Arty/Media types majority in ED?

[nutty]

I always hear that ED is full of artists etc but I suspect the balance has swung much more back to the professionals. In fact after discovering the Mockney Piers is a technologist in the financial sector (just call me Sherlock) I started to wonder just what the balance was.

Could we use the voting mechanism on the forum to "vote" for our job area (obviously will require some generic job types being options) and get a straw poll what people who live in ED do....

Will obviously be grossly swung by the fact it's carried out on an online forum....

[Keef]

How do you define "professional"? I'm a qualified worker, and I'm classed as professional within the social care world. However, I don't wear a suit and work in the city ;-)

Also, I have an arty (well musical) side, and if I was a pretentious gob sh!te, I might call myself an artist, even though it's not my job....

I know one very good artist in the area who sells her work, but is a secondary teacher by day :-S

I agree that it would be interesting, but we need definitions.....

[Domitianus]

Is Arty/Media to be defined as "insipid, affected, pretentious, self-centred, anemic minded, insular, left-wing, politically-correct w**kers"? If so, there are indeed many in ED.

[snorky]

I am a wage slave like nearly everyone else on the board.

A tiny cog in the wheels of global capital, but a cog dedicated to subtly sabotaging the machine at every opportunity.

[mockney piers]

Indeed we can be many-faceted, I am a technologist who has worked in the financial sector (and plans to again sadly) but I'm also an insipid, affected, pretentious, self-centred, anemic minded, insular, left-wing, politically-correct w**ker, so it's a bit tricky.

But I'm quite curious too nutty. Keef, I suggest we go with our breadwinning professions rather than our inclinations.

[Domitianus]

May I apologise profusely? I spelt "anaemic" in my earlier posting in the American fashion!

[Huguenot]

Good heavens Domitianus, was that a copy and paste job then? I always thought the words were your own ;-)

I guess I'm media, but I've left plenty of examples on this site of that smack of polarised, politically incorrect, proto-fascist tendencies with a discinclination to redistribute the wealth...

[Domitianus]

It was a simple typo! I have no intention of redistributing a single penny of my own. After all, other parties didn't redistribute the energy or effort required to make my wad. I am reminded of the excellent story of the Little Red Hen.

[Keef]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> But I'm quite curious too nutty. Keef, I suggest

> we go with our breadwinning professions rather

> than our inclinations.

Still not sure where that leaves my job, guess I'm professional (although I'm sure my boss would argue against that ;-) )...

[Polly D]

Maybe 'the Guardian' circulation figures would tell us all we need to know ...

[nutty]

I guess there's two areas

The company you work for's business (e.g. Financial, Government)

Your job - e.g. Analyst, Support, Salesman etc

I'm sure there's some generic list somewhere that insurance companies etc use...

[Jah Lush]

Who gives a shit anyway. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

[Keef]

Quite Right!!!!

Don't live to work, work to live :)-D

[Mark]

Here are a couple of pictures taken in Budgens and Somerfield on a Saturday morning that may have some reflection of the type of people round these parts. Can you tell which is the most popular paper bought on Lordship Lane?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/446043133_d122cef8b8.jpg?v=0http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/446047211_00101d3031.jpg?v=0

[Jah Lush]

Cheers Keef, quite right too. I'll drink to that.

[Domitianus]

I am worried that Jah Lush may be an arty type. Quoting from Oscar Wilde, no less. BTW the most commonly read paper in ED is the 'Yes, I Do Property Deals' Gazette! it is read mostly by w**kers! Love and peace to the world!

[Jah Lush]

Good grief! Is that really what the good people of ED are reading? That must account for all the estate agents clogging up Lordship Lane then. Also, I may well be an arty type that is also a wage slave Domitianus. I just happen to be well read that's all.

[Mark]

wrong, it's the Guardian

[snorky]

Im sorry people, at the risk of being viewed as obtuse for the sake of being different, I really dont get off on The Guardian on Saturdays - too much needy bleating from non event writers.Too much Tom Stoppard.Too much middle class tutting.

THe Gide is the best thing about it - unfort. the vermin Guardian publichers have ralsied this and now seal the Guide in a plastic bag to stop me from pocketing the guide gratis and leaving the rest of the smug waste of space to lie unwanted on the floor of the 7-11.

[mockney piers]

Actually it's more than likely to be Harry Potter depressingly.

[louisiana]

Mark Wrote:

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> Here are a couple of pictures taken in Budgens and

> Somerfield on a Saturday morning that may have

> some reflection of the type of people round these

> parts. Can you tell which is the most popular

> paper bought on Lordship Lane?

Ha ha, hoist by our own petard.

Mr L is actually based in rural Berkshire, and whenever I go to the - only - newsagent's there, it's Daily Wail wall to wall, and the single copy of the Grauniad has gone by 8.15am.

Louisiana

[MadWorld74]

Dear Keef,

I am an actor and I live in ED and I am not...insert quote from yourself 'a pretentious gob sh!te'.......so there.

[Domitianus]

You say you are not a 'pretentious gob-shite'? Prove it!

[snorky]

MadWorld74 Wrote:

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> Dear Keef,

>

> I am an actor and I live in ED and I am

> not...insert quote from yourself 'a pretentious

> gob sh!te'.......so there.

are you curently " resting" ?

[georgia]

And despite being a LL resident, I don't read The Guardian....!:)