Dogkennelhillbilly

...all of which has got sod all to do with the topic of this thread. 🤣🤣

In positive news from West Norwood: there's a nice-looking new pub opened up next to the library/Co-Op called Badger Badger. https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2024/08/pubs-should-be-for-everyone-new-pub-called-badger-badger-opens-in-west-norwood-today-friday-2-august-2024/

Just been through West Norwood and was stunned at the destruction caused by a crash. There is an 1899 marble drinking fountain standing in a pedestrian island outside the West Norwood Library - or at least there should be. The thing has been smashed into three bits, knocked across the pavement, and sprayed with broken glass and bits of some kind of vehicle. Presumably the vehicle that did this must have been travelling with some force when it mounted the kerb and sent the stone blocks flying: significant weight or speed or both. Supposedly this is a 20mph zone. Look around and you'll see this kind of damage (hopefully less dramatic) all over the shop: smashed bollards, knocked over traffic signs, squashed lights and askew kerbstones are hardly rare. If these were blast marks from explosions, we'd think this was a dangerous place and worry about what would have happened if we were standing there when it happened. We wouldn't let our kids go where buildings were covered in the recent pock marks of bullets. But we all seem to ignore the signs of road violence and accept it... Edit: this might have happened almost two weeks ago??? https://x.com/PaoloIskandar64/status/1847684879011446917

Welcome and good luck, Hop!

As a postscript to this from May 2023: this week, 7 men have each been sentenced to 9 to 17 years imprisonment for their role in this shooting. This seems like a good result for the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Service. 17 months between incident and sentencing is impressive considering the number of defendants and victims, the forensic evidence there must have been, and courts system totally underwater. It seems like a bad result for the offenders, who have thrown their own lives in the bin for f*** all. https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24664297.seven-men-jailed-shootings-peckham/

I suppose everyone's got to have a hobby.

Yeah, well, you can prove anything with facts, can't you? The difference between the volume of crime identified by police and the British Crime Survey is irrelevant here for two reasons: first, because what we're interested in is the relative change in either of those rates (is it going up, down or nowhere?) and not the absolute level. And second because the types of crime the OP is claiming to have increased significantly is the type of crime that DOES get reported to and recorded by police...vehicles have unique identifiers and insurers that won't pay out without a crime number. This is 3 pages dissecting a load of toss vomited up by the OP without any evidence.

Well, quite. It was an assertion without evidence and it can be dismissed without evidence. That junction has CCTV running 24 hours a day precisely because the LTN was put in...

lol!

Seeing a man in the street is evidence of seeing a man in the street. It's not evidence of a crime wave. HTH.

This is brilliant. 10/10, no notes. 👏👏👏 It's like whoever it was that was making out they basically lived in North Korea because they didn't get their way on whether a road should be closed or not.

A reminder of what the basis of that perception is: OP saw one (1) "suspicious male". Christopher Hitchins was wrong about a lot of stuff but his line "that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" is bang on here.

Agreed that I am anonymous and unrepresentative of anyone else, just like OneDulwich is. Agreed there is a lot of uncertainty about what OneDulwich really is. What objective has OneDulwich achieved in the last 4 years of complaining? The LTN remains in place and apart from a few pro- and anti-hobbyists bickering on the EDF, the rest of the world has moved on.

The Paper Cat, a new children's bookshop, has opened up at 25 Half Moon Lane in Herne Hill (between Bon Velo bike shop and Flo's Cafe). It has a great range of kids books and looks very nice too. A good addition to the shops at Herne Hill! https://www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/

You seem a bit unsure. How many members does "OneDulwich" have?

https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/dulwich-village/about-us/crime-map This would be a good starting point and probably a bit more plausible than "I saw a suspicious male and this proves there is a crime wave".

Oh - is it a grass roots organisation or just someone's alter ego?

In this age of fake news and relentless bullshit, reposting claims from non-transparent sources is actually a bad thing.

At a guess, I'd say the BBC runs the BBC website. It's a formally-incorporated organisation that publishes extensive and exhaustive detail about how many employees it has, who its officers are, how it is governed, how it's funded, how it intends to ensure fairness and neutrality in reporting, and how it fixes things when it doesn't. In every respect, completely different from "OneDulwich", and a terrible comparison.

There are two problems with adopting an ironically stupid persona in online discourse. The first is that it becomes somewhat boring and suffocating, so it's hard to stay in character. The second is that ironic stupidity online is indistinguishable from normal stupidity online.

...you post paragraphs and paragraphs of stuff that's not about the West Dulwich LTN that is the subject of the thread. 🙃

lol! 🤣🤣 Please, tell us more about how you're not opposed to LTNs but you have really profound, substantive concerns about how many metres from the junction a pneumatic tube counter was placed one Tuesday in 2020...

Actually, this thread is supposed to be about the proposed changes to the West Dulwich LTN, but some monomaniac is still wanging on about Southwark Council's supposed crimes in East Dulwich 4 years ago...

Thames Water management are awful but even I doubt that they're trying to boost their numbers by going around fraudulently misreading individual user's meters to overstate water consumption and chisel another £200 out of them. It's much more likely there's a leak, a cockup in data collection or a cockup in meter setup.

Unless someone is willing to state their name and qualifications (malumbu, exdulwicher, uncle Tom Cobbly), any pseudonymous poster's supposed expertise is irrelevant because they could be making it all up. God knows we've seem enough barrack room traffic engineers, statisticians and physicists talk absolute nonsense on here. The only thing worth discussing is factual data cited to real sources. Not "my online mate Terry reckons that Dulwich Park will be flooded next year" or "I've seen data that shows 80% of taxi drivers are left handed".