Posts by Alan Perrott
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good on you Mark, I was beginning to think the wave of disinterest in the subject was going to prove my point.
and you want to talk about inter-city parochialism? that shit goes all the way down.
not only between community boards, but within wards - the passive aggression between the elected boards and the unelected community committees (and why the hell do they exist?) is comedy gold.
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having spent about five years covering AK's community boards in the late 90s I'd say they're more cuddly idea than effective representation.
from where I sat it was only ever the same old obsessives - aka water pressure et al - who showed up to argue about footpaths and the same old faces standing at the elections, leading to an self-satisfied circle of power trippers, empire builders and terminal bores on both sides, several of whom are still at large.
even when an issue got narly everything would inevitably be shutdown by a council official with an overhead projector and a bumper book of numbers.
until the public at large shows it's interested in what they do - and election turnouts show they don't give an arse - I can't see what their point is outside of the feel good 'see we really care.'
how many people here have ever been at a comm board meeting? do you even know where they're held?
so iis it worth the thousands they cost and the mountains of reports they generate to keep them running just so they're there to yell at when the once in a blue moon issue that finally raises some parish pump passion comes about?
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anyone buying the justification for not opening the cup with ABs-France?
utter bollocks.
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just so you know: Lux Interior has died.
sheesh.
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Terry Tate is good stuff - Felchers, nice - but what the hell is he selling?
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yep, cheers Steve.
Damn...
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not wanting to harsh the chat mellow...but I'm really hoping this ain't a good example of where the Gaza debate is heading within the ME media.
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10272422.html
courtesy of popbitch.
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not to mention Byron Lee, Freddie Hubbard and Eartha Kitt - and yet Pat Boone plays on.
there should be some kind of vote of summat for this carry-on.
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heh, play 'em if you got 'em I say.
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fave gig: first Sharon Jones and the Dapkings soulfest at Womad.
closely followed by seeing Gil Scott Heron in Nu Yoik.
shazam.