We really are hours away from anarchy...

[snowy slopes]

Blib said:

Enfield is a scary, scary place. Full of misfits and lunatics. I wouldn't be seen dead there.

I'm surprised there's not riots every night of the week in that area. Especially that around the main entrance to Chase Farm hospital

I blame newcomers from the West Country for stirring up trouble. Them and their country ways. It's not right. Not right, I tell you!

You should see it in the town centre on a friday or saturday night, the weird and the wonderful venture out to play

[Jasandjules]

Risotto said:

Any minor upset causes mass panic simply because people are no longer exposed to real problems.

I think it has to be this.

So now a minor inconvenience becomes a major upset as people have lost sight of perspective.

[aclivity]

snowy slopes said:

Blib said:

Enfield is a scary, scary place. Full of misfits and lunatics. I wouldn't be seen dead there.

I'm surprised there's not riots every night of the week in that area. Especially that around the main entrance to Chase Farm hospital

I blame newcomers from the West Country for stirring up trouble. Them and their country ways. It's not right. Not right, I tell you!

You should see it in the town centre on a friday or saturday night, the weird and the wonderful venture out to play

But even at it's worst, it is a million metaphorical years up in civiliation terms against it's near neighbour, Cheshunt.

[Pigeon]

Risotto said:

There are no droughts, no famines, nothing aproaching true poverty, no disease epidemics, no lack of heathcare, no shortage of money, no domestic war, etc, etc.

Must take more care reading stuff, I initially read that as "There are no droughts, no fannies..."

[Chris71]

AJS- said:

London is just full of weirdos.

I agree entirely. In the nicest possible way they're all a bit socially mal-adjusted. As someone said above the crisis mentality Londoners show in their driving is indicative of the rest of their lives. Everything is such a big stress.

Of course it could be worse than Enfield, I could be in Southgate...

andy_s said:

Risotto said:

What's happening is that we live in a country which has run out of things to worry about. Any minor upset causes mass panic simply because people are no longer exposed to real problems.

Too true. Plus, for the media, panic = profit.

+1 to both of those.

In a simialr way, that's why petty crime always winds me up - no one in this country needs to steal to feed their families. Okay, the nation might still be on the long, long slide from former greatness, but we've actually still got it pretty good compared to 98% of people on earth. Even in Enfield.

Where I grew up we didn't have mains water. It was all very civilised with an automatic pump bringing water from a well into the household plumbing, but every so often it would dry up for a day or so at a time in hot summers and we'd just nip down to the shops and buy some. Likewise, being out in the sticks we were subject to quite a few power cuts in the winter. We just lived with it; I hasten to add that was Devon in the '90s, I'm not talking the mists of time or a far away land (shut it Blib ).

[Cas_P]

If I saw people physically fighting over that I'd become very concerned about the area I lived in, and probably move.

Edited by Cas_P on Tuesday 10th August 17:25

[Pesty]

snowy slopes said:

Not a problem here in doncaster, although if it did get to water tankers, i would rather die of thirst than get in queue with some of the inhabitants of this town, knives are a common occurence here

Its the mullets that the pikies seem to be sporting these days that puts me off.

[ThePainter]

Stu R said:

Move north. You could fill a pond in a few minutes with what's coming out of the sky here atm.

{conveniently forgets the hose pipe ban in the North West of England...]

[ianash]

I seem to remember the psanic buying that took place over sugar and bread, at the first hint of a shortage. Sort of self fulfilling.

[Chris71]

Cas_P said:

If I saw people physically fighting over that I'd become very concerned about the area I lived in, and probably move.

Now that I do agree with.

It's actually a pretty reasonable area as North London goes, but people round here wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. I live just down the road from an ambulance station and I regular see people refusing to give way to ambulances, for example. It really is the sort of place where people consider a few seconds of their commute to be worth more than someone else's life.

Unfortunately living in this particular area is the least of many evils.

[Flanders.]

GTIR said:

I'm off to panic buy some spam.

I love Spam Sarnies.

[andy_s]

Flanders. said:

GTIR said:

I'm off to panic buy some spam.

I love Spam Sarnies.

Hurry up, they're running out...

[CaptainSlow]

I think it's due to the area you live in and its inhabitants. The riots at the local Ikea would have been a good pre-warning.

[Chris71]

CaptainSlow said:

I think it's due to the area you live in and its inhabitants. The riots at the local Ikea would have been a good pre-warning.

I heard about those. Before I moved here though.

It's odd, I always thought - not really being into furniture personally - that taking the Volvo down to Ikea was an archetypally middle class thing to do.

To be fair that was Edmonton. I'm told by friends who've been here longer that our side of the A10 is vastly preferable. I appreciate that's a relative term though.

[StevieBee]

Pigeon said:

Risotto said:

There are no droughts, no famines, nothing aproaching true poverty, no disease epidemics, no lack of heathcare, no shortage of money, no domestic war, etc, etc.

Must take more care reading stuff, I initially read that as "There are no droughts, no fannies..."

Me too! Also read donuts

and picnic for some reason.

No donuts or fannies. That is worth picnicing about.

[mickk]

Chris71 said:

CaptainSlow said:

I think it's due to the area you live in and its inhabitants. The riots at the local Ikea would have been a good pre-warning.

I heard about those. Before I moved here though.

It's odd, I always thought - not really being into furniture personally - that taking the Volvo down to Ikea was an archetypally middle class thing to do.

To be fair that was Edmonton. I'm told by friends who've been here longer that our side of the A10 is vastly preferable. I appreciate that's a relative term though.

Oi i was born and bred in Edmonton.





Now that is a sthole interesting place.

[_rubinho_]

Pigeon said:

Risotto said:

There are no droughts, no famines, nothing aproaching true poverty, no disease epidemics, no lack of heathcare, no shortage of money, no domestic war, etc, etc.

Must take more care reading stuff, I initially read that as "There are no droughts, no fannies..."

You too huh?

[Kindersley]

Enfield is a toilet. People live there because their poor and cannot live in a better part of london. Its like a special needs center crossed with a Dole office /immigration center.

people are unable to think for themselves these days... I can imagine them turning up in their "Ugg" boots and tattoos looking like obese Jordans with a fresh spray on tan . Their B/f's looking like a fall out from a Scoobynet meet, all wondering how to get the water home.

let them die ...who cares?

[CrashTD]

Kindersley said:

Enfield is a toilet. People live there because their poor and cannot live in a better part of london. Its like a special needs center crossed with a Dole office /immigration center.

people are unable to think for themselves these days... I can imagine them turning up in their "Ugg" boots and tattoos looking like obese Jordans with a fresh spray on tan . Their B/f's looking like a fall out from a Scoobynet meet, all wondering how to get the water home.

let them die ...who cares?

Quite scarily true, especially enfield town.

The sticky bits are a lot nicer though

[Blib]

CaptainSlow said:

I think it's due to the area you live in and its inhabitants. The riots at the local Ikea would have been a good pre-warning.

That's not local. Could've been on the other side of the planet.

ETA: Just read Mickk grew up in Edmonton. Makes my point exactly.

Edited by Blib on Tuesday 10th August 19:33