Brilliant news for Tipi Valley

[uncrunk]

I live in tipi valley which is why I am reading this thread, and I feel for Rik trying to communicate with some people on here.

Since she is a moderator of this forum, I would ask Mrs Magpie why she feels it necessary to chastise someone about their chosen font while allowing some others to spout racist and intolerant rants on here about people they (probably) don't know and places they (probably) have never been? I joined this forum specifically to make this response and I had to agree not to be, among other things, racist or offensive, so why has this thread been allowed to develop like this?

Whatever you say about CAT people, it's an educational establishment first and foremost, and quite well respected. They won't employ people based on ethnicity whether they're local or not!

Rik- noticed you've not been on here for ages, but I think the name "urban" 75 says it all, don't you? I don't want to just perpetuate the us and them mentality but all I can see is the attitude of people used to not trusting their neighbours or looking for any old reason to take issue with other people's ways of life.

Has anyone heard of "divide and rule"?

 

[spanglechick]

I live in tipi valley which is why I am reading this thread, and I feel for Rik trying to communicate with some people on here.

Since she is a moderator of this forum, I would ask Mrs Magpie why she feels it necessary to chastise someone about their chosen font while allowing some others to spout racist and intolerant rants on here about people they (probably) don't know and places they (probably) have never been? I joined this forum specifically to make this response and I had to agree not to be, among other things, racist or offensive, so why has this thread been allowed to develop like this?

Whatever you say about CAT people, it's an educational establishment first and foremost, and quite well respected. They won't employ people based on ethnicity whether they're local or not!

Rik- noticed you've not been on here for ages, but I think the name "urban" 75 says it all, don't you? I don't want to just perpetuate the us and them mentality but all I can see is the attitude of people used to not trusting their neighbours or looking for any old reason to take issue with other people's ways of life.

Has anyone heard of "divide and rule"?

it's not the moderators' job to tell people their opinions are wrong. Posters take each other to task on that account... otherwise things would conform to the opinions and agendas of a handful of people - very repressive.

but we do succumb to some 'oppressive' norms and consensuses regarding minor, administrative matters. sticking to the default font option is one of those - because it just makes it easier to read.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

sticking to the default font option is one of those - because it just makes it easier to read.

This. I'm partially sighted (and I'm not the only one) and bolded text in other colours is hard to read for many visually impaired people, also for synesthetes. As for the urban bit, the site was started by editor when he moved to Brixton because when he wanted to meet like-minded people in the area when he moved here but over the years it just grew and grew.

 

[editor]

Rik- noticed you've not been on here for ages, but I think the name "urban" 75 says it all, don't you?

For the record, I made the name up and used it because I liked it. It's got nothing to do with 'urban.'

It might as well been Dandelion75. Or Cheesy75.

 

[Clint Iguana]

For the record, I made the name up and used it because I liked it. It's got nothing to do with 'urban.'

It might as well been Dandelion75. Or Cheesy75.

so what's significant about 75 then?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There are threads about that. There've been years of speculation.

 

[fogbat]

It was the Ed's age when he started the site, I believe.

 

[quimcunx]

I think changing the name to Cheesy75 would be a fitting tribute to the poster.

 

[trampie]

Claiming land as their own aye, does anybody really own any land, in Mother Earth's eyes or God's eyes, does anybody have the right to call a patch of land theirs, what about the rabbits, badgers, birds ect ?

 

[trampie]

Greedy capitalists.

 

[lud]

Greedy capitalists.

they are the ones buying old farmsteads and converting them not living lightly on the land in atipi

 

[METH LAB]

whats all this about? my missis spent a night up the vally the other week when i had the house to meself and decided to make the most of it by havaing a lil 48 hour amphetamine sesh/lapse.

she said its great in the night if no cloud coz its litterally just the stars for night light like..i think she set off a few of them floating lantern thingys lol. Her and a mate of her's stayed in the visitors tent..all in all she liked it but the experiance was abit rough on her back..she in alot of pain and her mate did most the work for that reason but even so she tried to help best as pos but was deffinataly glad to come home..but did enjoy the experiance. Said everyone was freindly.

peace

 

[ddraig]

what do you mean what is it about?
what do you think it is about?
just people trying to live differently and have less impact on the earth etc
call em hippies if you like
you kow they've been there a long long time?

hope they were safe lanterns with no evil wires to kill cattle with or start fires!

 

[METH LAB]

i just meant i havant read 5 pages coz not really botherd..but yea its nice apparantly.

they been there fuckin ages its not that far from me...still hard to find though, lots of lanes and that.

they were indeed safe lanters she also reckons she saw the milky way for the first time in her life..

peace

 

[ddraig]

cool

 

[METH LAB]

For the record, I made the name up and used it because I liked it. It's got nothing to do with 'urban.'

It might as well been Dandelion75. Or Cheesy75.

it should be MethLab75 (i kidding)

Dandelion sounds nice

 

[Rik the Vic]

Just to let you know I'm alive and well and still living in a tipi in Tipi Valley. Hey Mrs Magpie, did you see that bit in New Scientist last week mentioning Mr Magpie? You know, I hear on the radio of drought in the east and south of England, a great shortage of rain. It's been the opposite here, since the fine spring weather of 2011, it's been a prolonged wet period from then til now, so some of the paths are muddier than they have been for 30 years, so anyone visiting - bring wellies!

 

[editor]

How's life at Tipi Valley treating you, Rik? Give us some updates!

 

[William of Walworth]

Just to let you know I'm alive and well and still living in a tipi in Tipi Valley. Hey Mrs Magpie, did you see that bit in New Scientist last week mentioning Mr Magpie? You know, I hear on the radio of drought in the east and south of England, a great shortage of rain. It's been the opposite here, since the fine spring weather of 2011, it's been a prolonged wet period from then til now, so some of the paths are muddier than they have been for 30 years, so anyone visiting - bring wellies!

We visited back in a dryer time -- Easter 2010 I think??

Will bear your current mud warning in mind for our next visit Ric!
Hope all is well up there generally