He's been wazzing on about "suicidal empathy", which of course isn't even vaguely an original thought, it's a right wing trope currently doing the rounds on...guess where...
Not wanting to tempt fate, but you haven’t been stabbed, had your Rolex stolen, beaten up or had a strange brown man look at you all lustfully? Edit: so we can rule out North West London as Fallen. Any more reports anyone, so we can narrow it down.
Been at meetings in Central London today, was over by London Bridge this morning, and currently having coffee in Brixton. I've been using my phone openly in all places, and haven't been knifed, had my phone stolen, or my wristwatch taken. I did see a Canada goose that looked a little bit saucy, but otherwise my maidenhood still intact.
As a student in the mid to late 70s, I regularly rode my bike from Chelsea, through Battersea and Clapham, on my way to my rented flat in Streatham. I cycled past a line of attractive young women, on the corner of a street in Clapham. They would always smile and wave at me, and I'd wave back. Then one evening, the ladies were being bundled into the back of a Black Maria. "Oh, that's what they were doing", I mused. Ah, the innocence of youth.
I know that DTLW is buying a flat in London right now, but he's been on WhatsApp today, so presume unusually neither stabbed nor converted to Islam yet.
Two of my customers made me hot drinks today, both Indian ……does that count as being mugged, stabbed?
When I moved back to Southampton last year; one of my initial thoughts after the first few days, was; wow, my crummy city that I used to have no love for, is gradually becoming a mini-London, multi-cultural everywhere you look. How nice! Obviously I've been mugged by hijab-wearing Canada geese almost daily since then though.
I need to pop over Itchen Ayatollah Bridge later. You have to bring your own prayer mat to cross over.
The areas around The Shard and the Royal Exchange seemed ok on Friday. No issues on the South Bank either.
Except that causes the beast pain and angers it and you can walk away This causes the beast pleasure and there’s no bars and people aren’t walking away
This made me laugh. Apologies to any vegans on here, but it resonated with my relationship with this particular thread, for obvious reasons.
Finsbury Park, represent! Have lived here since 2021 and according to Google Maps I am about 200ft from the entrance to the park itself, living just a stone's throw from the main road. I'm under a quarter of a mile to the mosque. I've walked Seven Sisters Road from the station at all times of day and night, and other times have sat on the outside benches of the local pubs on the street front, oftentimes with an expensive watch on, and not once have I ever been threatened, let alone robbed/assaulted/made to convert to Islam. The one incident we have had at our apartments since moving in was when a man hopped the fence to sit in our courtyard and do a line of coke off his phone at 2am. He was white, for what it's worth. Another time, some guy (also white) was off his tits and rang my intercom at 3am and was staring into the camera, spaced out. I picked up the call in the hallway and told him to **** off and he did. So I don't count that as noteworthy Yeah, there are groups of lads hanging around/cruising around in cars, sometimes at all hours, presumably dealing drugs or whatever else, but they are focused on themselves. I am not of interest. Yes, sometimes the late night walk from the station can be daunting when there are large groups hanging about. But I feel the same walking through the suburbs of my very white childhood neighbourhood in Southend in the early hours when I see a group of lads lingering about on a street corner Since moving to London in 2016, I've also lived in Manor House and Kilburn. And as LTL said, I will at some point this summer move towards the Finchley area, where an Italian friend of mine has lived for many years in peace since moving over here from Como and can't see herself moving home I was on the train home from my parents at about 8pm last night, having visited my mum for Mother's Day (which we apparently don't mark anymore) and while passing through Chalkwell (a very white - 96% apparently - fairly well off part of Essex, close to the coast) I had a pair of English lads (I reckon they were about 14) in football tracksuits kicking and ripping the headrest and seat back off the chairs in the carriage I was in, just for some fun This is a roundabout way of saying, yes there are bad eggs in London. And there are bad eggs everywhere else too. They are spread through many different walks of life. London hasn't fallen FFS, there's just a lot more people here and so the volume of bad eggs is higher. But the good eggs are in proportion too PS: Just walked back from my (Turkish-owned) barber shop in Green Lanes - where the Bulgarian barber cut my hair - and walked through Finsbury Park, via a stop at the (Greek-owned) bakery. There is currently a funfair on the go in Finsbury Park and you could hear the arcade-style music and kids (of all ages and colours) laughing while going round on the rides, with a BBQ ongoing nearby and several people having a post-work drink/bite to eat in the park. I was wandering along flicking between two phones, listening to music, with my watch on. No problem whatsoever. Yes, there were also some homeless people in the park, but guess what? They were also minding their own business and being no nuisance to anybody else I'm still here!
