Im not sure I understand your point? Embarrassment I live in?
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[Brighton] Brighton drowning under grafitti and tagging - is there anything we can do?
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Im not sure I understand your point? Embarrassment I live in?
I’ve been to Stoke & yes it’s a shit hole, but I live here so I’m not sure what your point is Noel?
Can you imagine the derision we'd receive if we now decided to use Stoke as the benchmark when talking of Brighton?
I accept Brighton has a better beach, just!
My reply was to [MENTION=435]Stat Brother[/MENTION]s post about 1) Brighton being a shit hole. 2) Him asking how anyone can be “possessive” about the city. My main point was that everything is relative. Brighton might not be up to the standards of wherever [MENTION=435]Stat Brother[/MENTION] lives but it’s far better than many places and people can be “possessive” about the city.
As someone, who in my yoof, made almost weekly trips longer the coast to Brighton, but has only spent odd days there in the last x years, on Saturday I found the whole city filthy, in every sense of the word.
It's one thing to live in a shithole, and own your shithole, but something very different to create a shithole and then be proud.
I can only assume the passionate locals just no longer see the filth and are using the rosy specs now that I may well have been wearing in my yoof.
On balance I think the city is fine and as an English city I will compare it to other English cities....why wouldn’t I?
Then I sincerely apologise, I had you down as one of the many on here who eulogise about Brighton to the point of nausea.
Brighton is fine, on a par with Stoke, fine, I totally agree.
I do eulogise to the point of nausea about many things but not Brighton
I think it’s a great place and I like visiting. Like any major conurbation it has its faults but I think on balance it’s fine.
No need, my apartment it already graffitied.
I have to distinguish between graffiti and tagging.
Tagging is just moronic, meaningless, childish vandalism (probably originating in Croydon) that the council should be getting rid of and the police should be making far more of an effort to catch the retards.
On the other hand I love much of the graffiti around town; the Albert, El Capitano, Kensington Street area, and the cable boxes look much better than the that horrible grren colour. Adds vibrancy to the town.
What really pisses me off is when the moronic tagging kids who have nothing better to do tag over really artistic works of graffiti.
Tagging is just moronic, meaningless, childish vandalism (probably originating in Croydon) that the council should be getting rid of and the police should be making far more of an effort to catch the retards.
On the other hand I love much of the graffiti around town; the Albert, El Capitano, Kensington Street area, and the cable boxes look much better than the that horrible grren colour. Adds vibrancy to the town.
What really pisses me off is when the moronic tagging kids who have nothing better to do tag over really artistic works of graffiti.
If Brighton revolts you so much......here's a groundbreaking idea..........don't go there!
One less daytripper cluttering the place up.
Insel affe
HellBilly
The only reason the city is so messy and dirty is because it is being caused by the students, seagulls, foxes, junkies and cockneys.
I totally agree, we'll not be back any time soon.
The £150 we spent on Saturday won't be spent again.
The jnr's won't be semi regular visitors.
I'll not be returning the cycling co-operative.
All small beer and incredibly insignificant I know, but nevertheless it doesn't stop it from being a great shame.
About the only thing Brighton has going for it is the Budgens by the station.
Whoever decided to make the sweetie aisle so narrow fattie boom-booms are unable to walk down it is a freakin geniune.
Do you live here, and spray your own wall?
I know you are a big fan of this forum HT.
We have none in Faversham. We pilotted CCTV in the early 90s and it seems to have scared the nobbers off. We also have no street assaults in the town centre (same reason). Sometimes there is a lot to be said for a 'police state' as the handwringers called it, or a bit of sensible surveillance as I call it.
That said, do the cameras actually work? Somewhere in the south east (I think it was Maidstone) the labour minority have discovered that half the town's cctv doesn't work, and it will cost over £40K to fix it, and the tory majority who signed the contract did not include a repair and upkeep clause. They are refusing to give a statement about it. I just looked it up on internet and can find nothing on the story - odd it was on local telly last night.
Sadly councils don't properly engage with anything. They just showboat, with multicolour recycling and cctv, while sitting back as policing is cut.
I'm cross now. I'll have to go out and spray something.
That said, do the cameras actually work? Somewhere in the south east (I think it was Maidstone) the labour minority have discovered that half the town's cctv doesn't work, and it will cost over £40K to fix it, and the tory majority who signed the contract did not include a repair and upkeep clause. They are refusing to give a statement about it. I just looked it up on internet and can find nothing on the story - odd it was on local telly last night.
Sadly councils don't properly engage with anything. They just showboat, with multicolour recycling and cctv, while sitting back as policing is cut.
I'm cross now. I'll have to go out and spray something.
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Do you live here, and spray your own wall?
I know you are a big fan of this forum HT.
It’s not gritty and urban enough for me. A bit more graffiti, a poncy industrial lookimg cafe in the basement and I might, just might, consider the penthouse.
How will this work? What if the business wants to keep the graffiti?