I was coming out of FP tube on saturday afternoon, about 3pm, walking up the tunnel towards the Wells Terrace exit, and suddenly about 20-30 police in high-visibility vests and with dogs came bombing down the tunnel the other way at top speed, shouting at everyone to get out of the way. They seemed to heading for the seven sisters road exit. Anyone else see this? I assume it was something to do with the football that was on, but it seems very odd, it was just a friendly tournament and there is hardly ever trouble even for big proper games.
Seems unlikely to be footy related, as you say. Odd.
There has been loads of high vis stuff going on recently though - I was walking past the church on the corner of Evershot Road and Tollington Park the other weekend and there were police everywhere, plus big gangs of offended looking church goers all filming the police on their mobile phone cameras as they talked to some 'yoof'.
I too had noticed how quiet it's been on here recently. I thought everyone had defected to Facebook. I notice the Stroud Green group on there has got quite busy.
Neither's mine and, like poxy, they bar anything.
It used to pop them into little categories like 'sex and dating' which would flash up on your screen.
Interestingly though many 'gay' sites are not barred where the 'straight' equivalent ones are, for fear of a discrimination case I assume.
Banning Facebook, eh? Now there's an issue I'm quite torn about.
As someone who manages a team at work, I could see the benefits (see <http://www.stroudgreen.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=602&page=1#Item_9> for previous discussion on this issue) but then, if people are going to slack off, surely they'll just do something else instead? Tosscat and Poxy, what's your experience? Has lack of Facebook access made you more productive? At all?
I dunno. I prefer to trust people. Most of us at work aren't pushing widgets out of a factory - we're doing work that vaguely engages our brain, so short distractions aren't going to be the end of the world. In fact, a change of gear might be useful. My best work comes after I've taken a walk in the park to get all my thoughts in order.
Some people might call that slacking off, but unfortunately there aren't any grim victorian workhouses for them to work in, so they get their kicks by banning facebook.
have just been to the New Old Dairy, first time since it re-opened (yeah I do need to get out more) but they have stopped the music quiz which i loved being crap at, any other pub quizzes in SG?
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edit: sorry misread - didn't spot "music" in your post. Ignore me!