A Patriotic Charity

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
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For my own part, one reason why I go fly-fishing is that I find it
intensely nerve-racking, and I use it to liven myself up after the
tedium and boredom of war-zones.

You must live in a really bad part of town. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article , Ken
Fortenberry wrote:

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
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For my own part, one reason why I go fly-fishing is that I find it
intensely nerve-racking, and I use it to liven myself up after the
tedium and boredom of war-zones.

You must live in a really bad part of town. ;-)

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

L

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:49:15 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

We all know who the perp was in the "homophobic assault."

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Lazarus Cooke wrote:
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For my own part, one reason why I go fly-fishing is that I find it
intensely nerve-racking, and I use it to liven myself up after the
tedium and boredom of war-zones.
You must live in a really bad part of town. ;-)

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

Do you live on Coldharbour Lane ? If so, have you considered
moving to a nicer part of Brixton ?

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article , Ken
Fortenberry wrote:

Do you live on Coldharbour Lane ? If so, have you considered
moving to a nicer part of Brixton ?

I do live there. But my kids grew up in Belfast - the windows of their
bedroom blew in when the IRA bombed a nearby police station (they of
course slept through it), and I tend to work in countries that are even
more violent than England. There's an overground rail station at the
end of my street that takes me directly into the centre of town, to
Gatwick airport, or to Luton airport.

My bees can forage to their hearts' content (if bees do have hearts) on
the ivy and weeds that grow in the abandoned gardens round here.

And I can keep my Dari up to scratch here - I speak only Dari when I go
marketing at the local convenience store and greengrocer's.

I've been here so long and the area is so bad (the London Evening
Standard described our street as 'the worst street in Britain') that
I've felt that it had to start going up sometime. In fact it's started
happening. Ten years ago the upstairs apartments were occupied by some
asylum seekers and a drug smuggler. Now they've been bought by an actor
from the National Theatre and a City banker.

Lazarus

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
In article , Ken
Fortenberry wrote:


Lazarus Cooke wrote:

snip
For my own part, one reason why I go fly-fishing is that I find it
intensely nerve-racking, and I use it to liven myself up after the
tedium and boredom of war-zones.

You must live in a really bad part of town. ;-)


http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

L

I thought that Great Britain had strict gun control. Apparently, I was
misinformed.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

In article , rw
wrote:


http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

L

I thought that Great Britain had strict gun control. Apparently, I was
misinformed.

Sadly, some of the criminals round here don't always obey the law.

Even so (http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/):

€ Pro rata, the USA has 34 times the number of homicides involving
firearms as England and Wales.

€ Switzerland and Canada have three times the number of shooting
deaths as the rate in the uk.

I just happen to live in the worst street in Britain. Although nearly
all my neighbours are very good people, many of them come from a
country where gun crime and drug dealing are rampant, and the very few
relatives they have who are gun-wielding criminals tend to gravitate to
this neck of the woods.

L

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:14:43 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

In article , rw
wrote:


http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

L

I thought that Great Britain had strict gun control. Apparently, I was
misinformed.

Sadly, some of the criminals round here don't always obey the law.

Even so (http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/):

€ Pro rata, the USA has 34 times the number of homicides involving
firearms as England and Wales.

€ Switzerland and Canada have three times the number of shooting
deaths as the rate in the uk.

I just happen to live in the worst street in Britain. Although nearly
all my neighbours are very good people, many of them come from a
country where gun crime and drug dealing are rampant, and the very few
relatives they have who are gun-wielding criminals tend to gravitate to
this neck of the woods.

L

So you're saying you have a lot of Texans living on your street...

;^)


g.c.

George Cleveland wrote:
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:14:43 +0100, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:


In article , rw
wrote:



http://www.urban75.org/brixton/featu...ng-boards.html

L

I thought that Great Britain had strict gun control. Apparently, I was
misinformed.

Sadly, some of the criminals round here don't always obey the law.

Imagine that. Same here.


Even so (http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/):

€ Pro rata, the USA has 34 times the number of homicides involving
firearms as England and Wales.

You're cherry picking. What about Scotland, huh? :-)


€ Switzerland and Canada have three times the number of shooting
deaths as the rate in the uk.

Guns are readily available in the US. I have three. I'd bet that the
average number of guns per American ROFF poster is greater than one.


I just happen to live in the worst street in Britain. Although nearly
all my neighbours are very good people, many of them come from a
country where gun crime and drug dealing are rampant, and the very few
relatives they have who are gun-wielding criminals tend to gravitate to
this neck of the woods.

It must be tough to live in a neighborhood where you're at a
disadvantage when you go unarmed. I'd move if I were you, but if for
some reason I couldn't move, I'd pack.

So you're saying you have a lot of Texans living on your street...

;^)

Good one, George.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On Oct 1, 11:24 am, George Cleveland
wrote:
So you're saying you have a lot of Texans living on your street...

It's far worse. I have a lot of Texans running my country.

Joe F.