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fanta
16-09-2006, 11:41
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Opinion-Sometimes-I-R.jpg By Eli Kearney
August 23, 2006 | Issue 42•34


When I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It's affordable, there are nice row houses all around just waiting to be filled up by my friends, there's lot of open space to be exploited, and plenty of parking. Plus, this area has got a great authentic feel and, with a little work, it could be even more authentic. Perfect, right?

So why am I the only one doing anything about it?

I am always telling my other struggling artist, freelance graphic designer, and independent T-shirt-maker friends that this is the neighborhood to take it to. It's the next big thing. Sure, it's an hour from my day job and right next to a stinky canal and a power station, but that's the whole charm—it keeps the yuppies out.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51852



Sound familiar? :D
Dubversion
16-09-2006, 11:42
nope.
editor
16-09-2006, 11:56
Sound familiar? Yes, your mate chegrimandi started an identical thread last month. He even quoted the same piece as you.
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174886&

Funny that, isn't it?

:rolleyes:
Dubversion
16-09-2006, 11:57
who'd have thunk it? :D
fanta
16-09-2006, 11:58
I'd say it's more of a coincidence, but if it procured mirth for you then goodo.
fanta
16-09-2006, 11:59
who'd have thunk it? :D

Well, who'd a thunked what exactly?
editor
16-09-2006, 12:01
I'd say it's more of a coincidence, but if it procured mirth for you then goodo.It's usually mildly amusing when you get hopelessly caught out as yet another of your infantile attempts to wind people up backfires.

Why do you bother posting here anyway?

Most of your posts just seem to be a long succession of petty little snipes at other posters which makes you look rather bitter and, perhaps, desperate for attention.
fanta
16-09-2006, 12:04
I just wanted to share a funny story. :(

Why are you in such a bad mood?
editor
16-09-2006, 12:09
I just wanted to share a funny story. :(

Why are you in such a bad mood?You don't like it when you've been rumbled, do you?

Bwahaha!
fanta
16-09-2006, 12:10
You don't like it when you've been rumbled, do you?

Bwahaha!

What have been rumbled for?

Do you think I'm Cheggers?

Not me squire, and I didn't even know the link had been posted before.
editor
16-09-2006, 12:16
What have been rumbled for?Give it up fanta, you're not fooling anyone here.
citydreams
16-09-2006, 12:17
oh lookee.. another gentrification thread.. can we all argue now fanta, or shall we wait till you've poked your fingers in our face first?
fanta
16-09-2006, 12:20
Wanna bet?

You know I didn't post the link as Cheggers.
editor
16-09-2006, 12:23
Wanna bet?

You know I didn't post the link as Cheggers.I'm not suggesting that you did.

I'm saying this "coincidental" thread is just another example of your tedious, petty and spiteful little sneering campaign here. And you've been rumbled.

All of which begs the question: why bother, fanta?
fanta
16-09-2006, 12:31
You're sounding paranoid mate.

Having a sense of humour is not a bad thing.
Maggot
16-09-2006, 12:32
You don't like it when you've been rumbled, do you?

Bwahaha!
He's been Tangoed.
editor
16-09-2006, 12:32
You're sounding paranoid mate.

Having a sense of humour is not a bad thing.http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/n/noels_house/Edmonds_gotcha.jpg
fanta
16-09-2006, 12:37
Is that Citydreams holding an award?
editor
16-09-2006, 12:42
Is that Citydreams holding an award?You're just getting desperate now.
pk
16-09-2006, 14:08
Oooh goody!

Something else for the terminally obsessed Annakey and his obese cackle of bitches to giggle about.
fanta
16-09-2006, 14:10
Why is everyone so angry? :confused:
Crispy
16-09-2006, 14:23
something in the water
pk
16-09-2006, 15:10
Why is everyone so angry? :confused:

Why are you such a transparent arsehole?
fanta
16-09-2006, 15:22
ooOOooh, it's Urban's po-faced hardman come to sort it aht!



(Epsom is that way tough geezer---->)
pk
16-09-2006, 16:54
And Annakey's obsessive site (must be the 5th one he's tried now, and he's STILL going on about dreadlocks!) for the mentally retarded bloated gimps is this way...

<----
fanta
16-09-2006, 22:10
My Good God, PK, that is so damn witty!

You're without doubt the funniest person on the planet!

Wow!
pk
17-09-2006, 09:31
Run along now, lapdog... you lose - again.

Awww, never mind Fanta, better luck next time...

http://terpsboy.com/blogger5/lapdog.jpg
tbaldwin
17-09-2006, 21:17
Funny article. Kind of spot on about people who love living on the edge....
pk
18-09-2006, 14:33
Good job Fanta isn't utterly obsessed with slagging off Urban75 elsewhere, otherwise people might think he was just having a cheap dig at this web community, for the sole benefit of the other deeply obsessed people on another newly founded and tiny bulletin board founded after they were justifiably kicked out of the first AND second boards set up to slag off Urban75.

Usually typified by the 40-something failed white middle class skinny posh-voiced dribbling alcoholics who do nothing all day except hang around the Beehive waiting for it to open, and then post libellous and incorrect stuff about Urban75 from Brixton's cybercafes and libraries.

And, might I add, who actually define the very nature of Brixton's 'gentrification' far more than the 'deejays', no matter how much they might drunkenly dribble their protestations at such a suggestion...

:eek:

Now that really would be 'living on the edge'.