Overheard on Stroud Green Road....

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• graeme

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  At least the street on the Islington side is so full of binbags and shit that the 4x4 pram brigade cannot negotiate them. Small mercies.

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• [Deleted User]

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

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• graeme

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Because they are breeding, and their offspring will in time produce the taxable income which will pay our pensions. Small mercies.

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• [Deleted User]

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

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• miss annie

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  How rude! I have been (once - I don't do south) to Streatham. It was horrid. An acquaintance of mine lives there and calls it St. Reatham to make it sound more grand.

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• Four Eyes

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  We've already had a discussion about Kirsty Allsopp on Location Location calling Crouch End 'scruffy', haven't we?

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• miss annie

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  But she's an Hon. Belgravia probably seems a bit rough to her.

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• Four Eyes

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Streatham's just a big traffic jam you get stuck in on the way to Brighton as far as I'm concerned...

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• rainbow_carnage

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  We lived in Stokey years ago. Now we live here. Stoke Newington has crap transport links. Unless you work in the City and take the overground to Liverpool Street, you'll be spending 45-60 minutes each morning on a sweaty, overcrowded bus. I would rather spend 15 minutes on the tube to get into central London. The students will discover the reality of living in Stokey the next time they're trying to get the night bus home at 2am on a Thursday. The 73 is supposed to run three or four times an hour. In reality, it's more like once or twice an hour. And if you're trying to get home from the Tottenham Court Road area, you might have to wait for several buses to go buy before you can get on one. Unless you can afford a cab home every time you go out, you're better off living in SG. Also, we have fewer baby clothing shops. That has to be a good thing.

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• Archer Scarborough Road

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Lol @ Graeme

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• N4mality

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Let's see. Stroudgreen.org has been up & running for years. Stokenewington.org is still "relaunching". That settles it then.

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• janez

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  "Still relaunching" may mean that there are lots of interesting things to do in SN, not only moaning about moaning about moaning about helicopters.

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• miss annie

  October 2011 edited October 2011

  Yes, you could sit in a coffee shop all day surrounded by people with pushchairs drinking overpriced frappalattes. Oh, hang on...

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• RedSturgeon

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  I'm just glad that I never occupied a pushchair or had a parent/carer who drank coffee and so can now authoritatively and without a shred of irony speak with disdain of people/twats with pushchairs.
  
  Oh, hang on...
  
  ;-)

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• ChangN4N6

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Stokey is the cool name for Stoke Newington . No one yet sez Stroudy. Until now.
  
  Chang

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• RedSturgeon

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  I just had a shiver. This is so pre-Zeitgeisty it's not true... I am from Stroudy. They are from Stroudy. We're going to Stroudy. We're all Stroudies now. When the OED come calling, ChangN4N6 at 1500 on 7th October 2011 is what we'll say...

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• therattle

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  How long before this becomes Stroudy.org?
  
  "I heart Stroudy" t-shirts and ever-so-eco-friendly woven shopping bags...

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• gardener-joe

  October 2011 edited December 2017

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• kreuzkav

  October 2011 edited October 2011

  Stoke Newington being called Stokey stretches back a long time, to at least the 80s, so it's not a newie thing. I remember hearing it as a teen then.

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• gardener-joe

  October 2011 edited December 2017

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• krappyrubsnif

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  I'm bored with Stroudey's restaurants. Tell me a good restaurant in Stokey, someone.

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• [Deleted User]

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

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• applehead

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  In our house we refer to it as Stokey Nu

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• Gregspar

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Rasa (veggie) and Rasa Travancore (meat) on Church St are maybe the best Indian restaurants I know of.

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• sparkyley

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  Dervish rules!

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• R&J

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

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• missisclack

  October 2011 edited 5:40PM

  @ RedSturgeon
  my mum was born 1500 7th October 1948 ('cept we say 3pm). Just wanted to say.

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• RedSturgeon

  October 2011 edited October 2011

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• RedSturgeon

  October 2011 edited October 2011

  @missisclack Strange coincidence!

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