Halfway house

[macutd]

does anybody know what permissions you need to setup a halfway house? There is one on the corner of Trossachs rd and Thorncombe rd and it seems very close to several schools for such a potentially problematic place to be.

[sillywoman]

Why? Do you want to set one up yourself?

[macutd]

No. but if i did it wouldn't be in a quiet residential street with 3 schools within 100 yards!

[Pugwash]

Halfway houses are also used for people who are waiting to be rehoused. My stepdaughter when she and her partner were expecting their first child, their private landlord gave them notice to quit their bedsit, so the local council put them up in a Halfway House until the baby was born when they got a one bedroomed council flat.

[Loz]

macutd Wrote:

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> does anybody know what permissions you need to setup a halfway house?

[GEEK_JOKE]

-rwxr-xr-x should do the trick.

[/GEEK_JOKE]

[KidKruger]

NIMBY

[ratty]

I love posts like this.

Does anyone know how middle class an area needs to become before I can excuse myself from the responsibilities of society and live in a bubble?

[giggirl]

For heaven's sake. So we need halfway houses, but not on our own doorstep, right?

[BrandNewGuy]

It's less than a stone's throw from our house. I have no problem with it being there. Next scare, please...

[giggirl]

Way to go BNG. I salute you.

Please let's not turn the EDF into the Daily Mail.

[Jeremy]

They throw stones at your house? That's awful. I demand to know what is going to be done about this.

[Nicholas Spears]

How do you know it's a halfway house, and what are they halfway between? What sort of residents does it have? I've always assumed halfway houses are for ex-prisoners on their way to full freedom. But I may be mistaken

[Lowlander]

They're really useful, I lived next door to one in Battersea on a nice street near a school, good neighbours and would accept any parcels/recorded mail for me when I was at work.

If it's more than a few doors away then obviously they'd be no use to you. But then you'd probably not even notice it exists.

[KidKruger]

macutd - let's hope you never need a halfway house, eh ?

Although perhaps you could use it now for procuring drugs, guns and various contraband ? Slaves perhaps too ?

There's always a flip-side.

[Otta]

I used to drink in a nice pub called The Halfway House. Just thought I'd share.

[grabot]

It's become a little odd, this forum. A person makes a comment about something happening in the area, then a cohort of people who have left the area, and now profess varying degrees of dislike for East Dulwich, jump on the post and mock and pillory the poster. The mockery comes across as a little creepy, obsessive and stalker-ish.

I will state that I am ambivalent about the original post though...

[LondonMix]

Half-way houses I thought housed people who were insitionalised (uaually prison) and is a reintroduction into everyday life, correct? The way some people are describing it, it sounds more like a hostel. Do they serve emergency housing needs as well?

[giggirl]

grabot Wrote:

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> It's become a little odd, this forum. A person

> makes a comment about something happening in the

> area, then a cohort of people who have left the

> area, and now profess varying degrees of dislike

> for East Dulwich, jump on the post and mock and

> pillory the poster. The mockery comes across as a

> little creepy, obsessive and stalker-ish.

>

> I will state that I am ambivalent about the

> original post though...

"A cohort of people who have left the area, and now profess varying degrees of dislike for East Dulwich"

That is something that you've just made up.

People are responding to the OP's post. If you think that's creepy and stalker-ish then an online forum really isn't for you.

[miga]

Loz Wrote:

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> macutd Wrote:

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> > does anybody know what permissions you need to

> setup a halfway house?

>

>

>

> -rwxr-xr-x should do the trick.

>

>

only if you want to execute them.....NAZI!

[giggirl]

What? Seriously offensive and un-cool to call someone a Nazi on an open forum.

[El Pibe]

i thought miga was continuing the unix 'humour'.

[miga]

there was some dense information there, sorry, a bit of Unix humour, a bit of Godwin's Law.

[giggirl]

OK sorry, I don't understand Unix humour so I don't get the joke but I have a general sense of humour failure around all things Nazi/Goodwin's Law.

[grabot]

giggirl Wrote:

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> OK sorry, I don't understand Unix humour so I

> don't get the joke but I have a general sense of

> humour failure around all things Nazi/Goodwin's

> Law.

Unix humour is fun. For example, in answer to your earlier response to my comment. I wonder what the following regular expression yields on this thread?

^I.*!

[KidKruger]

for me it yields:

10 PRINT "*yawn*"

20 GOTO 10

I think that will make it through the interpreter.

to terminate.