Comments for Guy Lloyd

Comment on 3 REASONS TO HATE HOVE by quedula

quedula — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:51:03 +0000

A 1958 map from the time when Hove & Portslade were separate administrative districts shows the boundary running south from the south end of Boundary/Station Roads across the Aldrington Basin and foreshore and straight out to sea, thus putting Hove Seaside Villas very much in Hove.

I believe the confusion arose because the Post Office arbitrarily decided to put Hove Seaside Villas in Portslade for the purposes of sorting & delivering mail.

Comment on 3 REASONS TO HATE HOVE by quedula

quedula — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:28:51 +0000

See:-
http://brightonbits.blogspot.com/2011/07/hove-seaside-villas-2.html
for why people think ‘Millionaires Row’ is in Hove.

The boundary between Hove & Portslade runs down the middle of Boundary/Station Roads approx 1/4 mile to the west.

Comment on 3 REASONS TO HATE HOVE by Jen

Jen — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:19:13 +0000

I miss Kemp Town. x

Comment on 3 REASONS TO HATE HOVE by Funky Panda

Funky Panda — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:45:33 +0000

I live in Portslade. I always say I live in Portslade. I’m not ashamed to say I live in Portslade. I just wish the level crossing gates weren’t down so often holding everyone up while the deluded gimps make their way back home to Hove.

Comment on FREDDIE MERCURY by Jim aka Batman

Jim aka Batman — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:12:54 +0000

Like Freddie,you’re a man with One Vision,best of luck for the event and the air guitaring.I would personally go for Paranoid by Black Sabbeth.

Comment on I PREDICT A RIOT by Mark Barrowcliffe

Mark Barrowcliffe — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:22:48 +0000

I actually think this country is very well racially integrated and, though there is dislike of the underclass, class hatred is nothing like it was in the 1970s.
These people are not displaying a sense of injustice, they’re showing straightforward greed. It’s the dark side of this country’s consumer obsession – just look at the stores looted – trainer outlets, electronic goods, jewellery. Look at the kind of people coming to court. Yes, there are what you would call ‘chavs’ but there are also teachers, students and professionals. I would also put money on it that a lot of the riots – particularly in Manchester – were started by organised criminal gangs.
It’s a complex problem – people having a lack of morals is certainly part of it, criminal lifestyles being seen as fashionable, lack of a vision of the future too. But these things have always existed to a point. The big change is technology and the ease with which the rioters can co-ordinate themselves. It’s really an anarchist fantasy of a leaderless revolution but not for the purposes of political change, for the purposes of getting a new iPod or pair of trainers. Extreme shopping might be one description. A book called New Model Army by Adam Roberts is worth looking at on this subject.
So in some ways this is an old problem rearing its head in a new way. During the Victorian period, after all, it was impossible for middle class people to venture off Oxford Street in London. The Tottenham Court Road end was a huge slum and anyone venturing into it would certainly be robbed. Riots are not new either, at all but the cause of this riot is. It’s basically a violent shopping trip.
I don’t accept your description of people being underprivileged – certainly not all of them or even the majority. My grandparents were underprivileged in the depression of the 1930s when the means test man told them to fight hunger by drinking more water. If anything it might be argued that the state over-privileges some people by allowing them to claim benefits without doing anything for them. I’m not saying everyone on the dole wants to be there – I was nearly there myself a couple of years ago – just that if we hand out money to the long term unemployed, we might expect something back in terms of a contribution of work.
You are right in saying we need to offer everyone a future. But reaching people who are third or fourth generation unemployed, whose entire culture is suspicious of education, who live a life of low level criminality and who have not even been taught basic life skills, is something that successive governments have failed to grapple with.
The lesson out of this is that we need a greater investment in education. If we can bring class sizes down then it will be a start. But that alone won’t do it. Schools alone can’t sort out ingrained social problems. You’re sarcastic about the government’s response Guy and you express some fine sentiments about a fairer society. But how do you get to that when you’re fighting such deep, difficult and complex problems? I don’t know. What would you do?

Comment on HOW TO BE IN A BOY BAND by Jim aka Batman

Jim aka Batman — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:10:55 +0000

If anyone can form a successful boy band,its you mate.Anyone who can carry off a Superman costume with the panache and flair that you can can make it happen.

If you needed a slightly tubby backing singer who can play all the main chords,apart from F,I know a man.

Looking forward to hearing your debut album and watching lots of videos with dry ice.

Goood luck

James

Comment on DRINKING JIMMY PAGE UNDER THE TABLE by Paul Mex

Paul Mex — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:49:37 +0000

As I informed you this morning, he catgorily doesn’t drink anymore & that glass disguised as vodka he was drinking, was simply mineral water! Poor Guy trying to keep up in a water drinking competition with Jimmy Page… really you should have counted the amount of loo trips made & I bet you Jimmy could hold his much longer than you!

Comment on A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH GLASTO by Vicki

Vicki — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:39:44 +0000

Honestly, a blog…do you actually have a little counter thing that lets you know how many hits you get?? It’s coming to something when I have to read your blog to find out what’s going on your life. You’re becoming a virtual friend!!! It’s a good job I prefer your wife!!! xxx

Comment on IS IT A BIRD? PROBABLY NOT.. by Igor

Igor — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:15:13 +0000

Well done Mr ixx