowboarders just because snowboarding is something you've never had the inclination to get involved with.
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i went to a pub in oxford where you get working class people, and some of them tried to give me shit later in the day when we saw them in the street.
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Actually despite the bad reputation of Croydon, the only trouble I've had so far is that I sat in some sick in a taxi. Someone was sick so the guy sprayed with with half a can of air freshener.
A knifed up body was found behind the Jon Cryer art theatre in leafy Carshalton, so maybe I'm actually already living in the ghetto fabulous.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Did you have lunch?
err. hmmm. i think i may have skipped lunch. I recall eating quite a few burgers on the train on the way back because i was drunk and they were half price.
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I think their seems to be a divide in opinion. One colleague laughed out loud. Breathless with humour. Another (someone who bought property there) disagreed.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I think their seems to be a divide in opinion. One colleague laughed out loud. Breathless with humour.
That would have annoyed the hell out of me if I'd seen it first hand. I liked it alot, and it still 'wins' in some categories, compared to other places I've lived.
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I've never thought of it as a 'bad' place, I just thought that in general petty crime and gang knifings were high, giving it a sort of Daily Mail scare. I had more shit in Shepherds Bush than I did in Manor House.
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It does seem to have a reputation for being crappy, puggishly spiteful. The entry in that idiotic Crap Towns book mentions that you're as likely to get knifed as looked at, and it seems liek the kind of place that would feature in a Sandy Toksvig punchline. Ethnically it's quite diverse, which puts people off, maybe. I know Bandy hated the place.
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