London yoofs

Roland

What I like about this type of thread is that the pillocks in our midst jump up and down shouting “I’m a pillock!” It saves me having to read 8 pages of drivel to determine who the pillocks are.

Emp_Fab

So, oh great and wise arbiter of sense and fairness - who are the "pillocks" ?

munckee

Emp_Fab said:

So, oh great and wise arbiter of sense and fairness - who are the "pillocks" ?

I must surely be on the list. 

Timcito

A fair amount of pillock shaming on this forum.

I suppose the alternative would be to accept that not everyone agrees with us, but that may be a little too radical ...

Shrews

robgilmo

I like to think of myself as more of an eejit than a pillock.

swiller

Who is up for crowdfunding empfab dressed up as crocodile dundee for a full day on the trains of south east london? 

 

Sporky

Roland said:

What I like about this type of thread is that the pillocks in our midst jump up and down shouting “I’m a pillock!” 

At leat I'm having fun though, right? 

randella

swiller said:

Who is up for crowdfunding empfab dressed up as crocodile dundee for a full day on the trains of south east london? 

Anyone remember the Guardian Angels?

That was a weird anomaly, even by the standards of the 80's.

robgilmo

randella said:

swiller said:

Who is up for crowdfunding empfab dressed up as crocodile dundee for a full day on the trains of south east london? 

Anyone remember the Guardian Angels?

That was a weird anomaly, even by the standards of the 80's.

Hawk, Axe and elephant? They would have slapped them there yoofs up side of the head right and quick.

Jfingers

@Shrews - You've shamed im bruv.

This thread has strengthened my resolve to never go to filthy London again. I used to be a regular but everything I hear about it now makes it seem worse.

Axe_meister

I'm going to say in Emps defence. 
Yes these kinds of youths are shits. As a resilient of SE London, I've learnt to move away, get off the train, keep my head down. People not used to it I can imagine will feel very intimidated.
I've just come back from a week in Copenhagen. Apparently my hotel was in a dodgy part of town. There were groups of you people hanging around, but none of them were intimidating in the slightest.
Likewise on the bus/train. All sitting together quietly chatting.
I do love the Scandinavian countries. I've never felt afraid.

Jfingers

Axe_meister has just cemented my point in my head. I come from Surrey Hills AONB. Sarf London was a very different place back before the whole 'greater London' thing came about.

Croydon for instance used to be part of Surrey, now it's part of London with the nickname 'stab central'

I would regularly go on a train to Victoria alone and then tube it to the places I wanted to go at around age 15. I'd hesitate to be driven through some of it now.

Perhaps it's my age.

digitalscream

Axe_meister said:

I'm going to say in Emps defence. 
Yes these kinds of youths are shits. As a resilient of SE London, I've learnt to move away, get off the train, keep my head down. People not used to it I can imagine will feel very intimidated.

And, to be fair, they're in abundance round here too (about 90 miles north of London). We live a couple of doors away from some shops, and there are always teenagers (boys and girls) hanging around there at night being absolute shits and doing everything they can to intimidate people going in and out of the shops, or even just passing by. It's bad enough that the police get called out at least three or four times a week, but they can't really do anything and the kids know it.

victorludorum

What happened to that technique of playing Frank Sinatra, etc. outside of small local shops, as that seemed to clear them off quite quickly? Maybe it got stopped because it's classed as harassment.

mo6020

victorludorum said:

What happened to that technique of playing Frank Sinatra, etc. outside of small local shops, as that seemed to clear them off quite quickly? Maybe it got stopped because it's classed as harassment.

They still do it in the rougher tube stations. I was in Turnpike Lane the other day and there was some rather relaxing music being piped through the station as I exited..

WezV

They just created a new generation of Sinatra fans, for whom it brings about jolly memories of their youth spent harrasing passers by  

Axe_meister

Did Sinatra not have Mafia links? They truly knew about intimidation.

Shrews

Axe_meister said:

Did Sinatra not have Mafia links? They truly knew about intimidation.

Yes, but surely nothing compared to the hoodie on the tube. 

DrCornelius

Before I moved to sunny Dorsetshire I grew up and lived in London and the suburbs for 38 years. Eltham , Limehouse, South Croydon , Bromley etc 

I think the difference between now and my time in London is that the fear of getting stabbed is way higher now (from talking to mates still in town). 

You’d always get kids trying to intimidate and you may end up in a swearing and staring contest some nights but now it seems like a knife gets pulled out by a higher proportion of kids before you even get to that stage.

Locally , 16 year old kid from Wiltshire got stabbed to death at a party in Bath last year by a gang of six little bastards carrying zombie knives . They’ve caught the kids and have cctv of them getting a bus to the party with the knives hidden in their clothing (grey tracksuits and hoods obviously)

They had no fear of being caught with these knives as the Police just aren’t a visible presence on the streets - they are zooming around in cars responding rather than having a higher neighbourhood profile.

I’d gladly pay more in taxes either nationally through income tax or locally via council tax if that money was ringfenced for beat coppers with the power to stop and search - not ‘community officers’ or volunteers though.

Stop a kid carrying a machete or a zombie knife and it’s borstal and their feet don’t touch the ground 

Yes I’m old and possibly out of touch but whatever they are trying now isn’t working