Herne Hill - nice place to live?

[fakeplasticgirl]

I wonder what you do talk about.

Cats

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Should I be hounded to the ends of the earth because I don't like children?

 

[Orang Utan]

I hate cats. Or cat owners especially.
They never stop talking about them.


See?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I hate cats. Or cat owners especially.
They never stop talking about them.


See?

I don't own a cat

 

[Orang Utan]

Should I be hounded to the ends of the earth because I don't like children?

Yes, if you express it that way.
What if I said I hated old people? Or gays or blacks?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Yes, if you express it that way.
What if I said I hated old people? Or gays or blacks?

Haha, disliking the idea of living around a load of kids is hardly the same thing as race hate or homophobia!

 

[Orang Utan]

IME people who don't like children are often self-centred individuals who can't bear the conversation shifting away from themselves and the pesky kids becoming the centre of attention instead of them.

 

[Orang Utan]

Haha, disliking the idea of living around a load of kids is hardly the same thing as race hate or homophobia!

It is narrow minded bigotry though

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

IME people who don't like children are often self-centred individuals who can't bear the conversation shifting away from themselves and the pesky kids becoming the centre of attention instead of them.

Sure - I'm self-centred. I don't deny it

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

It is narrow minded bigotry though

big·ot (b g t). n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Hmmm.... not really!

 

[Orang Utan]

Sure - I'm self-centred. I don't deny it

So are kids, so you should try and make friends with them (friends' kids though, don't go approaching strangers'!)

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

If somebody said. for example, that they didn't want to live in a 'studenty' area I would hardly accuse them of being bigoted/ equate it with racism.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

So are kids, so you should try and make friends with them (friends' kids though, don't go approaching strangers'!)

Fortunately none of my friends have kids. We're far too self centred

 

[Orang Utan]

big·ot (b g t). n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Hmmm.... not really!

You seem to be more partial to adults without kids and intoleran of parents and children.

 

[Orang Utan]

If somebody said. for example, that they didn't want to live in a 'studenty' area I would hardly accuse them of being bigoted/ equate it with racism.

Perhaps not. Students also make loads of mess and noise but they ought to know better.
Ignore me, I'm in a bad mood.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

You seem to be more partial to adults without kids and intoleran of parents and children.

I think you're taking my jesting about parents/kids and my personal preference not to live in a particularly family-orientated area a bit too seriously

 

[T & P]

There's plenty of kids in Brixton too. And just about everywhere else I should think.

Perhaps not so many in Dorset. But that's because it's full of pensioners instead.

It seems Vulgaria is the only place to be if one does not like kids about.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

brixton looks really fun.

ignore me - I just have the mentality of an immature teenager, even though i'm in my mid (cough) late 20s.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

it's a very nice and middle class. if you like a nice middle class suburb with almost no soul but lots of places to buy ciabatta, you'll be fine. i lived there for a while. the sainsbury's gets really busy and is well pricey because there are so few proper shops there. a place for the rich really. very very full of 30something professional marrieds and absolutely brimming with manchild jazz dads and yummy mummies.

"manchild jazz dads"

In terms of shops, fuck the Sainsburys - that's probably the most soulless place in Herne Hill. The new(ish) bakery on Railton Road is decent and there's a fantastic fruit/veg/grocery shop in the Mace on Rosendale Road.

 

[sleaterkinney]

*hides Mingus records*

It has a market on Sundays but that almost has me raising the black flag, organic dog biscuits for a fiver and the like.